Curwen, Eliza  (nee Tillinghast)

b. 1748 d. 1817. Daughter of Captain Dutee Tillinghast, a sea captain in the employ of Joseph Curwen. Her mother died of smallpox in 1757. Educated at Stephen Jackson's school. She was forced to break off her engagement to Ezra Weeden to marry Joseph Curwen on March 7, 1763. In 1772, after Curwen's death, she and her daughter legally adopted her maiden name of Tillinghast.

("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward")