my two Cosins Ruth Langsford of Salem and Mary Atkinson of New Castle And I doe hereby make and ordaine the Reverend Mr. John Emmerson Teacher of the Church of Christ at New Castle & Theodore Atkinson Esq in the said towne to be my Exects, and I likewise make and appointe the aforesaid Theodore Atkinson Esq Overseer to see this my last will and testament executed and done. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare in the beginning of the three pages first written.

Note that before the ensealing of these presents I doe alsoe give unto my sonn Elias my great Bible, And I likewise give my Sonn Richard unto Theodore Atkinson Esq' and my daughter Ruth unto said Atkinsons wife to be brought up in the nurture and feare of the Lord. And I alsoe will that if my aforesaid Husband Richard Tarlton his daughter doe come over that she may have her being in the House untill such time as she shall be better provided for.

TARLTONS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Henry Tarlton.* In a list of passengers on the "Arabella " from London to Boston, 1671, is the name of Henry Tarlton. They had a son, Robert, born Oct. 6, 1678, and five days later the mother died, aged twenty-two. Within a year he married Deborah, daughter of Daniel Cushing, of Hingham, Mass., but lived less than a year after this. No further trace of their son Robert occurs, and he probably left no children. The relation of Henry to Richard Tarlton, of New Castle, is not known. In the King's Chapel Burial Grounds, Boston, Mass., are two headstones with the following inscriptions:

TARLETONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

EARLY SETTLERS.

This chart gives all the names that are known of Tarltons of the first four generations. The six branches of the family are shown by the names in capitals.

TARLETONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

[Note: When the town is in New Hampshire the N. H. is usually omitted in the following pages.

The figures before names refer to pages in the book.]

RICHARD TARLTON. In the parish records of St. James church, Clerkenwell (then a suburb of London, Eng.), is recorded the marriage of "Ritchard Tarlton and Edeth Lockson, May 22, 1666." The will of Ruth Tarlton (p. 31) second wife of Richard, provides, "if my husband Richard Tarlton deceased, his daughter shall come to this country she shall receive a gold ring," proving that Richard Tarlton married in England, and that his wife died leaving a daughter there. If this Richard of the parish register is the one who came to New Castle, he was probably born near London about 1640. Richard Tarlton is the ancestor of the New Hampshire Tarletons, and probably came to New Castle with John Mason, between 1685 and 1690, and was employed by him as "chief artificer," or head carpenter, in the erection of houses on the island. He probably owned the house in which the Assembly met in 1693-1696, for the following bill is given in "State Papers of New Hampshire," Vol. XVII, p. 647:

"The Counsel & Assembly is to Rich: Tarrinton for house room Dr. To 34 days theire two Last Siting, 2 days whereof ye Counsel sate by themselves, at 2 6a p diem, is-but leave it to yor discression. Richd. Tarrinton.

29 Nov. '94.

"Allowed this acct. of 34 days at 18d

Adjusted Nov. 29-1694."

£2. 11.

In 1693, the name of Richard Tarletown and others is attached to a petition for the separation of New Castle from Portsmouth into a town by itself. About the same time Richard Tarlton's name and thirty-two others appears on the following petition: "To y Honorable, y Lieut Govern and Councill of this their Maj'ties Province of New Hampshire; the humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Great Island, humbly sheweth: That whereas we, being part of ye twone of portsm°: and having found many Inconveniences arising thereby,

we, therefore, the Inhabitants of ye Great Island being a competent number to make and uphold a twoneship, doe humbly beg and desire of this honorable board ye Govern' and Councill, that we may be constituted a Twoneship by our selves.

"At a Councill held at Portsmouth Apr. 27th 96.

Rich. Tarlington's acc. to the 27th April 1696, for the house where the Council and Assembly satt, am° to £2: 5:0 allowed and ordered payd."

"At a Councill held at New Castle, Aug. 10-1694, at 12 of the clock," mention was made of "Rich Torlington (Tarlton) Constable of New Castle"; a much higher office then than it is

now.

The name of Rich Taulton appears among the ninetyeight inhabitants of New Castle in 1693.

His second marriage was at New Castle about 1692 to Ruth Stileman, probably the daughter of Elias Stileman, Jr., and certainly the granddaughter of Major Elias Stileman of New Castle, as appears by his will (p. 28), now on record at the register of probate for Rockingham county, in Exeter, N. H. By the treasurer's statement of payments in 1693 (State Papers, Vol. XVII, p. 621), it appears that 10s. was paid to Ruth Tarlington, and again, July, 1693, £2, 6s. was paid to Ruth Tarrinton.

While Richard Tarlton and a party of fishermen were casting anchor, he was caught by a turn of the rope, pulled under water and drowned, 1706. His widow survived him a few years. Her will (p. 30), dated Jan. 4, 1707, was admitted to probate, Mar. 4, 1708.

37.

i.

ii.

39. iii.

CHILDREN BORN PROBABLY IN NEW CASTLE.

Elias, b. Aug. 13, 1693, d. 1785, aged 92.

William, b. before 1695.

Richard, b. after 1695.

iv. Ruth, b. after 1695.

Of William nothing more is known than the common tradition

that "one of the three brothers went south."

Of Ruth nothing more is known.

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