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By ELEANOR LEXINGTONTil den Family(Copyright by McClure Syndicate)lean Tildens are supposed to be descended from this Nathaniel—excepting, of course,-those that have comehere recently. Nathaniel's seven ehil-•• « •dren, all boj*n in England, were named Joseph, who married Alice Twisden; Sarah, who married George Sutton;j Thomas, born 1621;' Mary, who mar-j ried Thomas Lapham; Judith, who) married Abraham Preble;, Lydia, whoj married Richard Garrett; and Stephen,] who married, in 1662, Hannah, daugh-)ter of Thomas Little. * , . -* 1' Nathaniel and his family settled a.ti Shituate, Mass. He was jnade an elder of the first church built there, and in! 1634 'ruling elder. He died, in 1641,: and by his will, proved May 25, he left,;tO'h)s,wife7'Lydfa7-‘the-iHeome-of** ‘ • * ' r 1my stone house with lands in Tenter-den, in Kent, England, in which Richard Lambeth now dwells, his brother Joseph was one of the merchants whofitted out the “Mayflower.” To his•lt; .oldest son, .Joseph, lie left a double portion:—“that is,”* reads bthe will, “asmuch as both Thomas and Stephen (in laiids. houses, etc., in Seituate arid Marshfield).“ To his two youngestchildren, Lydia and Stephen, he pro*‘ ■ *vided maintenance until they were twenty-one; to .Judith he left .a cow, .and to Mary and' Sarah he left tenshillings each. Mary and Sarah were both married by that time, and probably they thought the ten shillings agenerous gift. .Nathaniel died a richman. It ds interesting that in the ap-* ♦praisal of his estate his ‘.‘ten stocks, or swarms of bees.-. worth teri pounds, are the first bees mentioned in the Colony. .v - * . ... ••: Nathaniel's youngest, son', k Stephen,married, in 1662, Hannah, granddaugh-♦ter of .'Richard Little, who had cometo America in the “Mayflower.” They• * ...had twelve .children; and probably Stephen had some difficulty m making both ends meet, for-’when his brother Joseph died in 1670, leaving a good estate' toeight ‘children, he left not only some money; to Stephen, b(ut he inserted' a paragraph at the end of the will reading: “Also I acquit my brother Stephen of alYV Sdues.” Stephen established the branch to which belonged the late Hon. Jo*| seph Tilden of Boston.. .S • The Tildens took their share ol fighting whenever /war came. In the■RpvnThtion there. ’were four NathanielTijden is one of those names taken “from the face of nature/” as the derivation books says, and originally signified a tiller of the soil. Theret * 4are several forms of name—Tilden, Tildan, Tilding, Tildreh, Tilden and TUlidon; Telton is also found oncetn a while.» • *The English family from which the American family branched spelled the name Tylden. ' It. is of great antiquity and has been noble for generations.• . sAway back in the times of, Henry II.* the first king of the Plahtagenet lino, who came to 4 the throne of England in 1154, there are records of a Sir Richard Tylden. Henry’s' son, Richard Coeur de Lion, with Philip II., of Prance, led the third crusade to themar
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Narka News
Narka, Kansas, US
Fri, Nov 25, 1910
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