Robert L. Tillotson

Through his brother John, he was uncle to the same named Robert Livingston Tillotson, who served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.

[4] Tillotson served as the Judge-advocate charged with the defense of Gen. William Hull in his 1814 court-martial trial.

[2] During his tenure, the Norwegian sloop Restoration was seized by the port authorities upon its arrival at New York, and he filed the papers in the U.S. District Court.

The owners, Norwegian immigrants, got the ship released by a pardon signed by President John Quincy Adams.

[13] Together, they were the parents of:[14] Tillotson died on July 22, 1878 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York.