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Personal data Mary Tilden 

• Also known as Lapham.
• She was born on May 20, 1610 in Tenterden, Kent, England.
• She died after March 28, 1690 in Scituate, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.
• A child of Nathaniel Tilden and Lydia Huckstep

Household of Mary Tilden

(1) She is married to William Bassett.

They got married in the year 1664, she was 53 years old.

(2) She is married to Thomas Lapham.

They got married on March 13, 1637 at Scituate, Plymouth Colony, she was 26 years old.

Notes about Mary Tilden

{{Puritan Great Migration}}
==Biography==

=== Birth ===
Mary Tilden was born about 1610, the daughter of [[Tilden-9|Nathaniel Tilden]] and Lidia. Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume VII, T-Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 42, 44. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB496/i/13260/44/24792778 AmericanAncestors.org] She was baptized as “Marie Tylden, Father, Nathl Tylden” on 20 May 1610 in Kent, England. Frank Watt Tyler, “ Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874” The Tyler Collection, (Canterbury, Kent, England: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, 2010.), [https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1901&h=149771&ssrc=pt&tid=32222816&pid=18971006516&usePUB=true ancestry.com]

=== Immigration ===
Her family immigrated together on the ''[[:Category:Hercules_of_Dover%2C_sailed_March%2C_1634-35|Hercules of Dover]]'' in March 1634/35; her father, Nathaniel Tilden of Tenterden, yeoman, and her mother, Lidia; her siblings; Joseph, Thomas, Stephen, Sara, Judeth, and Lidia; and servants; [[Lapham-6|Thomas Lapham]], George Sutton, Edward Ford, Edward Jenkins, Sara Couchman, Marie Perien, and James Bennet. Charles Edward Banks, “The Planters of the Commonwealth: a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: to Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships Which Brought Them; Their English Homes and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640” (Internet Archive. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,1961). [https://archive.org/details/plantersofcommon00bank_0/page/114/mode/1up?q=Tilden. Planters of the Commonwealth] John Camden Hotten, “The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700” (Internet Archive. London, New York, Empire State Book Co, 1874). [https://archive.org/details/originallistspe00hottgoog/page/n25/mode/1up?q=Tilden. Hotten]

=== Marriages ===
On 13 Mar 1636/7, she married 1st, [[Lapham-6|Thomas Lapham]] in Scituate, Plymouth Colony. Clarence Almon Torrey, “New England Marriages Prior to 1700” (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 921 [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21175/921/426931435 AmericanAncestors.org] He died 15 Jun 1648 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.
”After 1651 and before 12 Dec 1664,” she married 2nd, [[Bassett-5|William Bassett Sr.]]. Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633,” Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995), 129. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/129/235172544 AmericanAncestors.org] He died before 12 May 1667 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony.

=== Death ===
After 28 May 1690; she was living on this date in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony.

=== Known Life Events ===
* On 22 May 1650, “Mary Lapham, widow,” acknowledged her husband’s sale of land “in old England.” Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume IV, I-L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), 235. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB394/i/12108/235/235147507 AmericanAncestors.org] * On 5 Jun 1651, she “through weakness, is not able to come to Court” for proving of Thomas Lapham’s will. * A Court entry (undated, but probably about 1690), records a probable dispute, “Mary Lapham, widow, (Bridgewater) v. Joseph Burrows (Bridgewater Yeoman). Case. Neither party appeared.” Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. Copyright, 2002, Pilgrim Society. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)[https://www.americanancestors.org/DB213/i/7639/128/9115653 AmericanAncestors.org]

=== Children of Thomas Lapham and Mary Tilden ===
# [[Lapham-45|Elizabeth Lapham]], bpt. 6 May 1638, Scituate, Plymouth Colony Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume IV, I-L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 236. [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB394/i/12108/236/23896699 AmericanAncestors.org] Slaughter, John, “Early Vital Records of Massachusetts - From 1600 to 1850,” (Vital Records page image for Scituate, MA, 216.), Accessed April 7, 2021. [https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Plymouth/Scituate/Images/Scituate_B216.shtml Early Vital Records of Massachusetts - From 1600 to 1850]
# [[Lapham-9|Mary Lapham]], b. abt. 1640
# [[Lapham-48|Thomas Lapham Jr]], b. abt. 1642 # [[Lapham-77|Lydia Lapham]], b. abt. 1644, m. 2 Feb 1666/7, Samuel Bate, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony Jay and Delene Holbrook, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, “Massachusetts Vital and Town Records,” (Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute, 2011), [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/16278798:2495 ancestry.com] Thomas Tracy Bouvé, etal., “History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts,” Hingham (Mass .): Internet Archive. Pub. by the town,1893), 428. [https://archive.org/details/historytownhing00seymgoog/page/n409/mode/1up?q=Lapham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts] # [[Lapham-5|Rebecca Lapham]], bpt. 15 Mar 1645/6, Scituate, Plymouth Colony; m. John Washburn # [[Lapham-223|Joseph Lapham]], bpt. 24 Sep 1648, Scituate, Plymouth Colony; d. by 1 Nov 1676

== Research Notes ==# No record of her death was found; {{FindAGrave|59677541}} shows a picture of non-contemporary monument at Men of Kent Cemetery in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, which is said to show her death as 28 Mar 1690 (aged 79) in Scituate.

==Sources==

See also:* Charles Henry Pope, “The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and Other Contemporaneous Documents,” (Internet Archive. Boston, C.H. Pope, 1970), 278. [https://archive.org/details/pioneersofmassac00pope/page/278/mode/1up?q=Lapham. The Pioneers of Massachusetts]* “Early Scituate Families.” The Scituate Historical Society. Accessed April 8, 2021. http://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/early-scituate-families.
* https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/99PW-ZCM

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