William Hilton Sr (abt. 1590 - bef. 1656)

Born about 1590 in Northwich, Cheshire, England

Husband of Unknown (Unknown) Hilton — married before 1616 in England

Husband of Frances (Unknown) White — married 1635 (to 1655) in York, York, Maine

Descendants

Died before 30 Jun 1656 before about age 66 in York, York, Maine Colony

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William Hilton Sr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 2, p. 951) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

William was of London. He was indebted to his father by accounts preserved with the will in 1605. He was legatee for his brother Arthur of Northwich in 1612.

William Hilton came to Plymouth aboard the "Fortune" in 1621,^[1] the year after the "Mayflower" arrived in America. The "Fortune," a small ship carrying only 35 passengers, left England in July 1621 and didn't arrive at Plymouth until November 10th of that year.

"William Hilton of Northwich county Chester" arrived at Cape Cod on the "Fortune" 9 Nov. 1621.^[2] His letter badly misrepresented conditions there and was addressed to his "cousin" and was printed in Capt. John Smith's book, New Englands Trials, being dated two days later. The "cousin" may have been a blind for Capt. Smith himself or one of William's nephews or one of his wife's. He stated "I know not anything a contented mind can here want". In the letter he directed that his wife be sent over and she arrived at Plymouth with two children about 10 July 1623 and they were still in Plymouth in 1624:

"Loving Cousin,

At our arrival at New Plymouth, in New England, we found all our friends and planters in good health, though they were left sick and weak, with very small means; the Indians round about us peaceable and friendly; the country very pleasant and temperate, yielding naturally, of itself, great store of fruits, as vines of divers sorts, in great abundance. There is likewise walnuts, chestnuts, small nuts and plums, with much variety of flowers, roots and herbs , no less pleasant than wholesome and profitable. No place hath more gooseberries and strawberries, nor better. Timer of all sorts you have in England doth cover the land, that affords beasts of divers sorts, and great flocks of turkeys, quails, pigeons and partridges; many great lakes abounding with fish, fowl, beavers, and otters. The sea affords us great plenty of all excellent sorts of sea-fish, as the rivers and isles doth variety of wild fowl of most useful sorts. Mines we find, to our thinking; but neither the goodness nor quality we know. Better grain cannot be than the Indian corn, if we will plant it upon as good ground as a man need desire. We are all freeholders; the rent-day doth not trouble us; and all those good blessings we have, of which and what we list in their seasons for taking. Our company are, for the most part, very religious, honest people; the word of God sincerely taught us every Sabbath ; so that I know not any thing a contented mind can here want. I desire your friendly care to send my wife and children to me, where I wish all the friends I have in England; and so I rest.

Your loving kinsman,

William Hilton"^[3]

In the 1623 division of land in Plymouth, William received one acre “to the sea, eastward”, as a passenger on the "Fortune" and his wife and two children received three acres, “against the swampe & reedponde”, as passengers on the "Anne".^[4]

William's son John was baptised by the Rev. John Lyford in 1624 which was the first of Rev. Lyford's problems with the Pilgrims for which he and John Oldham were expelled from the colony. Lyford had baptised John even though his parents were not members of the church. The Hiltons were followers of the Church of England and this was probably the reason for them leaving Plymouth.^[5]

William did not come to the Piscataqua with David Thompson in 1623 and no settlement had been made up the river in the spring of 1624. It was later than this that William left Plymouth and joined Thompson at Little Harbor with the purpose of starting salt works (salt making was the principal industry of Northwich). When his brother Edward arrived in 1628 he moved up river and when Capt. Neale arrived he was living on Dover Neck and planting corn, safe from the hogs, on the other side of the river in Maine. He apparently went with Capt. Wiggins to Newfields (part of Exeter), but soon returned. Edward was in control at Dover Point 4 Dec. 1632 when Gov. Winthrop received a letter from Capt. Neale and William Hilton that they had sent four ships and forty men to protect Pemaquid from Dixie Bull the pirate.^[6]

William was one of the witnesses on 7 July 1631 to the livery of seizin to his brother Edward to the lands of the Squamscott or Hilton’s Patent dated 12 Mar. 1629/0.^[7]

Receavd by me George Ludlow of Mr William Hilton the second of August 1632: these goods following of Mr Jon Hockings

• Impr 9 Ruggs
• It eightt mens Coates
• It two papowes Coates
• It N : ne shirts one Hodged of bread
• It 3 Hodseds of bread

George Ludlow"^[8]

The following letter to the Worshipful Mr. John Winthrop, the younger, at Agawam, is printed with the Winthrop papers in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society:

"To the wor mr John Wiathrope the younger at aguawam give these.

Pascatque Aprill 18th 1633

Ser

There arived a ffishing shipe at Pascataque about the 15th of this p'sant moneth where in is one Richard ffoxwell whoe hath fformerly lived in this cuntery he bringeth nuse yt there were tow shipes making ready at Barstaple whoe are to bring passingers & catell ffor to plant in the bay he hath leters ffor mr wearom & divers others at dorchester wch hee intends to bring hr to the bay so soone as posible he can like wise he heard ffrom mr Alerton whoe was making ready at Bristole ffor to come ffor this cuntery other nuse he bringeth not that I can heare of onely mr Borowes purposeth to come ffor this cuntery ffrom london & soe desighring you to convey thes leters in to the bay wth what conveniency you can desighring the lord to blesse you in your lawffull designes I humbly rest

Your wor ashured to com

William Hilton.

Ser I purpose eare long be if ye lord will to see you. The masters name of the shipe is John Corbin of Plimouth."^[9]

"To the wor and his much respeckted Frend mr. John Winthrop governor at aguawam give these

Ser, my duty and respeckt remembred to you and to mrs. Winthrope. These are to serteyfie you that after a short yet sumthing a teadeous Jorny it pleased the lord that I arrived at my habetatyon the saterday after my departure From you I praise the lord I am in good health with mr. Leveridge and the rest of our good Frends with us. Ser I must remaine your debter For that kindenes I reseaved From you. I pray you remember my dutyfull respect to your good Father. I am amoungst other his love and kindness to mee much bound to him For his loving counsel to mee in his last letter For the which I most humbly thanke him. Ser presuming upon the goodness of your loving and kind disposison make bould to serteyfie you of that which I apprehend may stand with the good of you and your neighbors with you seeing the extreordenary convenience that your plantation hath above any in this land that I have seene For the keeping of Swine. I inquired what quantity of swine were kept there it was answered mee but a smaule quantity and that it was determined that there shuld not many bee kept there intimating that it was thought that the plumes and clames might prove a greter benefit which cannot bee nor any way the 100 part so benefisiall this winter I have had the benefit of 10 hoges eavery hog worth 7 or 8 pounds beaver. I was constrained the winter was twelve moneth to Feed them all winter yet it was with such meate as was not any way costly being but huskes of indean corne now the maner of ordering them John maning is able to serteyfie you now For the preserving of your Corne From them until you can Fense your grounds aboute your houses you may set your corne very convenetly on the oposit side of the river and you shall Find that if you pracktis the breeding of swine with the benefit of the Iland you may with a smaule charge in short time raise sum hundered of pounds yerely by them as you may gather by the preportyon of my stocke in that behalf whoe have not any such conveinecy as you have. Ser I pray you pardon my bouldnes herein For my eror herein is out of love in that I desigre the good of you all both For speretuall and temporall things. I knowe that mens labors cannot bee had at easie rats until corne and porke with the like provison bee plenty. If I were with you I thinke I could answere all your objecktyons and showe you a way that you might keepe them at an easie rate. I am affred I have bin teadeous unto you and therefore desighring the lord to blese you and yours I humbly rest Your wor Asurd to command

William Hilton

[c. 1 May 1633]

Ser mr. Leveridge desigreth to be remembred to you though unknowne."^[9]

"To the Right worpll John Winthrop esqire Governor of the Masachsets give these

Pascataque, July the 14th 1637

Ser, My humble duty remembred the bearer hereof being Sonne to Passaconoway is in debted unto mr. Vane, three skines which hee desighreth to pay but hee is affread to come to pay them by reason that the Sagamore of Aguawam serteffieth him that if hee come in to the bay you will take away his head hee hath desighred mee to write in his beehalffe that hee may come and pay his debts and likewise that you would bee pleased to bid him welcome and soe desighring the lord to blese you and yours I humbly rest Your worships to command to his poure

William Hilton

Ser this bearer desighreth mee to serteyffie in his behalffe that the Eanglish have awais bin very welcome unto him. I am able to testeffie that hee hath ever since I knew him bin a very loving Indean." ^[10]

At the Exeter court, 4 Dec.1639 it was ordered that "Will Hilton and goodm. Smart who are to have the lots on the other side of the river where the town shall be thought most convenient."^[11] On 3 Feb. 1640/1 at Exeter it was agreed “that Mr William Hilton is to enjoy those marshes in Oyster River which formerlyhe had possession of and still are in his possession, and the other marsh which Mr Gibbins doth wrongfully detain from him with the rest of those marshes which formerly he hath made use of so far as they may be for the public good of this plantation: And so much of the upland adjoining to them as shall be thought convenient by the neighborhood of Oyster River, which are belonging to this body.” ^[12] There is an action of trespass on a case against Ambrose Gibbons for detaining this marsh as well as the following action: “George Walton Walton Sumons an acco debt at Suite of Wm Hilton ordered that ex to be granted psent for 3£ damage & 16s Costs. Provided that if Mr Tomkins of norhampton have pd 10£ to mr Rich: Hilton in Norwich then the sd Wm Hilton”.^[13]

Before Mar. 1639 William participated in an exploration up the Merrimack River.^[14] He was made a freeman with William Walderne 19 May 1642, was a commissioner to end small causes 1642-4, and a representative in 1644. In 1642 William was granted 20 acres in Dover.^[15]

William of Dover sold to Francis Matthews of Oyster River, 88 acres and two parcels of marsh adjoyning in Oyster River which was granted to him by the town of Dover. The deed seems to have different dates depending on where you find it, it seems to be 7 July 1644 that was altered to 1641 and was recorded at the Rockingham County Registry of Deeds on 29 Mar. 1653 and the copy in the Dover town records is dated 7 July 1645. ^[16]

"At a General Court held at Boston, 27 Sept. 1642:

It is ordered, that the associats of Pascataque shall have power to try any cause under 201, though no other bee sent to them. Willi: Hilton, Willi: Wald'n, Edwa: Colcote have authority to end differences under 20sh8. Mr Francis Williams is joyned an associate at Pascataq."^[17]

There is a suit in the Piscataqua court brought by William 4 Apr. 1642 respecting a payment to "Mr. Richard Hilton of Norwich". There is also a baptism recorded at Wotten-under-edge, Gloucestershire of a child of Richard Hilton "coming out of New England".

William and his family moved to Kittery Point about 1642 as his wife Frances deposed on 27 Feb. 1687/8 (she was then married to Richard White) “that about forty sixe years past shee leived in a house at Kittery point that stood then between the house that was mr Morgans & the house that Mr: Greenland afterward leived in which house above sayd the depot husband William Hilton did hyer of Major Nicholas Shapligh”.^[15]

At a court at Gorgeana, 27 June 1648:

"It is ordered this Court that Mr. William Hilton being licensed for to keep the ordinary at the mouth of the river of Pascataquack and that none other shall keep any private ordinary ther, nor to sell Wine, beare nor Licker upon any p’tence what so ever under ii gallons by retaile”. ^[18]

It is Ordered this Court that hee that keeps the ordnary is for to keepe a ferry and to have to the great Iland for one vi d if more iii d a peese to Strawbury banck for one xii d if more viii d p man to Dover or Kitterry xviii d for one if more xii d a man."

In Apr. of that year he was in Dover as the town allowed him and Thomas Turner to gather 70 loads of pine knots on Madbury Neck.

At a court held at Gorgeana on 16 Oct. 1649: “Mr. William Hilton presented for not keeping victual and drink at all times for strangers and inhabitants, admonished”.(28) Also at this court: “It is Ordered this court: That ther shall be ahieway cut from the head of Rogers Cove, unto the head of Bray bote harber & so to the little marsh ner Unto Capt Champanownes howse & so to mr William Hiltons the In habitance of Gorgeana: to cut: Unto a Cove neare Unto Jon Andrews: and the Inhabitance of Pascataquacke to cut from Wm Hiltons to that cove, by so many of each towne as they shall thincke fit; and this to be done by the 30th Octor 49.” John Treworthie in a deposition taken on 25 Oct. 1650 testified “that the cellar wch is at Pascataway now standing neere the house wch Wm Hilton now lives in, did not any way belong to the land wch was bought by me for my Grandffather mr Alexander Shapleigh”.^[19]

In 1647 Mendum, the Kittery Point innholder, had bought and given up the house owned by Capt. Shapleigh, who got the license transferred to William who rented the house and lived there until Shapleigh put him out soon after 15 Oct. 1650 because of his wife Frances who by her own deposition had been living there some years before: "for as much as the house at the river's mouth where Mr. Shapleigh's father first built and Mr. William Hilton now dwelleth; in regard it was first house there built and Mr. Shapleigh intendeth to build and enlarge it, and for further considerations, it is thought fit it should from time to time be for a house of entertainment or ordinary with this proviso, that the tenant be such a one as the inhabitants shall approve of". ^[19]

On 7 June 1651 Mr. Nicholas Shapleigh of Kittery leased to Mr. Hugh Gunison for 21 years “all his Edifices Land & accomodations and Priveledges: Att the point wher mr William Hilton now Dwelleth containing ffive Hundred ackers.”^[19]

William then moved to York where he was promptly given the ferry and tavern license and signed the submission to Massachusetts on 22 Nov. 1652 and took the oath of freeman.^[19]

At a town meeting held at York about the 8th of December, 1652:

"It is ordered that mr William Hilton is to have the use of the ferry for the Term of one & twenty years. Lying betwixt the house where he now liveth, and The Town of York : and he is duly to attend the sd Ferry with Cannoos sufficient for the safe transportation both of Strangers & Townsmen if occasion requireth. If time & tydes be Seasonable, he is to pass persons over to & from the Stage Island : If not he is & must provide a Canoo to Lye ready at the point of Land on his own Side the River, upon all Such occasions to transport people without danger. In Consideration whereof the sd William Hilton is to have allowed him two pence a peice for Every strangers, & four pence apeace for Every beast, or horse which he swimmeth over, or that are Swom by any Strangers themselves, he or his servants being ready to attend, & one penny a time for Every Townsman he fetcheth or carrioth over : unless the sd Inhabitant go over In his own Cannoo, which Liberty remaines to Every Townsman, being made use of to Exempt him or them from the payment of any ferriage."

He was an alderman there and then selectman 1652-4, on the grand jury 1651, 1653-5 and foreman of the jury in 1650. He was evidently educated and sufficiently familiar with the courts to almost invariably win his frequent lawsuits.

There is the railing of his wife Frances (for which the court sentenced her severely) that one John was his bastard (she was beneath his class). His other wife/wives kept out of court and are therefore nameless.

On 16 Oct. 1649 Mrs. Hilton was presented and admonished for fighting and abusing her neighbors with her tongue. At the same court Mr. William Hilton was presented for breach of the Sabbath in carrying of wood from the woods and for failing to keep food and drink on hand for strangers and inhabitants. ^[20]

On 15 March 1649/50 Mr. William Hilton brought cases against Hatevell Nutter, Thomas Hanscom and Robert Mendam. He was still suing Hanscom and Mendam on 11 March 1651 . On 15 October 1650 Mr. William Hilton and Frances his wife were sued by Mr. George Moncke for slander . On 11 March 1651 Jeremy Sheires reviled Mr. William Hilton when Hilton was foreman of the jury, and Sheires was fined £2 . On 14 October 1651 Mr. William Hilton posted bail for Clement Campion, sued Thomas Way for debt, and sued Michaell Powell for debt .^[21]

"This Indenture made the sixth day of Septembr… one thousand six hundred fivety & two between William Ellingham of Agamenticus… Millwright of the one part & Henery Webb of Boston… Mrchant…. Whereas Edward Godfrey Gent, Abraham Preble Major, John Twisden, Edward Johnson Hene : Norton, William Hilton & John Davess all of Agamenticus… on the behalf of the Inhabitants of Agamenticus… by a deed of Gyft beareing date the tenth of Aprill last past did give & grant unto ye sayd William Ellingham, & Hugh Gayle of Agamenticus aforesd, Carpenters full power… to build Erect & sett up a Corne Mill or Mills, Saw Mill or Mills on a place or Cricke Comanly Called Mr Gorges Cricke with the ffalls thereto belonging…"^[22]

On 30 June 1653 "William Hilton Senior" sued Samuell Allcocke for cutting and carrying away his timber . On 25 October 1653 Mr. William Hilton Senior sued Ann Mason of London and, in a separate action, sued Sir Ferdinando Gorges, for damage done against him . ^[23]

On 28 June 1655 the court found Frances Hilton, the wife of William Hilton, guilty of "railing at her husband and saying he went with Joane his bastard to his three halfe penny whores and that he carried a cloak of profession for his knavery." For this offense she was sentenced to have "twenty lashes upon the bare skin, only the execution thereof upon her husband's request to be respited upon her good behavior until the next county court, except any just complaints come in against her. In the meantime, which if they do unto authority then the punishment to be inflicted upon her by order of the commissioners of York at what time they shall see cause to order it" .^[24]

At the same court in which Richard White became William Hilton's administrator (30 June 1656, "the said Whitte having married his widow,"), White also brought a charge of slander against Rice Jones for an offense against his wife, Frances White.^[25] As the court dragged on, Frances White was countersued for "causelessly abusing" the wife of Rice Jones with opprobrious and disgraceful speeches and was sentenced to acknowledge her offence in court, 3 July 1656 . At court 6 July 1657 the infamous Joan Andrews was presented for "threatening Goody Whitte at York in a profane manner saying that she would swear herself to the devil but she would be avenged of her". ^[26]

On 30 July 1656 Magdeline Wiggin the wife of James Wiggin was presented for saying she saw "William Moore & her mother Frances Whitte in the act of adultery”. ^[27]

On 5 July 1658 complaints were heard about Richard White and his wife fighting and quarrelling. Things got worse. On 3 July 1660, Richard White and his wife Frances White were presented for allowing men to be drunk in their house on the Sabbath not attending public meeting, and "common lying and backbiting of their neighbors & slandering them & for their great disorder in falling out & fighting one with another & for beating company in their house & for beating Mistress Gunnison & Joseph Davesse his servants, & Ric Whitte for being drunk several times" . On 1 July 1673 Richard White was paying fines for himself and his wife . On 6 July 1675 they were presented for not attending the public worship. ^[28]

Frances White, wife of Richard White, in a deposition taken Feb. 27, 1687-8, says " that about forty sixe years past shee leived in a house at Kittery poynt that stood then between the house that was mr : Morgans & the house that Mr : Greenland afterward leived in- which house above sayd the depo husband William Hilton did hyer of Maior Nicholus shapligh."

William had two sons named William. It was not an unusual occurance to have two children by the same name by two different mothers. The elder of the two lived in Newbury and Charlestown. A deposition of 30 May 1683 shows that: Willia Hilton now resident in York ... was commonly known, & reputed, to be the son of William Hilton Senior deceased, & formerly lived in York.^[29]

Research Notes

Fishmonger? William Hilton had a brother, Edward Hilton (1596-bef.1671). There is an ongoin dispute over whether that brother is in fact the same person as Edward Hilton (abt.1600-), London fishmonger. See their profiles for details.

Some sources claim that William Hilton had a brother Edward Hilton, Fishmonger, who also immigrated to New England. The tax lists for London for 1641 gives the name of Edward Hilton in the list of fishmongers with the note "Newe England" after it.^[30] However, there is no direct contemporary evidence that this Edward Hilton was in fact a brother of William. He was most likely a kinsman, but the exact relationship has not been established. In the petition of William's son William, cited by Anderson GMB, p. 955, he claims "your petitioner (William Hilton) came about one year and a half after, and in a little time following settled ourselves upon the river of Piscataqua, with Mr Edw Hilton, who were the first English planters there." (SCJ Case # 362; NEHGR 31: 41-42.) No relationship is claimed, despite Anderson's assumption.

It is also not the case that "the Hiltons were all Fishmongers ." No connection between William Hilton and the Fishmongers Company has been shown, despite the claims of many genealogists. Charles Hilton of London was a member of the Fishmongers Company, as were his sons Paul and (probably) Edward, but there is no evidence for a connection with William Hilton of Witton, Cheshire, whose family were more likely salt workers, an industry prevalent in Northwich.

See also William Hilton from PlymouthAncestors

Cape Fear StarNewsOnline. When Capt. William Hilton Jr. named and "purchased" the Cape Fear River, circa 1663, he named the now Brunswick River the "Hilton River." Should the Brunswick River resume its original name, Leland might reasonably be named Hiltonton, as in Hilton Head Island, S.C. His kinsman, Nicholas Shapleigh, drew one of the first charts of the Cape Fear and Hilton rivers. Though an old New England name like Hilton (Exeter, NH), Shapleigh or Shapleighton might be a nice name for Leland? I descend from Capt. Hilton's lawyer brother, Edward Hilton Sr. of Exeter, NH, who wed the widow Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Treworgye, the sister of Capt. Shapleigh...

MA Bay Settlers web site: Mr. William HILTON; Born c1590; Died a June 1656; English Origin Northwich, Cheshire; Came to New England 1621 With the Fortune; Occupation tavernkeeper, ferryman; First Spouse unk (c1595 - a1646); Children Elizabeth, William, Mary, John, Magdalene; Second Spouse Frances _____ (c1618 - p1688); Children Mannering, Agnes, William (Oops. This same second wife and children are also given to brother William at the site); William was elder brother of Edward Hilton

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• Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Water Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine, Southworth Press [originally in 5 parts, paginated consecutively], 1928-1938; rpt, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 334-335 (17-William Hilton); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
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Reprint of the 1931-35 by Baltimore, Regional Pub. Co., 1967. William Hilton sketch at 2:47-50. (Accessed 3 May 2023) InternetArchive

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William HILTON

Marriage 1610

Location England

Original Text HILTON, William1 (?1581-1655/6) & 1/wf ____ ____ (-1635(±?)); in Eng, ca 1618?, by 1610?; Plymouth/Exeter, NH/Dover, NH/York, ME {GDMNH 334; Reg. 31:179, 36:40; Hilton-McCurda 3-4; Dover NH Mar. 107; Plymouth (Davis) 134; Cross Anc. 64}

Spouse UNIDENTIFIED

Later Residences Exeter, NH, Dover, NH, York, ME

Volume Name Volume 2 Page 760

• William Hilton from PlymouthAncestors