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Thomas Lawrence (bp. 1589–1625)

Joanna Antrobus (bp. 1592–1662/74)

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Thomas Lawrence, the son of John and Elizabeth (Bull) Lawrence, was baptized on 2 February 1588/9 in Saint Albans, Hertfordshire. [1] He was buried on 20 March 1624/5. [1] He married Joanna Antrobus on 23 October 1609 in St. Albans. [2]

Joanna Antrobus was baptized on 25 June 1592 in St. Albans. [2] She probably died between March 1662, when her son acted as her lawyer, and 4 April 1674, when she was referred to as deceased. She married second John Tuttle. John, the son of Simon and Isabel (Wells) Tuttle of Ringstead, Northamptonshire, was born about 1596. [2] He died on 30 December 1656 in Carrickfergus, Ireland.

Greene [1] provides a descent from Charlemagne for Thomas Lawerence. Greene [3] provides a discussion of John Tuttle's ancestry.

Thomas Lawrence died intestate and on 21 March 1624/5, Joanna Lawrence, relict, was granted administration on his estate. Her accounts list her children John, Thomas, William, Jane, and Mary. [1]

John Tuttle was a merchant with a business in Barbadoes. [4]

A 2 April 1635 passenger list for the Planter, departing for New England, has the following passengers: [5] Note that ages can be unreliable in these port records.

 

 

 

John was a freeman in 1638/9. [4] Mr. Tuttle and Sergeant Howlett were appointed to consider the bounds of Newbury at the 13 March 1638/9 General Court. [6, 1: 253] John on a committee that reported to the 7 October 1640 Court on laying out roads on behalf of Ipswich. [6, 1: 308] He was on a committee that reported to the 20 May 1642 General Court on determining the bounds of Ipswich. [6, 2: 4] He on a committee that reported to the 29 (1) 1643 General Court on determining the bounds between Ipswich and Salem. [6, 2: 36] He was a deputy to the General Court on 7 March 1643/4. [6, 2: 55]

John and Joanna moved to Boston about 1650. John's business in Barbados took a complicated and unfortunate turn, and John left New England that year and settled in Carrickfergus, Ireland. [4]

On 18 March 1653/4, Mrs. Joanna Tuttle, attorney for her her husband, Mr. John Tuttle, who was living in Ireland, rented their house and land in Ipswich to Robert Shatswell. [7, 2: 363–4]

Joanna wrote from Carrickfergus to "my Deare & Loving Daughter Jane Gidding att Ipswich" on 3 October 1656. [7, 2: 174]

Dauter Jane having an opportunity I could nott omit to lett you understand that we are all in good health blessed by god. I hope you Receaved my last dated in february wherin I wright largely which now I shall omit god hath dealt graecously with me and fred me of the troubles of the world ... the letter I Receaved from you I lay by me as a cordiall which I often Refresh my selfe with. ... Jaen I pray intreat your husband to looke to oure besines I hear Richard Schwell hath paid noe Rent I pray speake to him and gett it 48 pounds send me word what increase ther is of oure mare and wether Thomas Bornum have grocelled the house or not simon deals very bad with his father he lies at Barbados and sends no Retorns butt spends all, his father will have no mor goods sent to him, I could wish I had no such cause to writ I thinke he & John intends to undoe their father. Jane you have many sons the lord blese them & make them comforts to you & nott such aflictions as ours are I have done only my dear & harty love to your hussband & selfe and children ... "Joanna Tuttle"

John Tuttle of Carrickfergus, gentleman, signed his will, which no longer exists, on 7 December 1656. [8]

Joanna Tuttle wrote from Carrickfergus to her loving son George Giddings and her daughter in Ipswich on 6 April 1657: [7, 2: 173]

these are to lett you understand that the lord hath taken to himself my deare husband & left me disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simans keeping the Returnes from barbadous, grife that he hath taken for his to sonns hath brought upon him a lingring deseas lost his stomuce and pined away never sick tell the day before he died which wos the 30th of december I pray talke with Mr Jeuett about that which I left with you & him this 3 yeares. I have nott hard to any thing that he hath done I cannot hear of the cattell nor what increas the mare hath nor the Rent I pray lett things be Ready for I have wright to John lawrence to take them into his hands if Simon ore John should com lett nott them medell with anything there, my husband hath given them som thing in his will which I shall paie them, now I will keep the state in my one hand as long as I live it may be I may se new ingland againe I pray louke to my house that it be nott Reuined, hanna is to be maried shortly to a good husband one that lous her well and a hansom man she is a great comfort to me, I sent Jane a smale token by Mr weber that went from hence to Jeimcas and so to new england I like Ierland very well we have had nether frost nor snow this winter butt very tepeat weather which agrees with me well my husbands death went neare ... Remember me to all yours and to all my frinds that aske of me ... your afecinat mother "Joanna Tuttell"

In the 29 March 1659 Ipswich quarterly court papers is a 20 March 1657/8 letter from Joanna in Carrickfargus to her son Mr. George Gidding at Ipswich. [7, 2: 142–3]

Sonn Giding I Receaved 2 letters from you and am glad to heare of your welfear wity yours I wonder I heare nothing from Mr Juete. I heare he improves my esaet to his one advantag. I praid hm to pay my son martain 12 li in good goods and he let him have nothing butt beefe that none ellse would take. I pray you to take care of my estat att Ips and lett nott him do what he list butt take a count of what he doth. ther is 4 yeres Rent this march which coms to above a hundred pound and in depts ninty seaven pound and I heare my cossen John Tuttell would by the hourse he will nott lett him without he pay him Englich goods I sent to deliver goods to my sonn John lawrence to send me 50 li worth of bevar. I have depts to pay in london and want it muh Thomas burnum wold know what to do with the mares if he can not keep them all let John Tuttell ore you take to of them and for the Rest of the Cattell if they be chargabell sell them ore lett them to some that will have care of them. I am to remove againe 16 mills nerer my sonn that maried my daueter hanhah haat the imployment that my husband was in the tresury is Removed to another towne & we must goe with it. the presence of the lord is very comfortable. If I should com to new Ingland I fare I should goe a beging if Reportes be true my estate de Cays apase for want of lookeing to. Iheare the house gos to Ruine the land spends it selfe the cattell dye the horses eate them selves outt in keeping so I am licke to have a small a count butt I hop it will nott prove as I heare. if it should he that knows all things will a veneg the widows cause. I pray Rem me to your wife. my Dear Child hannah Rem her love to you all. so doth Mrs haries the potecaris wife that lived in saint Albanes she dwellse next house to me. I have nott ellse att present butt the blesing of the lord be with you & yours.

I pray send no goods to simon I heare that of him which will bring my gray head with sorow to the grave. with tears I conclued and Remaine

Your poore mother Joanna Tuttell

Jane's grandson Thomas refered to when Jane lived in Ipswich before she went to London and to his uncle John Tuttle and aunt Hannah Tuttle at the March 1659 court. [7, 2: 171–4]

The 29 March 1659 Ipswich quarterly court appointed George Giddings and Mr. Joseph Jewett administrators of the estate of Mr. John Tuttle. [7, 2: 150] In September 1659 the court ruled that as no will had appeared, if Simon Tuttle gave security to repay the rent and if he kept the house in repair, he could have possession of it until further order. The widow was to have her thirds for life. [7, 2: 178] The December 1661 court ruled that, as John's will had been allowed in Ireland and Mrs. John Tuttle had sent Simon a power of attorney, datd 29 January 1660, Mr. Simon Tuttle was allowed as attorney. [7, 2: 335]

Simon Tuttle, acting as attorney for his mother, brought suit against Richard Shatswell for non-payment of rent. The March 1662 Ipswich quarterly court found for the plaintiff. [7, 2: 363–4]

On 4 April 1674 Simon Tuttle, aged about 43 years and the only living child of Mr. John Tuttle and Joanna his wife, both deceased, "appeared before the court in good health." [7, 5: 292]

Children of Thomas Lawrence and Joanna Antrobus: All baptisms at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in Greene. [1]

i. Joan Lawrence was baptized on 29 August 1610. She was buried on 31 August 1610 in St. Albans. [1]

ii. Jane Lawrence was baptized on 18 December 1614 in St. Albans. She died on 2 March 1680 in Ipswich. She married George Giddings.

iii. Mary Lawrence was baptized on 17 Noveber 1616. She was buried on 28 November 1616 in St. Albans. [1]

ii. John Lawrence was baptized on 26 July 1618. He died between 7 January 1698, when he wrote his will, and 15 May 1699, when it was proved. [1] He married Susanna ___ of New York City. [1]

iii. Thomas Lawrence was baptized on 8 March 1619/20. He died before 25 February 1703/4, when his undated will was proved. [1] He married Mary ___ of Newtown, Queens County, New York. [1]

iv. William Lawrence was baptized on 28 July 1622. He died in Flushing, Queens before 25 March 1680. [1] He married first ___. [1] He married second Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard and Sarah (Hammond) Smith of Smithtown, Suffollk county, New York. [1]

v. Mary Lawrence was baptized on 10 April 1625. She died on 27 March 1715 in Ipswich. [1] She married Thomas Burnam. [3] He died on 19 May 1694 in Ipswich. [1]

Children of Jane Lawrence and John Tuttle: The first four baptized in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in Anderson et al. [2]

i. Abigail Tuttle was baptized on 24 November 1628. She probably died by 7 December 1656, leaving no children, when she was not mentioned in her father's will. [2]

ii. Simon Tuttle was baptized on 10 January 1630/1. He was buried on 10 January 1630/1 in Ipswich. [3] He married Sarah Cogswell. [2][3][9] Sarah, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell, was born about 1645. [9]

Simon was a trial to his parents. He was in Barbadoes in 1656, where, according to his mother, he spent all the returns of his father's business instead of sending them to Ireland.

For "his seditious and mutinous carriages," the March 1664 quarterly court sentence Simon to prison until he posted a 200 pound bond to appear at the next General Court in Boston and to be of good behavior in the meantime. [7, 3: 141]

The May 1664 quarterly court fined Caleb Kimball for striking Simon. [7, 3: 150]

The March 1665 quarterly court fined Simon and had him taken prisoner until it was paid. [7, 3: 245]

Simon Tuttle and Thomas Clarke, Jr. deposed in court in May 1670 that their father Cogswell did promise his estate to his daughters Abigail and Sarah when he and his wife died. [7, 3: 249]

iii. Sarah Tuttle was baptized on 4 Septemer 1632. She died before 4 April 1674. She married Richard Martin on 1 February 1653/4 in Boston. [2]

Sarah Martine, the daughter of John Tuttle, deposed that she was about 26 on 13: 4: 1659. [7, 2: 172]

ii. John Tuttle was baptized on 21 March 1633/4. He died before 4 April 1674. He probably died after 6 April 1657, when he was mentioned in his father's will and before 4 April 1674. [2]

v. Hannah Tuttle was born say 1636. She married ___ after 6 April 1657 in Ireland.

References:

1. David L. Greene, "The Royal Ancestry of the Ipswich (Massachusetts) and Long Island Lawrence Families," The Genealogist 10 (1989): 3–30.

2. "Great Migration 1634–1635, A–B," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume I, A–B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 67–69.

3. David L. Greene, "Origin of John Tuttle of Ipswich, Massachusetts," The American Genealogist 54 (1978): 167–75.

4. "Great Migration 1634–1635, T–Y," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org,  originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VII, T–Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 125–35.

5. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.), 45.

6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1, 1628–1641, vol. 2, 1642–1649, vol. 3, 1644–1657, vol. 4 , 1650–1660, vol. 5, 1661–1674, vol. 6, 1674–1686 (Boston: William White, 1853, 1854).

7. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).

8. Mary Lovering Holman, "John Tuttle of Ipswich, Mass. in Irish Records," The American Genealogist 20 (1943): 112.

9. "Great Migration 1634–1635, C–F," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as:  Robert Charles Anderson,, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume II, C–F (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), 139.

10. Reginald Laurence, Antrobus, Pedigrees: The Story of a Cheshire Family (London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1929).

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11-May-2023