1755 John Shurtleff, son of William and Hannah, was born on September 6 in Tolland, Connecticut. [1] [2]
1757 Patience Chubbuck, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Chubbuck, was born on August 6 in Wareham, Massachusetts. [3] [4]
1775 John Shurtliff served in the Revolutionary War. He was listed in a company of men "formed from Tolland and several neighboring towns, which under the command of Capt. Solomon Wills, served in Col. Spencer's regiment at Roxbury, near Boston, from May 1, to December 1, 1775" The "roll of the company, kept by Comfort Carpenter, its orderly sergeant," was "filed by him in the Pension Office as evidence of his service in the revolution ... under the act of June 7, 1832." [5] The Shurtleff genealogy states that John Shurtleff "was a soldier in the second regiment of Captain Solomon Wille's fifth company of Tolland," Connecticut. [6]
1781 John Shurtleff and Patience Chubbuck were married on May 24 in Ellington, Connecticut. [7] [8] Their children, born in Ellington, Connecticut were, [9] [10]
1782 Mary was born on May 14.
1783 Jedida was born on December. 5.
1785 Hannah was born on November. 23.
1788 Deliverence was born on January 25.
1790 John was born on December 2.
1793 William was born on October 1.
1796 Tabitha was born on June 24.
1840 John Shurleff died in Illinois. He had a second wife named Mrs. Hines. [11]
[1] Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, Tolland 1715-1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011, originally published by the Connecticut State Library, 1922), 122, [AmericanAncestors].
[2] Benjamin Shurtleff, Descendants of William Shurtleff, 2 vols. (Revere, Massachusetts, 1912), 1:101, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Wareham, Massachusetts, Births, Marriages, Deaths 1738-1845 (Copy of "the old records" made by Noble Warren Everett in 1880), FHL film 482235, DGS 7009295, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord], [FHLCatalog].
[4] Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Wareham, Town Records, 260, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Loren P. Waldo, The Early History of Tolland (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood & Company, 1861), 50, [InternetArchive].
[6] Benjamin Shurtleff, Descendants of William Shurtleff, 2 vols. (Revere, Massachusetts, 1912), 1:101, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, Ellington 1786-1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011, originally published by the Connecticut State Library, 1922), 30, [AmericanAncestors].
[8] Benjamin Shurtleff, Descendants of William Shurtleff, 2 vols. (Revere, Massachusetts, 1912), 1:101, states the date as May 25, [GoogleBooks].
[9] Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, Ellington 1786-1850 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011, originally published by the Connecticut State Library, 1922), 30, [AmericanAncestors].
[10] Benjamin Shurtleff, Descendants of William Shurtleff, 2 vols. (Revere, Massachusetts, 1912), 1:101, states the date of Mary's birth as May 15, 1782, and Tabitha's as June 25, 1796, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Benjamin Shurtleff, Descendants of William Shurtleff, 2 vols. (Revere, Massachusetts, 1912), 1:101, [GoogleBooks].