Mary Chase

Not a known daughter of Susannah Shaw

Mary Tilton became the second wife of Isaac Chase on 5 December 1675, in Tisbury[2][3][4][5] . Isaac had made the move to Tisbury following the death of his first wife in 1674. He made this move in close association with his Hampton neighbour Samuel Tilton (Mary's brother) [SIC: father] who was also prominent in the earliest days of Tisbury[6].

Disputed Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tilton-17

Questionable parents, due to the mother's age. It is believed that Mary Tilton was born in Lynn, Massachusestts, the youngest child of William Tilton and his wife Susanna. William and Susanna had settled in Lynn, Massachusetts and it was here that they raised their family. When William Tilton died in 1653, Susanna married Roger Shaw of Hampton and this step-father re-settled the family in Hampton[1].

However, the age inscribed on Mary's gravestone -- 88, in 1746 -- if even approximately correct, effectively eliminates William and Susannah as parents, as William Tilton died in the winter of 1652/53; and had Mary been born his daughter by that time, her mother would have been in her 50s... not an absolute biological impossibility, but extremely unlikely. Taken in combination with Mary's stated age at death, these facts require a different paternity.

Walter Goodwin Davis, in his 1947 "Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton", makes a solid case that Mary -- who ultimately came to Martha's Vineyard with Samuel Tilton and his wife Hannah -- was an illegitimate but accepted daughter of Samuel by an unknown mother, who most probably died during the child's birth or infancy, prior to Samuel's marriage to Hannah Moulton in 1662.[2]

'Mary Tilton

• 'F, b. circa 1652, d. 14 June 1746
• Father William Tilton b. 28 Feb 1586, d. b 16 Apr 1653
• Mother Susanna Pecton d. 28 Jan 1655
• ' Mary Tilton was born circa 1652 at of Lynn, Essex, MA. She married Isaac Chase, son of Thomas Chase and Elizabeth Philbrick, on 5 October 1675 at Tewkesbury, Middlesex, MA. Mary Tilton died on 14 June 1746 at Tisbury, Middlesex, MA.
• 'Family Isaac Chase b. 1 Apr 1650, d. 19 May 1727
• Children
  • ◦Rachel Chase+ b. 25 Oct 1679
  • ◦Isaac Chase+1 b. 21 Jan 1681, d. Apr 1760
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1008.htm#...
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'Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the ... By James C. Brandow

• http://books.google.com/books?id=PaB7ohULQP4C&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=I...
• Pg. 78 CHART
• '2. MARY TILTON, dau. of Wm. and Susanna Tilton of Lynn, Mass. She died 14 Jun 1746. Md. 5 Dec. 1675 in Tisbury, Mass. as 2nd wife of LIEUT ISAAC CHASE Born 1 April 1650 died 19 May 1727. Will pr. 7 July 1727. Of Hampton, N. H. then of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. Owned most of Vineyard Haven Village. Quaker and blacksmith.
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'New England marriages prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley

• http://books.google.com/books?id=mOgK8dM9qqUC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq...
• Pg. 147
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'The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 71 - 80

• http://history.vineyard.net/chase.htm
• 12. ISAAC CHASE, (Thomas1), the first of the name to settle on Martha's Vineyard, was descended from the Chase family of the parish of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, through Aquila, (a) his grandfather, bapt. 14 Aug. 1580. Richard,(b) his great grand-father, bapt. 23 Aug. 1542 (who m. Joan Bishop 16 May 1564) and Thomas (c). Isaac2 was b. abt. 1 Apr. 1650, or 1647 (according to his gravestone), and came first to Tisbury in 1674 bringing with him the trade of a blacksmith as well as his predilections for the Quaker religion. [See also Annals of Tisbury: Sketches of the Early Settlers.]
• He m. (1) MARY PERKINS of Hampton, N. H. (sister of his fellow emigrant to the Vineyard, Jacob Perkins) 20 Feb. 1673, by whom he had no issue. She d. soon after and he m. (2)' MARY TILTON (sister of another fellow emigrant, Samuel Tilton (3) [*See Note.]) 5 Oct. 1675, the ceremony being performed by Rev. John Mayhew. She was b. 1658-9 and d. 14 June 1746 being the mother of all his children. His Wil1 12 Feb. 1721-22 was pro. July 1727, and his large landed estate, comprising nearly the whole of the present village of Vineyard Haven, became an inheritance for his children. [He is buried at Crossways Cemetery.]
  • 20. THOMAS, b. 9 Nov. 1677.
  • 21. RACHEL, b. 25 Oct. 1679; m. (1) SAMUEL KNIGHT (20) of Charlestown 19 July 1700; (2) SAMUEL MUNKLEY after 1721.
  • 22. ISAAC, b. 21 Jan. 1681.
  • 23. ABRAHAM, b. 10 Jan. 1683.
  • 24. JAMES, b. 15 Jan. 1685.
  • 25. MARY, b. 17 Jan. 1687; m. BENJAMIN WEEKS (16) 14 Jan. 1704.
  • 26. JOSEPH, b. 26 Feb. 1689.
  • 27. JONATHAN, b. 28 Dec. 1691.
  • 28. HANNAH, b. 25 Nov.1693; m. NATHAN PEASE (120) 30 Oct. 1712.
  • 29. SARAH, b. 15 Oct. 1695; m. SAMUEL COBB 27 June 1716. [She is buried at West Tisbury Village Cemetery.]
  • 30. PRISCILLA, b. 12 Nov. 1697; m. NATHAN FOLGER 18 Nov. 1718.
  • 31. ELIZABETH, b. 7 Sept. 1703; d. 27 Sept. 1719 unm. [She is buried at Crossways Cemetery.]
• Authority - Catherine M. Mayhew, Society Genealogist, The Vineyard Museum, Dukes County Historical Society, P. O. Box 827, Edgartown, MA 02539, (508) 527-4441, her letter of 6 July 1995:
• Re SARAH CHASE. Besides copies from Banks Vol. III, pp. 71-72 and p. 471 you have from Vol. II Chilmark pp. 39-40. 'You will see I do not agree with Banks that MARY TILTON is SAMUEL TILTON'S sister - enclosed also is data from Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton which identifies her as probably SAMUEL TILTON's daughter.
• Authority - Excerpts from "Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton," by Walter Goodwin Davis, introduction dated July 1946:
• SAMUEL TILTON of Chilmark, Duke's County, made his will June 5, 1718, and it was proved March 7, 1732. To his three sons WILLIAM, JOHN, and JOSIAH TILTON, all of Chilmark, and their heirs and assigns, he left all his lands, buildings and "appurtenances to the same any wise belonging" and all his carpenter's and other tools, after the death of his wife HANNAH, to be equally divided between them. To his three daughters HANNAH WING, MARY ALLEN, and RACHEL LAMBERT, all his stock, movables and household goods to be equally divided between them, except one great iron kettle which he gave to his granddaughter ANN LUMBERT. Executors: sons WILLIAM and JOHN TILTON. Witnesses: Josiah Torrey, Sarah Torrey, Edward Milton. (Dukes County Probate, 2:69)
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References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tilton-17.
• Colonial Families Of Martha's Vineyard by Charles Edward Banks New England Marriages Prior To 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey
• The History of Martha's Vineyard by Charles Banks Vol III Family Genealogies pp 71-80