Oldest Working Farm in New England for Sale

This farm has been in the same family for 378 years.  John Tuttle first got a grant in 1642 (not 1632) and the owner is his direct descendant William Tuttle.  I am not a Tuttle descendant myself (so far as I know), however, James³ (John^2-1) married Rose Pinkham, sister of my director ancestor James³ Pinkham, so if the line went through him, I am a distant cousin of this family.  I probably am somehow, considering all the New Hampshire inbreeding!  

It is indeed something that a farm has been in the same family longer than the U.S. has been a country!

Comments

[Heather Rojo]

I had the same thought when I read that the Red Barn was up for sale. John Tuttle came to America on board the "Angel Gabriel" and I'm descended of half of those passengers. I'm also cousins to Tuttles through Abbotts, and other New Hampshire families. A similar situation came up about ten years ago when a Cogswell property was up for sale in Ipswich. I wish I could win Megabucks and buy up the Red Barn, because it will probably be bought by developers and subdivided.

[Martin Hollick]

Hate to be a wet blanket, but . . . There were two John Tuttles in early New England. One is the man in Dover, from whom the New Hampshire Tuttles descend (including the farmer). The other John Tuttle came to Ipswich. He came on the ship Planter in 1635 not the Angel Gabriel. He married in England Joan (Antrobus) Lawrence and she, her mother Joan (Arnold) Antrobus, and her four Lawrence children, John, William, Mary, and Thomas all come over together. See “The Great Migration Immigrants to New England 1634-5” by Robert Charles Anderson, (Boston, MA, NEHGS, 2005) Volume IV and Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines vol. 1 (1943) and vol. 2 (1931). The Burnham brothers also were not on the Angel Gabriel. Youll note that they do not appear in the Great Migration 1634-1635 and in the Mary Lawrence sketch, Thomas Burnham is noted as arriving in 1642 in Ipswich. See: http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/planter.htm for an online source.

[Heather Rojo]

Your right, I have my John Tuttles mixed up.

[Bruce Roberts]

Martin, I'm puzzled. You say "The Burnham brothers also were not on the Angel Gabriel." Do you perhaps mean that they weren't on the Planter? Looking at the 1635 passenger list for the Angel Gabriel (from the site you posted recently) the three Burnham brothers are indeed listed as passengers:

http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/gabriel.htm

I thought their presence in the shipwreck drama was well established.

[Martin Hollick]

Yes they were not on the Angel Gabriel. I will be doing a full posting on this.