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-s-holy land in 1190, and one of his .companions was either Sir Richard Tyl-, den hiniselLoir Sir Richard’s son. 4 The first Tilden in this country c,ame to Plymouth by the America in 3G23. He had a wife and children with him; But four years; later when a division of cattle was made and all the colonists were mentioned in a list,his name is lacking, r As no deaths^ « , »had occurred in the meantime, it is supposed - that-he and his family .re=_ turned to England. . .Nathaniel Tilden, Sir .Richard’s de* s Cendant, was in New England before 1628., The family from whichHbe camehad lived for several centuries in\ _ ■Tenterden, County Kent; about the time he came it separated into threedistinct branches. One branch wentr * ► ,to Sussepc, one settled at Ifield, apdv one came to America. It is not known just when Nathaniel came over. But he is mentioned, as a property holder atScituate,^ass.,* V# X *%jseph Tilden of Boston.. • ■ -• The Tildens took their share olfighting whenever/war came., In the Revolution-there ’were four Nathaniel Tildens, privates from Massachusetts.'And in Tleitman’s “Officers of the*American Revolution/' Captain Danie*of Connecticut, Second Lieutl John■ ■ • ,•Bell of; Pennsylvania and EnsignJoshua of Connecticut are named..' - ' ' . •Throughout its history the Tilden family lias married into other historic families. The late William Smith.Tilden, member of the ; Massachusetts legislature 111 1879; married Olive/ a descendant of Robert .Babcock, one of the first settlers of Dorchester, Mass.... 1 . ,His father and grandfather had mar-ried, respectively, Catherine Smith and Hannah Perry, both descended from men of importance in ante-revolutionary days. The, late Samuel J. 1 was a son of John, whocif-mmU!R11Cfc01CDlaa:E:!a.1iXaElaj.records pf the place, dated 1628; the record is a sale by Henry Merritt to Nathaniel Tilden /‘of all that , land which I had of Goodman Byrd lying within the fence at the north. end of the third cllffe, unto the land of Nathaniel Tilden.” He was among4 the earliest settlers there, called the “men of Kent,” because of their birthplace; some of the othefrwhre Thomas Bird, Edward Poster, Henry Rowler, Anthony Annable and William Gillson. This Nathaniel Tilden returned to England \nd in lfi34 came here again with his wife, his seven children and hisseyen.-.seryants.-Theycame over in the “Hercules,” a vessel of 200 tons, of which John Witherley was master, and which was “bound for .the plantation called New England in America,”Witherley had ; to show ^Certificates from the * ministers where they last dwelt, of their r econversion and Conformity to the ordisr and discipline of the church, and that they had taken thfe oath of allpgiance and supremacy.”Tilden's namfe, and the; name? of hiswife afcd children, head the list /of emigrants, and their names a*© .folio wedby^thenameBJSLt^ men ^ha-had vouched for theim The certificates, were from-^Mr*: John r Gee, ^ylcar ^f Tenterdbn, 26 February, 1634, John Austin/ mayor of ‘Tenterdeh, and Pre-from Lebanon, Conn., to New Lebanon,Tilden,^ governor, of New York 1875-6#and* unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1876, was the son of Elam Tilden and Polly Y. Jones, a -=marrledr-a-s 1 s ter—ofQliverCromwelL-the French war. His father was Isaac, son .of Stephen and Hannah, whose grandfather, .as mentioned above, came over in the “Mayflower.”The artns illustrated, which are theonly arms borne by JtheJTildens of this.faniily, are blazoned: Azure, a salture, ermine, between four pheons, or.- Crest: A battle-axe, erect, entwined■ *with a snake; all proper.7 *Motto: Truth and Liberty:* ■ • ~ - fc r VThe Flowera of the Forest. - ~*The plaintive old melody, with its pathetic verses was the favorite Scottish song of King Edward, and for that reason was played by the bands on one of the ceremonial occasions connected with his funeral obsequies, the some what dirge-like air harmonizing with the solemn occasion. Theearliest known. copy; of this fine melody is preserved in Edinburgh, and appears to have been written in the/earlier part of the seventeenth century. The old baliand,. a lamenten-forft»*gift -Stace, jurat 4 March, 1634J Nathaniel Tilden was styled a/yeo* mas- He had, himself once been mayor o£~Tenterden^—and:eitheT his father, or an older brother jehn^waa .one of the merchant adventurers who, fitted but thef “Mayflower.” All Amer-the disastrous field of Flodden, has been lost, with the exception of a lineor; two which are Jrmorpo^ated in the verses written by a Scotch lady to supply the place of the lost ballad. This - poestess died in Edinburg in1794, Another iyrie was written a little later, these two being adapted tothe ancient and modern versions of, the air-It's a * dull day that doesn't break some aviation record or some aviator’s! ~ ' 1 *bones. .* *■■■»• ...........
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Fri, Nov 25, 1910
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