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State of Service: VT/NY
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Adjutant
Upright stone that appears to be contemporary with the death of the Patriot
There are at least two stake markers
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
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Author: Herman Charles Brown
John Tuthill was the 5th of 12 children (2nd son) born of Daniel Tuthill (1712-1768) and his wife Mahitable Budd (1715-1788).
During the early part of the American Revolution (1775-1776), John served in Colonel Josiah Smith's First Regiment of Minute Men, Suffolk County, New York, Militia. On August 29, 1776, the Representatives of the State of New York meeting in convention resolved to recommend to the inhabitants of Suffolk County, Long Island, to remove as many of their women, children & slaves and as much of their live stock and grain to the main as they could and that the Convention would pay the expense. Most of the emigrants embarked from: Sag Harbor, Southold, Easthampton, Sterling and Shelter Island. Their destinations, with a few exceptions, were: Middletown, Killingworth, Saybrook, Haddam, East Haddam, Stonington, New London and Guilford, Connecticut. John; with the British having offered 30 guineas for him, dead or alive; moved, as one of these refugees, to Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; thence to Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; and finally to Westminster, Windham County, Vermont.
John represented the Town of Westminster in the Vermont Legislature at their session held at Westminister, October, 1783. John was chosen Town Clerk at the first Westminster Town Meeting of record, March 15, 1784 and again, 1786.
John married; October 27, 1763 at the Hamlet of Cutchogue, Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York; Phoebe Corwin (1744-1820) by whom he had 12 children: Daniel (b. 1764), John (b. 1766), Samuel (b. 1768), Clarissa (b. 1770), Melinda (b. 1772), William (b. 1775), an unknown daughter, Luther (1779-1863), Phebe (1781-1796), James (1783-1830), Mary (Polly) (1785-1871), and Stephen (1788-1859).
References:
(1) "The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk County, England and Southold, Suffolk County, New York also written Totyl, Totehill, Tothill, Tuttle, Etc. 1580-1757" by Lucy Dubois Akerly, 1898, Pgs. 7, 8, 10 & 11
(2) "Tuttle * Tuthill Lines in America" by Alva M. Tuttle, 1968, Pgs. 109, 281, 311, 383 & 409
(3) "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State" 2nd Edition, by James A. Roberts, 1898, Pgs. 169 & 171
(4) "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State" Vol. II., from the Office of the State Comptroller, 1904, Pgs. 127, 131 & 133
(5) "State Papers of Vermont - Volume Three - Journals and Proceedings (Vol. II) of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont" by Aaron H. Grout, 1923, Pgs. 185-186
(6) "Vermont Historical Gazetter" Vol. V., by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1891, Pgs. 624, 625, 639 & 640 For Additional Information please see findagrave.com memorial 29583977
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