Capt. Stephen Tucker

A Patriot of the American Revolution for CONNECTICUT with the rank of LIEUTENANT. DAR Ancestor #: A116735

Capt Stephen Tucker ...... Birth: 1732 Death: Nov. 8, 1808

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 Lois Tucker (1737 - 1795)

Burial: East Woodstock Cemetery Woodstock Windham County Connecticut, USA

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Capt Stephen Tucker
BIRTH
25 Nov 1732
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH
8 Nov 1808 (aged 75)
Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
BURIAL
East Woodstock Cemetery
Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
MEMORIAL ID
46798711 ·

Son of Ephraim Tucker and Mary Sumner. Married Lois Lyon 31 Mar 1757 in Woodstock, Windham Co, Connecticut.

Above information provided by FAG contributor Loraine Ertelt from a Sons of the American Revolution application.

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Stephen, son of Ephraim and Mary (Sumner) Tucker, was born in Milton, Massachusetts, November 25, 1732, and died November 8, 1808. He owned a farm of between two and three hundred acres in Woodstock, Connecticut, a portion of which was afterward acquired by his nephew, Luther, son of Ephraim. He married March 31, 1757, Lois, daughter of Colonel Jabez Lyon, of Woodstock; she was born June 1, 1737, and died August 1, 1795.

Children:

1. Lydia, born; bapt. Aug. 13, 1758; died at Woodstock; married, December 15, 1791, Samuel Jones.

2. Asenath, born December 2, 1758; bapt, Dec. 10, 1758; died at Darien, New York; married Apr. 6, 1780, Daniel Roberts.

3. Sophia, born March 16, 1760; bapt. Mar. 23, 1760; died at Brandon, Vermont, May, 1802; married Samuel Burnell.

4. Stephen, born September 20, 1761, bapt. Sept. 27, 1761; died in Weston, New York, about 1820. He removed to Brandon, Vermont, after his marriage in 1791, and later in Lower Canada, afterwards to Weston, New York. Stephen Tucker married, July 3, 1791, Olive, daughter of Charles Green; she died May, 1802.

5. Mary, born April 19, 1763; bapt. May 1, 1763; died at Brandon, Vermont, September 1, 1835; married Jonathan Dodge.
6. Urania, born December 2, 1764; bapt. May 5, 1765; died in Lyme, New Hampshire, January 6, 1848; married James Beale.

7. Daniel, born 1766; died in infancy.

8. Huldah, born April 2, 1768; bapt, April 17, 1768; lived at Cornish, New York; married Seth Deming.

9. Lois, born October 20, 1769; bapt. July 1, 1770; resided at Lyme, New Hampshire; married Abner Hovey.

10. Penuel, born October 2, 1773; bapt. June 26, 1774; resided at Pompey and Preble, New York; married Sylvia Abbott.

11. Hannah, born May 10, 1775; bapt. May 14, 1775; resided at Brandon, Vermont, and later at Burlington; married, February 10, 1791, Arba Green.

12. Esther, born June 13, 1776; bapt. April 13, 1777; died at Cazenovia, New York; married Samuel Morris.

Above information provided by FAG contributor Richard H. L. Chichester, III, from the following source:

Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2; Tunis Garret Bergen; Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.

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Following article from the Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Connecticut), Monday, September 11, 1786, p. 3, provided by Sheron Smith-Savage:

"From the NEW-LONDON GAZETTE.
“Mr. GREEN,
“FOR the information of the Public, I send you an imperfect account of a most terrible Hurricane, which went through this town last Wednesday the 23d instant ; such an one as perhaps has not been known in this State since the memory of the oldest man living.—The tempest came on about 5 o’clock afternoon, in the northwestern part of this town, and proceeded in a south-east course, in width about a quarter of a mile, with amazing violence, as if the elements were at war, carrying desolation wherever it went. Such a torrent of rain and hail, such a whirling of the clouds, such violence of wind, lightning and thunder, none can form any adequate idea of but the unhappy sufferers. Beginnng a few miles above this town, no material damage was sustained, except the destruction of some Indian houses, until it came down to two barns belonging to Capt. Daniel Lyon, which were overturned. It proceeded onward a mile and a half through woodland, until it came to the dwelling-house of Capt. Stephen Tucker, which it separated in the middle, and carried away one half, and a young man out of the chamber into the field, not much wounded. After beating down a corn-house, and the roof from his barn, it went on about an hundred rods, and attacked the dwelling house of Capt. Phillips, and tho’ a low house, yet with astonishing fury the tempest blew the roof and covering into pieces, stripping it of its stores, clothing and furniture, leaving it almost irreparable :—thence it continued in a fourth direction with irresistible fury, thro’ a thick forest, leveling the woods before it, twisting off above the ground some of the largest trees, overturning others by the roots, and even new stumps, 20 inches in diameter, were seen turned out of the earth by the storm….”

Family Members
Parents
Ephraim Tucker
Ephraim Tucker
1689–1774
Mary Tucker
Mary Sumner Tucker
1698–1759
Spouse
Lois Tucker
Lois Lyon Tucker
1737–1795
Siblings
Esther Gilbert
Esther Tucker Gilbert
1720–1764
Mary Cady
Mary Tucker Cady
1724–1803
Hannah Burnell
Hannah Tucker Burnell
1726–1797
Abijah Tucker
1735–1792
Gershom Tucker
Gershom Tucker
1744–1769
Children
Sophia Burnell
Sophia Tucker Burnell
1760–1849
Mary Dodge
Mary Tucker Dodge
1763–1834
Urania Beal
Urania Tucker Beal
1764–1848
Lois Tucker Hovey
1769–1848
Esther Tucker Morris
1776–1829