Ancestors of Newton Tuttle and Emily Amelia Stone Tuttle

Note-worthy Ancestors of Newton and Emily = Part 1

The following information pertains to the ancestors of Newton Tuttle and his wife, Emily Amelia Stone. The research was done by their granddaughter, Florence Tuttle Foy, of Bountiful, Utah. These sketches were written several decades ago while some of the links go to Wikipedia and some to Find-a-Grave. As portions of the information may be anecdotal, further research on each is warranted.

It is important to note the absence of women in this list. They are notable in our mind, although obscurely documented. Certainly the women associated with these men were of worth, merely not note-worthy by biographical standards of the past. Of these sketches Grandma Florence Foy wrote, "...we get a glimpse of the great part our progenitors played in establishing the colonies that eventually became states in the great United States of America."

Grandma Foy who lived to be a few months short of 100 years often said that when she died she was going to heaven by way of Connecticut to view the land of her ancestors. Learning of the governmental accomplishments of some of her ancestors must have given someone who was a dedicated census taker and record keeper great joy. Her paternal grandparents, Newton and Emily Stone Tuttle, were of New England origins and always favored the Thanksgiving holiday. On the otherside, her maternal Howard family who came from Old England gave greater emphasis to Christmas.

Reverend James Pierpont - Born January 4, 1659, Roxburg, Massachusetts. Died 1714 at New Haven, Connecticut. He served as pastor of the First Congregational Society of New Haven and was one of the founders of Yale College.

James Pierpont

Reverand Noadiah Russell - In the year 1700, ten ministers were selected to act as trustees of the proposed college (Yale). They held their meeting in Rev. Moadiah Russell's home, and there founded what later came to be called Yale College. Each gave books.

William Peck - Arrived in Boston 1637 with Governor Eaton. He was one of the founders of New Haven, Connecticut. He was trustee and treasurer of Colony Collegiate School, now Yale University. Died 1694 - buried in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the Deacon in the church 1659 - 1694.

William Tuttle - William came to America on the ship Planter which was the first ship to sail into the Moston, Massachusetts Harbor in 1635. The Tuttle homestead was the only land owned by the Yale College for nearly 30 years. It was first of a long series of purchases extending through a period of more than a century, which finally brought the whole of the college square into its possession. In these transfers, descendants of William Tuttle who at one time or another, owned a considerable part of the square, appear as grantors, either directly to the college or to intermediate holders. It was years ago. He had it 16 years; William Tuttle and heirs 30 years; Hester Coster 5 years; the First Church of New Haven 26 yers; and Yale College ever since or better than 200 years. On this very spot William Tuttle lived and died, his great Grandson, Jonathan Edwards, studied, taught and achieved much at Yale College.

Reverend Jermiah Peck - In 1660 the Hopkins Grammer School was started in New Haven. Jermiah [Jeremiah] Peck became the first teacher. He taught Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Oratory. His salary was 30 bushels of wheat, one barrel of pork, two barrels of beef, 40 bushels of corn, 30 bushels of peas, 30 bushels of oats, and butter.

John Cooper - Along with William Tuttle and others he set up the boundaries between New Haven, Milford, Bradford and Wallinford, Connecticut, May 1672.

Sergeant Abraham Doolittle - Born 1620. Died 11 August, 1690, at Wallingford, Connecticut. In 1644 he took the oath of fidelity in the Colony, and acted as executive county officer of New Haven. He was one of three appointed by the New Haven Committee to superintend the affairs of the new settlement. This "New Settlement" was afterward incorporated as a town, by the name of Wallingford. He was one of the Vigilance Committee at the time of King Philip's War at which time his house was protected by a picket fort against an attack by the Indians. He was chosen sheriff and was also deputy to the General Court for years.

Governor Joseph Dudley - Born 1647. Died 1720, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Jurist and governor in 1682. Member of the Massachusetts General Court, and in 1673 was magistrate of Roxbury. In 1673 he negotiated a treaty with the Narragansett Indians. He was sent to England in 1682 to prevent the threatened repeal of the Massachusetts Charter. He served as chief justice of New York from 1690 to 1701. He was again appointed as Governor of Massachusetts in 1702 and served until 1715.

Robert Kitchell - Came to America in 1637. Settled in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639. He was magistrate of Guilford in 1666 then moved to Newark, New Jersey, and was called the Benefactor of Newark.

Robert Pease - Born in 1656, Salem, Massachusetts. Died 1744, Enfield, Connecticut. He was the son of John Pease, but moved to Connecticut. He is said to have been the first constable chosen by the people by vote of the Town of Enfield. Captain John Pease, his son, was one of the most prominent men in the history of Enfield. He was appointed land measurer by the town. He was one of the first select men chosen by the town and was first Captain of the First Militia Company in Enfield.

Reverend Samuel Stone - Of Guilford, Connecticut. He got his B.A. in 1624 and his M. A. at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He was a Puritan lecturer, Hooker's assistant. He came to America in 1633 and went at once to Newton where he was a teacher. He was reverend of the Church of Christ at Hartford until his death in 1663. He was chaplain in the Pequot Indian War. Many poems were written by him. William Stone - Born 1608. Died 1683. Married Hannah. They were one of the founders of Guilford.

Samuel Stone

Christopher William Todd - Born 1617 in England. Died 1686 in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1644 at New Haven he took the oath of fidelity. His town lot was where the St. Thomas Church now stands. He bought a grist mill, which was the first mill erected in the town. This mill stood where (Eli) Whitney Gun Factory now stands, the first in America.

Lt. Governor James Bishop - Lived in New Haven Colony in 1647 on the northeast corner of State and Elm Street. He was secretary of the colony in 1651 and a selectman in 1653, 1654 and 1659. In 1661 he was the deputy of the General Court. In 1665 he was a representative to the first session of their government after its union with Connecticut. He served seven times as assistant to the governor from 1668 until May 10, 1683 when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of the colony and held this office until he died the 24th of June 1691.

Governor Theophilus Eaton - Born 1590. Died 7 January, 1658, at New Haven, Connecticut. He was the first colonial governor of New Haven, Connecticut, and held that position until he died. He came to America in 1638 and founded the New Haven Colony. In 1655 he revised the Mosaic Laws under which the people had been living. He substituted a new set of laws known as the Connecticut Blue Laws. He helped form the Massachusetts Bay Company, being a very rich man and was the wealthiest of all the settlers. He gave the most money and had the largest family. His house was on the largest lot, and stood on the north side of Elm Street, about half way between Church and State Street. Including his servants, there were about 30 in the family. There were 19 fireplaces in the house. The front room had carpets from Turkey and carved furniture. In this room the family had their meals and prayers. He had a library where he spent much time reading and writing his memoirs.

Reverend Thomas Hooker - Born 1586. Died 1647. He came to America in 1633 and helped form the Massachusetts Bay Company. He left Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded the Hartford Colony in 1636. He was the first minister in the church there. He won eminence as a theological writer and preacher, and has a permanent historical importance for his instrumentality in drawing up the first written constitution in America - that of the Hartford Colony. He is known as a prominent Puritan leader and the Father of American Democracy.

No one knows what Hooker looked like but Frances Wadsman created an idealized statue.

Thomas Gridley - He was a member of the Rev. Thomas Hooker flock that came from Cambridge and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. He was a member of Captain John Mason's Company in the Pequot Indian War of 1637, and received a grant of 50 acres of land for his service.

Peter Tallman - Son of Henry Tallman born in 1623. Died in 1708. He was a native of Hamburg, Germany, and settled in Portsouth, Rhode Island, in 1647. He had a son, Peter, who settled in Guilford, Connecticut. He arrived in Newport in 1650, then moved to Portsmouth in 1655. He was made a Freeman at Portsmouth and acted as interpreter between the English and the Dutch. He was in the mercantile business. In 1661 he became General Solicitor for the Colony of Rhode Island; was commissioner for Portsmouth to the Federal Government of Portsmouth, Newport, Warwick 1661 and 1662. He was an apothecary (druggist). Also owned land at Martha's Vinyard.

Richard Mansfield - One of the first settlers of New Haven, and ancestor of about all of the Mansfields in Connecticut and New York. He came form Exeter, Devonshire, England, and settled in Quinnipiac in 1649. He took the oath of fidelity at General Court at New Haven 1 July, 1644, given by Governor Eaton. Died 1655. Joseph Mansfield - Eldest son of Richard and Gillian Mansfield, is believed to have been born in England in 1636. He took the freeman's oath, February 8, 1657, or as soon as he was of age. He died November 15, 1692. He inherited his father's large farm and had a town lot and house in New Haven, as well as a large amount of land in other parcels, including the grounds now owned and occupied by Yale University buildings and Duck Cove Island in the East River.. His estate inventoried four hundred pounds. His seat in the "meeting house" was No. 8 in the "long seats for men." He married, about 1657 to Mary.

Captain Giles Hamlin - Settled in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1650. He was a mariner for nearly 50 years going back and forth across the ocean. He was a Puritan and one of the pillars of the colony. He was engaged in foreign commerce. His home lot was on the east side of Main Street. He bought ten acres on the southwest corner of Main and Washinton in 1679 which was the family homestead for four years. He commanded the following ships: The Desire, and in 1679 the John and James. He was  rate maker, grand levy man and townsman. He held many public offices. In 1687 he bought 200 acres. He was deputy from Middletown to the General Assembly for 23 sessions. He was assistant or member to the Upper House of the General Assembly from 1685 to his death. His estate amounted to $83,248. He was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in 1689.


Sources:
The painting by Jessie Talbot 1806-1879 found at American Gallery.
Families of Ancient New Haven, Connecticut. N2b, Vol. 4, page 910)

Our Brass Plates Chapter 5

Emily Amelia Stone Tuttle

  Emily Amelia Stone Tuttle, the paternal grandmother of Florence Foy, was born in 1839. This is the story of her family.

The Stones

In the early spring of 1844, Joseph Smith sent most of the Quorum of the Twelve to various parts of the U. S. on missions.  The first purpose was to preach and to testify of the restoration of the gospel.  Another reason was to campaign for Joseph Smith=s run for the office of President of the United States.  Another reason was to be sure that the Twelve were not in Nauvoo at the time of his murder so that they would not be murdered also.  Orson Pratt was therefore in Connecticut as part of that great missionary effort.  It was here that Pratt came in contact with the Stone family.  

        

Amos Pease Stone

The Lord in his wisdom brought people of various skills and educational backgrounds in contact with missionaries of the Church so that they could hear the gospel and add to the skills needed to sustain and help the new struggling Church and its members.  One such person was Amos Pease Stone.  Amos came from a long line of well educated and talented people.  His family were among some of the first to settle Connecticut.  His parents moved to upper New York about 100 miles from where the Church was restored.  Amos became trained as a machine forger for three years in near-by Massachusetts.  After his training, he worked as a blacksmith for about eighteen months in Connecticut and later worked as a gunsmith in a different city in Connecticut.  Still later he opened his own blacksmith shop in Connecticut where he met and married Amelia Bishop in 1838.  The Bishops were from a long line of educated and distinguished people as well, and were also some of the earliest settlers of Connecticut.  While living in New Haven, Connecticut, Amos helped in the construction of a steam engine and machinery for making ship engine blocks.  

On March 3, 1844 while living in Hamden, Connecticut, Amos attended his first meeting with those of the Mormon faith at the home of Merlin Jones.  That same day, Minerva Jones was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Minerva was a close friend and former roommate of Amelia.  This was just a short time before the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum on June 27^th of that same year.  The missionaries laboring in Hamden at that time were Orson Pratt and Ashel Lane.  The missionaries stopped at the home of Amos and Amelia while they were laboring in New Haven, Connecticut.  Their home became the stopping place whenever they were traveling in the area.  Later that year on December 3, 1844 after chopping a hole in the ice, Ashel Lane baptized both Amos and Amelia into the Church.  Their daughter Emily records that she does not know if her mother was ill before the baptism, but afterwards, she became very ill. 

Amelia told her husband that she was not long for this life and that when she died that she wanted Amos to marry her friend Minerva Jones and have her take care of their children.  At first Amelia hung onto life so that she could learn all there was about the restored gospel.  But when it was explained to her that learning continues after this life and that some of the greatest teachers like the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum, could be some of her teachers, she was content to let go of this life.  She was promised that her work would be done for her by proxy in the temple.  Amelia died on December 29, 1845.  Amos married Minerva in February of 1846.  Amos and Minerva chose to join with the saints in the west and to travel by land rather than to try to go by water.  They left on March 20, 1846 with only one of Amos and Amelia=s children.  Two sons had died in infancy.  A baby girl, Merab, was left behind with her Aunt Merab Bishop until she was a little older and then Amos would return and get her.  They traveled west with family and friends by way of Nauvoo, Illinois.  Emily, our direct line ancestor, remembered playing as a little girl along the banks of the Mississippi River and near the Nauvoo temple.  They got to Nauvoo after the temple ordinances were no longer being given.  They had to wait until the Endowment house was completed in Salt Lake to get these special blessings.   

Nauvoo, Illinois, as seen from Iowa -- late 1840s depiction

It is of interest that the Stones would travel west in the same wagon train as the Foys. 

The Stones continued their trek arriving at Council Bluffs just before the Mormon Battalion marched off to be in the Mexican war.  Like most of the saints in these winter quarters, they too became ill.  They survived a grass fire as it swept toward their camp.  The wind changed and they were saved.

Amos built a home in Kanesville, Iowa, for his family.  He took some household items that could be spared and went to Missouri where he could trade them for flour and other food items.  They moved again about two miles away where a larger cabin was built and they had land to farm.  Minerva gave birth to her first child in 1847 in this cabin.  Amos returned to Connecticut the following year in May to get his little girl.  Minerva and Emily planted and tended a garden while Amos was away.  Then in November of 1848, Amos arrived with his daughter Merab and his first wife=s family, the Bishops, and some of the Jones family of his second wife.  By 1850, they were well enough equipped that they could make their trek to Utah.

Note: This post was originally published by Leslie Tuttle Foy as Chapter 5: The Stones in "Our Brass Plates." Thanks, Uncle Les! The picture of Nauvoo was found on the website Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles.