My father, John L. Wiggins, corresponded with many people over many years searching for our family's ancestry. This letter really just concerns the Tuttles, but may be of some interest to others of you.

H.W. Goforth
PO Box 722
Lenoir, NC
January 18, 1960

Dear Mr. Wiggins,
Your letter of Jan. 3 asking about the (book) Tuttle Genealogy which you addressed to my maternal Uncle George (85+) Anson Tuttle of near Lenoir, was passed on to his younger sister Miss Lelia (81+) J. Tuttle, retired Methodist missionary, and was by her mailed to me for attention.
Aunt Lelia (born 1878), the youngest child in the family of my grandfather (Benedict Marcus Tuttle -1821 - 1904), now has possession of "The Tuttle Family" compiled over a period of 40 years by George Frederick Tuttle, in 1880s (1880-1883) and published by the Tuttle Company of Rutland, Vermont. This book has some 792 pages and covers quite well the descendants of William Tuttle ( c.1609-1673) and wife Elizabeth (c.1612 - 1684). They reached Charles Town (Boston) on the PLANTER, in 1635 and removed to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1639, where they died and are buried. They were parents of 12 children, 10 of whom married and raised families. A granddaughter of William's son Joseph married a grandson of William's son Simon. The couple were therefore 2nd cousins and our Tuttle line has double descent from William and Elizabeth, the immigrant ancestors from England.
The above-mentioned couple who were 2nd cousins were Ephraim Tuttle, son of Timothy, and his bride Hannah Pangborn, daughter of Joanna Tuttle and husband Stephen Pangborn. The 10th child of Ephraim and Hannah (Pangborn) Tuttle was Lucius (called Captain), Revolutionary soldier (b. 1749), officer and U.S. Pensioner whose wife was Hannah Hull. Both have markers on their graves in the Congregational (general) cemetery at Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn. Their oldest child Andrew Hull Tuttle (1775-1845) was born in Cheshire, Conn, and migrated to North Carolina in the early 1800s. He was married to Elizabeth McCall in Burke Co., NC, in Jan. 31st, 1809, and in 1812/13, bought the farm 7 miles SW of Lenoir where two of his grandchildren George A. (1874) and Lelia J. (1878) Tuttle now live. Andrew Hull Tuttle and wife Elizabeth (McCall) (c.1785-1871) and her parents Robert McCall (1752-1820) and wife Elizabeth Aikin -- both born about 1751/2 in Antrim County, North Ireland are buried at LittleJohn's Methodist Church, near the old home place.
Although I do not have a copy of The Tuttle Family, I have studied it extensively and cannot recall having seen a Warnock connection mentioned in it. I believe it very doubtful that you are descended from William and Elizabeth; and certainly not from Andrew Hull Tuttle and wife Elizabeth McCall, who were my great-grandparents. Nevertheless, I'll ask Aunt Lelia to check the index of The Tuttle Family to see whether Warnock appears.
There is another, and larger Tuttle group in North Carolina than ours, and their progenitors have been in this state for more than 20 years longer than we, who are descendants of Andrew Hull Tuttle. They are the Tuttles of Winston-Salem and vicinity, (Warnock names also appear there) who are scattered throughout the old counties of Surry, created 1770, & Stokes 1789, and the present Forsyth County and its other county of Stokes (from Surry Co., 1759) Thomas Tuttle, wife Elizabeth & eldest son, John (and other chidren) were in Fairfax Co., VA, in the 1770s and by about 1780 had moved to NC. John became a Revolutionary soldier and Pensioner. His wife was Barbara Fry (Frye, Frey, Moravian people) had 12 children.

letter signed H. W. Goforth