DESCENDANT LINE:
Peter TUFTS (1617 - 1700) & Mary PIERCE (~1627 - 1703)
James TUFTS (1649 - 1675) & Elizabeth WELLS (~1650 - 1674)
James TUFTS Jr. (1672 - 1733) & Ruth GRIMES (1681 - 1721)
James TUFTS III (1702 - 1767) & Lydia HALL (1705 - 1753)
Elizabeth TUFTS (1732 - 1754) & Samuel TEEL (1725 - 1773)
Jonathan TEEL (1754 - 1828) & Lydia CUTTER (1757 - 1831)
Thomas TEEL (1799 - 1873) & Susan FROST (1801 - 1866)
Abner Gardner TEELE Sr. (1837 - <1870) & Ellen SMITH (~1847 - )
Gardner Abner TEELE Jr.* (1868 - ) & Emma A (1868 - <1920)
Louis Gardner TEELE Sr. (1889 - 1982) & Grace BOULTON (1890 - 1943)
Louis Gardner TEELE Jr. (1913 - 2004) & Margaret Catherine SLINE (1943 - )


(His father James was) “Among the teamsters killed at Bloody Brook. Like many others killed in the battle, father James Tufts was young and unmarried. He did have a son, however: his namesake James Tufts. The child's mother was Elizabeth Wells, later Bathrick. Although the Tufts family initially denied that James had impregnated Elizabeth, the child was completely accepted into the Tufts family. Peter Tufts, grandfather of the child, raised him and named him in his will. Elizabeth Wells Bathrick died in 1674, a year before the battle at Bloody Brook. The child James Tufts was thus orphaned as an infant.


Burial:
Salem Street Burial Ground
Medford
Middlesex County
Massachusetts, USA
Plot: 427