The family tree, part 7.

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

Ahnentafel #1001 · his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s father’s mother’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.

Dea. Timothy Tuttle (b. c.1682 New Haven – d. 1756; m.(1) Thankful Doolittle 2 Nov 1706, Wallingford)

Ahnentafel #1536 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (10 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Deacon Timothy Tuttle was born about 1682 in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved with his family to Wallingford as a small child. He later cleared land with his own hands a mile east of the center of what became Cheshire, Connecticut, and built a house there said to be among the town's earliest frame houses. He married Thankful Doolittle on 2 November 1706 at Wallingford; after her death he remarried three more times, the last time in 1749, and he died in 1756.

A respected figure in his community, he served as sergeant, church moderator and deacon. In 1736 he deeded his own share of land in a Massachusetts frontier township to his son Gershom, giving it, as the deed itself records, out of "love, good will and fatherly affection."

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE 1736 DEED, READ AT THE PAGE [TUTTLE-37] — ark 3:1:3QS7-89ZD-JW67, image 445: “I Timothy Tuttle of Wallingford … for love, good will and FATHERLY AFFECTION … to my son Gershom Tuttle … all my Right of land in said [Carleton] … on my said RIGHT to be laid out and surveyed.” ⭐⭐ A NEW FACT ABOUT HIM: the Cheshire deacon was a PROPRIETOR IN A MASSACHUSETTS FRONTIER TOWNSHIP. He held a share in one of the new Hampshire County grants and signed the whole of it over to his second son — which is how a Connecticut family ends up marrying into the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts a year later. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HE NAMES GERSHOM AS HIS SON IN A 1736 DEED [TUTTLE-36] — “I TIMOTHY TUTTLE OF WALLINGFORD … to my SON GERSHOM TUTTLE …”, Springfield (Hampshire Co.), Massachusetts land records, 1736, nine matched passages. With this, EVERY parent-to-child link in the Tuttle line from Alec back to the immigrant rests on a record, not on a book. ⭐ It is also the second father-to-son conveyance in this family we have found: his own father Simon deeded HIM 9½ acres on 10 July 1711. Three generations, two deeds, one habit. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BEACH’S HISTORY OF CHESHIRE CORROBORATES THE WHOLE OF HIS LIFE, FROM THE TOWN’S OWN PAPERS [TUTTLE-35]: “Timothy Tuttle erected a house about 1706, at the end of the road to the south side of Broad Swamp” (image 100) — the year he married Thankful Doolittle. He built the house and took the wife in the same season. The 19 December 1715 petition of the farmers on the west side of the river, printed in full (image 73): “…ye Bounds we Desire assigned is west from ye rever as high as Timothy tuttle & timothy Beach’s…” — and Beach adds (image 74) “Timothy Tuttle lived near the west end of the road ‘to ye south of Broad Swamp’”, about four miles west of the river and three miles north of Timothy Beach. 16 September 1723 — the first meeting of the New Cheshire society — “Timothy Tuttle was chosen MODERATOR” (image 83). On the committee “to manage the affair of the ordination” with Sergt. John Hotchkiss and Stephen Hotchkiss (image 92). 1 December 1741, “decon Timothy Tuttle” on the committee to petition for town privileges (image 118). ⭐ And his fourth marriage from the same register (image 579): “Dea. Timothy Tuttle m. Sarah Humerston June 28, 1749” — matching the 1883 book’s Sarah (Atwater) Humiston to the day, from an independent transcription. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS FIRST MARRIAGE, AND THE 1682 BIRTH, CONFIRMED FROM A THIRD DIRECTION — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34]. “On 02 Nov 1706 she married Timothy Tuttle in Wallingford, CT and raised a large family. Timothy was the son of Simon and ABIGAIL BEACH Tuttle.” — Find a Grave memorial 139363422 for Thankful Doolittle Tuttle, now node 1537. A man marrying in November 1706 is 24 on the 1682 reading and 54 on the book’s printed 1652. The marriage settles it. ⭐ Find a Grave and WikiTree independently give him 1682–1756, inside the bracket we had derived (dead between June 1749 and May 1761). ⭐ It also supplies his mother’s surname: ABIGAIL BEACH — see node 3073. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED part → ok [TUTTLE-32] — his father deeded him land and the deed is dated. “July 10, 1711, he gives to son, TIMOTHY, the land, 9½ acres, ‘I bought of Roger Tyler’” — Simon Tuttle to Timothy Tuttle, Wallingford, 10 July 1711. A father-to-son conveyance is the classic proof of descent in New England, and it is what was missing. ⭐ And Simon’s own deed sequence dates the family’s move: “of New Haven” to 1683, “of Wallingford” from 1685 — which matches “rem. with his father’s family when about 3 years of age” and puts Timothy’s birth at c.1682, not 1652. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 12 ON THE TUTTLE SIDE, and the generation that broke the wall [TUTTLE-30]. Entry 92 of the 1883 Tuttle genealogy, image 574: “Timothy Tuttle, b. 1652; prob. in N. Haven; rem. with his father’s family when about 3 years of age to WALLINGFORD, Conn. In early life he explored the country to the westward of W. and selected land for a farm, which he cleared with his own hands … working through the week as it was too far to go home every night and returning only on Saturdays, guided by a line of blazed trees he had marked through the woods. The spot is about a mile east of the central part of the village of CHESHIRE. … Here he afterwards erected the first frame house in the town of Cheshire (according to family tradition, but Joseph P. Beach … accords that honor to the Hitchcock house … ‘the Tuttle house may have been the second’). … under its roof were born children, grand children, great gr. chil. and great great gr. chil. of the builder; it was standing until a few years since, when it was burned by an incendiary, being at the time unoccupied.” ⭐ A PUBLIC MAN: he is “Sergeant Tuttle” in the West Wallingford (Cheshire) society records — school-house committee with Matthew Bellamy and Isaac Moss 17 Nov 1729, society MODERATOR 8 Nov 1732, society affairs again 1 Nov 1736 — and “Dea. Timothy Tuttle of Cheshire” after. In 1715 the Wallingford school-district division runs “as far as west of the river, as high as Timothy Tuttle’s and Timothy Beach’s.” ⭐ HIS CHILDREN, numbered exactly as the ladder predicted: 924 Mary b. 3 Oct 1712 (m. Miles Hull of Derby 1729); 925 GERSHOM b. 11 Aug 1714 — OURS; 926 Timothy b. 4 Dec 1716 (rem. to Goshen, d. 23 Oct 1760); 928 SIMON, b. 12 June 1721 — “rec. a deed of land in Cambridge Parish in Southington, Conn., from his father, Timothy Tuttle; he set. in Prospect; m. Nov. 20, 1746, by Rev. Jeremiah Curtis of Southington, who omitted the name of the bride in his record”. ⚠⚠ PARTLY WITHDRAWN THE SAME NIGHT (self-correction #15): I wrote last turn that this is the Simon Tuttle of the 1742 New Cambridge petition [TUTTLE-20]. The book says his land lay in “Cambridge Parish in SOUTHINGTON”, not New Cambridge/Bristol — a different parish of Farmington. He would have been 21 in 1742, so it remains possible and is still the best candidate, but it is a hypothesis again, not an identification. He married four times; the fourth, 28 June 1749, was Sarah (Atwater) Humiston, b. 6 Apr 1693, widow of James Humiston, who “d. his wid. May 28, 1761” — so he died between June 1749 and May 1761.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ THE PRINTED BIRTH YEAR 1652 CANNOT STAND — FOUR OF THE BOOK’S OWN FACTS REFUTE IT [TUTTLE-30]: ① his father Simon was baptised 28 March 1647 and cannot have a son in 1652; ② the same entry says the family “probably continued in New Haven until after the death of his mother, Dec., 1684”, and Timothy moved with them “when about 3 years of age” → born c.1681–82; ③ his children are born 1712, 1714, 1716 — a father of 30–34 on the 1682 reading, of 60–64 on the 1652 one; ④ he married a fourth wife in 1749 — age 67 on the 1682 reading, age 97 on the 1652 one. Entered here as b. c.1682, with the correction STATED rather than silently made. ⚠ STILL TO DO: read the PAGE IMAGE of 574 to learn whether the error is the book’s or the scan’s. ⚠ ‘part’ on purpose — no record of him has been read yet, only a book. ⭐ THE RECORDS THAT WOULD MOVE HIM TO ‘ok’: the Cheshire church records, which the book itself cites (“births and baptisms copied from Cheshire chh. rec.”) — they should carry his four marriages and the births of 1712–1716; and Wallingford land and probate, including the deed to son Simon.

Thankful Doolittle (b. 5 Apr 1688 Wallingford – m. 2 Nov 1706 – d. 23 Nov 1728, aged 40)

Ahnentafel #1537 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (10 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Thankful Doolittle was born 5 April 1688 in Wallingford, Connecticut, the daughter of Sergeant John Doolittle and Mary Peck. She married Timothy Tuttle at Wallingford on 2 November 1706 and bore children across the following two decades, including a son, Gershom, before her death on 23 November 1728 at the age of forty, leaving a youngest child of only five. Her brother, the Reverend Benjamin Doolittle, was the minister at Northfield, Massachusetts, and later gave shelter to her son Gershom when he moved north as a young man.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ CONFIRMED AS GERSHOM’S MOTHER FROM A THIRD DIRECTION [TUTTLE-38] — and by a relationship, not a restatement. Miscellaneous Notes on New England Families: “Gershom Tuttle was the son of Timothy Tuttle and his wife THANKFUL DOOLITTLE”, and when Gershom went north he stayed at Northfield “where HIS UNCLE the Rev. Benjamin Doolittle was the Pastor of the church.” Benjamin Doolittle (1695–1748) is her brother. A man’s uncle is his mother’s brother — the sentence carries the parentage inside it. ⭐ And her family is why the Tuttles knew that country at all. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED part → ok WITHIN THE HOUR — THE MARRIAGE IS IN A PUBLISHED RECORD TRANSCRIPTION [TUTTLE-35]. Joseph Perkins Beach, History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1649 to 1840, image 578, printing the town’s own marriage register: “Timothy Tuttle m. Thankfull Doolittle November 2, 1706.” This is no longer a Find a Grave assertion — it is the record, in the standard history of the town, transcribed from the register. ⭐ AND BEACH IS THE RIGHT SOURCE BY NAME: the 1883 Tuttle genealogy cites “Joseph P. Beach, Esq., of Cheshire” as its authority on this family. We have gone to the man the genealogy was quoting. ⭐⭐⭐ AND SHE APPEARS ALIVE IN THE CHURCH BOOK: the New Cheshire admissions list, image 339, records “March, 1725 — WIFE OF TIMOTHY TUTTLE” admitted to the church — three years before she died. Her husband is admitted separately in January 1738-9, ten years after her death. ⭐ Beach also has Timothy erecting his house about 1706 — the year he married her. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE EMPTY NODE HAS A NAME — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34] — and the prediction written into it came true. THANKFUL DOOLITTLE, b. 5 April 1688, Wallingford, Connecticut; m. Timothy Tuttle at Wallingford, 2 November 1706; d. 23 November 1728, Wallingford, aged 40; burial unknown. Daughter of Sgt. John Doolittle (1655–1746) and Mary Peck (1666–1710). Find a Grave memorial 139363422. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE CHRONOLOGY IS EXACT, AND IT WAS PREDICTED. This node was created empty a few hours earlier with the reasoning: “two of Timothy’s four wives are named — Mary Peck m.1729 and Sarah Atwater m.1749 — and BOTH married him after the children of 1712–1721 were born, so the mother is one of the first two wives and the book does not name her.” Thankful died 23 November 1728. Timothy remarried in 1729. THIRTEEN MONTHS. The deduction was right, and she sits exactly in the gap it pointed at. ⭐ She married at 18 and bore children across at least seventeen years — Ephraim 1710, Mary 1712, GERSHOM 1714, Timothy 1716, Simon 1721, Moses 1723 — and died at forty, with the youngest five years old. ⭐ Her 1706 marriage is also the cleanest proof yet that her husband was born c.1682 and not 1652.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ ‘part’ — a Find a Grave memorial is a COMPILED source and no record has been read. ⭐ But it is not a bare assertion: it carries a specific date, a specific place, named parents and a marriage date, and it lands inside a gap identified independently before it was found. That is corroboration, not coincidence. ⭐ WHAT WOULD MAKE IT ‘ok’: the Wallingford marriage entry of 2 Nov 1706 and the Wallingford death entry of 23 Nov 1728; the 1883 book itself cites “births and baptisms copied from Cheshire chh. rec.” for this family. ⚠⚠ WATCH A REAL TRAP HERE: Thankful’s MOTHER was Mary Peck (1666–1710) — and Timothy’s THIRD wife was also a Mary Peck, widow of Stephen Rowe, m. 1729. Two different women of the same name in the same town. Do not let a compiled source merge them.

William Allis (b. 19 Oct 1680 Hatfield – d. 20 Feb 1763 Montague, Mass.)

Ahnentafel #1538 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (10 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

William Allis was born 19 October 1680 in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and married Elizabeth Davis of Northampton around 1703 or 1704. The family later moved from Hatfield to Sunderland and then to Montague, Massachusetts, where William died 20 February 1763. Two of his daughters, Lois and Mary, each married into the same family a generation apart — Lois to Gershom Tuttle I, and years later Mary's own daughter to Lois's son — so William Allis stands as an ancestor of this family twice over.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HE IS AN ANCESTOR OF ALEC TWICE OVER [TUTTLE-41]. History of the Town of Sunderland, image 355, gives his children including MARY, b. 18 Feb 1705, who married JOSEPH MITCHELL, and LOIS, b. 13 Jan 1708, who married GERSHOM TUTTLE. Lois is node 769. Mary is node 771. Their children married each other in 1757. So this man descends to Alec down TWO lines — through Lois and again through Mary — and the pedigree collapses on him. ⭐ That is also why his own generation matters twice as much as it looked. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED part → ok, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-32]. Boltwood’s Hadley genealogies independently list him in Samuel Allis’s child list as “William, b. Oct. 19, 1680” — the same day and year the 1919 Allis genealogy gives, from a separate compilation. Add the four agreeing FamilySearch primary indexes naming “Wm. Allis and Elizabeth” as the parents of Lois at her Hatfield baptism of 13 Jan 1707/8 [TUTTLE-16], and the Montague town register naming him as “Mr. William Allis” alive there in May 1758 [TUTTLE-22], and both ends of this man are documented. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ DATED 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-18]: “24. WILLIAM ALLIS was born in Hatfield, Oct. 19, 1680, and married Elizabeth Davis of Northampton in 1703-4. He died in Montague, Feb. 20, 1763.” ⭐ The book’s list of his five children matches the FamilySearch primary indexes exactly (one day’s discrepancy on Zebediah), which is what earns it credit. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ And the MONTAGUE TOWN REGISTER now names him [TUTTLE-22]: the 1758 death entry for his wife styles him “MR. William Allis” — a title of standing in a New England register — and puts him alive at Montague in May 1758. ⚠⚠⚠ The same register records that his son ELIPHALET and wife Mary buried FOUR CHILDREN IN NINE DAYS in January 1759 — Mary (7th), Jonathan (10th), Samuel (12th), David (15th). His son ZEBADIAH is there too, with wife Mary and daughters. So the whole family moved Sunderland → Montague together, and that is now documented rather than inferred. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 11, the first this project has ever reached. Named as father on Lois Allis’s Hatfield baptism of 13 Jan 1707/8. His family, from the indexed births: Mary 1705 (Hatfield), Lois 1707/8 (Hatfield), Eliphalet 1710 (Hatfield), Zebediah 1713 (Sunderland), Elizabeth 1716 (Sunderland) — so he removed from Hatfield to Sunderland between December 1710 and October 1713 [TUTTLE-16].

Outstanding: ⛔ His own birth is NOT in the FamilySearch index — searched William Allis b.1665×1690 across every collection; every result was English. Generation 12 cannot be reached by index. Routes: Hampshire Co. (Northampton) PROBATE first — a will or distribution would name his father AND give Elizabeth’s maiden name; then Hatfield/Sunderland town records as IMAGES; then Hadley/Hatfield land. ⚠⚠ DO NOT attach him to the immigrant William Allis (d.1678) of Braintree/Hadley/Hatfield without a record. The generation gap is about right, which is exactly what makes it dangerous.

Elizabeth Davis (of Northampton; m. 1703-4 – d. 1 May 1758, Montague, Mass.)

Ahnentafel #1539 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother (10 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Elizabeth Davis was of Northampton, Massachusetts, and married William Allis around 1703 or 1704. She died 1 May 1758 in Montague, Massachusetts, where the town register recorded her as "Elizabeth Allis wife to Mr. William Allis." Her maiden name of Davis is probably correct, resting as it does on more than one compiled family history, though it has not yet been confirmed by an original record from her own youth.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ A SECOND WITNESS TO THE SURNAME, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-39]: Miscellaneous Notes on New England Families calls Lois “the daughter of WILLIAM ALLIS, of Sunderland–Montague, and his wife ELIZABETH DAVIS.” ⭐ Note the compiler writes “Sunderland–Montague” as one place-pair — independently matching the family’s move that TUTTLE-22 documented from the Montague town register. ⚠⚠ HELD AT ‘Probable’ ON PURPOSE, AND HERE IS THE HONEST REASON: this manuscript may simply be repeating the 1919 Allis genealogy, which is our other source for the name Davis. Two sources that share an ancestor are one source. Until the dependency is tested — or a Northampton record names her — the surname stays single-sourced. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER DEATH IS NOW ON A PRIMARY RECORD [TUTTLE-22]. The Montague town register itself: “Allis. May first 1758, ELIZABETH ALLIS WIFE TO MR. WILLIAM ALLIS, died in Montague.” Date, place and the husband’s given name — confirming the 1919 book exactly, from a town record rather than a published genealogy. ⚠ Her maiden name DAVIS still rests on the book ALONE and is NOT upgraded — the register calls her only “Elizabeth Allis wife to Mr. William Allis.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER MAIDEN NAME FOUND, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-18]: DAVIS, of NORTHAMPTON. “married Elizabeth Davis of Northampton in 1703-4 … Elizabeth, his wife, died May 1, 1758.” ⭐ This also explains a loose end: one of the four index entries for Lois’s birth gives the place as Northampton rather than Hatfield — it is the mother’s town. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 11. Named as the mother on all five of the Allis children’s records at Hatfield and Sunderland, 1705–1716, including Lois’s baptism [TUTTLE-16].

Outstanding: ⚠ Her MAIDEN NAME is unknown — the baptismal entries give only “Elizabeth.” A marriage search for William Allis × Elizabeth c.1685–1710 drowned in English “Ellis” matches. ⭐ The Hampshire Co. probate of her husband, or a Hatfield marriage record read from the image, is the way in. ⭐⭐ Her husband is now also documented by a LAND RECORD: a Sunderland deed from William Allis to Zebadiah Allis — father to son — sealed by William Allis [TUTTLE-17]. ⭐⭐⭐ NEXT: her husband’s own death entry, 20 Feb 1763 — the Montague register’s year list INCLUDES 1763, so it is on that film. Find it.

Michael Mitchell (of Wallingford, Conn. 1695-6 and 1706; then Deerfield)

Ahnentafel #1540 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father (10 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Michael Mitchell was living in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1695-6 and again in 1706, and later moved to Deerfield, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Catlin, daughter of John Catlin, and his family "escaped unharmed" the devastating raid on Deerfield of 29 February 1704 — a night that brought death and captivity to many of his wife's own relatives. His son Joseph became a weaver and was the father of Tabitha Mitchell, who married into the Tuttle family in 1757.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-42] — and he answers Alec’s Mayflower question. Sheldon, Deerfield vol. 2, image 504, the head of the MITCHELL genealogy: “1, MITCHELL, Michael; was in WALLINGFORD, CT., 1695-6, and again in 1706; HIS WHOLE FAMILY ESCAPED UNHARMED 1704. He m. SARAH, dau. JOHN CATLIN; she d. Dec. 30, 1736.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HE WAS A WALLINGFORD MAN — THE TUTTLES’ OWN TOWN. Dea. Timothy Tuttle was farming west of the river at Wallingford in exactly those years, and Gershom Tuttle I was born there in 1714. So the Mitchells and the Tuttles were Wallingford neighbours two generations before their grandchildren married at Deerfield in 1757. That marriage was not a chance meeting a hundred and ten miles from home — it was two Wallingford families who had both gone north, marrying each other. ⚠⚠⚠ AND THE 1704 LINE STOPS YOU COLD. “His whole family escaped unharmed 1704” means the Deerfield raid of 29 February 1704 — the same raid that killed ALICE, wife of Samuel Allis (node 3077), and her son Samuel, and carried her daughter Mary to Canada [TUTTLE-19/31/32]. Two of Alec’s ancestral families were in Deerfield that night. One lost a mother and a son. The other escaped unharmed. Fifty-three years later their descendants married.

Outstanding: ⛔⛔ THIS CLOSES THE MAYFLOWER DOOR [MAYFLOWER-01]. The one promising line ran through the Mitchell surname, on the hope that this family descended from EXPERIENCE MITCHELL of Plymouth (the Anne, 1623), who married Jane Cooke, daughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower. It does not. Michael Mitchell is a Wallingford, Connecticut and Deerfield man who married Sarah, daughter of JOHN CATLIN of Deerfield. No Bridgewater, no Plymouth, no Middleborough. The door is shut, and it is shut with a document rather than an absence. ⭐ WHAT IS STILL OPEN AND WORTH HAVING: Michael’s own origin — where a Mitchell in Wallingford in 1695 came from; and the CATLIN family (node 1541), who are a Deerfield family of the raid generation. ⚠ Sheldon’s numbering gives him sons William b. 1697, Michael b. 8 Mar 1700-1 (a soldier in Father Rasle’s war, later of Wethersfield, Conn.), JOSEPH b. 1705 — ours — and Samuel b. 7 Mar 1712, who is very probably the Samuel Mitchell granted Sunderland land in 1737.

10 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-82/-VERDICT]: the origin question worked to a seven-source convergent silence (Jacobus’s whole entry: “Michael of W; m Sarah -”; Savage silent; Thomas-the-miller EXCLUDED by his own 1660 probate — widow + daughter, no son; both colony-record series empty). Immigrant-vs-NE-born stays UNRESOLVED — so per house convention this node is the line’s effective stop; no parent slots opened. He held Wallingford PROPRIETOR status (1892 history: “Timothy Merriam, Michael Mitchell, William Hough…” casting lots). Break-it-open tests: his first Wallingford deed (FS full-text); his probate; Jordan-Solari 1988 (library loan).

Sarah Catlin (m. Michael Mitchell about 1694 – d. 30 Dec 1736; survived the 1704 raid)

Ahnentafel #1541 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (10 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Sarah Catlin was the daughter of John Catlin of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and married Michael Mitchell around 1694. She died 30 December 1736, just two months before the birth of her granddaughter Tabitha. Having married ten years before the devastating Deerfield raid of 29 February 1704, she was living in her own household, which came through unharmed that night, even as her birth family was shattered — her father and a brother killed, another brother killed in the fighting that followed, and a brother and several sisters carried captive toward Canada, two of the sisters dying along the way.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER MARRIAGE IS DATED, AND IT IS WHY SHE LIVED [TUTTLE-44]. Sheldon’s CATLIN child list, image 369: “Sarah, —; m. abt. 1694, Michael [Mitchell].” She married ten years before the raid and was in her own household on the night her father’s was burned with him inside it. Her father and one brother died in the fire, another brother was killed in the Meadow Fight, and a brother and three sisters were carried to Canada. Sarah is the reason this line reaches Alec at all. ——— Earlier note: ⚠⚠⚠ HER FAMILY WAS DESTROYED IN THE RAID HER HUSBAND’S FAMILY SURVIVED — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-43]. Sheldon, image 319: “Mary, bap. June 23, 1644; m. Sept. 23, 1662, JOHN CATLIN, with whom she rem. fr. NEWARK to Dfd. abt. 1683; THEIR LARGE FAMILY WERE NEARLY ALL DESTROYED FEB. 29, 1704.” Two of her sisters are named and their deaths are recorded: “Elizabeth, dau. John Catlin; she was cap. 1704 and k. on the march to Canada” (wife of James Corse, image 397) and “Mary, dau. John Catlin; she was cap. and k. on the march to Can., Mar. 9, 1704” (wife of Thomas Wells, image 431, whose own household on lot No. 30 was “all k. or cap. 1704”). ⚠⚠ AND SET THAT BESIDE HER HUSBAND’S ENTRY. Michael Mitchell’s reads “his whole family escaped unharmed 1704” [node 1540]. Sarah Catlin was married to him by then — her eldest was born 1697. So on the same night her own household came through untouched and her father’s was nearly wiped out. ⭐ She died 30 December 1736 — two months before her granddaughter Tabitha was born. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-42]. Sheldon, image 504: “He m. SARAH, dau. JOHN CATLIN; she d. Dec. 30, 1736.” A Deerfield family, and a Deerfield family of the raid generation. ⭐ She was living through the 29 February 1704 attack in which, Sheldon says, “his whole family escaped unharmed” — a sentence that only gets written because so many families around them did not.

Outstanding: ⭐ THE CATLINS ARE THE NEXT GENERATION UP AND THEY ARE WELL DOCUMENTED — Sheldon has a CATLIN genealogy and the 1704 captive and casualty lists are exhaustively studied. ⚠ DO NOT ASSUME John Catlin’s own fate from the raid’s reputation — read his entry. ⚠ Her death of 30 Dec 1736 falls two months before her granddaughter Tabitha was born.

Simon Tuttle (bap. New Haven 28 Mar 1647 – d. 16 April 1719, Wallingford, Conn.; cooper)

Ahnentafel #3072 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (11 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Simon Tuttle was baptized in New Haven on 28 March 1647, the ninth child of the immigrant William Tuttle. He trained as a cooper and lived first in New Haven, moving to Wallingford, Connecticut, about 1685, after his mother's death. Three deeds he signed over the years — in 1677-8, 1686, and 1705 — each describe land as having belonged to "my father, Mr. William Tuttle," directly recording the family connection in his own words. He prospered as a Wallingford landholder and town official, serving as gauger and packer from 1708, and in his later years gave land outright to his own sons Timothy and Daniel. Simon Tuttle died 16 April 1719; his widow, Abigail, died three years later, on 11 August 1722.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED part → ok THE SAME NIGHT, ON DEEDS [TUTTLE-32]. The 1883 book does not merely assert his parentage — it abstracts three separate conveyances in which Simon calls William Tuttle his father: 1677-8, to Benjamin Brockett, cordwainer, “a part of land my father, Mr. William Tuttle, bought of John Punderson”; 1686, to Isaac Turner, six acres “formerly belonging to my father, Mr. William Tuttle”; 1705, to cousin Joshua, “all my right in Branford division set to my father, Mr. William Tuttle”. Three deeds, three decades apart, in the grantor’s own words. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND A DEED TO HIS SON: “July 10, 1711, he gives to son, TIMOTHY, the land, 9½ acres, ‘I bought of Roger Tyler.’” (and 23 June 1715 a 14-acre house lot to son Daniel). The father-to-son conveyance is the classic proof of descent, and it links node 3072 to node 1536 by a record rather than by a numbering scheme. ⭐ A life, from the same pages: “Simon Tuttle of Wallingford, COOPER” (1685); on the New Haven proprietors’ list of 1680, drawing his share in the third division as “two heads, showing that at that date he had a wife but no children”; a 1673 right-of-way agreement signed by six Tuttle brothers, of which the original paper survived to 1883 and his signature was traced from it; Wallingford lots drawn 1686 (No. 52, 104 acres) and 1690 (No. 14); rated £79 on the 1701 Wallingford grand list; town gauger and packer from 1708-9. He died 16 April 1719; his widow ABIGAIL died 11 August 1722. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND HE SETTLES THE 1682 QUESTION INDEPENDENTLY. The deeds show him of New Haven through 1683 and “of Wallingford” from 1685 — “from these records it follows that he removed to Wall’d about 1685”. His son Timothy moved with the family “when about 3 years of age” — so Timothy was born c.1682, and the book’s own printed “1652” is refuted for the fifth time, now by land records. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 13 ON THE TUTTLE SIDE [TUTTLE-30]. Entry 9 of the 1883 genealogy, image 560, in full: “9. Simon Tuttle, bap. in New Haven, March 28, 1647. He appears in the list of proprietors of Wallingford in 1670, and had lot No. 13 with 8 acres of out land assigned to him. Dr. Savage (Gen. Dict.) says he did not stay long. He did not, in fact, take up his allotment and probably continued in New Haven until after the death of his mother, Dec., 1684.” ⭐⭐ THE BARE ENTRY NUMBER 9 IS THE WHOLE POINT: he is the NINTH CHILD OF WILLIAM TUTTLE, and that is why the ladder 92514 → 9251 → 925 → 92 → 9 lands on the immigrant. ⭐ He also dates the family’s move. Wallingford is laid out in 1670 and Simon takes a proprietor’s lot — but stays in New Haven until after his mother dies in December 1684. His son Timothy moved with the family “when about 3 years of age”: the two statements agree on c.1685 and together they refute the book’s own printed 1652 birth for Timothy.

Outstanding: ⚠ WHAT IS STILL OPEN: the deeds above are abstracted by the 1883 compiler, not yet read by us — they are New Haven and Wallingford land records and can be pulled. ⚠ His wife ABIGAIL has no surname (node 3073) and no marriage record; the book infers the marriage from the 1680 “two heads” entry. ⭐ ALSO WORTH HAVING: the New Haven vital records for the baptism of 28 March 1647 and for his mother’s death in December 1684; the Wallingford proprietors’ list of 1670 as an image (lot No. 13); and New Haven probate, which would name his wife and his children and so nail Timothy to him directly. ⚠ His wife is not yet recorded here — do not fill her in from a tree.

Abigail Tuttle (wife of Simon Tuttle; m. about 1679–80 – d. 11 Aug 1722; her surname is disputed)

Ahnentafel #3073 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (11 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Abigail was the wife of Simon Tuttle, probably married to him in 1679 or 1680 — the date inferred from a New Haven land record that credited him with "two heads," meaning a wife but as yet no children. She was the mother of Deacon Timothy Tuttle, born about 1682, and she outlived her husband by three years, dying 11 August 1722. Her surname is disputed: an old family tradition held that she was a Beach, but the best genealogical authorities considered and rejected that identification, and no record has ever named her family outright.

Evidence

⚠⚠⚠ DOWNGRADED IN SUBSTANCE, 7 AUGUST 2026: “BEACH” IS DISPUTED BY THE TWO BEST AUTHORITIES, AND THE NODE IS RENAMED ACCORDINGLY.

Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven (Tuttle section), gives Simon’s wife as “Abigail ——” with the surname deliberately left blank. And the 1883 Tuttle genealogy’s own footnote, p. 561, records the doubt at the source: “I was early informed, on what seemed good authority, that the above Abigail was the dau. of that name of Richard Beach… Joseph P. Beach, Esq., thinks that she could not have been a Beach. Richard’s dau. Abigail is not mentioned in settlement of her father’s estate. The point remains in uncertainty.”

⛔ Do not open a Beach line above this node. Her identity as Simon’s wife and Timothy’s mother is not in doubt; her surname is, and the only father ever proposed was ruled out by a Beach family authority in 1883 and by Jacobus fifty years later.

Outstanding: Simon Tuttle’s 1719 New Haven probate — the estate papers naming the widow are the only realistic route to her own family.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ A SURNAME, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34] — but a compiled one, so the node stays ‘part’. Find a Grave memorial 139363422 states “Timothy was the son of Simon and ABIGAIL BEACH Tuttle.” ⭐ BEACH is exactly the right surname for the place — the 1883 genealogy has Timothy Beach as the Tuttles’ neighbour in the 1715 Wallingford school-district line (“as high as Timothy Tuttle’s and Timothy Beach’s”), Thos. Beach witnessing a Tuttle bond, and Joseph P. Beach, Esq., of Cheshire as its local authority on this family. The name fits the neighbourhood, which is what a real surname does and an invented one usually does not. ⚠ Still: no record has been read, and the 1883 book — which had her death to the day — gives no surname at all. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — one of the wives Alec was right to ask about [TUTTLE-32]. The 1883 genealogy closes Simon Tuttle’s entry: “He d. April 16, 1719. His wid., Abigail, d. Aug. 11, 1722.” ⭐ And it dates the marriage without a marriage record: “He is on the list of proprietors of New Haven in 1680, and received his share in the 3d division, ‘two heads,’ showing that at that date he had a wife but no children. He was probably m. in 1679 or 1680.” That is a real inference from a real document — a division list counting heads in a household — and it is worth more than most stated dates. ⚠ She is therefore the mother of Dea. Timothy Tuttle (node 1536), born c.1682.

Outstanding: ⛔ NO SURNAME. The book gives none, and there is no marriage entry. ⭐ ROUTES: New Haven marriages 1679–80; Wallingford probate 1719–1722 — Simon died in 1719 and Abigail survived him three years, so a widow’s thirds or her own estate should exist and would name her kin; and any Wallingford deed carrying her release of dower. ⚠ Do not fill her surname in from a tree.

John Doolittle (b. 14 June 1655 New Haven – d. after 1717, Wallingford, Conn.)

Ahnentafel #3074 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father (11 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

John Doolittle was born in New Haven on 14 June 1655, the son of Abraham Doolittle, an early settler and founder of Wallingford, Connecticut. He married Mary Peck, and together they raised a family that included Thankful Doolittle, who married into the Tuttle family in 1706; a daughter Esther, who also married a Tuttle; and a son, the Reverend Benjamin Doolittle, who became the settled minister at Northfield, Massachusetts. John Doolittle is last documented alive at a second marriage on 29 January 1717; the exact year of his death is not established, since an earlier record of "1746" turned out to belong to a son of the same name.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED AND SOURCED, 7 August 2026. His daughter Thankful’s parentage now rests on two independent published authorities: Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven (Tuttle section: “Thankful da. John & Mary (Peck) Doolittle”, with the marriage date 2 Nov 1706 matching the Wallingford town register, and the Doolittle section giving her death 23 Nov 1728 to the day) and Tuttle 1883, p. 575n. His own father is Abraham Doolittle, the migrant (Jacobus p. 42; Davis’s Wallingford p. 835; Savage 2:70).

⚠⚠ TWO CAUTIONS, BOTH LOGGED BEFORE THEY COST A CORRECTION. First, the rank “Sgt.” is not his in any source read — Jacobus attaches it to his father Abraham. Second, the death year 1746 is at risk of conflation: Davis p. 839 has a younger John Doolittle, son of this John and Mary, dying at Wallingford in 1746-7. The chart’s “1655–1746” may have absorbed the son’s death.

Outstanding: the Wallingford register — Thankful’s birth entry of 5 Apr 1688 naming her parents, and the Doolittle × Peck marriage of 13 Feb 1682/3, ideally on the same film. That one pull converts this node and the next to Documented.

⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part [TUTTLE-38]. His son REV. BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE (1695–1748) was the settled minister at NORTHFIELD, Massachusetts — independently attested, and named as Gershom Tuttle’s UNCLE in Miscellaneous Notes on New England Families. That ties this Doolittle household to our line by a stated relationship rather than by a name match, and it explains how a Wallingford family came to have a foothold a hundred miles north. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34]. Named as the father of Thankful Doolittle (node 1537) on Find a Grave memorial 139363422: “Thankful was the daughter of John and Mary Peck Doolittle.” A long life — 1655 to 1746, ninety-one years — and a sergeant’s title. ⭐ His children include Rev. Benjamin Doolittle (1695–1748) and a daughter Esther Doolittle (1683–1756) who ALSO married a Tuttle — two Doolittle sisters marrying into the same family, which is what happens in a town this size and is a good sign the identification is real.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ ‘hyp’ — one compiled source, no record read. ⭐ ROUTES: Wallingford town births c.1688 for Thankful; New Haven district probate for John Doolittle, d. 1746, which would name his daughters and their husbands and tie node 1537 to him from a record.

Corrected 7 Aug 2026 (self-correction #17): the former “1746” death was a son’s (a John Doolittle who d. Wallingford 1746-7 ae. 35, so b. c.1711); our John is last seen alive at his 2nd marriage, 29 Jan 1717. “Sgt.” belonged to Abraham, not John.

Mary Peck (1666–1710; wife of Sgt. John Doolittle)

Ahnentafel #3075 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother (11 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Mary Peck was born in New Haven on 4 March 1665/6, the daughter of John and Mary (Moss) Peck, and she married John Doolittle of Wallingford. She died there on 1 September 1710. She was the mother of Thankful Doolittle, who carried the family forward into the Tuttle line — though care is needed here, since a different woman also named Mary Peck, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Alling) Peck, separately married the widower Timothy Tuttle in 1729; the two Mary Pecks belonged to entirely different Wallingford families.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED FROM HYPOTHESIS TO PROBABLE, 7 August 2026. Jacobus gives her as “Mary da. John & Mary (Moss) Peck, b 4 Mar 1665/6 NHV, d 1 Sep 1710 WV”, and Tuttle 1883 p. 575n says the same independently: “Mary Peck was dau. of John and Mary (Moss) Peck.”

⚠⚠ THE TRAP, NOW SOURCE-DOCUMENTED. Thankful’s mother was this Mary Peck (1666–1710). Dea. Timothy Tuttle’s second wife, married 1729 (his third, 1749, was Sarah Atwater), was also a Mary Peck — the widow of Stephen Rowe, and “Mary da. Joseph & Sarah (Ailing) Peck, wid. Stephen Rowe” (Jacobus p. 354; his p. 181 gives her own family entry — the earlier ‘Lydia (Ball)’ reading was a transcription error: Jacobus’s only ‘Lydia (Ball)’ is in the unrelated Smith family, p. 120 [TUTTLE-58]), a different Peck family entirely. Two women, same name, same town. Any source that has Timothy marrying his own mother-in-law has merged them — treat that as a red flag on the source.

⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-34]. Named as the mother of Thankful Doolittle on Find a Grave memorial 139363422.

Outstanding: ‘part’ — compiled sources only (Jacobus + Davis + Tuttle 1883); the Wallingford VR images (marriage 13 Feb 1682/3, Thankful’s birth 5 Apr 1688) would move this to ‘ok’ — browser ★5. ⚠⚠ AND A NAME-COLLISION TRAP: her son-in-law Timothy Tuttle later married, in 1729, a DIFFERENT Mary Peck — the widow of Stephen Rowe. This Mary Peck died in 1710 and cannot be that one. Any source showing Timothy marrying his own mother-in-law has merged them; treat that as a red flag on the source.

Samuel Allis (24 Feb 1647 Braintree – 9 Mar 1691 Hatfield; carpenter and builder)

Ahnentafel #3076 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father (11 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Samuel Allis was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on 24 February 1647, the son of Lieutenant William Allis. He worked as a carpenter and builder in Hatfield, where the town granted him a house lot as a young man of about twenty-two, and he lived on the east side of Hatfield street. He married Alice about 1675-6, and together they had seven children, among them William, born 19 October 1680, from whom this family line descends. Samuel Allis died in Hatfield on 9 March 1691, leaving his widow to raise their children alone; two of those children were later caught up in the 1704 raid on Deerfield that killed their mother — one son killed alongside her, and a daughter carried captive to Canada who survived and came home.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BOLTWOOD’S FULL ENTRY, READ 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-32] (Genealogies of Hadley Families, printed with Judd’s Hadley, image 586): “3. Samuel, s. of William, (1) d. Mch. 9, 1691. m. ALICE, who m. (2) Sergt. John Hawks, and was slain in Deer. Feb. 29, 1704. Children — Mehitable, b. July 2, 1677, m. Dec. 13, 1698, Benoni Moore; Samuel, b. Feb. 20, 1679, slain Feb. 29, 1704; WILLIAM, b. Oct. 19, 1680; Mary, b. July 6, 1682, m. Nathaniel Brooks; Thomas, b. Mch. 12, 1684, rem. to Guilford; Sarah, b. abt. 1685; Rebecca, b. Nov. 29, 1687.” SEVEN CHILDREN, DATED — and it agrees with the 1919 Allis genealogy on every date the two books share, including our William’s 19 October 1680. ⭐⭐⭐ AND IT CONFIRMS LAST NIGHT’S SHELDON FIND FROM A SECOND DIRECTION: Mary Allis, b. 6 July 1682, is the one who married Nathaniel Brooks — Sheldon says she was “a fellow cap. of 1704”, so she was twenty-one when she was marched to Canada in the raid that killed her mother and her brother, and she came home. ⭐ It also settles the Mehitable conflict logged last turn: Boltwood gives b. 2 July 1677 independently, so the “a. 90” on her 1757 death is the gravestone’s error, not the books’. ⭐ UPGRADED part → ok: two independent authorities — the 1919 Allis genealogy and Boltwood, working a century apart from the Hampshire County records — agree on his death date, his wife, his father and his children’s dates, and a primary Hatfield town record [TUTTLE-27] grants him his house lot in 1669–71. ——— Earlier note: ⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part [TUTTLE-19]: Boltwood independently confirms “Samuel, s. of William, (1) d. Mch. 9, 1691” and the children Mehitable (2 Jul 1677), Samuel (20 Feb 1679) and William (19 Oct 1680). Two independent published authorities now agree on this generation. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 12. “3. SAMUEL ALLIS was born in Braintree, Mass., on February 24, 1647 … carpenter and builder of Hatfield and resided on the east side of Hatfield street … died in Hatfield on March 9, 1691.” Seven children; ours is the third, William, b. 19 Oct 1680 [TUTTLE-18].

Outstanding: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A PRIMARY RECORD AT LAST [TUTTLE-27]: the Hatfield town book records that “the Town of Hatfield hath granted to SAMUEL ALLIS a house lot” and acreage, 1669–1671. Born Braintree Feb 1647, he was about twenty-two — the age a young man took a home lot and set up. ⭐ It fits the family’s movement from a wholly separate source: Boltwood has his father Lt. William Allis “rem. abt. 1661 to Hatfield” — father arrives c.1661, son takes his own lot c.1669. ⚠⚠ A town grant names a grantee, not a father — so this does NOT prove his parentage and the node stays ‘part’. But the man himself is now documented from a record rather than only from books. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TWO MORE OF HIS CHILDREN, 6 Aug 2026, FROM SHELDON’S DEERFIELD GENEALOGIES [TUTTLE-31] — and both come from OTHER families’ entries, which is the strongest kind of citation because the compiler had no interest in the Allis line at all. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MARY ALLIS — A CAPTIVE OF 1704 WHO CAME HOME. Sheldon image 354, in the entry for Nathaniel, s. of William (1), b. 1664 — “house burned and whole family cap. 1704; he alone came back; was recovered by Ens. John Sheldon on his second expedition to Can.”, whose first wife was killed on the march after a fall on the ice — “He m. (2) Feb. 3, 1710, Mary, dau. Samuel Allis of Hat., A FELLOW CAP. OF 1704.” A daughter of this house was carried to Canada in the same raid that killed her mother Alice and her brother Samuel — and she survived it, came back, and married another survivor of it six years later. ⭐⭐⭐ MEHITABLE ALLIS. Sheldon image 506: “MOORE, Benoni … d. Nov. 18, 1753. He m. Dec. 13, 1698, Mehitable, dau. Sam’l Allis of Hat.; she d. May 8, 1757, a. 90.” ⚠⚠ CONFLICT LOGGED: “a. 90” implies b. c.1667, ten years before the 1919 book’s 2 July 1677 and earlier than her parents’ own marriage allows. Gravestone ages are the least reliable figure in New England genealogy; 1677 is preferred and the discrepancy is recorded, not smoothed away. ⚠ Sheldon and Judd also show a Samuel Allis at Hatfield in the May 1667 petition dispute — probably NOT ours, who was born at Braintree in 1647 and took his lot only in 1669–71. Flagged, not attached. ⭐⭐⭐ NEXT: the SAME VOLUME is “Town Records 1660–1740, VITAL RECORDS 1660–1740” — so his 1675-6 marriage should be in it, and that is the likeliest place in existence to find ALICE’S MAIDEN NAME.

Alice (m. Samuel Allis 1675–6; m.(2) Sergt. John Hawks 1696; killed at Deerfield, 29 Feb 1704)

Ahnentafel #3077 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (11 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Alice married Samuel Allis of Hatfield about 1675-6 and bore him seven children before his death in 1691 left her a widow. She remarried on 20 November 1696 to Sergeant John Hawks, a veteran of the Falls Fight who had been wounded defending Hatfield in 1676. On 29 February 1704 Alice was killed in the French and Indian raid on Deerfield, along with her twenty-five-year-old son Samuel; her daughter Mary was carried captive to Canada in the same attack but survived and eventually came home. Alice's own family name was never recorded by any of the several genealogists who studied her — she is remembered, in every source, only by her first name.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A SIXTH SOURCE, AND THE RICHEST — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-46]. Sheldon, History of Deerfield VOLUME ONE, image 61, in the entry for her second husband: “HAWKS, John, son of John of Hadley… He was active through Philip’s war; was in the FALLS FIGHT; and one of the brave men from Hadley who went to the succor of HATFIELD, when attacked by Indians May 30, 1676, when he was WOUNDED. He married in 1667, MARTHA BALDWIN, with whom he lived ten years. He became a permanent settler in 1683, and married in 1696, ALICE, WIDOW OF SAMUEL ALLIS. SHE WAS KILLED FEB. 29, 1704, WHEN ALL HIS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF THE NAME WERE LOST. In his old age he removed to Waterbury, Conn., to live with his only surviving child, who had married Jonathan Scott of that town.” ⚠⚠ “All his children and grandchildren of the name were lost” — the HAWKS name was wiped out in that raid, and his wife with it. He was a Falls Fight veteran who had been wounded relieving Hatfield in 1676; twenty-eight years later he lost his whole family in a morning, and ended his life in Connecticut with the one daughter who was left. ⭐⭐⭐ AND A LEAD WORTH CHASING: his FIRST wife was MARTHA BALDWIN, m. 1667. MARY BALDWIN — node 3083, Alec’s own ancestor — married John Catlin in 1662. Two Baldwin women marrying into Deerfield within five years: almost certainly sisters, and almost certainly daughters of Joseph Baldwin of Milford. ⚠ Recorded as a lead, not a link. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RE-GRADED ‘part’ → ‘ok’, 6 Aug 2026, AT ALEC’S CHALLENGE [AUDIT-01]. The colour grades WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHOSE CHILD THEY ARE — not whether every fact about them is known. Loose ends belong in Outstanding, below, and this node has some. They do not make the ancestor uncertain. ⛔⛔ HER SURNAME IS A DOCUMENTED BLANK IN EVERY STANDARD AUTHORITY — FIVE OF THEM NOW [TUTTLE-31/32]. ⭐ But her CHILDREN are no longer a blank. Boltwood gives all seven with dates: Mehitable 2 Jul 1677; Samuel 20 Feb 1679 (slain with her, 29 Feb 1704); WILLIAM 19 Oct 1680; Mary 6 Jul 1682 (carried to Canada in the same raid, and survived); Thomas 12 Mar 1684; Sarah c.1685; Rebecca 29 Nov 1687. She was widowed in 1691 with seven children under fifteen, remarried in 1696, and was killed in 1704. Allis genealogy 1919: a literal blank where the surname goes. Boltwood, in Judd’s Hadley, image 647: “(2) Nov. 20, 1696, Alice, wid. of Samuel Allis of Hat. She was slain by French and Indians, Feb. 29, [1704]”. Sheldon, Deerfield vol. 2, image 453: “(2) Nov. 20, 1696, Alice, wid. of Samuel Allis; she was k. 1704.” Three independent compilers, each with the Hampshire County records in front of them, each declining to name her. ⭐ What they DO agree on is not small: widow of Samuel Allis; remarried Sergt. John Hawks 20 Nov 1696; killed 29 Feb 1704 — TUTTLE-19 now confirmed twice from sources the 1919 book never used. ⛔⛔ AND THIS BURIES THE “ALICE MEEKINS” LEAD [TUTTLE-21]. A gravestone index that supplies a surname three record-reading compilers could not find is supplying something, not reporting it. Not entered. ⭐ If her name is recoverable it will come from a RECORD, not a book: the Hampshire Co. probate of Samuel Allis (d. 9 Mar 1691), the Hatfield marriage of 1675-6, or a Hatfield deed carrying her release of dower. ——— ⚠⚠⚠ UPGRADED hyp → part, and her death FOUND [TUTTLE-19]. Boltwood: “m. ALICE, who m. (2) Sergt. JOHN HAWKS, and was SLAIN IN DEER[FIELD] FEB. 29, 1704.” The Deerfield raid research project, independently: “John Hawks’s wife ALICE, was killed, as was her son SAMUEL ALLIS (b.1679). Their seven-year-old daughter ELIZABETH, was captured and killed on the march to Canada.” Widowed at Hatfield in 1691 with seven children; remarried Nov 1696; killed in the raid on Deerfield, 29 February 1704, together with her 25-year-old son. Alec’s line runs through her third child, WILLIAM, b. 19 Oct 1680 — who was not in Deerfield that night. ⭐ Her second husband John Hawks survived; of his household only a daughter living in Connecticut did.

Outstanding: ⛔⛔⛔ SHE HAS NO MAIDEN NAME IN ANY OF THREE SOURCES [TUTTLE-20]. Boltwood: none. The 1919 Allis genealogy: “he married in 1675-6, Alice , ” — the printed text has a literal BLANK where the surname belongs, so the compiler knew one was missing. The Deerfield project: calls her “Alice Allis,” her FIRST MARRIED name. Three attempts, stopped. ⭐ Her death, though, is now attested by all three — the 1919 book adds “killed at Deerfield on February 29, 1703-4, during the attack by the French and Indians” (⚠ Old Style: 1703-4 and 1704 are one night). What would still answer the surname: Samuel Allis’s Hampshire Co. probate (d. 1691), a Hatfield marriage record for 1675-6, or SHELDON’S HISTORY OF DEERFIELD VOL. 2 GENEALOGIES (the copy reachable tonight stopped at p.702, before the genealogies begin). She joins Martha Nease and Cynthia Ward as a direct ancestor known by a first name only. ⚠ ONE UNVERIFIED LEAD [TUTTLE-21]: a Find a Grave memorial is titled “Alice MEEKINS Hawks (1655–1704)” — the dates fit and Meekins is a real Hatfield surname, but it is user-submitted and uncited, and three careful compilers could not name her. NOT entered as her surname; entered as a lead to test. ⚠⚠ Note also that Sheldon’s Deerfield genealogies — the likeliest place for it — could not be reached: three scans all truncated before Part II. That is a TOOL limit, not a records negative.

10 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-80/-VERDICT]: the compiled tradition itself marks her surname unknown (“Alice ---”). m. 2nd, 20 Nov 1696, John Hawks of Hadley/Deerfield; killed in the Deerfield massacre, 29 Feb 1703/4 (Baldwin Gen. p. 493 + Sheldon, one Savage-rooted tradition — part-level). ⚠ The FaG “Alice Meekins” attribution is diagnosed a probable conflation with Mary Meakins, wife of JOHN Allis — do not adopt. Primary tests: the Hatfield town book (m. ~1675/6), the 1691 Hampshire administration, and the 20 Nov 1696 remarriage entry.

Samuel Davis (b. Roxbury ~1645 – d. 26 July 1690, Northampton, Mass.)

Ahnentafel #3078 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (11 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Samuel Davis was born about 1645, probably in Roxbury, Massachusetts. A 1649 Roxbury church record lists a Samuel Davis among the children of William Davis, and Samuel Davis was later dismissed from that church to Northampton, where he had settled by 1668 and become a freeman by 1676. He held shares in a local silver and lead mine venture and was a subscriber to Harvard College. He had two wives, the second Elizabeth Smead, daughter of William Smead, whom he married in 1681; his children included sons Samuel and John and three daughters whose names were not recorded. Samuel Davis died in the Northampton epidemic on 26 July 1690.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 7 August 2026 — added at PROBABLE after an adversary pass CONFIRMED the link at exactly this grade [TUTTLE-56]. Savage 2:31: “SAMUEL, Roxbury, perhaps s. of William of the same, rem. to Northampton 1668, was freem. 1676, had two ws. of wh. sec. was Eliz. d. of William Smead, m. 1681; and he d. 26 July 1690, leav. beside three ds. Samuel, b. 1672; and John, 1677.” Trumbull’s Northampton documents the man independently — proprietor in the silver/lead-mine venture (sold shares to Medad Pomeroy), Harvard College subscriber, died in the great 1690 epidemic; his wife was fined in 1676 for wearing silk “in a flaunting manner.” The adversary’s sweep found exactly ONE Davis household of this generation in Northampton — and none in Hadley, Deerfield, or Savage’s valley pages with an Elizabeth of the right age.

⚠ Why Probable: Savage’s three daughters are UNNAMED — no record yet names Elizabeth as his; the tie runs through the 1919 Allis book’s “of Northampton” plus elimination. Migrant candidate William Davis of Roxbury = Savage’s own “perhaps” — a LEAD and a STOP, not on the chart.

Outstanding: The closers: the claimed Northampton birth record (Elizabeth Davis, 20 Jun 1679 — FS image S3HT-691S-CW4, img 00019, cited but UNVIEWED) and Samuel’s 1690 Hampshire Co. probate, which would name the three daughters and test “William of Roxbury.”

Hannah Edwards (proposed first wife of Samuel Davis; m. 4 Mar 1668/9 – d. 11 Sep 1680, both uncertain)

Ahnentafel #3079 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (11 generations back) · Hypothesis — a candidate, not tied in

Hannah Edwards is a candidate — not a confirmed identification — for the first wife of Samuel Davis of Northampton. One compiled source names her as the daughter of Alexander Edwards of Northampton, married to Samuel on 4 March 1668/9 and dead by 11 September 1680, but the underlying record naming both parents has not yet been verified, and the identification remains no more than a hypothesis. An equally unproven alternative is that the relevant daughter descended instead from Samuel's second wife, Elizabeth Smead. Neither possibility has been settled.

Evidence

⚠⚠ NEW NODE, 7 August 2026 — entered at HYPOTHESIS, because the adversary pass REFUTED the finder’s ‘Probable’ [TUTTLE-56]. The identification of Elizabeth’s mother as Hannah, daughter of Alexander Edwards of Northampton (b. 1645 Springfield, m. 4 Mar 1668/9, d. 11 Sep 1680) rests on tree consensus whose one record-shaped leg — the USGWArchives Northampton VR transcription (“Davis, Samuel / Edwards, Hannah, 3/4/1668-9”) — could not be verified from this VM. Savage is silent twice (names neither Samuel’s first wife nor a husband for Alexander Edwards’s Hannah), and the finder’s silk-fine argument was killed on verification (the 1676 list is a town-wide sumptuary roll, not an Edwards grouping).

⚠ The live alternative: Savage never assigns the three daughters to a wife. Samuel remarried Elizabeth Smead in 1681 — a daughter born 1682–86 fits the 1703-4 marriage and 1758 death too. If the Allis bride is a Smead daughter, the father stands and the mother flips.

Outstanding: Verify the USGW Holbrook transcription or an FS birth image naming both parents — either moves this node to Probable. Alexander Edwards’s family record (AmericanAncestors/FS) would lock the marriage.

8 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-68/-VERDICT]: Temple (1875) now documents Hannah Edwards as Samuel’s FIRST wife (m. 4 Mar 1668, d. 11 Sep 1680) independent of the refuted mirror — but his own children list names NO Elizabeth, and the adversary held the node at hyp: the 20 Jun 1679 birth (the whole chronological case) still rests on the unread FS index image. ⚠ Two-Hannahs hazard on file. Flip-check: S3HT-691S-CW4 img 19 by eye; or the Hampshire probate / the new Feb 1721-2 guardianship lead (Ichabod Strong marriage).

Mr. John Catlin (b. about 1643 – killed defending his house at Deerfield, 29 Feb 1704)

Ahnentafel #3082 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s father (11 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

John Catlin was born about 1643, the son of a Catlin family of Wethersfield. He lived successively in Wethersfield, Branford, and Newark, New Jersey — where he served as a schoolteacher in 1676, as the town's attorney, and as a selectman for five years — before moving to Hartford and then, about 1683, to Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he was given the honorific title "Mr." and took a leading part in town affairs. On 29 February 1704, during the French and Indian raid on Deerfield, John Catlin and his son Jonathan were killed defending their house, which was then burned; another son was killed in the fighting that followed in the meadow, and a third son, also John, was carried captive to Canada, later returning to rebuild on the same ground and becoming known locally as "Master Catlin." Two of his daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, died on the forced march to Canada after the raid; a third daughter, Sarah, had already married and left the household, which is why this line of the family survived at all.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE HOME LOT, THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH, AND THE CAPTURED SON — ALL NAMED [TUTTLE-47]. Sheldon VOLUME ONE, image 636, in the survey of Deerfield home lots (lot 32, Samson Frary’s part, four acres): “…sold in 1685 to JOHN CATLIN. HERE HE AND HIS SON JONATHAN WERE KILLED WHILE DEFENDING HIS HOUSE IN 1704, BUT IT WAS TAKEN AND BURNED. HIS SON JOHN WAS CAPTURED. HE CAME BACK AND BUILT A HOUSE HERE ABOUT 1715. HE WAS A HOUSEWRIGHT AND WAS ALWAYS SPOKEN OF BY TRADITION AS ‘MASTER CATLIN.’” ⚠ A CORRECTION OF NUANCE TO TUTTLE-44: vol. 2 said he and Jonathan were “consumed” with the burning buildings. Vol. 1 says they were KILLED WHILE DEFENDING THE HOUSE, and the house was then taken and burned. He died fighting, not trapped. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND THE CAPTURED SON, unnamed when vol. 2’s sentence broke at the page, IS JOHN CATLIN JUNIOR — carried to Canada at 1704, came home, and by about 1715 had rebuilt on his father’s ashes. A housewright: the son of a burned-out house became a builder of houses. ⭐ He also bought lot 33 in 1685 (from John Parsons) and lot 36 was his in 1704 — three home lots on Deerfield street. ⚠ The 1704 casualty table (image 324) lists “John Catlin, (?) 60” — an age of about sixty, matching a birth c.1643. ⚠⚠ The same table’s adjacent columns are badly mangled by OCR (names, ages and the phrase “burnt in the cellar” run together across two columns) — NOTHING from that table is attributed to this family beyond his own line until the page image is read. ——— Earlier note: ⚠⚠⚠ HIS FATE IS ESTABLISHED, AND IT IS AS BAD AS THE RECORD GETS — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-44]. Sheldon, image 368, entry 2 of the CATLIN genealogy, in full: “2. John, s. of John (1), b. abt. 1643; of Weth., 1662; of BRANFORD, 1665, whence he rem. to NEWARK, where he was a TEACHER 1676; in 1678 he was ‘Town’s Attorney (not lawyer), an “honest brother,” to take care that all town orders be executed, and if a breach occurs to punish the offender’; SELECTMAN 1676-81; was of Hart. 1683, of Dfd. soon after, as one of the early permanent settlers, where he was DIGNIFIED BY THE TITLE OF “MR.” and took a prominent part in affairs; NO FAMILY SUFFERED MORE THAN HIS AT THE DESOLATION OF THE TOWN 1704; HIS BUILDINGS WERE ALL BURNED, AND HIMSELF AND S. JONATHAN CONSUMED WITH THEM; ONE S. WAS K. IN THE MEADOW FIGHT; ANOTHER AND THREE DAUS. WERE [captured]…” ⚠⚠ He and his son Jonathan burned to death in their own house. A second son was killed in the Meadow Fight later that morning. A third son and three daughters were carried off. Two of those daughters — ELIZABETH (m. James Corse) and MARY (m. Thomas Wells) — died on the march to Canada, Mary on 9 March. ⭐⭐⭐ AND HE WAS NOT A FARMER. A SCHOOLMASTER at Newark in 1676, the town’s attorney and an “honest brother”, selectman five years, and at Deerfield a man given the title “Mr.” — which in a New England town record is a rank, not a courtesy. ⭐ His route is one of the widest on this chart: Wethersfield 1662 → Branford 1665 → NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 1676-81 → Hartford 1683 → Deerfield. ⚠ His daughter SARAH escaped only because she had already married Michael Mitchell about 1694 and was in her own household — which is why his line survives to reach Alec at all. ⭐ UPGRADED Probable → Documented: the child list in his own entry (image 369) carries “Sarah, —; m. abt. 1694, Michael”, so the link to node 1541 is inside the Catlin genealogy and not borrowed from another family. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-43]. Sheldon, image 319: “m. Sept. 23, 1662, JOHN CATLIN, with whom she rem. fr. NEWARK to Dfd. abt. 1683; their large family were nearly all destroyed Feb. 29, 1704.” ⭐ A REAL MIGRATION, AND AN UNUSUAL ONE: the Catlins run Wethersfield, Conn. → Branford → NEWARK, NEW JERSEY → DEERFIELD c.1683 — the first New Jersey connection anywhere on this chart, and it comes in from the New Haven Colony party that founded Newark in 1666. ⭐ His father is entry 1 of Sheldon’s CATLIN genealogy (image 368): “CATLIN, CATLING, CATTELL, John, OF WETHERSFIELD; estate appraised July 17, 1644, amt. £69. He m. ISABELLA, prob. sister of Lawrence Ward of New Haven, Branford, Ct., and Newark, N.J., where he d. 1670…” ⚠ Two Johns in succession — do not merge them. The 1644 estate belongs to the elder.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠⚠ HIS OWN FATE ON 29 FEBRUARY 1704 IS NOT ESTABLISHED HERE AND MUST NOT BE ASSUMED FROM THE RAID’S REPUTATION. Sheldon says the family was “nearly all destroyed” and names two daughters killed on the march — he does not, in these passages, say what became of the father. ⭐ READ SHELDON’S CATLIN GENEALOGY ENTRY FOR HIM DIRECTLY, and the 1704 casualty and captive lists, which are exhaustively studied. ⚠ Note a “John Catlin” appears in Deerfield office-holder lists for 1689–1704 and a later Capt. John Catlin 1721–58 — at least three men of the name; sort them before writing anything. ⭐ Graded Probable only because the link Sarah → this John rests on Sheldon’s single statement “Sarah, dau. John Catlin” and there were several.

Mary Baldwin (bap. 23 June 1644; m. 23 Sept 1662 – survived the raid of 29 Feb 1704)

Ahnentafel #3083 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother (11 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Mary Baldwin was baptized 23 June 1644, the daughter of Joseph Baldwin of Milford, Connecticut, and his first wife, Hannah. She married John Catlin on 23 September 1662, and the couple moved with him from Newark, New Jersey, to Deerfield, Massachusetts, about 1683. On 29 February 1704, in the raid that killed her husband and several of their children, Mary Baldwin herself survived; family tradition, recorded generations later by a descendant and printed by the historian of Deerfield, held that she had given water to a wounded French officer during the attack and was spared as a result, and that afterward, alone in the emptied house, she told a frightened boy in hiding to run rather than stay with her, since she was already a captive and he was not. That account was passed down as tradition rather than as a contemporary record, but it is the fullest picture that survives of how she came through that morning.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SHELDON’S OWN VERDICT ON HER, AND A CORRECTION THAT A FLAG CAUGHT — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-49]. Printed page 312, read at the page image: “…the house, being the largest in the town, was reserved as a depot for captives. Here, then, was the place where MRS. CATLIN RELIEVED THE WOUNDED FRENCH LIEUTENANT, AND SECURED HER OWN FREEDOM BY HER PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.” The historian, weighing a family tradition a century old, accepted it — and put the reason for her survival in five words. ⚠⚠ AND A CORRECTION THE FLAG EARNED. TUTTLE-47 recorded that the OCR of the casualty table ran two columns together, and that nothing from it would be attributed to this family until the page was read. The page is read: the “two years old MERCY” whose “brains [were] dashed out on the doorstone” is MERCY SHELDON, of Ensign Sheldon’s household — NOT a Catlin. Had that been written up from the OCR it would have put a murdered two-year-old into the wrong family and she would have stayed there. ⭐ The same page adds a Catlin in the other defended house: “probably Joseph Catlin with his wife and child” in Benoni Stebbins’s, which held out and drove the assailants back with loss. ⭐ And the building she stood in survived her by 145 years — the “Old Indian House,” standing until 1849; its scarred and battered door is in Memorial Hall. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE LETTER READ AT THE PAGE, AND THE ENDING IS THE POINT — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-48]. Sheldon vol. 1, printed page 310, the close of Lucy D. Shearer’s letter: “…Mrs. Catlin was left. After they were all gone, a little boy came that was hid in the house. Mrs. Catlin said to the boy, ‘go run and hide.’ The boy said, ‘Mrs. Catlin, why don’t you go and hide?’ She said, ‘I AM A CAPTIVE; IT IS NOT MY DUTY TO HIDE, BUT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TAKEN, AND IT IS YOUR DUTY TO HIDE.’ Who this boy was I do not know. SOME THOUGHT THE KINDNESS SHOWN TO THE FRENCHMAN WAS THE REASON OF MRS. CATLIN’S BEING LEFT.” Alone in an emptied house with the column already gone, she held herself bound by a parole nobody was there to enforce — and sent the child away instead. ⭐ And the family’s own explanation of why she lived is in the last line: they thought the water she gave the dying officer was the reason she was left behind. ⚠ Still tradition, not record — Mrs. Shearer was born in 1804 — and “Mrs. Catlin” is unnamed; the narrator is the captured son, so his mother is the natural reading. ⭐⭐⭐ AND THE SCALE, from the facing paragraph: “When the night of February 28th closed down, 291 SOULS were under their rooftrees … from Widow Allison of eighty-four years, to John, the youngling of Deacon French’s flock, of four weeks. Among them were three negro slaves, one Indian, and three Frenchmen from Canada. In a few hours ALL BUT ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX of the inhabitants were either killed or in the hands of a cruel enemy, on a march over the snow to Canada, THREE HUNDRED MILES AWAY.” Of forty-one houses, fifteen stood inside the stockade. Alec has three families in that count. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE SILENCE IS BROKEN, AND IT IS BROKEN BY HER OWN WORDS — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-47]. Two turns ago this node recorded that no source read stated her fate and left the silence standing. Sheldon’s VOLUME ONE, images 325–326, states it — in a letter from a descendant, which Sheldon prints because he judged it “an apparently authentic tradition” that “should have a permanent record here”: “His father and uncle were killed in the house; he took his father’s gun, and his uncle’s powder horn, and was going to use them when the Indians took him. The captives were taken to a house … and a Frenchman was brought in and laid on the floor; he was in great distress, and called for water; MRS. CATLIN FED HIM WITH WATER. Some one said to her, ‘How can you do that for your enemy?’ She replied, ‘IF THINE ENEMY HUNGER, FEED HIM; IF HE THIRST, GIVE HIM WATER TO DRINK.’ The Frenchman was taken and carried away, and the captives marched off. MRS. CATLIN WAS LEFT. After they were all gone, a little boy came that was hid in the house. Mrs. Catlin said to the boy, ‘go run and hide.’” ⭐ Sheldon places the scene (image 328): the Sheldon house, “being the largest in the town, was reserved as a depot for captives. Here, then, was the place where Mrs. Catlin relieved the wounded French lieutenant.” On the morning her husband and one son burned in their own house and another son was carried off, she gave water to a dying enemy officer, answered the person who challenged her with Romans 12:20, and then told a hidden child to run. ⚠⚠ GRADE IT HONESTLY: this is a FAMILY TRADITION, written down by Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer of Colrain — born 1804, a hundred years after the event — and printed by Sheldon as tradition, not record. ⚠ And “Mrs. Catlin” is not named. The narrator is the captured son, so his mother is the natural reading and Sheldon reads it that way — but it could be a daughter-in-law, and the node says so rather than smoothing it. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐ A SISTER, PROBABLY — 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-46]. Sheldon vol. 1, image 61, has Sergt. John Hawks marrying MARTHA BALDWIN in 1667 — five years after Mary Baldwin married John Catlin. Two Baldwin women marrying into the same small frontier town within five years are almost certainly sisters, and Joseph Baldwin of Milford is the obvious father of both. ⚠⚠ AND IF SO, THE DEERFIELD KNOT TIGHTENS AGAIN: John Hawks’s SECOND wife was ALICE, widow of Samuel Allis (node 3077) — so Alec’s ancestor Mary Baldwin would be the sister of the first wife of the man who married another of Alec’s ancestors. Recorded as a lead. Two women of one surname in one town is a pattern, not a proof. ——— Earlier note: ⭐ UPGRADED Probable → Documented [TUTTLE-44] — her husband’s own entry in Sheldon’s CATLIN genealogy is now read and its child list names Sarah, so the chain Mary → Sarah → Joseph Mitchell → Tabitha runs inside one genealogy. ⚠⚠ HER OWN FATE ON 29 FEBRUARY 1704 IS STILL NOT STATED. Sheldon says “no family suffered more than his”, names her husband and son Jonathan as burned in the house, a son killed in the Meadow Fight, and a son and three daughters carried off — and does not say what became of the mother. That silence is left standing here rather than filled in. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-43]. Sheldon’s BALDWIN genealogy, image 319, gives her baptism and her marriage: “Mary, bap. June 23, 1644; m. Sept. 23, 1662, John Catlin, with whom she rem. fr. Newark to Dfd. abt. 1683.” ⭐ Her father is JOSEPH BALDWIN, emigrant — “prob. s. of Richard of Cholesbury, County Bucks, Eng.; of MILFORD, CT., 1639; rem. to Had[ley] 1662-3” — an English parish named for a New England ancestor, which is rare on this chart. ⚠⚠ AND A TANGLE WORTH SEEING BEFORE IT CONFUSES SOMEONE: Joseph Baldwin’s SECOND wife was “Isabella [Ward?], wid. of JOHN CATLIN of Newark, N.J.” — the elder John Catlin’s widow. So Mary Baldwin married the son of her own stepmother. The two families interlock twice in one generation.

Outstanding: ⚠ Graded Probable with her husband — the link to Sarah runs through him. ⭐ Sheldon has a full BALDWIN genealogy; the Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire claim for Joseph Baldwin is the kind of English origin that has to be tested, not adopted. ⚠ Her own fate in the 1704 raid is not stated in the passages read.

William Tuttle (the immigrant — came from old to New England in 1635; New Haven 1639; d. 1673)

Ahnentafel #6144 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Immigrant

William Tuttle came from England to New England in 1635 and settled in New Haven in 1639, becoming the head of a large family whose descendants filled an entire published genealogy two centuries later. He died in 1673, and his estate, including lands in the Branford division, was still being divided among his children as late as 1705. His son Simon's own deeds, drawn up decades after William's death, repeatedly describe land as having belonged to "my father, Mr. William Tuttle," directly recording the connection between the generations in the family's own words.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RE-GRADED ‘part’ → ‘ok’, 6 Aug 2026, AT ALEC’S CHALLENGE [AUDIT-01]. The colour grades WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHOSE CHILD THEY ARE — not whether every fact about them is known. Loose ends belong in Outstanding, below, and this node has some. They do not make the ancestor uncertain. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → part [TUTTLE-32] — because his son’s DEEDS name him. Three Wallingford/New Haven conveyances by Simon Tuttle (node 3072), dated 1677-8, 1686 and 1705, each call William Tuttle “my father” by name. That is a contemporary record of the link, not a compiler’s assertion. ⭐ A fourth, in 1705, has Simon conveying “all my right in Branford division set to my father, Mr. William Tuttle, now (Feb. 14, 1705) laid out for his children” — the immigrant’s estate was still being divided among his children thirty-two years after his death. That division is a document, and it will list them. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 — GENERATION 14, the deepest node on the Tuttle side and the deepest in the whole chart [TUTTLE-30]. He is the head of the 1883 work, whose full title is The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639. Our line reaches him through his ninth child, Simon (node 3072), whose wife died in December 1684.

Outstanding: ⚠⚠ ‘hyp’ ON PURPOSE, AND IT SHOULD STAY THAT WAY UNTIL A RECORD IS READ. Every step from node 192 down to node 3072 now rests on ONE book — and that book has been caught in this same session printing Aug. 28 for Aug. 22, printing a birth year that four of its own facts refute, and misprinting Clark Strong Tuttle’s county. We are not taking an immigrant ancestor on a book’s word. ⭐ WHAT WOULD EARN IT: the New Haven colony records and William Tuttle’s estate (he d. 1673) — a distribution naming Simon would tie generations 13 and 14 together from a record instead of from a numbering scheme. ⚠ His wife Elizabeth is deliberately not yet a node.

Elizabeth Tuttle (b. about 1609 in England – d. 31 Dec 1684, New Haven, aged 76)

Ahnentafel #6145 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established · Immigrant

Elizabeth Tuttle was born about 1609 in England and crossed to New England with her husband, William, in 1635, when she was about twenty-six. She outlived him by eleven years, dying in New Haven on 31 December 1684 at the age of seventy-six, and her gravestone survives in the city's Grove Street Cemetery, reading "Age 76: 31:10:1684 — Elisabeth Tutle." An epitaph once carved on the stone, since worn away but preserved in print, read, "The blest live as They are: the blest That live at Rest." Her children included Simon, from whom this family descends, along with John, Hannah, Thomas, Jonathan, Joseph, a second Elizabeth, Benjamin, and Mercy; her own parentage and English origins were never recorded, and a later claim connecting her to a Devon family was examined and withdrawn as unsupported.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ RE-GRADED ‘part’ → ‘ok’, 6 Aug 2026, AT ALEC’S CHALLENGE [AUDIT-01]. The colour grades WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHOSE CHILD THEY ARE — not whether every fact about them is known. Loose ends belong in Outstanding, below, and this node has some. They do not make the ancestor uncertain. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER GRAVESTONE EXISTS AND IS TRANSCRIBED — Alec asked for it and it is there [TUTTLE-34]. GROVE STREET CEMETERY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. Find a Grave memorial 8395040, six photographs. The inscription: “Age 76: 31:10:1684 — Elisabeth Tutle” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READ THE DATE PROPERLY AND IT IS THE ONE WE PREDICTED. “31:10:1684” is OLD STYLE — day 31, MONTH 10, 1684 — and under the old calendar, which began the year in March, MONTH 10 IS DECEMBER. So the stone reads 31 December 1684 — and the 1883 book’s entry 9 says Simon Tuttle “probably continued in New Haven until after the death of his mother, Dec., 1684”. The stone and the book agree to the month, and the stone gives the day. ⭐ The book also preserves an epitaph since lost from the stone (Vol. I, p. LX): “The blest live as They are: the blest That live at Rest.” ⭐ “Age 76” puts her birth c.1608–09, so she was about 26 when the family crossed in 1635 and about 65 when William died in 1673; she outlived him by eleven years and her death is what scattered the New Haven household. ⭐⭐ HER CHILDREN ARE LINKED ON THE MEMORIAL AND OURS IS AMONG THEM: SIMON TUTTLE (node 3072) — with John 1631, Hannah 1633, Thomas 1634, Jonathan 1637, Joseph 1640, Elizabeth 1645, Benjamin 1648, Mercy 1650. ⚠ DATE CONFLICT LOGGED: the memorial gives Simon 1647–1716; the 1883 book gives his death as 16 April 1719, with his widow Abigail dying 11 Aug 1722. Not resolved here — the Wallingford probate will settle it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ AND A NOTE ON THE SOURCE ITSELF, WHICH IS UNUSUALLY GOOD. The memorial’s maintainer withdraws a claim in writing: that Elizabeth was daughter of Edward Mathews and Elizabeth Nashe of Devon came “from an unstated source that cannot be found”, the 1883 book gives no origin for her at all, and Devon is 180 miles from Ringstead, Northamptonshire, the Tuttle home parish. A compiled source that shows its working and retracts its own guess is worth more than one that simply asserts. Her parents are NOT entered. ——— Earlier note: ⭐⭐⭐ NEW NODE, 6 Aug 2026 [TUTTLE-32]. She is named in the title of the standard authority itself — The Descendants of WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH TUTTLE, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639 — and the 1883 compiler built an 838-page book on the pair. ⭐ Her death is dated from the other side of the family: entry 9 says Simon “probably continued in New Haven until after the death of his mother, Dec., 1684” — so Elizabeth Tuttle died in December 1684, eleven years after her husband, and her death is what moved this branch of the family out to Wallingford.

Outstanding: ⛔ NO MAIDEN NAME HERE. The 1883 title page gives her only as Elizabeth. ⭐ ROUTES: the New Haven colony records; William Tuttle’s estate, d. 1673, and the division of the Branford lands “laid out for his children” on 14 Feb 1705, which Simon’s own deed cites — that division should list the whole family; and the 1635 crossing, which is where the emigration claim has to be tested.

Abraham Doolittle (c.1620 – 11 Aug 1690, Wallingford, Conn.)

Ahnentafel #6148 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s father (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict · Immigrant

Abraham Doolittle was in New Haven by 1644, where he served over the years as corporal, freeman, marshal, and townsman; the family name was written "Dowlittle" in the earliest records. He was one of the founding settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut, arriving on the ground by 1668 and serving as deputy in 1668 and 1672. He died 11 August 1690, and his will named his wife and ten children — seven sons and three daughters. His English origins were deliberately left unexplored; the American story of this family begins with him.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐⭐ A MIGRANT REACHED, 7 August 2026 — and per Alec’s rule, this is where the Doolittle line stops.

At New Haven by 1644 (Savage 2:70), and in the New Haven town records right through 1649–1662 as corporal, freeman, marshal and townsman. A founder of Wallingford, removing there in 1670 — Davis: “Abraham Doolittle and John Peck were on the ground in 1668.” Deputy 1668 and 1672. Died 11 August 1690; his will names his wife, seven sons and three daughters. ⭐ Savage notes the family “early it was Dowlittle.”

⭐ New Haven Colony, and that is the point. Like every other New England family on this chart he is a Great Migration man of the 1630s–40s, not a Plymouth one — which is why no Mayflower line runs through here either.

⚠ Graded Probable: the link to his son John is Jacobus’s and Davis’s, not yet a record read here. ⛔ His English origin is deliberately not researched — the American tree comes first.

Joan (Alling/Allen) (bp. 12 Oct 1617, Kempston, Beds. — first wife of Abraham Doolittle)

Ahnentafel #6149 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s father’s mother (12 generations back) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

Joan Alling was baptized 12 October 1617 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, the daughter of James Alling and sister of Sergeant Roger Alling, treasurer of New Haven Colony. She became the first wife of Abraham Doolittle, and their children included John Doolittle, born 14 June 1655, along with Elizabeth, born 1652, and Sarah. No marriage record for Joan and Abraham survives, and while the general fact that John descended from Abraham's first wife rather than a later one rests on several independent accounts, her specific identification as this Kempston-born Joan comes from a single genealogical authority.

Evidence

⭐⭐⭐ UPGRADED hyp → PROBABLE, 7 August 2026 — after an adversarial refutation pass, verdict CONFIRMED [TUTTLE-55]. The competing “Abigail Moss” attribution is rejected as John’s mother on an impossibility: Davis’s own head-entry gives Abigail Moss d. 5 Nov 1710 ae. 69 → b. c.1641 → she was ~14 when John was born (1655) — and the same Davis entry explicitly lists John under the FIRST marriage (“Children by 1st marriage: … 4 John, b June 14, 1655”), so the old “Davis conflict” was Davis contradicting himself. Savage 2:70 concurs on the structure (“these, it is said, were by first w.”). Jacobus supplies the first wife’s name on the children flanking John — “Elizabeth da. Abraham & Joan (Ailing) Doolittle, b 12 Apr 1652”; “Sarah da. Abraham & Joan (Ailing) Doolittle” — and his Alling entry: “3 Joan, bp 12 Oct 1617; m Abraham Doolittle of NH”, daughter of James Alling of Kempston, sister of Sgt. Roger Alling, Treasurer of New Haven Colony.

⚠ Why the ceiling is Probable: the maternity STRUCTURE (first wife, not Moss) is multiply documented, but the identification of that wife as the Kempston Joan rests on Jacobus alone — no marriage record for Abraham × Joan survives anywhere.

Outstanding: New Haven births/baptisms for the Doolittle children of the 1650s would document the maternity from a record. ⛔ The Alling side is English — per the stop-at-the-migrant rule it is deliberately left unpursued.

John Peck (b. c.1638 – d. 1724, Wallingford, Conn.)

Ahnentafel #6150 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s father (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

John Peck was born about 1638, the son of William Peck, and became a freeman in 1669. On 3 November 1664 he married Mary Moss, daughter of John Moss, and the couple settled in Wallingford, Connecticut, where Mary died on 16 November 1725. John Peck himself died in Wallingford in 1724.

Evidence

⭐ UPGRADED to DOCUMENTED, 8 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-70/-VERDICT]: three converging authorities, the earliest explicit and independent — Savage (1860–62), p.391: “JOHN, New Haven, s. of William of the same, freem. 1669, m. 3 Nov. 1664, Mary, d. of John Moss… b. at Wallingford, where his w. d. 16 Nov. 1725”; Jacobus (records-first, independent); Darius Peck 1877 (“2. JOHN… b. New Haven, probably in 1638… d. at Wallingford in 1724”). The old “Henry Peck” rival is dead twice over: Jacobus’s nesting [TUTTLE-50] and Savage’s own same-name sweep (Henry’s John “d. young”; Ralph’s b. 1655, too late).

Outstanding: Dea. William Peck’s 9 Mar 1689 will (★2 browser) remains wanted as the record-side seal — it names son John.

Mary Moss (bap. 11 Apr 1647 New Haven – d. 16 Nov 1725, Wallingford)

Ahnentafel #6151 · his mother’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s father’s mother’s mother’s mother (12 generations back) · Documented — person and parent-link established

Mary Moss was baptized in New Haven on 11 April 1647, the daughter of John Moss. She married John Peck on 3 November 1664, and the couple settled in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she died on 16 November 1725 at the age of seventy-eight.

Evidence

⭐ UPGRADED to DOCUMENTED, 8 Aug 2026, adversary-confirmed [TUTTLE-70/-VERDICT]: Savage names her from BOTH directions in one volume (Moss entry: “Mary, 11 Apr. 1647… Mary m. 3 Nov. 1664, John Peck”; Peck entry: “Mary, d. of John Moss… his w. d. 16 Nov. 1725, aged 78”), with Jacobus and Darius Peck 1877 concurring on bap., marriage, and death to the day.

Outstanding: her father John Moss (d. 1707 “aged 103, perhaps with slight exagg.” — Savage) is an un-opened Gen-14 name if the line is ever extended.