Person:Daniel Tucker (12)

Uncertain Lineage

The identity of his father is uncertain, but "probable"^[2].

1. ↑ William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
   Vol 6, No 2, p 69.

   Arthur Allen, the emigrant, was, in 1667, stated by himself to be sixty-five years. He died in 1670. He calls Daniel Tucker (aged fifty-five in 1667) "brother". As Tucker was the younger of the two, Allen's wife Alice was Alice Tucker. This view is confirmed by a grant dated March 13, 1649, to Arthur Allen, of 200 acres, between Lawnes Creek and Chippoakes Creek, for importing into the colony four persons, viz.: Alice Tucker, Wm. Eyres, Wm. Moss, and Thomas Rastell. (Land Register).

2. ↑ Carrell, William P. The Allen family of Surry County, Virginia: its British roots and early generations in America, in Dorman, John Frederick, ed. The Virginia Genealogist. (Washington, District of Columbia: Dorman, John Frederick)
   50(2006):10.

   'Both Alice's brother's given name and the fact that genealogical research of the Tucker family in Britain has, so far, failed to reveal any other candidate lead researcher Eve Gregory and the author to conclude that Alice and Daniel were probably the children of Daniel Tucker, who was christened on 10 April 1575 in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent. While direct evidence has not yet been discovered, such a conclusion is nonetheless reasonable, ...'