TILLINGHAST, Pardon, clergyman, born in Seven Cliffs, near Beachy Head (now Eastborn), Sussex, England, in 1622; died in Providence, Rhode Island, 19 January, 1718. He was a soldier under Cromwell, and a participant in the battle of Marston Moor. He settled in Providence, Rhode Island, 19 November, 1645, was admitted a resident of the town with a quarter interest of the original proprietors of the Providence purchase, and founded a numerous family, whose members are now found in nearly every state and territory of the United States. He was pastor of the 1st Baptist church in Providence from 1678 till his death, preaching and officiating in that capacity for about forty years without remuneration. At his own expense, in 1700, he built the first meeting-house of this religious society, the oldest in America of its denomination. Mr. Tillinghast in 1711, "for and in consideration of the love and goodwill" he bore the church over which he was then pastor, executed " to them and their successors in the same faith and order" a deed of the meetinghouse and the lot on which it. stood. In the deed of conveyance he describes the faith and order of the church by quoting Hebrews vi., 1, 2, showing it to be the same as that now held by the Six Principle Baptists. In addition to his pastoral duties and his occupation of a merchant, he found time to serve the infant colony many times as member of the house of deputies, and the town of Providence twenty-five years, in various posts of honor and trust.--'His great-grandson, Thomas, jurist, born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 21 August, 1742; died in East Greenwich, L. I., 26 August, 1821, was 8 member of the legislature from 1772 till 1780, and one of the committee that it appointed in 1777 to estimate the damage done by the British soldiers on the islands of Conanicut and Rhode Island during the war of the Revolution. In 1779 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for Kent county, and a member of the council of war. In September, 1780, he was chosen associate justice of the supreme court, which post he held by annual elections until 1787, sitting in the famous paper-money case of Trevett vs. Weeden. His firmness and decision in this case, notwithstanding its unpopularity in the state at the time, ought, says a writer, "to cause his name to be inscribed in letters of gold." He was again a judge of the supreme court from 1791 until his resignation in December, 1797, in which year he was elected a member of congress, serving from 13 November, 1797, till 4 March, 1799, and in 1801-'3. Joseph Leonard, lawyer, fifth in descent from Pardon, born in Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1790; died in Providence, Rhode Island, 30 December, 1844, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1811. In 1819 he received the honorary degree of A. M. from Brown, of which he was elected a trustee in 1833. He filled many other public stations, was for many years a member of the general assembly, and was repeatedly elected speaker of the house, where he was the earnest advocate of public instruction and judicial reform. Elected to congress as a Whig, he served from 4 September, 1837, till 3 March, 1843. In congress he was one of the most useful mere-bets, few men equalling him in the extent of his political information. At the age of eighteen he published in the Providence "Gazette." over the signature "Dion," a series of political essays that attracted wide attention; and he also contributed poetry to journals over the signature of " Carroll."