Job Tyler
c. 1619–1700
Birth c. 1619 • Cranbrook, Tunbridge Wells Borough, Kent, England
Death 14 DEC 1700 • Mendon, Worcester, Mass
Before I could share about this ancestor's life, I first had to look at 23 hints about him on his Ancestry site. I already knew his birth, marriage, children, and parents, and his own death dates and places. But oh my, there were 23 other things about him that I had to check. Some were duplicates, some were the wrong person, some were voluntarily given by members that didn't have any records to go with them. So off I go, another hour of checking for data!
I list him today because I have no certain date of his birth to celebrate.
The first hint on Acestry I notice is that of him being married to his grandmother. You wouldn't believe how many times stuff like this happens, which takes sometimes hours to straighten out if you add it to your tree by mistake! That's not one I'll include in my tree.
Next I find a wonderful family history of the Tylers, with Job (or Jobe) as the first immigrant to America. What luck, pages and pages about him...so unfortunately I can only summarize, because these are included as documents of Ancestry, which don't save in any way except very poor screen shots.
I'll try to keep track of what they say...not the whole 13 pages, but some of the pertinent information that is documented.
He was known in Newport RI arriving on May 20, 1638. (The dates often are given as the "second month," but I remember that at that time March was the beginning of each year). (Source Rhode Island Collections p. 92)
By 1650 he had moved to Andover, and also spent some time in Roxbury MA, according to several old records. Earliest settlers to Andover thought he might have been the "solitary man" that was living there when they arrived in 1639-40 (by legend, since no records exist before 1650 in Andover.
The 1650 date is when he mortgaged his property to John Godfrey of Newbury. This apparently is considered the "beginning of his troubles." (Source: Boxford History, Andover Rec. Bk iv, p 8) This mortgage is documented several ways, including a description by Job in 1662 of it.
All of the information I'm relating is from "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000." It is cited quite often in Ancestry.
However there are more legal documents about Job's troubles. In 1658 he and his wife Mary brought a complaint of witchcraft to the same John Godfrey who held his mortgage, a suit which continued until 1665. He also disputed his son's apprenticeship to another man, to the extent that when he lost the case, he was required to post an apology in public places. However the apology gives very cryptic denouncements of the person he had slandered. It doesn't seem to deal directly with why he didn't want his son, Hopestill to have fulfilled his apprenticeship.
He continued to have squabbles with his neighbors with various court documents given in "North America, Family Histories" pp 3-16.
He also in 1662 began to be situated in Roxbury, having some documentation about that area, such as a Native American saying Job cut and carried off his hay. He was living in the Mendon area by 1669 where a complaint was issued that he refused to help dig the cellar for the minister. In Mendon he took part in a lottery to double his land size in 1671. He apparently gave satisfaction to those who accused him of not helping with the cellar digging, because in Dec. of that year he helps in the confirmation of the first minister for that area.
He and all the inhabitants of Mendon fled (1676?) at the outbreak of King Phillips War with the Native Americans. That's also when a grandchild was born in Roxbury. He may also have had connections still in Andover, (1681) and yet he pays for minister's fees in Mendon in 1688-91 and 1695.
In 1700 he signed a deed to his son, Moses in Mendon. There are no further documents with his name.
But the interesting part of the treatise given in "Family Histories" is how it mentioned that there had been about 3000 Tyler descendants in the three centuries since his life. In 1901 a memorial was erected in Andover, MA in his honor. Prof. Henry Tyler of Smith College (a Tyler descendant) gave the dedicatory address, and his comments are included in the "Family Histories"
His son, Hopestill had a daughter, Mary, who married Steven Farnham, and eventually their descendants led to my grandmother Ada Swasey Rogers. So Job Tyler would be my 9th great grandfather.
Today's quote:
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| The Tyler Homestead in West Boxford, Massachusetts, is the earliest home known of the Job Tyler family. Job, the first Tyler known in America, came to Boxford in 1640 and was one of the very first settlers in the community of Boxford. The first Tyler home was built on a tract of land at the corner of Ipswich Road and Main Street. The hearth of that very early structure is still in the rear of the large white house, sometimes known as the Boxford House. (Listed as "Witch Hollow House") |
Next I find a wonderful family history of the Tylers, with Job (or Jobe) as the first immigrant to America. What luck, pages and pages about him...so unfortunately I can only summarize, because these are included as documents of Ancestry, which don't save in any way except very poor screen shots.
I'll try to keep track of what they say...not the whole 13 pages, but some of the pertinent information that is documented.
He was known in Newport RI arriving on May 20, 1638. (The dates often are given as the "second month," but I remember that at that time March was the beginning of each year). (Source Rhode Island Collections p. 92)
By 1650 he had moved to Andover, and also spent some time in Roxbury MA, according to several old records. Earliest settlers to Andover thought he might have been the "solitary man" that was living there when they arrived in 1639-40 (by legend, since no records exist before 1650 in Andover.
The 1650 date is when he mortgaged his property to John Godfrey of Newbury. This apparently is considered the "beginning of his troubles." (Source: Boxford History, Andover Rec. Bk iv, p 8) This mortgage is documented several ways, including a description by Job in 1662 of it.
All of the information I'm relating is from "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000." It is cited quite often in Ancestry.
However there are more legal documents about Job's troubles. In 1658 he and his wife Mary brought a complaint of witchcraft to the same John Godfrey who held his mortgage, a suit which continued until 1665. He also disputed his son's apprenticeship to another man, to the extent that when he lost the case, he was required to post an apology in public places. However the apology gives very cryptic denouncements of the person he had slandered. It doesn't seem to deal directly with why he didn't want his son, Hopestill to have fulfilled his apprenticeship.
He continued to have squabbles with his neighbors with various court documents given in "North America, Family Histories" pp 3-16.
He also in 1662 began to be situated in Roxbury, having some documentation about that area, such as a Native American saying Job cut and carried off his hay. He was living in the Mendon area by 1669 where a complaint was issued that he refused to help dig the cellar for the minister. In Mendon he took part in a lottery to double his land size in 1671. He apparently gave satisfaction to those who accused him of not helping with the cellar digging, because in Dec. of that year he helps in the confirmation of the first minister for that area.
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| Job Tyler family home |
He and all the inhabitants of Mendon fled (1676?) at the outbreak of King Phillips War with the Native Americans. That's also when a grandchild was born in Roxbury. He may also have had connections still in Andover, (1681) and yet he pays for minister's fees in Mendon in 1688-91 and 1695.
In 1700 he signed a deed to his son, Moses in Mendon. There are no further documents with his name.
But the interesting part of the treatise given in "Family Histories" is how it mentioned that there had been about 3000 Tyler descendants in the three centuries since his life. In 1901 a memorial was erected in Andover, MA in his honor. Prof. Henry Tyler of Smith College (a Tyler descendant) gave the dedicatory address, and his comments are included in the "Family Histories"
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| Cemetery, North Andover, MA |
Today's quote:
These are times in which
a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the
repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Abigail Adams
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