Jonathan TUCK
Biography

Jonathan, fifth son and ninth child of Deacon Jonathan and Tabitha (Towle) Tuck, was baptized October 10, 1736, at Hampton, New Hampshire. He inherited one-half of the paternal homestead, and occupied the south half of the dwelling-house. On October 30, 1766, he married his first wife, Betsey, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Moulton) Batchelder. who was born September I, 1742. She died April 3, 1772, in her thirtieth year, leaving one daughter, Betty, born April 8, 1768. Betty Tuck married (first) Simeon Leavitt, of Kensington, New Hampshire, and (second) John Parker, of Exeter, an Englishman by birth. Jonathan Tuck's second wife was Huldah Moulton, daughter of John and Mary (Marston) Moulton. who was born in Hampton, September 11, 1746. There were four children by this marriage: Josiah, born April 19, 1773. Jonathan, January 30, 1776. Samuel, September 18, 1778. John, a posthumous child, born August 23, 1780, one month and three days after the death of his father. Of these children. Jonathan was thrice married, and lived at the Isles of Shoals, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Parsonfield and Portland, Maine. He died at Effingham, this state, at the age of eighty-three. Jonathan Tuck, the second son, was by trade a carpenter, but followed the sea the last ten years of his life. He never married, and died at Saint Bartholomew, West Indies. August 2, 1809, in his thirty-fourth year. Captain Samuel Tuck married Abigail Carter, of Exeter, and spent most of his life in Parsonfield, Maine, where he was engaged in farming, dying at the age of eighty-two... Jonathan Tuck, the father of this family, died July 20, 1780. at the early age of forty-three. His widow outlived him nearly forty-five years, removing some time after her husband's death to Parsonfield, Maine, where she died February 6, 1825, in her seventy-ninth year.

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, Volume 1
by Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker
Published January 1, 1908, Lewis Publishing Company



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