When Lt Jehiel Tuttle was born on 7 August 1717, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Captain Daniel Tuttle, was 36 and his mother, Ruth Howe, was 24. He married Hannah Hull on 31 August 1742, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons. He died in 1755, in Essex, New York, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.