Samuel Tilton

• Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 2 2021, 10:25:40 UTC

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• Notes: His will was dated on 7 July 1758 proved 3 Aug 1764. Mentions wife, Elizabeth; son Peter Tilton; son Samuel Tilton; four sons, Nathaniel, Peter, Thomas, John; two daughters, Susannah and Rebecca Tilton. Witnesses: Thomas Stillwell, Jeremiah Stillwell, Edward Burrowes. - John E. Stillwell Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, Vol. 5 (New York: n.pub., 1932), page 147. Tilton of New Jersey. Hereinafter cited as Stillwell's Miscellany Vol. 5.

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• Notes: He had marriage license dated February 4, 1744, to marry Elizabeth Willett, and she could not have been the mother of his children, for his children married at about the same time. Wm. Maddock was the surety on the marriage bond. Samuel Tilton was about fifty-four years of age when he married Elizabeth Willett.
• Samuel Tilton was the father of the following children:

1. PETER TILTON (J4-56); probably lived in old Middlesex County.
2. SAMUEL TILTON (J4-57); married Mary Wall; he probably m .. rried the second time Mary Passel!, of Somerset, the license being dated January 6, 1749.
3. NATHANIEL TILTON (J4-58); married (I) Mary Leonard; married ( 2) Ellinor Johnston, license being dated January 10, 1761.
4. THOMAS TILTON {J4-59); without question married twice; the name of his first wife has not been found; married Mary Thomson, widow, license being dated June 17, 1758; he died 1813.
5. SUSANNA TILTON (J4-60); married Peter Fernall; license dated March 4, 1742-3.
6. REBECCA TILTON
7. JOHN TILTON (J4-62).

• Reference: History of the Tilton Family in America. Tilton, Francis Theodore. Vol. 1, No. 4. p202. Clifton New Jersey, 16 April 1928. https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006543.pdf

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