Elizabeth Ezra Perry 12 Feb 1651Massachusetts, USA. Ezra 1625 Bridford, Devon, England; 16 Oct 1689Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Age: 71

Benjamin Dinah Swift 1695Massachusetts, USA. Dinah (daughter of William Swift, Jr and Ruth Dillingham Tobey) 15 Jan 1669 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; 05 Nov 1688Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Remembrance Thomas Tupper, IV 1717Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Thomas (son of Thomas III Tupper and Mary Stocklen) 25 Jul 1693 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; 20 Feb 1739Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Simeon Tupper Sr. was born in 1729 in Stoughton Massachusetts (15 miles SW of Hingham). He had seven brothers (Mayhew, Seth, Reuben, Judah (died as baby), Levi, Judah, and Benjamin) and one sister (Joanna).

Simeon Tupper Sr. married a lovely young lady from Dorchester Massachusetts named Anne Capen. Simeon Sr. was a cordwainer by trade. A cordwainer (or cordovan) is somebody who makes shoes and other articles from fine soft leather. The word is derived from "cordwain", or "cordovan", the leather produced in Cordoba, Spain. Historically, there was a distinction between a cordwainer, who made shoes, and a cobbler, who repaired them.

Simeon and Anne had four sons ( Simeon Tupper Jr., Thomas, Ebenezer, and John) and four daughters (Elizabeth, Hannah Susan and Lois). In 1762 the family moved to Pittsfield Vermont. Simeon Jr. was born in 1765. In January 20, 1777 Thomas Tupper joined the Continental Army mustering in the town of Ashuelot Equivalent. He was recruited by Truman Wheeler, who was the Muster Master for the county. He entered the army as a private under Colonel John Bailey's 2nd Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted for two years. His company camped at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777/1778. The army was poorly supplied and ill equipped for the winter. They suffered hardship and many did not survive the winter. He died serving his country in battle at the age of 24.

Simeon Tupper Sr. had enlisted early in the war, on August 4, 1775, and his first mission was to March from Pittsfield to Canada. The regiment was dismissed on December 30, 1775 after 22 weeks and 2 days of service. Just before Thomas' death, Simeon Tupper Sr re-enlisted along with his son Simeon Jr., joining the Continental Army in 1781. Simeon Sr was 51 years old and Simeon Jr. was 16 years old. Simeon Jr. was only 5' 3" when he enlisted. They joined in early 1781 both for a three year enlistment. They were assigned to a regiment commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper (Simeon Srs. brother). Benjamin was in the army for six years, and the most noteworthy events for his regiment were Ticonderoga and Valley Forge. The conflict ended in 1783 and the Tuppers returned to their home in Pittsfield Vermont.

Source: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution Volume 16, pages 148-149


Died:
Age: 82

Levi Eunice Crandall 21 Nov 1752Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. Eunice (daughter of Samuel Crandall and Sarah Worden) 24 Jan 1737 Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA; 1759Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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* From Ohio History Central
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Benjamin Tupper was a prominent early settler of the Northwest Territory.

Tupper was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1738. As a young boy, he served as an apprentice to a tanner. He remained an apprentice until he reached the age of sixteen. Tupper then became a farm hand. In 1756, he enlisted in a military company and fought for the English in the French and Indian War. He married in 1762 and supported his family by teaching school. Once the American Revolution began, Tupper enlisted in the Continental Army. He fought in several major battles and attained the rank of brigadier general before retiring in 1783.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Tupper was one of the 288 officers who signed the Newburgh Petition. These men hoped that the new government would pay its soldiers with land from the Ohio Country. Following the war, Tupper served in the Massachusetts legislature and assisted the state militia in putting down Daniel Shays' rebellion in 1786. In the same year, he helped Thomas Hutchins survey the Seven Ranges. He used the knowledge he gained while surveying to help the Ohio Company of Associates. The Company soon received permission from the Confederation Congress to establish settlements in the Ohio Country.

Tupper traveled west with the original Ohio Company settlers and helped found Marietta. He served on various committees responsible for building roads, determining where new settlements were to be founded, and where various flour and sawmills were to be located. On September 9, 1788, Tupper and Rufus Putnam became the first judges in the Northwest Territory. Tupper lived in the Northwest Territory for the remainder of his life. He died on June 7, 1792.

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* RevWarTalk.com Bio *
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During 1788, Benjamin Tupper and other pioneers of the Ohio Company of Associates arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. In August 1788, he invented a screw propeller, positioned in the stern of a boat, and turned with a crank. Manasseh Cutler wrote about the propeller that “It succeeded to admiration, and I think it a very useful discovery.” During September 1788, Benjamin Tupper and Rufus Putnam were the justices of the first civil court in the Northwest Territory. Benjamin Tupper was a prominent member of the pioneer settlement of Marietta. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and an original member of the American Union Lodge No. 1 of Freemasons at Marietta, along with several others including his son Anselm Tupper, William Stacy, and Rufus Putnam.

Benjamin Tupper’s sons were Maj. Anselm Tupper, Gen. Edward W. Tupper, and Col. Benjamin Tupper, Jr. His daughters were Sophia, Minerva, and Roewena, who married Gov. Winthrop Sargent in the first marriage ceremony in the Northwest Territory. Another daughter, Huldah, died young.

Benjamin Tupper died in June 1792. A visitor to the Marietta settlement witnessed the funeral, and wrote that: Gen. Tupper, who had died the day before, was buried on the 17th. In consideration of the four different offices which he held, firstly as General in the service of the United States in the late war; secondly as member of the Cincinnati order; thirdly as director of the Ohio Company; and fourthly as master among the Freemasons, therefore, because of these positions, great honors were shown his remains at the funeral.”

Benjamin Tupper is buried with many other Revolutionary War soldiers and pioneers at Mound Cemetery in Marietta.

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* From https://www.washingtongov.org/228/History-of-Washington-County
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Appropriated Lands & The Ohio Company

In 1776, Congress appropriated lands to officers and soldiers of the army. In 1783 the Newburgh Petition of 285 Continental Army officers was presented to Congress asking for western lands to be located in the country which is now approximately the eastern one-half of the State of Ohio.

Following this General Putnam and Gen. Benjamin Tupper founded the Ohio Company which met in Boston March 1, 1786 when they decided to raise funds in continental certificates for buying western lands in the Western Territory and making a settlement.

Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler, one of the Directors of the Company, was employed to purchase of Congress land for the Company and in July 1787 went to Continental Congress. He helped frame the Ordinance of 1787 which allowed for the purchase of 1,500,000 acres located on the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. Marietta, the county seat, was settled on April 7, 1788 as a result.

Benjamin Huldah White 18 Nov 1762Plymouth, MA. Huldah 1739; 1812Marietta, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]