'Colonel' Samuel Lebbeus TUBBS
1755 - 1841 (~ 85 years)-
Name 'Colonel' Samuel Lebbeus TUBBS Birth Oct 1755 , Lyme, East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA 
Gender Male Note - The children of 'Colonel' Samuel Tubbs and Sarah Susanna Dorranceincluding their names, birth and death dates are from Tubbs AncestralNotes by Charles Myron Tubbs, Bath, Maine, 1958 Much data also came from American Ancestry, Volume VI, 1891, Albany, NewYork. Also, much data came from letters to JJR from Ernest Knell of Westfield,PA They survived the famous Wyoming Massacre of 1778 because they weremarried in Wyoming, PA the year after in 1779! (See More about Lt. Col. George Dorrance.) Page 70 of The History of Northern Pennsylvania: 'The Tubbs homestead, the red brick landmark on Route 49, just east ofOsceola, for the first time in the 132 - year plus history is no longerTubbs property. It was sold at auction on Saturday (1961?) to John SmithPease of Wayne, NY and Wa-Nita Kreisler, Elkand borough secretary. Thebrick house and a small frame building at the rear went for $10,000. The house was the first brick building to be erected in Tioga Co., beingbuilt for Robert Tubbs and his father, Col. Samuel Tubbs Sr. in 1829.Brick for the building, for the construction of the present Moren Blockin Elkland and for several other brick buildings in this area came fromclay on the Tubbs farm just north of the home. The 'brick pond' underthe hill at Osceola still marks the scene of the pioneer ceramicindustry. Originally the brick home, and attached frame portions, was the showplaceof Tioga County and for many years the family seat of the descendents ofthe original owner. It contains 16 rooms which have been utilized in thepast 10 year period for three apartment dwellings. Mrs. Fleda Tubbs, thewidow of the late John Tubbs, disposed of all of her holdings here lastSaturday (1961?) and will live in the South. Farm lands remaining andone time tenant house went to the family of Elsie Tubbs Mull after thedeath of Mr. Tubbs. Colonel Samuel Tubbs Sr. who had the house built for his son Robert,never owned land in Osceola. In fact, he never owned land in Elkland,but he and other family members not only claimed or owned ever inch inwhat is now Elkland Borough but held acreage in Osceola and NelsonTownships. A 'Connecticut Yankee' who was virtually dispossessed of lands in theWyoming Valley (PA) during the long struggle between people ofConnecticut and Pennsylvania known as the Pennamite War, Colonel SamuelTubbs came to the Cowanesque in the Spring of 1811. (Tubbs, of theConnecticut group, had lost all of his disputed lands in the WyomingValley to the Pennsylvanians). A physical giant of a man, Tubbs served the American cause during theRevolutionary War and spent one winter at Valley Forge. He even marchedagainst the six Indian nations with General Sullivan, but war recordsheld little weight with Pennsylvania claimants of lands he held in theWyoming Valley. After the war, he moved to Newton (Elmira) then led a party into theunsettled Cowanesque Valley in 1811. The families of his sons anddaughters purchased or took every acre of land in what is now ElklandBorough. He sold portions of these holdings to other settlers and withthe earnings purchased or took all lands between West Elkland Boroughline and the village of Osceola. One of his most profitable land transfers concerned the selling of a milland lands in the southeast portion of the Elkland township to othersmonths before he had legal Pennsylvania claim to the land. In trueYankee fashion, he fought fire with fire! By outsmarting Pennsylvanialand owners in the Cowanesque, he more than replaced what had been takefrom him at Wyoming. Although Robert Tubbs, a son, was the paper owner of some 800 acres whichonce surrounded the 'brick house', the Colonel called the shots until hisdeath. The blood of this Yankee strongman flowed into the veins of every pioneerfamily to live on Elkland lands and other offspring took lands in Osceolaand Nelson. His daughters wed the sons Ryons, Taylors, Hammonds,Stevens, Mascho and Coats. His sons and grandsons mixed with theTaylors, Stulls, Dorrances, Hoyts, Gleasons, etc. At least a quarter ofthe present population in the center of the Cowanesque Valley can tracttheir families back to the robust Yankee and his strong sons anddaughters who first farmed the flats now called Elkland and Osceola' --from the History of NorthernPennsylvania, pg 70
Death 7 Sep 1841 , Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA [1] Person ID I52549 Ancestral Trails Last Modified 13 Apr 2024
Father Lieut. Lebbeus TUBBS, b. Abt 1730, ,, Connecticut, USA d. 1800 (Age ~ 70 years) Mother Bathsheba HAMILTON, b. 1 Dec 1732, , New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA Marriage 1754 [2] Family ID F10918 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Susanna DORRANCE, b. 1760, , Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Aug 1838, , Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 78 years) Marriage 1 Mar 1779 , Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA [2] Children 1. Unamed Son TUBBS, b. 1778 2. Robert TUBBS, b. 24 Mar 1780, , Kingston, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 Aug 1865 (Age 85 years)3. Cynthia TUBBS, b. 11 May 1782, , Kingston, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 10 Mar 1860 (Age 77 years)4. Betsey 'Betty' TUBBS, b. 1786, , Kingston, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 Mar 1817 (Age 31 years)5. Mary Polly TUBBS, b. 5 Sep 1789, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA d. 21 Jan 1867 (Age 77 years)6. George TUBBS, b. 1790, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA d. 1792, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA (Age 2 years)7. Susanna TUBBS, b. 10 Jan 1794, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA d. 6 Mar 1881 (Age 87 years)8. Samuel TUBBS, b. 15 Dec 1794, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA d. 21 Jul 1851, , Osceola, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)9. Benjamin TUBBS, b. 19 Dec 1796, , Newton, (Elmira), Chemung County, New York, USA d. 19 Aug 1873, , Woodhull, Steuben County, New York, USA (Age 76 years)10. James B. TUBBS, b. Jan 1800, , Newton, (Elmira), Chemung County, New York, USA d. 20 Nov 1823, , Elkland, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age ~ 23 years)11. Hannah TUBBS, b. 25 Dec 1802, , South Port, Chemung County, New York, USA d. 24 May 1850 (Age 47 years)Family ID F10899 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Apr 2024
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