Person:Hopestill Tyler (2)
Hopestill Tyler
b.Abt 1646 Massachusetts, United States
d.20 Jan 1733/34 Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1640
  1. Moses TylerAbt 1642 - 1727
  2. Mary TylerAbt 1644 - Aft 1693
  3. Hopestill TylerAbt 1646 - 1733/34
  4. _____ TylerAbt 1646 - 1646
  5. Hannah TylerEst 1648 -
  6. John TylerAbt 1650 - 1652
  7. John Tyler1653 - 1742
  8. Samuel Tyler1655 - 1695
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Hopestill TylerAbt 1646 - 1733/34
  • W.  Mary Lovett1651 - 1732
m. 20 Jan 1668/69
  1. Mary Tyler1669/70 - Bet 1728 & 1733
  2. Hannah TylerEst 1674 - 1717
  3. Martha Tyler1676 - 1741
  4. John Tyler1677 - 1705
  5. Daniel TylerEst 1679 -
  6. Joanna Tyler1681 - Bef 1728
  7. James Tyler1683 - 1754
  8. Hopestill Tyler1685 - 1762
  9. Mehitable Tyler1687/88 -
  10. Abigail Tyler1687/88 - 1771
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Facts and Events
Name Hopestill Tyler
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1646 Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 20 Jan 1668/69 Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USAto Mary Lovett
Death[2][3] 20 Jan 1733/34 Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2] Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States
Reference Number 8TSJ-N4 (Ancestral File)
References
  1. ↑ Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler, and Calvin Cedric Tyler. The Tyler Genealogy: The Descendants of Job Tyler of Andover, Massachusetts, 1619-1700. (Plainfield, New Jersey and Tylerville, Connecticut (Vols. 1 & 2); Grand Rapids, Michigan (Vol. 3): Cornelius B. Tyler and Rollin U. Tyler (Vols. 1 & 2); Calvin Cedric Tyler (Vol. 3), 1912, 1976)
    1:4, 16.

    p. 4: ' "1646, Month 1, day 28. A lit infant also a twinn of Job Tilers dyed." (Roxbury Church Records.)'
    p. 16: 'Hopestill Tyler, born about 1645 or 1646.'

    It is assumed that Hopestill was the twin of the infant who died.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler, and Calvin Cedric Tyler. The Tyler Genealogy: The Descendants of Job Tyler of Andover, Massachusetts, 1619-1700. (Plainfield, New Jersey and Tylerville, Connecticut (Vols. 1 & 2); Grand Rapids, Michigan (Vol. 3): Cornelius B. Tyler and Rollin U. Tyler (Vols. 1 & 2); Calvin Cedric Tyler (Vol. 3), 1912, 1976)
    1:25.

    'HOPESTILL TYLER ([son of] JOB), born about 1646 ... died in Preston, Conn., January 20, 1734, "in [th]e 89th year of his age" according to the rather rude stone which marks his grave in the old burying ground in Preston; ...'

    See this source for information on accusations of witchcraft against members of his family, all of whom were acquitted.

  3. ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Preston Vital Records, page 242.

    'TYLER, TILER ...
    Hopestill, d. Jan. 20, 1733'

  4.   Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler, and Calvin Cedric Tyler. The Tyler Genealogy: The Descendants of Job Tyler of Andover, Massachusetts, 1619-1700. (Plainfield, New Jersey and Tylerville, Connecticut (Vols. 1 & 2); Grand Rapids, Michigan (Vol. 3): Cornelius B. Tyler and Rollin U. Tyler (Vols. 1 & 2); Calvin Cedric Tyler (Vol. 3), 1912, 1976)
    1:29-30.

    'WILL OF HOPESTILL TYLER, SR.
    ... May the fifteenth, 1728. I Hopestill Tyler, of Preston, ... to my Loving wife mary [she had died meanwhile, 1732] ...
    to my dafter mary furnnum ...
    to my dafter hanna busel her children ...
    unto my dafter mathew ...
    unto my dafter abigel ...
    unto my Son Daniel ...
    unto my Son James ...
    unto my granson moses tiler In Boston ...
    unto my Son Hopstill ...'

    The daugther "mathew" is Martha - apparently her name was written as mathew in a number of records.

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