Pardon Tillinghast [SEP] place of death
Pardon Tillinghast
Pardon Tillinghast (1625–1718) was an early settler of Providence, Rhode Island, a public official there, and a pastor of the Baptist Church of Providence. A cooper by profession, he immigrated to New England about 1645, and became a successful merchant. Later in life he became a clergyman, serving without compensation for nearly four decades. He died in 1718 aged about 96, and was buried in a family cemetery on Benefit Street in Providence that remains extant. Among his thousands of descendants are many of
buried in a Tillinghast family cemetery near Mawney's East Greenwich property. Following his death, his widow married James Brown of Norwich, Connecticut, but upon her death, she was buried by her former husband in the North Burial Ground.
Family.
Mawney married twice, the first time to Mary Tillinghast, the daughter of Pardon Tillinghast, Jr., and granddaughter of Reverend Pardon Tillinghast who had come from Seven Cliffs, in Sussex, England. Mary died as a young woman, after which Mawney married her sister,