TILLINGHAST

[Dolores C. Rutherford]

Todd,

I strongly suspect that my hubby MAY HAVE a connection to the Pardon
TILLINGHAST that you are researching, but cannot prove it. Perhaps
you have what I need in your records.

The earliest proven ancestor in the line that I suspect may tie in to
the "T" family is Pardon DAILEY (DALEY, etc.) who md. Mary HATHAWAY,
dau. of Jeremiah and Ruth (RUTENBERG) HATHAWAY of Coventry, RI.
Pardon & Mary were md. in Warwick, RI on 2 Mar 1758.

I've combed the records of all of RI and have information on a John
DAILEY in Providence by the late 1600's who purchased land from Pardon
TILLINGHAST, but I cannot prove a connection to our Pardon DAILEY.

I suspect that the TILLINGHAST name may have come from an Elizabeth
(who could also be Pardon's mother) who was md. first to a DAILEY---
possibly one of that John's descendants---and second to Samuel RELPH
because Pardon D's marriage record calls him Pardon RELPH "alias
DAILEY". I think that Samuel Relph may have raised Pardon and he took
back his birth name upon marriage and for the rest of his life.

Of all of the earliest John DAILEY's male children, his son William
seems the most probable to have been Pardon DAILEY's ancestor---father
or grandfather.

Do you have anything in your records to help me with this problem?
After many years of hitting a brick wall on this, I hope that you
might have the "tidbit" that I need to solve it.

Dolores

[DZouave5]

Those interested in the Tillinghast family might be interested to know
that
Captain Otis H. Tillinghast of New York, a West Point graduate in the
Class of
1847 who served in the 1st US Artillery, was fatally wounded at the First
Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, dying two days later. A fort in
Arlington, VA, part of the Union defenses of Washington, DC, was named in
his honor.