Chilton Family Line

John Winslow, Sr. (1597 - 1674)

John Winslow

Spouse (unconfirmed):

Susannah Furner

1564-1621

Susannah Chilton

Also known as: "Susanna Furner", " Susan"

Birthdate: 1564

Birthplace: Canterbury, Kent, England

Christened: November 5, 1573 at St. Paul's Church, Canterbury, Kent, England

Denomination: (probably) Anglican / Puritan / Congregationalist

Arrival: 1620, Plymouth Rock (Plymouth Colony), aboard the Mayflower.

Date of Marriage: 1586

Place of Marriage: England

Death: January 21, 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts (died that first winter in Massachusetts)

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Furner and Isabell Furner

Children:

1. Isabella Chilton 1587–1658

2. Jane Chilton 1589–

3. James Chilton 1593–1620

4. Elizabeth Chilton 1594–

5. Ingle Chilton 1599–

6. Christian Chilton 1601–

7. Joel Chilton 1603–1593

8. James Chilton 1603–

9. Mary Chilton 1607–1679

10. Mary Chilton –1593

About James Chilton

James Chilton was born about 1556, the son of Lyonell Chilton and Lyonell's first wife, whose name is not known. James was a resident of Canterbury, England and became part of the Pilgrim Separatist Community at Leyden, Holland.

James, his wife, and one of their ten children, Mary, were passengers on the Mayflower. At age 64, James was the oldest passenger on the ship. He signed the Mayflower Compact on November 11, 1620. He died on Dec. 18, 1620 while the Mayflower was anchored in Cape Cod Harbor at Provincetown.

Mrs. Chilton's first name is not known. She died after James during the first winter at Plymouth. Tradition states that their daughter, Mary Chilton, who later married John Winslow, was the first passenger to leap to the shore.

James has two cenotaphs in Provincetown.

The one at the Winthrop Street Cemetery is pictured as the plaque on the fenced in rock.

The other one is the Mayflower Passengers who died at Sea Memorial which is at Bradford Street at Ryder Street in the park. If you put the Provincetown Hall at your back and see the Pilgrim Monument looming over you, then look down to the ground and to the left. The memorial resembles a tall gravestone, and is a great photo spot!

James Chilton, "Mayflower" Passenger's

First Ancestor to Immigrate to U.S.A.

Johns Mayflower project

Ancestor of John William Webster

Merchants

About James Chilton, "Mayflower" Passenger

https://www.geni.com/discussions/185827?msg=1273678 - This discussion has Edith as James' mother. Can someone confirm with a reliable source?

From http://www.coltechpub.com/hartgen/htm/chilton.htm

"The will of Lyonell "Chylton", a yeoman of considerable property residing in St, Paul's Parish, dated 7 Sept. 1582 and proved 13 Feb. 1582/83, named sons John and James Chilton, daughters Alice, Anne and Margaret, wife, Isabell and her children - Thomas Furner and Susannah Furner. To sons James he left two tenements in Canterbury. Isabell was evidently a recent 2nd wife of Lyonell. and not James mother (whose name is unknown)." The Mayflower Quarterly Aug. 1977 pg. 81/82

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/JamesChilton.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chilton

James Chilton (c. 1556 – 18 December 1620) was an English Separatist who came to America aboard the ship Mayflower. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and was probably the oldest Mayflower passenger.

Biography

James Chilton was born around 1556, almost certainly in Canterbury, Kent, England.[1][2] Nothing is known of his youth. His father, Lyonell Chilton, was a yeoman in Canterbury,[3] and served two years as churchwarden of St. Paul's Parish Church there.[4]

In 1583, James Chilton received the unusual privilege of being made a freeman "by gift," by Canterbury's mayor. As a freeman, Chilton became a "Merchant Tailor" in Canterbury's Company of Woollen Drapers and Tailors.[5] Around this same time, he married and began a family.[6] While he would eventually have at least ten children, only three are known to have lived to adulthood.[7]

From 1584 to 1600, Chilton was charged and fined several times in Canterbury, for offenses ranging from selling food or drink without a license to beating a man with a stick.[8]

[edit] In Sandwich

In 1600 or 1601, Chilton and his family moved twenty kilometres east, to Sandwich, Kent.[9] Sandwich was becoming a center of Separatist activity, and was home to several future members of John Robinson's Leiden church.[10]

The first evidence that the Chilton family had its own Separatist views appears in 1609. In late April, Chilton's wife was among four people that secretly buried a dead child, without having the Church of England perform its mandatory burial rites. When the burial was discovered, the group rejected the need for the mandatory rites, calling them "popishly ceremonies and of no other force." For this defiant act, Chilton's wife and two of the others were excommunicated from the Church of England on 12 June 1609.[11]

Sometime between 1609 and 1615, Chilton and his family left England and joined John Robinson's congregation in Leiden, Holland. Chilton's oldest daughter Isabella was married in Leiden 21 July 1615 (New Style).[12]

On Sunday, 28 April 1619 (New Style), Chilton's house in Leiden became the scene of a small riot, due to a case of mistaken identity. Shortly after Chilton returned home from church, about twenty boys assembled and began throwing things at his house, shouting that Arminians were meeting there. When Chilton confronted the crowd, he was struck in the head by a large cobblestone, and was knocked unconscious.[13][14]

When the ship Mayflower set out for North America in 1620 with members of the Leiden congregation, William Bradford recalled that the passengers included "James Chilton, and his wife, and Mary, their dougter."[15] At about 64 years old, Chilton was probably the oldest passenger on the ship.[16] Chilton's other two known surviving children, 21-year-old Ingle and married 33-year-old Isabella, remained behind in Leiden.[17][18]

When the Mayflower Compact was drawn up on 11 November 1620, Chilton was one of the signers.[19]

James Chilton died on 8 December 1620, while the Mayflower lay anchored in Provincetown Harbor.[20] He evidently died of disease, as Bradford reported that he "dyed in the first infection."[21]

Chilton's wife also died during the first winter, "in the first infection."[22]

Chilton's daughter Mary, who was left an orphan at Plymouth, survived and later married John Winslow, brother of Edward Winslow.[23]

Chilton's daughter Ingle married Robert Nelson in Leiden in 1622. No further record has been found of her.[24]

Chilton's daughter Isabella came to Plymouth Colony around 1630, with her children and her husband, Roger Chandler.[25]

See also: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/chiltonjrecords.htm

JAMES CHILTON IN 17TH CENTURY RECORDS

James Chilton : English background

"James Chilton, tailor, was listed as a freeman of Canterbury in 1583. He married before 1587 just possibly Susanna Furner, daughter of his step-mother and her first husband Francis Furner. Seven children were baptized in Canterbury to James, then about 600 the family moved to neighboring Sandwich where three more children were baptized, including youngest daughter Mary, who was baptized at St. Peter's in 607."

Robert M. Sherman, ed.,

Mayflower Families through Five Generations : Volume Two

(Plymouth, Mass. : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1978), p. 3

James Chilton : Mayflower Passenger

"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England; and their families...

"James Chilton and his wife, and Mary their daughter; they had another daughter that was married, came afterward."

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647,

ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 441-3.

James Chilton : Signer of the Mayflower Compact

"I shall ... begin with a combination made by them before they came ashore; being the first foundation of their government in this place. Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship : That when they came ashore they would use their own liberty, for none had power to command them, the patent they had being for Virginia and not for New England ... And partly that such an act by them done, this their condition considered, might be as firm as any patent, and in some respects more sure.

"The form was as followeth : IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620."

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647,

ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 75-76.

The Death of James Chilton

Governor William Bradford, writing in 1650 :

"And seeing it hath pleased Him to give me [William Bradford] to see thirty years completed since these beginnings, and that the great works of His providence are to be observed, I have thought it not unworthy my pains to take a view of the decreasings and increasings of these persons and such changes as hath passed over them and theirs in this thirty years ....

"James Chilton and his wife also died in the first infection, but their daughter Mary is still living and hath nine children; and one daughter is married and hath a child. So their increase is ten."

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647,

ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 443-7.

See also: http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/james_chilton.htm

The CHILTON/FURNER alleged marriage has been reproduced many times in genealogies since 1962. The baptism of Susannah FURNER may be found in the parish register of St. Paul's church, Canterbury as follows:"Susan Furner the 5th daye" November, 1573. The CHILTON's first child Isabell was baptised on 15th January 1586. Using old style dates, Susan would have been only 12-1/2 years old at the time of her marriage to James CHILTON, then about 29 years old. She would have been only 13 at the birth of Isabell. This is highly unlikely therefore, until evidence has been submitted for their marriage, Mrs. CHILTON's identity has not been proven and remains a mystery.

In 1620, James Chilton departed England for Massachusetts on the Mayflower with his wife, Susanna, and daughter, Mary. He was one of the three men who died at sea during the crossing. His wife, Susanna, died that first winter in Massachusetts. Over half of the passengers died that first winter. His daughter, Mary Chilton, survived and celebrated the first Thanksgiving in November 1621.

Details on the Mayflower, it's Passenger List, and those that died within the first year can be found at the following links:

Mayflower:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

Passengers List:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_passengers_on_the_Mayflower#cite_note-Willison-1

List of Mayflower Passengers who died the first winter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers_who_died_in_the_winter_of_1620_-_1621#cite_note-Women-2

James Chilton was born in England about 1556 and lived in Canterbury. He was the son of Lyonell Chylton and his first wife whose name is unknown. Lyonell's second wife, Isabell Furner, had two children, Thomas and Susanna Furner. Listed as a freeman of Canterbury in 1583, James Chilton was a tailor. He married before 1587 and his first seven children were born in Canterbury. The last three were born in Sandwich where the family had moved about 1600. Here, James and his family became part of the separatist movement that escaped to Leiden to escape persecution. James Chilton was the oldest passenger on the Mayflower, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. Sadly James passed away aboard the Mayflower in December of 1620. His wife died soon after. His youngest daughter Mary, though, survived and married John Winslow. In 1650, Governor Bradford wrote that "James Chilton and his wife also died during the first infection, but their daughter Mary is still living and hath nine children; and one daughter is married and hath a child. So their increase is ten. In popular legend, James' daughter Mary was the first person to step out of the ship onto Plymouth Rock.

James Chilton, a tailor by trade, was the oldest Mayflower passenger, and one of the first to die after reaching the New World. He was born and raised in Canterbury, Kent, England and around 1600 moved to Sandwich, Kent.

By July 1615, and probably as early as 1610, James, his wife, and at least some of his children were living in Leyden, Holland. On 28 April 1619, James Chilton and his daughter Isabella were caught in an anti-Arminian riot and James was hit in the head with a brick, and required the services of the town surgeon, Jacob Hey.

He came on the Mayflower with his wife and daughter Mary. James and his wife died the first winter, leaving their daughter orphaned; she probably joined with the household of Myles Standish.

Mary Chilton came on the Mayflower at the young age of 13, and popular legend gives her the distinction of being the first female to step ashore at Plymouth. She married John Winslow, who came in the ship Fortune in 1621, and was the brother of Mayflower passengers Edward Winslow and Gilbert Winslow.

Mayflower passenger with wife and daughter, Mary

JAMES CHILTON, d. Dec. 6, 1620, and his wife d. soon afterwards. He left no sons. Issue:

Isabella, bapt. at St. Paul's, Canterbury, England, Jan. 15, 1586-7; m. at Leyden, July 21, 1615, Roger Chandler and left three daughters and perhaps other children.

Mary, came in 1620, and m. Oct. 12, 1624, John Winslow, son of Edward and Magdalene (Ollyver) Winslow of Droitwich, England, and brother of Gov. Edward Winslow of the " Mayflower."

In Canterbury

James Chilton was born around 1556, almost certainly in Canterbury, Kent, England. Nothing is known of his youth. His father, Lyonell Chilton, was a yeoman in Canterbury,and served two years as churchwarden of St. Paul's Parish Church there.

In 1583, James Chilton received the unusual privilege of being made a freeman "by gift," by Canterbury's mayor. As a freeman, Chilton became a "Merchant Tailor" in Canterbury's Company of Woollen Drapers and Tailors. Around this same time, he married and began a family. While he would eventually have at least ten children, only three are known to have lived to adulthood.

From 1584 to 1600, Chilton was charged and fined several times in Canterbury, for offenses ranging from selling food or drink without a license to beating a man with a stick.

In Sandwich

In 1600 or 1601, Chilton and his family moved twenty kilometres east, to Sandwich, Kent. Sandwich was becoming a center of Separatist activity, and was home to several future members of John Robinson's Leiden church.

The first evidence that the Chilton family had its own Separatist views appears in 1609. In late April, Chilton's wife was among four people that secretly buried a dead child, without having the Church of England perform its mandatory burial rites. When the burial was discovered, the group rejected the need for the mandatory rites, calling them "popishly ceremonies and of no other force." For this defiant act, Chilton's wife and two of the others were excommunicated from the Church of England on 12 June 1609.

In Leiden

Sometime between 1609 and 1615, Chilton and his family left England and joined John Robinson's congregation in Leiden, Holland. Chilton's oldest daughter Isabella was married in Leiden 21 July 1615.

On Sunday, 28 April 1619 , Chilton's house in Leiden became the scene of a small riot, due to a case of mistaken identity. Shortly after Chilton returned home from church, about twenty boys assembled and began throwing things at his house, shouting that Arminians were meeting there. When Chilton confronted the crowd, he was struck in the head by a large cobblestone, and was knocked unconscious.

On the Mayflower

When the ship Mayflower set out for North America in 1620 with members of the Leiden congregation, William Bradford recalled that the passengers included "James Chilton, and his wife, and Mary, their dougter." At about 64 years old, Chilton was probably the oldest passenger on the ship. Chilton's other two known surviving children, 21-year-old Ingle and married 33-year-old Isabella, remained behind in Leiden.

When the Mayflower Compact was drawn up on 11 November 1620, Chilton was one of the signers.

James Chilton died on 8 December 1620, while the Mayflower lay anchored in Provincetown Harbor. He evidently died of disease, as Bradford reported that he "dyed in the first infection."

What became of Chilton's family

Chilton's wife also died during the first winter, "in the first infection."

Chilton's daughter Mary, who was left an orphan at Plymouth, survived and later married John Winslow, brother of Edward Winslow.

Chilton's daughter Ingle married Robert Nelson in Leiden in 1622. No further record has been found of her.

Chilton's daughter Isabella came to Plymouth Colony around 1630, with her children and her husband, Roger Chandler.

BORN: About 1556 (he stated he was 63 in a 28 April 1619 Leyden document), probably Canterbury, Kent, England, son of Lyonell Chilton and his second wife (her name is unknown).

DIED: 8 December 1620, on board the Mayflower

MARRIED: probably about 1586 based on baptism of first known child. Her name is currently unknown. The claim by John Hunt in The American Genealogist 38:244-245 that his wife was possibly Susanna Furner has been recently disproven on the basis of the discovery of Susanna Furner's baptism record, which indicates she was far too young (only 12) to be married and having children in 1586. See Michael Paulick, "The 1609-1610 Excommunications of Mrs. Chilton and Moyses Fletcher--Mayflower Pilgrims" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 153 (October 1999) for further information on this.

James Chilton

BORN: About 1556 (he stated he was 63 in a 28 April 1619 Leyden document), probably Canterbury, Kent, England, son of Lyonell Chilton and his second wife (her name is unknown).

DIED: 8 December 1620, on board the Mayflower

MARRIED: probably about 1586 based on baptism of first known child. Her name is currently unknown. The claim by John Hunt in The American Genealogist 38:244-245 that his wife was possibly Susanna Furner has been recently disproven on the basis of the discovery of Susanna Furner's baptism record, which indicates she was far too young (only 12) to be married and having children in 1586. See Michael Paulick, "The 1609-1610 Excommunications of Mrs. Chilton and Moyses Fletcher--Mayflower Pilgrims" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 153 (October 1999) for further information on this.

About James Chilton's wife, "Mayflower" Passenger

Very little is known about James Chilton's wife. Mrs. Chilton's name has not even been discovered. It has been widely suggested for many years she may have been Susanna Furner, but this was fairly conclusively disproven by the research of Michael Paulick, published in 1999.

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/MrsChilton.php

http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/mayflower/james_chilton.htm

The CHILTON/FURNER alleged marriage has been reproduced many times in genealogies since 1962. The baptism of Susannah FURNER may be found in the parish register of St. Paul's church, Canterbury as follows:"Susan Furner the 5th daye" November, 1573. The CHILTON's first child Isabell was baptised on 15th January 1586. Using old style dates, Susan would have been only 12-1/2 years old at the time of her marriage to James CHILTON, then about 29 years old. She would have been only 13 at the birth of Isabell. This is highly unlikely therefore, until evidence has been submitted for their marriage, Mrs. CHILTON's identity has not been proven and remains a mystery.

In 1620, Susanna Chilton (Furner) departed England for Massachusetts on the Mayflower with her husband, James, and daughter, Mary. James was one of the three men who died at sea during the crossing. Susanna died that first winter in Massachusetts. Over half of the passengers died that first winter. Susanna's daughter, Mary Chilton, survived and celebrated the first Thanksgiving in November 1621.

Details on the Mayflower, it's Passenger List, and those that died within the first year can be found at the following links:

Mayflower:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

Passengers List:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_passengers_on_the_Mayflower#cite_note-Willison-1

List of Mayflower Passengers who died the first winter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers_who_died_in_the_winter_of_1620_-_1621#cite_note-Women-2

Like so many women of that time, Mrs. James Chilton's name is sadly unknown. John Hunt suggested she was James Chilton's stepsister, Susanna Furner, but more recent research has proved this to be false. The idea that her name was Susanna apparently dates back to Nahum Mitchell's 1840 book "History of Bridgewater" but he does not document any source for this information. She was most likely married around 1586 based on the baptism of her first child. She had ten children; Isabella (1587), Jane (1589), Joel, Mary, Elizabeth, James, Ingle, Christina (1601), James (1603), and Mary (31 May 1607). On 12 June 1609, Mrs. Chilton was excommunicated from the Church of England for "privately burying a child of Andrew Sharp of St. Mary's parish...which they secretly conveyed to the earth without any notice given to me or my clerk...which act some of them seem now since to dissent calling into question the lawfulness of the king's constitutions in this and other behalfs, affirming these things to be popish ceremonies and of no other force". This incident seems to have prompted the family to immigrate to Leiden and join the Pilgrim Separatists. Mrs. Chilton, her husband James, and daughter Mary all came on the Mayflower. At this time James was about Sixty four years old and Mary was about thirteen. We can assume that Mrs. Chilton must have been much younger than her husband to have had a thirteen year old daughter. She and husband died shortly after arriving to Plymouth, most likely while the Mayflower was still anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor. There is a tradition that states that their daughter Mary was the first female to step ashore at Plymouth, upon Plymouth Rock.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/James-Chilton-Mayflower-Passenger/6000000001238285986

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYJD-72P

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chilton-4

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15882666/james-chilton

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/family-tree-hugh-j-mcnichol/P4904.php

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=james&n=chilton

References (Susannah Furner):

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/family-tree-hugh-j-mcnichol/P6504.php

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28972097/chilton

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Nana's 10x Great-Grandfather:

My 12x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 13x Great-Grandfather:

Lyonell Chilton (1536 - 1589)

Parents:

Richard Chilton

1505-1549

Isabell Talmache

1509-1540

Family 1

Spouse (uncomfirmed):

Edith Furner

1535-1589

Edith

Chilton

Richard Chilton (1505 - 1549)

Richard Chilton M. P.

Also Known As: "Richard Chylton"

Birthdate: 1505

Birthplace: St. Paul's Parish, Canterbury, Kent, England

Denomination: (probably) Roman Catholic / Anglican

Death: November 30, 1549 in St. Paul's Parish, Canterbury, Kent, England

Burial: November 1549 in St. Augustine Abbey Ruins, Canterbury, Kent, England

Parents: