Elizabeth TILLEY

Father: John TILLEY
Mother: Joan HURST

Family 1: John HOWLAND

(1) Elizabeth TILLEY on Wikipedia.

  1. Desire HOWLAND
  2. John HOWLAND II
  3. Hope HOWLAND
  4. Elizabeth HOWLAND
  5. Lydia HOWLAND
  6. Hannah HOWLAND
  7. Joseph HOWLAND
  8. Jabez HOWLAND
  9. Ruth HOWLAND
  10. Issac HOWLAND
                                 _William TILLEY _
                _Robert TILLEY _|
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 _John TILLEY _|
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|--Elizabeth TILLEY
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|_Joan HURST __|
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Updated June 16, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Elizabeth TILLEY on Wikipedia.

"Elizabeth TILLEY (c. Aug 1607 - December 21, 1687); Elizabeth TILLEY was one of the passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower. She was the daughter of Mayflower passenger John TILLEY and his wife Joan HURST and, although she was their youngest child, appears to be the only one who survived until the voyage. She went on to marry fellow Mayflower passenger John HOWLAND, with whom she had ten children. Because of their great progeny, she and her husband have millions of living descendants today. Elizabeth TILLEY was born in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England where she was baptized in August, 1607. John TILLEY and his wife Joan both died the first winter as did his brother Edward TILLEY and wife Ann. This left Elizabeth an orphan and so she was taken in by the CARVER family. The CARVERs died about a year later, and part of their estate was inherited by their servant, John HOWLAND, and Elizabeth became his ward. Although the date of their marriage is not recorded, a few years after their arrival in the New World, Elizabeth married John HOWLAND c. 1623/4. She and John would go on to have ten children, all of whom would live to adulthood, and well over seventy grandchildren. Elizabeth herself outlived her husband by fifteen years, being one of the few original Pilgrims to live to see King Philip's War. She died December 21 or 22, 1687, in the home of her daughter, Lydia BROWN in Swansea, Massachusetts, and is buried in a section of that town which is now in East Providence, Rhode Island."

(2) Elizabeth TILLEY HOWLAND via Find a Grave.

- Birth: Aug. 30, 1607; Henlow, Bedfordshire, England
- Death: Dec. 21, 1687; Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA
- Burial: Ancient Little Neck Cemetery; East Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
- Plot: Brown family plot
- Inscription: Here ended the Pilgrimage of ELIZABETH Tilley HOWLAND who died Wednesday 21 Dec. 1687 at home of her daughter LYDIA & husband JAMES BROWN in Swansea. ELIZABETH married Pilgrim JOHN HOWLAND who came with her in the Mayflower Dec. 1620. From them are descended a numerous posterity.

(3) Mayflower History, the complete Internet site for Mayflower history and genealogy.

(4) Deetz, James & Patricia Scott Deetz, "The Times of their Lives; Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony" (W. H. Freeman and Company: New York, NY, 2000), page 37.

- Within a year of sailing on the Mayflower she "lost her parent and her uncle and aunt and was left with the care of her toddler cousin Humility COOPER."

(5) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC.

- "who, with her father and brother ..." were passengers on the Mayflower.
- "bp. 30 August 1607"