User:Dukon/John Tilley (in Boston Bermuda trade, death part-cause of Pequot War)

John Tilley (xx xxx 1599 - xx xxx 1636) was in the New England fish/coastal trade from 1624 to 1634

John Tilley who came to America on the Zouch Phoenix in 1624. Eady and John were married 24 May 1630 in Broadwindsor, Dorset, England. John Tilley was captured by Indians in the Pequot War, tortured for three days and killed in Oct 1636 at Old Saybrook, Connecticut Colony, Colonial America. Their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1632 at Springfield Massachusetts Bay Colony. She married Sgt Thomas Merrick who came to America on the James in 1636.

Two John Tilleys believed One and the Same

 * John Tilley born 1599, known son of Mayflower John Tilley


 * John Tilley known in land transactions at Neponset neck and Squantum point in greater Boston and Quincy areas


 * John Tilley died 1636, known as in fish/coastal trade in Cape Ann in 1624

Theory of Descendance from Mayflower Passenger John Tilley
A side note John Tilley is possibly the son of John Tilley and Joan Hurst who came on the Mayflower. I don't have that proof but lots of circumstantial evidence. John and Joan were married in Henlow, Bedfordshire England in 1596 being primary and many sites suggest he is their son John who was born 26 Aug 1599.

Progeny
John Tilley married Edith Eady nee' Yeade probably 1624. It is unknown whether they did or did not have progeny.