Col Joseph Tuttle

• BIRTH 2 Sep 1698
• DEATH 5 Nov 1789 (aged 91) Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
• BURIAL Whippany Burial Yard, Whippany, Morris County, New Jersey, USA, MEMORIAL ID 6082178, by DTM & Barbara Schaffer

Colonel/Deacon Joseph Tuttle, who died at age 91, was a pillar of the early American community in Whippany and Hanover: churchman, veteran of the French and Indian War, county militia commander, judge, friend, husband, father, and neighbor. A widower since 1777, he had been predeceased by five wives*. His first and second spouses were named Abigail, his third and fourth were Marys, and his last, Isabella, died when he was 78. All are interred here in Whippany except the third Mrs. Tuttle, who is buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard in nearby Hanover. His children were apparently born of his first two marriages. They include Joseph, James, Abigail, Mary, Isabella, Comfort, and Phebe, and are buried here and in Hanover.

Mr. Tuttle's grave is marked by a brown sandstone ledger stone which appears to be the work of Uzal Ward of Newark. The upper corners are embellished by pear-faced soul effigies, but nearly all of his epitaph has eroded. An 1894 transcription reads:

"This Monument is erected to the Memory of Joseph Tuttle, Esq.
Who departed this life Nov. 5 1789
Aged 91 Years.
The tender names of father, husband, friend
And neighbor kind did through his life extend
In church & state he virtuous honor gained
And all his offices with truth sustained
As deacon, elder, colonel, judge he shone
While heav'n was his hope, his rest his home
Laden'd wiht honours, usefulness & years
He drop'd this clay & with ye saints appears"

Parents
Stephen Tuttle 1673–1709
Ruth Higgins FitzRandolph Tuttle 1671 – unknown

Spouses
Abigail Ogden Tuttle 1702–1738
Abigail Nutman Tuttle 1701–1751
Mary Tuttle unknown–1760
Mary Tuttle unknown–1774
Isabella Drake Tuttle 1707–1777

Siblings
Timothy Tuttle 1696–1754
Stephen Tuttle 1703–1735

Children
Comfort Tuttle unknown–1738
David Tuttle unknown–1815
Abigail Tuttle b. c.1701, d. c.1738, aged 37 m. Ogden
Mary Tuttle b, c.1703, died 1760, aged 56
Isabella,Tuttle b. c.1708, died 1777, aged 69
Mary Tuttle c.1716, died 1774, aged 58
Ruth Tuttle Kitchel 1722–1780
Samuel Tuttle 1724–1762
Moses Tuttle 1732–1819
Abigail Tuttl 1734–1751 aged 50 m. Nutman (b. should be c. 1701 to die at 50, otherwise it would be at 17 likely during child birth)
James Tuttle 1742–1770
Joseph Tuttle
James Tuttle
Phebe Tuttle

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