Henry Tuthill [Justice]1,2,3,4,5

M, b. 1 May 1665, d. 4 January 1750
FatherJohn Tuthill b. 16 Jul 1635, d. 12 Oct 1717
MotherDeliverance King b. c 31 Oct 1641, d. 25 Jan 1688/89
     Henry was born on Friday, 1 May 1665 in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. He was born at 7 o'clock in the morning. Henry married Bethia Horton, daughter of Jonathan Horton I Captain and Bethia Wells, circa 1689 in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. 1698, Henry and Bethia and his wife, [ROF:Southold Town] werelisted on the Southold Town Census. Enumerated in this household were. Henry made his will on 28 September 1749 at the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

In the name of God, Amen, I, Henry Tuthill, of the town of Southold, being in reasonable health. I leave to my son Henry all my lands and tenements lying between Joshua Youngs, Esq., and Plum Gutt. I leave to my son Henry. and my grandson, Henry Tuthill, an equal share in a certain tract of land situate in the town of Brookhaven, which I purchased of Hezekiah Dayton as by deed May 2, 1737. I leave to my son Henry my negro "Tim," and a bed and a silver spoon and my ivory headed cane and my cart, plow, and wheels. I leave to my son Barnabas 20 pounds. I leave to my grand son, John Tuthill, a certain tract of land, being 100 acres, in Brookhaven, except part of the north end which I have disposed of to Hezekiah Dayton, which said tract was sold to me by George Owens, September 24, 1729. I leave to my grand daughter, Deliverance, wife of Elisha Pain, 1 cow and a large silver spoon, and a teaspoon and 15 pounds"on condition that she bears an heir of her own body." I leave to my grand daughter, Bethiah Tuthill, daughter of my son Jonathan, "two good meat barrels and silver teaspoon." I leave to my grand daughter, Zipporah, daughter of Henry Tuthill, a teaspoon. I leave to my son Barnabas a large silver spoon. To my daughter Bethia, wife of Samuel Landon, Esq., all my bills, bonds, and book debts, and all household goods, and 2/3 of all my grain, and she is to defray funeral charges and pay all debts. I also give her "what right I may have to the parsonage in Southold;" Also a negro woman and her children. All wearing apparell to my sons Henry and Barnabas. I make my son Henry and my son-in-law, Samuel Landon, executors.
      Dated September 28, 1749. Witnesses, Joseph Brown, Dorothy Brown, Jonathan Barber. Proved January 25, 1750. [New York Wills: Liber 17, page 118]

Henry departed this life on Sunday, 4 January 1750 in Oysterponds in the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.

Family

Bethia Horton b. 1674, d. 16 Mar 1743/44
Children

Citations

  1. [S136] Adeline Horton White, Hortons In America, p. 407.
  2. [S277] Lucy Dubois Akerly, The Tuthill Family of Tharston, Norfolk County, England and Southold, Suffolk County, New York.
  3. [S187] Indexed by Rosanne Conway Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York: Excerpted from the Documentary History of the State of New York, page 50 - Southold Town Census.
  4. [S30] New York Historical Society, Collections of the New York Historical Society Abstract of Wills, Volume 28: page 270.
  5. [S181] William Salmon, The Salmon Records, a Private Registar of Marriages & Deaths of the Residents of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, N.Y., and of persons more or less closely associated with that place, 1696-1811., page 41.