John TUTTLE (1618 – 1663) was Alex’s 10th Great Grandfather, one of 2,048  in this generation of the Shaw line. His farm, Tuttle’s Red Barn, is  the oldest continually operating family farm in the United States, having passed down through 11 generations.

John Tuttle was born 1618,  in Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England, His parents were Simon TUTLE and Isabel WELLS. He sailed from Bristol, England in the Angel Gabriel in 1635.   The day after John and his fellow passengers disembarked, it  was caught at anchor and destroyed  by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.   The ship sank along with all of the passengers’ worldly goods, and taking the lives of several crew members who were attempting to save the vessel.  John first came to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and by 1640, to Dover, New Hampshire.  He married  Dorothy ERNST on 1641 in Dover, NH.   John died Jun 1663 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire.

Dorothy Ernst  was born 1620 in England. She died after 30 Jun 1663.

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