Daniel Tilton

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Daniel Tilton (March 30, 1763 November 20, 1830) was

one of the three first judges of the Mississippi Territory Daniel Tilton
Supreme Court, and the deliverer of the first Territorial Seal 1st Judge of the Supreme Court of the Mississippi
of Mississippi. Territory
In office
May 7, 1798 1802
Contents Nominated by John Adams

1 Early life and education Preceded by Position created

2 Career Succeeded by David Ker
3 Personal life
4 References Personal details
5 Bibliography Born Daniel Tilton
March 30, 1763
East Kingston, New Hampshire
Early life and education Died November 20, 1830
Deerfield, New Hampshire
Tilton was born in East Kingston, New Hampshire, on March
Spouse(s) Isabel Thompson
30, 1763 to David Tilton and Jane Greeley.[1] He attended
Phillips Exeter Academy in the neighboring town of Alma mater Harvard College
[2]
Exeter, where he graduated in 1783. He attended
Dartmouth College from 1786 to 1788, and graduated from Harvard College in 1790.[3]

Career
He was appointed by President John Adams to be one of the first judges of the newly formed Mississippi
Territory along with Judge Peter Bryan Bruin and William McGuire, commissioned on May 7, 1798.[4] On his
journey to Mississippi from his native New Hampshire, he was entrusted with the carrying of the first
Territorial Seal of Mississippi to the territory.[5]

Prior to becoming a judge, Tilton was not a lawyer, though he did in fact study the law, the only judge on the
court appointed by Adams at the time being Judge McGuire.[4] The fact was noted by a sitting governor of the
territory, William C. C. Claiborne, who protested in a letter to Secretary of State James Madison.[6] In 1802,
Tilton abruptly resigned, sailing to Europe from New Orleans in order to engage in "commercial business",
never again returning to Mississippi. He was replaced by Judge David Ker, who was appointed by President
Thomas Jefferson on the recommendations of the aforementioned Governor Claiborne and James
Madison.[7][8][9]

Personal life
Tilton was married to Isabel Thompson in 1787 in East Kingston.[10] He died on November 20, 1830 in
Deerfield, New Hampshire, at the age of 67.[10]

References
1. Greely 1905, p. 98.
2. Exeter Catalogue 1883, p. 2.
3. Harvard Magazine 1893, p. 567.
4. Rowland 1904.
 5. Lyons 2011.
6. Rowland 1905.
7. Powell 1988, pp. 353354.
8. William S. Powell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 3, H-K, pp. 353-354 [1] (https://boo
ks.google.com/books?id=gejhoRgwLXwC&pg=PA353)
9. Leslie Gale Parr, A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern
Public Education, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2010, p. 5 [2] (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=T1CQJVLEhI0C&pg=PA5)
10. Greely 1905, p. 191.

Bibliography
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Phillips Exeter Academy, 18731883. Boston: J. S. Cushing &
Co. 1883.
Greely, George Hiram (1905). Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family. Boston: Frank Wood.
The Harvard Graduates' Magazine: 18921893. 1. Boston: Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association.
1893.
Lyons, Amanda (5 April 2011). "1798 Territorial Seal of Mississippi". Collections Blog. Mississippi
Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
Powell, William S. (1988). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: HK. 3. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1806-2.
Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1905). The Mississippi Territorial Archives, 17981803. 1. Nashville: Press of
Brandon Printing Company.
Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1904). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Nashville:
Press of Brandon Printing Company.

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