SPERRY, Silence

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• Name	SPERRY, Silence
  Birth	15 Jun 1701	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  Gender	Female
  Death	1762	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	13 May 2006	SPAUL
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I19874	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  F10438

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  Family	TUTTLE, Thomas ,   b. 24 Nov 1705, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesd. 5 May 1750, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1730	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  Family ID	F10430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  First Congregation, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Silence Sperry for instance, (wife of Thomas Tuttle...married circa 1730) was the daughter of Richard Sperry Jr. of New Haven. Richard Sperry Sr. owned the land near West Rock, New Haven...where the Regicides (Goffe, Whalley, Dixwell) were hidden at Judges Cave. There are some history notes, in fact, that Richard Sperry Jr. may have been sent by his father to feed the Judges, as a child could have been in the woods undetected by the folks who were searching for the judges. Certainly, it's another interesting line to research. Judges Cave is named after a Famous Cave. FIFTY-NINE judges who has been appointed by the Commons House of Parliament for the trial of King Charles the I of England signed the warrant for his execution in 1649. Twenty-four of these were still living at the time of the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. With other persons charged with being accomplices they were tried and condemned after the end of the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. Sixteen of the judges fled and finally escaped, two of whom, Major General Edward Whalley and Major General William Goffe secreted themselves in New England and spend the remainder of their lives there. After it had become certain that the monarchy was to be restored, Whalley and Goffe left England before Charles the II ascended the throne. They arrived in Boston July 27th, 1660, where they were all received, but when it appeared late in November that they were not excepted from the sentence imposed on the other regicides the principal persons of the Government of Massachusetts became alarmed. With the help of loyal friends Whalley and Goffe fled to New Haven, arriving on the 7th of March, 1661. They were hospitably treated in New Haven by the ministers and magistrates, and after the proclamation of King Charles the II ordering their return to England for trial, they were hidden in the home of Reverend John Davenport, pastor of Center Church, until April 30th. From that time they were concealed at various homes in New Haven and the districts about New Haven for over a year, the magistrates, ministers and other citizens refusing to give them up. When the English Government sent searchers to New Haven for them in 1662 they were concealed in Westville and Woodbridge until it was finally decided that it was necessary for them to go into the woods to escape capture. With the help of the Sperry family they covered with boughs of trees and otherwise some large rocks on the summit of what is now West Rock and remained there until after the searchers had disappeared. Since that time these rocks have been known as Judges' Cave. Goffe's Journal says: They entered this Cave on the 15th of May and continued in it until the 11th of June, where Richard Sperry supplied them with food from his house a mile away. On the night of June 11th they were frightened away by a panther and fled to Mr. Sperrys home for safety.