Anna Symmes

Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes#Early_life

John Cleves Symmes (July 21, 1742 – February 26, 1814) was married to Anna Tuthill (1741–1776) at Mattituck, New York, on October 30, 1760. They had three children at Mattituck, before moving to Morristown sometime around 1770, and another child born at her father's estate Solitude, just outside Morristown (present day Wheatsheaf Farms subdivision off Sussex Avenue in Morris Township).

Their children included:

1. Maria Symmes (born April 23, 1765), who married Kentucky State Senator Peyton Short (1761–1825).
2. Mary Symmes (born August 30, 1767)
3. Anna Tuthill Symmes (July 25, 1775 – February 25, 1864), who married William Henry Harrison, who eventually became the President of the United States.

His wife died in 1776 and in 1794, John married Governor Livingston's daughter, Susannah Livingston (1748–1840).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Harrison

Anna Tuthill Symmes was born on July 25, 1775, in Sussex County, New Jersey.[1]: 53  She was the second child of Anna Tuthill and John Cleves Symmes, an associate justice on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.[2]: 98  Anna's mother died exactly one year later, on her first birthday, and she was raised solely by her father for the following three years. …. Anna was raised by her grandparents, receiving an unusually broad education for a woman of her time. She attended Clinton Academy in East Hampton on Long Island, and the private school of Isabella Graham in New York City.

• The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/descendantsofwil01tutt#page/n71/mode/2up
• 22. Henry Tuthill was father of Henry 2d, who was father of Henry 3d, whose dau. 'ANNA TUTHILL, m. JOHN CLEVES (s. of Rev. Timothy) SYMMES, b. July 10, 1742. He was an officer in the rev. army, and after one of the judges of the Supreme court of New Jersey. Not long after the war he bought a tract of land some twenty miles in length, on the north side of the Oldo river, including the site of Cincinnati. He removed to Ohio and res. at North Bend, then called Cleves, having been appointed by Washington U. S. Dist. Judge for the North West Ter. He d. at N. B., Feb., 1614. He m. (2) Widow Halsey of N. J.; (3) Susanna, dau. of Hon. Wm. Livingston of N. J. Her sister was wife of John Jay. By 1st m. he had;
• 1. Anna, who lived with her grandfather Tuthill at Southold, educated at the female academy at E. Hampton; afterwards a pupil of Mrs. Isabella Graham, and res. in her family. In 1764 accompanied her father and step-mother to res. at No. Bend. where she m. Nov. 22, 1795, William Henry Harrison, then a young officer in command of Fort Hamilton; afterwards President of the United States, in which office he d. in the White House at Washington. She d. Feb. 25, 1861, a. 88 yrs. and 7 months. About the year 1853 the compiler while engaged in surveying a route for the Cincinnati & St. Louis R. R., accepted the proffered hospitality of one of the sons of President Harrrison, then living a few miles below North Bend (Hon. Scott Harrison.) Mr. H. referred to his Tuthill relationships, saying his family had always held them in high esteem. Rev. Joseph Tuthill Daryea, D. D., is of this family.
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• Tuthill family of Tharston, Norfolk County, England and Southold, Suffolk County, New York; also written Totyl, Totehill, Tothill, Tuttle, etc (1898)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/tuthillfamilyoft00aker#page/13/mode/2up
• i. Henry, of Acquebogue, b. before Dec., 1715, d. 17 Sept., 1793; m. 16 Mch., 1738, Phoebe Horton (Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Barnabas), d. 3 Nov., 1793, in her 75th yr. Henry's grand-da., Anna Symmes, m. President Wm. Henry Harrison, and was the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison.
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The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came from old to New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639, with numerous biographical notes and sketches : also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass. (1883)

Henry Tuthill was father of Henry 2d, who was father of Henry 3d, whose dau. 'ANNA TUTHILL, m. JOHN CLEVES (s. of Rev. Timothy) SYMMES, b. July 10, 1742. He was an officer in the rev. army, and after one of the judges of the Supreme court of New Jersey. Not long after the war he bought a tract of land some twenty miles in length, on the north side of the Oldo river, including the site of Cincinnati. He removed to Ohio and res. at North Bend, then called Cleves, having been appointed by Washington U. S. Dist. Judge for the North West Ter. He d. at N. B., Feb., 1614. He m. (2) Widow Halsey of N. J.; (3) Susanna, dau. of Hon. Wm. Livingston of N. J. Her sister was wife of John Jay. By 1st m. he had;

Anna, who lived with her grandfather Tuthill at Southold, educated at the female academy at E. Hampton; afterwards a pupil of Mrs. Isabella Graham, and res. in her family. In 1764 accompanied her father and step-mother to res. at No. Bend. where she m. Nov. 22, 1795, William Henry Harrison, then a young officer in command of Fort Hamilton; afterwards President of the United States, in which office he d. in the White House at Washington. She d. Feb. 25, 1861, a. 88 yrs. and 7 months. About the year 1853 the compiler while engaged in surveying a route for the Cincinnati & St. Louis R. R., accepted the proffered hospitality of one of the sons of President Harrrison, then living a few miles below North Bend (Hon. Scott Harrison.) Mr. H. referred to his Tuthill relationships, saying his family had always held them in high esteem. Rev. Joseph Tuthill Daryea, D. D., is of this family.

Henry, of Acquebogue, b. before Dec., 1715, d. 17 Sept., 1793; m. 16 Mch., 1738, Phoebe Horton (Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Barnabas), d. 3 Nov., 1793, in her 75th yr. Henry's grand-da., Anna Symmes, m. President Wm. Henry Harrison, and was the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison.

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References

1. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12937970
2. Ancestors of American presidents. by Roberts, Gary Boyd (1989). 9. William Henry Harrison and 23. Benjamin Harrison. Page 12-13. < Archive.Org > (borrow for an hour with free ID).