"In short, this poor town has very little to recommend it to a stranger except the
          memory of its ancient importance, and this is but a sad sort of interest at best.
         There is neither business without doors, nor amusement within; but all is just as
         lifeless as the very Goddess of Dullness could wish. --Indeed, if it wasn’t for the
         College, and the Court, and the Lunatics, I don’t know what would become of it.
         As it is, it is but the shadow of itself, and even that seems passing away."

The original Tucker House, the center portion of the present structure, was first located on the Palace Green. In 1788, when St George bought his Williamsburg site, he moved this earlier, smaller building to its present site in Market Square. It was through years of adding extensions as the family grew and prosperity allowed, and through the restorations made during 1930 and 1931, that the house was created into what we see today. Its color scheme is the same as it was in 1798, when Tucker and a local painter, Jeremiah Satterwhite, made an agreement to use the colors--"Spanish brown, pure White, Chocolate, dark brick, yellow Ochre, straw-colour, and pale Stone colour."

The first Tucker occupant of the home was St George Tucker, who was born in Port Royal, Southampton Parish, Bermuda, on April 10, 1752, and came to Virginia in 1770, to attend the William and Mary College, in Williamsburg. He was a clever man, talented, placid and philosophic, and led a life diversified in professions. He was an attorney, professor of law, a judge, a playwright and a poet. As a noted jurist, he was known as "the America Blackstone." He died November 10, 1827, and over his grave, his epitaph in Latin proclaims his merits:

St George Tucker married twice, both his wives being wealthy widows. His first wife, Frances Bland, was the daughter of Theoderick Bland and Frances Bolling, and the widow of John Randolph. She was the mother of all his children:  Ann Frances Bland Tucker, Henry St George Tucker, Sr, Theoderick Thomas Tudor Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and Henrietta Elizabeth Tucker. He married second, Lelia Skipwith, the daughter of Sir Peyton Skipwith and his wife, Anne Miller, of "Prestwould," Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and the widow of George Carter.

Ann Frances Bland Tucker married in 1802, John Coalter, and had Frances Lelia, Elizabeth, and St George Coalter, before passing away in 1813.

Henry St George Tucker, Sr, was an attorney and professor of law, moving to Winchester, Virginia where he taught young men in his law office. He was also a member of the Virginia Legislature, a congressman, and the President of the Virginia Supreme Court. He married Ann Evelina Hunter in 1806, and had:  Henry St George Tucker, Jr, of Charlottesville, Virginia; Ann Evelina Hunter Tucker, who married Dr Alfred T Magill, a professor of medicine, and the son of Colonel Charles Magill and his wife, Mary Buckner Thruston, of Winchester, Virginia; Moses Hunter Tucker; Frances Bland Tucker; Mary Stevens Tucker, David Hunter Tucker, who married Elizabeth Dallas; Sarah Virginia Tucker, who married Henry Laurens Brooke, Sr, an attorney in Richmond, Virginia, and the son of John Taliaferro Brooke and his wife, Anne Mercer Selden; Beverley Tucker, who married Jane Shelton Ellis; Stephen Dandridge Tucker; John Randolph Tucker, of Lexington, Virginia, a congressman who married Laura Holmes Powell, daughter of Humphrey Brooke Powell, and his wife, Anne Holmes, of Middleburg, Loudon County, Virginia; Henry Tudor Tucker; St George Tucker, also an attorney, as well as a poet and author, of Charlottesville, who married Elizabeth Anne Anderson Gilmer, daughter of Thomas Wal er Gilmer, Governor of Virginia, and his wife, Anne Elizabeth C Baker, of Mt Air, Albemarle County, Virginia; and Alfred Bland Tucker, who married Elizabeth Taylor.

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, known as Beverley, was also an attorney, author and poet. He succeeded his father as owner of the Williamsburg home, the Tucker House. But first, he went to Missouri, where he married his first wife, Mary Coalter, in 1809. They had at least two children, John St Michael Tucker and Frances Elizabeth Tucker. After Mary died in Dardenna, South Point, Missouri, Beverley married Elizabeth Naylor in 1828, but she died less than a year later, in Fulton, Missouri. At the urging of his half-brother, John Randolph, of Roanoke, Beverley came back to his native state in 1833. On the death of James Semple, he accepted the position of professor of law at the William and Mary College, a position he continued to hold until his death in 1851. Before returning to Virginia, however, Beverley married his third, and last wife, Lucy Ann Smith, the daughter of Brigadier-General Thomas Adams Smith, and his wife, Cynthia Berry White, of Franklin, Missouri. By Lucy, Beverley had Cynthia Beverley Tucker, who inherited the Tucker house after her mother’s death. She married first, Henry Augustine Washington, a professor, and the son of Lawrence Washington, and his wife, Sarah Taylor Washington, of Washington, D C. Secondly she married Dr. Charles Washington Coleman, a Williamsburg physician, and the son of Thomas Coleman and his wife, Frances Catherine Hill; Lucy Beverley Tucker, who died young; Dr Beverley St George Tucker, a physician who married Elizabeth Christina Mercer; Thomas Smith Beverley Tucker who married Julia Clark; Frances Bland Beverley Tucker who married Major Edwin Taliaferro, professor of languages at William and Mary College, and the son of Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro, Sr., and his wife, Leah Seddon; Henrietta Elizabeth Beverley Tucker, who married Dr John Peyton Little, a physician; and Berkeley Montague Beverley Tucker who married Ada Lewis.