Charles TUCKER

• BIRTH: 1744/1745
• DEATH: 1810

1. Joseph P. TUCKER
2. Charles Townley TUCKER
3. Anne TUCKER

                  _Joseph TUCKER _
 _Joseph TUCKER _|
|                |_Mary OGDEN ____
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                 ________________
|_Anne TOWNLEY __|
                 |________________

Notes

Charles TUCKER (Sr.)

• BIRTH: ABT 1687
• DEATH: ABT 1737, Brookhaven,Long Island,New York

1. Charles TUCKER
2. John TUCKER
3. Abigail TUCKER
4. Mary TUCKER
5. Reuben TUCKER
6. Joseph TUCKER
7. Phillip TUCKER
8. Ruth TUCKER

                   _John TUCKER _
 _Joseph TUCKER __|
|                 |_Sarah WINES _
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                  ______________
|_Dinah BREWSTER _|
                  |______________

Notes

Charles TUCKER (Jr.)

• BIRTH: Huntington,Suffolk,New York
• DEATH: 1785, Newburgh,Orange,New York

1. Reuben TUCKER

                     _Joseph TUCKER __
 _Charles TUCKER ___|
|                   |_Dinah BREWSTER _
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                    _________________
|_Abigail PHILLIPS _|
                    |_________________

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Charles TUCKER (Sr.)

• BIRTH: 1635/1636, ,,,England
• DEATH: 1696/1700, Elizabeth Town,Essex Co.,NJ

• REFERENCE: 2560

• DIVORCE: N
• MARRIAGE: MAR 1658, Hingham,Plymouth Co.,Ma.

1. John TUCKER
2. Charles TUCKER
3. Joseph TUCKER
4. Samuel TUCKER

                 __
 _John TUCKER __|
|               |__
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
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|                __
|_Mary JOHNSON _|
                |__

Notes

!Charles was probably not married at the time he settled in Elizabeth Town in 1665/66. Southold records do not show any Mitchell families, however there were two Mitchell families in Elizabeth Town. He was probably married in Elizabeth Town.

!Charles Tucker Sr. was born in London, England and grew up in New Haven, CT and Southold, Long Island and settled in Elizabeth Town in 1665.

!Charles Tooker I of Elizabeth Town ran a blacksmith business. Following in the Tucker/Tooker tradition of metallurgy.

Charles TUCKER (IV)

• BIRTH: 1730
• DEATH: 1791

                    _Charles TUCKER ___________
 _Charles TUCKER __|
|                  |_Anna (or_Hannah) WESSELS _
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|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                   ___________________________
|_Elizabeth MORSE _|
                   |___________________________

Charles TUCKER (III)

• BIRTH: ABT 1694/1695, ,Essex Co.,NJ
• DEATH: 14 AUG 1769, Elizabeth Town,Essex Co.,NJ
• BURIAL: 1769, First Church,Elizabeth Town,NJ

• MARRIAGE: ,Essex Co.,NJ

1. Charles TUCKER
2. Abraham TUCKER
3. Hannah TUCKER
4. Elizabeth TUCKER
5. Mary TUCKER
6. Sarah TUCKER

                             _Charles TUCKER _
 _Charles TUCKER ___________|
|                           |_Mary MITCHELL __
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                            _________________
|_Anna (or_Hannah) WESSELS _|
                            |_________________

Notes

!Similar Elizabeth Town deeds for Joseph Tooker (17 May 1735), Seth Tooker (27 Mar 1739) and Samuel Tooker (29 Apr 1740) establish the names of other third generation Tookers resident in Elizabeth Town.

!Charles Tooker Jr. (III) was definately born in 1704 and died in 1769. His wife's name (in 1769) was Elizabeth and there are some hints that her surname was Morse. But it is possible that her surname was Marsh.

Charles TUCKER (Jr.)

• BIRTH: AFT 1662, ,Essex Co.,NJ
• DEATH: ABT 1740, Westfield,Essex Co.,N.J.
• BURIAL: ABT 1740, Westfield,Essex Co.,N.J.

• REFERENCE: 1280

• MARRIAGE: BEF 1697

1. Charles TUCKER
2. Warner TUCKER
3. Debora TUCKER
4. Anna TUCKER
5. Maria TUCKER
6. Sarah TUCKER
7. John TUCKER

                   _John TUCKER __
 _Charles TUCKER _|
|                 |_Mary JOHNSON _
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                  _______________
|_Mary MITCHELL __|
                  |_______________

Notes

!Reference to the will of Charles Tucker Jr. was found in the New Jersey Archives Vol. 23, page 335. The will was written 21 Apr. 1735 and was proved 6 May 1740. There were two sons mentioned, Charles and John and a grandson Warner. It is evident that Warner Tucker the grandson received the estate share that would have gone to his deceased father. There were other grandchildren by this time but only Warner was provided for.

!Copy of the Will of Charles Tooker In the name of God Amen--I Charles Tooker of Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex within the provience of East new Jersey, Yoeman Being through Divine Goodness of sound and perfect mind and memory do make and ordain This my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say First I commit my soul and spirit unto almighty God that gave it and my Body to the dust whence it was Taken to receive a Decent Christian like Burial and as for that temporal and worldly goods which it hath pleased almighty God to bestow upon me I give grant devise bequeath and dispose of the same in manner and form following First I will and ordain that all my funeral Charges and all just Debts as I shall Justly owe at the time of my decease shall be well and truly paid out of my moveable Estate by my Executors herein after named Item I Give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Charles jur and to his heirs and assigns forever the one half part of Equal moiety (money??) of all my Rights of Commonage of lands and meadows yet to be taken up in the bounds of Elizabeth town aforesaid Item I Give grant Devise and bequeath Unto my youngest son John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns for Ever all that farm or Plantation Containing by Estimation one hundred acres of land be the same more or less lying on the southwest side of the Road leading to the grist mill of Samuel Oliver late of Elizabeth town Deceased which sd plantation of lands I purchased of several persons at several times and by several parcels as by their several Deeds of Conveyance to me for the same may appear And also I give and bequeath unto my sd son John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns forever All my meadow ground to me belonging or appertaining within the bounds of Elizabeth Town aforesaid Also I give and grant and bequeath unto my sd son John Tooker and to his heirs and assigns forever all the one half or Equal moiety of all my Rights of Commonage in lands and meadows in the bounds of Elizabeth Town aforesaid Item I give and bequeath Unto my grandson Warner Tucker one heifer of two years old to be delivered to him when he comes to the age of twenty three years and one heifer of one year to be delivered at my Decease Item after my funeral Expenses my just Debts and above bequeathed legacy or legacyes paid I give and bequeath unto my sd son John Tooker all the remaining part of all my moveable or personal Estate (if any remain) by him the sd son John Tucker and his heirs to be possessed and Enjoyed Item I do make ordain and apoint my beloved brother Joseph Tooker and my Trusty friend John Spinning and the sd John Tooker my son to be joint executors of this (several words illegible from worn fold of the paper) and I do hereby Revoke and make void all other Testaments by me hereto fore made or Declared Ratifying and Confirming This to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto put my mark Instead of my Name and affixes my seal This twenty first Day of april in the Eighth year of the Reign of our soverign Lord George the second by the grace of God of great Britain King etc ANNO DOMINI one Thousand seven hundred and Thirty five Sealed published and declared by the sd Charles Tooker Testator to be his Last Will and Testament in presence of Robert Morss (could be Marsh or Morse) his Jonas Wood Charles X Tooker Jon Terrill mark Be it Rem: that on this present Sixth day of May One thousand seven hundred and forty James Wood and John Terrill two of the witnesses to the within Will personally came before me Thomas Bartow duly deposes and appointed to prove wills, etc and being duly sworn on the holy evangelsts of Almighty God Deposed that they were present and saw Charles Tooker the Testator within named Sign and seal the within written Instrument and heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof the said testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of their knowledge and as they believed and at the same time Robert Morss (or Marsh) the other witness was present and signed his name as also did they the Deponents in the Testator's presence. Thos. Bartow--

!Much of our difficulty with tracking this family is due to the habit of third parties converting the family's traditional Tooker spelling to Tucker before the principals made the change. From looking at several original documents on file at the DAR Library, our Tucker ancestors generally used the traditional Devonese "Tooker" spelling from about 1670 to about 1770. The Westfield line of the family appears to have been the quickest to convert to the Tucker form of the name--the lines that remained in Elizabeth Town typically stayed with the Tooker spelling well into the 19th century. However, I (Doug Tucker) am aware of two documents which contain the signature of Warren Tucker and in both cases he signed his name Tooker. One is the 4 Nov 1723 will of Joseph Hallsey of Elizabeth Town on which Warren Tooker was witness along with John Winans and Samuel Whitehead. I (Doug Tucker) had seen an abstract of this will in another publication and the abstractor had translated the name as "Werner Tooker". See how easily confusion can be sowed.

!The 1727 list of founding members of the First Presbyterian Church of Westfield also shows the name as Warren Tooker even though all published versions of this list convert the Tooker to Tucker, apparently under the assumption that the signer (or local clerk) did not know how to spell. That is probably not the case with this family--Capt. John Tucker, of Southold attended Oxford and may be one of the two John Tuckers of London shown on matriculation rolls of 1629 and 1630, respectively. Several complex original legal documents and letters drafted in Capt. John Tucker's hand have survived and are in the special collections of the Connecticut State Library/Museum in Hartford. Capt. John Tucker also wrote his will and a subsequent codicil which are relatively complex documents. (He signed his will John "Tucker" even though most of his offspring were using the "Tooker" spelling by the 1680's. Perhaps he never taught his kids to read and write and the switch to the phonetic spelling "just happened". However, all of his sons signed documents with their full names--not "marks" as was common.)

!"First Church records show that Charles Tooker Jr. (III) died 14 Aug 1769 at the age of 65 and was buried in the west church yard. His wife died 17 Dec. 1770 and was buried alongside Charles Jr. (III)." If he was 65 as this says he would have been born in 1704 which will not fit the other information we have. I wonder if the record really says he was 65 years old at the time of his death? Seventy five years old would be more likely! I also have the following supposedly from the Dutch Reformed Church records of New York City, NY: Spelled different ways Tucker/Tooker/Tukker/ Tuker. The different spelling are understandable as you find this frequently in old records. Elizabeth Town, New Jersey was only about four miles as the crow flies west of Manhattan Island and it was only a short sail from lower Newark Bay through the Arthur Kill and across the Hudson River to lower Manhatton Island - which is where all the commercial action was in Nieuw Amsterdam/New York. Elizabeth Town residents had a lot of interaction with those of nearby New York and still do, so the records listed below are most likely those of Charles Tucker Jr. son of Charles Tucker Sr. Debora-Charles Tokker/Anna Wessels 5 Sept. 1697 Maria-Charles Tukker/Anna Wessels 18 Sept. 1700 Warnar-Karel Tucker/Anne Wesses 9 Dec. 1702 These are christianing dates which usually happened after the child was born, sometimes years after. But it brings in a daughter Debora. Anna Wessel's parents were supposed to be Warner & Debora Wessel. If this is true then the Debora christianing in 1697 makes sense. So now do we have as children of Charles II and Anna (Wessel) Tooker as follows (assuming they were married abt. 1694): Charles born abt. 1694 Warner born abt. 1696 christ 1702 Debora christ. 5 Sept. 1697 Maria christ. 18 Sept. 1700 Anna christ. Feb 1700 Sarah (no dates) John born abt 1705 I think we still have too much second hand information. We really need to see the records for the church and cemetery that supposedly says Charles III was 65 when he died. SDW

!The 1694 marriage date for Charles Tucker Jr. and Anna Wessells is probably pretty close. They both signed deed of sale for 80 acres to John Thomas, tailor of New York City in August of 1697.

!There was a Warner Tucker settled in Morris County, New Jersey in the 1780's. He must have been a grandson of the first Warner Tucker of Westfield, but as of this date no other records seems to claim him. Also found is a Wessels Tooker, tavern keeper in Springfield, New Jersey. It would seem he would have been a son of Warner Tucker, Sr. at least a grandson, but the only reference we have found makes him a son of a Lewis of which we don't know his heritage either.

Charles TUCKER

                       _Joseph L. TUCKER _
 _Dennis Cole TUCKER _|
|                     |_Martha BOWEN _____
|
|--Charles TUCKER 
|
|                      ___________________
|_Emma UNK ___________|
                      |___________________

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Charles Cole TUCKER

• BIRTH: 29 FEB 1892

1. WILSON TUCKER
2. Christine TUCKER
3. Illene TUCKER
4. Charles Cole TUCKER

                          _James Cole TUCKER _______
 _Elijah Brenton TUCKER _|
|                        |_Mary (Whited) WHITEHEAD _
|
|--Charles Cole TUCKER 
|
|                         __________________________
|_Melinda Jane TENNELL __|
                         |__________________________

Charles Cole TUCKER (Jr.)

                        _Elijah Brenton TUCKER _
 _Charles Cole TUCKER _|
|                      |_Melinda Jane TENNELL __
|
|--Charles Cole TUCKER 
|
|                       ________________________
|_Amy EVANS ___________|
                       |________________________