Nathaniel TILDEN

Bef 1583 - Abt 1641  (> 57 years)

• Name	Nathaniel TILDEN
  Born	Bef 28 Jul 1583	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	28 Jul 1583	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Migration	Mar 1635	“Hercules”
  Died	Abt 1641	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Will Written	25 May 1641	Tenterden, Kent, England   [1]
  Inventory Taken	31 Jul 1641	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Occupation	Magistrate, Mayor
  Will Notes	Will of "Nathaniell Tilden of Scittuate of New England w'thin America gen", dated 25 May 1641, inventory taken 31 Jul 1641, proved 6 Sep 1641. An Inventorie of the goods and chattells of Nathaniell Tilden late of Scittuate in New England in America gen Deceased made & prized the xxxith Day of July 1641 by us whose names are hereunder written: Imprimis in the Hall one table one forme & chaires 00 23 00 It one booke of martirs one great bible Calvins instucons wilson on the romans 3 of Mr Downams 3 of Dotr Prestons Dod upon the Comaundnts Sibbs upon the covenant 3 of Doctr Stortons mr Dikes works & thirty other bookes 05 00 00 It i muskett i sword & birding peece 01 00 00 It in the Innter rooms i bed furnished 03 00 00 It 3 pair of sheets two pair of pillowcoats i duzn & half of napkins two table cloaths two towells 03 00 00 It i peece of fusteon 00 14 00 It xii peecs of pewter 00 12 00 It iii silver spoones 00 15 00 It two cloakes 02 00 00 It i truncke 00 06 08 It in the hall chamber i bed furnished 03 00 00 It three chests 00 14 00 It in the Inner Chamber one flock bed furnished 01 10 00 It three chests 00 06 00 It i smale paire of brand Irons 00 02 06 It i old case of bottells 00 03 00 It 2 old flock beds two boulsters three blanketts & a pillow 02 00 00 It in the servants chambers two flock beds furnished 02 00 00 It ix paire of sheets 02 10 00 It vi paire of pillow coats 00 15 00 It vii table cloathes 00 16 00 It iii duzzen & three napkins 01 00 00 It v Towells 00 10 00 It iiii old table clothes & other old linnen 00 02 00 It x silver spoones 0* 00 00 It six prcells of fusteon 03 18 00 It the rest of his weareing apparell 05 10 00 It a pillion & a pillion cloth 00 10 00 It six cusheons 00 09 00 It the rest of the pewter 03 10 00 It the bras 05 00 00 It the irons belonging to the chimney 00 14 00 It iii iron potts 00 16 00 It ii frying pans & a dripping pan 00 10 00 It scales and waights 00 12 00 It i grindle stone 00 05 00 It i one Jacke 00 14 00 It brewing vessells & milk vessells & beere vessells kneading troughs & other tubbs 05 00 00 It certaine spruce boards 01 00 00 It other smale things necessary about the house 00 10 00 It all the Iron and workeing tooles belonging to husbandry 03 10 00 It the Cart & all things belonging to yt & a set of harrow tynes 03 06 08 It two oxen two bulls two steeres 1 yearling one Cow and a calfe 50 00 00 It ii hoggs and foure piggs 07 00 00 It foules about the house 00 13 04 It tenn stocks & swarmes of bees 10 00 00 It fishing netts 01 00 00 It pouder & shott 01 06 08 It Indean Corne in the house about 37 bushells about 3 bushells of sumer wheate 1 bushell and halfe of peas & about one bushell & half of mault 07 00 00 It xiiii acrees of Corne on the ground 30 00 00 It in Debts hopefull & Desprate 27 00 00 Prized as abovesaid by us Willm Vassall Thomas Chambers Willm Hatch * [This is either a 2 or a 3.]  [2]
  Immigrant?	Y
  Confirmed Ancestor?	Y
  Buried	Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I3675	Main
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomas TILDEN,   b. 1546, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 6 Jun 1617, Wye, Kent, England  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Alyce BIGGE,   b. Abt 1548, Benenden, Kent, England ,   d. May 1593, Tenterden, Kent, England  (Age ~ 45 years)
  Married	19 Mar 1576	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Family ID	F1827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Bourne HUCKSTEP,   b. Abt 1588, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 1672, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 84 years)
  Married	13 Oct 1606	Bethersden, Kent, England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah TILDEN,   b. 1 Jan 1613, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 20 Mar 1677, Perquimans County, N Carolina  (Age 64 years)   2. Thomas TILDEN,   b. 1608, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. Abt 1618, Tenterden, Kent, England  (Age 10 years)   3. Mary TILDEN,   b. 1610, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. Aft 28 Mar 1690, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts  (Age > 80 years)   4. Joseph TILDEN,   b. 1612, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 1612, Tenterden, Kent, England  (Age 0 years)   5. Stephen TILDEN,   b. 1617, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 1619, Tenterden, Kent, England  (Age 2 years)   6. Deacon Joseph TILDEN,   b. 20 Apr 1615, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 3 Jun 1670, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 55 years)   7. Thomas TILDEN,   b. 1619, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 1705, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 86 years)   8. Judith TILDEN,   b. 1620, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. Aft 12 Dec 1664, Massachusetts  (Age > 44 years)   9. Winifred TILDEN,   b. Abt 1622, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 1627, Tenterden, Kent, England  (Age ~ 5 years)   10. Lydia TILDEN,   b. 30 May 1624, England ,   d. 15 Sep 1624  (Age 0 years)   11. Lydia TILDEN,   b. Abt 1625, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. Aft 12 May 1670  (Age ~ 45 years) + 12. Stephen TILDEN,   b. Oct 1629, Tenterden, Kent, England ,   d. 22 Aug 1711, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2023
  Family ID	F1275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Bef 28 Jul 1583 - Tenterden, Kent, England Baptism - 28 Jul 1583 - Tenterden, Kent, England Died - Abt 1641 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Will Written - 25 May 1641 - Tenterden, Kent, England Inventory Taken - 31 Jul 1641 - Tenterden, Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Men of Kent Cemetery Entry sign

  
  

  Headstones

  Nathaniel Tildien Headstone

  
  

  Histories

  The Good Ship Hercules 1634 Passenger list

  
  

• Notes

  Background on his family is given in NEHGR 65:322, 75:226, and 114:153. —— Elder Nathaniel Tilden came from Tenterden in Kent, with his family, before 1628. He was chosen Ruling Elder of the first Church in Scituate 1634. His house lot was on Kent-street, the 3d. south of Greenfield lane. He had also lands at Long marsh: and lands also in 1640, on the east side of the North River, below Gravelly beach. Nathaniel arrived in New England in 1634 in the ship Hercules, of Dover, with his wife and children (Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Judith, Lydia, Stephen, and Thomas), and the following, who came under the designation of 'servants:' Thomas Lapham, George Sutton, Edward Ford, Edward Jenkins, James Bennett, Sarah Couchman, and Mary Perien. The Rev. William Witherell came on this same boat. Nathaniel Tilden was among the earliest of the 'Men of Kent' who established plantations at Satuit before 1628, others being Anthony Annable, Thomas Bird, Edward Foster, William Gillson, Henry Merritt, Henry Rowley, Nathaniel Tilden, and Deane says, 'perhaps others.' Nathaniel was a Magistrate in Tenterden, and elected to the office of Mayor. Elder Nath'l Tilden was the ancestor of nearly all the Tildens in Marshfield. He was one of three borothers, and they were called 'Men of Kent,' from England. He came to Scituate at that portion called 'Tow Mile' tract, now known as North Marshfield, in 1628. His farm extended both sides of North River, part of it being on 'Gravelly beach’. Nathaniel came in the Hercules in 1635 from Sandwich, in Co. Kent, being one of an old family at Tenterden, near Cranbrook, in that shire, bringing wife Lydia, seven children and seven servants. He may have visited our country before and went home to bring his household; but it does not appear by any facts. He settled in Scituate. In May 1637, with his friend Hatherly, he was appointed by Plymouth Colony to settle the bounds between it and the Massachusetts Colony. He was ruling elder in the church and died 1641, the inventory being of 31 July, and his will of 25 May preceding in that year. It names his wife Lydia, perhaps daughter of Thomas Bourne of Marshfield, yet married in England to which he gives his home at Tenterden, all the seven children Joseph; Thomas, b. a. 1621; Mary, the w. of Thomas Lapham, m. 13 Mar. 1637; Sarah, the w. of George Sutton; Judith; Lydia; and Stephen; also two servants who should serve his eldest son.. —— All the children of Nathaniel and Lydia Tilden were born in England, five dying there prior to the family's departure. The children were Thomas, who died young; Mary, who married Thomas Lapham; Joseph, who died young; Sarah, who married George Sutton; Joseph, who married Alice or Elizabeth Twisden; Stephen, who died young; Thomas, who married Elizabeth (Bourne) Waterman; Judith, who married Abraham Preble; Winifred, who died young; Lydia, who died young; Lydia, who married Richard Garrett; and Stephen, who married Hannah Little. Mary and Sarah were married on the same day, 13 March 1636/37 (NEHGR 9:286), and their husbands were Tilden's servants. ??After his death, his widow Lydia married Timothy Hatherly. Elizabeth French shows in NEHGR 70:256 that Lydia (Huckstep) (Tilden) Hatherly was a cousin of Thomas Hatch, q.v., who also came to New England in the Hercules and settled at Scituate. ??Tilden was of the gentry and addressed as "Mr.," and he was one of the wealthier Scituate residents. He dated his will 25 May 1641, inventory 31 July 1641, and he named his wife Lydia and his children Stephen; Lydia; Joseph; Thomas; Judith; Mary, the wife of Thomas Lapham; and Sarah, the wife of George Sutton; and he also mentioned his two indentured servants, Edward Jenkins and Edward Tarte (MD 3:220). —— Nathaniel Tilden‘s descendants flourished in America, such as the Hon Samuel Jones Tilden, who served as Governor of New York State and was a presidential candidate (Democrat) in 1875. —— Register of St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England, 1583. Nathaniell Tylden sonne of Thomas Tylden bapt ye 28th of July. [4] The Tylden (or Tilden) family represent a landholding family with origins in England in the Middle Ages. A branch of the family emigrated to the American colonies in the early 17th century and established the Tilden family line in America. The Tilden families of America descend from John Tilden, a clothier of Benenden, born around 1400. His descendant, Nathaniel Tilden, sailed with his family (his wife Lydia, seven children and seven servants) in March 1634 on the Hercules, from Sandwich, Kent to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Nathaniel Tilden, the first name on the passenger list of the Hercules, had been mayor of Tenterden in 1622 and his immediate family had held similarly official roles in Tenterden and the surrounding community. Nathaniel Tilden was chosen ruling elder of the first church of Scituate, Massachusetts within a year after his arrival. His name is recorded in the first conveyance of land recorded in Scituate in 1634: "of all that land which I have of Goodman Byrd lying within the fence at the north end of the third cliffe, unto the land of Nathaniel Tilden." The connection of the Tildens to the earliest days of settlement in New England are numerous. Nathaniel's brother Joseph, two years his junior, was one of the merchant adventurers of London who fitted out the Mayflower. Similarly Nathaniel Tilden's youngest son, Stephen married Hannah Little of Plymouth, Massachusetts, whose father had married the daughter of Richard Warren, a passenger on the Mayflower. [5, 6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S41] The Great Migration Study Project, Anderson, Robert Charles, Volume VII, T-Y:44. [S141] Mayflower Descendant, The: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, 3:220. [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 8650673. [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 65:326. [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylden_family. [S76] Wikipedia.