Francis Hilton (abt. 1797 - aft. 1870)

Born about 1797 in Maryland, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Frank Hilton is a part of US Black heritage.

Francis was born about 1797. He passed away sometime after 1870, when he was last recorded in a census.

Timeline

March 18 1831, Frank, a shoemaker, in the probate inventory of Thomas Cramphin of Montgomery County, MD, listed as on the farm superintended by Theodore Sheckels^[1]

United States Census, 1850, Washington D.C., west of 7th Street Turnpike^[2]
Frank Hilton, 55 years, born in Maryland, shoemaker
Mary Hilton, 90 years, born in Maryland
Sarah Hilton, 79 years, born in Maryland

List of Colored members, 1854-1855, Emory Chapel, Brightwood, D.C.^[3] Franklin Hinton, Eliza Hilton, Peter Carroll, Mary Carroll, Joseph Sims, Sarah King, John Addison, Joshua Riddles, Anthony Riddles, Nathan Bulter, Sarah Sims, Mary Lee, Mary Williams

United States Census, 1860, Washington D.C.^[4]
Frank Hinton, 55, born in Maryland, shoemaker
Christy Cole, 32, born in Maryland
John Cole, 9, born in D.C.
James Cole, 7, born in D.C.
Mary Cole, 5, born in D.C.
Susan Cole, 3, born in D.C.

United States Census, 1870 - Brightwood, in the west part of Washington D.C.^[5]
Francis Hilton, 73, shoemaker
Eliza Hilton, 57, keeps house
Elizabeth Dean Dean, 12, at school
Emily Dean, 27, Washwoman
Oscar Washington, 30, farmhand

Research Notes

Looking For

• Still on the hunt for a manumission record of Francis, he may have been manumitted in Maryland or D.C.

• identifying Mary and Sarah from the 1850 census, as well as the Coles from the 1860 census

• it would be great to determine a if there was a marriage between Francis and Eliza / what their relationship was, or if Francis was the father of Eliza’s children, in the 1840 census of Enos Ray, enslaver of Eliza and her children, there are two free colored men, it is suspected Francis is the elder of the two. With Eliza being in the household of Francis in 1870, and them both being members of Emory Church in DC, it is known there is a relationship between the two.

Slave Owner

Thomas Cramphin (1740-bef.1831)
Caroline E Smith

Sources

1. ↑ "Maryland Register of Wills Records, 1629-1999," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT1G-S4R?cc=1803986&wc=SNYC-3TP%3A146535001%2C146717101 : 20 May 2014), Montgomery > Accounts, inventories, wills 1828-1830 vol R > image 258 of 355; Hall of Records, Annapolis.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX69-LVS : Thu Oct 05 00:09:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Frank Hilton and Mary Hilton, 1850.
3. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-Q35R-PS5X
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCV9-X8Y : Thu Oct 05 20:38:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Frank Hinton and Christy Cole, 1860.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN43-KN5 : Tue Oct 03 00:03:22 UTC 2023), Entry for Frances Hilton and Eliza Hilton, 1870.