Person:John Tucker (35)

Savage says that John of Gloucester, was "perhaps but not prob." son of Robert of the same.

    Noyes says that John Tucker, fisherman, lived at Falmouth and Gloucester.  He was at the Shoals in 1677, and went later to Falmouth, where he had 100 acres at Muscle Cove for which he entered an East. Cl., giving as bounds brother Lewis west, Elisha Andrews east, 40 pole front.
    He married Sarah Riggs at Gloucester in 1681, and the births of his children are recorded at Gloucester, but the couple spent their early married life in Falmouth.
    At Falmouth he was fined in 1684 for abusing Mr. Davis and Mr. Tyn
    John Tucker does not appear among the grantees of six-acre lots at Gloucester in 1688; nor does he or any of his family appear in the division of land, in 1721, to persons who had been householders seventeen years.
    In 1730 he deeded to son John of Gloucester 60 acres at Falmouth "on which I did dwell and my son John jr. was born" (27 December 1686, Gloucester record.)
    Except for the record of his marriage and his children's births, Babson did not find him in Gloucester until 1707.  He was living there 12 Apr 1736, aged abt 80.
    Neither John's death nor his wife's death is recorded at Gloucester.

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:339.
2. ↑ George Francis Millett. Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Millett. (1959)
   p. 3.
3. ↑ John J. Babson. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including the Town of Rockport. 350th Anniversary Edition. (Gloucester: P. Smith, 1972)
   p. 172.
4. ↑ Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby & Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., reprinted 1996)
   p. 697.