Sherburn Tilton Jr

  General Notes:

Sherburn Tilton born 12 May 1768 and died 27 Dec 1852 buried In Homeland Cemetery Bristol Grafton NH Plot, Section 21-W, Lot - 14 Grave 3.1.

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Note for: Sherburne Tilton, 12 May 1768 - 27 Dec 1852 Index
Burial:
Place: Homeland Cem, Bristol, Grafton, New Hampshire

Individual Note:
Richard Watson Musgrove History of the town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire R. W. Musgrove,1904 , Bristol, N.H. page 425- 427..& 267
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INFORMATION: Descendants of William Tilton Of Lynn Mas. Through The Lineof
His Son Daniel Tilton, Barbara B. Marden, Reprinted from The EssexGenealogist p 96

BIRTH: New Hampshire Family Records Vol II, Willliam Copeley, Heritagebooks
inc, pg 705-07

HISTORY: Jones, William H, William Tilton: His English Origins and SomeAmerican Descendant s, Haritage Books Inc, Maryland, (1997) pg 131, 160

Sherburu Tilton, son of Sherbufn, was b. in Kensington, July 31, 1735. Papers left by the late Otllin Sleeper state that he was with Gen. Wolfe, at the seige of Quebec. In July, 1776, he enlisted in Capt. David Quimby's company, of Col. Josiah Bartlett's regiment, raised for the invasion of Canada ; and in 1777, he marched from Sandown in Capt. Robert Collins's company to join the Northern army at Saratoga. He m. Huldah Prescott, b. Kensington, Nov. 14, 1738. and settled in Sandown. About 1780 they removed to Bristol and he built a log cabin on east side of South Main street, where later stood a hotel and where now is Frank W. Bingham's harness shop. He bought of John Tolford the mill lot, No. 61, First Division, and operated the saw-mill and grist-mill where is now the Train-Smith company pulp-mill. In May, 1794, he sold to Moses Lewis and removed to what has later been known as the Chase farm on north side of Hemp hill, where he had a potash. Later he removed to Wheelock, Vt., where he d. Sept. 20, 1813, ae. 78- 1-19. She d. St. Albans, Vt., Apr. 11, 1823, ae. 84-4-27.

Sherburn married Ruth Emmons, daughter of Lt Benjamin Emmons and Elizabeth Sandown Fellows. (Ruth Emmons was born on 8 Jun 1775 in Bristol Grafton N.H, died on 16 Oct 1866 in Bridgewater Grafton NH and was buried Homeland Cemetery in Bristol Grafton N.H, Find A Grave #63244370.)