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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].
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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
'Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the ... By James C. Brandow
'New England marriages prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley
'The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 71 - 80
1658 |
July 23, 1658
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Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts
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1677 |
November 9, 1677
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Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1679 |
October 25, 1679
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Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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1681 |
January 21, 1681
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Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1683 |
January 10, 1683
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Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Province of New York (Present Massachusetts), (Present USA)
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1685 |
January 15, 1685
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Martha's Vineyard, , Massachusetts, Tisbury, Dukes County, MA, United States
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1687 |
January 17, 1687
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Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, New York
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1689 |
February 26, 1689
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Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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1691 |
December 28, 1691
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Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts
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1693 |
November 25, 1693
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Tisbury,Middlesex,Massachusetts
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