1. William1 Tilton and 2nd wife Susannah _____
By wife Susanna:
4. iii. Samuel, b. about 1636.
5. iv. Abraham, b. about 1638.
6. v. Daxiel, b. about 1642.
4. Samuel2 Tilton (William1), the eldest son of his father by his wife Susanna, was possibly born in England. Various estimates of his age indicate his birth year as between 1637 and 1640, and, as we have seen, the exact time of the family's emigration is not known. On April 6, 1660, Roger Shaw, his step-father, deeded to Samuel Tilton "ye son of Susana, my late wife, now deceased," ... Samuel Tilton married Hannah Moulton in Hampton on December 17, 1662. About 1673 they and a group of their Hampton neighbors moved to the island of Martha's Vineyard where the Tiltons settled...
When Samuel Tilton, his family and Hampton friends came to Martha's Vineyard, a young girl, Mary Tilton, was with them. Within two years she married Isaac Chase, a young widower of the Hampton group, bore him twelve children between 1677 and 1703, and died in 1746, aged eighty-eight years, according to the inscription on her gravestone. The parentage of Mary Tilton is not proven. Obviously she was closely related to the Tiltons of Hampton. To argue that she was a daughter of William and Susanna Tilton we must set the year of her birth back at least to the winter of 1652-1653 when William Tilton died, and by so doing say that her last child was born when she was fifty, which is improbable. Gravestones are notoriously inaccurate, but they are more apt to exaggerate the age of a very old person than to underestimate it, and Mary's stone would indicate that she was born in 1658. All five of William Tilton's sons had daughters named Mary who lived to grow up and marry during the lifetime of Mary (Tilton) Chase. Of the three boys who were in Hampton with their mother, Samuel, who would have been twenty in 1658, is the most logical candidate for her father, particularly as she went with him from Hampton to the Vineyard. It is most probable that she was his illegitimate daughter, acknowledged and brought up by him and the woman of character whom he married, after the death of her natural mother.Probable illegitimate child:
i. Mary, b. about 1658; m. at Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard Oct. 5, 1675, Lieut. Isaac Chase, who d. May 19, 1727, aged about 80; she d., his widow, June 14, 1746, aged 88. Isaac Chase, a blacksmith, had come to Martha's Vineyard from Hampton with Samuel Tilton about two years before this marriage. His will, Feb. 12, 1721/2—July 7, 1727, names his friends William and Josiah Tilton overseers. [Duke's County Probate, 2: 21]
