Person:William Tilley (10)

On 19 June 1635, “W[illia]m Tilly,” aged 28, holding “a certificate [of conformity] from the minister of the parish of Little Miniries,” was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Abigail [Hotten 88].

Great Migration reasons that William Tilly could not have been the father of Sarah married Harry Lynn, but rather was probably her step-father.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 William Tilley, in Great Migration Newsletter. (Boston, Massachusetts: Great Migration Study Project)
   [1].

   ORIGIN: Holy Trinity Minories, London [Hotten 88]. MIGRATION: 1635 on the Abigail .
   FIRST RESIDENCE: Unknown. REMOVES: Barnstable by 1640 [WP 4:262]. Boston by 1647. Cape Porpus by 1649.
   OCCUPATION: Wine merchant [MA Arch 119:9].
   BIRTH: About 1607 (aged 28 on 19 June 1635 [Hotten 88]; “aged about fifty-three years” on 13 April 1660 [MPCR 1:251]).
   DEATH: After 27 March 1668 (when Alice Tilly referred to herself as “the wife of William Tilly” [SJC Case #931]).
   MARRIAGE: Soon after 6 July 1640 (probably at Barnstable) Alice (Frost) Blower, daughter of Edward Frost and widow of THOMAS BLOWER {1635, Boston} [TAG 10:135, 71:113; GM 2:1:338-40]

2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

   WILLIAM, Boston, is perhaps the passeng. in the Abigail from London 1635, aged 28, with Nathaniel, and may have been his br. perhaps was the Barnstable man 1643. In 1649, he had w. Alice, and was inhab. 1658; but in 1665 was subject of complaint by w.