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- Joseph Tilson and wife soon after marriage went to Hartford,
Me., which was then comparatively a wild country. (Incorporated
a town, 1798.) He purchased one hundred acres of land in the
north part of Hartford, being a part of the "Thompson Grant." In
March, 1811, he bought 17 acres, and in May of same year, 51
acres. In the fall of 1811, with five little children from three
to eight years of age, (motherless), he moved with a two horse
wagon to Halifax, MA. (*)With others, he engaged in getting
iron ore in Jones River Pond (Silver Lake), at what is known at
Peterson Cove in Pembroke, Mass, Mass., and in other places. He
m. 2d Betsey Evers/o Kingston, Plymouth, MA, Plymouth Co
MA, Mass., May 22, 1815. In the fall of 1817 in company with
other families from Halifax, he moved to Marietta, Ohio, going
with horse and wagon, there being no other cenveyance in those
days. He left the two sons in Halifax, taking the three
daughters with him. He purchased a farm about three miles west
of Marietta, (owned in 1895 by Kaylor), where he died (from
falling on the ice at the doorstep), March 27, 1849. Mrs. Betsey
Tilson died, 1850, both are buried in West Marietta cemetery.
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Old Dead Relatives
1777 -
, d. 8 Feb 1811, Hartford, Oxford, Maine