Pardon Tillinghast

Pardon Tillinghast
Died	29 January 1718 Providence, Rhode Island
Resting place	Tillinghast Burial Ground, Benefit Street, Providence
Education	Sufficient to write and publish a book
Occupation	cooper, merchant, clergyman
Spouse(s)	(1) Sarah Butterworth (2) Lydia Taber
Children	(first wife): Sarah, John, Mary; (second wife): Lydia, Pardon, Philip, Benjamin, Abigail, Joseph, Mercy, Hannah, Elizabeth
Parent(s)	Pardon Tillinghast and Sarah Browne

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 great prominence, including Continental Congress delegate Samuel Ward; Julia Ward Howe who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic; and Stephen Arnold Douglas who was involved in a series of famed debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858, prior to a Senate race, and later lost to him in the 1860 presidential election.

Baptized in 1625 in Streat, Sussex, Pardon Tillinghast was the son of Pardon Tillinghast and Sarah Browne of Ifield, Sussex, England. His paternal grandparents were John Tillinghast and Alice Pardon of Streat in Sussex, and his maternal grandparents were Reverend Benjamin Browne and Sarah Leachford of Ifield. His grandfather, John Tillinghast, attended Cambridge University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1581/2, a Master of Arts degree in 1585, and then served as the rector at Streat from 1593 to 1624.

Old genealogies claim his mother was Elizabeth Tichborne, a descendent of King Edward III and sister of Robert Tichborne.

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