This page is for current research projects. It is intended to show what I am working on before I present the full story. Some of these projects will come from inquiries from readers, or researchers. Typically, these projects will include ongoing stories or projects with chapters already posted on this blog or Tufts Kinsmen Association blog. My Tufts military stories and documentation will continue and be posted to Tufts Family Genealogy’s list and often to the TKA website. The TKA website here also has a research page. I will try to cross post these projects there as well.
(scroll down for the headings for details on each project listed below. I will update them in red as information is added.)
Current projects:
- . Nathan Tufts family pictures
- African American Georgia Tufts family
- Deacon John Tufts shipwreck story
- Tufts DNA project(s)
- John Tufts, Sally Tuft/Bentley research
- William Tuffs/Tufts Indiana DAR research and discoveries
- Governor Fuller Tufts of Massachusetts portrait
- DAR/SAR Tufts soldiers
- Tufts soldiers’ continuing project
- Francis Tufts of Maine and Ohio
- Gershom Tufts of Nova Scotia research
Nathan Tufts family pictures
Here is the link for the story of these pictures we would love to find some family to return these.
African American Georgia Tufts family
This post from 2020 could be a very extensive project. I have a few contacts willing to do some research and some that have started some trees. It involves the descendants of Georgia with the last name Tufts. I have a lot of information for anyone interested in adding to this story.
Deacon John Tufts shipwreck mystery
This post in two parts is about John Tufts of Windham, New Hampshire and Belfast Maine is about an Irish immigrant shipwrecked and orphaned who may be mistaken for John Tufts in our Peter Tufts families.
Tufts DNA Project
This project is on hold for lack of participation
John Tufts Sally Tuft/Bentley research story added 2-25-2024
This project is an inquiry. I am looking for any assistance with this family research for a reader who is trying to confirm this line with a name anomaly.
John Tufts family; Sally Tuft/Tufts Noah Bentley research
This inquiry project came in last year and I researched it for a while with the inquirer and never got the story finished.
The family of John Tufts of Ashford, Connecticut is well recorded in the Tufts Kinsmen book. The family had come to Ashford in just the second generation from Peter Tufts (the immigrant to Charlestown, Massachusetts from Norfolk County, England). The Tufts were instrumental in establishing the church in Ashford and John Tufts (the subject of this project) served in the Revolutionary war. His pension documents were instrumental in the research of his movements with his family.
The issue we had is that his daughter married Noah Bentley and the record states he married Sally TUFT. I think it is just an error, but it would be instrumental in filing for SAR or DAR eligibility, so I wish to straighten it out. The inquirer is insistent there could have been a TUFT and TUFTS families in New York where they were married. Here are the details:
Peter Tufts and Mary Pierce (the immigrant ancestor)
Peter Tufts and Elizabeth Lynde (of Charlestown, Massachusetts)
Peter Tufts and Deborah Lawrence (of Ashford, CT)
Aaron Tufts and Bridget Utley (Ashford, CT)
John Tufts (1755-1835) and Abigail (unknown) (Tufts Kinsmen number 22-1) had Abigail and Sally
Abigail Tufts (1777) may have died young.
Sally Tufts (1783) born in Ashford, CT married Noah Bentley or?
John Tufts census and pension record indicate a record of grand service. He joined Captain Starr’s Company as early as 1775 and saw service at Fort George and Ticonderoga, New York. In 1776 he marched with the Connecticut troops and served around Boston. When the Connecticut troops then went to Long Island, he returned home sick only to sign up again in 1778 seeing duty at West Point and White Plains, New York until the end of the war. Then he left Connecticut and moved to Stephentown, New York in 1786.
Tufts Kinsmen states Sally Tufts and Noah Bentley were married before 1800 but the record has not been found. The New York record seems to come from a book called Bentley Gleanings and is a collection of remembrances from family members. Sally’s name is spelled at least three different ways in that book. I have not seen a record of the marriage of Sally and Noah, but they claim it was in Stephentown or Sand Lake, New York, where Sally and Noah settled and had a very large family. (Noah had 2 previous wives.) SEE BELOW
There were also some notes collected by family that were passed along. There are several great clues to look for the actual records, but I have not been able to find the marriage of Noah Bentley and Sally Tufts anywhere.
Noah and Sally’s children: (Tufts Kinsmen lists William, Noah, Zaphora, Benjamin, Clark, and Cynthia). The list below is from the Bentley family notes. The last item show John Tufts pension record.
Any help finding the real records for this marriage or disproving it would be a great help. There are some trees on ancestry.com which indicate another marriage picture for Noah Bentley to a Sarah Tefft. There are no records of this marriage, the dates do not match but all possibilities are open for discussion. There are some Bentley researchers who have been thorough in their research so likely they have the records, or they are somewhere in New York. The New York census records indicate there were TIFT families in Stephentown when John Tufts was there to add confusion, but I have never seen Tufts confused for TIFT.
This last picture is from John Tufts pension record which states he was living in Stephentown in 1786 and later removed to Ludlow, Massachusetts.
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