Biography
John Tufts served as a private and farmed on Prospect Hill, in what is now Somerville.
Service Record
Town: Prospect Hill (Somerville) · Dates: [dates not in extract]
Private in the Revolution; farm on Prospect Hill [Somerville]; estate inventory $6,390 real estate and $1,195 personal. (Tufts Kinsmen, Vol. I, p. 175, family no. 49-2)
Family Connection
Family number 49-2 in Tufts Kinsmen, Vol. I. Parents are not named in the extract seen.
Spouse(s)
Not found in the sources checked (Brooks 1855 Register of Families; Wild; Find a Grave data on file; Tufts Kinsmen Vol. I extract).
Authoritative IDs / Index Numbers
| Source | ID / status |
|---|---|
| Perseus person index (auth=) | auth=tufts,john. This is a name-level key shared by every John Tufts in Perseus, not a personal ID. Use it with the passages cited on this page. |
| Find a Grave memorial | Note: Pending further work. |
| Brooks, History of Medford (1855) register no. | Checked, no entry confidently matched |
| Tufts Kinsmen, Vol. I family no. | 49-2 |
| Mass. Soldiers and Sailors | Not yet checked for this page |
| DAR ancestor no. | Note: Pending further work. |
| FamilySearch ID | Note: Pending further work. |
| Geni profile | Note: Pending further work. |
| WikiTree ID | Note: Pending further work. |
| Town / vital records | Medford VRs not yet checked by volume and page |
Only IDs confirmed against dates and family are given as matches. “Not yet checked” means the source has not been searched; “Checked, not found” means it was searched without a match.
⚑ Unverified
Birth and death dates are not in the extract. No other source on this site has yet been checked for this man.
Pictures
Links and Resources
Every source, record, map, survey, marker and artifact tied to this person, gathered in one place. Page numbers are given where a book is cited.
Maps, Surveys and Artifacts
- — Prospect Hill Monument, Somerville, Mass.. The monument in Prospect Hill Park, Somerville, on the hill where American troops gathered and fortified in 1775. Photographed in 2012. Tufts association: Se
- Source: Wikimedia Commons — …on the hill where American troops gathered and fortified in 1775. Photographed in 2012. Tufts association: Service of James Tufts Jr. (36-2) and John Tufts (49-2); see their profiles for the cited records.Image: Daderot. CC0.