Biography
Nathan Tufts Jr. helped pay for the men sent to New York in 1776 and served 82 days with Capt. Benjamin Blaney’s guards at Cambridge in 1778.
Service Record
Town: Medford · Dates: [dates not confirmed]
“Tufts, Nathan, Jr. Account of money paid by persons to hire men who went to New York in Sept., 1776, examined and allowed by a committee at Medford Jan. 13, 1777; also, Private, Capt. Benjamin Blaney's co., Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt. of guards; joined Jan. 12, 1778; service to April 3, 1778, 82 days, at Cambridge.”
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, vol. XVI (1907), p. 137
Family Connection
Family placement not yet established from a cited source.
Relatives with profiles on this site: father William Tufts Jr. (1736–1782), “William Tufts, 4th” in Brooks; grandfather Lieut. William Tufts; brother Uriah Tufts (1768–1837). Brooks, p. 552, says no. 341 is the “Same as No. 291,” the son of no. 290, William 4th.
Spouse(s)
- Sarah Trefray. Married February 22, 1776.
“341 NATHAN Tufts , jun. , m. Sarah Trefray , Feb. 22, 1776”
Charles Brooks, History of the Town of Medford (1855), Register of Families, p. 552. Page scan · Text (Perseus)
Authoritative IDs / Index Numbers
| Source | ID / status |
|---|---|
| Perseus person index (auth=) | auth=tufts,nathan. This is a name-level key shared by every Nathan 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. | No. 341 (same as 291), p. 551–552 |
| Mass. Soldiers and Sailors | vol. XVI, p. 137 |
| 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 | Brooks’s register (above) is drawn from Medford town and church records; printed VR volume and page not yet checked |
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
His dates and whether he is Nathan the Charlestown tanner (see Businesses). Compare also Nathan Tufts (15-7).
From Cutter’s Memoirs (1910)
“Nathan, born May 16, 1734, baptized May 18, 1760.”
Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, vol. II, p. 1199. Page (Internet Archive) (As read in the scanned text.)
Cutter thus names Nathan as the eldest child of William Tufts Jr. and his wife Susannah, matching Brooks’s placement above.
⚑ Unverified
Birth year: the scanned text prints 1734, which is before his father’s birth in 1736 and must be a misprint or scanning error. 1754 is the likely reading; the printed page has not yet been checked against the scan.
Cutter’s Tufts sketch (vol. II, pp. 1198–1200) is a compiled family history of 1910, written for a descendant’s line. Quotes are from the Internet Archive’s scanned text, checked against the printed page numbers.
Source added: William Richard Cutter, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910).
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.
Digitized Books and Journals
- Charles Brooks, History of the Town of Medford (1855), Register of Families, p. 552. · Page scan
- Charles Brooks, History of the Town of Medford (1855), Register of Families, p. 552. · Text (Perseus)
- Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs, vol. II, p. 1199. · Page (Internet Archive)