Henry Tucker (abt. 1619 - 1694)

Born about 1619 in East Grimstead, Wiltshire, England

Descendants

Died 21 Apr 1694 at about age 75 in Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America

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Biography

Henry was a Friend (Quaker)

Surname Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(surname)#:~:text=Tucker%20can%20also%20be%20an,myriad%20examples%20may%20be%20cited.

Birth

Circa 1619, based on a Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, court deposition.^[1] The 1895 claim by Ephraim Tucker^[2] that he was the son of Robert and Susan (Barlow) Tucker wasn't based on credible evidence and has been refuted in "The Descendants of William Tucker of Throwleigh, Devon" by Robert Dennard Tucker (1991).

Marriage

There are one primary and two heresay sources for his marriage to Martha (surname unknown). The primary record, if the transcription is accurate, says February 1651, as it appears in Arnold's "Rhode Island Vital Extracts.^[3] Ephraim Tucker states the marriage was on the 9th day of the 11th month 1651, but provides no source. He says he took all but one of Henry and Martha's children's birth records from a family Bible (location or owner not given), so this may also be his marriage source. The third source, according to Ephraim Tucker in a footnote, is in "Dr. George H. Tucker’s “Genealogy” of Henry Tucker, he states the record reads thus: “Henry and Martha were married in ye 11th moneth, in ye year 1653-4,” the eleventh month being January on the Julian calendar used at the time.

In some personal, online genealogy databases, Martha is given the surname Shaw with no reason or source given. Martha was born circa 1630, and died on 9 Nov 1697.

Children

Henry and Martha Tucker had seven children: four daughters and three sons.^[4]

1. Abraham Tucker. Born on October 13, 1653 at Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island Colony.
2. John Tucker. Born on August 28, 1656 at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, Province of East Jersey (now New Jersey).
3. Martha Tucker 07/14/1659 Dartmouth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts).
4. Hannah Tucker. Born on July 25, 1662 at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Plymouth Colony.
5. James Tucker 03/16/1665 Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
6. Mary Tucker 08/16/1668 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA
7. Sarah Tucker 09/20/1674 Portsmouth, RI

Death

Died: 21d 2m 1694 [April 21, 1694] -- Henry Tucker died at Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Province.^[5][6]

Will

Will: of Henry Tucker of Dartmouth dated the "first Day of the first month 1693/4"^[7][8]

"First I Desire my soule may returne to god who gave it me & Rest with him for Ever".

To my wife Martha Tucker twelve pounds yearly during her life, also one feather bed and what clothing doth belong thereto.

To my daughter Sarah Tucker threescore pounds "in as much as She hath had no portion as yet".

To my son Abraham Tucker L30 in money.

To my grandchild Henry Tucker son of Abraham Tucker one half of all my lands, when he comes to age of twenty one, but if my wife is living he shall not possess the same until her death, also I give him twenty pounds, because I have given him no part of my house or orchard.

To the four daughters of my son Abraham Tucker "which his first wife Mary Tucker bare Unto him" viz. Mary, Patience, Martha and Abigail, then pounds, each when they come to age of sixteen years.If any of said daughters die, her legacy to be equally divided among the survivors.

To my son in law Nathaniel Slocum twenty pounts in money or goods.

To son in law Samuel Pery twenty pounds in money."I give to the Church of Christ and people of god in scorne Caled Quakers on Road Island" five pounds.

Rest of estate to son John Tucker, he to be sole executor.

Sitnessed by John Akin Thomas X Briggs and Eliazar Smith.

The three above witnesses all living at Dartmouth, made oath to above will before Jno. Saffin (Sassin?) John Cary, Registr at Bristol, July 3, 1694.Entered July 4, 1694 by Jno Cary, Registr.

Inventory of the estate of Henry Tucker late of Dartmouth taken May 1, 1694 by Jonathan Russell and Thomas X Briggs and sworn to by John Tucker of Dartmouth before John Saffin (Sassin?) Esq. at Bristol, July 3, 1694. John Cary, Registr.Recorded July 5, 1694 by John Cary, Registr.Amount L362..09..02"

Research Notes

"He (Henry Tucker) belonged to the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and was in Milton, Mass., in 1663, where he was persecuted by the Puritans on account of his religious ideas, as were also others who dared to entertain sentiments different from those which prevailed among the ruling classes of those times."^[9]

"On the site of this present dwelling two centuries and a quarter ago there stood the stone dwelling of Henry Tucker, whose son, John, was an occupant here at the opening of the eighteenth century." Old Dartmouth Historical Sketch, Number 10, Being the proceedings of the Meeting of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held at Christian Endeavor Hall, Smith Mills, July 1, 1905.

The Tucker Farm Historic District' is a historic district at 1178 Tucker Road in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. A farm property which has been worked since the 17th century, includes several houses, one of which may have a portion dating to the ownership of Henry Tucker, the land's first English settler. It also includes a remnant of what was once a major Native trail and public right of way connecting Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts and National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service, August 25, 1988, #88000705

Sources

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Genealogy of the Tucker family from various authentic sources. page 299
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
4. ↑ Genealogy of the Tucker family from various authentic sources. page 299
5. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births - Marriages - Deaths 1699 - 1880, Society of Friends, Dartmouth Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Dartmouth, Mass.), p 712.
6. ↑ Genealogy of the Tucker family from various authentic sources. page 299
7. ↑ Genealogy of the Tucker family from various authentic sources. page 299-300
8. ↑ " Probate records 1687-1916; index, 1687-1926 [Bristol County, Massachusetts]," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9862 : 3 August 2023), Film# 007703530, Bristol, Massachusetts, image 50, Vol 1.
9. ↑ Genealogy of the Tucker family from various authentic sources. page 299

• https://www.dartmouthhas.org/uploads/1/0/0/2/100287044/fair_kathleen-the_tucker_family_of_old_dartmouth.pdf

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F83F-VQD : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for Abraham Tucker, 13 Oct 1653; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference 2:1781HJC; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZVK-NJH : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for John Tucker, 28 Aug 1656; citing DARTMOUTH,BRISTOL,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0823562 IT 1-3.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8Q4-GR3 : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for Martha Tucker, 14 Jul 1659; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8Q4-LLH : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for Hannah Tucker, 05 Jul 1662; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8Q4-GRC : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for Mary Tucker, 16 Aug 1668; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8Q4-GRF : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry Tucker in entry for Sarah Tucker, 20 Sep 1674; citing SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, NEWPORT, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VK1N-JZ3 : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry in entry for John Tucker and Ruth Wooley, 1688; citing Society Of Friends,Newport,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F82M-7CK : accessed 15 February 2016), Henry in entry for Samuel Perry and Mary Tucker, 09 May 1690; citing Society Of Friends,Newport,Newport,Rhode Island, reference ; FHL microfilm 22,488.

• Edward Mayes. Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet Completed. Circa 1935. Privately published. Clark T. Thornton, editor. Reprinted 2009. Page 43.

• [2] "Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts" : containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. by J.H. Beers & Co. Publication date 1912. Topics Massachusetts -- Genealogy, Massachusetts -- Biography, Bristol County (Mass.) -- Biography, Plymouth County (Mass.) -- Biography, Barnstable County (Mass.) -- Biography. Publisher Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Collection boston public library; americana. Digitizing sponsor Boston Public Library. Contributor Boston Public Library. Language: English. Volume 3

• [3] Heading (from page): "Our Royal titled nobel and commoner ancestors" personal webpage (Compiler: Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR); main index here [4]- does not list primary (or any) source information. The listing is just compiled names (pedigree).

• geni.com

• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LBGR-3CM/henry-tucker-1619-1694

• Massachusetts. Probate Court (Bristol County). Probate records 1687-1916; index, 1687-1926 [Bristol County, Massachusetts]. Film Number 461882 Probates, v. 1-4 1687-1723, v.1 page 85. Image Group Number 7703530, image 50 of 745. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9862?i=49&cat=277787