Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Stephen Tilden

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 878 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Tilden 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Huckstep   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Oct 1629 
  • Christening Location:
  • Tenterden, Kent, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Aug 1711 
  • Death Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Little
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Tilden

  Stephen Tilden

  Abigail Tilden

  Mary Tilden

  Judith Tilden

  Joseph Tilden

  Mercy Tilden

  Ruth Tilden (Ahnentafel No:439 )

  Isaac Tilden

  Ephraim Tilden

  Ebenezer Tilden

  David Tilden

• Sources for Stephen Tilden

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1911, Vol. 65, p. 331.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 247.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 45.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 35, 37, 54, 197, 211, 337, 484.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 20-21.
  • ⁶ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 76.

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