The Southern herald., 1910-12-09
ACorner In Ancestors
TfIden Family


lean rildsns are supposed to be Go
seended from this Nathsniel-except
ing. of course. those that have come
here recently. Nathanlels seven chIl
dren. all born IN England. we're named
Joseph. who married Alice Twisden;
Sarah. who married George sutton;
Thomas. born 1871; Mary, who mar
ried Thomas Lapham: Judith. who
married Abraham Preble: Lydia. who
married Richard Garrett, and stephen,
who married. In 1859, Hannah. daugh,
ter OF Thomas Little.
Nathaniel and his family settled al
Scituate, Mass. He was made an elder
OF the first church built there. and In
1884 ruling elder. He died in 16li,
and by his win. proved May Is. he
left to his wife. Lydia, "the income Of
my stone house with lands in Tenter'
den. in Kent. England, In which Rich
ard Lambeth now dwells. his brother
Joseph was one Of the merchants who
fitted out the "Maynower." To his
Oldest son, Joseph. be left a double
portion-"that is," reads the will. -aa
much as both Thomas and Stephen I'm
lands, houses, etc, in seituate and
Marshheld)." To his two youngest
children, Lydia and stephen, be gro
yided maintenance until they were
twenty-one; to Judith he left a COW,
and to Mary and Sarah he left ten
shillings each. Mary and Sarah were
both. married by that time, and prob.
ably they thought the ten shilllngs a
generous gift. Nathaniel died q rich
man. It is interesting that in the ap-
praisal Of his estate his ten stocks or
swarms of bees" worth ten pounds,
are the first bees mentioned in tho
colony.
Nathaniel's youngest son, Stephen.
married, in 1861, Hannah, granddaugh.
ter of Richard Little, who had come
to America in the "Maynower." They
had twelve children; and probably
Stephen had some difiiculty in making
both ends meet, for when his brother
Joseph died in 1870, leaving a good
estate to his wife and his eight chill.
dren, he left not only somO money to
Stephen, but he Inserted a paragraph
at the end of the will reading: ALSO
acqult my brother Stephen of all
dues" Stephen established the branch
to which belonged the late Hon. Jo
seph Tilden Of Boston.
The Tildens took their share Of
fighting whenever war camo. In the
Revolution there we're four Nathaniel
Tildens, privates from Massachusetts
And in Heitman's "Oficers of the
American Revolution" Captain DAME.
Of Connecticut. Second Lieut.. John
Bell Of Pennsylvania and Ensign
Joshua Of Connecticut are named.
Throughout its history the Tilden
family has married into other historic
families. The late William Smith TIL
den, member Of the Massachusetts
legislature in 1879, married Olive, a
descendant of Robert Babcock, one OF
the first settlers Of Dorchester, Mass.
His father and grandfather had mar.
ried, respectively, Catherine Smith
and Hannah Perry, both descended
from men of Importance in ante-revo
lutlonary days. The late Samuel j.
Elan was a son Of John. who came
from Lebanon, Conn, tn New Lebanon.
Tilden, governor Of New York 1856,
and unsuccessful candidate for thu
presidency In 1879, was the son Of
Elan Tilden and Polly Y. Jones, a
married a sister Of oliver Cromwell
the French war. His father was Isaac,
son Of Stephen and Hannah, whose
grandfather, as mentioned above,
came over in the "Mayfower."
The arms illustrated, which are the
only arms borne by the Tildens OF this
family, are blazoned: Azure, a salture,
ermine, between four pheons, or.
Crest: A battle-axe, erect, entwined
with a snake; all proper.
Motto: Truth and Liberty.