There seems to be some confusion regarding Hannah Tuttle. While various sources, including some histories of the Tuttle Family give Hannah as marrying Joshua Judson and John Hurd, there appears to be significant evidence that that is not the case.

Thank you to Faye, for providing me with the results of her research.

The daughter of William Tuttle, according to the baptismal record from the Northhamptonshire Record Office, shows that “Anne Tootill” (spelling was often inconsistent in those days) was baptized on January 20, 1632/33.

This makes sense, since the records of the ship that the family traveled on, the Planter, showed that William had a daughter, named Ann, who was 2 ¼ years old in 1635.

The records from Hartford, Faye tells me, list the wife of John Pantry and later of Thomas Wells/Welles as Hannah, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Tuttle of New Haven. Was Hannah married to four people? Unlikely. The wife of Joshua Judson and John Hurd is listed as dying in 1695 – but there is a tombstone in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground with the name Hannah Wells on it.

A Hartford research/tomb restoration project culminated in the publication of “By their Markers, Ye Shall Know Them.” According to this book, the tombstone of Hannah Wells has a death date of August 8, 1683 and says she was 50 years old. Therefore she would have been born in 1633.

Although several sources list Hannah Tuttle, daughter of William, as the wife of Judson and Hurd, given the other evidence, it seems very unlikely. The confusion likely started when the historian Donald Lines Jacobus wrote that William’s daughter didn’t marry Pantry and Welles, but Judson and Hurd.

Who married Joshua Judson and John Hurd. No one seems to know for certain at this point.

So, my lineage probably doesn’t go back to William Tuttle, but that doesn’t make his family any less interesting.