Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . ons between the years 1770 and last transfer while a resident of Suffield was madeJune 27, 1796, while the last transfer of Suffield proper-ty owned by him after he a resident of Nev/ Yorkwas dated October 9, 1S06, recorded in Suffield LandRecords, Vol. 11, Page 374. It may be mentioned in passing that in all of thesetransactions the of David Tod is spelled withone L) . No record was found to indicate what businessDavid Tod was engaged in during his residence in Suf-field other than his transactions in real
Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . ons between the years 1770 and last transfer while a resident of Suffield was madeJune 27, 1796, while the last transfer of Suffield proper-ty owned by him after he a resident of Nev/ Yorkwas dated October 9, 1S06, recorded in Suffield LandRecords, Vol. 11, Page 374. It may be mentioned in passing that in all of thesetransactions the of David Tod is spelled withone L) . No record was found to indicate what businessDavid Tod was engaged in during his residence in Suf-field other than his transactions in real estate, but heowned a farm, and his son. Judge George Tod, says,He was regularly bred a merchant in Glasgow, Scot-land. The records in the office of the Town Clerk atSuffield state that his wife, Rachel Kent Tod, died inNew York of yellow fever, September 11, 1798, agedforty-eight years, and that his daughter Charlotte, alsodied in New York the same date, aged sixteen were probably buried in New York, but their placeof burial was not discovered. 12. /^•^y<^ HISTORY OF THE TOD FAMILY Longworths Directory of New York City for theyears 1797-8, which by the way, contained but 9126names, gives the name of David Tod, merchant, 192Water Street. The directories for the years 1801-1804have the name David Tod, merchant. 19 Gold Street,and for the years 1305-6, David Tod, merchant, WalkerStreet. The names of no other members of his familyappear, nor is his name listed in the directory of 1807or any subsequent issues. He doubtless abandoned hisplace of business about this time, as his son John sayshe saw him in Nev; York in , 1809, lookingno older than he did twenty years before, but that hisfinances v/ere in a bad plight. He is described by his son George as being a manof good education, though not classical, possessing astrong mind, great observation and considerable reading,a constitution firm and unyielding, and habits in allrespects temperate and industrious.
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