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Note for: Hannah Tilton, 1718 - Index

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BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON
FAMILY IN AMERICA. New Jersey,:1939-40.page 195
Name DATE:Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their dec endants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg145
HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997)pg 83

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Note for: Catherine Tilton, 1720 - Index

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Note for: Daniel Tilton, 1722 - 14 Oct 1749 Index

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Titus Family Tree. Ancestry Com http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/17524632/person/780369064.

BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON
FAMILY IN AMERICA. New Jersey,:1939-40.page 195
Name DATE:Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their dec endants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg145

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Note for: Mott Tilton, 1724 - Index

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Note for: Rebecca Applegate, 19 Mar 1730 - 10 Feb 1810 Index

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BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON
FAMILY IN AMERICA. New Jersey,:1939-40.page 195

HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 83

BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON
FAMILY IN AMERICA. New Jersey,:1939-40.page 191
Name DATE:Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their dec endants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg145
HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 115

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Note for: Mary Elizabeth Patterson, ABT 1716 - Index

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Note for: Mark Haskell, 10 Aug 1695 - 1775 Index

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Haskell Family in North America - Descendants of William Haskell and Elinor Foule Eighth Generation. http://hfa.haskells.net/haskellfamilyna/pafg141.htm#32064 Jan 2011.

BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON
FAMILY IN AMERICA, New Jersey:1939-40.
Death place: Family Tree Maker Family Archives Vol 3, Brouderbundsoftware, inc. Famly tre e # 1552

The following notes are from Family Tree Maker World Family Tree Vol. 85, tree 746.

Mark Haskell was the second son of William and Abigail (Davis) Haskell, and was born August 10, 1695 in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

On December 3, 1720, Mark and Jemima Tilton of Ipswich filed an "intention to marry". Their first child was Francis, born in 1722. It is said that the first name 'Francis' was common in Jemima's hometown of Ipswich and perhaps was used often in the Tilton family. This may have been the cause of Mark and Jemima breaking with Haskell family tradition of naming the first son after the father, as was very common at the time. After Francis, Mark Jr. was born in 1723, followed by 6 siblings, all born in Gloucester. Of these at least two died at an early age.

Mark Haskell was a seafarer and by 1723 he was in command of the fishing schooner "Dolphin". That year, off the coast of St. Pierre, the schooner was boarded by the pirate John Phillips in search of a man named Tillume (or Tilton) who may have been a close relative of Mark's wife, Jemima. Records indicate that about 1734, Mark and family moved to Attleboro, Massachusetts. Since the town is away from the ocean, this seems a strange place for a 40 year old sea captain to settle.

Captain Mark Haskell was the first Haskell to settle on Deer Isle, Maine, where he took up land at Northwest Harbour. About 1768, 73-year old Mark, accompanied by some of his family sailed from Sandy Bay, near Rockport, Massachusetts, to begin a new life among the few that had ventured to Deer Isle before him. His sons Francis and Mark relocated to Deer Isle after that date.

After residing in Deer Isle for several years, Mark sailed back to Massachusetts on his grandson Ignatius' vessel to visit old friends and family. He died and was buried in Attleboro.

The following biographical notes are from "Ancestral History of the Pioneers of Deer Isle and their Descendants" by Benjamin Lake Noyes, 1899.

Mark Haskell was born in Gloucester, Mass., Aug 10, 1695, and resided in his native town for a number of years when he moved to Attleboro, Mass. He and his wife Jemima were dismissed from the second church in Gloucester, Mass., to the church in Attleboro, Mass. Just how long he resided in this latter town I am not certain, but good authority has stated that he was probably the Capt. Mark Haskell who died there at the age of 80 years. Another authority states that she is of the opinion that Capt. Mark and his wife were interred in the old burial yard at Gloucester, Mass., but that there are no stones which mark their resting place there. He was the first Haskell to ever settle on Deer Isle and he took up a lot of land at Northwest Harbor situated between that of the pioneer Levi Carmans on the northwest and that of his son Francis Haskell on the southeast. It was about 1768 when Capt. Mark, Sr. at an advanced age of life and accompanied by some of his family, left what was then known as Sandy Bay in the town of Rockport, Massachusetts, and sailed for Deer Isle, here to begin life anew and to cast his lot among the few other adventurers who had settled prior to him.

After residing here several years, he expressed a great desire to once more visit the scenes of his youth and to see the friends and relatives whom he had left behind, fearing that in his old age he would not enjoy this privilege many years longer. Coincidently, his grandson, Ignatius Haskell, Esq., had a vessel undergoing preparations for a trip to Newburyport and Mark concluded he would go on her. Accordingly he arranged his business affairs before embarking, and stipulated with his grandson, Ignatius, that for his future support, he should convey to the latter his title and right as a settler to the property he owned at Northwest Harbor.

The vessel soon sailed with Mark as a passenger, but it proved to be his last voyage as he was taken sick in Massachusetts about two weeks after his departure and died there. It is the impression of the eldest descendants here that he died in Newburyport, but this being purely conjectural, we are allowed ample latitude for assuming that, in all probability, he was the Capt. Mark Haskell who, as stated above, died at Attleboro in 1775, as this was one of the principal haunts of his earlier life, and being expressly on a visit to old-time friends and relatives, it would be the most natural sequence of his trip that he should be there in just about two weeks from the time of his sailing from Deer Isle. As a consequence, the right of his estate, by virtue of his own and some of his sons occupancy, became, upon a division of the land and the terms of the prior stipulation, the property of his grandson, Ignatius, who continued to own it up to the time of his decease. The lot contained 250 acres, running about two miles, in a northeast direction from the Northwest Harbor, and a part of it has, for many years, been known as the Rye Field lot.

In 1723 a schooner belonging to Gloucester, commanded by Capt. Mark Haskell, was boarded by the pirate John Phillips who was informed that a man whom he wanted by the name of Tillume (?) was one of Haskells crew. The history of Gloucester says no record was preserved as to the pirates treatment of Haskell and his crew but an account of the affair, on the part of Tillume or Tilton (?) who was taken, can be found in the eleventh volume of the New England Historical Register. By this it appears he was grandson of Abraham and Deliverence Tilton, of Ipswich, whom I have presumed to be the grandparents of Marks wife Jemima, and his mother would not allow him to go to sea until he was nearly twenty-one years of age, and then only on condition that he should ship in the Dolphin a sloop commanded by Capt. Mark Haskell of Cape Ann, then in port fitting for a fishing voyage. They were off St. Pierre when boarded.

Mark married Jemima Tilton of Ipswich, Mass., where their marriage intention was published Dec. 3, 1720. It was this Jemima who introduced the name of Francis into the Haskell family, and a rare one it was in Gloucester at that time, though common in Ipswich where she came from. As before stated Jemima was probably a granddaughter of Abraham and Deliverance Tilton of Ipswich, Mass., and is doubtless a sister to, or cousin of, the Lieutenant Jacob and his brother Daniel Tilton who were made famous by their daring exploit in the summer of 1722 with six pagan Indians on their schooner which was anchored near Fox Islands (Vinal-Haven). A narrative or poem in a most unique style and giving a full account of the affair can be found on page 272, volume 2 of the N.E.G.H. Register (ed: now known as the New England Historic Genealgical Register).