Mary (Tilden) Bassett (1610 - aft. 1690)

Born 20 May 1610 in Tenterden, Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Lapham Sr — married 13 Mar 1637 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Wife of William Bassett Sr. — married before 1664 in Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died after 28 Mar 1690 after age 79 in Scituate, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Mary Tilden was born about 1610, the daughter of Nathaniel Tilden and Lidia. ^[1] She was baptized as “Marie Tylden, Father, Nathl Tylden” on 20 May 1610 in Kent, England. ^[2]

Immigration

Her family immigrated together on the Hercules of Dover in March 1634/35; her father, Nathaniel Tilden of Tenterden, yeoman, and her mother, Lidia; her siblings; Joseph, Thomas, Stephen, Sara, Judeth, and Lidia; and servants; Thomas Lapham, George Sutton, Edward Ford, Edward Jenkins, Sara Couchman, Marie Perien, and James Bennet.^[1][3][4]

Marriages

On 13 Mar 1636/7, she married 1st, Thomas Lapham in Scituate, Plymouth Colony. ^[1][5] He died 15 Jun 1648 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.

”After 1651 and before 12 Dec 1664,” she married 2nd, William Bassett Sr.. ^[1][5][6] He died before 12 May 1667 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony.

Death

After 28 May 1690; she was living on this date in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. ^[6]

Known Life Events

• On 22 May 1650, “Mary Lapham, widow,” acknowledged her husband’s sale of land “in old England.” ^[7]
• On 5 Jun 1651, she “through weakness, is not able to come to Court” for proving of Thomas Lapham’s will. ^[7]
• A Court entry (undated, but probably about 1690), records a probable dispute, “Mary Lapham, widow, (Bridgewater) v. Joseph Burrows (Bridgewater Yeoman). Case. Neither party appeared.” ^[8]

Children of Thomas Lapham and Mary Tilden

1. Elizabeth Lapham, bpt. 6 May 1638, Scituate, Plymouth Colony ^[9][10]
2. Mary Lapham, b. abt. 1640 ^[9]
3. Thomas Lapham Jr, b. abt. 1642 ^[9]
4. Lydia Lapham, b. abt. 1644, m. 2 Feb 1666/7, Samuel Bate, Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony ^[9][11][12]
5. Rebecca Lapham, bpt. 15 Mar 1645/6, Scituate, Plymouth Colony; m. John Washburn ^[9][10]
6. Joseph Lapham, bpt. 24 Sep 1648, Scituate, Plymouth Colony; d. by 1 Nov 1676 ^[9][10]

Research Notes

1. No record of her death was found; Find A Grave: Memorial #59677541 shows a picture of non-contemporary monument at Men of Kent Cemetery in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, which is said to show her death as 28 Mar 1690 (aged 79) in Scituate.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume VII, T-Y (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 42, 44. AmericanAncestors.org
2. ↑ Frank Watt Tyler, “ Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874” The Tyler Collection, (Canterbury, Kent, England: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, 2010.), ancestry.com
3. ↑ Charles Edward Banks, “The Planters of the Commonwealth: a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: to Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships Which Brought Them; Their English Homes and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640” (Internet Archive. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.,1961). Planters of the Commonwealth
4. ↑ John Camden Hotten, “The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700” (Internet Archive. London, New York, Empire State Book Co, 1874). Hotten
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Clarence Almon Torrey, “New England Marriages Prior to 1700” (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 921 AmericanAncestors.org
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633,” Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995), 129. AmericanAncestors.org
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume IV, I-L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), 235. AmericanAncestors.org
8. ↑ Plymouth County, MA: Plymouth Court Records, 1686-1859. CD-ROM. Boston, MA.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002. Copyright, 2002, Pilgrim Society. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) AmericanAncestors.org
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5} Robert Charles Anderson, “The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,” Volume IV, I-L (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 236. AmericanAncestors.org
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Scituate, F. Apthorpe Foster ed. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850: volume 1 Births. (Boston: NEHGS, 1909). p 216 Internet Archive.
11. ↑ Jay and Delene Holbrook, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, “Massachusetts Vital and Town Records,” (Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute, 2011), ancestry.com
12. ↑ Thomas Tracy Bouvé, etal., “History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts,” Hingham (Mass .): Internet Archive. Pub. by the town,1893), 428. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts

See also:

• Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 65 (1911) 314-33, at 331; images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/newenglandhisto62unkngoog : accessed 29 May 2022).
• Charles Henry Pope, “The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and Other Contemporaneous Documents,” (Internet Archive. Boston, C.H. Pope, 1970), 278. The Pioneers of Massachusetts
• “Early Scituate Families.” The Scituate Historical Society. Accessed April 8, 2021. http://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/early-scituate-families.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/99PW-ZCM