Nathaniel Tyler and
Abigail Andrews.
Nathaniel Tyler was born on 4 October 1747 in Methuen, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Andrews on 22 February 1770. He died in 1829 at the age of 82 in Springfield, Media, Pennsylvania. Abigail Andrews was born 9 April 1742 in Massachusetts.
The following children were born to this union:
1. Nathaniel Tyler 7 July 1772 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
2. Daniel Tyler 14 April 1774 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
3. Betsey Tyler 17 December 1775 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
4. Andrews Tyler 17 November 1779 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts (Our Ancestor)
5. Joseph Tyler 1781 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
6. John Tyler 1783 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
7. Fanny Tyler 1785 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
NATHANIAL & ABIGAIL ANDREWS TYLER
Nathaniel Tyler was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Wood Tyler and was born 4th of October, 1747; died in Springfield, Pennsylvania in 1829. He married 22 Feb. 1770 Abigail Andrews of Boxford Massachusetts. They were the parents of seven children.
Nathaniel had eight month’s service in 1775 at Lieutenant in the Continental Army In the Revolutionary War. He lived in Metheun, Mass. and moved to Sempronias, Cayuaga County, New York, also Herkimer Co. New York. He later moved to Springfield, Pennsylvania.
About 1823 there seemed to be a conflict in the minds of the people of Springfield regarding religion. Nathaniel, who lived with his son Andrews became unusually interested in reading the scriptures and talking about them to their neighbors. One day Andrews happened to open to Mark 16 Chap. 16 & 17 verses, Quote: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.” And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;”
After reading them several times carefully he said: “There is not a true believer in the world.” He showed the passage to several Ministers, mostly Methodists and argued with them. The more he argued the more convinced he was that the Gospel was not on the earth, and he was able to confound the most learned divines, although he was quite illiterate. Nathanial, aged 76 also had the same view and he prophesied that he would die, but his son would live to see the true church organized with all the Apostolic gifts and blessings.
For this cause much unfavorable comment in the neighborhood was indulged in, and Nathaniel was often asked, usually in a derisive way, why he did not have his dislocated shoulder, which had been out of place for some thirty years, replaced by the power of faith. He argued that it would be done if he had sufficient faith.
One morning he came from his bed-room and told his son’s family, that the Lord had revealed to him that “whereas physicians had said your shoulder could not be set He would let them know it could be done, for He would do it Himself.”
It happened not long afterwards, that while he was lying in his bed at the dawn of day, thinking quietly of the blessings of God to him, his shoulder slipped into place with a snap that he thought might have been heard for a distance of one or two rods. Previous to this he carried his arm in a sling most of the time and could not raise his hand to his head, but from that time it was as limber as the other and had its full strength. This was a testimony that could not be impeached. Outside of the family, however, it was looked upon as a mere accident; but the previous revelation to him convinced the family that it was done by the power of God. This was in 1827 and in 1829 he died.
During his last illness an angel clothed in white appeared to him and told him he would not recover for his sickness was unto death. Ten days later he died. To save ridicule this vision was kept a secret.
The true Church of Christ was not then on the earth, February, 1829, nor had such an occurrence been heard of at the time by this family. Although the Father and the Son had appeared to Joseph Smith some years previously, the vision had not been heard of in this locality. Nathaniel’s vision seemed so strange that Andrew’s family hardly knew whether to attribute it to imagination or a reality. They could not question his sincerity as he had always been strictly reliable.
Nathaniel Tyler was born on 4 October 1747 in Methuen, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He married Abigail Andrews on 22 February 1770. He died in 1829 at the age of 82 in Springfield, Media, Pennsylvania. Abigail Andrews was born 9 April 1742 in Massachusetts.
The following children were born to this union:
1. Nathaniel Tyler 7 July 1772 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
2. Daniel Tyler 14 April 1774 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
3. Betsey Tyler 17 December 1775 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
4. Andrews Tyler 17 November 1779 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts (Our Ancestor)
5. Joseph Tyler 1781 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
6. John Tyler 1783 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
7. Fanny Tyler 1785 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts
NATHANIAL & ABIGAIL ANDREWS TYLER
Nathaniel Tyler was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah Wood Tyler and was born 4th of October, 1747; died in Springfield, Pennsylvania in 1829. He married 22 Feb. 1770 Abigail Andrews of Boxford Massachusetts. They were the parents of seven children.
Nathaniel had eight month’s service in 1775 at Lieutenant in the Continental Army In the Revolutionary War. He lived in Metheun, Mass. and moved to Sempronias, Cayuaga County, New York, also Herkimer Co. New York. He later moved to Springfield, Pennsylvania.
About 1823 there seemed to be a conflict in the minds of the people of Springfield regarding religion. Nathaniel, who lived with his son Andrews became unusually interested in reading the scriptures and talking about them to their neighbors. One day Andrews happened to open to Mark 16 Chap. 16 & 17 verses, Quote: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.” And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;”
After reading them several times carefully he said: “There is not a true believer in the world.” He showed the passage to several Ministers, mostly Methodists and argued with them. The more he argued the more convinced he was that the Gospel was not on the earth, and he was able to confound the most learned divines, although he was quite illiterate. Nathanial, aged 76 also had the same view and he prophesied that he would die, but his son would live to see the true church organized with all the Apostolic gifts and blessings.
For this cause much unfavorable comment in the neighborhood was indulged in, and Nathaniel was often asked, usually in a derisive way, why he did not have his dislocated shoulder, which had been out of place for some thirty years, replaced by the power of faith. He argued that it would be done if he had sufficient faith.
One morning he came from his bed-room and told his son’s family, that the Lord had revealed to him that “whereas physicians had said your shoulder could not be set He would let them know it could be done, for He would do it Himself.”
It happened not long afterwards, that while he was lying in his bed at the dawn of day, thinking quietly of the blessings of God to him, his shoulder slipped into place with a snap that he thought might have been heard for a distance of one or two rods. Previous to this he carried his arm in a sling most of the time and could not raise his hand to his head, but from that time it was as limber as the other and had its full strength. This was a testimony that could not be impeached. Outside of the family, however, it was looked upon as a mere accident; but the previous revelation to him convinced the family that it was done by the power of God. This was in 1827 and in 1829 he died.
During his last illness an angel clothed in white appeared to him and told him he would not recover for his sickness was unto death. Ten days later he died. To save ridicule this vision was kept a secret.
The true Church of Christ was not then on the earth, February, 1829, nor had such an occurrence been heard of at the time by this family. Although the Father and the Son had appeared to Joseph Smith some years previously, the vision had not been heard of in this locality. Nathaniel’s vision seemed so strange that Andrew’s family hardly knew whether to attribute it to imagination or a reality. They could not question his sincerity as he had always been strictly reliable.