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Thomas Tilton
(1652-Bef 1719)
Mary Lawrence Wife # 2
(1656-1720)
John Tilton Jr
(1703-1748)
Comfort Rhoades
(1701/1702-1755)
Col. Nehemiah Tilton
(1747-1814)

 

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Lydia Hanson

Col. Nehemiah Tilton

  • Born: 1747, Delaware
  • Marriage: Lydia Hanson in 1774 in Del. Kent County
  • Died: 1814, Delaware at age 67
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bullet  General Notes:

Note for: Nehemiah Tilton, 1747 - 31 Aug 1814 Index

Individual Note:
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Nat Soc of Am Rev Daughters. DAR INDEX Centenial Edition, Part III, Washington, DC 1990.
.HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 117, 150.
Virkus, Frederick A. THE ABRIDGED COMPENDIUM OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, VOL III, Genealogical Publishing Co. INC. Baltimore, MD 1987. page 254.

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Family Note: ,
Nat Soc of Am Rev Daughters. DAR INDEX Centenial Edition, Part III, Washington, DC 1990.
.HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg. 150
DATES: NGS Quarterly Vil 75, page 282
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ID: I2601
Name: Nehemiah Tilton
Prefix: Col.
Sex: M
Note: Military Service: Served as an officer in the Dover Regiment of the Delaware Militia during the Revolutionary War. Participated in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton 1
Note: Public Service: Served as President of the Court of Quarter Session. Kent Co., DE 1786; member of the Delaware State House of Representatives fron New Castle Co. 1792-94, 1795-97; Justice of the Peace, Kent Co., DE 1789-90. 2 3 4
Birth: 1747 5
Event: Election December 27, 1779 Delaware
Note: Elected Privy-Councellor of the Delaware House of Assembly. 6
Event: Conveyance 1782 Murderkill Hundred, Kent Co., DE
Note: Tilton along with John Banning, a mechantffrom Dover, DE, purchased the 400-acre Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm. 7
Event: Letters of Administration March 9, 1782
Note: He was appointed administrator of the estates of Col. William Rhodes and Capt. John Rhodes (obviously relatives of his mother). 8
Event: Election 1793
Note: Elected as a reprepresentative (probably to the Delaware House of Assembly) from New Castle County. 9
Event: Conveyance 1797 Murderkill Hundred, Kent Co., DE
Note: Tilton sold his share of the Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm to William McKee who had married John Banning's widow. 7
Event: Appointment April 1804
Note: Appointed Register (Registrar) for New Castle County. 10
Event: Appointment January 10, 1811
Note: Register (Registrar) of Land Office for the county of Adams, west of Pearl river. 11 12
Death: August 31, 1814 in Washington, Adams Co., Mississippi Territory 5
Burial: September 1814 13

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Father: John Tilton Jr. b: about 1703 in Delaware
Mother: Comfort Roads b: about 1709 in Lewes Hundred, Sussex Co., DE

Marriage 1 Lydia Hanson b: May 3, 1752
Married: 1774 14
Children
Has No Children William Killen Tilton
Has No Children Nehemiah Tilton Jr.
Has No Children Samuel Tilton
Has No Children Timothy Hanson Tilton
Has No Children Susan Tilton
Has No Children Ann Tilton
Has No Children Henry Tilton
Has No Children Mary Tilton
Has No Children Elizabeth Tilton
Has No Children John Tilton
Has No Children Lydia Anne Tilton b: 1790 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE
Has Children Jennette Irons Tilton b: 1795 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE
Has Children James Tilton Jr. b: July 7, 1775

Sources:
Abbrev: Diary of Capt. T. Rodney
Title: Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware. VIII. Dairy of Captain Thomas Rodney, 1776-1777.
Author: Tthe Historical Society of Delaware
Publication: Wilmington: 1888.
Page: p. 33
Abbrev: DE House of Assembly
Title: Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State q78q-1792 and of the Constitutional Convention of 1792.
Author: Edited by Claudia L. Bushman, Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey
Publication: 1988
Page: p. 648
Abbrev: DE History
Title: History of Delaware. 1609-1888.
Author: J. Thomas Scharf, A.M., LL. D.
Publication: Philadelphia, 1888.
Page: Vol. I, p. 408
Abbrev: DE History
Title: History of Delaware. 1609-1888.
Author: J. Thomas Scharf, A.M., LL. D.
Publication: Philadelphia, 1888.
Page: Vol. I, p. 523
Abbrev: IGI
Title: International Genealogical Index
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Abbrev: DE House of Assem.
Title: Proceedings of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware 1770-1776, of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and the House of Assembly of the Deleware Stete 1776-1781.
Author: Edited by Claudia L. Bushman, Harold Bell Hancock and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey
Publication: Cranbury, NJ. 1986.
Page: p. 499
Abbrev: Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm
Title: Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm
Author: University of Delaware
Note:
http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/bitstream/19716/4725/1/Charles%20I.%20du%20Pont%20Farm.pdf
Page: p. 23
Abbrev: Kent Co. DE Probate
Title: Calendar of Kent County Delaware Probate Records 1680-1800
Author: Compiled by Leon de Valinger, Jr. State Archivist
Publication: Public Archives Commission, State of Delaware, Dover, 1944
Page: p. 338
Abbrev: Delaware Gazette
Title: Delaware Gazette
Page: Oct. 5, 1793, p. 3
Abbrev: Mirror of the Times
Title: Mirror of the Times, and General Advertiser
Page: April 21, 1804
Abbrev: NY Journal
Title: New-York Journal
Page: Feb. 6, 1811
Abbrev: Miss. Hist.
Title: Encyclopedia of Mississippi History
Author: Dunbar Rowland, LL. D.
Publication: Madison, Wisconson. 1907.
Page: Vol. II, pp. 47-48
Abbrev: findagrave
Title: www.findagrave.com
Page: Memorial #42973379
Abbrev: Tilton Family Record
Title: Tilton Family Record, six booklets, Lydia Ann Wright Tilton, privately printed, n. d.
Author: Various members of the Tilton and Gibson families.
Publication: Unpublished. Located in the Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE.
Note:
Compiled by descendants of Col. Nehemiah Tilton over a 40-year period ending ca. 1933.
Page: p. 70


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Col. married Lydia Hanson, daughter of Timothy Hanson and Elizabeth Skillington, in 1774 in Del. Kent County. (Lydia Hanson was born in 1753 in Delaware and died in 1798 in Delaware.)




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