Thomas Tilton

  General Notes:

Family Note: HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 145


Note for: Thomas Tilton, 2 Jan 1741 - Feb 1793 Index

Individual Note:
BIOGRAPHY: Don R. Cook, Grandma waas A Tilton,Prudent PelicanPublishing, FT
Collins, Co,1996
HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 33
HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 114, 145
Name DATE:Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their dec endants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg203
Richardson, Robert H. A Time and Place in Ohio: a chronological account of certain historical and genealogical miscellany in east Ohio. Smithtown, NY. Exposition Press, C1983. p 350.
.Thomas Tilton with his wife
and at least one child (John,born 1768) mi grated westward, following the
old wilderness trail through Maryland to the Redstone district in the
western part of Pennsylvania, beyond the Alleghenies. Three of his sons
appear to have been born at Redstone fort in 1774, 1776, 1778. Redstone,
Oh io, at that time was a place of assembly for the Tories of that
District, and in the winter of 1777, the British flag flew over Redstone.
The British forced the Colonists to take oaths of allegiance, or be
imprisoned. Which no doubt prompted Thomas to migrate further westward,
across the Ohio river, into the Northwest territory, which was not yet
opened to white settlers by the Government.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Kent, Delaware.

Thomas married Rebecca Deborah Farrell, daughter of James Kelso Farrell and Grace Fish, in 1767 in Del. Kent County. (Rebecca Deborah Farrell was born on 2 Jan 1740 in New Castle Del and died in Sep 1784 in Red Stone Fort Westmoreland Penn.)