Samuel Tilton

  General Notes:

1. History of Martha's Vinyard by Banks, p. 471
2. Savage.
3. 'Town of NH' by Joseph Dow.
4. History of the Tilton Family in America by F T Tilton, pp 7-10.
5. TIB.
6. Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-
1650 by Charles Edward Banks, pp. 91, 92.
8. Diary of Rev. Wm. Homes of Chilmark
9. "William Tilton, His English Ancestry"
10 Pioneers of Maine & NH. p 687

After the death of his father, Samuel (13) and his brother, Daniel (7) went to live in Hampton, Massachusetts to live with their mother and her new husband, Roger Shaw. Unfortunately, Susanna died a year later, leaving the minor boys to be cared for by their step-father. Mr. Shaw proved to be an exemplary step-father, helping Samuel become apprenticed to a carpenter and remembering them in his will. As soon as Samuel attained legal age, Mr. Shaw gave him 15 acres of land in Hampton where he met and married Hannah Moulton. When Roger died in 1760, Samuel became the guardian of Daniel, who was still only 15.

He was a carpenter
Will probate 7 Mar 1732
They went to the Vineyard between 1675 and 1680. A Mary Tilton went with them, probably as a servant to help with the young children. She married Isaac Chase abt. 1677.

About midnight, Mr. Samuel Tilton departed this life in the 94th year of his age. He was a man of
good understanding, was an antipedobaptist in his judgment, but pious and regular in his
conversation. He was against swearing and usery.

Samuel married Hannah Moulton, daughter of Thomas Moulton Twin and Martha Savage, on 17 Dec 1662 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. (Hannah Moulton was born on 19 Jun 1645 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States and died on 11 Apr 1720 in Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States.)