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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tuttle, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
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"Elizabeth (Tuttle) … m 19 Nov 1667 (New Haven Vital Records) Richard Edwards of Hartford; he div. her 1691; she had a child born after marriage and never acknowledged by her husband, of whose paternity Joseph Preston. was accused: Mary, born 1668."
- ↑ New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850. (Hartford [Connecticut]: Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917-1924)
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"Richard Edwards & Elifabeth Tuttell were married by Mr Wm Jones november 19th 1667"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 2. Richard2 Edwards, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
529-30.
"… While still under age [Richard Edwards] married a young woman a year and a half older than himself, and found that she was already pregnant. He never acknowledged the first child she bore, and in a codical [sic] to his will wrote: 'Mary the eldest child of my first wife shall have two shillings out of my estate … upon her demand.' That she was not a child of Richard Edwards seems to have been acknowledged by the Tuttle family when they made a mutual agreement for division of the Tuttle estate, for they included a special provision for Elizabeth's daughter Mary. Nevertheless, according to Captain Smith, 'although he vigorously protested the accusation, he was fined for fornication on this account by the General Court.' The General Court or Assembly never acted on such misdemeanors unless a case was appealed from the County Court to the Court of Assistants (the then Superior Court), and from that tribunal to the General Court itself (as a sort of Supreme Court). We assume that it was the Hartford County Court which gave the unjust sentence, which must have been galling to Richard and to his family. In fact, on 20 June 1668, William Edwards of Hartford started an 'action of trespass' against Joseph Preston. of New Haven for abusing his son Richard's wife Elisabeth Tuttle before marriage to the damage of £50. Bond was posted for Preston by Thomas Kimberly, Jr., Jehiel Preston and Eliasaph Preston, but the case was not prosecuted by Edwards."
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