John Tuttle (1763 - 1829)

Born 8 Apr 1763 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Broad) Tuttle — married 20 Jan 1790 in Sunderland, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Polly (Parker) Tuttle — married about 1803 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 19 Oct 1829 at age 66 in Palmyra, Portage, Ohio

Problems/Questions Profile manager: S Spangler [send private message]

Biography

History of the Western Reserve, Upton'

JOHN TUTTLE, of Palmyra , Portage Co. Ohio, father of LafayetteTuttle, was born at Lebanon, Ct. in 1762 and lived in Sunderland, Mass, where a family of 4 sons and 4 daughters were born, all of whom lived to and advanced age, except the elder boy John, who met his death thru inhaling well-damp while digging a well. Our subject served as a soldier under General Randolf while the Revolutionary War. In the year 1804 when he moved to Palmyra Portage Co. Ohio with his family, he settled about 1 miles south of the township center. After this his wife died, and by a second marriage he had a family of five boys and 2 girls. He died Oct. 19, 1829, age 66 years.

From the Narrative of the Life of Joseph Tuttle, a nephew of John Tuttle of Palmyra Twp. Portage Co. Ohio. A copy of full narrative is located at the Morley Library, Painesville, Ohio

John who was in the Revolutionary War when he was 16 years old, married the sister of Nathan Rice; her name was Abie. By her he had several children, all of whom died in infancy or childhood, except one son , also named John, who afterwards moved to Ohio with his father and died in a well when he was about 19, in Palmyra, Portage Co., Ohio in 1815. After the death of his first wife, John married Sally Broad, of Sunderland, Mass. by whom he raised children as follows; James, Sally, Joseph, LaFayette, Betsey, Nelson and Hector (who died in Mass.) The others lived and removed to Ohio with their father. Sally, his wife , died in Mass. He then married his third wife (who survived him), Polly Parker, the grass widow of Abner Wright. He removed with her to Palmyra (then Trumbull Co.) Ohio, in 1805, and then by his last wife raised nine children named respectively, Rebecca, Lydia, Horatio, Jesse, William, Isaac, Calvin, Seth, and Alvira.

pg 4 (Joseph Tuttle describing is journey from New York state to visit his Uncle John Tuttle in Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio)

We were forty eight days on our journey when we arrived in Portage Co. Ohio, on the twelth day of August (1807).

Jospeh Tuttle Sr. and family were residing in New York State, when his brother John of Palmyra persuaded his brother to bring his family to Palmyra and settle.

pg. 9 When we arrived in Palmyra,the town had been settled eight years. At this time Uncle John had a grist mill with which people used to grind a few quarts of corn when out of meal, till they had a chance to send to the mill. I myself have often helped grind with this mill.

In August after we arrived, my sister Electa, then aged about seven years and a girl named Sally Bacon, came near being killed by a tree falling on them. They and my elder sister Eunice, and an elder sister of the Bacon girl named Nancy, had been to turn Bacon's cows in the pasture, and on their return the two younger girls lingered behind and happened by chance to be under a girdled tree when the decayed top gave way and fell directly upon the children. Electa was knocked down and stunned, and the other girl was just brushed by the limb, but not severely hurt. I immediately ran for Uncle John to come and bleed Electa, for he had a lance and sometimes acted as a kind of surgeon pro tem., in the absence of any one more skilled, there being no regular doctor nearer then Canfield, about twenty fives miles distant. Electa soon became better but has suffered slightly all her life. Uncle John also acted as a dentist for his neighbors and was called on to help take care of the sick. He was then regarded as the wealthiest man in town and a good provider for his family, yet during the first year I was there i have seen his family sit at meals in which no salt had been used, and simply because they had not got it and could not get it. '

Sources

• History of the Western Reserve, Vol. 3 pg. 1547

The Official roster of the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in the state of Ohio, Roster 1, pg. 375

Tuttle-Tuthill lines in America Alphabetical-chronological list of Tuttles & Tuthills by first names & birth dates

1820 United States Federal Census, Palmyra, Portage, Ohio

Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Palmyra, Ohio 26

U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, 1819, Application State Ohio, Applicant Designation Survivor's Pension Application File Archive Publication Number M804 Archive Roll Number 2430 Total Pages in Packet 27

U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872, pg 509

U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR Membership: 59857

U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835, Birth Year: abt 1761 Pension Enrollment Date: 9 Jul 1818 Residence Place: Portage, Ohio, USA Service Description: Mass. continental