Eliakim Tupper, II

Male 1711 - 1761  (49 years)


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  • Name Eliakim Tupper 
    Suffix II 
    Christened 22Jun 1711  First Parish Church, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Born 20 Jun 1711  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 28 Feb 1761  Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10056  OGrady Family Tree
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 

    Family Mary Bassett,   b. 24 Dec 1709, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1753, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married 28 Mar 1734  Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. William A. Tupper,   b. 6 Jul 1735, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1803, Machias, Washington, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  [Birth]
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 
    Family ID F3845  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • "was born in Sandwich, Mass., 20 June 1711. He married first, 28 Mar 1734, Mary Bassett of Sandwich, born 24 Dec 1709, died in Lebanon, Conn., 24 Mar 1753, daughter of William and Abigail (Bourne) Bassett; and secondly, in Lebanon, 7 Sept. 1753, Mrs. Martha Clark of Simsbury, conn., widow of Dr. Wade Clark, who had at least two children by her previous marriage.

      Eliakim livved in Sandwich until shortly after the birth of his first child, when it is believed he moved to Plymouth, Mass., in 1736, about the time his parrents and the rest of the family left Sandwich for Lebanon, Conn. He and his wife became members of the church in Plymouth in 1737, and town records show he was chosen a petit juror in town meeting 24 Dec. 1739, for similar duty again 13 Dec. 1746, and was a representative to the Assembly in 1742. Births of three children are recorded in Plymouth. About 1750 he joined his relatives in Lebanon where his two youngest children were born and his wife died. In 1760, with his brother Elias, he joined a group of Connecicut farmers who, with their families, migrated to Nova Scotia, settling on lands granted them in Cornwallis. Although Eliakim died there the first winter, 28 Feb 1761, the family remained and his son, Charles , became founder of the extensive Canadian branch of the Tupper family, who with descendants of Elias(4) and of his cousin Nathan (4), the pioneer of Queens County, N.S., constitute not less than one third of all Tuppers living on the North American continent today." from Tupper Genealogy by Eleanor Tupper.