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Note for: Katherine Humes Huston, 2 Feb 1846 - 21 Jun 1929 Index

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Year: 1910; Census Place: La Harpe Ward 2, Hancock, Illinois; Roll T624_290; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 264Family history information from Warren Tilton 123 5th St NW, Mason City,IA 50401-3135. cop y in my possession.

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Note for: Wayman Albert Tilton, 25 Jul 1866 - 16 Feb 1938 Index

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1910; Census Place: La Harpe Ward 1, Hancock, Illinois; Roll: T624_290; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0014;
Family history information from Warren Tilton 123 5th St NW, Mason City,IA 50401-3135. cop y in my possession.

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Note for: Laura Jullia Tilton, 3 Mar 1868 - 1922 Index

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Note for: Stephen Bradford Tilton, 14 Feb 1872 - 19 Jul 1943 Index

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Note for: John Edison Tilton, 21 Jul 1874 - 31 Dec 1942 Index

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Note for: Samuel Henry Tilton, 6 Dec 1877 - 1945 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Glendale Cemetery, Tazewell Co, Illinois

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     Family history information from Warren Tilton 123 5th St NW, Mason City,IA 50401-3135. cop y in my possession.

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     S. Henry TILTONGlendale CemeteryTazewell County, Illinois ~~1876 - 1945 ~~

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Note for: Francis Myrtle Tilton, 26 Feb 1879 - 25 Sep 1955 Index

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Note for: Julia Emma Tilton, 1 Jan 1883 - 25 Sep 1955 Index

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Note for: John Tilton, 4 Mar 1612/1613 - 29 Mar 1688 Index

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OCCUPATION: 1ST TOWN CLERK GRAVESEND COLONY 1646. OWNED PART OF CONEYISLAND
BIOGRAPHY: PRIVATE DOCUMENT- LETTER- FROM MRS MARJORIE CROTTS, MESA ,AR.TO
in Lynn by 1640, Will proved 3 April 1688
BIRTH: MARRIAGE DEATH: JOHN E. TILTON, STERRETT,AL. DATED 2 MARCH 1993.IN POSS OF COMPILER.
BIO: Tilton, Francis Theodore. HISTORY OF THR TILTON FAMILY IN AMERICA.NEW
JERSEY:1939 pg 11.
BIOGRAPHY: Dubrett Ancestry Research LTD. letter to Mr Earle B. Tilton,datad 10 November 19 86. Copy in possession of compiler
in Lynn by 1640, Gravesend, Long Island by 1647. Willproven 3 April 1688
Birth date BIOGRAPHY: Don R. Cook, Grandma was A Tilton,Prudent Pelican
Publishing, FT Collins, Co,1996
name DATE:Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their dec endants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg143.
HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997)pg 58
Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1939, Vol III, New York MonthlyMeeting, page 316

John was educated at Rugby School in Rugby, England. John came to Lynn,Massachusetts sometim e around 1639. In 1643, John and his young familymoved to Gravesend, Long Island, in what wa s then New Amsterdam. OnSeptember 7, 1646, John was elected Town Clerk, a position he held u ntil1662. John, and his wife, Mary were among the first Americans to becomeQuakers.

The Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant, made continualefforts to stamp out "t hese raving
Quakers" by fines and imprisonment.John Tilton and his wife Mary were among thos e who had to endure hardpersecutions. Mary Tilton, wife of John Tilton, was charged with th ecrime of having gone, like a sorceress from door to door to lure andseduce the people, eve n young girls, to join the Quakers. John wascharged with having permitted Quakers to quake a t his house in Gravesend.

John was a signatory to a letter to the Governor of New York whichexplained why the Friend s (Quakers) could not help build the fort in NewYork harbour. The letter was dated October 3 0, 1672.

Over the years John helped create several new settlements of Quakers. Henegotiated the purch ase of more Long Island land from the CarnaiseIndians, and purchased the Barren Islands of f the coast of Long Islandfrom another Indian tribe. He gained a reputation as an Indian interpreter, as well as an effective negotiator. John assisted as aninterpreter in the first pu rchase of Indian land in an area of NewJersey which was later to become Monmouth County. Th e purchase wasfinalized on January 25, 1664.
Reg of early settlers of kings co
TILTON, JOHN, said to have come over with Lady Mody, was among the early settlers of Gd in 1646, in which year he was granted plantation-lot No. 18, as per town rec. He m. Mary (???), who d. May 23, 1683, at Gd, and he d. in 1688. Town-clerk in 1650, '51, '52, '53, mag. in 1674, and on ass. roll of 1683. Nov. 1, 1665, as per town rec., he bought of Gov. Baxter plantation-lot No. 19, formerly of Thos Greedy; also "a piece of land purchased of Robert Penyer (Pennoyer) as also further confirmed unto me by Monnr Pieter Stuyvesant late Governor," etc., containing 75 Dutch morgens, "and of ye wch James Hubbard & my selfe did bestow on ye town of Gravesend & was hired yearly as by these Records bearing date ye 7th December 1653. And the moyitie of ye other th ird pt. I doe now grant sell & make over by these presents unto ye said John Tilton," etc. Mar. 8, 1691-2, he sold to Coert Stevense (Voorhees) of Flds all his remaining real-estate in Gd for 295, reserving the use of the same for 12 months unless he so oner removed
Howard B French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Vol II Privately printed in Philadelphia, 1913. pg 74,76,77,78
Rev. Arthur S Cole, The Scott Family of Shrewsbury, NJ. The Register Press, Red Banks, NJ 1908.
Pg 14

Teunis G. Bergen, Register In Alphabetical Order of the Early Settlers of Kings County., Long Island, N. Y.
1973, Polyanthos , Cottonport
page 303.
.William S Hornor, THIS OLD MONMOUTH OF OURS, Clearfield Company page 181.

Will of John Tilton of Gravesend. Dated Sept. 15, 1687. To John Painter £ 10. To John Tilton, Jr., a dwelling house. Residue of estate to be equally divided among children, namely: John Tilton, Peeter Tilton, Thomas Tilton, Sara Painter, Abigail Scott, Ester Spicer, and Mary Boman. Also to John Tilton and Samuele Spicer as executors, and also to William Richardson, a piece of land in Gravesend for a buriall place. Executors: Loving sons John Tilton and Samuell Spicer. Proved April 3, 1688. (Recorded in Liber i of Conveyances, page 108.)

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