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Isabelle Wells                                                            see FAMILY TREE

born: abt. 1565 England
aged 70 on the 1635 passenger list

Married: Abt. 1592

Died: Aft. 6 Apr 1635 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

FATHER

John Wells

MOTHER

Hellene

HUSBAND

Symon Tuttell

CHILDREN

1. Richard Tuttel b. about 1593

2. John Tuttel b. 1596

3. Thomas Tuttle
Mentioned as deceased in father's will of 19 Dec 1627

4. Simon Tuttle
Mentioned in the will of John Wells in Jan 1617-18
Not mentioned in the will of his father, Simon Tuttle, on 19 Dec 1627

5. William Tuttel bap. 6 Nov 1607

 

When Isabel traveled to the Colonies in 1635 with her sons Richard and William, her age was listed as 70 years old, making her born about 1565. (1) She married Symon Tuttle about 1592 since her eldest son, Richard was born about 1593.  Her father, John Wells, in his will of 1617 he named her as "daughter Tootell" (2) and in her husband's will, Symon Tuttle mentioned £20 given to his son William Tuttle by his grandfather, John Welles. (3)
Her husband, Symon Tuttle, died in 1630.  Five years later she boarded The Planter with her two sons.  There are no records of her after that. 

 

(1) Britain, Registers of Licenses to Pass Beyond the Seas 1573-1677
Find My Past
William Tuttle arrived in New England about the 1st July, 1635, on the Planter to Boston, Massachusetts.  On April 2d, 1635 "These underwritten names are to be transported to New England in the Planter. Nicholas Travice, Master." 

 

John Tuttle,         39 a mercer
Joan Tuttle          42
John Lawrence   17
Maria Lawrence  12
Abigail Tuttle        6
Symon Tuttle       4
Sara Tuttle          2
John Tuttle          1
Nathan Haford, servant to John Tuttle 16
Richard Tuttell, husbandman  42
Ann Tuttell                            41
Anna Tuttell                          12
John Tuttell                           10
Rebecca Tuttell                      6
Isabella Tuttel                        70
William Tuttell, husbandman              26
Elizabeth Tuttell                               23
John Tuttle                                        3 1/2
Anna Tuttell                                      2 1/4
Thomas Tuttell                                  3 months
Maria Bill                                       11
Tuttle Passenger List
Britain, Registers of Licenses to Pass Beyond the Seas 1573-1677
Find My Past

 

 

 

2) John Wells on Wikitree

Abstract of the Will of John Wells of Ringstead, Northamptonshire in Jan 1617 with references to Tuttle

I give to my daughtr Tootell my second bedstede my second fetherbede & all the second furniture for that bede my third & fourth chars my rede capser [?] six of the next peces of pewtr ye second candlestick my best table cloth & my best salt.

I give to Richard Tootell my grandchild ... [goods]

I give to Thomas Tootell Simõ Tootell and will Tootell my grandchildren besids the thre cowes I delivred to their father for them To every of them in mony eughten poūds

I give to  Simõ Tootle & willm mortõ my sones in lawe

I give to Richard Tootell my hoggscales

All the rest ... I give to Simõ Tootell & willm mortõ my sones in lawe who I make executors ... I ordaine Thoms welles my brother & michaell welles his sone ovrsers

(3) Cleaver, William Jessup, Ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup, Gateway Press, Baltimore, 1989, page 906

Will of Symon Tuttle

"relinguishes the twentie poundes given to him by his grandfather John Welles"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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