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The name Tucker is derived from an occupation essential to the wool trade, as are the names Walker and Fuller. All three names are taken from the job of walking on, washing, folding, and fluffing the wool cloth after it has been woven into thread and cloth. Wool in its first stages of preparation is a coarse and stiff material. The Walkers and Fullers beat the material and washed it to make if softer and the Tucker refined the cloth to give it fluffiness and body. The name Walker became common in the northern and central areas of England; Fuller in the south and east; and Tucker in the south and west. The traditional home of the Tuckers since early medieval times has been in the Barnstaple district of county Devon. Today, the family name is primarily concentrated in Devon, Dorset, and Wiltshire. The name is found on ancient English and early American records in the various forms of Tukere, Tuker, Toukere, Touker, Tucker, and others, of which Tucker is that most generally in use in America today. It is believed that the first of the family in England was John Tucker, who came with William the Conqueror in the year 1066, fought in the battle of Hastings, and was assigned large estates in the County of Devon. It is said that in the year 1110 his son, Stephen Tucker, was granted the privilege of wearing his hat in the presence of the King by Henry the First of England and was also granted the estate of Lamertin, near Tavistock, Devonshire. Among the earliest definite records of the family in England are those of Roger le Tukere of Dorsetshire in 1273; those of Percival le Toukere in 1301 as a man who makes a substantial living cleaning and thickening woolen cloth; those of Robert le Tuckere in 1321; and those of William le Touker about the same time. By the sixteenth century the name stabilized into its modern spelling and usage. It is not known from which of the illustrious lines of the family in England the first emigrants of Tuckers in America were descended, but it is generally believed that all the Tuckers trace their descent from a common ancestor of a remote period. Besides Captain Daniel Tucker, appointed Governor of Bermuda by the Virginia Company in 1616, there was a William Tucker in the Virginia Company at an early date and it is believed he was Daniel's son. William made his home in Elizabeth City, VA about 1610 and was the first justice of that place in 1632. The first of the Tucker name in New England appears to have been Richard Tucker who came from England to Casco, in the New England Colony, in 1634. Other Tuckers who settled in America in the 17th century were:
Another view is reported in the Family Origin and Coat of Arms referencing Matthew's - American Armory: “The family name of Tucker is Anglo-Saxon meaning to be doughty. Historical records consulted state that a Robert Tucker of Exeter County, Devon, England was granted his [Coat of] Arms before 1620. Among the Tucker families in England was a William Tucker, D.D., Dean of Lichfield and of East Grinstead County, Salisbury. The first descendant on record to come to America was Robert Tucker of Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1635. He came from Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England. He is reputed as having been a man of considerable wealth and a merchant. Descendants of the Tucker family can be found throughout our country, prominent in political, social, and economic affairs.? Henry "The Quaker" TuckerHenry Tucker, born in England about 1627, came to America from the County of Kent, England. He may have been a son of the Robert Tucker who came from England to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1635. Henry settled in the town of Milton, Massachusetts about 1650. He married Martha (unknown) on June 9, 1651, and they had seven children:
Not approving of the proceedings of the colonial government at Boston respecting the severe laws passed and judgments enforced against the Quakers, he left Milton and finally settled in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, within the limits of the Plymouth Colony, shortly after 1660. An inscription on a tree near the residence of Benjamin Tucker in Dartmouth, copied May 5, 1844: First Settled By Henry Tucker 1660 who died 1694 succeeded by son John who died 1751, aged 95 succeeded by son Joseph who died 1790, aged 94 succeeded by son John who died 1820, aged 88 In 1669 he bought from William Allen of Sandwich one third of the original shares into which the township as then held was divided. In 1679 he made another purchase from James Sampson of Portsmouth, RI, of a limited number of acres in the undivided lands of the town. By these, and perhaps other acquired rights, when the town was afterwards surveyed and divided among the proprietors in severalty, his two sons, Abraham and John (their father being deceased), became entitled to and received several hundred acres of land adjoining their respective homesteads. This land mostly remained in the possession of their descendants until within fifty or sixty years. It had, by 1883, all passed out of the name, except the homestead and some out-lots belonging to two of the Tuckers, which form part of the original tract settled by Henry, and laid out to his son John. These first settlers and their descendants were mostly farmers, and worthy and exemplary members of the Society of Friends. Living on their paternal farms, they pursued the even tenor of their ways in quietness and peace. Having the respect of their neighbors and the community, they were called occasionally by their townspeople to places of trust in town affairs, and more often by the society of which they were members to fill important stations and perform various duties therein. Henry Tucker died at Dartmouth on April 21, 1694, and his wife Martha died on Nov 9, 1697, also at Dartmouth.
Abraham TuckerAbraham Tucker, son of Henry Tucker, married Mary Slocum, the daughter of Giles Slocum, on October 30, 1679 in Dartmouth. Both he and Mary had been born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and it is likely that the Slocum family had moved to Dartmouth with the Tucker family. Abraham and Mary had five children:
Mary died on Sep 25, 1689, and Abraham married Hannah Mott on Nov 26, 1690. Hannah was born in 1663. Abraham and Hannah Tucker had seven children:
Abraham Tucker died at Dartmouth on March 16, 1724/1725. WILL ABSTRACT Will of Abraham Tucker of Dartmouth, Yeoman, dated 20 Nov 1724, probated 20 Apr, 1724/1725. Wife Hannah. Sons Henry (eldest) and Abraham (youngest) Tucker. Daughters: Mary Russell, Patience Wooley, Abigail Chase wife of Joseph Chase, Martha Thomas dcd, late wife of George Thomas of Portsmouth, Joanah Tucker, Ruth Tucker, and Hannah Tucker (last three under eighteen and unmar.). Grandchildren. Abraham Thomas (under twenty-one) and Mary Thomas (under eighteen) children of my dau. Mary Thomas dcd. "My seven Daughters Namely Mary Russel, Elezebeth Barker, Sarah Wing, Content Wing, Joanah Tucker, Ruth Tucker, and Hannah Tucker." Son Abraham as Exec. Overseers to be friends and brethren John Tucker and Jacob Mott. Witns: Richard Bourden, John Tucker, and John Howland. [5:79/80/81] ABSTRACT Inventory of Estate of Abraham Tucker of Dartmouth, Yeoman, dated 8 Apr 1724/5. Presented by Abraham Tucker of Dartmouth, son and Exec. Mentions: widows' cows, Abraham's cows, and steer belonging to Joannah, Ruth, and Hannah Tucker. Appraisers: John Akin, Nathaniel Soule, and Deliverance Smith. [5:86/7/8]
Abraham's wife Hannah died in Dartmouth on February 1, 1731. She died intestate. ABSTRACT Appointment of Abraham Tucker of Dartmouth, Yeoman, to be Adm. Of Estate of his mother Hannah Tucker of Dartmouth widow dcd intest., dtd 20 Nov 1739. [1731?] [9:298]
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