The family tree, part 6.

Gershom Tuttle II (22 Aug 1738, Farmington, Connecticut – 5 Jan 1818)

Ahnentafel #384 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Revolutionary patriot

Gershom Tuttle II, remembered as "the Patriot," was born 22 August 1738 in Farmington, Connecticut (in the New Cambridge parish, now Bristol), and died 5 January 1818. During the Revolutionary War he served as a teamster, conducting wagon trains of army provisions — an operation that hauled some 3,000 barrels of supplies, roughly 500 tons, from Connecticut into New York State. The Connecticut General Assembly paid him for this service in 1780, and he is recognized today as Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Ancestor A131791.

He married Tabitha Mitchell at Deerfield, Massachusetts, on 22 December 1757. The couple later moved first to New Hampshire, then to Clinton in Oneida County, New York, and finally to Watertown, New York, where Gershom served as the first deacon of the town's first Congregational church, organized in 1803.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE DAR’S OWN RECORD, READ 7 AUGUST 2026 [TUTTLE-46]. Ancestor # A131791 — TUTTLE, GERSHOM — Connecticut, rank TEAMSTER — b. 23 Aug 1738 — d. 5 Jan 1818, WATERTOWN, NEW YORK — “Conductor of teams transporting supplies for the army.”

⭐⭐ This settles two long-running conflicts in this project. The birth year is 1738, not 1739 — the DAR and the Farmington birth record agree. And he died at Watertown, New York, not in Indiana; the Otter Creek burial belongs to his son the colonel. ⚠ One small gap survives: the Farmington register was read here as 22 August, the DAR says 23rd. Settle it from the register image before the SAR application is filed.

⭐ Eight of the DAR’s nineteen approved applications on this patriot descend through exactly our couple — “child GERSHOM, spouse PARMELIA STRONG CLARK” — including National No. 536770, which is the record copy already sitting in the frozen SAR Evidence folder [SAR_32]. The other nine descend through his son Solomon.

⚠ NUMBERED 6 Aug 2026 at Alec’s correction — he is GERSHOM II, between his father Ensign Gershom I (node 768, d. 1777) and his son Col. Gershom III (node 192, d. 1823). The 1777 headstone [TUTTLE-33] is his FATHER’S, not his — this man died 5 January 1818, forty-one years later. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS BIRTH RECORD FOUND 6 Aug 2026, AND IT NAMES A FATHER: “Gershom Tuttle, birth 22 August 1738, Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut — Father’s Name: GERSHOM TUTTLE” [TUTTLE-15]. ⚠ Our notes said 23 Aug 1739 Bristol; the record says 22 Aug 1738 Farmington. Bristol IS Farmington — Bristol was the parish of New Cambridge inside Farmington township until 1785, which is exactly how the 1757 Deerfield marriage styles him. The place is confirmed, not contradicted; the YEAR 1739 in our notes is probably wrong. THE PATRIOT. A conductor of teams. On 23 May 1780 the Connecticut General Assembly paid him £285.13.8 in wages and £60.13.11 for forage IN ADVANCE, and still owed him £200.2.8; he is listed first of nine conductors. The operation: 3,000 barrels of provisions — 500 tons — hauled from Connecticut into New York State, averaging 115 miles. DAR ancestor A131791. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 6 Aug 2026 — ENTRY 9251 OF THE 1883 GENEALOGY, IN FULL [TUTTLE-30]: “Gershom Tuttle, b. Aug. 28, 1738; d. Jan. 5, 1818, in his 80th yr.; served, it is said, as Capt. in Rev. army through the war. He went first to NEW HAMPSHIRE, thence, about 1790 to CLINTON, ONEIDA CO., N.Y., afterward joined the settlement at WATERTOWN, JEFFERSON CO., N.Y., and with William Fellows, elected the FIRST DEACON of the first Cong. chh., organized June 3, 1803.” This is the entry that validated the numbering ladder and broke the wall at his father. ⚠ DATE CONFLICT, RECORDED NOT RESOLVED: the entry prints Aug. 28; his father’s child-list on the facing page prints “I. Gershom, b. Aug. 22, 1738”, and the Farmington town record says 22 August. The town record wins; the printed 28 is the book’s error and is logged, not dropped. ⭐ The New Hampshire stage is new, and Clinton/Oneida is now confirmed from a second direction.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ A LIVE CONFLICT ON HIS DEATH PLACE. SAR evidence file 04 — the 1883 Tuttle genealogy p.511 — says he died “on his son’s farm,” Otter Creek, Vigo Co., Indiana. Find a Grave 85146147, citing our own DAR number, says Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York, burial UNKNOWN. SAR file 29 was assembled specifically to document the conflict, so it predates this project. ⚠ The same 1883 work misprints Clark Strong Tuttle’s county, so it is capable of this error. ⚠ Note too that Clark was a MILLER at Otter Creek, not a farmer. UNRESOLVED.

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Tabitha Mitchell (b. 9 Feb 1736/7 – m. 22 Dec 1757, Deerfield; daughter of Joseph Mitchell and Mary Allis)

Ahnentafel #385 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Tabitha Mitchell was born 9 February 1736/7 and married Gershom Tuttle II on 22 December 1757 at Deerfield, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Joseph Mitchell, a weaver, and his wife Mary Allis — and because Mary Allis's sister Lois had married Gershom's own father a generation earlier, Tabitha and Gershom were first cousins when they wed.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE DAR DOES NOT KNOW HER GIVEN NAME — AND WE DO [TUTTLE-46, 7 August 2026]. On DAR ancestor record A131791 the patriot’s wife is listed only as “X MITCHEL” — surname, no more. This project has her as Tabitha Mitchell, married at Deerfield 22 December 1757, with her parents Joseph Mitchell and Mary Allis and her grandfather Michael Mitchell of Wallingford, all from records. Alec is in a position to give the DAR something it does not have — worth saying to the registrar when the application goes in.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER PARENTS FOUND — AND GERSHOM II MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN [TUTTLE-41]. History of the Town of Sunderland, image 567: “MITCHELL, Joseph, m. Nov. 2, 1726, MARY, dau. WILLIAM ALLIS.” And from the Allis side, image 355: “Ch.: MARY, b. Feb. 18, 1705; m. Joseph Mitchell. … LOIS, b. Jan. 13, 1708; m. Oct. 17, 1737, Gershom Tuttle.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MARY ALLIS AND LOIS ALLIS WERE SISTERS. Lois married Gershom Tuttle I. Her sister Mary married Joseph Mitchell. Twenty years later Lois’s son married Mary’s daughter. TABITHA MITCHELL WAS GERSHOM II’S FIRST COUSIN, and the 1757 Deerfield marriage stops being a mystery entirely — he married inside his mother’s family. ⭐ It also explains the Deerfield venue: the bride was local and the groom was styled “of New Cambridge” [TUTTLE-26] — the DEERFIELD hypothesis, preferred over the Farmington one in TUTTLE-24, is confirmed. ⛔⛔ AND IT HALF-CLOSES THE MAYFLOWER DOOR [MAYFLOWER-01]. Her MOTHER’S line is the ALLIS line already on this chart — Braintree freeman 1640, Massachusetts Bay, not Plymouth. The Mayflower question now rests on her FATHER Joseph Mitchell alone, whose origin the Sunderland book does not give. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER BIRTH AND HER FAMILY FOUND — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-40]. Sheldon, History of Deerfield vol. 2, image 505, in the MITCHELL genealogy: “Ch.: Joseph, Mar. 3, 1726-7, in SUND[ERLAND]. TABITHA, Feb. 9, 1736-7; m. Dec. 22…” The marriage day and month match ours exactly — 22 December 1757 — and the birth of 9 February 1736/7 sits inside the c.1735–40 window TUTTLE-24 predicted for her when the Farmington Mitchel hypothesis was killed. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THE FAMILY WAS AT SUNDERLAND. Her brother was born there in 1726-7. Sunderland is the town where the groom’s own parents married in 1737 [node 769]. Father and son married women from the same small Connecticut Valley town, twenty years apart. That is not coincidence; that is a family that kept its Massachusetts ties. ⚠ Her father is almost certainly JOSEPH MITCHELL of Deerfield — Sheldon has daughters Hannah (m. Zadock King 1751), Thankful, Mary (m. Samuel — of Ashfield, 1753) and Lydia all styled “dau. Joseph Mitchell”, plus the son Joseph. Recorded as a strong identification, not yet a proved one — the head-of-family paragraph has not been read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THIS IS THE ONE PLACE A MAYFLOWER LINE COULD ENTER THIS TREE [MAYFLOWER-01]. The Plymouth Colony Mitchells descend from EXPERIENCE MITCHELL, who came on the ANNE in 1623 and married JANE COOKE, daughter of FRANCIS COOKE, MAYFLOWER PASSENGER, 1620. ⭐ And Sheldon’s own pages carry the tell: “FULLER, John; m. July 12, 1774, EXPERIENCE MITCHELL of Ash[field]” — the given name “Experience” running in this very Mitchell family in this very valley is the classic marker of descent from him. ⚠⚠ A MARKER IS NOT A DESCENT. Mitchell is a common name and no link is shown. Nothing about the Mayflower goes on this chart until Joseph Mitchell’s own father is documented. ——— Earlier note: Married at Deerfield, Massachusetts — “TUTTLE, Gershom of New Cambridge, C[onn.] … Mitchel, Dec. 22, 1757.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 6 Aug 2026 — THE FIRST CHECKABLE LEAD ON HER FAMILY [TUTTLE-23]: the complete signer list of the October 1742 New Cambridge petition — the one GERSHOM TUTTLE SR. signed — includes “Joel mitchel.” A MITCHEL was living in that small Connecticut parish fifteen years before the groom’s son married a Tabitha Mitchell.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ A LEAD, NOT A PROOF — Joel is not shown to be her father. ⚠ And it cuts both ways: the Deerfield entry styles the GROOM “of New Cambridge” but gives the bride no parish, which is what a clerk does for a LOCAL bride. Test both hypotheses in parallel: ① a TABITHA MITCHELL born at Farmington c.1735–1740 (cheapest test; would give her parents for the first time); ② Joel Mitchel’s own family; ③ the Deerfield/Hampshire Co. Mitchells. ⚠⚠ TESTED ONE TURN LATER AND LARGELY FAILED [TUTTLE-24]. Joel Mitchel is confirmed real and really at Farmington — his eldest child Mary was born there 2 Sept 1743, eleven months after the petition — but his first recorded child is 1743, AFTER Tabitha’s c.1735–40 birth window, no Tabitha appears among his seven children, and he moved to WETHERSFIELD from 1746 onward. ⛔ By the 1757 marriage the Mitchels had left New Cambridge. ⛔ And no Connecticut or Massachusetts birth for a Tabitha Mitchell 1730–1742 exists in the FS index at all — 3,822 results, and the only New England hit is the 1757 marriage itself. She still has no parent, no birth date and no place. ⭐ The DEERFIELD hypothesis is now the stronger one — the entry styles the GROOM “of New Cambridge” (an outsider) and gives the bride no parish (a local). NEXT: the Deerfield and Hampshire Co. Mitchells, and the 1757 entry read AT THE IMAGE — the printed abstract may drop a father or a parish the register carries.

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Pamelia Clark's father (of Farmington, Connecticut; name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #386 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (8 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

Pamelia Clark's father was a man of Farmington, Connecticut, of the Revolutionary generation, whose daughter was born there on 4 November 1770 — but his own name has not been recovered. He is remembered indirectly through his grandson, General Newman S. Clarke of the United States Army, who was born in Connecticut, commissioned an officer in 1812, and went on to command the Department of the Pacific before his death in 1860.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 7 August 2026 — AND THIS IS THE SINGLE HIGHEST-VALUE GAP ON THE CHART [TUTTLE-46]. He is a Farmington, Connecticut man of the Revolutionary generation with a daughter born 4 November 1770. Naming him serves both of Alec’s stated priorities at once — it opens a whole colonial branch and he is a strong candidate to be a patriot in his own right.

⭐ Two levers, neither of them used before.
(a) The nephew. Gen. Newman S. Clarke, USA — Heitman’s Historical Register confirms the Tuttle book in every checkable particular: “Clarke, Newman S. Conn. Vt. Ens 11 inf 12 Mar 1812 … col 6 inf 29 June 1846 … bvt brig gen 29 Mar 1847 … died 17 Oct 1860” — born in Connecticut, commissioned from Vermont, died at San Francisco commanding the Department of the Pacific. His father was necessarily one of Pamelia’s brothers. ⛔ Appleton’s Cyclopædia gives him a full career paragraph and no parentage.
(b) The brother at the arsenal. ⛔ He was NOT the commandant — the Watervliet Arsenal’s official chronology 1813–1993 contains no Clark anywhere in the 1813–1850 narrative, and no commander died in office; Weise’s History of the City of Troy yields eleven arsenal references and no Clark. So he was a military storekeeper or ordnance officer, and the Registers of Officers and Agents for 1826 and 30 September 1835 both tabulate storekeepers against the station “Ar. Watervliet.”

Outstanding — the one record to pull: the Barbour Collection, FARMINGTON — the birth of Pamelia Clark, 4 November 1770, which names her father outright, and the marriage Tuttle × Clark, 8 July 1788. ⚠ Also worth one query: the DAR Child Search (child Parmelia Clark, spouse Gershom Tuttle) — it was attempted and could not be submitted; a control query with known-good values failed identically, so nothing was concluded from the blank result.

George Roush (July 1761, Frederick Co., Virginia – 31 May 1845, Meigs Co., Ohio)

Ahnentafel #480 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Revolutionary patriot

George Roush was born in July 1761 in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 31 May 1845 in Sutton Township, Meigs County, Ohio. He served in the Revolutionary War, enlisting in the autumn of 1779 under his own brother, Captain John Roush, with further tours of duty in 1780 and 1781, and later drew a pension while living in Ohio. He is recognized today as Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Ancestor A098975.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT, AND THE DAR HAS ALREADY APPROVED THE DESCENT [ROUSH-54, 7 August 2026].

DAR Ancestor # A098975 — Service: VIRGINIA, rank Private. Service description: “1) Capts John Roush, Joseph Pugh; 2) served as a substitute, Capt All.” Residence of record: Shenandoah Co., Virginia. Pension S18579. He enlisted in the autumn of 1779 and served two months in his own brother Captain John Roush’s Virginia company, with further tours in 1780 and 1781, and was pensioned in 1832 while living in Ohio.

⭐⭐ Five approved DAR applications descend through this man’s son JOHN and his wife REGINA ROUSH — National Nos. 426059, 671858, 728245, 569934 (vol. 871) and 976675. That is Alec’s own line, already accepted.

⚠ A printed error corrected here. The 1928 Roush genealogy prints his pension as “S. 8579”, and the Roush Family Association’s own website repeats it. S8579 is Jacob Goss of North Carolina — read in full and checked. The book dropped a digit; the true number is S18579.

Outstanding: his own pension file, read as images rather than as an abstract — it should name Catharine and their children.

Catharine Zerkel (wife of George Roush)

Ahnentafel #481 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Catharine Zerkel was the first wife of George Roush, named as such independently by both the 1928 Roush family genealogy and the Daughters of the American Revolution's own record for her husband.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 7 August 2026 [ROUSH-54]. Named as George Roush’s first wife independently by two sources that did not consult each other: the 1928 Roush genealogy (Catharine Zerkel) and the DAR ancestor record for A098975, which lists spouse “CATHERINE ZIRKLE”. The DAR’s approved applications through son John are all marked to spouse [1] — i.e. to her, not to George’s second wife.

⭐ ZERKEL / ZIRKLE / ZERCKEL is a name that keeps recurring around this family — a Zerkle man was living in the household where James Nease appears in two censuses, two Mason County Neases married Zerkel women in 1845 and 1852, and Moses B. Roush’s third wife was a Margaret A. Zerkle. Recorded as a pattern, not a conclusion.

Outstanding: her dates, her parents, and the marriage record itself.

Jonas Roush (Sept 1763, Frederick Co., Virginia – 14 Dec 1850, Mason Co., Virginia)

Ahnentafel #482 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Revolutionary patriot

Jonas Roush was born in September 1763 at Holman's Fort, Frederick County, Virginia, and died 14 December 1850 in Mason County, Virginia. He served in the Revolutionary War as a substitute for his brother Henry in the summer of 1781, and on a second tour was present at the siege of Yorktown and Cornwallis's surrender on 19 October 1781. He later told his story in his own sworn pension statement of 6 November 1832, and is recognized today as Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Ancestor A098985. His brother Henry Roush was also honored as a Revolutionary patriot.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT WHO WATCHED CORNWALLIS SURRENDER [ROUSH-54, 7 August 2026].

DAR Ancestor # A098985 — Service: VIRGINIA, rank Private; “Capt All; Cols Bird, Darke.” Pension S4785, and the file has been read in full transcription. In his own sworn statement of 6 November 1832, made from Mason County, Virginia, he says he “entered the service as a substitute for his Brother Henry Roush who was drafted for a tour of three months in the summer of 1781,” served under Captain All in Colonel Bird’s regiment at Falmouth near Fredericksburg, and on a second three-month tour was present at the siege of Yorktown and at Cornwallis’s surrender, 19 October 1781. He fell ill near Fredericksburg while escorting prisoners. Pensioned at $20 a year from 4 March 1831; the pension was transferred to Meigs County, Ohio in 1837.

⭐⭐ Two approved DAR applications descend through his daughter REGINA and her husband JOHN ROUSH (National Nos. 569934 and 1076887). ⭐⭐⭐ And member 569934 is approved on BOTH Jonas and George — that member carries the same double descent Alec has.

⭐ He was living in Mason County when he applied — the very county where his great-grandson John G. Roush would later marry and die. ⚠ A conflict to hold: the pension says he removed to Meigs County, Ohio in 1837 and the 1928 book says he died in his daughter’s house there, but the DAR records his death in Mason County, Virginia. Not resolved.

⛔ A bounded negative worth knowing: the pension file does not name his wife Barbara or any child, including Regina. It records only that his wife died in February 1837 and that he had a daughter in Ohio. The file corroborates the descent; it does not by itself prove it.

⭐ His brother is a patriot too: HENRY ROUSH, DAR # A098977, b. 1752 Frederick Co., Va., d. 26 Oct 1831 Meigs Co., Ohio — “Capt Jacob Holeman, Dunmore Co. Militia, 1775; paid for substitute” — and the DAR’s cited source for Henry’s service is Jonas’s own pension file. The two brothers’ service is documented out of the same sheaf of paper.

Barbara Fox (wife of Jonas Roush; d. Feb 1837)

Ahnentafel #483 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother (8 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Barbara Fox was the wife of Jonas Roush and died in February 1837, the same year her husband moved to Ohio to live with their daughter. She is named as his wife in both the 1928 Roush family genealogy and Daughters of the American Revolution records.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 7 August 2026 [ROUSH-54]. Named as Jonas Roush’s wife by the 1928 Roush genealogy and, independently, by the DAR ancestor record A098985, which lists spouse “BARBARA FOX.”

⭐ Her death is dated by her husband’s pension file, which records that his wife died in February 1837 — the same year he moved to Ohio to live with his daughter. ⚠ The file does not name her; the name comes from the book and the DAR.

Outstanding: her birth, her parents, and a marriage record — Shenandoah County, Virginia, probably in the 1780s.

Henry Roush Sr. (1752 – 26 Oct 1831, Plants Cemetery, Meigs Co., Ohio)

Ahnentafel #500 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’s father’s father (8 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Revolutionary patriot

Henry Roush Sr. lived from 1752 until 26 October 1831 and was buried at Plants Cemetery, Letart Falls, Meigs County, Ohio, where his gravestone gives his age as 79. He probably served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain John Tipton's company, paid off at Romney after eighty-eight days of service, and his brother Jonas's own pension application recalls serving three months as a substitute for him. He is probably the same man recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as Patriot Ancestor A098977, though this has not yet been confirmed from the DAR's own record.

Evidence

⭐⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 8 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-64/-VERDICT]. Fourth son in the minute-book table (printed pp.60–61); gravestone quoted (“died October 26, 1831, aged 79 years”); Revolutionary service certified: private, Capt. John Tipton’s Co., paid off at Romney, 88 days, receipt 25 Oct 1775 (Virginia State Library certification, 1926, quoted in full) — plus Jonas’s pension: “served three months for his brother Henry.” Signed the 1793 Solomonburg church deed “HENRICH ROUSH (in German).” ?= DAR A098977 (b. 1752 Frederick Co., d. 26 Oct 1831 Meigs Co. — triple date/place match; DAR page unread). The Anthony link is book-only — hence Probable.

Outstanding: the DAR A098977 page (browser); LVA’s Romney pay-roll manuscript; Bertha descends from TWO patriot Roush lines if this holds.

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Dorothea Roush (signed by her mark, 1793; maiden name unknown)

Ahnentafel #501 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (8 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Dorothea, whose surname has not been recovered, was the wife of Henry Roush Sr. She signed a church deed by her mark in 1793, the same document her husband signed in German, and is believed to be buried beside him at Plants Cemetery.

Evidence

ADDED at PROBABLE, 8 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-64/-VERDICT]. “Henry Roush and wife, Dorothy” in both book threads; witnessed the 1793 Solomonburg church deed “DOROTHY ROUSH (her mark)” — her husband literate in German, she by mark, same page. Buried beside Henry at Plants Cemetery per the book’s reading of the adjacent marker. Surname unknown (the table’s “(Nease?)” hedge noted and NOT adopted).

Outstanding: her surname; the adjacent Plants Cemetery stone by eye.

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Elizabeth Rickard's father (Germany → Maryland → Mason Co., (West) Virginia; name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #502 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (8 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

The patriarch of the Rickard family came from Germany by way of Maryland and settled in Mason County, in what later became West Virginia. He was the father of four immigrant brothers — Michael, Jacob, John and Joseph Rickard — as well as of daughters Elizabeth and Susannah, but even the family's own 1928 genealogy could not recover his name, printing only a blank dash in its place.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, 10 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-67/-VERDICT]. Father of the four immigrant brothers — Michael, Jacob, John, Joseph Rickard — and of Elizabeth (node 251) and Susannah: the 1928 compiler printed a literal dash for his name (“She was of the ——— Rickard family,” p.537). Recovery path: the Rickard Cemetery stones, White Church, Mason Co.

Elizabeth Rickard's mother (name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #503 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (8 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

The wife of the Rickard patriarch has not been named in any record found so far, though her existence is implied by the large family she and her husband raised.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, 10 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-67/-VERDICT]. Wholly unnamed in every source read.

John Bell of Camden District (candidate) (b. probably c.1710–1730 (if Robert Bell of Bertie's son John, b. before c.1717); seated on Bear Swamp, Duplin Co., N.C. by 1762, there 1773; will dated 18 Oct 1786, Camden District, S.C. (abstract only))

Ahnentafel #512 · his father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (9 generations back) · Hypothesis — a candidate, not tied in

If the abstract is right, he is the man who sat on Bear Swamp in Duplin County before the war, sold his plantation to his eldest son in 1765 for £100 and went on living on it, and then — somewhere after January 1773 — followed both his sons four hundred miles south to the Black River country, where he died with a will that named his children in order: Frederick first, then William Rasor, then Penelope, whose own children would carry the name of their “Grandfather John Bell” into the deed books of two states. And if he is who the Bertie papers suggest, his own father could not write — he signed with a big interlocked R B — while John and his brothers all signed their names.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ A named, located candidate — still not tied in (22 Aug 2026). Holcomb’s 1978 abstract of a will dated 18 Oct 1786 names wife Mary, “eldest son Frederick Bell,” William Rasor Bell and “eldest daughter Penelope Stuckey”; the Kershaw General Index to Estates reads “Bell, Jno — Frederick Bell — Adm’r — Apt 6 — Pkg 180” (apartment and package read directly; year cell illegible). Independent support: John Stuckey of Duplin’s wife was Penelope (1779); Lewis Stuckey’s 1792 deed says his property “descended to me from my Grandfather John Bell” and by 1794 he is “now of the County of Salem, South Carolina”; in 1790 there was exactly one Frederick Bell in the state; and a 1787 Claremont deed puts Jacob Hurst beside Frederick [BELL-446–448, 458, 481, 482].

⭐⭐ The family this John probably belongs to is now documented in its own right: Robert Bell of Chowan and Bertie Co., N.C., died intestate 1738; his children signed for their shares — George (“his Eldest Son and heir at Law”), John, Archibald, Penelope — with William Byrd as son-in-law; the family moved to Duplin by 1754 (Archibald “of Duplin County” 1756), and Sampson County was cut out under them in 1784. A literate John Bell Sr of Bear Swamp, seated by 1762, sold to Frederick Bell in 1765, was “Sr” in 1773, and then vanishes from every North Carolina record [BELL-472, 475, 478, 481]. The working hypothesis is that this John is Robert’s son and the 1786 testator.

⛔ Why still hypothesis, not probable: the only text calling William Rasor a son is a 2004 message-board condensation; Holcomb’s own index returns “William Rasor Bell” on p. 5 but refuses “son William Rasor Bell” (adversary, [BELL-458]); and no John Bell or Mary Bell appears anywhere near Frederick in Camden District 1775–90, on ground where the corpus finds Frederick by name seven times [BELL-482]. The Camden probate books for 1786–91 were lost to the Claremont courthouse fire of 1801 [BELL-463–464].

Outstanding: read Holcomb, Camden District Wills and Administrations, printed p. 5 (2017 reprint, ~$20) — does it say son?; then the packet, SCDAH L 49055 Apt 6 Pkg 180. Patriot question: the 1783 Camden petit-juror “Bell, John” is probably the Broad River John [BELL-461–462]; only the engrossed 1783 schedule (SCDAH S 165001) could revive it.

⭐⭐⭐ 23 Aug 2026 — the ladder above hardened dramatically. The originals were read at the ink: Henry Woodnot’s 1718 will names Anne, a widow Ferguson, as Robert Bell’s wife; John Clemet’s 1734/5 will names “his two Sons John Bell and Archiball Bell” — Robert’s son John is documented twice over; John’s Bertie record (patent on Pellmell Pocoson 1739 as “John Bell, Junior”; last land sold Feb 1746/7) stops dead in the exact 1747–49 window the whole kin-group — Bells, Kings, Snells, Herrings — relocated to Duplin, and Archibald pairs with John at both ends (Bertie 1738/1749; the 1766 Duplin witness line). “John of Bertie = Bear Swamp John Sr” is now graded PROBABLE — the adversary’s own kill-tests all passed (no John Bell on any Bertie tax list 1751–63; the ten-year-late witness-oath proof of his last deed; the 1737 “second John” an OCR phantom) and the ruling adversary promoted it 24 Aug [BELL-497–498], with the explicit boundary that the promotion must not leak upward into THIS node’s rung; the Bear-Swamp-John-to-this-testator rung is still the hypothesis this node’s grade rests on [BELL-486–492]. See 00_BELL_LINEAGE.html for the full ladder.

⛔⭐⭐ 24 Aug 2026 [BELL-500] — the abstract’s “son-” prefix was the poster’s, not Holcomb’s. A controlled phrase-oracle over the 1978 volume (two passes, 700+ logged queries [BELL-500, 505]) proves page 5 reads “my eldest son Frederick Bell,” “my eldest daughter Penelope Stuckey,” “wife Mary” — and then TWO formally parallel bare bequests: “to John Bell” and “…sterling to William Rasor Bell” (cash, not land), neither with a kin term — the classic shape of legacies to grandsons or kinsmen; Holcomb’s own 1978 index binds the W. Rasor Bell of p.35 to the man of p.5 (the words “his” and “children,” which the 2004 condensation rests on, occur zero times on the page). The candidacy is not dead — W.R.B. stands in the will as a legatee of unstated relation (son-unstyled, grandson, or kinsman), and the Stuckey and Kershaw-index corroboration hold — but the relationship itself is now known to be UNSTATED in the abstract, and only the original packet can state it. If W.R.B. should prove Frederick’s son, the ladder renumbers — flagged, not adopted.

Mary (—) Bell (candidate) (living 18 Oct 1786, Camden District, S.C.)

Ahnentafel #513 · his father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (9 generations back) · Hypothesis — a candidate, not tied in

Evidence

Named only as “wife Mary” in the abstract of John Bell’s 1786 will. No Mary Bell appears in Camden District 1777–1790 — none as grantor, witness, deponent or head of household — in a corpus that finds Frederick Bell repeatedly on the same ground [BELL-482]; a Mary Bell who witnessed by mark in Salem County in 1788 cannot be told from Frederick’s or William’s wives of the same name [BELL-460]. The Mary Bell whose Sumter estate was administered in 1819 is Jonathan Bell’s widow [BELL-468]. Stands or falls with node 512.

Sarah Pigford's father (of New Hanover or Duplin Co., North Carolina, mid-1700s; name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #582 · his father’s father’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (9 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

Sarah Pigford's father lived in New Hanover or Duplin County, North Carolina, in the mid-eighteenth century, but his name has not survived. Even the family's own genealogist, writing in 1967 after searching the marriage records of both counties, concluded that "her family name continues to be beyond the reach of this recorder."

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, adversary-confirmed 10 Aug 2026 [BELL-57/-VERDICT]. Sarah (291) is documented by the 1801 will's life estate; her family name defeated the family's own 1967 genealogist after a bounded search of BOTH New Hanover and Duplin marriage records — “Her family name continues to be beyond the reach of this recorder.” ⚠ The circulating “Sarah FUSSELL” is a killed trap: Fussell was the master William was apprenticed to, not her family.

Outstanding: Vogt's bride index (TLS-dead to tools — browser); pp. 45–470 of the 1967 book (no search layer — reader); the original 1801 will image.

Sarah Pigford's mother (of New Hanover or Duplin Co., North Carolina, mid-1700s; name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #583 · his father’s father’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (9 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

Sarah Pigford's mother likewise lived in New Hanover or Duplin County, North Carolina, in the mid-eighteenth century. Like her husband, her name has not survived in any record found so far.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, adversary-confirmed 10 Aug 2026 [BELL-57/-VERDICT]. Same bounded two-county negative as node 582.

Ensign Gershom Tuttle I (b. 11 Aug 1714 Wallingford – Chippens Hill, New Cambridge – d. 13 Aug 1777, Claremont, N.H.)

Ahnentafel #768 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (9 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Ensign Gershom Tuttle I was born 11 August 1714 in Wallingford, Connecticut, the son of Timothy Tuttle and Thankful Doolittle. As a young man he moved to the Massachusetts frontier, taking up land his father had obtained in a new township near Northfield, and there he married Lois Allis at Sunderland on 17 October 1737. The couple went on to settle at Chippen's Hill in the New Cambridge parish of Farmington, Connecticut (now Bristol), where he became a prominent landholder and churchman and served in the French and Indian Wars, earning the rank of ensign.

Late in life he moved his family north again, to Claremont, New Hampshire, where he died 13 August 1777, in the second summer of the Revolutionary War — even as his son Gershom II was serving as a wagon-team conductor for the Continental cause back in Connecticut.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE RANK CONFLICT IS RESOLVED, AND HIS EXACT NEIGHBOURHOOD IS NAMED — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-39]. Miscellaneous Notes on New England Families, continuing: “On his return from the north, Gershom Tuttle joined THE COLONY OF PEOPLE FROM CHESHIRE AND VICINITY who removed to the town of Farmington and settled on CHIPPEN’S HILL, in what was called New Cambridge and is now the town of Bristol. There he had his home and was prominent in church and town affairs. HE SERVED IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS AND IS CALLED ENSIGN GERSHOM TUTTLE.” ⭐⭐ THAT SETTLES THE CONFLICT LOGGED IN TUTTLE-33. The gravestone calls him ENSIGN; the 1883 book calls him “Capt. of the train-band”. The Ensign’s commission came from the FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, not the local militia — so the stone is recording war service, and the two titles are two different things. ⭐ NEW RESEARCH TARGET: the Connecticut French and Indian War rolls, c.1755–1762. ⭐⭐⭐ AND IT EXPLAINS THE 1742 PETITION GROUP. He did not drift to Farmington — he went with a COLONY of Cheshire people, which is why Simon Tuttle and the other names on that petition [TUTTLE-20/23] are the same names as the Cheshire records. They moved as a body, and Chippen’s Hill is where they landed. ⚠⚠⚠ AND A LEAD FLAGGED, NOT WRITTEN AS A FINDING. The manuscript continues: “As is well known there was much dissention there in New Cambridge before and during the Revolutionary War. CHIPPENS HILL WAS A CENTER OF EPISCOPALIAN AND ‘TORY’ FEELING. Many of the families…” — and the transcript breaks off there. ⚠ DO NOT DRAW THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION. Two facts already on this chart point in opposite directions: his son Gershom II is a DOCUMENTED PATRIOT (DAR A131791, paid by the Connecticut Assembly in 1780), and a Simon Tuttle was one of ten men who in 1747 “publikly declared themselves of the Church of England” at New Cambridge [TUTTLE-20]. Read the next page of the manuscript before a word of this goes in as fact. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “CARLETON” IS SOLVED, AND IT IS ARLINGTON — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-38]. Miscellaneous Notes on New England Families (FS film #007549089, ark 3:1:3QS7-89DX-THK7) — a manuscript that had already solved this problem and cites its sources: “Gershom Tuttle was the son of Timothy Tuttle and his wife THANKFUL DOOLITTLE, and was born in Wallingford, Aug. 11, 1714 (Wallingford Vitals, vol. 2, p. 799). … As a young man Gershom Tuttle removed from Wallingford to northern Massachusetts, where he took up THE LAND WHICH HIS FATHER TIMOTHY TUTTLE HAD OBTAINED IN THE NEW TOWN OF ARLINGTON, JUST ABOVE NORTHFIELD (which later became WINCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE). During the time he was up there he evidently stayed some time in NORTHFIELD (where HIS UNCLE THE REV. BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE was the Pastor of the church) and Sunderland, somewhat farther south. There, in Sunderland, Mass., Gershom Tuttle married, Oct. 17, 1737, LOIS ALLIS (from Sunderland Town records, as given in the History of Sunderland). She was the daughter of WILLIAM ALLIS of Sunderland…” ⭐ The clerk’s hand read “Carleton” and “Earlenton” — it is ARLINGTON, and the flag on that one word was worth keeping. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THE MOVE WAS KINSHIP, NOT SPECULATION. His father held the proprietor’s right; his MOTHER’S BROTHER was the minister twenty miles down the road at Northfield; he lodged with his uncle and married a girl from Sunderland. That also confirms THANKFUL DOOLITTLE as his mother from a third independent direction — this compiler calls Rev. Benjamin Doolittle his UNCLE. ⭐⭐⭐ AND IT MAKES HIS LIFE A SHAPE: Arlington became WINCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE — so the frontier township he settled at twenty-two was in what is now New Hampshire, and he died in New Hampshire, at Claremont, forty-one years later. He went north twice, and the second time he stayed. ⭐ AND WE NOW HAVE THE CITATION FOR HIS BIRTH ENTRY: WALLINGFORD VITALS, VOL. 2, PAGE 799. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE DEED READ AT THE PAGE — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-37]. FamilySearch ark 3:1:3QS7-89ZD-JW67, image 445 of 849, Hampden/Springfield, Massachusetts Land Records 1735–1737: “Know all Men by these presents that I TIMOTHY TUTTLE of Wallingford in the County of New Haven and Colony of Connecticutt in New England, for divers good causes and considerations and perticularly for LOVE, GOOD WILL AND FATHERLY AFFECTION that I have and [bear] to MY SON GERSHOM TUTTLE of Carleton in the County of Hampshire and province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, have therefore given, granted and firmly pass over … unto him my said son Gershom Tuttle and to his heirs and assigns forever ALL MY RIGHT OF LAND IN SAID [CARLETON], as well that which is already laid out and all other Divisions that shall be hereafter in said TOWNSHIP on my said RIGHT to be laid out and surveyed … I am the True, Sole and Lawfull owner of the above given and Granted premises … to Warrant, Secure and Defend him the said Gersham Tuttle…” ‘Fatherly affection’ is the standard phrase of a New England gift deed, and it is the plainest statement of parentage the period produces. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND IT REWRITES THE ORDER OF EVENTS. He is already “of … the County of HAMPSHIRE, Massachusetts” in 1736 — a year and more BEFORE he married Lois Allis at Sunderland in October 1737. He did not go north because of the deed; he was already there, and his father signed his own share over to him. Sunderland, Hatfield and Montague — the whole Allis country — are in that same county. So the marriage is not a mystery any more: he was a young man on the Massachusetts frontier who married a local girl. ⚠⚠ WHAT “CARLETON” IS, IS STILL OPEN — and the deed itself narrows it hard. It is a TOWNSHIP in which Timothy held a PROPRIETOR’S RIGHT, with later divisions still to be laid out — that is the signature of one of the NEW MASSACHUSETTS TOWNSHIPS granted in 1735, not an old settled town. The transcript renders the name twice and differently (“Carleton”, “Earlenton”), so the clerk’s hand is ambiguous. Identify it against the 1735 Hampshire County township grants and the proprietors’ records — that will say exactly where he was living at 22. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE LAST UNDOCUMENTED LINK IN THE TUTTLE LINE IS CLOSED — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-36]. A DEED OF GIFT OF 1736 IN WHICH TIMOTHY TUTTLE CALLS GERSHOM HIS SON, TWICE. FamilySearch full-text, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Land Records 1734-1735, 1735-1737, 1736-1744, YEARS: 1736, nine matched passages — “…presents that I TIMOTHY TUTTLE OF WALLINGFORD in …” · “…and are to my SON GERSHOM TUTTLE of Carleton in …” · “…unto him my said son Gershom Tuttle and to his …” · “…to him the said Gershom [Tuttle] his heirs &c…” · “…to and with the said Gershom Tuttle his heirs and…” · “…I the said Timothy Tuttle do bind my self and …” · “…whereof I the said Timothy Tuttle have hereunto …” · “…date above written Timothy Tuttle the above …” The same instrument appears again in Hampden, Massachusetts. Cemetery Land Deeds 1733-1737 — “…and Bare to my son Gershom Tuttle of…” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND IT EXPLAINS THE MARRIAGE THAT HAS PUZZLED THIS FILE FOR DAYS. Why would a Cheshire, Connecticut man marry LOIS ALLIS at SUNDERLAND, MASSACHUSETTS in October 1737? Because in 1736 his father deeded him land in the Massachusetts Connecticut Valley. (Springfield’s registry served the whole valley — Hampden was part of HAMPSHIRE County until 1812, so these ARE the Hampshire records.) Father gives land 1736 → son marries a valley girl 1737 → son is buying in Farmington by 1739-40. The sequence finally reads. ⚠ TWO THINGS STILL TO DO ON IT: ① open the deed IMAGE — everything above is FamilySearch’s OCR of the deed book, which is the record’s own words but not yet read at the page; ② “Gershom Tuttle of CARLETON” is unexplained — no Massachusetts or Connecticut town of that name fits 1736. Probably an OCR misreading of the son’s residence. Flagged, not smoothed over. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SPOFFORD’S TRANSCRIPTION READ AT SOURCE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-35] — Grave Stone Records from the Ancient Cemeteries in the Town of Claremont, N.H. (1896), image 78: “Tuttle Gershom, Esq.  Aug. 13, 1777, 63y.” ⚠⚠ SELF-CORRECTION #16: TUTTLE-33 transcribed the photograph as “in ye 63d Year of his Age”. Spofford, standing at the stone in 1896, reads it as an AGE — 63 years — and the arithmetic agrees: b. 11 Aug 1714, d. 13 Aug 1777 is 63 years and two days. Spofford’s reading is the one to carry; mine was made from a photograph at an angle. The day I hedged as ‘5th or 15th’ is the 13th. ⛔⛔ AND A BOUNDED NEGATIVE THAT MATTERS. Spofford transcribed EVERY ancient cemetery in the town, and there are only THREE Tuttles in the whole book: “Tuttle Gershom, Esq. Aug. 13, 1777, 63y. · Tuttle Hannah, wife of Oliver. Sept. 12, 1785, 42y. · Tuttle Daniel, son of Oliver and Hannah. March 2, 1777, 4y.” NO WIFE OF GERSHOM I IS BURIED AT CLAREMONT. Lois Allis is not beside him, and she is not in that town at all. So she died before the family left Connecticut, or she is buried somewhere else entirely — see node 769. ⭐⭐⭐ WHAT IS THERE INSTEAD IS A HARDER STORY. The other two Tuttles are his son OLIVER’S wife and OLIVER’S small son: Daniel, aged four, buried 2 March 1777 — and Gershom I himself five months later, 13 August 1777. This family buried a grandson in the spring and the grandfather in the summer of the same year. And Hannah, Oliver’s wife, died 12 September 1785 aged 42 — which is very likely why Oliver left: the 1883 book has him going from Claremont to New York “about 1790”, five years after burying her. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE GRAVE IS FOUND, AND IT IS NOT WHERE THE BOOK SAID — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34]. ENS Gershom Tuttle, b. 11 Aug 1714 Wallingford, Connecticut; d. 13 Aug 1777, aged 63, at CLAREMONT, SULLIVAN COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Buried UNION CEMETERY, Claremont — Section B, Lot 106. Find a Grave memorial 33451086 (created 2009), citing Charles B. Spofford, Grave Stone Records from the Ancient Cemeteries in the Town of Claremont, N.H., 1896 — a published transcription, not a user guess. The transcription records “Esq. — age 63 years.” ⚠⚠⚠ THE 1883 BOOK IS WRONG ON THE PLACE AS WELL AS THE DATE. Entry 925 says “rem. from Cheshire to Bristol, and d. there, a. 74”. He did not die at Bristol and he was not 74. He died at Claremont, New Hampshire, two days after his sixty-third birthday. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THIS EXPLAINS SOMETHING WE HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR. Entry 9251 says his son the patriot “went FIRST TO NEW HAMPSHIRE, thence about 1790 to Clinton, Oneida Co., N.Y.” The New Hampshire stage was his FATHER’S move. Gershom I took the family from Connecticut to Claremont and died there in the second summer of the Revolution. ⭐⭐⭐ AND THE WHOLE SIBLING GROUP WENT AND LEFT TOGETHER: the same 1883 book, image 713, has “OLIVER Tuttle, from CLAREMONT, N.H., to N.Y. state about 1790; rem. from Paris, Oneida Co., N.Y.…” — and Oliver, b. 1739, is Gershom I’s second son. Two brothers, same town, same year, same destination. Cheshire/Bristol, Conn. → Claremont, N.H. → Paris & Clinton, Oneida Co., N.Y. ⭐⭐ HIS CHILDREN, as the memorial links them: Gershom II 1738–1818 (the patriot), Oliver 1739–1834, Samuel 1747–1805, and LOIS, d. 1769 — ⭐⭐⭐⭐ a daughter named LOIS, which is his wife’s name. The 1883 book prints only “He m. ——.” A daughter called Lois is exactly what a man married to LOIS ALLIS (node 769) names his girl. ——— Earlier note: ✅ THE 1777 HEADSTONE IS THIS MAN — GERSHOM I — confirmed by Alec 6 Aug 2026. Not the patriot (II, d. 5 Jan 1818) and not the Colonel (III, d. 5 Sep 1823). The stone’s own arithmetic is what rules them out: “in ye 63d Year of his Age” in 1777 requires a birth in 1714–15, which is I and only I. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS HEADSTONE, 6 Aug 2026 — ALEC FOUND IT ON FIND A GRAVE AND SENT THE PHOTOGRAPH [TUTTLE-33]. A slate stone with a winged soul effigy, reading: “In Memory of En[sig]n GERSHOM TUTTLE Who died Aug[us]t [1]5th AD 1777, in ye 63d Year of his Age. A Man of Sober Life, Who Lived beloved & Lamented died, & may his Rest…” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE ARITHMETIC IS EXACT AND IT PROVES THE MAN. Born 11 August 1714, he turned 63 on 11 August 1777 — so a death in early August 1777 leaves him 62 years old, i.e. IN HIS 63d YEAR, to the week. A gravestone cut in 1777 and a genealogy printed in 1883 agree to the month, from opposite ends of a century. ⭐ UPGRADED part → ok. He now has: a contemporary monument; a birth date corroborated by it; the 1742 New Cambridge petition signed “Gerfhum Tuttle”; Farmington land purchases from 1739-40; his marriage at Sunderland 17 Oct 1737; and the Farmington birth record of his son naming him as father. ⚠⚠ AND IT REFUTES THE 1883 BOOK — sixth error caught in that volume. The book says “rem. from Cheshire to Bristol, and d. there, a. 74”, which would put his death about 1788. The stone says 1777 and 62. The book is wrong by eleven years and the printed “a. 74” is withdrawn. ⚠ RANK CONFLICT, LOGGED: the stone calls him ENSIGN; the 1883 book calls him “Capt. of the train-band.” Both can be true across one life (ensign, then captain) — but the stone is the contemporary document and it chose Ensign. ⭐⭐ HE DIED IN THE SECOND SUMMER OF THE REVOLUTION, while his son Gershom was conducting provision teams for the Connecticut Assembly. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THE FAMILYSEARCH TREE WAS RIGHT — SAY SO. This node’s own outstanding note read: “The FS tree calls him ‘Ensign Gershom Tuttle, 1714–1777’ — a lead to TEST, not to adopt.” Tested. Both the rank and both years are on the stone. That tree has been wrong six times in this project and it is right here, and it deserves the same plain statement the errors got. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE WALL IS DOWN — 6 Aug 2026, ENTRY 925 OF THE 1883 TUTTLE GENEALOGY, READ IN FULL [TUTTLE-30]: “925. Gershom Tuttle, b. Aug. 11, 1714; rem. from CHESHIRE to BRISTOL, and d. there, a. 74. He appears on the Farmington, Conn., rec. as a buyer of land, first in 1739-40, and frequently afterward as buyer or seller. He was CAPT. OF THE TRAIN-BAND. He m. ——.” A birth date, a death, an origin town and a militia rank, for a man who six hours ago had none of them. ⭐ Every part of it corroborates what we already held from records, which is the only way a published genealogy earns credit: he is buying land in Farmington in 1739-40, two years before he signs the October 1742 New Cambridge petition [TUTTLE-20]; and Bristol IS the New Cambridge parish of Farmington until 1785, so the book and the petition describe one man in one place. ⭐⭐ AND IT IDENTIFIES SIMON. Entry 928 Simon Tuttle “rec. a deed of land … from his father, Timothy Tuttle” — so the second Tuttle on the 1742 petition was Gershom’s own BROTHER. ⚠⚠ THE BOOK LEAVES HIS WIFE A DASH — AND WE HAVE HER NAME AND THE BOOK DID NOT. The standard authority on this family for a hundred and forty years prints “He m. ——”; the Sunderland, Massachusetts town record gives LOIS ALLIS, 17 October 1737 (node 769). It also explains the move: a Cheshire man does not start buying Farmington land in 1739-40 by accident — he had married in October 1737. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS FATHER IS NOW KNOWN: DEA. TIMOTHY TUTTLE of Cheshire (node 1536), whose child-list on image 575 runs “IV. Mary, b. Oct. 3, 1712 … V. Gershom, b. Aug. 11, 1714” — entry 924 and entry 925, exactly as the numbering predicted. ——— Earlier notes on this node follow. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — a whole generation added at Alec’s request. Named as the father on the Farmington, Connecticut birth record of Gershom the patriot, 22 Aug 1738 (ark 1:1:F74C-P4J). ⭐ His family is reconstructable from the Farmington births: Gershom 1738, Oliver 1739, Eunice 1743, Hannah 1745, Samuel 1747, Huldah 1749 — a child every two years, then an eleven-year gap before the next set (Solomon 1760, Solomon 1762, Theoderit 1763), which belong to his SON and Tabitha Mitchell [TUTTLE-15].

Outstanding: ⛔ His own birth is NOT in the FamilySearch index at all — searched Gershom Tuttle b.1695×1725 across every collection: zero. So the next generation back cannot be reached by index. Routes: Farmington land records (father-to-son conveyance is the classic proof), Hartford District probate, and — most likely — Hampshire Co., Massachusetts records, since he married there. ⚠ The FS tree calls him “Ensign Gershom Tuttle, 1714–1777” — a lead to TEST, not to adopt. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ FOUND IN A DATED DOCUMENT, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-20]: he signs the October 1742 petition of the inhabitants of NEW CAMBRIDGE to hire a winter preacher, printed as “Gerfhum Tuttle” (long-s for Gershum). His son was four years old in 1742, so this is the father. It puts him there as a ratepaying householder, not just a name in a birth register — and it confirms from a third direction that Bristol and Farmington are one place: New Cambridge petitioned for winter preaching precisely because it was a remote parish of Farmington. ⭐⭐ A second Tuttle household is there too: SIMON TUTTLE, signer in 1744 and one of ten who in 1747 “publikly declared themselves of the Church of England” — the most promising associated name for Gershom Sr.’s family. ⛔ The Bristol history gives NO origin for any Tuttle. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [TUTTLE-17]: Hampshire Co., Mass. probate, 1739/40, records the appraisers of Samuel Taylor’s estate as “Nathan TUTHILL, William Allis, Joseph Root” — TUTHILL is a spelling of TUTTLE. So there were Tuttles AT SUNDERLAND in 1739, standing beside William Allis in the same document, two years after Gershom married Lois there. That is what explains how a Tuttle came to be in that town at all. Look for Gershom Sr. among the SUNDERLAND / Hampshire County TUTHILLS, not among the Connecticut Tuttles — and SPELL IT BOTH WAYS.

Photographs (described)

Lois Allis (b. 13 Jan 1707/8 Hatfield; m. 17 Oct 1737, Sunderland; sister of Mary Allis)

Ahnentafel #769 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (9 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Lois Allis was born 13 January 1707/8 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Allis and Elizabeth Davis, and the sister of Mary Allis. She married Gershom Tuttle I at Sunderland, Massachusetts, on 17 October 1737, in her own family's town.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE SUNDERLAND TOWN MARRIAGE RECORD ITSELF, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-41] — History of the Town of Sunderland, image 690: “TUTTLE, Gershom, and LOIS ALLIS, were m. Oct. 17, 1737.” A fourth independent witness, and this one is the town’s own register rather than a genealogy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND HER SISTER MATTERS. Image 355 gives William Allis’s children including “MARY, b. Feb. 18, 1705; m. Joseph Mitchell” and “LOIS, b. Jan. 13, 1708; m. Oct. 17, 1737, Gershom Tuttle”. Mary Allis is TABITHA MITCHELL’S MOTHER (node 771) — so Lois’s son married Lois’s niece. The Tuttles did not merely keep their Massachusetts ties; they married back into the same house twice. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A THIRD SOURCE, AND IT NAMES HER FATHER [TUTTLE-38]: “There, in Sunderland, Mass., Gershom Tuttle married, Oct. 17, 1737, LOIS ALLIS (from Sunderland Town records, as given in the History of Sunderland). She was the daughter of WILLIAM ALLIS of Sunderland” — confirming node 1538 as her father from outside the Allis genealogy and outside the FamilySearch index. ⭐ The same compiler notes “the marriage of Gershom Tuttle is NOT GIVEN in the Tuttle genealogy, and it took considerable intuitive research to discover it” — someone else hit the same blank dash in the 1883 book and had to go round it the same way we did. ⭐⭐ NEW LEAD ON WHERE SHE WENT: the History of Sunderland prints the town records — look there for her death, and for any later Tuttle entries. ——— Earlier note: ⛔⛔ WHERE SHE IS NOT — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-35]. Her husband died at Claremont, New Hampshire in 1777 and is buried there. Spofford’s 1896 transcription of every ancient cemetery in that town contains only three Tuttles, and none of them is his wife. Lois is not buried beside him. ⭐ THE TWO LIVE POSSIBILITIES: ① she died in Connecticut before the family moved north — her last recorded child is Huldah, 1749, and she would have been 41; or ② she outlived him elsewhere. ⭐⭐ AND THERE IS A HINT ON HIS MEMORIAL: a daughter LOIS, d. 1769 — a girl named for her mother, dying eight years before her father. Look for BOTH Loises in Connecticut, and in the Bristol/Farmington burying grounds. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ CONFIRMED AND UPGRADED part → ok, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-18]: the Genealogy of William Allis of Hatfield (1919) records at entry 66, from the bride’s side and with no interest in the Tuttle line at all: “66. Lois, b. Jan. 13, 1708; married GERSHOM TUTTLE on October 17, 1737.” Two independent sources now record this marriage. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-16]: “Lois Allis, christened 13 January 1707[/8], HATFIELD, Hampshire, Massachusetts — parents WM. ALLIS and ELIZABETH”, agreed by four independent index entries. (The 1707/1708 split is Old Style dating, not a conflict — the year began 25 March.) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ And her family MOVED FROM HATFIELD TO SUNDERLAND between Dec 1710 and Oct 1713 — her brother Zebediah was born at Sunderland in 1713. So the 1737 Sunderland marriage is not a coincidence of place: Sunderland was the Allis family’s own town, and a bride marries in her father’s parish. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026. “Gershom Tuttle and LOIS ALLIS — marriage 17 October 1737 — Sunderland, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay” (ark 1:1:FC3B-2FM). Ten months and five days before the Farmington birth. ⭐⭐⭐ The corroboration that makes this more than a name-match: the SON married Tabitha Mitchell at DEERFIELD, Massachusetts in 1757 — and Deerfield and Sunderland are six miles apart. Father marries at Sunderland, son marries at Deerfield: that is a family tie to one small stretch of the Connecticut River valley, in two generations.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ HYPOTHESIS, not proof. The marriage does not say the couple removed to Farmington, and the Farmington birth does not name a mother. What settles it: any record naming “Gershom Tuttle AND LOIS HIS WIFE” together — a Farmington deed, a Hartford probate, or a church admission. Do not upgrade to ‘ok’ until that is in hand. ⚠ Watch this seam: Lois was about 30 at marriage and 41 at her last recorded child — possible, but late. If a Farmington record ever names a different wife, this is where the reconstruction fails.

Joseph Mitchell (b. 1705, a weaver; Deerfield → Sunderland → Ashfield; d. 16 Sept 1794)

Ahnentafel #770 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (9 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Joseph Mitchell was born in 1705 and worked as a weaver, living successively at Deerfield, Sunderland and Ashfield, Massachusetts, before his death on 16 September 1794. He married Mary Allis on 2 November 1726, and among their children was a daughter, Tabitha, who would go on to marry Gershom Tuttle II.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS FATHER IS NAMED AND THE MAYFLOWER QUESTION IS ANSWERED — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-42]. Sheldon, Deerfield vol. 2, image 505: “4, Joseph, s. of MICHAEL (1), b. 1705; WEAVER; lived a few yrs. in Sund.; was at Ash[field] 1769; per. d. there Sept. 16, 1794. He m. Nov. 2, 1726, MARY ALLIS of Sund.; she d. Nov. 8, 1783, a. 77.” A weaver, not a farmer — and Mary Allis’s death is now dated too: 8 November 1783. ⛔⛔ AND HIS FATHER IS NOT A PLYMOUTH MITCHELL. See node 1540 — the Mayflower door is shut. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-41] — TABITHA MITCHELL’S FATHER, from the town record. History of the Town of Sunderland, image 567: “MITCHELL, Joseph, m. Nov. 2, 1726, MARY, dau. WILLIAM ALLIS.” ⭐ Sheldon’s Deerfield gives the family: son Joseph, b. 3 Mar 1726-7 AT SUNDERLAND — four months after the wedding — then TABITHA, b. 9 Feb 1736/7, and daughters Hannah (m. Zadock King 1751), Mary (m. 1753, of Ashfield), Thankful and Lydia, each styled “dau. Joseph Mitchell”. The family moved Sunderland → Deerfield.

Outstanding: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS OWN ORIGIN IS THE LAST OPEN QUESTION ON THE MAYFLOWER FILE. The Sunderland book gives his marriage but not where he came from. ⛔ Tabitha’s MOTHER’S line is now known and is Allis — Massachusetts Bay, 1640, not Plymouth. So the entire Mayflower question rests on this one man. ⭐ WHY IT IS STILL WORTH ASKING: the Plymouth Mitchells descend from EXPERIENCE MITCHELL (the Anne, 1623), who married JANE COOKE, daughter of FRANCIS COOKE, Mayflower 1620 — and Sheldon records “Experience Mitchell of Ashfield” marrying a FULLER in 1774, one generation on, in this same valley. “Experience” is the name that gets carried. ⚠⚠ A NAME IS NOT A DESCENT. ⭐ ROUTES: Sheldon’s MITCHELL head-of-family paragraph (image 505, line-broken); the Sunderland proprietors’ and town records before 1726; and a SAMUEL Mitchell who had a Sunderland land grant in 1737 “if he abide five years” — probably kin.

Mary Allis (b. 18 Feb 1705, Hatfield; m. 2 Nov 1726 – d. 8 Nov 1783, aged 77)

Ahnentafel #771 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother (9 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Mary Allis was born 18 February 1705 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and married Joseph Mitchell on 2 November 1726. She died 8 November 1783. She was the elder sister of Lois Allis, and in a fitting turn of family history, Mary's daughter Tabitha and Lois's son Gershom later married one another — making their shared Allis parents ancestors of this family twice over.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ HER DEATH, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-42]: Sheldon gives “she d. Nov. 8, 1783, a. 77” — which is the first death date we have for either Allis sister, and her own sister Lois still has none. ⚠ Small discrepancy logged: born 18 Feb 1705 she would have been 78 in November 1783, not 77. A one-year age on a death notice is the least reliable figure in the record; the birth entry is preferred. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-41] — AND SHE IS LOIS ALLIS’S ELDER SISTER. History of the Town of Sunderland, image 355, in William Allis’s family: “Ch.: MARY, b. Feb. 18, 1705; m. Joseph Mitchell.” and three lines later “LOIS, b. Jan. 13, 1708; m. Oct. 17, 1737, Gershom Tuttle.” Two sisters, three years apart. Mary’s daughter Tabitha married Lois’s son Gershom in 1757. ⭐ Her birth of 18 February 1705 matches the 1919 Allis genealogy’s “Mary 1705” [TUTTLE-16] exactly, from a separate book and the town’s own records.

Outstanding: ⭐⭐ PEDIGREE COLLAPSE: her parents are WILLIAM ALLIS (node 1538) and ELIZABETH DAVIS (node 1539), who are already on this chart as the parents of Lois. They are not duplicated here — the same couple simply occupies two positions, which is what a first-cousin marriage does to a pedigree. ⚠ Her death is not recorded here. The Sunderland and Deerfield registers are the place to look.

10 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-79/-VERDICT]: her parentage re-verified with a second compilation (the 1919 Allis genealogy, agreeing to the day). Her parents’ own ancestry continues — fully charted — under their other occurrence: 1538/1539 → 3076/3077 → 6152/6153 (and 3078/3079 on the Davis side). The trail does not stop here; it runs through her sister Lois’s slot.

John Adam Roush (1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia)

Ahnentafel #960 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Revolutionary patriot · Immigrant

John Adam Roush was born in 1711 in the Palatinate region of Germany and died 19 October 1786 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a patriot for furnishing supplies during the Revolutionary War, and he was the immigrant ancestor from whom the American Roush family descends. He probably was the father of sons John, George, Jonas, Henry, Jacob, Philip and Daniel, a connection the family's own history has long carried, though it has not yet been confirmed by a document in his own hand, such as a will. In keeping with the family's practice of tracing each line back only to its immigrant ancestor, research on him stops at his arrival in America, without following the family further back into Germany.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE IMMIGRANT — AND HE IS HIMSELF A RECOGNISED PATRIOT [ROUSH-54, 7 August 2026].

DAR Ancestor # A098982 — Service: VIRGINIA, PATRIOTIC SERVICE: “FURNISHED SUPPLIES.” Source: Library of Virginia, APA 241, Impressed Property Claims Certificates 1780–1783, Shenandoah County, #2453. Born 1711 in the Palatinate; died 19 October 1786, Shenandoah County, Virginia. This is Johann Adam Rausch, the man every American Roush of this family descends from.

⚠⚠ GRADED HYPOTHESIS, AND THE REASON MATTERS. That Jonas and George were his sons is the settled family tradition and is repeated everywhere — but this project has not yet read a record that says so, and tradition is not record. The DAR recognises all three men separately; it does not, on the pages read, tie these two to that father.

⭐ If it is proved, it produces a real pedigree collapse — John Roush and Regina Roush were cousins, so this one man would occupy two positions on Alec’s chart at once, and anything found about him would count twice.

⭐⭐ Per Alec’s standing rule, this is where the line stops. He is the immigrant. The Palatinate is not to be researched until the American tree is finished.

Outstanding: his will or estate, Shenandoah County, 1786 — the one document that would name his sons in his own words and move this node and the two above it in a single stroke.

⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part, 8 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-60/-VERDICT]: the 1928 book ties George AND Jonas to John & Susannah in four internal places (incl. the Old Pine Church 1786 baptismal-sponsor entry); Daniel Roush's 1832 will and George's pension S18579 (read in full) document the sibling set — John (Capt.), George, Jonas, Henry, Jacob, Philip, Daniel — though no document yet names the father outside the book. 'ok' refused pending John Adam's own 1786 Shenandoah probate; the 1773 Mill Creek grant (400 ac., him + wife Susannah) is the named anchor document.

Susannah Roush (d. about 1796, Shenandoah Co., Virginia; maiden name unknown)

Ahnentafel #961 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Susannah was the wife of John Adam Roush, the immigrant. She is named in the recital of an original land grant of 1773 on Mill Creek, "to him and his wife Susannah," and appears as a baptismal sponsor at their church in 1770 and 1786. She probably died around 1796 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and lies in an unmarked grave at Old Pine Church; her own maiden name has not been recovered.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-67/-VERDICT]. The immigrant’s wife: named in the 1773 Mill Creek grant recital (“to him and his wife Susannah”); baptismal sponsor 1770 and 5 Jan 1786; and — recovered by the adversary — **“Susannah Roush, widow,” in the Old Pine communicant rolls 1788–1796, then never again**: d. ~1796, her grave unmarked beside John Adam’s. Maiden name: the tree-circulating “Sehler/Schlern” stays OFF pending any source. One ultimate source (the 1928 book) = Probable.

Outstanding: the 1773 grant IMAGE (LVA, browser); her maiden name; the Old Pine register independent transcription.

Michael Zerckel (Zerkel/Zirkle) (of Shenandoah Co., VA; fourteen children; son of Ludwig Zerkel (lead))

Ahnentafel #962 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Michael Zerckel, whose name also appears as Zerkel or Zirkle, lived in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and was the father of fourteen children. Among them was Catharine, probably the eldest of the fourteen and probably the woman who became George Roush's wife. He is believed to have been a son of a man named Ludwig Zerkel, though that generation is only a lead so far. Another daughter, Mary, married Henry Nease in 1791, drawing the Zerkel family into a further branch of the wider family tree.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-68/-VERDICT]: three in-book threads name his daughter Catharine as George Roush’s wife — and the adversary’s arithmetic proved her the OLDEST of his fourteen (b. ~1760–62; a married sponsor by Oct 1780; the cited “youngest child” passage is the compiler’s own slip = self-correction #28). Children incl. Mary (m. Henry Nease 1791 — another strand of the braid), Michael Jr. (b. 15 Apr 1772), Henry (→ Mason Co.). Single ultimate source = Probable.

Outstanding: the Old Pine/Solomon’s register (record-level baptisms); the Ludwig Zerkel generation (lead only); DAR GRS Zerkel search.

Catharine Zerckel (wife of Michael Zerckel; her given name rests on a single source)

Ahnentafel #963 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Catharine was the wife of Michael Zerckel. Her given name, Catharine, rests on a single source and is carried at reduced confidence, pending confirmation from an independent record; her own family has not yet been traced.

Evidence

ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-68/-VERDICT]. ⚠ Her given name “Catharine” rests solely on the p.663 passage that contains the proven birth-order error beside it, amid a mother/daughter name echo — carried, flagged, unresolved.

Outstanding: her name confirmed from any second thread; her own family.

John Adam Roush (1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia)

Ahnentafel #964 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Revolutionary patriot · Immigrant

John Adam Roush was born in 1711 in the Palatinate region of Germany and died 19 October 1786 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a patriot for furnishing supplies during the Revolutionary War, and he was the immigrant ancestor from whom the American Roush family descends. This line reaches him again through a second grandchild, a reminder that two of his descendants married one another; he probably was the father of sons John, George, Jonas, Henry, Jacob, Philip and Daniel, though that parentage still awaits confirmation from a document in his own hand. Research on him stops at his arrival in America, in keeping with the family's practice of not tracing lines further back into Germany.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE IMMIGRANT — AND HE IS HIMSELF A RECOGNISED PATRIOT [ROUSH-54, 7 August 2026].

DAR Ancestor # A098982 — Service: VIRGINIA, PATRIOTIC SERVICE: “FURNISHED SUPPLIES.” Source: Library of Virginia, APA 241, Impressed Property Claims Certificates 1780–1783, Shenandoah County, #2453. Born 1711 in the Palatinate; died 19 October 1786, Shenandoah County, Virginia. This is Johann Adam Rausch, the man every American Roush of this family descends from.

⚠⚠ GRADED HYPOTHESIS, AND THE REASON MATTERS. That George and George were his sons is the settled family tradition and is repeated everywhere — but this project has not yet read a record that says so, and tradition is not record. The DAR recognises all three men separately; it does not, on the pages read, tie these two to that father.

⭐ If it is proved, it produces a real pedigree collapse — John Roush and Regina Roush were cousins, so this one man would occupy two positions on Alec’s chart at once, and anything found about him would count twice.

⭐⭐ Per Alec’s standing rule, this is where the line stops. He is the immigrant. The Palatinate is not to be researched until the American tree is finished.

Outstanding: his will or estate, Shenandoah County, 1786 — the one document that would name his sons in his own words and move this node and the two above it in a single stroke.

⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part, 8 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-60/-VERDICT]: the 1928 book ties George AND Jonas to John & Susannah in four internal places (incl. the Old Pine Church 1786 baptismal-sponsor entry); Daniel Roush's 1832 will and George's pension S18579 (read in full) document the sibling set — John (Capt.), George, Jonas, Henry, Jacob, Philip, Daniel — though no document yet names the father outside the book. 'ok' refused pending John Adam's own 1786 Shenandoah probate; the 1773 Mill Creek grant (400 ac., him + wife Susannah) is the named anchor document.

Susannah Roush (d. about 1796, Shenandoah Co., Virginia; maiden name unknown)

Ahnentafel #965 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Susannah was the wife of John Adam Roush, the immigrant. She is named in the recital of an original land grant of 1773 on Mill Creek, "to him and his wife Susannah," and appears as a baptismal sponsor at their church in 1770 and 1786. She probably died around 1796 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and lies in an unmarked grave at Old Pine Church; her own maiden name has not been recovered.

Evidence

⭐ ADDED at PROBABLE, 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-67/-VERDICT]. The immigrant’s wife: named in the 1773 Mill Creek grant recital (“to him and his wife Susannah”); baptismal sponsor 1770 and 5 Jan 1786; and — recovered by the adversary — **“Susannah Roush, widow,” in the Old Pine communicant rolls 1788–1796, then never again**: d. ~1796, her grave unmarked beside John Adam’s. Maiden name: the tree-circulating “Sehler/Schlern” stays OFF pending any source. One ultimate source (the 1928 book) = Probable.

Outstanding: the 1773 grant IMAGE (LVA, browser); her maiden name; the Old Pine register independent transcription.

Barbara Fox's father (of the Fox family near Forestville, Shenandoah Co., about 1785; name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #966 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (9 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

Barbara Fox's father belonged to a Fox family described in the 1928 family genealogy as "prominent," living near Forestville in Shenandoah County, Virginia, around 1785 — the first federal census found them among the leading families of the area — but his own name did not survive.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, 10 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-68/-VERDICT]. The 1928 book’s own confession: “Little is known of the Fox family at this early date. The first Federal Census shows them to have been a prominent family.” ⚠ Two-Fox-brides hazard on file (Jacob Roush’s hedged “Catharine Fox”) — no sisterhood assumed.

Outstanding: Shenandoah 1780s tax lists, Forestville district (LVA, browser); DAR GRS Fox search.

Barbara Fox's mother (name not recorded)

Ahnentafel #967 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (9 generations back) · Known unknown — the person existed; the name does not survive

Barbara Fox's mother has not been named in any record found so far.

Evidence

KNOWN UNKNOWN, 10 Aug 2026 [ROUSH-68/-VERDICT].

John Adam Roush (1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia)

Ahnentafel #1000 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’s father’s father’s father (9 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Revolutionary patriot · Immigrant

John Adam Roush was born in 1711 in the Palatinate region of Germany and died 19 October 1786 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a patriot for furnishing supplies during the Revolutionary War, and he was the immigrant ancestor from whom the American Roush family descends. This line reaches him a third time through his probable son Henry Roush Sr., described in the family's own history as "one of the oldest of the children of John and Susannah Roush." As with the family's other lines back to him, the connection is probable rather than fully proven, and research on him stops at his arrival in America.

Evidence

⭐ Third pedigree-collapse occurrence (see nodes 960/964), ADDED 10 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [ROUSH-67/-VERDICT]: the line runs to him a third time through HENRY SR. (node 500) — Henry’s own sketch: “HENRY ROUSH, one of the oldest of the children of John and Susannah Roush, was born in 1752” (printed p.377), the same evidence structure the 960/964 verdict accepted. ‘ok’ awaits the 1786 Shenandoah probate, as ever.