Posted by Thomas Taylor on April 12, 1999 at 00:20:45:
JACOB TUCKER, Son of Jacob & Hannah (Lambert) Tucker, born 12 Jun 1787 Westfield, New Jersey; died 5 Jan 1862 Covert, Seneca County, New York, aged 74, buried Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, Seneca County, New York; he married MARY SOPER/SINCEED, born 17 Apr 1795 New Jersey; died 21 Oct 1868 Covert, Seneca County, New York, aged 73, buried Lake View Cemetery, Interlaken, Seneca County, New York.
Children:
i. HANNAH TUCKER, b. 1810 Scotch Plains, NJ; d. 1892 Hector, Schuyler Co., NY m. Abraham Covert, b.1800; d. 1889 Hector, Schuyler Co, NY.
ii. AMANDA TUCKER, b. circa 1812 Scotch Plains, NJ; m. Leonard Kimball.
iii. ELIZA TUCKER, b. 1813 Scotch Plains, NJ; m. James Wilkin, b. 1816 Seneca Co., NY.
iv. EPHRAIM TUCKER, b. 1816 Warren, Somerset, NJ; d. 1816 Warren, Somerset Co., NJ; buried Mt. Bethel Baptist Church Yard, Somerset Co., NJ.
v. EZRA D. TUCKER, b. 1817 Warren, Somerset, NJ; d. 1898 Enfield, Tompkins Co., NY; m. Caroline Lanning, b. 1817; d. 1894 Enfield, Tompkins Co., NY.
vi. JAMES TUCKER, b. 1820 Seneca Co., NY; d. 1865 Danville Prison, Danville, VA; m. Matilda Wilkin, b. 1818 Ulysses, Tompkins, NY; d. 1891 Covert, Seneca, NY.
vii. SUSAN P. TUCKER, b. 1825 Seneca Co., NY; d. 1908 Lodi, Seneca, NY; m. William Miller; b. 1823; d. 1896 Lodi, Seneca Co., NY.
viii. MARIA TUCKER, b. 1827 Seneca Co., NY; m. Amos Van Ormen, b. 1824 NJ.
1811 Scotch Plains Tax List: Jacob Tucker.
1814, 15 Feb. Jacob Tucker bought 24 acres, bound by David Smalleyıs land, in Warren, Somerset County. (Somerset Co., NJ Deed Book H, 261)
1819, 17 May. Jacob Tucker sold his acreage in Warren Township to John Wilson (Somerset Co., NJ Mortgage Book I, 511-512) and moved his family to Seneca Co., NY.
1820 US Census: Ovid, Seneca County, NY: Jacob Tucker 2 males under 10, 1 male 26-45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 16-26.
1830 US Census: Ovid, Seneca County, NY: Jacob Tucker 2 males 10-15, 1 male 40-50,
1 female 0-5, 2 females 5-10, 2 females 15-20, 1 female 30-40.
1850 US Census: Covert, Seneca County, NY: Jacob Tucker cooper 72 born NJ, Mary 54, born NJ.
1869 Indenture made 1 Oct 1869 between Amanda Kimball, Maria VanOrmer & Hannah Covert, Ezra D. Tucker, Susan Miller, Eliza Wilkin, Sandford Tucker & Mary E. Tucker heirs at law & next of kin of Jacob Tucker late of Covert, Seneca County, New York.
1908 Town of Ovid death certificate #2239 issued 17 Sep 1908 for Susan (Tucker) Miller identifies her mother as Mary Sinceed, born NJ. John Littell in Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley listed Jacobıs wife as Polly Soper.