History of George Tucker II, Esq. (1560 - 1625)
History of George Tucker II, Esq. (1560 - 1625)
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George Tucker II
armiger, Freeman
(1560 - 1625)
Born in 1560. He studied law at the Inner Temple in London, and was a ‘Freeman’ of Gravesend.17c Lived at Milton Next, Kent County, England. Married first to Elizabeth Stoughton, in 1592.18 She was the daughter of Francis and Agnes (???) Stoughton of Crayford, Kent County, England; second to Mary Darrell (see Darrell family history). Elizabeth died 10 August 1597, at Milton Next, Kent County, England, three months after giving birth to her daughter Esther.
At St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Church, located at Milton-next-Gravesend, was erected between 1323 - 1377, under the patronage of the Countess of Pembroke. On large parchments, bound in leather with brass corners:19
“Marche 1601 - Elizabeth ye daughter of Geo-
rge Tucker was baptized on ye five and twenty
day.”
“Marche 1602 - Maria ye daughter of George
Tucker Gent was baptized on ye four and twenty
day.”
“1604 - Robert ye sonne of George Tucker Gent
one of the Burghers at this font was baptized ye
VII of June.”
Additional children are found in the years 1599 and 1612.
The Manor of Milton was not purchased by George II until 29 November 1609:
“A grant to George Tucker, Esq. and his heirs
in fee simple of the Manor of Milton in the
County of Kent of the yearly value of £41-7-2
(at the humble petition of William Garwey,
Francis Jones, and others in part satisfation
of £60,000 delivered by them for His Maj-
esties use) namely in full payment of £1654-
6-8 at 40 years purchase subscribed by the
Lord Treasurer and Sir Julius Caesar and Sir
Thomas Lake.”
The farmers of the great farm of the Customs produced £60,000 not only once, but later a second time. In the value of 1969 currency that amounted to £2,400,000. 18 The Garwey family were members of the East India Company, and it was they who first advertised the use of tea as a drink in 1658.
George was a member of the Warwick Party in the Virginia Company.20 19 In 1609 King James I conveyed Milton Manor to George.
The second charter for the Virginia Company of London was granted by King James I on 23 May 1609, Daniel Tucker was on that list, and that of his brother George II’s name is listed on the third charter. In the beginning Bermuda was called the “Plantacon of the Somer Islands,” more commonly known as “The Bermuda Company.” The Tucker brothers held shares in this company of 117 noblemen and merchants. Daniel had four shares in the Warwick Tribe (tribe is used instead of parish)and the same in the Southhampton Tribe.20a George had ten shares in Warwick Tribe. George acquired a large amount of land on the island of Bermuda, where he gave the land for St. Anne’s Parish church to be built at Port Royal.
Daniel was made the first Governor of the second charter in 1616, and is remembered as a very driven man. He had constant conflicts with the colonists over planting crops, building the community, etc. He did much for the survival of the people on the island. But when he left in 1619 to return to England on the vessel ‘The Blessing,’ the colonists were over joyed.
The island has many Tucker attractions: In St. George Tribe (county/parish) there is the Tucker House, and in the Castle Harbor area is Tucker Town. Southhampton is associated with St. Anne’s Parish, where many early Tucker records can be found. It was here that Governor Daniel built his mansion.
George Tucker II died 26 December 1625, at Milton Next, England.
Will of George Tucker
“The Will of GEORGE TUCKER of Milton
next Gravesend, co. Kent, Esq., dated 11
November 1622. To be buried in Milton
under my stone. To Mary, my wife, all corn
and grain and household stuff. To my son
Robert Tucker £300, to be paid him when
twenty-four at or in the porch door on the
south side of the Gravesend parish church.
To my sons Henry and Daniell 500 marks
each. To my daughter Maria Tucker £500
when twenty-one. My daughter Ann Tucker
has already been provided for in marriage.
To my daughters Sarah, Martha, and Hester
Tucker £500 apiece when nineteen, in per-
formance of an indenture made 16 Feb-
ruary, 41 Elizabeth (1598/9), between me,
George Tucker John Darell, Esq., deceased,
my wife’s father, and Sir Robert Darell, Knt.,
her brother. Residuary legatees: my wife
Mary and my eldest son, George Tucker.
Executrix: my wife Mary. Overseers: my
brothers Sir Robert Darell, Knt., and John
Darell, Esq. To Mary, my wife, my dwel-
ling mansion in Milton called Sir Thomas
Wyatt’s place, for one year, and then to my
son George Tucker. To my son George, my
manor of Milton and land purchased from
John Childe and James Crispe, Sir William
Page, Knt., and Henry Stacie, executors of
the will of STephen Colt, and lands bought
of _____ Peers and Bradbent and of one
Anne Barnes, widow, at Dorkenstile, with
remainder to my sons John, Robert, Henry,
and Daniell, successively. My son John is
to have the lands settled for my heirs male,
my annuity from the manor of Mallgraves,
co. Essex, and other lands in Hornedon on
the Hill, my ten parts and shares in the Sum-
mer Islands als Barmother purchased of Sir
Robert Mansfeild, Knt., two shares purchas-
ed of John Watts, Esq., and four shares pur
chased of Sir Thomas Smith, Knt. To my wife
for life and then to my son John lands bo-
ught of the Earl of Salisbury in co. Kent.
Witnesses: Lawrence Loulase, Francis Jack-
son, William Pepper, and Thomas Bolke.
“Codicil, dated 14 December 1625. As I
have given to my son John lands purchased
of George and Thomas Morris and lands
purchased of Roger Gardiner in Lower
Sherne which cost me near £800, the six-
teen shares of the Summer Islands are to go
to my son George; he giving my wife half
the profits, and my son is to do the best for
his brother Daniell in those shares lately
given him by his uncle, Capt. Daniel Tucker.
To the poor of Gravesend £10 and to the
poor of Milton £10. To the poor of Hoo,
Chalke, and Norfleet, each parish, 40s. Wit-
nesses: Martin Stower, minister, Edward
Tenche.
“Proved 14 January 1625/6. Administration
was granted, 1 July 1630, to Sir Nicholas
Salter, creditor, the executrix being dead.”
(P. C. C., Hele, 5.)20b [1]
George II and Elizabeth (Stoughton) Tucker had two children.
CHILDREN
1. George Tucker III - Born 4 March 1593/
1594. Married to Elizabeth Sedley. He died
in 1639/1640. (Mentioned in uncle James
Darell’s Will dated 25 August 1638.)
2. Esther Tucker - Born 29 August 1596 at Mil-
ton Next. She died on 13 May 1597.
George II and Mary (Darrell) Tucker had nine children:
CHILDREN
3. John Tucker - Christened 31 January 1599/
1560. Married to Anne Proude, three children.
Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
4. Elizabeth Tucker - Christened 5 March 1601.
Married to Thomas Leggatt.
5. Marie Tucker - Christened 17 March 1602.
Married to Francis Langworth. She died 29
January 1701 at Willington, Kent County,
England.
6. Robert Tucker - Christened 7 June 1604. Mar-
ried to Elizabeth Allen. He died 15 October 20
1647, at Port Royal, Bermuda.20c
7. Anne Tucker - Christened 3 October 1605.
Married on 5 April 1624, to John Best.
8. Sarah Tucker - Christened 10 February 1606.
Married on 17 February 1630, to Robert
Thompson, at Little Chart, England.
9. Martha Tucker - Christened 19 May 1608.
10. Richard Tucker - Christened 10 September
1610. He died 11 September 1610.
11. Henry Tucker - Christened 26 January 1611/
1612. Married to Sarah Turner. Mayor of Gra-
vesend & Milton in 1637. He was Secretary
of Bermuda. He died in 1687 in Bermuda. All
the children were born in Bermuda.21
11.1. Henry Tucker -
11.2. Capt. John Tucker - Born 1645. Married
to Elizabeth Francis. He died 1715. Re-
placed father as Secretary of Bermuda.22
11.2.1. John Tucker -
11.2.2. Major Henry Tucker -
11.2.2.1. John Tucker - Married to Mary
Jennings Sandys, Bda. He died
1770, and was Chief Justice.
11.3. Henry Tucker - Born 1649.
11.4. Daniel Tucker - Born 1652.
11.5. Mary Tucker -
11.6. George Tucker - Born 1656.
11.7. Jonathan Tucker -
12. Bridgett Tucker - Christened 26 December
1613. She died 28 July 1616.
13. Hester Tucker - Born 13 August 1615. She
died after 1625.
14. Nicholas Tucker - Chrsitened 24 September
1616. He died 11 October 1616.
15. Daniel Tucker - Born 21 November 1619. He died 1639.
Of the above children, only three emigrated to Bermuda; Robert, Henry, and George III. After 1637, the Tucker surname is not found in the area of Milton-next-Gravesend.
During the early 1600s there came to Bermuda, a Matthew Tucker, who so far is of no relations.
ENDNOTES
15 John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, “Tucker, The Visitation of Kent, 1619-1621,” The Harleian Society. V. 42. (London: 1898) Pp. 3-4. (FHL-BRITISH 942 B4h V.42.) p. 3.
15a Ephriam Tucker, (tucker mass p. 19).
16 Julia E. Mercer, Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982) Pp. 223-227, “Tucker.” (FHL-LATIN AMERICA 972.99 D2mj.)
17 “Milton Manor,” The Bermuda Historical Quarterly. V. 26. (Hamilton, Bermuda: Bermuda Historical Quarterly, 1969) Pp. 69-71. (FHL-LATIN AMERICA 972.99 B2b v. 26.)
17a Robert Dennard Tucker, The Descendants of William Tucker of Trowleigh, Devon. (Spartenburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company Publisher, 1991).
Tucker mass, p. 19.
17b “Milton Manor,” The Bermuda Historical Quarterly. V. 26., p. 69.
17c Tucker, (church rec).
17d Tucker, p.23.
18 Tucker, (another death date & place: Will dated 7 March 1681-82, Milton, Massachusetts, p.23).
19 Beverley Randolph Tucker, Tales of the Tuckers. (Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Printing Company, 1942) Pp. xv-xxi. (FHL-USA/CAN 929.273 T795t.)
20 Mercer, p. 224.
20a P.C.C. Hele, p. 5.
20b [1] New England Historical Genealogical Register. 1922, pp.232-238; by Rufus Stickney Tucker, Ph.D., of Cambridge, MA. Retyped and reformatted by Kathy Leigh, Aug. 25, 2003; [2] Vide supra, p. 231; This testator was uncle of John, Robert, Henry, and Daniel Tucker, and brother-in-law of George Tucker, the testator of 1622. [3] Vide supra, p. 234, second footnote. This testator was half brother of John, Robert, and Henry Tucker, and ancestor of some of the Tuckers of the Bermuda Islands; birth & marriage data, http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Douglas-1050 posted by Deborah Welder.
20c Mercer, pp. 226-227.
21 Mercer, p. 223.
22 “Outline Chart Tucker Family,” The Bermuda Historical Quarterly. V. 18. (Hamilton, Bermuda: Bermuda Historical Quarterly, 1961) (FHL-LATIN AMERICA 972.99 B2b v. 18.)