Notes:

. WILL of Thos. Greedy of Gravesend,1 658 Oct 13, Proved 1658 Nov 4.
John Tilton, Executor. Estate to Peter Tilton, son of John Tilton; except gun to John Tilton Jr.
Witnesses: William Wilkinns & Richard Gibbens.
Ref: Gravsend Records, Liber 3, page 114.

. JOHN TILTON, son of John Tilton, 2, born Apr. 14, 1675; died 1731; married July 29, 1703,
Margaret, daughter of John & Ann (Barber) Lippencott, born May 7, 1683 - 1731 Aug 11 Shrewsbury, NJ.

. 1703 Jul 5 - Married John Tillton & Margaret Lippincott, both of Monmouth Co, Province East New Jersey, in Shrewsbury on ye 5th week at ye meeting ouse of Friends upon ye 29 day of 5th commonly called July, in ye year 1703.
Ref: Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, p16.

. 1731 Aug. 11. - WILL of John Tilton, of Middletown, yeoman; proved by the affirmation of Robert Tilton & his brother Nathan Tilton, executors of their father, John Tilton, also by the affirmation of Joseph Lawrence & Jacob Dennis, Oct. 9, 1731. In it he mentioned:

. Eldest son Robert Tilton, the easterly part of his plantation, adjoining Samuel Tilton & Swimming River;
. son Nathan Tilton, to have upland & meadow adjoining "my brother Peter," & Samuel Dennis's Sawmill brook;
. youngest son John Tilton, to have "the remaining or middle part of my farm lying between his said 2 brothers." "If any of the said 3 sons die before they reach the age of 21 years." "each of my 6 children."

. My 3 daughters, viz.: Anne Tilton, Margaret, Hester Tilton; my said son Nathan Tilton to oversee what I have given to his brother, my said youngest son, John Tilton, till he come to the age of 21 years.
Executors: my 2 sons Robert & Nathan Tilton & my two brothers Daniel Tilton & Peter Tilton.
Witnesses: Joseph Lawrence, Lucas Whit, Richard Bartlet [his mark], Jacob Dennis.

Issue:
1. Robert Tilton, eldest son, died Oct. 23, 1762, married, Jan. 6, 1731, Miriam Allen.
2. Nathan Tilton died Mch. 30, 1788; married, Nov. 25, 1735, Increase Lippencott.
3. John Tilton youngest son; probably married, by license dated Feb. 15, 1742, Elizabeth Lane.
4. Anne Tilton witness at the marriage of her brother Robert Tilton, Jan. 6, 1731, to Miriam Allen.
5. Margaret Tilton
6. Hester Tilton. - - -

Notes:

John is the son of Mary Goodie Pearsall & John Tilton, The Patentee.

. 1670 Jul 5, Age: 28 - Appointed Overseer for the town of Shrewsbury NJ.

. John Tilton SR of Middletown, written 23 Nov 1700 & proved 17 Apr 1704. In it he names wife Rebecca & children - including Daniel who he states is "under age". Wit: Remembrance Lippincott, Ben Lawrence. Inventory of his personal estate £146 1 shilling.

. JOHN TILTON, was the son of John & Mary (Goodie) Tilton of Gravesend, who supported religious persecution & were banished by Stuyvesant.
The children of these were: John (1), Thomas (2), Peter (3), Esther (4), who married Samuel Spicer, Sarah (5), who married John Painter, Abigail (6), who married, first, Ralph Warner &, secondly, William Scott & Mary (7), who married, first a Carman & secondly, Henry Bowman.

. JOHN TILTON, son of John Tilton.1, born 4mo. (June), 4, 1640; died probably early in the year 1704, his will having been probated April 17th of that year. He married, first, at Oyster Bay, L. I., 8 mo. (Oct.), 10, 1670, Mary Coats &
second, at Flushing, L. I., 3mo. (May), 12, 1674, Rebecca Terry, by whom he appears to have had all his children. She died, in Middletown, N. J., (Dec), 18, 171 5. This date for her death is found on the Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting Records, on the same page as & following after the names & dates of birth of the children born to Walter & Sarah (Tilton) Herbert. & Sarah Herbert was her own daughter.

. 1658 Oct. 10. Thomas Greedye, born in Devonshire, England, in his WILL of this date; proved Nov. 4, 1658, devised to his loving friend John Tilton, of Gravesend, his estate, out of which the said Tilton was to pay his debts & the remainder he bequeathed to Peter Tilton, son of said John Tilton, excepting only one small sum the which I have given unto John Tilton, Jr.

. 1662 Nov. 16. Order for John Tilton, Jr., to deliver up a boat he had secured.

. 1664 I mo., 25. John Tilton, Jr. & his brother-in-law, Samuel Spicer, were among those named in the first purchase of land, in Monmouth Co., from the Indian Sachem Popomora. This deed was acknowledged April 7, 1665 & is on record in the Secretary
of State's Office, at Albany & in Trenton, as well as in the Proprietors' Office at Perth Amboy.

. 1683 Aug. 13. John Tilton, Jr., of Gravesend, sold to Martin Petersen (Wykoff) a plantation in Gravesend.

. 1684 Mch. 26. John Tilton, Jr., named as executor in the WILL of Obadiah Wilkins. 1691/2, Mch. 8. John Tilton, of Gravesend, sold to Cort Stevenson, of Flatlands, all his Gravesend property, for £295, reserving the use for 12 months to remove therefrom. About this time he would seem to have left Gravesend to reside in Monmouth Co. & this deduction is further sustained by the fact that his brother, Peter Tilton & wife Rebecca, were the only Tiltons whose names appear in the Quaker Records up to 1692.

. 1694 September. He was one of the Grand Jurors independent enough to indict one of the Judges then sitting on the bench & to present another.

. 1700, October. He was committed to the custody of the Sheriff for "subscribing a seditious paper."

. 1700 9mo., (Sep.), 23. WILL of John Tilton, of Middletown; proved Apr. 17, 1704. In it he makes no mention of his son Abraham Tilton, probably because he was dead at the time of its being made. Neither does the testator refer in it to his youngest daughters, Mary & Hester. But he does distinctly declare that he had a son Peter Tilton, who is not of age & yet this Peter's name is not given with those of the other children in the Shrewsbury Quaker Records, nor in the Friends Records of New York & Vicinity, which gives his children & their birth dates, as I append them.

To son, John Tillton, 5 shillings; to son Samuel Tillton 85 acres of upland & 3 of meadow & to his heirs; to daughter Sarah Tilton 1 cow; to my wife, Rebecca Tillton, after my decease, my dwelling house, etc. & all my farme, after her decease it is to go to my son Peter Tillton & his heirs, not yet 21;
In case of his death, then to my son Daniel Tillton & his heirs; if he die before he come of age, then to my son Thomas Tillton & his heirs. If Peter live to be 21, then he is to pay unto his two brothers Daniel & Thomas Tillton, £15 to each; if he die, Daniel shall pay £30 to Thomas. Residue to my wife Rebecca Tillton, my Executrix & after her death, to be equally divided amongst my children, friends, Thomas Hillborn & John Lippincott. will be helpful to my wife to see my will performed. Signed, John Tilton Sen.

Witnesses: Remembrance Lippincott, Ben. Lawrence, George Corleis.
Inventory of his personal estate £146-1 1-0. - - -

Died:
Will Proved: 17 Apr 1704.

John married Rebecca TERRY on 12 May 1674 in Flushing, Queens, Long Isl., New York. Rebecca was born in 1647 in Gravesend, Kings Co., Long Island, New York; died on 18 Oct 1715 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Samuel Terry, Born Apr 1632, Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts & died 1731, Enfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts;
on 3 Jan 1660 in Sprinfield, MA., he married
Ann Lobdell (Landon), born 8 Mar 1634, Enfield, MA & died May 1684, Springfield, MA.

. Mrs. Tillton, the wife of John Tilton, deceased in Middletown, ?85y of 10 mo., 1715.

. Issue of John & Rebecca Tilton are:

1. John Tilton born Apr. 14, 1675; died August, 1731; married, July 29, 1703, Margaret Lippincott, born May 7, 1683.
2. Abraham Tilton born Jan. 14, 1676; he is not mentioned in his father's will & the entry of his death is recorded as "son of John Tilton," on the Quaker Records, of Flushing, L. I., without date, but between entries for the years 1684 - 1686.

3. Samuel Tilton born Mch. 2, 1678; died prior to May 6, 1745; married, June 5, 1705, Patience Allen.
4. Sarah Tilton born Nov. 14, 1680; married, June 2, 1704, Walter Herbert.

5. Peter Tilton married, November, 1722, Lydia Bills.
6. Daniel Tilton born Dec. 27, 1682; married, probably as a second wife, Nov. 6, 17 17, Elizabeth Powell.
7. Thomas Tilton born Dec. 20, 1684; died Jan. 4, 1763; married Faith Lawrence.
8. Mary Tilton born Oct. 21, 1686; married James, son of Joseph & Hannah (Lawrence) Grover.
9. Hester Tilton born Apr. 17, 1689; married, Oct. 15, 1719, William Lawrence. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Rebekkah

Notes:

. John Tallman married Mary; settled at Flushing, Long Island & is ancestor of the Burlington County, New Jersey, family.

. Original Settlers of Monmouth, New Jersey:
JOHN TILTON, Patentee (2), son of John.1, The Patentee, married Rebecca Terry. He died in 1704, she, sup. Dec. 18, 1715.
Their children were: Sarah, who married Walter Herbert; John, who married Margaret Lippencott; Abraham, not traced; Samuel, married Patience, supposed daughter of Jedediah Allen; Daniel, married, sup. Elizabeth Powell; Thomas, married Faith Lawrence; Mary, married James Grover, Jr.; Hester, married William Lawrence; & Peter, married Lydia Bills.

. A patent confirming those Indian grants to the inhabitants was signed, by Governor Nicolls March 13, 1666.
The municipal history of Gravesend began almost with its settlement. In 1646 the first three "approved honest men" elected as Justices were George Baxter, Edward Brown & William Wilkins; Sergeant James Hubbard was elected Schout & John Tilton (who had accompanied Lady Moody from New England) was chosen to be Town Clerk. All these elections were approved by the Governor.
To take another instance, we extract an Indian deed for the surrender of Barren Island in 1664 from Stiles's History of Kings County:

Know all men, etc., that we, Wawmatt Tappa & Kackawashke, the right & true proprietors of a certain island called by the Indians Equendito & by the English Broken Lands, in consideration of two coats, one kettle, one gun, one new trooper-coat, ten fathoms of wampum prage, 3 shirts, 6 pounds of powder, 6 barrs of lead & a quantity of Brandie wine, already paid unto us by John Tilton, sen. & Samuel Spicer, of Gravesend, L. I., Do &c., sell &c., the said Island called Equendito &c., with all our right both of upland & marshes any way belonging thereto, as the Straun Beach or Beaches, as namely that running out more westerly, with the Island adjoining & is at the same time by the ocean sea wholly inclosed, called Hoopaninak & Shanscomacocke & macutteris, as also all the harbors &c., to the said John Tilton & Samuel Spicer excepting only to ourselves the one-half of all such whale-fish that shall by wind & storms be cast upon the said Island. In witness whereof we have set our hands this 13 day of the 3 month, called May, Anno, 1664.

. RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS: In August, 1675, a boat arrived in New York Bay from New England, having on board 11 Quakers who had been expelled from that colony. Two of them, women, as soon as they landed in New Amsterdam, began preaching on the streets to the astonishment & disgust of old Peter Stuyvesant, a straight-laced, single-minded supporter of the Dutch church. He did not understand the Quakers' theology. he Quaker visitors soon scattered in pursuance of their mission to disseminate their doctrines, but at least one of them, Robert Hodgson, went to Long Island & as he journeyed held conventicles by the way. He was arrested for this at Hempstead & promptly lodged in jail, along with 2 women who had entertained him in their home. Stuyvesant at once ordered the 3 prisoners to be sent to New Amsterdam, where he seems to have released the women after giving them the supreme benefit of a piece of his mind. Hodgson, however, was to feel the full force of the ire of the doughty Governor. He was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment at hard labor or pay a fine of 600 guilders. Such a fine was beyond his power to liquidate & he was quickly put to the alternative. Chained to a wheelbarrow, he was ordered to work, but refused & was thereupon lashed by a negro until he fainted. He remained in prison for some months, scourged at frequent intervals until insensibility rendered the infliction of further pain unnecessary & was humiliated in many ways. The cruelty practiced toward him was brutal in the extreme & its effects were threatening even his life. Then from sheer pity at his awful condition the Governor's sister interposed on his behalf & he was released, under a new sentence of banishment from the province. The Governor seems never to have lost his enmity to the Quakers.

Prosecutions were accordingly directed from time to time against William & John Bowne, Henry Townsend, John Townsend, Samuel Spicer, John Tilton, William Noble, Edward Hart & Edward Feake, all of whom openly confessed their adherence to the doctrines of the Quakers. Most of these (including Spicer, Tilton & the Bowne family) were residents of Gravesend.

. The case of John Tilton & his wife, Mary, is also interesting. Tilton settled in Gravesend at the same time as Lady Moody & probably accompanied her from New England, where doubtless he got his first impressions of the doctrines of the Friends, the "abominable sect," according to Stuyvesant, "who vilify both the political magistrates & the ministers of God"s holy Word."

Tilton & his wife were arrested October 5, 1662 & lodged in the prison at Fort Amsterdam. They remained in durance vile for a few days, when they were brought before the Council, found guilty of entertaining Quakers & attending conventicles & ordered to leave the province before the 20th of November following, under the alternative penalty of being publicly whipped. Their sentences seem to have been remitted, however, probably through the influence of Lady Moody, for Mary Tilton continued to reside at Gravesend until her death, May 23, 1683 & John Tilton also maintained his home there until he, too, passed away, in 1688. He was, we take it, a man of deep religious sentiment & so continued to the end, most probably becoming more & more devoted to Quakerism as the time went on, for by his will, which he had drawn up about a year before his death, he bequeathed a piece of land as a burial ground "for all persons in ye everlasting truth of the Gospel."

In many ways the most notable of all Stuyvesant's experiences with Quakers lay around the case of John Bowne, of Flushing, not only because the extreme measure which he adopted showed the malignancy of his feelings toward these people, but because it brought down upon him, what he probably felt more keenly than he could any other form of misfortune, a clear-cut rebuke from his home Government & the nullification of the sentence he imposed.

. The WILL of JOHN TILTON dated Jan. 15, 1657, in which he devised land "for all persons in ye Everlasting truth of ye gospel as occasion serves for ever to have & to hold & to make use of to bury their dead there."' It is thought that the land thus deeded adjoined the original burying ground & Tilton's bequest was in reality an addition & at once incorporated within its boundaries. It was probably part of the original lot, which Tilton received when he settled at Gravesend with Lady Moody. The oldest stone extant now bears the date of 1676 & many of the inscriptions discernible are in Dutch. From the formation of Greenwood Cemetery the Gravesend burial ground began to fall into disuse & interments in it have now practically ceased. [c. 1900.] - - -

Died:
Alt DOD: 18 DEC 1715.

John married Mary GOODIE PEARSALL in 1639 in Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Mrs. Goodie PEARSALL) was born in 1600 in Shrewsbury, St. Chads, Shopshire, England; died on 12 May 1683 in Gravesend, Kings Co., Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Tilton Family
Among the 12 original patentees of old Monmouth is John Tilton, who arrived 1640 in Lynn Co., Mass. At this time in Lynn the most noted, influential person among the Baptists was Lady Deborah Moondie, afterwards long & favorably known among the original settlers of Long Island.
The following extract from the Lynn Records dated Dec. 13th, 1642:
The Lady Deborah Moodie, Mrs. King & the wife of John Tilton were presented for holding
The proceedings agains them resulted in their leaving Lynn & the next year 1643, we find mentioned Lady Moodie, the Tiltons, Wm. Goulding, Samuel Spicer & others at Gravesend, LI, founding the settlement from which afterward many person to Old Monmouth. No sooner did the Quakers begin to promulgate their views, than the Dutch authorities issued severe edicts against them & all who harbored those abominable impostors, runaways & strolling people called Quakers.

The following year John Tilton was fined £12 Flemish money for harboring a Quaker woman. From that time forward both Tilton & his wife seem to have strongly sympathized with the persecuted sec & soon cast their lot among them altogether, which greatly excited their of the Dutch & especially of old Governor Peter Stuyvesant. On the 5th Oct, 1662, John Tilton & Mary his wife were summoned before the Governor & his council at New Amsterdam charged with having entertained Quakers & frequenting their conventicles. They were condemned & ordered to leave the province before the 20th of November following, under pain of corporal punishment.

"Goody Tilton, (Mrs. Tilton), was not so much condemned for assisting at conventicles as for having, like a sorceress, gone from door to door to lure & seduce the people, yea, even young girls, to join the Quakers."

1662 Sept 19th, John Tilton was fined, as the record says, for permitting Quakers to quake at his house at Gravesend. Many other persons were prosecuted at this time by the Dutch on similar charges. Here, being again persecuted by the Dutch, they seem to have determined to seek some place where they could worship God as they pleased. The lands in Monmouth county impressed them so favorably that the following year 1663 they made large purchase of the Indians.
After the conquest of the Dutch by the English, ... John Tilton found he could remain at Long Island without molestation & leave his share in his Monmouth purchases to his children. He died at Gravesend, L.I, in 1688, his wife died a few years before in 1683. His will dated 15 of 7th month 1687 was recorded at Brooklyn , L.I.

. In the quarterly court records ... "At the same court, December 14, 1642, the Lady Deborah Moodie, Mrs. King & the wife of John Tilton were presented, for holding that the baptism of infants is no ordinance of God." From these historical relations we learn the reason why the Lady Moody, her son Sir Henry Moody, Ensign Baxter, Sergeant Hubbard, John Tilton & many others of her associates & friends, left New England & planted themselves at Gravesend, where they hoped to enjoy the most perfect freedom of opinion, unawed by the civil power & be allowed unmolested to propagate those religious principles which to them seemed most agreeable to their principles of reason & justice. - - -

Died:
Alt DOD: May 23, 1683.

Notes:

. Tallman of New Jersey:
The Tallmans of New Jersey are represented by several branches of the name having
a common ancestor in Peter Tallman.1 who settled in Newport & Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he died in 1708. Concerning him & his immediate issue, J. 0. Austin
supplies the following data:

1655. He was a freeman.
. 1657 June 9. Peter Talman was on the list of New Amsterdam burghers.
. 1658 Dec. 18. He bought nine acres in Portsmouth, for 35 shillings an acre & 2 days later added six acres more to the first purchase.
. 1661 May 21. Portsmouth. He was elected General Solicitor for the Colony of Rhode Island.
. 1661-1662. He was a Commissioner.
. 1662-1665. He was Deputy.
. 1665. The Assembly granted him a divorce from his wife Ann.*

. 1665 July 24. He entered into an ante-nuptial agreement with Joan Briggs, of Taunton, agreeing to give her the land that he had bought in 1658, as also a house to be
hers & the heirs born of this marriage. He also gave her a bed & half the household goods, but if she died without issue, they were to revert to his eldest son, Peter Tallman,
Jr. & if he died without issue, then to the eldest daughter of Peter Tallman, Sr., Mary & her heirs. Further, he gave to Joan, absolutely, as a free gift of donation, "three good cows & a breeding mare."

. 1674 June 7. He was imprisoned, but released at this date for having taken from the Indians lands by deed of gift in violation of the law of Massachusetts, he having
surrendered the same. - - -

Peter married Mrs. Ann TALLMAN. Mrs. was born est 1585 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tallman of New Jersey, Peter Tallman of Rhode Island, died 1708.

. 1665 - The Assembly granted him a divorce from his wife Ann.

*The case of Peter Tallman was tried upon petition by the Assembly. Peter Tallman applied for a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery. The woman brought before the Assembly admitted the charge. The petition was granted at once & then the criminal, upon her own confession, was arraigned for sentence. The penalty was a fine & whipping & she was accordingly sentenced by the terms of the law, to pay the fine of £10 & to receive 15 stripes, at Portsmouth, on the ensuing Monday & on the following Wednesday another 15 stripes, at Newport & to be imprisoned till the sentence was fulfilled.

. Upon her petition for mercy, the Court again examined her as to whether she intended to return to her husband. This she refused to do upon any terms. Her petition was denied & she was remanded for punishment.'

. She escaped from prison & was gone two years. Upon her return to the Colony, in May, 1667, she was arrested & petitioned the Court for mitigation of sentence. The fine & one-half of the corporal punishment were remitted & the remainder, 15 stripes to be inflicted at Newport, was executed.
Ref: Arnold's History, of Rhode Island, Vol. I, p. 270. - - -