Colonel Henry Tucker, B-1713, D-1787- BERMUDA (Son of Francis Tucker Sr.)

This is a copy of the Find A Grave Memorial page that I created for this ancestor in 2018.  It is my own material and original research summary writing which has been copied and re-posted many time in public trees on Ancestry's website.   I deciced it is time to add this info to my own Blog as well, since I am the original author of the following compiled information. The photo is of a painting that hangs in Tucker House Museum in St. Georges, Bermuda.   This Colonel Henry Tucker was my 7th-Great-Uncle. We share the same ancestor Francis Tucker Sr (my 7th-Great-Grandfather who was the father of this Colonel Henry Tucker). 

COL Henry Tucker

BIRTH	1713 Southampton Parish, Bermuda
DEATH	1787 (aged 73–74) Southampton Parish, Bermuda
BURIAL	Unknown Add to Map
MEMORIAL ID	190446986

Colonel Henry Tucker was part of the large Bermuda clan of the maritime shipping/ privateer Tucker family members who lived at the property known as "The Grove" (plantation) in Port Royal, Southampton Parish, Bermuda. He was the brother of John Tucker of Bermuda and Virginia, who married Catherine Drury. He eventually inherited "The Grove" plantation, which was passed down through several generations of Tucker sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the family patriarch George Tucker IV of Kent, England and Bermuda.

Tucker Family History: The original site of "The Grove" mansion house and gardens is beleived to have been on the same land in Southampton Parish which was earlier owned by their ancestral kin Captain Daniel Tucker , who built "The Grange" mansion on the site circa 1616. Captain Daniel Tucker was a shareholder in the Virginia Company with brothers William and George II. He was also partner in the family shipping business in England and Bermuda.

Colonel Henry Tucker was married to Ann Butterfield, daughter of Nathaniel Butterfield. They had 6 confirmed children who were raised in early childhood at The Grove plantation in Bermuda. The sons were later educated in England. They were British subjects who traded with the colonies; and whose descendants supported and rendered munitions to the colonial patriots during the American Revolution; many of whom embraced independence and moved to Virginia to enter law, politics, and academia professions. The original site of The Grove plantation is now the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda (this was discovered and confirmed by excavations conducted by Bermuda National Trust Museum archeological department during the construction renovations of the golf course). The same property was the earlier home site of Captain Daniel Tucker. This Tucker family line had roots in England and can be traced back to Milton, Kent, England. It is believed that Colonel Henry Tucker was buried somewhere on the grounds of The Grove plantation in Port Royal (Southampton), Bermuda. No gravesite has been confirmed.

Children of Colonel Henry Tucker and Ann Butterfield Tucker include Frances Tucker born 1740, Henry Tucker born 1742, Thomas Tudor Tucker born 1745, Elizabeth Tucker born 1747, Nathaniel Tucker born 1750, and St. George Tucker born 1752.

Henry Tucker (born 1742), son of this Colonel Henry Tucker and Ann Butterfield Tucker, was the inhabitant of the historic Tucker House at 5 Water Street in St. George, Bermuda which is now known as Tucker House Museum controlled and operated by Bermuda National Trust. Inside the museum hang original portraits of several members of this Tucker family of England, Bermuda, and Virginia. The museum is open to the public during limited hours a few days per week on a seasonal basis.

Many Descendants of this line went to Virginia after the American Revolution; and succeeding generations branched out westward to seek their own fortunes and land with the American frontier expansion into Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri.