Frances TILDEN-TILESTON

• Birth: 1608, Chard, Somerset, England
• Death: 18 NOV 1676, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

• Reference: 106

• Marriage: ABT 1629, England

1. Ebenezer HILL

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Notes

Yarmouth, Maine, regarding the ancestry of my great grandfather, Joseph

G. Mansfield, I received a response from Katherine P. Tinker. She cited no

sources. In the hand-drawn chart that she attached to the letter, she

identified John and Frances as the parents of Ebenezer Hill. She had

annotated the date 1638 by their names. Frances' parents were not

identified.

J. Gardner Bartlett's "John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and Five

Generations of His Descendants" (c.1904), identifies her only as Frances.

On page 201 of "History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts", by

Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., published in 1859, there appears an interesting

incident. In 1665, "the Widow Hill" made a motion to the selectmen in

behalf of her son-in-law, lately come from Boggerstow, that "he might

inhabit amongst us." They could see no cause to grant it; neither widow

Hill nor any other person was allowed to entertain him, and the

constable was notified to warn him to depart the town.

.....On page 209, there is a list of the town of Dorchester's owners of

"Great Lots" as of the year 1668. "Widow Hill" is listed at owning 18

acres. This makes her the holder of the 12th largest of the 46 parcels

listed.

The LDS AF gives her surname as Tilden-Tileston.