Historical and Genealogical Miscellany , early settlers of New Jersey and their descendants, Vol. V, Part 17

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Issue

Hannah Cook born May 15, 1742; died Mch. 1, 1820; married, June 23,

1762, David, son of Timothy and Rebecca (Allen) Hance, born Sep. 18, 1739; died June 6, 1825.

Faith Cook born Mch. 18, 1747; died Oct. 12, 1826; married, by license dated Mch. 18, 1767, David Falkinbridge, (or Falkinburge on tombstone). Mary Cook born May 21, 1752

Thomas Cook born Sep. 26, 1757; died June 23, 1848; married, first, Rachel, daughter of Richard and Hannah (Tilton) Borden, born Feb. 16, 1763; died Mch. 7, 1811, 59; married, second, . .... Rebecca Combs; died Sep. 22, 1825.

William Cook born Mch. 28, 1759; killed in the Revolutionary War, at Cedar Bridge, N. J., by John Bacon's men; married Diadamia, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Harrison, born Apr. 7, 1764, died Apr. 26, 1843.

57 ESTHER TILTON, daughter of Thomas Tilton, 15, born May 10, 1722; died Aug. II, 1777; married, second intentions June 2, 1746, Jeremiah, son of Thomas and Margaret Borden, born July 1, 1711; died Aug. 8, 1754, married, second, Dec. 17, 1761, Amos, son of Thomas White, died Dec. 21, 1770.

As copied from the original letter by George Taylor Dennison, to be found in the Lippincott manuscripts, at the Pennsylvania Historical Society Library, in Philadelphia, the Dennison Bible gives the following:

Thomas Borden, Sr., died 9, 28, 1764

Jeremiah Borden, Sr., died 8, 5, 1754; born July 1, 1711.

Esther White died 8, 11, 1777

Amos White died 12, 21, 1770

Jeremiah Borden, Jr., died 9, 7, 1777 Samuel Borden died 9, 11, 1777

Elizabeth Borden born May 10, 1747

Rebekah Borden born Mch. 22, 1749

Jeremiah Borden, Jr., born Dec. 30, 1750 Samuel Borden born Nov. 10, 1752

Esther Borden, daughter of Jeremiah and Esther Borden, born Oct. 9, 1754, 4th day of week; mar-

ried, Mch. 4, 1770, Richard Lippincott, born Jan. 2, 1745; died May 14, 1826. She died 5, 20, 1819. Margaret Lippincott, their daughter, born 1, 28, 1772; died 5, 5, 1781.

Rebekah, their daughter, born 9, 5, 1776

Eliza Lippincott born Jan. 30, 1785; died July 4, 1792.

Esther Borden Lippincott born 7, 14, 1791; died Apr. 13, 1823; married George Taylor Dennison. Rachel Wooley, daughter of John & Rebekah, born Dec. 4, 1767

Esther Woolley born Nov. 27, 1769

Jeremiah Wooley born 3mo., 1, 1772

Benjamin Borden Wooley born 12, 17, 1774 Jeremiah Borden Wooley born Jan. 6, 1779

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1754, Aug. 28. Will of Jeremiah Borden; proved July 26, 1754, refers to his wife as Esther.

Issue by first husband

Elizabeth Borden born May 10, 1747

Rebecca Borden born Mch. 22, 1749; married, Oct. 14, 1767, John, son of Thomas and Rachel (White) Wooley, of Shrewsbury.

Jeremiah Borden, Jr. born Dec. 30, 1750; died Sep. 7, 1777. In his will dated 9mo., 7, 1777, and proved Aug. 2, 1783, he mentions: "my sister, Rebecca, wife of John Wooley;" "my sister, Hester, wife of Richard Lippincott;" brother, Samuel, executor with friend, Jacob Hance.

Samuel Borden born Nov. 10, 1752; died Sep. 11, 1777; married Hannah .. . Esther Borden born Oct. 9, 1754, on 4th day of the week; died May 20, 1819; married Mch. 4, 1770, Captain Richard Lippincott, as his second wife, born Jan. 2, 1745; died May 14, 1826; son of Wilber and Frances (Stout) Lippincott; the notorious Captain Lippincott, who in the Revo- lutionary War, hung Captain Joshua Huddy.

59 HANNAH TILTON, daughter of Thomas Tilton, 15, born June 24, 1726; married, July 22, 1758, Richard, son of Thomas and Margaret Borden.

Issue

Sarah Borden born Apr. 11, 1759, married John Debow.

Thomas Borden born Nov. 6, 1760; died, Sep. 17, 1848, unmarried. His will, dated Dec. 20, 1839, was proved Nov. 8, 1848. In it he refers to his brother Benjamin, and his sons, Thomas T. Borden and Richard Borden; to the heirs of Hannah Carr, of Rachel Jennison, and of Richard Cook; to Richard Debow, Lawrence Debow, Sarah Sherman, the wife of Thomas; and makes his nephews, Thomas Debow, Thomas Cook, Jr., and John L. Borden, son of Benjamin Borden, his executors.

Rachel Borden born Feb. 16, 1763; died Mch. 7, 1811; married Thomas Cook, of Point Pleasant.

Benjamin Borden born Dec. 22, 1766; died Mch. 18, 1849; married Mary, daughter of Williams(?) and Ann (Levis) Lloyd, born Apr. 4, 1772; died Oct. 10, 1839. His will, dated Dec. 1 5, 1846; proved Apr. 4, 1849, men- tioned: his three daughters, Hannah T., wife of John B. Hartshorne; Ann L. Hance; and Sarah T. Degrauw; his sons, Richard, Thomas T., John L., and Joseph L .; and his brother Thomas Borden.

62 THOMAS TILTON, son of Thomas Tilton, 15, born Apr. 14, 1732; died March 1811; married, first, May 12, 1763, Catharine, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Champlice) Potter, born Jan. 28, 1740/1; and second, in 1777, Sarah Mitchell; died, November, 1820, aged about 60 years.

D. Ellis Williams, of Philadelphia, one of the descendants of this second marriage, thinks that Sarah Mitchell was the daughter of John Mitchell, who died April, 1758, and grand-daughter of James Mitchell, who died September, 1723.

1757, June 5. Letters of administration were granted to Thomas Tilton, Jr., principal creditor, on the estate of William Lawrence, late of Shrewsbury.

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1760. Will of Hoburt Curtis of Mon. Co .; mentioned his brother-in-law, Thomas Tilton, Jr.

1766. Thomas Tilton, of Shrewsbury, blacksmith, and Catharine, his wife, convey one hundred and fifty-seven and a half acres of land to Esther White, of the same place, in the presence of Elizabeth Tilton and Benjamin Jackson, Jr. Acknowledged Feb. 2, 1767.

1766, 8mo., 25. Thomas Tilton, executor of Gershon Bills, of Shrewsbury.

1791, 8mo., 21. Thomas Tilton, of Squan, blacksmith, mortgaged land that ad- joined Walter Herbert's land, lately David Curtis.'

18II, Feb. 26. Will of Thomas Tilton, of Howell; proved Mch. 28, 1811; mentioned: wife Sarah; son Amos and other children, not named; daughter Hannah Parker.

Executors: Thomas Cook, David Lewis, Amos Tilton, John P. Lewis.

Issue by first wife

114 Abigail Tilton died Mch. 17, 1850; married, prior to Feb. 12, 1800, James, son of Lewis Morris, born Jan. 19, 1766; died May 13, 1839. See Morris Family in Stillwell Miscellany.

Issue by second wife

115 William Tilton born 1778, died June 12, 1819; married, Jan. 11, 1804, Catherine Mellis, born 1771, died Apr. 4, 1843.

116 Amos Tilton born June 5, 1780; married, Nov. 3, 1808, Deborah Lewis, sister of Dr. J. P. Lewis, born Dec. 10, 1790; died Apr. 20, 1843.

II7 Thomas Tilton born 1782; died, July 4, 1818, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

118 Mary Tilton born Dec. 2, 1788; died Aug. 18, 1865; married, Dec. 3, 1807, Daniel, son of Israel and Beersheba (Woodmancie) Williams, born Feb. 2, 1784, died Oct. 18, 1865.

119 Hannah Tilton born 1782; died Oct. 18, 1850; married, Feb. 12, 1800, George Parker, born Oct. 25, 1772; died 1854.

64 LYDIA TILTON, daughter of Thomas Tilton, 15, born Mch. 5, 1738; married, first, Apr. 22, 1756, Herbert Curtis; died May, 1760; second, by license dated Jan. 28, 1766, William Pearce.

Issue by first husband

William Curtis Thomas Curtis

Faith Curtis; perhaps; who may have been a daughter of John and Patience (Tilton) Curtis, 63.

Issue by second husband

James Pearce

Asher Pearce born Sep. 25, 1768; married, Apr. 4, 1793, Mary Ellison, born Dec. 20, 1771.

Benjamin Pearce born Mch. 31, 1772; married Elizabeth Newberry, born Sep. 10, 1780.

65 JOHN TILTON, son of Thomas Tilton, 15, born May 5, 1739; married, by license dated July 23, 1766, Elizabeth Gifford; William Brand being surety on the bond.

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1802, July 2. John Tilton, of Howell, son of Thomas Tilton, with Elizabeth, his wife, conveys land on this date.

1805, June 29. John Tilton was called, "brother," in the will of Joseph Tilton, of this date.

1815, Nov. 7. John Tilton, Sr., and John Tilton, Jr., with Mary, his wife, convey land, at Manasquan, to Ebenezer Curtis, it being one-half of what John Tilton, Sr., owns, and all that John Tilton, Jr., owns by virtue of a deed from Joseph Tilton and Deborah his wife, to Thomas Tilton and John Tilton, Jr.

1816, Feb. 8. John Tilton, Sr., and John Tilton, Jr., both of Howell, convey land to Joseph Tilton.

1821, Nov. 10. The Sheriff conveyed land to Joseph Tilton, of Howell, on a decree against John Tilton and John Tilton, Jr., with Mary, his wife.

Issue

120 Thomas Tilton born May 25, 1767; married Joyce Wells.

12I John G. Tilton born Apr. 24, 1771; married, Jan. 1, 1804, Mary Curtis. 122 Joseph Tilton born Apr. 24, 1771; married, Dec. 23, 1804, Mary Scott.

67 JOSEPH TILTON, son of Thomas Tilton, 15, born Dec. 24, 1741; apparently died, in 1812, without issue. He married, by license dated July 28, 1767, Deborah, daughter of Preserve and Catharine (Cunningham) Potter; both of Shrewsbury; William Morton being the surety on the bond.

1805, June 29. Will of Joseph Tilton, of Howell township; proved June 29, 1812, mentions:

wife Deborah; brother John Tilton, (65); nephew Amos Tilton, (116); Thomas Tilton, Jr., (120), and his son, Joseph (168), not yet of age; John Tilton, Jr., (121).

1807, 5mo., 27. Joseph Tilton, of Howell, gave a piece of land to the Trustees for a Quaker Meeting House.

1815, Nov. 7. John Tilton, Sr., 65, and John Tilton, Jr., 121, with Mary, his wife, convey land, at Manasquan, it being one-half of what John Tilton, Sr., owns, and all that John Tilton, Jr., owns by virtue of a deed from Joseph Tilton, 67, and Deborah, his wife, to Thomas Tilton, 120, and John Tilton, Jr., 121, dated Aug. 24, 1804.

1816, Feb. 9. Joseph Tilton, of Howell, (122 or 169?), conveys land in the estate of Joseph Tilton, deceased, 67, to Thomas Tilton, 120, and John Tilton, Jr., 121, of the same place.

69 SILVESTER TILTON, son of Peter Tilton, 20, married, by license dated Apr. 3, 1739, Hannah Vahan, spinster; Silas Tilton, carpenter, being surety on the bond.

1747, Dec. 7. He asked of the Men's Monthly Meeting, at Shrewsbury, that he might come in under the care of Friends, and was admitted to their care, Jan. 4, 1747/8. 1764, Feb. 27. Administration on his estate granted to Joseph Potter, the principal creditor; Hannah Tilton being the widow of the said Silvester.

Proof is lacking that he was the father of the following, but from the correspondence in time and name, he must have been either father or uncle.

Issue 123 Silvester Tilton married Mary .

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71 SILAS TILTON, son of Peter Tilton, 20, married, by license dated Nov. 3, 1739, Phebe, daughter of John and Mary Mount, spinster; Peter Tilton, carpenter, being surety on the bond.

The records of the Baptist Church, at Middletown, show that one Phebe Tilton died Dec. 3, 1790.

Issue

124 Ezekiel Tilton married Elizabeth . . ... , born 1746; died Mch. 9, 1837. 125 (John Tilton). Tradition says Ezekiel had a brother John.

74 PETER TILTON, son of Daniel Tilton, 24, married . ..

1764, May 18. Samuel Tilton, son of Peter Tilton, 74, was complainant, according to the records of the Court at Freehold, against Daniel Tilton, 79, and William Wicoff, the executors of the last will and testament of Daniel Tilton, 24, because they had rendered no accounting.

Issue

126 Samuel Tilton remembered in the will of his grandfather, Feb. 15, 1747/8; and of age prior to May 18, 1764.

84 SAMUEL TILTON, son of Samuel Tilton, 28, married, as Samuel Tilton, Jr., by license dated Jan. 6, 1749, Mary Passel; Job Throckmorton being surety on the bond.

Issue 127 Thomas Tilton died prior to Dec. 28, 1832; married . ...

128 Samuel Tilton born Aug. 3, 1753; died Sep. 1, 1820; married, (about 1776), Lydia Willett. 129 Edward Tilton

86 THOMAS TILTON, son of Samuel Tilton, 28, married, by license dated June 17, 1758, Mrs. Mary Thomson, widow; Samuel Tilton being surety on the bond. Prob- ably this was a second marriage on his part also, as by a process of elimination it would appear that he is identical with the Thomas Tilton referred to by a great grandson as being his ancestor.

Issue 130 Jeremiah Tilton married Elizabeth Tilton

93 OBADIAH TILTON, son of Robert Tilton, 29, born Jan. 18, 1738; died Oct. 19, 1818; married, Jan. 20, 1763, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Woodman- see) Corlies; he of Middletown, she of Shrewsbury, born Sep. 9, 1741; died May 8, 1810. 1807, Mch. 19. Obadiah Tilton and Hannah, his wife, join in conveying property.

See also an article entitled "John Hance and Some of his Descendants," in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, for 1904.

Issue 131 Robert Tilton born Feb. 16, 1764; died April, 1820.

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132 Margaret Tilton born Oct. 26, 1768; died Aug. 22, 1849; married, Dec. 19, 1799, William Hance .*

133 Miriam Tilton born Mch. 2, 1772; died, Aug. 5, 1854, unmarried.

134 Joseph Tilton born Oct. 11, 1775 or Dec. 11, 1774; died, Mch. 8, 1858; married, Mary . .... ; she died Apr. 15, 1819.

135 Hannah Tilton born Sep. 12, 1781; died, Mch. 30, 1786.

94 DINAH TILTON, daughter of Robert Tilton, 29, born Jan. 31, 1740; died Aug. 28, 1796; married, at Shrewsbury, Nov. 25, 1762, George, son of Thomas and Patience (Tilton) Middleton; he of Nottingham, she of Middletown, born July 7, 1738; died Aug. 28, 1779.

Issue

Mary Middleton born July 31, 1763

Miriam Middleton born Feb. 10, 1766; died May 2, 1798.

Thomas Middleton born Dec. 15, 1770

George Middleton born Dec. 13, 1773

Patience Middleton born Aug. 2, 1778

95 MIRIAM TILTON, daughter of Robert Tilton, 29, born July 28, 1743; mar- ried, (the license being dated Aug. 11, 1762), Aug. 14, 1762, Edmund, son of George and Elizabeth (Abbott) Williams, born Oct. 8, 1740; died Jan. 27, 1812.

1810, Aug. 28. Will of Edmund Williams, of Shrewsbury; proved Feb. 22, 1812, mentioned:

wife Miriam; children, Margaret Throckmorton, Tylee Williams, Phebe Burr, Anne Woodward, wife of Nimrod Woodward, Miriam Lippincott, Mary Ten Brook, wife of Samuel W. Ten Brook; children of deceased daughter, Elizabeth Allen, viz .: Edmund W., Phebe, Miriam, Joseph Williams, Elizabeth and Caroline Allen; grandsons, Edmund W. Burr, Edmund Throckmorton, Edmund Woodward, Edmund T. Williams.

Issue

Elizabeth Williams born Aug. 18, 1763; died Aug. 2, 1807; married, June 16, 1785, Joseph, son of Joseph and Hannah (Lippincott) Allen, born Apr. 15, 1763; died Mch. 7, 1837.

Margaret Williams born Dec. 5, 1765; died June 2, 1817; married, prior to May 12, 1791, Joseph Forman Throckmorton, born Nov. 23, 1756; died Aug. 25, 1800.

Tylee Williams born Jan. 30, 1768; died Feb. 5, 1828; married, Jan. IO, 1792, Elizabeth, daughter of Esek and Elizabeth (Salter) Hartshorne, born Jan. 1, 1771 ; died Oct. 3, 1849.

Phebe Williams born May 10, 1771; died . . . . . , 14, 1837; married, May 12, 1791, Henry Burr, Jr., son of Joseph and Jane (Abbott) Burr, of Bur- lington born Oct. 1, 1763.

Anne Williams born June 8, 1774; died Dec. 23, 1836; married, Jan. 3, 1796, Nimrod T., son of Anthony and Deborah (Tilton) Woodward, born Jan.

*Gravestones in Friends' Burying ground, at Shrewsbury.

Miriam Tilton died, 8mo., 5, 1854, aged 82, 5, 3.

Joseph Tilton died, 3mo., 8, 1858, aged 83, 2, 28. William Hance died, 1, 30, 1827, aged 66, 8, 10. Margaret, his wife, died, 8, 22, 1849, aged 80, 9, 28. Obadiah Tilton, their son, died, 8, 26, 1825, aged 19, 5, II.

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20, 1765; died Aug. 24, 1829. For issue see Historical Miscellany under Woodward Family.

Mary Williams born Dec. 31, 1776; died May 7, 1826; married, Samuel W. Ten Brook, M.D.

Miriam Williams born Jan. 29, 1781; died Apr. 5, 1842; married, Mch. 15, 1810, Seth, son of Thomas and Lydia (Burr) Lippincott, of Chester, Pa., born Apr. 10, 1787; died Apr. 16, 1853. He married, second, June 20, 1844, Sarah, widow of Joseph Hooton.

97 DAVID TILTON, son of Robert Tilton, 29, born Sep. 20, 1749; died 1840; married Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Runnels) Scott; died Feb. 9, 1842.

1839, Oct. 28. Will of David Tilton, of Shrewsbury; proved June 2, 1840; mentioned: son, William, and his son, William, Jr .; grandson, Corlies Tilton, son of William; grand-daughter, Lydia Holmes, wife of Samuel, and daughter of William Tilton; grand-daughter-in-law, widow of grand- son, David Tilton, deceased, Jane Brown, late Jane Tilton, wife of James Brown.

A caveat was filed against this will by David K. Perrine, Mch. 16, 1840, in right of his wife, Elizabeth, who was the daughter of David, deceased son of the testator.

1823, Feb. 26. Sarah Tilton, of Shrewsbury, gives a deed that was witnessed by William Tilton and David Tilton.

Margaret, the wife of William; David, the son of David and Sarah, and Esek Tilton, son of William and Margaret Tilton, are each buried in the Friends' Burying ground, at Shrewsbury, but with no other inscription than the initials, "M.T.," "D.T.," and "E.T."

Issue

136 William Tilton born July 4, 1773; died May, 1841; married, Mch. 8, 1795, Margaret Corlies, born Nov. 17, 1775.

137 David Tilton born Jan. 8, 1785; died prior to Mch. 16, 1840; married, Oct. 23, 1806, Sarah (Flemnen?); died January, 1846.

98 JEDEDIAH or JEDIAH TILTON, son of Robert Tilton, 29, born 7mo., 24, 1752; died Aug. 2, 1777; married, at Chesterfield Meeting, Nov. 9, 1775, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Robbins) Allen, of Nottingham, born Jan. 1, 1756; died Feb. I or 15, 1824. She married, second, Feb. 1, 1779, Jacob, son of George and Hannah (Fowler) Middleton.

1777, 7mo., 22. Will of Jediah Tilton, of Nottingham; proved Sep. 3, 1777, at Burlington.

To wife, Hannah, "what was left her by her father-in-law Samuel Allen in his last will;" daughter, Mary, a minor; executors: wife, Hannah, and Nathan Robbins; witnesses: Nathan Middleton, Jacob Middleton, Benjamin Linton.

The testator signed his name as Jediah Tilton.

Chesterfield Meeting Records give the following:

Judiah Tilton, born 7mo., 24, 1752, died 8mo., 2, 1777.

Mary Tilton, his daughter, born 11mo., 19, 1776.

Jacob Middleton, of Nottingham, married, Feb. 1, 1779, Hannah Tilton, of Chesterfield, at Chester- field.

Issue

138 Mary Tilton born Nov. 19, 1776; married, Apr. 8, 1802, Edward Field.

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103 WILLIAM TILTON, of Middletown, N. J., son of Nathan Tilton, 30, born Aug. 14, 1741; died Mch. 12, 1797; married, at Chesterfield Meeting, Mch. 1, 1770, Esther Middleton, of Nottingham, daughter of Thomas and Patience (Tilton), 35, Middleton, born Aug. 15, 1741; died Nov. 29, 1806.

1798, Jan. 9. Letters of administration granted to Thomas Tilton, Amos Tilton and Gideon Middleton, on the estate of William Tilton, of Monmouth Co.

1803, June 25. Will of Esther Tilton, of Middletown, widow of William Tilton; proved Aug. 27, 1806; mentioned:

sons, Thomas Tilton, Amos Tilton; niece, Sarah Jackson, wife of Hugh Jackson, and their children, Edna and Abigail; blankets that had been given to her by her father and which were marked "T.P.M." and "E.M." Executor: friend, Edmund Williams.

1806, Mch. 24. Thomas Tilton, clothier, conveys land to Amos Tilton. They were sons of William Tilton, deceased, his sole and only heirs.

Issue

139 Thomas Tilton born Apr. 14, 1771; died, 1841, unmarried. He resided near Farmingdale, N. J.

140 Amos Tilton born Oct. 7, 1774; died Sep. 3, 1819; married, Sep. 12, 1799, Elizabeth White.

104 ANNE TILTON, daughter of Nathan Tilton, 30, born Nov. 9, 1743; died July 23, 1830; married, Apr. 11, 1771, Samuel, son of Thomas and Patience (Tilton), 35, Middleton, born June 7, 1745; died June 6, 1812.

Issue

Asa Middleton born Oct. 10, 1771; died May 28, 1842; married, Bucks Co. Meeting, Nov. 17, 1796, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Sarah Sim- mons, born Feb. 2, 1772; died May 5, 1846.

Phebe Middleton born Aug. 8, 1773; died Aug. 20, 1827; married, Oct. IO, 1793, Isaac Wilson.

Nathan Middleton born Jan. 20, 1775; died Mch. 23, 1859; married .

Abigail Middleton born Sep. 21, 1776; died May 23, 1801.

Thomas Middleton born Sep. 22, 1778; died May 21, 1787. Increase Middleton born Nov. 2, 1780; died June 15, 1833.

Rebecca Middleton born Aug. 20, 1782; died Feb. 15, 1833.

Sarah Middleton born Apr. 28, 1784; died Mch. 14, 1807; married Benjamin Allen.

105 NATHAN TILTON, son of Nathan Tilton, 30, born 2mo., 24, 1749; died Sep. 23, 1820; married, Jan. 15, 1784, Abigail Birdsill, died Nov. 26, 1836, aged 79 years and 7 months. Her will, signed Dec. 25, 1822; proved Dec. 16, 1836, mentions daught- ers, Lydia Tilton and Catharine Tilton.

The following are to be found in an old Bible, of William Tilton:

Thomas Burrous died, 8mo., I, 1805, aged 47 years and 24 days.

Esther Burrous, his wife, died, 2mo., 13, 1836, aged 73 years, and 26 days. Nathan Tilton died, 9mo., 23, 1820, aged 70 years, 7 months and 13 days. Abigail Tilton, his wife, died, IImo., 26, 1836, aged 79 years and 7 months.

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William, son of Nathan and Abigail Tilton, died, 3mo., 27, 1840, aged 55 years, 9 months and 3 days. Catharine B. Tilton, daughter of Thomas and Esther Burrous, died, 4mo., 10, 1812, aged 29 years,

3 months and 15 days.

Jacob Middleton died, 5mo., 6, 1818, aged 67 years, 6 months and 8 days.

Hannah Middleton, his wife, died, 2mo., 11, 1824, aged 68 years, I month.

John West died, 2mo., 25, 1825, aged 63 years, II months and 13 days.

Elizabeth West, his wife, died, Imo., 14, 1793, aged 33 years, 3 months and 13 days.

Jacob Middleton, Jr., died, 12mo., 5, 1846, aged 58 years, 3 months and 30 days.

Sibylla Middleton, daughter of John and Elizabeth West, died, 7mo., 5, 1849, aged 58 years, 5 months and 22 days.

Thomas B. Tilton, son of William and Catharine Tilton, born 3mo., 10, 1812.

Hannah A. Tilton, daughter of Jacob and Sibylla Middleton, born 5mo., 3, 1815.

Thomas B. Tilton and Hannah A. Middleton was married Imo., 29, 1846.

William Tilton born 12mo., 5, 1846.

Hannah A. Tilton died, 2mo., 15, 1856, aged 40 years, 9 months and 12 days.

Issue

14I William Tilton born June 24, 1784; died 3mo., 27, 1840; married, first, Catharine Burrows; second, Hannah Allen.

142 Edmund Tilton married .

143 Abigail Tilton died prior to Aug. 17, 1841; married, Aug. 5, 1814; Gideon Middleton.

144 Lydia Tilton

I45 Catharine Tilton died, Feb. 5, 1857, aged 67 years, 11 months and 14 days; buried in Fairview Cemetery, Middletown.

110 ABRAHAM TILTON, son of Abraham Tilton, 37, married, by license dated Jan. 15, 1781, Elizabeth Rogers; Joseph Thorn being surety on the bond.

Charles R. Hutchinson, of Allentown, N. J., says that Abraham Tilton was a private in the Revolution from Burlington Co.

1792, Apr. 13. Abraham Tilton, of Nottingham, and Elizabeth, his wife, convey land to Henry Allen.

1836, 3mo., 17. Will of Abraham Tilton, of New Hanover; proved Apr. 12, 1836, mentioned:

wife, Elizabeth; executors: wife, Elizabeth, and son, Samuel; sons, Samuel, William, Abraham, and Daniel Tilton; daughters, Charlotte, wife of David Curtis; Lucy, wife of William Burtis; Elizabeth T., wife of Thomas Harris; Lydia, wife of James Ellis; Mary T., wife of Samuel Steward; Sarah, wife of Joseph Schooley; and the one eleventh share to his daughter, Patience T. Lalor, wife of Barnt De Lalor, in trust. Witnesses: Samuel Burtis, Thomas Harrison, George Sykes.

Issue

146 Charlotte Tilton born Nov. 30, 1781; died Aug. 25, 1864; married David Curtis.

147 Lucy Tilton born Dec. 5, 1783; died Aug. 8, 1859; married, Nov. 8, 1804, William Burtis.

148 Elizabeth T. Tilton born June II, 1786; died Sep. 16, 1845; married, first, Feb. 5, 1810, John Ellis, Jr .; second, Thomas Harris.

149 Lydia Tilton born June 25, 1788; died Nov. 3, 1858; married, Feb. 28, 1816, James Ellis.

150 Abraham Tilton born Nov. 25, 1790; died Oct. 7, 1866; married, Jan. 13, 1814, Martha Meirs.

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151 Patience Tilton born Feb. 18, 1793; died May 15, 1861; married, Apr. 12, 1820, Barnt De Lalor.

152 Sarah Tilton born Apr. 12, 1795; died Apr. 15, 1854; married, Oct. 8, 1815, Joseph Schooley.

153 Samuel Tilton born June 24, 1797; died July 28, 1882; married Feb. 20, 1829, Mary Borden.

154 Mary Tilton born July 31, 1799; died Dec. 23, 1867; married, Mch. 27, 1837, Samuel Steward.

155 William Tilton born Oct. 23, 1801; died Apr. 25, 1881; married, Nov. 25, 1825, Margaret Richie Lawrence.

156 Daniel Tilton born Oct. 8, 1804; died Nov. 9, 1874; married, Jan. 13, 1825, Sarah Meirs.

111 LYDIA TILTON, daughter of Daniel Tilton, 44, born Oct. 13, 1762; married Abner Rogers.

1799, Apr. I. Joseph Mount and Theodosia, his wife, of Hanover, as heirs to her father, John Rogers, deceased, convey land to Abner Rogers.

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