The family tree, part 7.

Ensign Gershom Tuttle I (1714 Wallingford – 1777 Claremont)

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

Full dates: b. 11 Aug 1714 Wallingford – Chippens Hill, New Cambridge – d. 13 Aug 1777, Claremont, N.H.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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.

Lead, 12 Sep 2026 [TUTTLE-146 §⑤]: FamilySearch full text indexes the 1777 will of Gershom Tuttle of Farmington (ark 3:1:3QS7-L92K-1NM8, proved 27 Sep 1777) naming “my three Sons Gershom, Oliver and Samuel Tuttle” and appointing “my Son Gershom” executor — the ensign naming the patriot. Image not yet opened (FamilySearch blocked the VM before the lane reached it); read it at the page and this rung is documented by the father’s own will.

⭐⭐⭐ HIS OWN WILL, read at the page, read at the page 13 Sep 2026 [TUTTLE-147 §⑤]: the will of Gershom Tuttle of Farmington, 9 May 1777, proved 27 Sep 1777 (Farmington District Probate Records vol. 1–3, p. 441; the original signed paper survives in estate file No. 2757) gives “my wellbeloved Wife Lois” a third for life and “all the remaining Part of my real & personal Estate unto my Three Sons Gershom, Oliver and Samuel Tuttle,” and appoints “my Son Gershom Tuttle whole and sole Executor.” The executor’s account of “Gershom Tuttel Executor” was allowed 25 Jan 1779. This supersedes the 12 Sep lead that rested on the full-text OCR alone.

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Lois Allis (b. 1707/8 Hatfield; m. 1737)

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

Full dates: b. 13 Jan 1707/8 Hatfield; m. 17 Oct 1737, Sunderland; sister of Mary Allis

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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.

⭐⭐⭐ THE RECORD THIS FIELD ASKED FOR, found 13 Sep 2026 [TUTTLE-147 §⑤]: the 1777 will of Gershom Tuttle of Farmington names “my wellbeloved Wife Lois” and “my Three Sons Gershom, Oliver and Samuel” — the Farmington births of 1738, 1739 and 1747 recorded under a father Gershom. Gershom Tuttle and Lois his wife, together, in one record of the right family. The hypothesis wording above is superseded.

Joseph Mitchell (1705 Deerfield – 1794 Ashfield)

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

Full dates: b. 1705, a weaver; Deerfield → Sunderland → Ashfield; d. 16 Sept 1794

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ HIS WILL, read at the page 13 Sep 2026 [TUTTLE-147 §⑤]: the will of Joseph Mitchell of Deerfield, dated 14 April 1792 and proved 25 Nov 1794 (Hampshire Co., Mass. Probate Records vol. 19–20, entry 91): “I give to my Daughter Tabitha Wife of Gersham Tuttle Twelve Pounds,” beside her sisters Mary Belding and Hannah Bigelow and the children of “my late Son Joseph.” This documents Tabitha’s parentage and her marriage by record, and shows her ALIVE in April 1792 — the unsourced “1737–1782” is refuted. It contradicts SAR’s Patriot Research System entry for P-308288, which gives the patriot’s spouse as “Catherine Stevens” from a 2002 index. The Joel Mitchel lead above is superseded.

Mary Allis (1705 Hatfield – 1783)

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

Full dates: b. 18 Feb 1705, Hatfield; m. 2 Nov 1726 – d. 8 Nov 1783, aged 77

⭐⭐⭐ 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. ⛔ WITHDRAWN, self-correction #384, 10 Sep 2026: this field said “her death is not recorded here — the Sunderland and Deerfield registers are the place to look”, directly under the paragraph that records it. Her death is 8 November 1783, from Sheldon [TUTTLE-42]. It is her sister Lois who still has no death date, and that is the search this line actually needs.

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 Palatinate – 1786)

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

Full dates: 1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ~1796 Shenandoah Co. VA)

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

Full dates: d. about 1796, Shenandoah Co., Virginia; maiden name unknown

⭐ 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) (Shenandoah Co., Virginia)

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

Also recorded: of Shenandoah Co., VA; fourteen children; son of Ludwig Zerkel (lead)

⭐ 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 (Shenandoah Co., Virginia)

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

Also recorded: wife of Michael Zerckel; her given name rests on a single source

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 Palatinate – 1786)

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

Full dates: 1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ~1796 Shenandoah Co. VA)

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

Full dates: d. about 1796, Shenandoah Co., Virginia; maiden name unknown

⭐ 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

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

Also recorded: of the Fox family near Forestville, Shenandoah Co., about 1785; name not recorded

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

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

Also recorded: name not recorded

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

John Adam Roush (1711 Palatinate – 1786)

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

Full dates: 1711, the Palatinate – 19 Oct 1786, Shenandoah Co., Virginia

⭐ 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.

Outstanding: The parent-link from Henry Sr. (node 500) rests on the printed Roush family history alone (“one of the oldest of the children of John and Susannah Roush”); the node stays part until the 1786 Shenandoah Co. probate of John Adam Roush is read for the heirs [ROUSH-67].

Susannah Roush (d. ~1796 Shenandoah Co. VA)

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

Full dates: d. about 1796, Shenandoah Co., Virginia; maiden name unknown

⭐ 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 (~1682 New Haven – 1756 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 (1688 Wallingford – 1728)

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) · Probable — the IDENTIFICATION or the LINK rests on one source, or is in conflict

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

Full dates: b. 5 Apr 1688 Wallingford – m. 2 Nov 1706 – d. 23 Nov 1728, aged 40

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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.

⛔ 11 Sep 2026 — DEMOTED documented → probable [BELL-714]. The badge now matches this node’s OWN text, which reads “‘part’ — a Find a Grave memorial is a COMPILED source and no record has been read.” ⚠ Under the SAR standard Find a Grave is admissible only with a legible photograph of the stone AND the memorial line giving cemetery and City/County/ST; neither is claimed here. ⭐ The flip to documented is cheap and named: the Wallingford marriage entry of 2 Nov 1706 and death entry of 23 Nov 1728. 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 (1680 Hatfield – 1763 Montague)

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

Full dates: b. 19 Oct 1680 Hatfield – d. 20 Feb 1763 Montague, Mass.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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 (m. 1703/4 – 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

Also recorded: of Northampton; m. 1703-4 – d. 1 May 1758, Montague, Mass.

⭐⭐⭐ 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 (Wallingford Conn. → 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

Also recorded: of Wallingford, Conn. 1695-6 and 1706; then Deerfield

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ~1694 – d. 1736)

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

Full dates: m. Michael Mitchell about 1694 – d. 30 Dec 1736; survived the 1704 raid

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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 (1647 – 1719 Wallingford Conn.)

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

Full dates: bap. New Haven 28 Mar 1647 – d. 16 April 1719, Wallingford, Conn.; cooper

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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 (m. ~1679 – d. 1722)

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

Also recorded: wife of Simon Tuttle; m. about 1679–80 – d. 11 Aug 1722; her surname is disputed

⚠⚠⚠ 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 (1655 New Haven – aft. 1717 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

Full dates: b. 14 June 1655 New Haven – d. after 1717, Wallingford, Conn.

⭐⭐⭐ 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.