Person:Abraham Tilton (6)

"LIEUT. ABRAHAM(3) TILTON (Abraham(2), William(1)) was born about 1666 in Hampton or Kittery, and was therefore about ten years old when the family moved to Ipswich, where his father brought him up to his own trade as a housewright or millwright. In 1690 he was a lieutenant in the colonial forces under Sir William Phips on the Canada expedition, and seems to have acquired a taste for military life as he was an ensign in Col. Wainwright's company in the expedition to Port Royal in 1707.

On December 11, 1693, at Chebacco, Tilton married Mary Jacob. They settled near her father on land for the purchase of which there is no recorded deed as land of Abraham Tilton is one of the bounds of the acre and a half which his father-in-law, Thomas Jacob, gave him on January 26, 1696/7 … In 1696 the town granted him permission to build a mill on Mile river in partnership with Edmund and Anthony Potter."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Tilton, of Lynn and Ipswich, in Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
   III:465-466.
2. ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
   II:693.

   TILTON, Abraham, Lt., (died) Jan. 7, 1756, a. 90 y.