Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 5

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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On November 4, 1750, General Joseph (2) Cil- ley married Sarah Longfellow, second daughter and fourth child of Jonathan and Mercy (Clark) Long- fellow, who was born November 17. 1739, and died May 23, 1811, aged seventy-five. She was a de- scendant of the Dummers, Sewels and Greens, three of the most prominent families of New England Colonial times. She was said to be a woman of much culture and superior character, and was a patient sufferer for twenty years before her death. General Joseph (2) and Sarah (Longfellow ) Cilley had ten children: Sarah, married Judge Thomas Bartlett Bradbury, congressman from New Hamp- shire in 1813-14, married Ilarriet, daughter of Gen- eral Enoch Poor. Jonathan, married Dorcas But- ler. Joseph, died at the age of fifteen. Greenleaf, married Jennie Nealley. Daniel, married Hannah Plumer. Jacob, whose sketch follows. Anna, mar- ried Nathaniel Williams. Horatio Gates, whose sketch follows. General Joseph (2) Cilley died August 25, 1799, of sphacelation of the bowels, ac- cording to his biographer. He was buried with Masonic honors by the Lodge in which he had for. merly been master.

(VI) Major Jacob, sixth son and eighth child of General Joseph (2) and Sarah (Longfellow ) Cilley, was born July 19, 1773, at Nottingham, New llampshire. He lived in Nottingham Square, served as major in the militia, civil magistrate, and held many town offices. He was a member of the legis- lature in 1802-3-6-7-8-10-12-13. On January 8, 1801, Jacob Cilley married Harriet, daughter of General Enoch and Martha ( Osgood) Poor, of Exeter, New Hampshire, who was born January 31, 1780. ( Sec Poor IV.) They had seven children: Enoch Poor, who died at the age of nineteen, unmarried. Joseph Longfellow, married Lavinia B. Kelley. John Os- good, married Henrietta Butler. Harriet Poor, married Rev. T. G. Brainard. Jacob Green, whose sketch follows. Martha Osgood, married F. B. Barry, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Bradbury Poor, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843, married Angeline Baldwin; he was a lawyer and lived in Manchester, New Hampshire. Jacob Cilley died January 29, 1831, at the age of fifty-eight years, and his widow died June 7, 1838, at the same age. (VII) Jacob Green, fourth son and fifth child of Jacob and Harriet (Poor) Cilley, was born April 16, 1817, at Nottingham, New Hampshire. He moved to Manchester, this state, about 1839, and was a prominent citizen there for more than thirty years. Ile was an extensive owner of real estate, and saw the place grow from little more than a vil- lage to a thriving manufacturing city, and by his shrewd investments and keen business sense ac- quired a large property. He was a Republican in politics, and was city treasurer during 1866-67. Ilc was a charter member of the Amoskcag Veterans, one of the carly officers of the company, also be- longed to the Masonic fraternity. He was an at- tendant of the First Congregational (Ilanover street) Church. Major Jacob G. Cilley married his first wife, Emma Stark, of Manchester, daughter of Frederick Stark, and a granddaughter of General John Stark, of Revolutionary fame. She died February 16, 1859, and on January 29, 1861, Major Cilley married his second wife, Martha Cilley Bou- ton, daughter of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel and Elizabeth Ann ( Cilley) Bouton, of Concord, New Hampshire. ( Sce Bouton VI and Cilley VII.) Mrs. Martha C. (Bonton) Cilley is a woman of rare social abil- ity, with a gift for entertaining, and who is the un-

questioned leader of many distinguished circles. After her husband's death she lived for several years abroad, and later made her home in Buckingham street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Washing- ton, D. C. While in Cambridge she founded the Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association, of which organization she is a life member, which included in its membership the eminent scholars and critics, Henry N. Hudson and William J. Rolfe. She was one of the first two regents of the chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution founded in Massachu- setts. Upon her return to Manchester as the wife of Colonel Arthur E. Clarke, she assumed a leading position in the state. In 1875 she founded the Ladies' Aid and Relief Society. In 1890 she was appointed by Alrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the president, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution in New Hampshire. and in 1894 she founded the National Society of Colonial Dames in New Hampshire, of which she has been the continuous president. She was appointed 1895, president of the New Hampshire Society Daughters of the Cincinnati. She is a member of the National Martha Washington As- sociation, and of the Society of Colonial Governors. She inherits the historical interests of her father and is a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and of the Massachusetts Historic-Genea- logical Society. She is president of the New Hamp- shire Audubon Society, and the Animal Rescue League of Manchester. Her home. wherever she has been, has always been a social center and the scene of unlimited hospitality.

Jacob G, and Martha C. (Bouton) Cilley had two children: General Harry B., whose sketch fol- lows: and Florence. born September 6, 1864, died January 28, 1869. Major Jacob G. Cilley died at Manchester, September 7. 1870. On January 22, 1894, Mrs. Cilley married for her second husband, Colonel Arthur E. Clarke, elder son of Colonel John B. Clarke, whom he has now succeeded as editor and proprietor of the Manchester Daily and Weekly Mirror and printing establishment. (See Clarke family.)

(VIII) General Harry Bouton, only son and elder child of Major Jacob G. and Martha C. ( Bouton) Cilley, was born at Manchester, New Hampshire, May 13, 1802. At the age of eight years he went abroad with his mother and had the advantages of the best schools in Ger- many and Switzerland. Upon his return he at- tended the public schools of Manchester, had four years at St. Paul's School in Concord, and after - wards studied at the Law School at Harvard Uni- versity. As might be expected from his ancestry, General Cilley has inherited strong military tastes. His connection with the New Hampshire National Guard began in May, 1882, when he was warranted commissary-sergeant in the Third Regiment. May 24, 1884. hic was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, and May 10, 1889, to be major and inspector of rifle practice in the First Brigade, which position he held till February 6, 1891, when he removed to Washington, D. C., where he was for a time private secretary to General J. N. Patterson, second auditor of the treasury. No- vember 2, 1891, General Cilley was commissioned first lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth Battalion of the District of Columbia National Guard, and in December of that year was promoted to the po- sition of captain and adjutant of the Second Regi- ment. January 27, 1894, General Cilley returned

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to Manchester, where he has since made his home. On February 27 of that year he was appointed major and assistant inspector-general of the First Brigade, New Hampshire National Guards; and on May 10, 1894, he was commissioned assistant adjutant-gen- eral with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the bri- gade, which position he held for five years. On January 3, 1907, he was appointed to the important office of adjutant-general with the rank of major- general of New Hampshire by Governor Charles M. Floyd. He was also made disbursing officer for the organized militia of New Hampshire, with bond to the war department. General Cilley is one of the most genial and popular men in the state. and his social interests are extensive. He is president of the Tippecanoe Club in Manchester, is a mem- ber and for four years was a director in the Derry- field Club, and is a member of the Intervale Country Club, also in his native city. He is an honorary mem- ber of the Thornton Naval Veterans' Association of Manchester, and also of the New Hampshire Veterans' Association. He belongs to the Society of Foreign Wars, Pennsylvania Commandery, to the Sons of the American Revolution (New Hamp- shire Society), to the Society of Colonial Wars and to the New Hampshire Historical Society. He is president of the New Hampshire Philharmonic So- ciety, which has given some notable musical festi- vals in Manchester. General Cilley is a Republi- can in politics, and was representative from ward three in Manchester, 1897-98, serving on the com- mittee on the National Guard and on that on Fish- eries and Game. He is a communicant of Grace (Episcopal) Church in Manchester, of which he has been vestryman and warden. For nine years previous to his appointment as adjutant-general he served as telegraph editor on the staff of the Man- chester Mirror, and he acted as state liquor agent from 1904 to 1907. He is the owner of Cilley Block in his native city. General Cilley is devoted to out-door life and is an ardent sportsman. He has a camp on Moose river, west of Moosehead lakc, Maine, where he goes hunting every fall, and has brought down moose and other big game. While fond of fishing, golf and various athletic sports, his passion is rifle shooting, in which he has been an expert since the age of fifteen. He is a director in the New England Military Rifle Association, and a life member of the Bay State Rifle Associa- tion. He has presented two Cilley Trophies to the National Guard of New Hampshire. The first was a bronze statute of a soldier, offered in 1886, which is now the property of Company K of Laconia, who won it by their excellence in shooting for three successive years. The second, offered in 1906, is a valuable silver shield, designed by the Gorham Company, and mounted on a mahogany back, twelve by twenty inclies in dimensions. This is awarded each year to the company making the best record in rifle shooting, and is given to the Man- chester Battalion.

(VI) Horatio Gates, seventh son and tenth and youngest child of General Joseph and Sarah (Long- fellow) Cilley, was born at Nottingham, New Hampshire, December 23, 1777. He moved to the neighboring town of Deerfield, where he became a prominent citizen. He was a man of great energy of character, a safe counsellor, generous and hu- mane. On November 17, 1802, Horatio Gates Cil- ley married Sally Jenness, daughter of Richard and Mary (Page) Jenness, who was born in Deerfield, August 4. 1782. Their children were: A daugh- i1-7

ter, who died in infancy. Horatio Gates, married Deborah Jenness, died in early youth. Elizabeth Ann, whose sketch follows. Martha Osgood. Mary Jane, married Ephraim Eaton, a lawyer and graduate of Dartmouthi. Harriet Newell, died young. Jo- seph Bradbury, married Elizabeth Jenness. Hor- atio G. Cilley died November 26. 1837, in his six- tieth year, and his wife died November, 1865, at the age of eighty-three.

(VII) Elizabeth Ann, third daughter and fourth child of Horatio Gates and Sally (Jenness) Cilley, was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, August 30, ISIO. She possessed an attractive personality and quick, bright mind, and received the best education afforded to girls of her day. In 1840, upon her mar- riage to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., of Concord, New Hampshire, her home was changed to the capital city where she was a prominent figure for nearly half a century. Her keen perceptions, viva- cious disposition and marked social gifts would have caused her to shine in any society, and as the wife of one of the leading clergymen of the state. these qualities found ample scope. During her long and active life no Concord gathering was complete without Mrs. Bouton, and no woman of her day will be more surely remembered. Upon the organization of the Centennial Home for the Aged in 1876, Mrs. Bouton was chosen its firs: president, and she was for several years president of the Concord Female Charitable Society, founded in 1812. She was always exceedingly active in church affairs, and did much to ameliorate tle somewhat austere conditions of religious life pre- vailing during the early and middle part of the nineteenth century.

Elizabeth Ann Cilley was married February, 1840, to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., for forty- seven years pastor of the Old North Church in Concord, author of the monumental history of that town, and from 1867 till his death in 1878, state historian. Dr. and Mrs. Elizabeth A. ( Cilley ) Bouton had six children, of whom the three young- est died in infancy and early childhood. The three elder ones are Sarah Cilley, Martha Cilley, whose sketch follows: and Jane Louise. Sarah Cilley Bou- ton was educated in the schools of Concord and at Bradford Academy, and was married November 12. 1867, to General Joab Nelson Patterson, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1859. served four years and nine months in the Second New Hampshire Regiment during the Civil war, and en- tirely through the Spanish war, was United States Marshal in his native state for many years, was second auditor of the treasury at Washington from 1888 to 1892, and after the Spanish war was in- spector of fortifications at Cuba and Chickamauga, Georgia. General and Mrs. Patterson have three children: Louis Marston, in the railroad business at Portland, Maine; Julia Nelson, who married Edwin Warren Guyol, November 12, 1900; and Allan Bouton, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, and subsequently from the Yale School of Forestry, served through the Spanish war, and is now consulting forester at Baltimore. Mrs. Patter- son inherited solid and brilliant qualities from both parents. She is an ardent lover of nature and of literature, an untiring hostess, a friend to the needy. and an active participant in social, philanthropic and club affairs. Jane Louise Bouton, the young- est member of this family, was educated in the Concord schools and at Bradford Academy, and was married October 13, 1887, to John Smythe Fogg,

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of South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mrs. Fogg is a woman of great personal charm and many gifts, and since her husband's death has made her home at Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire. She is a member of the New Hampshire Colonial Dames. (For the sketch of Martha Cilley Bouton, see Cilley, VII.)

This name was originally Totyl, and

TUTTLE contrary to the general belief the spelling was transformed to Tuttle prior to the period of American cmigration. A family pedigree bearing the date of 1591 places at its head William Totyl, of Devonshire, called "Esq.", who served as bailiff in 1528 and again in 1548, was high sheriff in 1549, and lord mayor of Exeter in 1552. As these offices were only given to men of large estate and high family con- nection, it may be inferred that he was a man of social eminence. The present agitation against race suicide would have found in him an enthusiastic supporter, as the pedigree above mentioned credits him with being the father of thirty-six children, but it is reasonable to assume however that he was married more than once, although his only re- corded marriage was to Elizabeth Mathew of Vorganwg. Wales. The names of twelve of his children appear in the records, and it is quite prob- able that Elizabeth was the mother of four of them, namely: Geoffrey, John. Robert and Richard.

Four distinct families by the name of Tuttle immigrated from England in 1635. and three of them arrived at Boston on the "Planter," in the spring of that year. The heads of these three families were: John. who settled in Ipswich; Richard, who remained in Boston; and William. who went to New Haven. The fourth was that of another John Tuttle, who embarked on the ill- fated "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked on the rocky coast of Maine, August 15, 1634. This John Tuttle settled in Dover, New Hampshire, prior to 1640, and became the progenitor of a numerous posterity. With Richard, William and the Dover settler we shall have no more to do, as they nor their descendants do not come within the province of this sketch.

(I) John Tuttle, the Planter passenger, went from Boston to Ipswich, where he was admitted a freeman March 16, 1639, and he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, transacting business with Lon- don merchants. He was a man of prominence. and bore the title of Master, or Mister, as in an carly deed he is mentioned thus: "way reserved between Mr. Tuttle's swamps and ends of lot." In 1644 he was a representative to the general court. He seems to have become dissatisfied with his sur- roundings, as about the year 1652 he recrossed the ocean to Ireland, where he settled advantageously. His wife Joan followed him two years later, and his death occurred in Carrickfergus. December 30, 1656. Ilis children were : Abigail. "Symon." Sarah, and John, who were born in England; Mary and Simon (2d), who were born in Ip-wich. Joan Tuttle was also the mother of four other children by a former marriage with Lawrence.

( 11) Simon, sixth child and third son of John and Joan Tuttle, was born in Ip-wich, in 1637. He remained in Ipswich, and in 1678 had the right of commonage in that town. Ile was married first in 1059 to Joan, daughter of Thomas Burnham, and in 1662 or 1663 he married for his second wife Sarah, daughter of John Cogswell. Ile died in

1692, and his second wife, who survived him many years, died January 24, 1732. Simon Tuttle was the father of thirteen children, namely: John, Jo- anna, Simon, Elizabeth, Sarah, Abigail, Susanna, William, Charles, Mary, Jonathan, Ruth and another daughter, whose name is not given in the records.

(III) Charles (1). ninth child and fourth son of Simon and Sarah (Cogswell) Tuttle, was born in Ipswich, March 31, 1679. He resided in that part of Ipswich which was afterward separated from it as the town of Hamilton. The maiden sur- name of his wife was Burnham. The date of his death cannot be ascertained, nor can there be found any record giving the names of his children except that of his son Charles.

(IV) Charles (2), son of Charles (1) Tuttle, was born in Ipswich Hamlet (now Hamilton), De- cember 1, 1708. He lived to be eighty years old and died on his birthday in 1788. He married Anne Jewett.

(\') Charles (3), son of Charles (2) and Anne (Jewett) Tuttle, was born in Ipswich Ilamlet, March II, 1749. He served as a soldier in the Continental army during the war for national in- dependence. In 1794 he held the office of tax col- lector in Hamilton, which was incorporated in the preceding year. About the year 1796 he removed to Antrim, New Hampshire, and resided there for the remainder of his life. He married Lucy Dodge, a sister of Ammi Dodge, of New Boston, New Hampshire. The children of this union, all of whom were natives of Hamilton, were: Captain William T., Seth, Jedediah, Daniel, Hepzibah, Anne, Charles, Sarah and Elizabeth.

(VI) Jedediah, third child and third son of Charles (3) and Lucy (Dodge) Tuttle, accom- panied his parents to Antrim, and erected a dwel- ling house in the vicinity of Tuttle Mountain, on the old road just east of Samuel Dinsmore's farm. Later in life he removed to New Boston, where his death occurred in 1845. He married Jane Warren, of New Boston, and had a family of five children, namely: Lucy J .. Daniel M. C., Charles and Jo- siah W .. all of whom were morn in Antrim; and James M., who was born in New Boston.

(VII) James Moore, son of Jedediah and Jane (Warren) Tuttle, born at New Boston, November 8, 1821, died February 19. 1884. Ilc grew up on a farm and had the education the common schools of his time afforded, supplemented by a short course at Francestown Academy. When he was only three years old his mother died, and he went to live with the family of his cousin, John B. Warren, where he spent his youth. After his marriage he lived on a farm in New Boston, where his life was spent in agricultural pursuits and lumbering. He was a member of the Presbyterian church of New Boston. he married first. Esther Duncan Warren, daughter of Deacon Ephraim Warren, of Goffstown, by whom he had three children: George W .. and Jane, who died young, and Mary Esther, who married Charles C. Hadley, and died June 3. 1881. Esther D. Tuttle died December 30. 1853. and in 1855 Mr. Tuttle married Rachel Patterson McNeil. daughter of Deacon Peter McNeil, born September 13, 1829. They had three children : James Patterson, born in 1856; Granville Josiah, born October 6, 1861, now engaged in mercantile business in Hartford, Connecticut, and Harriet Shaw, born September 13, 1864. now a teacher in the schools of Manchester.

(VIII) James Patterson, son of James Moore and Rachel Patterson (MeNcil) Tuttle, was born

James M. Tutte

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in New Boston, July 17, 1856. He was educated in the common schools till fifteen years of age, and then attended the academy at Francestown till 1875. From 1875 to 1877 he was a student in the academy at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, where he com- pleted the course. During the winters of the years he was at Francestown and Ashburnham where he taught school. This work he made his profession after leaving the academy for five years. While engaged in this line of work he taught in Goffstown, An- trim, Weare, Amherst, and New Boston, New Hampshire, and in Townsend, Massachusetts. In ISSI he studied law in the office of Judge David Cross, of Manchester, and later with General John H. Andrews. He subsequently attended the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in June, 1885. He was admitted to practice in the courts of New Hampshire the same year, and opened an office in Manchester, where he has since been engaged in a successful and constantly increasing practice. In 1892 he was elected county attorney for the term of two years. He was re-elected to this position four terms more successively, making his continuous service in this office ten years. Mr. Tuttle was alone in the practice of law until he be- came one of the firm of Taggart, Tuttle & Bur- roughs, in 1901, which relation still exists. Mr. Tuttle is a Republican, and as such was elected in 1887 representative to the New Hampshire legis- lature from New Boston, where his legal residence then was. He is a Mason, and has membership in the following named organizations: Bible Lodge, No. 93, Goffstown; King Solomon Chapter, Mil- ford; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Manchester. He

is also a member of Ridgeley Lodge, No. 74, I. O. O. F., and Wonolancet Encampment, No. 2, Manchester ; Joe English Grange, No. 53, Patrons of Husbandry, New Boston, of which he has been a member thirty years, and Security Lodge, No. 8. Ancient Order of United Workmen.

He married, January 1, 1887, Elizabeth J. Bun- ten, who was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire, January 21, 1860, and who was a daughter of John D. and Elizabeth (Hobbs) Bunten, of that town. Mrs. Tuttle received her education in the public schools of Dunbarton, at Colby Academy, New London, New Hampshire, and at the New Hamp- shire State Normal School at Plymouth. She graduated from this academy in the class of 1879, and from the State Normal School in the class of 1886. All of her time following the completion of her academic education and prior to her marriage except the time devoted to her normal school course, was spent in teaching in the public schools of New Hampshire, principally in the towns of Dunbarton, Weare, Mont Vernon, New Boston and Lisbon. In the last named town she held the position of prin- cipal of the grammar school, just prior to her mar- riage. They have four children: Dora Morton, born September 21, 1888; Rachel Winnifred, born December 4, 1892; Florence Elizabeth, born July 22, 1894, and Margaret Esther, born January 30, 1896. all of whom are now being educated in the public schools of Manchester.

(Second Family.)

Three hundred years is a long time TUTTLE for an American family to dwell in one colony or state; yet it is ap- proaching that length of time that the Tuttles of New Hampshire have lived in this commonwealth, since the settlement of their ancestor on the coast near Dover. The family was not only an early one,

but it has ever been prominent from the earliest times down to the present day. In the wars with the savages and in the conduct of civil affairs, the name of Tuttle has been found written conspicuously on the pages of New Hampshire's history. Though prominent the Tuttles are modest, and have never claimed an unearned honor or contended for a place to which they were not entitled. Tuttle or Tuthill is a surname borne by families in New England for more than two hundred and seventy years. The English surnames, whence the surname Tuttle is derived, are Tothill or Tuthill, ancient family names in England. These surnames are said to be taken from names of old localities in England and Wales. Tuttle, the American surname, came to be gener- ally adopted by the second and third generations of descendants of the immigrant settlers, although some branches continue to this day to adhere to the English form of the surname. The second syllable of the English surname passed through every pos- sible change of spelling before it finally settled into its present form "tle."

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 5

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874