July 1743, Connecticut

July 19, 1743- A son, Zophar, is born to Daniel Tuttle & Phebe Beach in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Surname Tuttle

English and Irish: from the Old Norse personal name þorkell, a contracted form of a name composed of the elements þórr, name of the Scandinavian god of thunder (see Thor) + ketill ‘cauldron’. The personal name Thurkill or Thirkill was in use throughout England in the Middle Ages; in northern England it had been introduced directly by Scandinavian settlers, whereas in the South it was the result of Norman influence. This surname and its variants are especially common in East Anglia. In Ireland the Old Norse name was adopted as a Gaelic personal name (Thorcall), which generated the surnames McCorkle and Corkill.

(Zophar Tuttle is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)

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June 1743, Pennsylvania

In 1682 William Penn and his fellow Quakers came to the New World. They named their new colony Pennsylvania. This meant Penn's woods.

June 30, 1743- A son, Jonathan, is born to George Burson & Sarah Cox in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

William Penn established the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the goals of religious tolerance and peace. Further, he sought to bring the Society of Friends (Quakers), who long suffered religious intolerance in Europe and the Colonies, to his new Colony.
There were three waves of migrations of Quakers to Pennsylvania.
According to Elliott, “The first and largest group were the English Quakers from London, Bristol, and counties in the west and north. A small minority were wealthy and they purchased the best lots in Philadelphia. The early nucleus of wealthy merchants in Pennsylvania was dominated by English Quakers from Barbados, Jamaica, New York, and West Jersey. English Friends also predominated the first tier of counties in Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Later, a group of English Friends settled in Ceres in northwestern Pennsylvania.” -Quaker Records (by Wendy L. Elliott, CG, published 1987 by American Genealogical Lending Library)


(Jonathan Burson is my third cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)

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March 1715, Maryland

March 5, 1715- Robert Yates of Charles County, Maryland receives payments from James Waters, William and Thomas Howard, Joseph Christmas, John Waland, John Cordell, George Browne, Mr. John Bruce, George Bellows, Joseph Douglas, John Lancaster, Robert Cull, Nulie With, John Philips, estate of Charles Jones, James Neale, Jane Maccoy, John Loften, Oliver Birch, George Newman, George Shakerly, Richard Lancaster, and Birdett Aston.


(John Waland is John Worland, husband of Stacey Robey. John Worland is my fifth great grandfather. In records of the time, he appears as John Worland, John Waland, John Warland and John Warnall.)