Daniel Tilton (1646 - 1715)

Born 1646 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitabel (Sanborn) Tilton — married 25 Dec 1669 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 10 Feb 1715 at about age 69 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire

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Biography

Daniel Tilton was born about 1646 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.^[1][2] In 1667, Ensign Daniel Tilton resided in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire,^[3] then later in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire.^[1]

Daniel Tilton married Mehitable Sanborn on December 25, 1669 in Hampton, New Hampshire.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Blacksmith, Farmer;^[1][2] Admitted Hampton Church 10 December 1703. Jury 1683, 1684, 1674, grand jury 1683. Deputy 1693-5, 1702. His house a garrison in King Philip's War 1694;^[1] Military Service: Ensign, King William's War^[2]

Daniel Tilton died on 10 Feb 1715 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire.^[1][6]

Research Notes

This profile, Tilton-54 was previously CONFLATED with Tilton-105:

1. This Daniel Tilton would have been 99 years old at the Siege of Louisburg, which included the Battle of Cape Breton. A different Daniel Tilton (Tilton-105) (1697 - abt. 1758), a cousin of this Daniel, is also reported as “captain of the Ipswich Train Band. He took part in the Louisburg expedition under Sir William Pepperell, being commissioned lieutenant of the 2nd company, 5th Massachusetts regiment, on 7 Feb 1744.” Further confirmed by General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1899-1902, Society of Colonial Wars. New York: H. K. Brewer & Co. 1902. p. 783 at Archive.org. I will work to clarify Perkins-11750 01:45, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
2. This story is correctly attributed to Tilton-105: “In his youth, while on a vessel which was lying becalmed in fox Bay off the Maine coast, he and his elder brother (Lt. Jacob Tilton) were taken prisiners by the Indians. Their hands were bound behind them, but Daniel managed to cut his cords and released his brother, as well as a cabin boy, captured at the same time. After a desperate conflict with the savages, they escaped. So remarkable was the adventure that its history was celebrated in verse, a copy of which was published may years later in the "New England Register of Families" for July, 1848".
3. This story is also correctly attributed to Tilton-105: “He afterward held a commission of captain "in the military forces of Massachusetts Bay and commanded the Newbury Company" It is believed that he died at the siege of Louisburg, although another report states that he died at Cape Breton in 1745.

OTHER NOTES:

• Francis Theodore Tilton in his "History of the Tilton Family in America" pp. 68-69 states: "Through the generosity of Mr. George Henry Tilton, of Laconia, New Hampshire, (A descendant of Daniel and Mehetable (Sanborn) Tilton) a stone marker and tablet to the memory of Daniel Tilton was placed in the cemetery at Hampton." This statement has led many people to search for such a stone in Hampton's cemeteries, but the statement is misleading. The author corrects himself in a later volume of his work, on pg.158. The actual marker is one of many family stones ringing Hampton's "Founder's Park," which was set up in 1925.
• Unsourced notes from conflated profile:
  • Her (his wife) name is variously reported as Mehitable Shaw and Mehitable Weare.^{[citation needed]}
  • He was one of the first settlers of Hampton.^{[citation needed]}
  • He is usually spoken of as "Ensign Daniel" but attained his captaincy.^{[citation needed]}

• Fact: Relationship (0009)
• Fact: Occupation (1667) Blacksmith Hampton, New Hampshire, British Colonial America
• Fact: Burial Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, British Colonial America

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} William Heslet Jones, William Tilton: His English Origins and Some American Descendants. Heritage Books (CD).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Francis Theodore Tilton, History of the Tilton Family in America, 1928. Reprinted by Higginson Book Company.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Wentworth, Edward Norris Jr., The Genealogy of Edward Norris Wentworth Junior, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, June 1928. p. 61. (Special Project submitted in coursed in Community Life and Advance Biology at the University High School, University of Chicago).
4. ↑ Sanborn, George Freeman, Jr., and Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Vital records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the end of the year 1900. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016): “Daniel Tilton & Mehetabel were joyned in Mariage ye 23d: of ye 10th 10th [sic] m° 1669“
5. ↑ Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Volume 8.
6. ↑ Sanborn, George Freeman, Jr., and Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Vital records of Hampton, New Hampshire: to the end of the year 1900. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016) “Daniel Tilton aged 70 years died February ye 10th: 1715-16,”

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 05 February 2024, 03:21), entry for Ensign Daniel Tilton (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:M7V7-N5B ); contributed by various users.

See also:

• Find A Grave, database and images: accessed 24 Apr 2019, memorial page for Daniel Tilton (1646–10 Feb 1715), Find A Grave: Memorial #102908159: unsourced.
• The History of Raymond, N. H. by Joseph Fullonton pg. 291 at http://tinyurl.com/luu7sqa.
• Son's birth: "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL5N-NTR : 12 December 2014), Daniel Tilton in entry for Samuel Tilton, 12 Nov 1674; citing Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,047.
• For more on Daniel and his descendants see the series of articles in The Essex Genealogist by Barbara Marden beginning with the August 1987 issue. The Hampton library has copies on its shelves.

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Family Line.ged on 01 March 2011.
• WikiTree profile Tilton-157 created through the import of Nelson Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Gregory Nelson.
• WikiTree profile Tilton-318 created through the import of Ancestors 2011.GED on Aug 20, 2011 by William Romanski.
• WikiTree profile Tilton – 104 created through the import of fitzmaster032511.ged on 27 March 2011 by Sue Fitzpatrick.
• Thank you to Kevin Boes for creating WikiTree profile Tilton-474 through the import of Boes_Page Family Tree.ged on Jul 3, 2013.