Mary (Cooper) Colton Carried Off by Indians!

One of our immigrant ancestors was George Colton (d. 1699). He and his wife Deborah Gardner had ten children. The oldest son was Isaac Colton, another of our ancestors, who married Mary Cooper in 1670 and lived in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. On 26 March 1676 Mary was carried off by Indians after being wounded. She was later abandoned as dead but recovered and outlived her husband Isaac. He died in 1700 and she died in 1742.

John and Elizabeth Tilley Howland

One of our Mayflower ancestors was John Howland. He had a rather eventful journey across the Atlantic. During a raging storm he was swept overboard while checking the ships rigging. He caught a rope as he hit the water and, after being drug below the surface of the water, was hauled back to the ship by several other men.

He was a manservant who married Elizabeth Tilley whose parents had died. Elizabeth was a ward of Gov. Carver of Plymouth Colony. According to The Mayflower by Vernon Heaton, John Howland died in Plymouth in 1673. Elizabeth died in 1687 in the home of her daughter Lydia in Swansea, Massachusetts.

Joshua and Lucy Sturgis Hallett Buried in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

In searching the website capecodgravestones.com I found that Joshua and Lucy Hallett were buried in the Woodside Cemetery in Yarmouth Port, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Lucy Sturgis (Hallett) Tilton's Death Notice Found

Joshua Hallett, Jr. and his wife Sophronia Mann Dyer were the parents of 13 children. Joshua and Sophronia lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts where most of their children also continued to live throughout their lives. Their ninth child was Lucy Sturgis Hallett, born 2 March 1849 in Massachusetts. She married William Henry Tilton. Unfortunately Lucy died young (age 23) on 5 April 1872. Her five-month-old son, Joseph W. Tilton, had died the month before. Lucy's and the infant's death announcements were recently found in the Barnstable Patriot of 23 April 1872.