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She died, May 23 [29], 1683, at Gravesend, and was no doubt interred in the plot her husband later left in his will for burial purposes.
John Tilton died, 1688, at Gravesend, leaving the following will:
I, John Tilton off Gravesend in the Kings Countie upon Long Island in Yorkshire, being in Perffect memorie as my last will and testament do heareby make and appoint my louving sonns John Tilton and Samuel Spicer my sole and whole executors off all my whole estate, both off Housing lands goods cattle and chattels Debts Dues and demands off or belonging to mee from any Person or Persons whatsoever all which I shall be deceased off for them my said executors out of the said estate to paye such legacies as heare afftor mentioned. Item untor John Paintor tenn Pounds and all my wearing cloathes; Item unto John Tilton Junior my dwelling house: and the Remaynder off my estate that then shall bee; when all debts charges and expenses everie way is ffully satisfied and Payd I doe give unto my chidren as heare- affter ffolloweth: that is unto John Tilton, Peeter Tilton Thomas Tilton Sarah Painter Abigaill Scott Estor Spicer Mary Boman, to bee equally devided amonst them ffurther I do give unto my said Execu- tors John Tilton and Samuel Spicer and also unto William Richardson a Certain Peace of Land Lying & Being in gravesend as afforesaid ffor a buriall Place which Longe hath, & att Present is Inclosed & Pailed Round ffor that End & so Used, With a waye out off the Streete Seaven foote broad to goe into itt as by ye Records off the sd Towne Doth & May appeare ffor them & theire Successours & all ffriends in ye Everlasting truthe off ye Gospell as occasion Serves ffor Ever to have & to hold and to make use off to burie their Dead Inn; and this is my Will & Pleasure soe to Doe whereunto I have sett my hand ye ffifteenth Day of the Seventh Month in ye Yeare 1687.
JOHN TILTON SENIOR.
Recorded by order of Court of Sessions, held Ap. 3rd, 1688, in Kings County.
Issue
2 John Tilton born [4. 4mo.] June 4, 1640; married, first, Mary Coates; second, Rebecca Terry.
3 Peter Tilton born [in ye IIth mo., 1641] January, 1642; died Dec. 10, 1699/ 1700; married Rebecca Brazier.
4 Sarah Tilton born [4, 3mo.] May 4, 1644; married John Painter.
5 Ester Tilton born 1647; died Sep. 24, 1703; married Samuel Spicer.
6 Abigail Tilton born 1650; married, first, Ralph Warner; second, William Scott.
7 Thomas Tilton born [I, Imo.] Mch. 1, 1652; removed to Delaware.
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8 Mary Tilton born [in ye IImo.] June, 1654; married Henry Bowman. It has been thought his name was Carman, but in the will of his father-in-law it seems to have been spelled boman, with a small letter "b" instead of the capital. While the name Carman is found in Monmouth Co., at a little later date, Henry Bowman appears to have paid Quit Rents on land that had been recorded to him in 1681, and which adjoined some of Peter Tilton's land.
2 JOHN TILTON, son of John Tilton, I, born 4mo. (June), 4, 1640; died probably early in the year 1704, his will having been probated April 17th of that year. He mar- ried, first, at Oyster Bay, L. I., 8mo. (Oct.), 10, 1670, Mary Coats, and second, at Flush- ing, L. I., 3mo. (May), 12, 1674, Rebecca Terry, by whom he appears to have had all his children. She died, in Middletown, N. J., Iomo. (Dec.), 18, 1715. This date for her death is found on the Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting Records, on the same page as, and following after the names and dates of birth of the children born to Walter and Sarah (Tilton) Herbert. And Sarah Herbert was her own daughter.
1658, Oct. Io. Thomas Greedye, born in Devonshire, England, in his will of this date; proved Nov. 4, 1658, devised to his loving friend John Tilton, of Gravesend, his estate, out of which the said Tilton was to pay his debts, and the remainder he be- queathed to Peter Tilton, son of said John Tilton, excepting only one small sum the which I have given unto John Tilton, Jr.
1662, Nov. 16. Order for John Tilton, Jr., to deliver up a boat he had secured.
1664, Imo., 25. John Tilton, Jr., and his brother-in-law, Samuel Spicer, were among those named in the first purchase of land, in Monmouth Co., from the Indian Sachem Popomora. This deed was acknowledged April 7, 1665, and is on record in the Secretary of State's Office, at Albany and in Trenton, as well as in the Proprietors' Office at Perth Amboy.
1683, Aug. 13. John Tilton, Jr., of Gravesend, sold to Martin Petersen (Wykoff) a plantation in Gravesend.
1684, Mch. 26. John Tilton, Jr., named as executor in the will of Obadiah Wilkins.
1691/2, Mch. 8. John Tilton, of Gravesend, sold to Cort Stevenson, of Flatlands, all his Gravesend property, for £295, reserving the use for twelve months to remove therefrom. About this time he would seem to have left Gravesend to reside in Mon- mouth Co. And this deduction is further sustained by the fact that his brother, Peter Tilton, and wife Rebecca, were the only Tiltons whose names appear in the Quaker Records up to 1692.
1694, September. He was one of the Grand Jurors independent enough to indict one of the Judges then sitting on the bench, and to present another.
1700, October. He was committed to the custody of the Sheriff for "subscribing a seditious paper."
1700, 9mo., (Nov.), 23. Will of John Tilton, of Middletown; proved Apr. 17, 1704. In it he makes no mention of his son Abraham Tilton, probably because he was dead at the time of its being made. Neither does the testator refer in it to his youngest daught- ers, Mary and Hester. But he does distinctly declare that he had a son Peter Tilton, who is not of age, and yet this Peter's name is not given with those of the other children in the Shrewsbury Quaker Records, nor in the Friends Records of New York and Vicinity, which gives his children and their birth dates, as I append. them.
To son, John Tillton, five shillings; to son Samuel Tillton eighty-five acres of upland and three of
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meadow, and to his heirs; to daughter Sarah Tillton one cow; to my wife, Rebecca Tillton, after my decease, my dwelling house, etc., and all my farme, after her decease it is to go to my son Peter Tillton and his heirs, not yet 21; in case of his death, then to my son Daniel Tillton, and his heirs; if he die before he come of age, then to my son Thomas Tillton, and his heirs. If Peter live to be 21, then he is to pay unto his two brothers Daniell and Thomas Tillton, fivteen pounds to each; if he die, Daniell shall pay 30 pounds to Thomas. Residue to my wife Rebecca Tillton, my Executrix, and after her death, to be equally di- vided amongst my children. ffriends, Thomas Hillborn & John Lippincott. will be helpful to my wife to see my will performed.
JOHN TILTON SENR.
Witnesses: Remembrance Lippincott, Ben. Lawrence, George Corleis.
Inventory of his personal estate £146-II-O.
Issue
9 John Tilton born Apr. 14, 1675; died August, 1731; married, July 29, 1703, Margaret Lippincott, born May 7, 1683.
IO Abraham Tilton born Jan. 14, 1676; he is not mentioned in his father's will, and the entry of his death is recorded as "son of John Tilton," on the Quaker Records, of Flushing, L. I., without date, but between entries for the years 1684 and 1686.
II Samuel Tilton born Mch. 2, 1678; died prior to May 6, 1745; married, June 5, 1705, Patience Allen.
12 Sarah Tilton born Nov. 14, 1680; married, June 2, 1704, Walter Herbert.
13 Peter Tilton married, November, 1722, Lydia Bills.
14 Daniel Tilton born Dec. 27, 1682; married, probably as a second wife, Nov. 6, 1717, Elizabeth Powell.
15 Thomas Tilton born Dec. 20, 1684; died Jan. 4, 1763; married Faith Law- rence.
16 Mary Tilton born Oct. 21, 1686; married James, son of Joseph and Hannah (Lawrence) Grover.
17 Hester Tilton born Apr. 17, 1689; married, Oct. 15, 1719, William Lawrence. 3 PETER TILTON, son of John Tilton, I, born, January, 1642, at Lynn, Mass .; died, in Middletown, N. J., Dec. 15, 1699/1700. New York marriage licenses show that he married, Apr. 22, 1665, Rebecca, daughter of Henry and Susannah Brazier, born April, 1648; died, in Middletown, Oct. 6, 1700.
He was a witness at various marriages in the Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting, com- mencing as early as 1686/7; and the names of his children, together with the dates of their births, are given on the records of that Society.
1670, July 5. With three others established as Overseers for the town of Shrewsbury. 1670, Aug. 19. Conveys land to Abraham Browne, the deed being on record at Freehold, N. J.
1676, June 30. Peter Tilton had lands patented to him on Swimming River, ad- joining lands of Richard Stout, Jr., and James Grover. These lands were patented to them on the same day, and each of the three men was of Middletown. It must have been about this time that he moved from Shrewsbury to Middletown, for his son, Thomas, was born, according to the Quaker records, in Shrewsbury, in 1676, and died, in Middletown, in 1677.
1679, Jan. I. Constable for Middletown.
1681, Jan. I. Chosen by the freeholders of Middletown for their deputy.
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1683, June 26. Peter Tilton mentioned in connection with the County Court, as an Assistant.
One of the Assessors of Monmouth Co., under the Act of Dec. 5, 1683.
Peter Tilton, late of Shrewsbury, and now of Marvell Hill, within the province of New Jersey, Apr. 23, and 17th of July, and also 24 of July, 1675, bought land of Nepeson, Checawcus, Cawsehoc, Menenvein and Awaycis, five of the Indian Sachems of the town called Ramezing also Ramezonk, and agrees with Jos. Grover about boundary, Oct. 7, 1684.
1685, Sep. 23. Subscribes to the oath of office of James Bowne.
1686, Oct. 4. Recorded his earmark in the Middletown Town Book.
1689. He sold land for 20s., to Therlagh Swiney, for the use of his son, John Swiney. 1691, September. Justice of the Court of Sessions.
1694, last day of August. As Justice of the Peace, he united in marriage John French and Mary White.
1700, Oct. 19. The inventory of the personal estate of Peter Tillto and his wife, Rebecca, by William Merrell, William Leeds, Jr., and James Grover, Jr.
1705, September. Mentioned by the Commissioners in laying out a highway, as owning property between Hop bridge and Stony brook.
Issue
18 Rebecca Tilton born, at Gravesend, Sep. 6, 1667; married, first, intentions
· published Dec. 7, 1686, Daniel Applegate; died 1710; married, second, William Leeds; died Apr. 27, 1739.
19 John Tilton born, at Shrewsbury, Mch. 11, 1669; married Elizabeth . . . .
20 Peter Tilton born Apr. 10, 1672; married . ....
21 Mary Tilton born Nov. 8, 1675; died Aug. 31, 1678.
22 Thomas Tilton born Sep. 20, 1676; died, at Middletown, May, 1677.
23 Ester Tilton born, at Middletown, Aug. 5, 1678; died prior to June 2, 1704; married, as his first wife, Richard Stout.
24 Daniel Tilton born Sep. 9, 1679; married Sarah Wyckhoff.
25 Mary Tilton born Feb. 2, 1681; married, as his second wife, prior to June 2, 1704, Richard Stout.
26 Catorn Tilton born Sep. 14, 1684; married Hugh, son of Richard Hartshorne, born 1685; died 1742; see Hartshorne Family in Stillwell Miscellany.
27 Henry Tilton born Jan. 24, 1686; alive Nov. 29, 1709.
28 Samuel Tilton born Mch. 17, 1690; died 1764; married, first, .... .; second, by license dated Feb. 4, 1744, Elizabeth Willett.
5 ESTER TILTON, daughter of John Tilton, I, born 1647; died Sep. 24, 1703; married, at Oyster Bay, Long Island, by license dated May 21, 1665, Samuel, son of Thomas and Michal Spicer; died 1699.
1692, Sep. 13. Will of Samuel Spicer, of West Jersey. In it he mentioned:
wife, sons Jacob, Thomas, Samuel; daughter Mary, the wife of Jeremiah Bates; daughters Sarah, Martha and Abigail Spicer.
1699/1700, Mch. 12. Letters testamentary were granted to his widow and executrix, Hester Spicer.
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1702, July 27. Will of Hester Spicer, mentioned:
sons Jacob and Thomas; daughters Martha and Abigail; grandchildren Mary, Sarah, Martha and Abigail, children of my daughter Mary, the wife of Jeremiah Bates, and Samuel, son of my daughter Sarah, the wife of Daniel Cooper.
Executors: son Jacob, and son-in-law Cooper.
6 ABIGAIL TILTON, daughter of John Tilton, I, born 1650; married, N. Y. Marriage Licenses, May 15, 1669, Ralph Warner, who was buried Apl. 24, 1678; see Hotten's List of Emigrants; she petitioned the Court, at Gravesend, Dec. 18, 1678, to be freed from the debts of her husband because he left so little to herself and children.
After the death of her first husband, Abigail married, N. Y. Marriage Licenses, Feb. 7, 1678, William Scott,* born probably not later than 1639, as he bought, May 31, 1660, a house and garden, at Gravesend, of Nicholas Stillwell. They removed from Gravesend to Shrewsbury, probably in 1682/3.
Issue by first husband Mary Warner born, at New Utrick, April .. ,
Ralfe Warner born at Brookland, June .. , 167 -. He was a witness at the marriage of Abraham Brown and Leah Clayton, Sep. 29, 1692, and the inventory of his estate was taken July 22, 1695. His step-father, William Scott, and his mother, Abigail Scott, administered on his estate.
Issue by second husband
John Scott born, at Gravesend, Jan. 9, 1680; married Mary Bills.
William Scott born, at Gravesend, Oct. 8, 1681; died the end of December, 1682.
William Scott born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 25, 1683; died at Shrewsbury, Jan. 8, 1684.
Samuel Scott born, in Shrewsbury, May 31, 1685.
Peter Scott born, in Shrewsbury, Sep. 27, 1687; died at Shrewsbury, Oct. 2, 1687. Female; not named; born Nov. 15, 1688.
Esther Scott born, in Shrewsbury, Dec. 6, 1689.
7 THOMAS TILTON, son of John Tilton, I, born Mch. 1, 1652; removed to Delaware.
1678. Thomas Tilton was witness to a deed in Gravesend, L. I.
In direct descent from this Thomas Tilton, 7, who removed to Delaware, was James Tilton, a reputed son, but undoubtedly he was a grandson instead, as records on file at Washington, in the Pension Department, state that he was about sixty-nine or seventy years of age, in 1813, and died May 14, 1822. This would make him to have been born about 1743 or 1744, and his alleged father, Thomas, would have been about ninety-five years of age at his birth, which demonstrates that he was a grandson rather than a son of the said Thomas.
It is further shown by the records of the War Department, at Washington, that James Tilton, surgeon, Colonel John Haslett's Delaware Regiment, Revolutionary War, was commissioned, Jan. 13, 1776, and was honorably discharged at the expiration of one year; that he was appointed physician and surgeon-general, United States Army, June
*See History of the Scott Family, by the Reverend Arthur S. Cole, of Manasquan, N. J.
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II, 1813, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1815. He was pensioned for disabilities contrated during this service .*
It has likewise been stated of him that he was a Member of Congress.
Dr. James Tilton appears to have made some efforts to trace his relationship with the New Jersey line, and to have given to members of it some items concerning his own. To him is ascribed the statement that Thomas Tilton, 7, had
Issue
John Tilton who was lost at sea
Joseph Tilton who married and had sundry children
Thomas Tilton James Tilton
Nehemiah Tilton; a Major in the Revolutionary War; married, and had a large family.
9 JOHN TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2, born Apr. 14, 1675; died 1731; married, July 29, 1703, Margaret, daughter of John and Ann (Barber) Lippincott, born May 7, 1683.
1731, Aug. II. Will of John Tilton, of Middletown, yeoman; proved by the affirma- tion of Robert Tilton and his brother, Nathan Tilton, executors of their father, John Tilton, also by the affirmation of Joseph Lawrence and Jacob Dennis, Oct. 9, 1731. In it he mentioned:
eldest son Robert Tilton, the easterly part of his plantation, adjoining Samuel Tilton and Swimming River; son Nathan Tilton, to have upland and meadow adjoining "my brother Peter," and Samuel Dennis's Sawmill brook; youngest son John Tilton, to have "the remaining or middle part of my farm lying between his said two brothers." "If any of the said three sons die before they reach the age of twenty one years." . "each of my six children." My three daughters, viz .: Anne Tilton, Margaret, Hester Tilton; my said son Nathan Tilton to oversee what I have given to his Brother, my said youngest son, John Tilton, till he come to the age of twenty-one years.
Executors: my two sons Robert and Nathan Tilton, and my two brothers Daniel Tilton and Peter Tilton.
Witnesses: Joseph Lawrence, Lucas Whit, Richard Bartlet [his mark], Jacob Dennis.
Issue
29 Robert Tilton, eldest son, died Oct. 23, 1762, married, Jan. 6, 1731, Miriam Allen.
30 Nathan Tilton died Mch. 30, 1788; married, Nov. 25, 1735, Increase Lippin- cott.
31 John Tilton youngest son; probably married, by license dated Feb. 15, 1742, Elizabeth Lane.
32 Anne Tilton witness at the marriage of her brother Robert Tilton, Jan. 6, 1731, to Miriam Allen.
33 Margaret Tilton
34 Hester Tilton
11 SAMUEL TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2, born Mch. 2, 1678; died 1745; mar- ried, at Friends' Meeting House, June 5, 1705, Patience, daughter of Jedediah and Elizabeth (Howland) Allen, born May 8, 1683; died 1748.
1736/7, Feb. 22. Samuel Tilton, of Middletown, conveys land to his eldest son,
*Dr. James Tilton was graduated June 21, 1768, from the Medical Department of the College of Philadelphia, Pa.
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Abraham Tilton, of Nottingham, by a deed to which Samuel Tilton, Jr., is a witness; described as land whereon he now dwells in Nottingham.
1745, May 6. Letters of administration given on his estate to Patience Allen his widow. Inventory £394.
1748, May 13. Administration granted on her estate to Abraham Tilton (her son).
Issue
35 Patience Tilton born Sep. 1, 1717; died May 18, 1778; married, Thomas Middleton, Jan. 15, 1735.
36 Esther Tilton born 1722; died Oct. 24, 1796; married 1745, William Lippin- cott.
37 Abraham Tilton died 1761/2; married, December, 1748, Elizabeth Thorne, born May 5, 1724.
38 Elizabeth Tilton
39 Rebecca Tilton; perhaps it was this Rebecca Tilton who married, February, 1749, Robert, son of Joseph Lippincott.
40 Sarah Tilton married Joseph Killey
4I Hannah Tilton married, by license dated Aug. 20, 1747, Joseph Killey.
42 Samuel Tilton, Jr.
12 SARAH TILTON, daughter of John Tilton, 2, born Nov. 14, 1680; married, at the house of Rebecca Tilton, in Middletown, June 2, 1704, Walter Herbert, of Shrews- bury, died January, 1755.
Walter Herbert was a physician, and had married Deborah .... by whom he had
Issue
Walter Herbert, born, in Shrewsbury, Jan. 25, 1701.
He married Sarah Tilton, as given above, for his second wife, and, after her death, he married, third, by license dated Jan. 13, 1741, Phebe Mount, widow.
1755, Jan. 20. In his will of this date; proved Jan. 27, 1755, he refers to his wife, Pheby; to the children of his sons, Walter, Paul and Timothy; and names his four daughters as Meriby Curtis, Sarah Worth, Lydia Brewer and Deborah Herbert.
Issue by second wife
Rebecca Herbert born, in Middletown, March 6, 1704/5; married, second, intentions, June 1, 1724, John Curtis.
Deborah Herbert born, in Middletown, Feb. 1, 1706.
Timothy Herbert born, in Shrewsbury, Apl. 2, 1709; married, first, intentions Jan. 7, 1733, Sarah Bills.
Esther Herbert born in Shrewsbury, Mch. 18, 1710/11; married, June, 1734, James Irons.
Meribah Herbert born, in Shrewsbury, Feb. 10, 1712; married, June, 1734, David Curtis.
Paule Herbert born, in Shrewsbury, Aug. 1, 1715, married, .....
Sarah Herbert born, in Shrewsbury, 171 -; married, by license dated Apr. 17, 1742, Edward Patterson Worth.
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Lydia Herbert married, by license dated May 19, 1742, William Brewer, born May 9, 1722.
13 PETER TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2. He is not mentioned with the other children of John Tilton, 2, on the Quaker birth records, but is called son, by him in his will, and said not to be of age at the time will was made. He is called brother, in the will of John Tilton, 9, and named by him as one of his executors.
1705, June 5. He signed, with the rest of the relatives, as a witness at the marriage of his brother, Samuel, 12, to Patience Allen.
1717, Nov. 6. His name occurs again in this same prominent position, as a witness, when his brother, Daniel, 14, marries Elizabeth Powell. And it was at his house, in Middletown, that his sister, Esther, married William Lawrence Oct. 15, 1719.
His second intentions of marriage were published, in the Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Women, Nov. 5, 1722, with Lydia Bills. I suspect she was a sister to that Elizabeth who joined with Peter Tilton, as his wife, in conveying land, Dec. 2, 1717, when the witnesses to the deed were Thomas Bills, David Allen, Thomas Bills, Jr., and John Louis Pintard, in other words that this Peter Tilton, 13, married, first, Elizabeth Bills, and second, in 1722, her sister, Lydia Bills. But that is merely a supposition.
1750. Apr. 19. Will of Peter Tilton, of Monmouth Co .; proved Mch. 28, 1761, mentioned:
daughter Abigail Potter, £50; son Daniel Tilton, £100; daughters Lydia Tilton and Hannah Tilton, each, £50; son Amos Tilton, whom he makes executor, and residuary legatee.
Inventory £720-12-0.
Issue
43 Abigail Tilton born Sep. 22, 1723; died prior to Feb. 4, 1808; married Joseph Potter.
44 Daniel Tilton, born Nov. 5, 1725; died Aug. 21, 1780; married, Elizabeth . . . . 45 Amos Tilton born Oct. 6, 1727; died Oct. 15, 1765.
46 Lydia Tilton born May 15, 1731; will made Feb. 4, 1808; proved Mch. 28, 1812.
47 Hannah Tilton born Oct. 27, 1735; married, Nov. 4, 1766, John Lippincott.
14 DANIEL TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2, born Dec. 27, 1682; married, prob- ably for his second wife, Nov. 6, 1717, Elizabeth Powell.
1743/4, March 5. He complained to the Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting against his brother, Samuel Tilton, II, for encroaching on his land.
24 August 1723
Case : Daniel Tilton VS Elizabeth Bayley
MINUTES OF THE COURT Jeremiah Stillwell esq. sworn for the plaintif & a deed from John Bayley to John Bowne, one from John Bowne to Elizabeth Grover, one from Gershom Stillwell & Elizabeth his wife to Hugh Hartshorne read for plaintif.
Freehold, County Clerk's Office.
His will, made Oct. 14, 1749, and proved Nov. 13, 1749, mentioned:
Children John Tilton, Mary Ridgway, Margaret, wife of William Lawrence, Ann, Sarah, Phebe and Lydia; his daughters each receive £100, etc.
Executors: Robert and Nathan Tilton.
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Issue
48 John Tilton, of Middletown; married by license dated Mch. 14, 1752, Frances Thomson, spinster; William Lawrence, surety. Freehold Mortgages, A, page 68, Jan. 27, 1769, shows John Tilton, of Middletown, and Frances, his wife, giving a mortgage on land that was bounded by Jacob Hendrick- son, Samuel Tilton and Swimming River.
49 Mary Tilton; second intentions, Burlington Meeting, Oct. 1, 1744, married,
Oct. 10, 1744, Job Ridgway, Jr., of Little Egg Harbor, son of Thomas. Witnesses: Daniel, Margaret, Sarah and Phebe Tilton.
50 Margaret Tilton married, at the house of Daniel Tilton, May 5, 1748, William, son of Richard and Alice Lawrence; both of Middletown, born Dec. 13, 1719.
5I Ann Tilton married, second intentions, July 3, 1758, John Harvey.
52 Sarah Tilton
53 Phebe Tilton. Perhaps it was she who married, by license dated Feb. 28, 1760, Humphrey Wady; Christopher Tallman, surety.
54 Lydia Tilton married, second intentions, May 3, 1756, Job Harvey.
In his inventory appears, "six silver spoons & a silver bowle." He resided at Mid- dletown, and was well-off financially.
15 THOMAS TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2, born Dec. 20, 1684; died Jan. 4, 1763; married, second intentions, Oct. 7, 1717, Faith, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Worth) Lawrence.
Trenton Deeds, K-2, page 544, records the conveyance of a piece of property, June 27, 1741, by Joseph Lawrence, of Shrewsbury, to Faith Tilton, of Shrewsbury, daughter of the said Joseph Lawrence.
1713, Oct. 13. Referred to as owning a mill dam when a road was laid out from Middletown to Chinquerors. Book D, of Deeds, at Freehold.
The following undated paper was in the possession of the late James Steen, Esq., of Eatontown, N. J., and was evidently the memorandum for drawing up of the deed, dated 3mo., 4, 1765, on record at Freehold.
The persons mentioned were daughters of Thomas Tilton, who died, Jan. 4, 1763, giving the power to act on their behalf to their brother Thomas Tilton, and their brothers- in-law Samuel Lawrence and Benjamin Borden.
"Power of Attorney from Sarah the widow of Ebenezer Cook; Rebecca the wife of Benjamin Borden; Esther the wife of Amos White; Elizabeth; Hannah the wife of Richard Borden; Mary the wife of Samuel Lawrence; Rachel; Patience the wife of John Curtis; Lydia the widow of Herbert Curtis; and Deborah, to Thomas Tilton, Samuel Lawrence and Benjamin Borden, to convey the land mentioned in this deed."
Issue
55 Sarah Tilton born Sep. 10, 1718; married, May, 1741, Ebenezer Cook.
56 Rebecca Tilton born July 4, 1720; married, Dec. 29, 1757, Benjamin, son of Thomas and Margaret Borden; no issue.
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