From: PRTA59A@prodigy.com (MRS ELIZABETH V BRADY)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 15:22:52, -0500
To: cbaer@vineyard.net
Subject: TILTON
Chris,
I wondered if you had any knowledge and if you shared the belief that Mary Tilton was in
fact illegitimate - which sounds fairly certain given this document.
Authority - Catherine M. Mayhew, Society Genealogist, The Vineyard Museum, Dukes County
Historical Society, P. O. Box 827, Edgartown, MA 02539, (508) 527-4441, her letter of 6
July 1995:
Re SARAH CHASE. Besides copies from Banks Vol. III, pp. 71-72 and p. 471 you have from
Vol. II Chilmark pp. 39-40. You will see I do not agree with Banks that MARY TILTON is
SAMUEL TILTON'S sister - enclosed also is data from Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton which
identifies her as probably SAMUEL TILTON's daughter.
Authority - Excerpts from "Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton," by Walter Goodwin Davis,
introduction dated July 1946:
SAMUEL TILTON of Chilmark, Duke's County, made his will June 5, 1718,
and it was proved March 7, 1732. To his three sons WILLIAM, JOHN, and JOSIAH TILTON, all
of Chilmark, and their heirs and assigns, he left all his lands, buildings and
"appurtenances to the same any wise belonging" and all his carpenter's and other
tools, after the death of his wife
HANNAH, to be equally divided between them. To his three daughters HANNAH WING, MARY
ALLEN, and RACHEL LAMBERT, all his stock, movables and household goods to be equally
divided between them, except one great iron kettle which he gave to his granddaughter ANN
LUMBERT. Executors: sons WILLIAM and JOHN TILTON. Witnesses: Josiah Torrey, Sarah
Torrey, Edward Milton. (Dukes County Probate, 2:69)