"Born in Bermuda in 1750, he lived during the early 1770s briefly in South Carolina and visited in Virginia, but then spent the rest of his life abroad, a student at Edinburgh, Leyden, and London, and was a physician in Yorkshire until his death in 1807. "- Schalene Jennings Dagitus.tangledrootsandtrees.blogspot.com .
"During the American Revolution, he thought of himself as a patriot marooned in an enemy land, able only to play a spectator poet's part in the struggle of his colonial countrymen for freedom."
Sources include : The Descendants of William Tucker of Throwleigh, Devon by Robert Dennard Tucker, reprint 1991. Poems of Nathaniel Tucker,William Rand Kenon Jr.
Additional info from a Find A Grave contributor added below 1-10-2020 regarding burial location and tombstone photo with inscriptions:
Tomb slab of Nathaniel Tucker (with his young son Abel) Is in East End of North Choir Aisle Hull Minster (formerly Holy Trinity Parish Church), Kingston-upon-Hull.
ABEL TUCKER Eldest Child of
NATHANIEL TUCKER M.D.
and JANE TUCKER, was born
October 5th: 1792, and departed this Life March 9th: 1798
In the Sixth Year of his Age
NATHANIEL TUCKER M.D.
departed this Life 28th: November
1807 Aged 57
After 22 Years Practice in
this Town.
Contributor: Doc M (46848801)
"Born in Bermuda in 1750, he lived during the early 1770s briefly in South Carolina and visited in Virginia, but then spent the rest of his life abroad, a student at Edinburgh, Leyden, and London, and was a physician in Yorkshire until his death in 1807. "- Schalene Jennings Dagitus.tangledrootsandtrees.blogspot.com .
"During the American Revolution, he thought of himself as a patriot marooned in an enemy land, able only to play a spectator poet's part in the struggle of his colonial countrymen for freedom."
Sources include : The Descendants of William Tucker of Throwleigh, Devon by Robert Dennard Tucker, reprint 1991. Poems of Nathaniel Tucker,William Rand Kenon Jr.
Additional info from a Find A Grave contributor added below 1-10-2020 regarding burial location and tombstone photo with inscriptions:
Tomb slab of Nathaniel Tucker (with his young son Abel) Is in East End of North Choir Aisle Hull Minster (formerly Holy Trinity Parish Church), Kingston-upon-Hull.
ABEL TUCKER Eldest Child of
NATHANIEL TUCKER M.D.
and JANE TUCKER, was born
October 5th: 1792, and departed this Life March 9th: 1798
In the Sixth Year of his Age
NATHANIEL TUCKER M.D.
departed this Life 28th: November
1807 Aged 57
After 22 Years Practice in
this Town.
Contributor: Doc M (46848801)
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