John2 Tuthill, of Tharston, sometime of Southold, in the Colony of New Haven, America, bapt. (Tharston) 25 Oct., 1607, d. in England. "He was a widower in 1637." Both Trumbull's History of Connecticut, and Dodd's Register, mention this elder, or Pilgrim, John Tuthill, as at New Haven in 1640. He was one of the original or earliest settlers of Southold, and her first civil magistrate, being appointed "Constable, by the New Haven Court, in 1642 : 6 : 2, for Yennicok," or Southold.
"He had no home lot there, and was probably only a temporary sojourner." Savage and Griffin err in calling him the father of John, Jr., b. 1635, as this latter himself states that he was the son of John's brother, Henry.
"Pilgrim John was probably identical with John Tuthill, named with Capt. Underhill in 1638-9 at Piscatawa, now Dover, N. H." He returned to England, remarried, and left descendants there. [John of Dover was in Dover,1642; died, probably at Dover, before 30 June 1663. His descendants stayed in Dover for at least the next two generations; see Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 700.]
