Pvt. Ephraim Tucker, Rev. War Vet.

Ephraim Tucker

BIRTH 23 May 1745 Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
DEATH 25 Apr 1823 (aged 77)
BURIAL Quasset Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
MEMORIAL ID 45792006 Submitted by Richard H. L. Chichester

Biography

Ephraim G. Tucker, Pomfret, Connecticut 1745 -1782 son of Joseph Tucker b. 1 Feb., 1714, d. 13 Jan., 1745, at the siege of Louisburg, in the King's service, under Sir William Pepperell, by his wife Betsey Garret, whom he married 6 Aug. 1744. He was a Private in the Revolutionary War who was at New Haven, Conn., 13 Sept. 1776, in Capt. Caleb Clark's Co., 11th Conn. Reg't, on its march to Westchester, N. Y. He was also a farmer, about two miles N. W. of the meeting-house in Pomfret.

MEHITABLE CHANDLER (David, Joseph, John, William1) and Ephraim Tucker, 3d, Pomfret, Conn. He was b. 23 May, OS, 1745; d. 23 April, 1823, in Pomfret, Conn., aged 78, son of Joseph of Tucker, who was b. 1 Feb., 1714, d. 13 Jan., 1745, at the siege of Louisburg, in the King's service, under Sir William Pepperell, by his wife Betsey Garret, whom he married 6 Aug. 1744. Ephraim Tucker was at New Haven, Conn., 13 Sept. 1776, in Capt. Caleb Clark's Co., 11th Conn. Reg't, on its march to West Chester, N. Y. He was a farmer, about two miles N. W. of the meeting-house in Pomfret.

Spouse
Mehitable Chandler Tucker 1742–1815 (m. 1767)

Children
Lucy Tucker Manning 1778–1818
Calvin Tucker 1780–1858
Ephraim Tucker 1782–1873

Descendant Details
1. Walter Tucker, b. in Pomfret, 2 April, 1770; d. 24 Aug. 1861, in Quasset, Woodstock; farmer; m. first, 9 Dec. 1794, Lutheda Franklin, of Woodstock. She died, leaving three children. He m. second, 12 Dec. 1815, Lois Cleveland, of Thompson, Conn. Five children.
2. Mary Tucker, b. 8 Aug. 1772; d. 7 Aug. 1776.
3. Lucy Tucker, b. 27 Sept. 1774; d. 30 July, 1776.
4. John Tucker, b. 15 June, 1776; d. 8 Oct. 1849, at Coventry, Conn. He was a blacksmith by trade, and resided on the homestead, in Pomfret; m. first, 28 Sept. 1800, Rebecca Johnson. She d. 20 April, 1813, aged 40, leaving 6 children. He m. second, 24 Oct. 1813, Peace Davis. Eleven children.
5. Lucy Tucker, b. in Pomfret, 27 March, 1778; d. 1818; m. 31 July, 1799, Dea. William Hyde Manning, of Woodstock. Conn., who died 27 June, 1862, aged 85 years, 9 ms. 17 ds., sou of William Manning of the French and Revolutionary wars, and who was fifty-six years deacon of the second Baptist Church in South Woodstock, Quassett. Dea. William Manning settled in Pomfret, near his father-in-law, Ephraim Tucker, about two miles N. W. of the meetinghouse; shoemaker by trade.
6. Calvin Tucker, b. in Pomfret, 15 March, 1780; d. 21 April, 1858, at Worcester. He was a blacksmith by trade, and a farmer in South Woodstock; m. 19 June, 1804, Serepta Gilbert, who was born 2 Oct. 1783, d. 21 Jan. 1839, at the S. L. Hospital, Worcester, Mass. She was daughter of John Gilbert, of Pomfret, and of Brooklyn, Conn, (whose death was occasioned by a flash of lightning in the north part of Brooklyn, on the 30th September, 1785, at the age of 39), by his wife Rachel Pierce, dau. of Timothy Pierce.
7. Ephraim Tucker, b. 28 Aug. 1782; d. 11 or 12 May, 1873; farmer, just south of his father, on a part of the homestead; afterwards lived on the John H. Payson place, just north of the street in Pomfret, Conn.; m. 29 May, 1811, Sarah Skinner, who was b. 20 May, 1782, d. 4 Dec. 1865, in Pomfret, a woman of great energy, dau. of William Skinner, of Woodstock, gr. dau. of William Skinner who came up from Maiden, Mass., to Woodstock, Conn., with his father, Abraham Skinner, Jr., about 1741. These two William Skinners were long deacons of the church at Woodstock. Four children. [3]

Notes

Death date differs from Chandler Family History quoted below

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45792006/ephraim-tucker

[2] <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=h2JmAAAAMAAJ&dq=decendents%20of%2..."><img src="https://books.google.com/books?id

Sources

[3] The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who Settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637; Press of C. Hamilton, 1883; pg. 295-296.

[4] THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM AND ANNIS CHANDLER; WHO SETTLED IN ROXBURY, MASS 1637; by George Chandler; printed for the family on the press of George Hamilton of Worcester, Mass; 311 Main Street, 1883; pg. 295-297

[5] MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY of the SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

[6] Register For 1904 with Lists of MEMBERS AND THEIR REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS, Boston Published by the Society 1904

[7]Supplementary Lists of SOLDIERS, SAILORS and PATRIOTS At Whose Burial-Places Markets Have Been Placed.

[8] http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/mass_rev_6.htm