The Tucker Genealogy


Book Description

Gilbert Ruggles Tucker was born 9 January 1807 in Digby, Nova Scotia. His parents were Charles Tucker and Welthe Ruggles. He married Evelina Snyder 20 August 1831 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. They had nine children. They moved to Boston in 1849 and to Winona, Minnesota in 1855. Gilbert died in 1875 in Philadelphia. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nova Scotia and England.




The Ordeal of Thomas Barton


Book Description

This book explores the career of Rev. Thomas Barton. Barton's ministry illuminates life on Pennsylvania's pre-Revolutionary frontier. As missionary for the church of England, Barton championed the interests of the Anglican church and the proprietary of William Penn's children in a turbulent borderland best by both threats from the French and their Native American allies and challenges to English authority from a largely Scots-Irish Presbyterian population. Ultimately, his hopes were destroyed when revolution swept him to a life of loss in New York City, where he died. This study examines the tragic life of a mid-level Anglo-Irish placeman who sought to expand his opportunities in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania.--Dust jacket.