Posted by Thomas Taylor on April 11, 1999 at 23:51:14:
JACOB TUCKER, Son of Warner & Elizabeth (Lambert) Tucker, born 1742 Westfield, Essex County, New Jersey; died 21 May 1807 Westfield, Essex County, New Jersey, aged 65, buried Baptist Church Yard, Scotch Plains, Essex County, New Jersey; he married HANNAH LINE, daughter of Henry Line of New Jersey, born 1745 New Jersey; baptized 25 Mar 1795 Scotch Plains Baptist Church; died 13 Jul 1798 Westfield, Essex County, New Jersey, aged 53, buried Baptist Church Yard, Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey;
Children: (probable all born in Westfield, New Jersey)
i. WORNER TUCKER, b. 1765; d. 13 July 1777 Westfield, NJ; buried Baptist Church Yard, Scotch Plains, NJ
ii. SAMUEL TUCKER, b. circa 1770; m. 1804 Polly Tucker.
iii. ABNER TUCKER, b. circa 1772; m. 1795 Jemima Frazee.
iv. ALFRED TUCKER, b. circa 1774.
v. NANCY TUCKER, b. 1778; d. 1846 Romulus, Seneca, New York; buried Kendaia Cem. Romulus, NY; m. 1798 David J. Smalley, b. 1775 Somerset Co., NJ; d. 1857 Romulus, Seneca, NY; buried Kendaia Cem. Romulus, Seneca, NY.
vi. MARGARET TUCKER, b. 1780; m. 26 Aug 1797 William Townley.
vii. EPHRAIM TUCKER, b. June 1787; d. 11 Sep 1792 Westfield, Essex, NJ; buried Baptist Church Yard, Scotch Plains, NJ.
viii. JACOB TUCKER, b. June 1787; d. 1862 Covert, Seneca, NY; m. MARY Soper/Sinceed, b. 1795 NJ; d. 1868 Covert, Seneca, NY.
1777, 22 September. Jacob Tucker mustered as a Second Lieutenant with Captain Benjamin Laing's Company, 1st Essex Militia, New Jersey Regiment during the American Revolution. (NJ Archives: Revolutionary War Records)
1781 New Jersey Tax Lists: Westfield, Essex County: Jacob Tucker.
1796 New Jersey Tax Lists: Westfield, Essex County: Jacob Tucker.
1807, 29 May. Samuel Tucker, Jacobıs eldest surviving son, as well as Jacobıs son-in-law David J. Smalley, and John Shaw appointed administrators of Jacobıs estate.
1807, 30 May. Jacob Tucker late of the Township of Westfield in the County of Essex died intestate, and the inventory of his estate, made a little over a week after his death, came to the modest amount of $26.65. Included among his effects were his wheelwright patterns, which indicated his occupation.