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William Hilton

Male 1617 - 1675  (58 years)


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  • Name William Hilton  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Born 22 Jun 1617  Northwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 22 Jun 1617  Witton Chapel, Northwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Immigration 1 May 1623  Left London for America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Hilton Head, South Carolina (located just north of Savannah) is named after him 
    Occupation Navigator and cartographer 
    Occupation 10 Jul 1623 
    Arrived at Plymouth Bay, MA (New England) with his mother and sister Mary aboard the "Anne" 
    Residence 1628  Piscataqua, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1638  Newbury, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 29 Dec 1649 
    Sold an Indian slave named James to George Carr in exchange for quarter of a vessel 
    Property 1 Jun 1660 
    The deed from Chief Tahanto to his father was confirmed by the General Court at Boston (to the extent of 300 acres) 
    Occupation 14 Aug 1662 
    Set sail from Charlestown on his first voyage to explore the Carolinas, commanding the "Adventurer" (returned in November) 
    Occupation 10 Aug 1663 
    Set out from Speights Bay on the "Adventurer" with Captain Anthony Long and Peter Fabian on a second exploration of the southeastern coast 
    Occupation 12 Oct 1663 
    Arrived at the entrance to the Cape Fear River and explored the area until December 
    Occupation 1664 
    Published a book about this expedition called "A Relation of a Discovery Lately Made on the Coast of Florida" 
    Died 7 Sep 1675  Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate 11 Jan 1676 
    Residence Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence Newbury, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6059  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father William Hilton,   b. Abt 1589, Northwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 1656, York, York Co., Province of Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Mother Ellen Hewitt,   b. Abt 1590, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1648, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Married Abt 1615  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2558  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Greenleaf,   b. 26 Mar 1621, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1657, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years) 
    Married 1639  Newbury, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3111  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mehitable Nowell,   b. 2 Feb 1638, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1711, York, York Co., Province of Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 16 Sep 1659  Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3112  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S658] The original lists of persons of quality; who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, John Camden Hotten, (Chatto and Windus, London, England, 1874, reprinted: Empire State Book Co., New York), Introduction, pp. xxix-xxx.

    2. [S109] History of York Maine, Charles Edward Banks, (Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1990, originally printed in Boston, 1931), Volume 2, p. 50.

    3. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 111 & 115-116.

    4. [S101] The History of New Hampshire, edited by John Farmer, Jeremy Belknap, (S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, Dover, N.H., 8 February 1831; George Wadleigh, 1862), Corrections.

    5. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 31 (1877), pp. 183-184 & Vol. 36 (1882), p. 40.
      29 December 1649: He sold James, his Indian, to George Carr, in exchange for quarter of a vessel. Also Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 760.

    6. [S661] Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth, from 1602 to 1625, Alexander Young, (Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1841), 251.

    7. [S662] Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth, Edward Winslow, William Bradford with an introduction and notes by Henry Martyn Dexter, (John Kimball Wiggin, Boston, 1865), 137 note 431 & 141 note 433 (197 & 201).

    8. [S180] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, 2000), 953.


  

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