Mehitable Chandler Tucker

• BIRTH 14 Jun 1742 Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• DEATH 2 Mar 1815 (aged 72)
• BURIAL Quasset Cemetery, Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 45792015

Biography

MEHITABLE CHANDLER (David, Joseph, John, William1) and Ephraim Tucker, 3rd, 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.

Parents
David Chandler 1712–1796
Mary Allen Chandler 1715–1800

Spouse
Ephraim Tucker 1745–1823 m. May 4, 1767

Siblings
Elijah Chandler 1737–1821
Mary Chandler Dana 1738–1784
Sarah Chandler Griggs 1740–1814
David Chandler 1744–1822

Half Siblings
William Chandler 1773–1846

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

Desendant 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.

His dau., Diantha Cleveland Tucker, b. 28 May, 1826, died leaving one son who was adopted by Gilbert Chandler of Putnam, Conn., and took the name of Chandler; she m. 20 Aug., 1849, Edmund Chamberlain.

One child:

a. Lewis Chamberlain Chandler, b. 14 Jan., 1851 [See 1905]

• 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., son 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]

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45792015/mehitable-tucker

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

Source

[3] 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