My 4th great-Grandpa.
Son of John Tousley and unknown; name spelled Tousley & Towsley on many documents and census'.
Believed to be siblings:
Sarah (m Jonathan Sprague)
Truman (m Ann Jane)
Henry (m Maria Thorp)
William (m Beda Hoskins)
Levi (m Hannah M. Dewey)
Married Rebecca Bishop about 1801. Children:
Harriet, Franklin, Aldridge, Joel F., John A., Lydia Ann, Sarah, Ephraim, Edmond, and Mary Rebecca.
WILL
TOUSLEY, John of Coventry; Dated 23 January 1851, Probated 22 October 1851; wife Rebecca, sons Joel, Franklin and Ephraim, daughter Rebecca Switzer, grandsons Ransom Arnold and George Triplet, granddaughters Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet; ... Wit: ...son-in-law Charles Switzer to be trustee for son Ephram who is not in state of mind to receive or use properly his bequest; Charles Switzer is also to be guardian of granchildren Ransom Arnold and George, Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet.
"In remembrance of Elbert & Olive Snyder" by Phoebe Brooks:
"In the first census of the United States (1790) there was but one Tousley family living in CT, and it was undoubtedly the oldest son of this family who in 1800 is recorded as having married Rebecca Bishop of Litchfield. The Tousleys were among the French Huguenots, who had been driven, two centuries before, by their Catholic persecutors to English or Dutch soil. They were the free thinkers of France, and many of them her best artisans and skilled workers.
"To John and Rebecca a son was born, Joel, in 1812, and four years later the family set forth from Litchfield; over the Alleghenys to settle in Springfield Township of Summit County, in Ohio."
Many thanks to Elizabeth Wilkerson for stone photo and to cousin Ramona for Tousley stone grouping photo.
Son of John Tousley and unknown; name spelled Tousley & Towsley on many documents and census'.
Believed to be siblings:
Sarah (m Jonathan Sprague)
Truman (m Ann Jane)
Henry (m Maria Thorp)
William (m Beda Hoskins)
Levi (m Hannah M. Dewey)
Married Rebecca Bishop about 1801. Children:
Harriet, Franklin, Aldridge, Joel F., John A., Lydia Ann, Sarah, Ephraim, Edmond, and Mary Rebecca.
WILL
TOUSLEY, John of Coventry; Dated 23 January 1851, Probated 22 October 1851; wife Rebecca, sons Joel, Franklin and Ephraim, daughter Rebecca Switzer, grandsons Ransom Arnold and George Triplet, granddaughters Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet; ... Wit: ...son-in-law Charles Switzer to be trustee for son Ephram who is not in state of mind to receive or use properly his bequest; Charles Switzer is also to be guardian of granchildren Ransom Arnold and George, Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet.
"In remembrance of Elbert & Olive Snyder" by Phoebe Brooks:
"In the first census of the United States (1790) there was but one Tousley family living in CT, and it was undoubtedly the oldest son of this family who in 1800 is recorded as having married Rebecca Bishop of Litchfield. The Tousleys were among the French Huguenots, who had been driven, two centuries before, by their Catholic persecutors to English or Dutch soil. They were the free thinkers of France, and many of them her best artisans and skilled workers.
"To John and Rebecca a son was born, Joel, in 1812, and four years later the family set forth from Litchfield; over the Alleghenys to settle in Springfield Township of Summit County, in Ohio."
Many thanks to Elizabeth Wilkerson for stone photo and to cousin Ramona for Tousley stone grouping photo.
My 4th great-Grandpa.
Son of John Tousley and unknown; name spelled Tousley & Towsley on many documents and census'.
Believed to be siblings:
Sarah (m Jonathan Sprague)
Truman (m Ann Jane)
Henry (m Maria Thorp)
William (m Beda Hoskins)
Levi (m Hannah M. Dewey)
Married Rebecca Bishop about 1801. Children:
Harriet, Franklin, Aldridge, Joel F., John A., Lydia Ann, Sarah, Ephraim, Edmond, and Mary Rebecca.
WILL
TOUSLEY, John of Coventry; Dated 23 January 1851, Probated 22 October 1851; wife Rebecca, sons Joel, Franklin and Ephraim, daughter Rebecca Switzer, grandsons Ransom Arnold and George Triplet, granddaughters Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet; ... Wit: ...son-in-law Charles Switzer to be trustee for son Ephram who is not in state of mind to receive or use properly his bequest; Charles Switzer is also to be guardian of granchildren Ransom Arnold and George, Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet.
"In remembrance of Elbert & Olive Snyder" by Phoebe Brooks:
"In the first census of the United States (1790) there was but one Tousley family living in CT, and it was undoubtedly the oldest son of this family who in 1800 is recorded as having married Rebecca Bishop of Litchfield. The Tousleys were among the French Huguenots, who had been driven, two centuries before, by their Catholic persecutors to English or Dutch soil. They were the free thinkers of France, and many of them her best artisans and skilled workers.
"To John and Rebecca a son was born, Joel, in 1812, and four years later the family set forth from Litchfield; over the Alleghenys to settle in Springfield Township of Summit County, in Ohio."
Many thanks to Elizabeth Wilkerson for stone photo and to cousin Ramona for Tousley stone grouping photo.
Son of John Tousley and unknown; name spelled Tousley & Towsley on many documents and census'.
Believed to be siblings:
Sarah (m Jonathan Sprague)
Truman (m Ann Jane)
Henry (m Maria Thorp)
William (m Beda Hoskins)
Levi (m Hannah M. Dewey)
Married Rebecca Bishop about 1801. Children:
Harriet, Franklin, Aldridge, Joel F., John A., Lydia Ann, Sarah, Ephraim, Edmond, and Mary Rebecca.
WILL
TOUSLEY, John of Coventry; Dated 23 January 1851, Probated 22 October 1851; wife Rebecca, sons Joel, Franklin and Ephraim, daughter Rebecca Switzer, grandsons Ransom Arnold and George Triplet, granddaughters Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet; ... Wit: ...son-in-law Charles Switzer to be trustee for son Ephram who is not in state of mind to receive or use properly his bequest; Charles Switzer is also to be guardian of granchildren Ransom Arnold and George, Mary Rebecca and Harriet Triplet.
"In remembrance of Elbert & Olive Snyder" by Phoebe Brooks:
"In the first census of the United States (1790) there was but one Tousley family living in CT, and it was undoubtedly the oldest son of this family who in 1800 is recorded as having married Rebecca Bishop of Litchfield. The Tousleys were among the French Huguenots, who had been driven, two centuries before, by their Catholic persecutors to English or Dutch soil. They were the free thinkers of France, and many of them her best artisans and skilled workers.
"To John and Rebecca a son was born, Joel, in 1812, and four years later the family set forth from Litchfield; over the Alleghenys to settle in Springfield Township of Summit County, in Ohio."
Many thanks to Elizabeth Wilkerson for stone photo and to cousin Ramona for Tousley stone grouping photo.
Inscription
"John Tousley
Aug 23, 1851
Aged 65 yrs."
