Desire (Oldham) Tilden (1698 - 1786)

Born 28 Feb 1698 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Tilden — married 27 Dec 1717 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1786 at age 87 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Desire Oldham was born in Scituate in 1697. She married Samuel Tilden in 1717 at Scituate. She died at Marshfield on 25 February 1786 and was buried there in the Marshfield Hills Cemetery.^[1]

Children of Samuel and Desire (Oldham) Tilden:^[2]

1. Abigail, bp. 23 Aug 1719 Scituate; d. 08 Sep 1635 age 16 years.
2. Desire, bp. 18 Sep 1720 Scituate; d. 17 Sep 1735 Marshfield age 15 years.
3. Mercy, bp. 09 Sep 1722 Scituate.
4. Ruth, bp. 04 Oct 1724 Scituate.
5. Thankful, bp. 20 Nov 1726 Marshfield; d. 19 Dec 1748 age 23 at Marshfield unmarried.
6. Samuel, bp. 13 Sep 1730 Marshfield; d. 29 Aug 1735 at Marshfield age 7 years.
7. Sarah, b. 1731; d. 08 Jul 1731 Marshfield age 1 month.
8. Benjamin, b. 1735; d. 29 Aug 1735 Marshfield age 7 months.
9. Samuel, b. 14 Sep 1739 Marshfield.
10. Sarah, named in father's will in 1757.

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Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102433109/desire-tilden: accessed 14 October 2022), memorial page for Desire Oldham Tilden (26 Feb 1697–25 Feb 1786), Find A Grave: Memorial #102433109, citing Marshfield Hills Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by KGrizzard (contributor 47565931). (Includes gravestone photo and transcription.)

   Inscription: Desire, widow of Samuel, died 25 February, 1786, in her 88th year.

2. ↑ Sherman, Robert Moody and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Henry Samson, Vol. 20, part one, (Plymouth, Mass : GSMD, 2000) pages 11, 44.

See also:

• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 2 p 245
• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4L3-221 : 15 January 2020), Desire Oldam, 1697.
• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHCM-MZC : 24 January 2020), Desire Oldam in entry for Samuel Tilden, 1717. Image included