Captain Samuel Tillinghast

Male 1711 - 1787  (75 years)

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  • Name Samuel Tillinghast 
    Title Captain 
    Birth 8 Oct 1711  Tiverton, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Jun 1787  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I02474  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Joseph Tillinghast,   b. 11 Jun 1677, Providence, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1763 (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Freelove Stafford 
    Family ID F01787  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Deborah Greene,   b. Abt 1716   d. 25 Dec 1756, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1737 
    Children 
     1. Freelove Tillinghast,   b. Abt 1738, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1817, Estramadura, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     2. Samuel Tillinghast,   b. Abt 1740
     3. Nicholas Paris Tillinghast,   b. 21 Jan 1741/42, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. James Tillinghast,   b. Abt 1745
     5. Rebecca Tillinghast,   b. Abt 1750
     6. Thomas Tillinghast,   b. 16 Aug 1756, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jan 1757, Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F00925  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 2 Hannah Carr,   b. 1728 
    Marriage Abt 1758  [1] 
    Notes 
    • Hannah was Samuel's second wife.
    Children 
     1. Daniel Tillinghast,   b. 31 Jan 1759
     2. Mary "Molly" Tillinghast,   b. 1763, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jan 1840, North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F00929  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Captain Tillinghast kept a diary for several years, in which he wrote in detail about the daily weather, and in less detail about his comings and goings, town and church events, and deaths and burials. It provides us a window into the culture of the day. This diary has been edited by Cherry Fletcher Bamberg and published by the RI Genealogical Society.

      At his funeral on 30 July 1787, Elder John Gorton preached on Revelation 22:14.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012512] Cherry Bamberg Fletcher, The Diary of Capt. Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick, RI, 1757-1766, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2000), xiii.