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Arrive in 1620 on the Mayflower
The line below is currently for the progenitor of the United State branch of this family line.
The immigrant, James Chilton, came to the United States in 1620.
The English branch is not presently included.
Generation One:
James Chilton- b. abt. 1556 at Canterbury, Kent, England; m. Mrs. Chilton Nee Unknown; d. 8 December 1620 on Mayflower at Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth, MA, aged 64 years.
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Their Children:
1. Mary b. abt. 1593; baptized 2 November 1593 in St. Paul's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England
2. Isabella b. abt. 1586 baptized 15 January 1586 in St. Paul's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England; m. 21 July 1615 Roger Chandler at Leyden, Holland
3. Jane b. abt. 1586; baptized 8 June 1586 in St. Paul's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England
4. Joel b. abt. 1593; baptized 2 November 1593 in St. Martin's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England
5. Elizabeth b. abt. 1594; baptized 14 July 1594 in St. Martin's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England
6. James b. abt. 1596; baptized 22 August 1596 in St. Martin's Parish at Canterbury, Kent, England
7. Ingle b. abt. 1599; baptized 29 April 1599 in St. Paul's Parish, Canterbury on; m. 27 August 1622 Robert Nelson at Leyden, Holland
8. Christian b. abt 1601; baptized 26 September 1601 in St. Peter's Parish at Sandwich, Kent, England
9. James b. abt. 1603; baptized 11 September 1603 in St. Peter's Parish at Sandwich, Kent, England
10. Mary b. abt. 1607; baptized 30 May 1607 in St. Peter's Parish at Sandwich, Kent, England; m. btw. July 1623 and 22 may 1627 John Winslow at Plymouth, Plymouth, MA; d. 1 May 1679 at Boston, Suffolk, MA; buried at King’s Chapel Cemetery at Boston, Suffolk, MA
James Chilton was born Canterbury, Kent, England He was the son of Lyonell Chilton. James was a tailor. He married about 1585. His wife’s name was thought to be Susanna Furner, due to a family connection, but it has not been proven. Part of the discrepancy is her age 13 years. In 1609, Mrs. Chilton (who was listed as "___ Chilton wife of James Chilton,") was charged by the Archdeaconry Court with attending the secret burial of a child. The Chilton’s opposed the "popish" burial ceremonies of the Church of England. It is believed that this is when the family left to reside in Leyden, Holland. In 1619, James Chilton (aged 63) and his oldest daughter Isabella were caught in the middle of an anti-Arminian riot in Leiden, and he was hit in the head with a stone, requiring the services of the town surgeon Jacob Hey. James, his wife, and his youngest daughter Mary came on theMayflower in 1620. He was one of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact James, at the age of 64, was the oldest person to have made the Mayflower's voyage. James died on 8 December 1620 onboard the Mayflower, which was then anchored off Provincetown Harbor, He was one of six passengers to die in the month of December. His wife also died sometime after 21 January 1621 during the general sickness which occurred that winter.
“The eldest daughter, Isabella, came to Plymouth about 1629 with her husband, Roger Chandler. The youngest daughter, Mary, was the first lady to come ashore from the MAYFLOWER. Her granddaughter, Ann Winslow, at age 92, told her own grandson in 1769 that Mary's "curiosity of being first on the American Strand prompted her, like a young heroine, to leap out of the boat and wade ashore. She was a twelve year old at the time."
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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.
Mary Chilton
"Mary Chilton arrived in Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620, accompanying her mother and father James Chilton. Mary’s father died while the Mayflower was anchored in Provincetown Harbor. Her mother died shortly thereafter Chilton family tradition, first recorded in 1744, has the 12-year-old Mary Chilton as the first woman ashore at Plymouth. There is no contemporary recording of the event, but there are also no competing claims. Mary Chilton’s landing on Plymouth Rock has been celebrated in story and in art. The Landing of the Pilgrims, painted in 1877 by Henry Bacon and showing Mary Chilton landing on Plymouth Rock"
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1. John G. Hunt, "Origins of the Chiltons of the Mayflower," The American Genealogist, 38:244-245. Contains information on the Chiltons English origins; however the article also contains references to Susanna Furner as a possible wife to James Chilton, which is now known to be incorrect.
2. Michael Paulick, "The 1609-1610 Excommunications of Mayflower Pilgrims Mrs. Chilton and Moses Fletcher,"New England Historic and Genealogical Register153 (October 1999):408-412.
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