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     John Tucker was born on 23 January 1599 at Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England. He was baptized on 31 January 1599 at Gravesend, Kent, England, (Milton Church.) He (1) married Mary Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson and Margaret (?), circa 1644 at Hingham, MA.¹ John Tucker (2) married Hannah Wines, daughter of Barnabas Wines.¹ John Tucker died in 1692 at Setauket, Suffolk County, NY.

     Anna Maria Tudor was baptized on 10 April 1698 at New York City (DRC) (sponsors: Jan Van Hoorn and Anna Maria Van Hoorn, widow; father Jan Tudor jr, mother Aefje Van Hoorn.)^1,2

     Johannis Tudor was baptized on 6 October 1700 at New York City (DRC) (sponsors: Gerret Van Hoorn and Anna Maria van Hoorn, widow; father Jan Tudor, mother Aefje Van Hoorn.)^1,2

     Aaron V Tuers was born circa 1830 at New Jersey. He (1) married Matilda (?) Aaron V Tuers (2) married Martha L Richardson, daughter of Isaac Richardson and Matilda Baines, on 14 September 1867 at Anne Arundel County, MD.² Aaron V Tuers died before 1880.

     The 1860 census lists Aaron V Tuers and Matilda at Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD, with Elizabeth (1, b. MD) and Charles (3, b. MD). Aaron is listed as born in New York.³ Aaron V Tuers was a sailor.^3,4 The 1870 census lists Aaron V Tuers and Martha L at Annapolis, MD, with Harrison, Mary and Arthur (14, b. NJ, 12 and 10, b. MD), and (on the next page) Matilda Richardson (54, b. VA.)⁴
     This is possibly the Aaron V. Tuers, who in about 1860 settled in Maryland. We have NO proof of this individual. In his record of marriage to Martha L Richardson, he is listed as a widower.
     We have few primary sources for this individual. We are basing our conclusion on the available evidence, given that his grandfather's name was Aaron Vanderbilt we find the coincidence significant to note since Aaron's mother, Sarah Prior Vanderbilt similarly bears the name of her maternal grandmother. This naming convention was frequently used by early Dutch descendants who had abandoned the patronymic, but still retained similar family naming traditions. We have also found other reference to the family members, including Aaron Tuers widow' traveling back to New Jersey and living with family in the area of Abraham Tuers' farm.
     We also find him in the Anne Arundel, Annapolis, MD Federal 1860 Census as Aaron Tuers, and again in the 1870 Census as Aaron Tours, both in Annapolis, Maryland, but with different wive's names and children's names. Based on the ages of the children and Martha, age 22, in 1870, it is not biologically feasible for these to be her children, but may be children by Aaron's former marriage.⁵

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Abraham Tuers married Catherine Marie Sandford. Abraham Tuers died on 1 March 1856 at Hudson County, NJ.² He was buried in Sandford Burying Ground in Kearny.

     This record is tenuously based solely on the minimal records we have found, noting that Abraham is s/o William; that an Abraham Tuers is buried at Sanford Burying Ground alongside Catherine Tuers (most likely Catherine Sandford); and, that William is s/o Abraham and Catherine Tuers due to death date and correlation with grandfather's name. Corrections are invited and welcome.

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Abraham Tuers was born circa 1810.

     Church records note that he is "of Newark."¹

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.^2,3,4

     Abraham Tuers was born on 27 November 1821 at Belleville Twp, Essex County, NJ.^2,3 He was baptized on 24 March 1822 at Second River (Belleville), NJ, (DRC.)⁴ He married Leah Ann Garrabrant, daughter of Michael Garrabrant and Annatje (Hannah) Van Winkle, on 3 June 1850. Abraham Tuers died on 17 February 1890.²

     Acc. to Second River DRC records: b. Jan 1822, bap. 4 Mar, Abraham, son of Garret Tours and Hiley Kingsland. Abraham Tuers was a blacksmith.⁵
     In the 1850 census in Bergen (Hudson County) there is a Abraham Tuers (age 19, wagon maker, Value of Real Estate 2000) with Leah A. Tuers (age 31), Cornelius (age 3) and Abraham Seeley (age 19, wagon maker). It is unclear, why James Turse mentions him, as that Abrm is 10 yrs younger than Abraham Tuers. Leah's age is also several years of, as she would have been c. 23. The Cornelius shows up in the 1870 and 1880 census with a wife Catherine and several children, the eldest being a Leah.⁶

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Abraham A Tuers was born on 1 February 1789 at Passaic, NJ, (possibly 1793 Lodi, Bergen, NJ, but then baptism is wrong also.) He was baptized on 22 February 1789. He married Sarah Prior Vanderbilt, daughter of Aaron Vanderbilt and Ariantie Vanderhoef, on 1 January 1827 at Bergen, NJ, (DRC.)³ Abraham A Tuers died in August 1854 at New Barbadoes, Bergen County, NJ, (unconfirmed.)^4,5

     Accounts of the death date of Abraham A. Tuers vary, with summaries of the court case involving his estate placing "death" either in 1850 or 1854. In either event, he was deemed dead, and without a will, and the estate was divided by the court in 1862, with a value of about $150,000. It was an important enough case that it was subject of an article in the New York Times. Several accounts of the case are available, and we hold two accounts in file. It looks to this researcher, that his son, Abraham A. Tuers, Jr. took off to the California Gold Rush that began in 1849, and no intention of returning.^4,5
     Excerpted from: Stewart, Vol. VIII. WILLIAM W. HOYT and wife v. WILLIAM TUERS et al.
     Abraham Tuers died intestate in 1850, seized of lands in Hudson county, and leaving six children and two grandchildren, his heirs-at-law. One of the sons, Abraham A. Tuers, Jr, left New Jersey in 1854, leaving his wife and children here, and never returned. For twenty years his family neither saw him nor heard from him, but heard that he was dead. In 1874 they ascertained that he was living in California, and one of his sons, William, saw him there. He died in 1877. In 1862, under proceedings in the orphans court of Hudson county, the lands of Abraham Tuers were partitioned, the heirs-at-law of Hoyt v. Tuers. Abraham A. Tuers being made parties thereto. On an allegation of his death intestate, and by sundry means conveyances thereunder, the defendants claim parts of the premises. In 1871, Abraham A. Tuers executed a conveyance in California in favor of Hoyt, the complainant, of all his property, real and personal, in New Jersey; and in July, 1874, another, conveying, inter alia, all interest etc. as one of the children and heirs-at-law of his father and mother, or either of them; and in August, 1874, another, conveying, by specific ?metes and bounds, the lands set off to Abraham A. Tuers's heirs-at-law in the partition of 1862. On a bill for a partition, filed by Hoyt, in chancery, against the defendants as part owners of the premises, and also to set aside the partition of 1862, the defendants, by answer, set up that Abraham A. Tuers (Jr.) was, when he made the alleged conveyances to Hoyt, incompetent to make them, by reason of unsoundness of mind, and that they were obtained by fraud. - Held, that the complainant's title being denied, the suit would be stayed, to afford the complainant an opportunity to establish the title at law, and that although evidence was adduced in this cause on the subject of the defence to the deeds, the defendants were nevertheless entitled to try the question of the validity of complainant's title at law.
     Bill for partition. On final hearing on pleadings and proof. Mr. John J. King and Mr. P. Woodruff, for complainants. Mr. Edward Q. Keasbey, for Newark Land Company and others. Mr. G. W. Hubbell, for Francis Sipp and others.
     THE CHANCELLOR. The complainants seek to set aside a partition of land in Hudson County, made in the orphans court of that county in 1862, and to partition the property in this court. The wife joins her husband as complainant only in view of her claim of inchoate right of dower in the property to which her husband claims title. The land was owned by Abraham Tuers, who died in 1850 intestate. At his death his heirs-at-law were his six children and two grandchildren, the children of a deceased daughter. In 1862, application was made to the orphans court by his son William for partition of the property. From the order appointing the commissioners, it would seem that, in his petition (it is lost, and no copy of it is produced), the petitioner stated that his brother Abraham (generally known as Abraham A. Tuers) was dead, and had died intestate, and that among his heirs-at-law were two minors, Andrew and Eliza Tuers, two of his children. The property was found, capable of being partitioned without great prejudice to the interests of the owners, and was divided accordingly, and the partition confirmed. The persons to whom two of the shares were assigned in the partition, conveyed them to the Newark Land Company, and that company claims them, and also part of another of the shares conveyed to it in like manner. Abraham A. Tuers in 1854 left this state, leaving his wife and children here, and never returned to it. He went to California, and remained there up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1877. His son William having heard that he was in California, went there in 1874 and saw him there. William testifies that he neither saw nor heard from his father for twenty-two years after the latter left this state, and that the family had heard that he was dead. In March, 1871, Abraham A. Tuers executed a conveyance in California, in favor of Hoyt, for all his right, title and interest of, in and to all his property, real and personal, in New Jersey, and especially all his claims to the estate of his father and mother, or the estate of either of them. On the 1st of July, 1874, he executed a deed to Hoyt, by which, in consideration of $1,000, as expressed in the deed, he conveyed a tract of land of one hundred and ten acres, or thereabouts, in this state, described in the deed as being situated in Morris county, about six miles from Morristown, and about three miles from Rockaway, and the same land occupied and possessed by the grantor in person, and by his family, and at that time occupied by William Tuers, his son. The deed conveyed, also, all other pieces, parcels, tracts, lots or bodies of land or real estate in New Jersey which he owned, or of, in or to which he had any kind, nature or character of right, title, claim or interest, legal or equitable, whether the same had been acquired by purchase, bequest, devise, descent or otherwise, and also all the interest, right, title, claim and demand which he then had or might thereafter have or be entitled to as one of the children and heirs-at-Iaw of his father and mother.
     In August, 1874, he executed another deed to Hoyt, which, after reciting that he had executed and delivered the deed, of July preceding, and that it contained no specific or accurate description of any real estate, but did contain general and comprehensive reference to the grantor's real estate in this state, and that he intended thereby to convey to Hoyt the land thereinafter more specifically described and bounded, conveyed to ?Hoyt, for a nominal consideration, the land set off in the partition as the share of his, the grantor's, heirs-at-law, and nothing more. William M.Tuers testifies that, when he went to California, he reached Sacramento City June 29th, 1874, and left there for home on the 4th of July following. He says that he told Hoyt and Hoyt's lawyer and his father, while he was there, that the partition had taken place. Hoyt alleges that the description of the share was inserted by mistake - that it was supposed to be the description of the whole of the land in Hudson county of which Abraham Tuers, his grantor's father, died seized. The answering defendants object to the bill as being multifarious, inasmuch as it seeks, as they insist, to rectify the alleged mistake in the last-mentioned deed, and also to set aside the partition in the orphans court, and obtain a new one. It is enough to say, on this point, that were the objection well founded, it would, in this case, come too late, since it was made for the first time at the final hearing. It is not well founded, however. The bill does not pray a reformation of the deed. But, without considering any of the other objections made by the answering defendants to a decree for partition, it is sufficient at this stage of the proceedings to say that the complainant's title, which is a legal one, is disputed; and it is an established rule of this court that where the title of the complainant in a partition suit is disputed (unless it is an equitable one), this court will not settle it on the hearing, but will compel the complainant to establish it at law first, and the bill will be retained until he shall have so established it. The land company, by its answer, expressly denies the validity of the deeds to Hoyt, and avers that the grantor therein was, when they were executed.⁴

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.^2,4

     Abraham A Tuers Jr. was born on 3 February 1829.² He married Sarah C Ford, daughter of Lewis Ford and Rhoda Riggs. Abraham A Tuers Jr. died on 11 April 1909 at Morris County, NJ.^2,3,4

     The 1880 census lists Abraham A Tuers Jr. and Sarah C at Hanover, Morris County, NJ, with their children William and Andrew. They are living next door to Mahlon Ford, age 57, Sarah Ford's brother.^4,5

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Ada B Tuers was born on 25 September 1885 at Riverton, Franklin County, NE.² She (1) married Fremont C Canfield. Ada B Tuers (2) married Charles A Hibler, son of Simeon Hibler and Anna Higgins, on 8 October 1917 at Battle Creek, MI.³ Ada B Tuers died on 12 April 1955 at Saginaw, MI.²

     The 1910 census lists Fremont C Canfield and Ada B, with his step-son Clyde L Tuers and his father-in-law Alford C Tuers.⁴ The 1920 census lists Charles A Hibler and Ada B at Detroit City, Wayne County, MI, with their son Clyde L Canfield.⁵
     In the 1900 censes a Ada Canfield, age 29, as Head of Household with sisters Mary W, age 25, and Carolyn, age 16 is listed in Saginaw, Saginaw County, MI. Cannot confirm this Ada Canfield as Ada Tuers since DOB doesn't correlate. Married name: Canfield. Name variation: Hibler.

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Albert Bartholf Tuers was born on 25 July 1836 at Passaic, NJ.² He was baptized on 5 November 1836 at Pompton Plains, Morris County, NJ. He married Priscilla Demarest, daughter of Jacobus J Demarest and Mehitable Bogert, on 28 August 1862 at Dumont, NJ, (Old North Church.)³ Albert Bartholf Tuers was buried in January 1907 in DRC Cemetery in South Schraalenburgh.⁴ He died on 6 January 1907.

     Randolph's notes say on page 93 #313 that Samuel Jacob is "said to be son of Al Tuers and a Miss Demarest", but this is not consistent with his other records of the marriage. It is also not consistent with The Demarest Genealogy, in our file, shows Albert Bertolph born 1837, married Priscilla Demarest.^2,4 Albert and Priscilla lived in Teaneck, NJ in 1895 according to the NJ State Census. Albert was a Civil War veteran and is buried at the South Schraalenburgh Churchyard Old North Reformed Church Cemetery, Dumont, Bergen, NJ

The Demarest Genealogy, in our file, shows Albert Bertolph Tuers born 1837, married Priscilla Demarest.
RES 1895, Teaneck, NJ, NJ State Census.⁴ He was a blacksmith.⁵ He was Dutch Reformed. Name variation: Albert Bertolph Tuers.

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Albert Bartolph Tuers was born on 27 December 1887.²

     General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Alford C Tuers was born on 27 December 1847 at Coldwater, Branch County, MI.² He married Nancy Ann Preston in 1877. Alford C Tuers died on 22 January 1921 at Coldwater, MI.

     The 1900 census listed Cornelius Tuers in Jared Lorenzo and Viola F Hickey's household.³ The 1910 census listed Alford C Tuers in Fremont C and Ada B Tuers's household.⁴
     B. 1847. In 1850 (Tours), 1860 (Tuers) and 1870 (Tuers) Cornelius is enumerated with Walter, Alford C. is not. In 1900 Cornelius (indexed as Ivers) lived with his sister Viola. In 1910 Alfred C. (age 63) is listed in his daughter's household. Name variation: Alford Cornelius Tuers. Name variation: Cornelius Tuers.⁵

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.^1,6

     Amos Lorenz Tuers was born on 24 April 1883 at Franklin, Nutley, Essex County, NJ.^2,3 He died in April 1969 at Manasquan, Monmouth County, NJ.⁴

     Amos Lorenz Tuers was a stock clerk at L. Bamberger & Co.³
     WW I Registration lists his sister Mary Elizabeth Tuers, as NOK living at 26 Woodland Ave, Nutley, Essex, NJ. At 35 years of age, Amos was apparently not married.
     In 1945 he lived in Asbury Park and worked as a helper for Style Molders in Manasquan during his later years.³

General source(s) for this information, see footnotes.¹

     Andrew Jackson Tuers was born in 1846 at Hanover, Morris County, NJ.² He (1) married Lydia A Smith on 28 June 1868 at Morristown, Morris County, NJ.^3,4,5 Andrew Jackson Tuers (2) married Frances Smith, daughter of John J. Smith, on 18 March 1896.⁶ Andrew Jackson Tuers died in 1911 at New Jersey.⁷

     He served in the Civil War with the New Jersey Volunteers, Company L, 27th Regiment. The 1880 census lists Andrew Jackson Tuers and Lydia A at ED 119 at Hanover, Morris County, NJ, with their children Richard, George, Charles, Loretta and Lydia.⁸ The 1885 census lists Andrew Jackson Tuers and Lydia A, with their children Richard, George, Charles, Loretta and Lydia.⁹
     Andrew was a mason. The 1897-1898 Vogt Brothers Complete Morris County , NJ Directory, has the following listing:
[LIND:Tuers, Andrew, mason
Tuers, Charles A., mason
Tuers, George, mason
Tuers, Richard E., mason.