Henry Tucker

1663- Residence: Milton, MA.

1669- Purchased a farm in Dartmouth, MA from William Allen, which had remained in the family until at least 1895.

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Henry "The Quaker" Tucker Henry Tucker, born in England about 1627, came to America from the County of Kent, England. He may have been a son of the Robert Tucker who came from England to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1635. Henry settled in the town of Milton, Massachusetts about 1650.

He married Martha (unknown) on June 9, 1651, and they had seven children:

Abraham, Oct 30, 1653, Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI John, Aug 28, 1656 Martha, Jul 14, 1659 Hannah, Jul 25, 1662, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA James, Mar 1664/1665, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA Mary, Aug 16, 1668, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA Sarah, Sep 20, 1674, Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA

Not approving of the proceedings of the colonial government at Boston respecting the severe laws passed and judgments enforced against the Quakers, he left Milton and finally settled in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, within the limits of the Plymouth Colony, shortly after 1660.

An inscription on a tree near the residence of Benjamin Tucker in Dartmouth, copied May 5, 1844:

First Settled

By Henry Tucker 1660

who died 1694

succeeded by son John

who died 1751, aged 95

succeeded by son Joseph

who died 1790, aged 94

succeeded by son John

who died 1820, aged 88

In 1669 he bought from William Allen of Sandwich one third of the original shares into which the township as then held was divided. In 1679 he made another purchase from James Sampson of Portsmouth, RI, of a limited number of acres in the undivided lands of the town. By these, and perhaps other acquired rights, when the town was afterwards surveyed and divided among the proprietors in severalty, his two sons, Abraham and John (their father being deceased), became entitled to and received several hundred acres of land adjoining their respective homesteads. This land mostly remained in the possession of their descendants until within fifty or sixty years. It had, by 1883, all passed out of the name, except the homestead and some out-lots belonging to two of the Tuckers, which form part of the original tract settled by Henry, and laid out to his son John.

These first settlers and their descendants were mostly farmers, and worthy and exemplary members of the Society of Friends. Living on their paternal farms, they pursued the even tenor of their ways in quietness and peace. Having the respect of their neighbors and the community, they were called occasionally by their townspeople to places of trust in town affairs, and more often by the society of which they were members to fill important stations and perform various duties therein.

Henry Tucker died at Dartmouth on April 21, 1694, and his wife Martha died on Nov 9, 1697, also at Dartmouth.

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 442

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7 Children

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