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Personal data Nathaniel Tilden 

• He was born on July 28, 1583 in Tenterdon, Kent, England.
• He died on May 25, 1641 in Scituate, Plymouth, MA, he was 57 years old.
• A child of Thomas Tilden and Alice Biggs
• This information was last updated on December 11, 2016.

Household of Nathaniel Tilden

He is married to Lydia Hucstepe.

They got married about 1606/1607 at Tenterdon, Kent, England.

Child(ren):

1. Joseph Thomas Tilden  1618-1704 

Notes about Nathaniel Tilden

Note:
English Origins of New England Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes I-III, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc: Baltimore, 1984.
Volume I p 145
St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England Registry:
"Nathaniell Tylden sonne of Thomas Tylden bapt ye 28th of July" 1583
Page 152
"Nathaniel Tilden, baptized at Tenterden 28 Jul 1583, came to New England in the Hercules in March 1634-5 with wife, seven children, and seven servants; settled at Scituate; and died, probably at Scituate, between 25 May and 31 July 1641. He married in England Lydia, who, Savage thinks, was perhaps daughter of Thomas Bourne. But as Thomas Bourne was born about 1581, he would have been only twenty-seven when Nathaniel Tilden's eldest child was born, and therefore Savage's conjecture is wrong. The 'son Tilden' referred to in Thomas Bourne's will, made in 1664 (See Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts), could not have been Nathaniel who had been dead twenty-three years, but was probably Thomas Tilden, son of Nathaniel and husband of Elizabeth Bourne. That the wife Lydia was the mother of all Nathaniel's children is proved by the bequest in Joseph Tilden's will: To my sister Lydia Tilden, late wife of my brother Nathaniel Tilden ... and to her two daughters who are married in New England." (Walter's Gleanings, vol 1, p 71). These daughter were born in 1610 and 1613.
Tenterden, a limb of the Cinque Port of Rye, was a prosperous and important place in our ancestor's day, as now, and the principal town in the Weald of Kent. Nathaniel Kent, called 'Mr.' in both the Old and New England records, and 'gentleman' in his brother Hopestill's will, was a man of importance, mayor in 1622 and jurat - a jurat was also a justice of the peace - in 1624, 1625, 1627, and 1629. IN New England, he was also a town officer and a ruling elder. (For an abstract of his will see Register, vol 4, p 173. See also for him and his descendants, Deane, History of Scituate, 353 ff.)."

From English Origins of New England Families, Volume III, page 755
Notes Excerpted from Two Early Passenger Lists, 1635-1637 by Eben Putnam
"Tilden, Nathaniel of Tenterdon, County Kent and of Scituate in the Plymouth Colony, passenger in the Hercules. For his family and ancestry, cf. Register, Volume 65, page 322-333. His wife was Lydia Huckstep, baptized at Tenterdon 11 Feb 1587/8, daughter of Steven and Winifred (Hatch) (Wills) (cf Register Volume 67 page 47/8). Nathaniel and Lydia (Huckstep) Tilden had twelve children baptized at Tenterdon. Five of these children were buried at Tenterdon, and seven accompanied their parents to New England. Their daughter Mary married 13 March 1636/7 Thomas Lapham, and their daughter Sarah married on the same day George Sutton, both of these men appearing in the passenger list as servants of Nathaniel Tilden.

From Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Entries referencing Tilden:
Jonas Austin:
Although no kinship relation has been found between Jonas Austin and NATHANIEL TILDEN, both of Tenterden, Kent, they certainly knew one another in England, since Tilden witnessed the 1625 will of William Robinson, whose widow soon married Austin [NEHGR 67:161-62].
William Bassett:
After 1651 and before 12 December 1664 [married] Mary (Tilden) Lapham, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, widow of Thomas Lapham [see TIMOTHY HATHERLEY]; she was living at Bridgewater as late as 28 March 1690 [Bassett Gen 6, citing BridTR 1:320].
Thomas Besbeech:
On 4 September 1638, "Nathaniell Tilden [was] presented for denying a land way that formerly Mr. Besbeech & others had used by grant from the town of Scituate" [PCR 1:98].
Thomas Tilden:
In the 1623 Plymouth land division Thomas Tilden received three acres as a passenger on the Anne in 1623 [PCR 12:6]. He is not seen in the 1627 division of cattle or in any later record.
COMMENTS: The grant of three acres indicates that Thomas Tilden was the head of a household of three, perhaps a wife and child [MQ 40:60]. No connection is seen with Nathaniel Tilden who arrived a decade later and settled at Scituate, despite the claim made by Banks [English Homes 163]. (Stratton notes that in Torrey the wife is named Ann. This may be another instance in which the name of the ship has been transferred to one of its passengers; see also THOMAS FLAVELL.)

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