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Abraham Preble [Parents] 1, 2, 3, 4 was born 5, 6 on 6 Mar 1602/1603. He was christened 7, 8 30 Mar 1603 - 1 Jan 1603 in Wooton/Denton, Kent, England. He died 9, 10 30 Mar 1663 - 23 Jan 1662 in York, York Co, Maine. He was buried 11 in Old Graveyard First Parish, York, York, Maine. He married 12, 13, 14 Judith Tilden on 3 Jan 1640/1641 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Maine.
Ancestry.com. Maine Pioneers, 1623-1660 [database online]. Orem, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908.
Scituate, witnessed a deed in 1639; took oath of fidelity, date not specified. Removed to York, Me.; bought land of Edward Godfrey 20 Dec. 1642. Recd. 20 acres of land from Wm. Hoole 19 July, 1645. Witnessed grant of mill privileges to Ed. Rishworth in 1651. Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652. Was appointed one of the commissioners to hold court at York.
He m. at Scituate Judith, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden. Child, Nathaniel bapt. at Second church of Sci. April 9, 1648.
[Adm. of est. in Mr. Baxter's records Vol. 1.]
[See wills of Prebles, residing at several points in Kent, Eng. in Reg. L, 118; see Genealogy.]originally of Kent Co, England
settled in Scituate, Maine before Oct 1637
Was in York, Maine by 1642From Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Entries referencing Preble:
Edward Godfrey:
On 20 December 1642 Edward Godfrey of "Agamenticus in the county of Devon in the province of Maine, gentleman," sold to Abraham Preble of Agamenticus, planter, ten acres bounded on the land of John Alcock with free commonage of pasture and timber, to be delivered by his true and lawful attorney "well beloved friend John Allcocke" [YLR 2:177-78]. On 16 March 1642[/3] "Edward Godfrey of Agamenticus, in the county of Deavon, in the province of Mayne, gentleman," sold to "John Allcocke" of Agamenticus, planter, ten acres on the east side of the river of Agamenticus, Alcock to pay all taxes and costs, and to provide two days' work of a man yearly; "trusty and well beloved friend Abraham Preble" Godfrey's attorney to deliver possession [YLR 2:176-77].
On 25 June 1652 Mr. Edward Godfrey sold to Mr. Abraham Preble twenty acres near "Mr. Gorges Cricke" [YLR 2:179]. On 10 May 1653, Mr. Edward Godfrey and Mr. Abraham Preble "witnesseth that the said Edward in the behalf of himself & his Associates by virtue of a patent bearing date the 23 of March: 37: & division thereof made the 11th of November 1641" did give ten acres more to Abraham Preble [YLR 2:178].Ancestry.com. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire [database online]. Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, Inc., 1998. Original data: Libby, Charles Thornton. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928.
Abraham,Esq., founder of what York's historian calls the most disting. fam. of the town, was bp. at Wootton, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1603-4, s. of Robert and Joan. [p.566] At Scituate bef. Oct. 1639, he m. there 3 Jan. 1641 Judith Tilden (Dea. Nathl.), bp. at Tenterden, co. Kent, 22 Oct. 1620, and came to Scituate Row, York, buying from Godfrey 20 Dec. 1642. See Banks(3), Chambers(2), Curtis(9), Twisden; N. E. Reg. 65: 322; 67: 44. Magistrate, Saco ct. 1645; Prov. Councillor 1645-9; Associate 1646; Major; and last Mayor of Gorgeana. Under Mass., he was Magistrate; County Treas. 1654; Comr. for York 1655; Associate for Co. Court 1656 till death. Lists 273-277, 71, 34. Adm. 7 July 1663 to wid. Judith, named as wid. Preble in her step-fa.'s will, Dec. 1664. Ch., sons under 21 in 1663, daus. (prob. not incl. the first) under 18: Daughter, m. and had portion bef. fa. d. Abraham, b. 1642-6. John, had town gr. 1669. Nathaniel, bp. at Scituate 9 Apr. 1648. Joseph. Stephen, b. ±1656. Benjamin, b. ±1657. Sarah, b. ±1659, accus. with Joseph Weare in Dec. 1688 and acquitted; see Preble(9). She m. 1st Abraham Parker(1); m. 2d Henry Coombs(4). And at least one other married dau., not found, called Mary by Preble Gen. and Col. Banks, b. 1662, the latter says.
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931.
Page 145-151
'Abraham Preble
The ancestor of the most distinguished family in York came from humble origin in Kent where the family had been residents for nearly four centuries before his emigration. In fact, it may be said that the name is not found in any other county in England. It is essentially a Kentish family from its earliest beginnings, but it never rose above the ranks of yeomanry. The family is not and never was armigurous, never had a coat of arms granted to it and the one given in the genealogy prepared by the late Rear Admiral Preble as granted to one George Preble of York, England in 1587 is apocryphal. There was no such person and the arms therein given belong to another family.
Having cleared the field of the things that do not belong to this fine old yeoman family, it will be shown that it has an unusually long record for one of its social class in England. Few of them can be traced back so many generations, although it has not been possible to carry back the immigrant's line beyond his grandfather with certainty. Extensive searching in all kinds of documentary sources in Kent and in the national archives of England makes it certain that the first recorded Preble was a William Prebbel living in Strood near Rochester, Kent in 1332, with his wife Joanna. He then bought a house and land in that parish 'in the octave of St. John the Baptist' 6 Edw. III (Kent Fines), and this fact establishes that he was born probably as early as 1300, in the reign of Edward the First.
The origin of the name is obscure. The Oxford Dictionary gives the word as meaning gravel and uses as illustrations early instances of it in 1541 'a certain barre of prebill driven in at Dover.' and in 1577 'claye, preble or carbuncle' is mentioned in Googe's Husbandry (i,17). Another theory derives it from a French town named Preville. The spelling of the name from the earliest times has been singularly consistent, varying only in doubling the consonants b and l in lessening frequency to the present time. It is found as Prebbil, Prebyll, Prebell, Pribble, and Prybell, but for three centuries past it has not changed from the form in which the immigrant wrote it. There is one singular fact that in Kent even in parishes where Prebles lived, occurrences of the family name of Treble is found, apparently a distinct family.
No further references to the name in Strood is found there or elsewhere for a century, when it reappears in East Farleigh, a parish about 10 miles to the south of Strood. Walter Preble of that parish appears in a list of 'Rebels' pardoned in one of the uprisings against Henry VI, in the year 1450, and from that date this family resided there for the next two centuries, and in the adjoining parishes of West Farleigh and East Barming. In the last named place, one Robert Preble, a great-grandson of a Stephen Preble, lived and died and by his wife Joan Casynghyrste had a son Abraham, baptized in 1554, the first occurence of this Biblical name in the family. This Abraham was a 'servant' of one James Clarke of East Farleigh and died unmarried in 1625 (P. C. C. 37 Clarke). Doubtless the emigrant belonged to this line, but his own ancestors had removed to Wooton, in East Kent many years before this Abraham, who lived contemporary with the emigrant for 20 years. They were cousins of some undetermined degree. Abraham of Barming was baptized as son of Robert Preble 'the younger' and this presupposes an 'elder' Robert belonging to the same line in the parish, or perhaps in an adjoining one. Wateringbury, the next parish west, furnishes the necessary Robert, but it is not possible to establish his relationship to the Barming family.
Robert was a name used in this generation by those two Preble families and Robert is the name of the first Preble who went to Wooton to live, and he became the grandfather of the Abraham who emigrated to York. When he went to Wooton is not known, probably about 1565 the first known date when his name is of record. Wooton is a small parish about eight miles southeast of Canterbury and 35 miles distant from the parish of Barming. A mile separates Wooton from Denton whence came the Twisden family, neighbors of the Prebles to York to become next neighbors in this town. Robert Preble, by estimation, was born about 1530, and his wife Eleanor had three sons and two known daughters. He was buried July 23, 1589 as a 'householder' and his widow Eleanor, surviving two years was buried July 19, 1591 as 'widowe of this parishe and leevinge by the Almes of said parishe'. Robert, probably the eldest son, born about 1560 was a carpenter by trade and the record of his family exists in both the parish registers of Wooton and Denton. In his will dated March 2, 1634/5, proved July 7, 1635, he makes bequest to his son Robert of 20 pounds, and to Abraham 20 pounds; to daughter Eleanor Benjamin, 6 pounds; to daughter Frances Jacobs, 8 pounds; and to daughter Margaret Preble, 4 pounds (Arch. Cant. lxix, 85). He was buried in Denton, March 7, 1634/5. By wife Joan, he had the following named children:
1. Robert, b. (1586); m. Aphra Hanbrook, June 20, 1614.
2. John, bap. June 10, 1589; died young
3. John, bap. April 5, 1590; died young
4. Eleanor, bap. Jan. 16, 1591/2; died young
5. Frances, bap. Sept. 20, 1595; m. ---- Jacobs.
6. Margaret, bap. April 1, 1599; unmarried.
7. Eleanor, b. (1601); m. Thomas Benjamin
8. ABRAHAM, bap. Jan 1, 1603/4; the emigrant
John and Richard Preble, his uncles, both married, leaving issue, and Robert, his nephew, likewise, and from them descend the present family of Prebles in Kent belonging to the Wooton-Denton branch of the old family. Abraham Preble probably followed the occupation of carpenter and his inventory taken here seems to justify this inference, but htere is nothing of record in his English home to throw light on this. He was living in Lydden, a small parish about five miles from Wooton in 1631 as 'servant' of Edward Clement, a yeoman (Arch Cant. lxviii, 164). The death of his father four years later left him free to join the increasing numbers who were then leaving Kent for a new home on the Massachusetts coast in America. It is reasonable to suppose that in this voyage across the Atlantic, he was accompanied by John Twisden, once his playmate in Denton, Richard Banks of Alkham a parish four miles to the south, and by the Curtis family, lately resident of Ewell, equidistant from Denton, all of whom are found resident in Scituate, Mass, together a few years later, and finally living in a row of adjacent lots in this town, a perfect example of neighborhood emigration. The exact date of this emigration cannot be stated, but it was before Oct. 10, 1639, when Abraham Preble was a witness at the Scituate with Thomas Chambers, the stepfather of the Curtis sons, of whom Thomas, the eldest, came to York with Preble, Banks, and Twisden. While in Scituate, he married January 3, 1641, Judith, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia (Huckstep) Tilden, one of the Barons of the Cinque Ports formerly of Tenterden, Kent. She was baptized Oct. 22, 1620 in that town and by this marriage the carpenter's son and once 'servant' of a yeoman made an advantageous social alliance which his father-in-law accepted in view of the promise of the groom's natural abilities which were shown later in his rise in official life in York.
The rest of the story of this pioneer is connected with this town to which he came in the fall of 1642, where his home lot situated just to the northwest of and adjoining the parish lot remained in the occupation of his descendants for over two centuries. He became a provincial Councilor in 1647 and 1650/1, and mayor of Gorgeana the last year, holding that office when Massachusetts in 1652 usurped the government. In 1658, he became a county magistrate as well as commissioner for the town, but few references to him occur after this date and he died Jan 23, 1662/3, aged 60 years. His old neighbors, Richard Banks and Thomas Curtis, made the following appraisal of his estate on March 30, 1663:
pounds-s-d
His wearing apparel, shoes and stockings 5-7-0
Bedding and bedsteads 9-15-0
Cabbine and bedding in the chamber 5-0-0
Chests and other small things 2-5-0
2 pair bandoliers, 1 warming pan, 1 old lantern 0-11-0
5 sheets, 1 sword, and shot bag 2-16-0
4 hogsheads, 1 tub, 1 trough 0-15-0
4 saws and 'several working tools' 2-12-0
4 scythes and tackling 0-10-0
1 small wheel, 6 bags 0-10-0
Tubs and small things in Leanto 1-13-0
2 wheels, 1 cradle, books, and pails 2-10-0
Tables, chairs, stools, 2 old brands, kettles, 1 skillet 0-15-0
2 iron pots, 1 kettle, pot-hooks, etc. 2-1-6
Pewter and a frying pan 0-18-0
2 fire-lock guns 1-15-0
1 frying pan and a hammer 0-9-0
6 dishes and spoons, 1 white porringer, 2 platters 0-9-0
Beetle rings, 4 wedges, 1 cheese press 1-6-6
1 Hair Cloth 1-10-0
2 troughs, 1 grindstone, etc. 2-5-0
2 yokes, 1 chain, coppes, and a yoke tire 0-17-6
1 cart, 1 pair wheels, 2 sleds 2-0-0
2 plows with the irons, 2 pitchforks 1-13-0
In ginger 1-5-0
1 canoe, 1 fourth part of 4 canoes 1-18-0
Dwelling House with outhouses 65-0-0
Marshes fresh and salt 36-0-0
Small piece of meadow bot of Richard Howell 4-0-0
Two lots, being 40 acres at the seaside 15-0-0
Lot at seaside exchanged with ---- Alcock 10-0-6
20 acres, next Henry Sayward 5-0-0
10 acres 'given Mr. Godfrey' added to his home lots 5-0-0
1 parcel of wool 20 s., parcel of sheep 6 pounds 7-0-0
4 oxen 36 pounds, half the cattle 30 s. 37-10-0
2 yearlings and a calf 4 pounds, 3 cows 14 pounds 18-0-0
3 steers, 1 heifer 10 pounds, swine 5-12-0 15-12-0
18 bushels barley and malt 4-10-0
45 bushels Indian corn 9-0-0
7 bushels wheat 35 s; 8 bushels peas 32 s. 3-7-0
1 bushel oats 5s., pork and beef 3 pounds 3-5-0
TOTAL 289 pounds-1shilling -0 pence
Edward Rishworth
Richard Banks
Thomas Curtis
By his wife Judith, who survived, he had the following named children:
1. Abraham, b. 1641; m. Hannah Sayward (14) May 13, 1685
2. Stephen, b. 1645; m. Rachel Main
3. Nathaniel, b. 1648; m. Priscilla Main
4. Joseph, b. (1651); m. Sarah -----
5. Sarah, b. (1654); m. (1) Abraham Parker; (2) Henry Coombs
6. Benjamin, b. (1657); m. Mary Batson
7. John, b. (1659); m. Hannah -----
8. Mary, b. (1662)
In justification of the opening sentence of this sketch of Abraham Preble that it was the most distinguished family orginiating in York, it can be stated that from his eldest son Abraham, himself a justice of the County Court, has descended a number of the name distinguished on the bench and in the bar of this state. While from Benjamin, the fifth son, came several locally, nationally, and internationally famous in military and naval history. Jedidiah Preble, son of Benjamin, rendered distinguished service in the French and Indian Wars, serving under Wolfe at Quebec and reaching the rank of Brigadier General in that service. He was appointed Major General and Commander in Chief of the Massachusetts Forces in 1775, but age prevented his active service in the Revolution. He was also a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. His seventh son was the famous Commodore Edward Preble whose exploits with the Algerine pirates brought him lasting renown. His eighth son, Enoch, was father of the distinguished naval officer, Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, and Lieutenant Edward Preble, U.S.N., his cousin was the executive officer of the U.S.S. Kearsarge at the time of her decisive battle which sank the Confederate cruiser Alabama.'
Judith Tilden [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on 22 Oct 1620 in Tenterdon, Kent Co, England. She was christened 6, 7 on 22 Oct 1620 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. She died 8 on 30 Mar 1663 in York, York Co, Maine. She married 9, 10, 11 Abraham Preble on 3 Jan 1640/1641 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Maine.
They had the following children:
M i Abraham Preble F ii Rachel Preble M iii Stephen Preble M iv Nathaniel Preble M v Benjamin Preble M vi John Preble F vii Sarah Preble M viii Joseph Preble F ix Mary Preble 1 was born 2 about 1662. She died .
Abraham Preble [Parents] was born 1, 2 in Jun 1641/1642 in York, York Co, Maine. He died on 14 Oct 1714. He married 3 Hannah Sayward on 13 May 1685 in York, York Co, Maine.
Hannah Sayward 1 died . She married 2 Abraham Preble on 13 May 1685 in York, York Co, Maine.
History of York notes her as 'Hannah Sayward'
Joseph Carline died . He married Rachel Preble on 28 Mar 1659.
Rachel Preble [Parents] was born in 1643. She died . She married Joseph Carline on 28 Mar 1659.
Joseph Carlisle 1, 2 died 3 on 14 May 1718. The cause of death was Drowned. He married 4 Rachel Mayne on 29 Mar 1695.
Other marriages:Bane, Elizabeth
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
p275
"Joseph Carlile
The name of this settler was the football of illiterate clerks and appeared as Curline, Carbine, Curloine, Curlile, Carleill, and finally as Carlile. He first appeard here about 1690 as the husband of Elizabeth Bane, daughter of Lewis, Senior, and he with his wife were indicted for not attending public worship early in 1691 (Deeds v, pt. 7). He had a grant of land March 18, 1695-6 of thirty acres "where he can find it" (T.R. i , 130), and another in 1700 of forty acres at the Rocky Ground which he made his home (ibid i, 143). He was pound peeper in 1696 and surveyor of highways in 1701, but that was the extent of his public service. He was drowned May 14, 1718 "going over a pond near his home by accident fell in" (Sup. Jud. Ct. Mss. 12325). He was a blacksmith by trade. His first wife died without issue, as far as known, and he married (2) Mrs. Rachel (Main) Preble, widow of Stephen, March 29, 1695. She survived and was living in 1748 at the age of eighty-four years (Deeds xxvi, 23o, 295). In some way he was related to Elizabeth (Dodd) Royall, wife of John of York, as in 1693 he called her "his kinswoman" (Suffolk Deeds xiv, 236). The geneology of his family appears in Volume III of this history."
Rachel Mayne [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3 about 1670. She died 4 after 1748. She married 5 Joseph Carlisle on 29 Mar 1695.
Other marriages:Preble, Stephen
John Preble [Parents] 1 was born 2 about 1659. He died about 1695. He married Hannah.
Hannah 1 died 2 in Aug 1695. She married John Preble.
Benjamin Preble [Parents] was born 1, 2 about 1657 in York, York Co, Maine. He died on 25 Mar 1732 in York, York Co, Maine. He married Mary Boston in 1679 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Probate Office, 4, 146. Name: Benjamin Preble Will Text: In The Name of God Amen I Benjamin Preble of York in ye County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being of Sound mind and memory Do make this my Last Will and Testament this Sixteenth Day of December in ye Year of our Lord 1723. first & above all I Comend my Spirit unto God that Gave it as a faithfull Creator & my Mercifull Father in Iesus Christ and then I Comit my Body to the Dust Decently to be Buried by my Executrix hereafter Named in hope of a Glorious Resurrection to Life Eternal. and as for my worldly Estate which God has Graciously Given I Dispose of It in Manner Following after my Debts and funeral Cost is Paid.Imprimis I Give my Beloved Wife Mary (besides her thirds according to the Laws of this Province) the use of the one half of my Dwelling House & Barn & orchard During her natural life and if she shall Need it to have ye Vse of ye whole Dwelling House.Item I Having already Given unto my Eldest Son John all my Land at Scituate in York and the one half of my Part in the Saw Mill there: I Do Give him or Confirm to him the other half of my Part in said Mill after ye Decease of my Self & Wife.Item I Give and Bequeath unto my three Daughters Hannah Judith & Abigail Ten pounds Each thirty pounds the whole to be paid by my Youngest Son Jedediah.Item I Give & bequeath unto my Said Youngest Son Jedediah all my Home Stead Land Dwelling House Barn & orchard together with my whole Stock of Catle sheep &c: after his Mothers DeceaseI also Give and bequeath unto my said Son Jedediah all that my Thirty acres Grant wch lyeth above my Home place towards Scituate between ye Land of James Grant and the Land of Josep Bean and further I Give and Bequeath unto my Said Youngest Son Jedediah all my Ten acres of fresh Meadow Lying on ye Brook wch Runs Through Joseph Bragdons & Joseph Wears Meadow about a Mile above sd Bragdons and Wears Meadow.Finally I make and Constitute my Wife aforesaid ye Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament.In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day Year above written.Signed Sealed & Delivered Published Pronovnced and Declared by Benjamin Preble abovesaid to be his last Will and Testament in Presence ofNathaniel LeemanMary LeemanSamuel MoodeyBenjamin Preble (Seal)Probated 17 Oct. 1732. Inventory returned 5 May 1732, at 161:6: 0, by Joseph Moulton, James Grant and Jonathan Bean, appraisers.
Mary Boston 1 died . She married Benjamin Preble in 1679 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
M i Jedidiah Preble 1 died . M ii Edward Preble 1 died . M iii Enoch Preble 1 died .
Henry Coombs 1, 2 died . He married Sarah Preble.
Ancestry.com. Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000. Original data: Sargent, William M. Maine Wills, 1640-1760. Portland, ME: Maine Historical Society, 1887.
Source Page: Probate Office, 3, 215. Name: Henery Cooms Will Text: In the Name of God Amen I Henery Cooms of York in the County of York in the Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England, being Weak in body through Infirmaties of old age but Sound in Judgment & memory Do make this my last Will & Testament in Manner and form as here followeth. first above all I Comend my Sperit into the hands of God my Saviour & my body to ye Earth Decently to be buryed by my Dear Wife Sarah whom I Constitute Ordain and Appoint Sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament. And then as to my Worldly Estate I Dispose of it as Followeth.Imprimis I Give & Bequeath unto my Cousin Samll Ingerson of Marbel Head all my land & Marsh on Rascohegon Island at Zachadehock bounded as is Expressed in my Deeds from David Oliver & his Son David for wch also I had a Patent from Palmer & West. The Conditions of this Gift or bequest to my Cousin above Named is this Vizt That he the Sd Samll Ingerson pay unto my Wife abovesd Twenty pounds in passable paper Money Vizt Publick bills of Credit on the Provinces of New England And Ten pounds more unto Decon Samll Came & Deacon Peter Nowell of York to be Improved by ye Sd Nowell & Came towards the finishing ye New Meeting house in the Uper end of the Town of York aforesd or Towards the Support of ye Ministry there But if Sd Ingerson on sight of this my Will Shall not see good to fulfill ye Conditions here Expressed & Shall refuse or Neglect to Give Good Security to my Wife aforesd for the payment of ye Twenty Pounds as abovesd or Shall fail of Giveing psent Good Security unto the Two Deacons abovesd for ye Ten pounds as abovesd upon the Sight of this my Will -- Then I Do Give & Bequeath all my land & Marsh as above Discribed unto Deacon Came & Deacon Nowell abovesd by them Either to be Sold or reserved as they Shall Judge best for the Upholding & Maintaining of an Orthodox Ministr at the Upper end of ye Town of York abovesd They Vizt the Sd Came & Nowell unto my Wife Sarah abovesd Paying or percureing to be paid Twenty pounds in Province or Colloney Bills of publick Credit in New England Or otherwise in Such provisions & other Nessassarys as My Said Wife Shall have Occasion for and at Such time & times as She Shall have occasion for her Comfortable Subsistance Dureing her natural life But if Deacon Came & Nowell abovesd Shall refuse to Accept of ye Sd Land & Marsh abovesd or ye Conditions abovesd Then My Will is that my Wife abovesaid Shall pay unto the Sd Came & Nowell Ten pounds for the Use above Expressed & Upon her Doing so Vizt Giveing Good Security for the Said Ten pounds to Sd Deacons, Then I Do Give & Bequeath Sd land & Marsh on ye Island abovesd unto my Sd Wife with all the Priviledges & Appurtinances thereof to her & her Heirs forever. Item I Give & bequeath unto my Sd Wife all ye rest of my Estate whether psonal or Real & all yt Shall be found honestly Due to me from all psons Whatsoever Perticularly that Seventeen pounds in Money Wch about ten years Since I lent unto Thomas Card of York a Part of wch has been paid.Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & Declared by Henery Cooms abovesaid to be his last Will & Testament this 29th Day of Janry 1723/1724 In psence of Nathaniel WhitteneyJoseph HoultBenja SmithHenry Cooms (Seal) his markProbated 29 Oct. 1725.
Sarah Preble [Parents] was born 1, 2 about 1654/1659. She died . She married Henry Coombs.
Other marriages:Parker, Abraham
Robert Preble [Parents] 1, 2 was born 3, 4 in 1530 in Denton, Kent Co, England. He died 5 on 23 Jul 1589 in Kent Co, England. He was buried 6, 7 on 23 Jul 1589 in Wooton, Kent Co, England. He married 8 Eleanor in 1559.
Eleanor 1, 2 was born 3 in 1534 in Denton, Kent Co, England. She died . She was buried 4 on 19 Jul 1591 in Wooton, Kent, England. She married 5 Robert Preble in 1559.
They had the following children:
M i Robert Preble M ii John Preble 1, 2 was born 3 about 1562 in Denton, Kent, England. He died . M iii Richard Preble 1, 2, 3 was born 4 about 1564 in Denton, Kent, England. He died . U iv Preble 1, 2 was born 3, 4 about 1566 in Denton, Kent, England. Preble died . F v Preble 1 was born 2 about 1568. She died . F vi Preble 1 was born 2 about 1566. She died .
Walter Preble 1 was born 2 about 1506 in Kent?, England. He died in England. He married Unknown.
Unknown 1 was born 2 about 1502 in Denton, Kent, England. She died . She married Walter Preble.
They had the following children:
M i Robert Preble
Deacon Nathaniel Tilden [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4 on 28 Jul 1583 in Tenterdon, Kent Co, England. He was christened 5 on 28 Jul 1583 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. He died 6 on 25 May 1641 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Maine. He married 7 Lydia Hucstepe about 1606/1607 in Tenterdon, Kent Co, England.
English Origins of New England Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes I-III, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc: Baltimore, 1984.
Volume I p 145
St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England Registry:
"Nathaniell Tylden sonne of Thomas Tylden bapt ye 28th of July" 1583
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"Nathaniel Tilden, baptized at Tenterden 28 Jul 1583, came to New England in the Hercules in March 1634-5 with wife, seven children, and seven servants; settled at Scituate; and died, probably at Scituate, between 25 May and 31 July 1641. He married in England Lydia, who, Savage thinks, was perhaps daughter of Thomas Bourne. But as Thomas Bourne was born about 1581, he would have been only twenty-seven when Nathaniel Tilden's eldest child was born, and therefore Savage's conjecture is wrong. The 'son Tilden' referred to in Thomas Bourne's will, made in 1664 (See Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts), could not have been Nathaniel who had been dead twenty-three years, but was probably Thomas Tilden, son of Nathaniel and husband of Elizabeth Bourne. That the wife Lydia was the mother of all Nathaniel's children is proved by the bequest in Joseph Tilden's will: To my sister Lydia Tilden, late wife of my brother Nathaniel Tilden ... and to her two daughters who are married in New England." (Walter's Gleanings, vol 1, p 71). These daughter were born in 1610 and 1613.
Tenterden, a limb of the Cinque Port of Rye, was a prosperous and important place in our ancestor's day, as now, and the principal town in the Weald of Kent. Nathaniel Kent, called 'Mr.' in both the Old and New England records, and 'gentleman' in his brother Hopestill's will, was a man of importance, mayor in 1622 and jurat - a jurat was also a justice of the peace - in 1624, 1625, 1627, and 1629. IN New England, he was also a town officer and a ruling elder. (For an abstract of his will see Register, vol 4, p 173. See also for him and his descendants, Deane, History of Scituate, 353 ff.)."From English Origins of New England Families, Volume III, page 755
Notes Excerpted from Two Early Passenger Lists, 1635-1637 by Eben Putnam
"Tilden, Nathaniel of Tenterdon, County Kent and of Scituate in the Plymouth Colony, passenger in the Hercules. For his family and ancestry, cf. Register, Volume 65, page 322-333. His wife was Lydia Huckstep, baptized at Tenterdon 11 Feb 1587/8, daughter of Steven and Winifred (Hatch) (Wills) (cf Register Volume 67 page 47/8). Nathaniel and Lydia (Huckstep) Tilden had twelve children baptized at Tenterdon. Five of these children were buried at Tenterdon, and seven accompanied their parents to New England. Their daughter Mary married 13 March 1636/7 Thomas Lapham, and their daughter Sarah married on the same day George Sutton, both of these men appearing in the passenger list as servants of Nathaniel Tilden.From Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Entries referencing Tilden:
Jonas Austin:
Although no kinship relation has been found between Jonas Austin and NATHANIEL TILDEN, both of Tenterden, Kent, they certainly knew one another in England, since Tilden witnessed the 1625 will of William Robinson, whose widow soon married Austin [NEHGR 67:161-62].
William Bassett:
After 1651 and before 12 December 1664 [married] Mary (Tilden) Lapham, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, widow of Thomas Lapham [see TIMOTHY HATHERLEY]; she was living at Bridgewater as late as 28 March 1690 [Bassett Gen 6, citing BridTR 1:320]. Thomas Besbeech:
On 4 September 1638, "Nathaniell Tilden [was] presented for denying a land way that formerly Mr. Besbeech & others had used by grant from the town of Scituate" [PCR 1:98].
Thomas Tilden:
In the 1623 Plymouth land division Thomas Tilden received three acres as a passenger on the Anne in 1623 [PCR 12:6]. He is not seen in the 1627 division of cattle or in any later record. COMMENTS: The grant of three acres indicates that Thomas Tilden was the head of a household of three, perhaps a wife and child [MQ 40:60]. No connection is seen with Nathaniel Tilden who arrived a decade later and settled at Scituate, despite the claim made by Banks [English Homes 163]. (Stratton notes that in Torrey the wife is named Ann. This may be another instance in which the name of the ship has been transferred to one of its passengers; see also THOMAS FLAVELL.)
Lydia Hucstepe [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4 on 11 Feb 1586/1587 in Tenterdon, Kent Co, England. She was christened 5 on 11 Feb 1587/1588 in Tenterden, Kent, England. She died 6 in 1672 in Scituate, Plymouth Co, Maine. She married 7 Deacon Nathaniel Tilden about 1606/1607 in Tenterdon, Kent Co, England.
Other marriages:Hatherly, Timothy
Cannot be parent's biological daughter with this birthdate
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Tilden was christened 1 on 23 Oct 1608 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. He died . He was buried 2 on 19 Jan 1618/1619 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. F ii Mary Tilden M iii Josephe Tilden was christened 1 on 12 Jan 1611/1612 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. He died . He was buried 2 on 15 Mar 1611/1612 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. F iv Sarah Tilden M v Joseph Tilden M vi Steven Tilden was christened 1 on 2 Mar 1616/1617 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. He died . He was buried 2 on 12 Oct 1619 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. M vii Thomas Tilden F viii Judith Tilden F ix Winifrede Tilden was christened 1 on 20 Oct 1620 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. She died . She was buried 2 on 14 Sep 1627 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. F x Lidia Tilden was christened 1 on 30 May 1624 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. She died . She was buried 2 on 15 Sep 1624 in St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden, Kent, England. F xi Lydia Tilden M xii Stephen Tilden
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