Robert Tucker, of Milton

Not the same as Robert Tucker, of Milton-Next

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tucker-764

Robert Tucker of Milton, wrote his will on March 7, 1681/2. In it he names: [1]

• son James Tucker
• wife Elizabeth
• son Manassah Tucker
• son Ephraim Tucker
• son Benjamin Tucker
• son Joseph Tucker
• Joseph's son Robert Tucker
• daughter Rebecca Feno
• daughter Elizabeth Clap
• daughter Mary ?Jones
• brother-in-law Deacon ?LandryAllen of Bolton, overseer [1]

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Disputed Origins

from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=raviac&id...

JOHN TUCKER 911 Born , 16 ,

See "Tucker-Darrell" by Rufus Stickney Tucker, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass., vol. 76, p. 232, N.E.H.&G.Reg. for refutation of ancestry of JOHN TUCKER of Hingham, as set forth in "The Genealogy of the Tucker Family" by Ephraim Tucker (1895) including:

"Wills prove that John and Robert Tucker, sons of George Tucker of Milton next Gravesend, co. Kent, were living in England after their namesakes appear in Massachusetts--John being in England in 1639, 1642, and 1644, and his brother Robert being there in 1639, when according to the will of his half bro. George, he was evidently incapable of managing his own affairs. The English ancestry of these two settlers of Mass. has yet to be discovered." (1922)

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Robert Tucker, the first of that name in America, was born in Weymouth, England, and came to the new World with the Rev. Dr. Hull, locating first at Weymouth and later at Gloucester, where he was Town Recorder, but still later he returned to Weymouth and became there, a man of affairs, dying at Milton, Mass., at the age of 78 years, in 1682. He came to Milton about 1662, and the supposition is that he was proceeded by some of his family, as he purchased a large tract of land on "Brush Hill" in 1663, bounded westerly on land of James Tucker, supposedly his oldest son. He was the first town recorder, was selectman for several years and represented the town at the General Court for the years 1680 and 1681.

In his will Dated March 7th, 1861 appears the following items:

My Will is that my son James Tucker, shall have and forever enjoy that twenty acres of land as is already in his own possession, being the westerly end of that lot as I purchased of Mr. Henry Willington. The westerly end to butt upon Naponset River with one rod of land in breadth for away to begin at the highway on the south side of the new house and C.

My son Manasseh Tucker shall have four acres of land adjoining to the new house and C. The new house spoken of is still standing in 1895, and in a good state of preservation on Brush Hill, in Milton and it is designated by that title.

Notes from Robert Vose and his times:

Robert Tucker lived on Brush Hill, at the upper end of the old highway where it joined Brush Hill Road. His house as indicated in his will stood on the southwest corner of Robbins Street and Brush Hill Road

More notes

"Robert Tucker of Milton, MA was not the Robert Tucker who married Susan Hyde" Re: Robert Tucker, b. 1604, which wife? 2000
Married: Elizabeth Allen on Abt. 1638 daughter of William Allen and Elizabeth.
Died 2: 1681, Hanged for adultery.

Links

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/l/Miriam-M-Balson/WE...

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He immigrated in 1635 from England to Weymouth, MA.

Robert was the first Tucker to settle in Milton. He lived on Brush Hill in 1663. At the time of the publishing of The History of Milton, his house could "still be seen at the rear of 676 Brush Hill Road <see drawing> [The History of Milton, p. 261].

Per the Suffolk County Probate records (9-81), Robert was a prominent citizen of Milton. He served as a selectman for 10 years. Economically, he was well above the average. There were about 68 resident taxpayers in the town in his time; 9 paid more tax than he did while 58 paid less. He lived on Brush Hill Road near the end of Robbins street. His house still stands although not on its original site. His total estate would be worth about $50,000 today.

He was evidently one of the more prosperous farmers with a well furnished house and considerable provisions in stock. There is a surprisingly large sum allotted to the value of his books, about £2 (which in those days was the equivalent value of one cow!).

His estate does not lists a farm cart or other agricultural implements. His inventory shows that two of his sons were farming some of his land. It seems inferred that he had already passed these tools to them by the time of his death.

He was about 77 years old when he died.

Inventory of his estate:

° House, orchard, garden £80-0-0

° 41 acres arable land,1 ½ acres mowing and pasture

6 acres meadow, unimproved land (unknown acreage)

all land together valued at ...........................   £236-15-0

° 2 oxen, 6 cows £24-0-0

° 2 two year olds, 2 yearlings £5-10-0

° 1 mare, 9 swine £6-0-0

° 40 bushels Indian cord, 47 bushels of oats £11-14-0

° 21 bushels barley, 2 of rye, 1 of beans £4-17-0

° 5 loads of hay £6-0-0

° Apparel £16-0-0

° 1 bed, bolsters, pillows, curtains & bedding £9-0-0

° Another feather bed with other beds & bedding £8-0-0

° Table linen & other linen £10-0-0

° 20 yds homespun, 1 yd Kersey £3-11-0

° Books £2-0-0

° Pewter, brass & tin ware £6-0-0

° Iron pots, kettles, etc. £7-0-0

° Barrel of pork & other provisions £3-12-0

° Table, bedsteads, chests, barrels, chairs, wooden

  ware & small things                                         £5-8-0

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£445-7-0 Total
[The History of Milton, pp. 225-226].

Genealogy of the Tucker family : from various authentic sources ... by Tucker, Ephraim, b. 1821 (Publication date 1895). Page 26-27. < Archive.Org > Person # 1.

Sources

1. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015), 342. Origin is Unknown [implies parents also not established]; Arrival 1639 Weymouth, Gloucester and Milton arriving 1639 are: MBCR 1:296; Granberry p 335; Weymouth Hist 4:700-1; Parker Ruggles 361-66; NEHGR 76:232-40
2. Rufus Stickney Tucker, Ph.D., Tucker-Darell, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 76:232-40. The author discusses the will related to the family of George Tucker referred to in the visitations.."These wills are also of value to the descendants of New England Tuckers, because they disprove the English ancestry assigned to the "Genealogy of the Tucker Family" to John Tucker of Watertown and Hingham and to Robert Tucker of Weymouth and Milton, Mass."
3. Linzee, John William. The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants. (Boston, Mass.: Samuel Usher, 1913), 361-66.
4. Chamberlain, George Walter. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society, under direction of the town, 1923), 4:700-1.
5. Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. The Granberry Family and Allied Families: including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry. (Hartford, Conn.: E.F. Waterman, 1945), 335. will 7 Mar 1681/2 proved 30 Mar 1682
6. Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Bradstreet). Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England: printed by order of the legislature. (Boston, Massachusetts: W. White, 1853-1854), 1:296. Robert Tucker, for upbraiding James Brittain, calling him a lyar, & saying hee could pue him so, being a witnes, was fined..." 2 Jun 1640
7. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/tucker?iframe=yresults R - MASSACHUSETTS GROUP # 1 (MA1) Robert Tucker b. 8 Jun 1604 and d. 11 Mar 1682 England R-M269; R-BY45632; R-FT237870;
8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tucker-764 shows Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-BY148732; Y-Chromosome Test 20000 markers, haplogroup R-U152
9. Genealogy of the Tucker family : from various authentic sources ... by Tucker, Ephraim, b. 1821 (Publication date 1895).
10. Birth seen as 06/07/1604 in Weymouth, Dorset.
11. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/tuckergen.htm (has errors)