HILTON, William
1590 - 1655 (65 years)
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Name HILTON, William [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 1590 Northwich, Cheshire, England 
[1, 3] Gender Male Departure 1621 England [1] to America on the Fortune bound for Plymouth Colony Differentiator The Great Migration; Immigrant Great Migration https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/951/235184038 Historical Importance 1621 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Established the first colony in Dover and fishing industry in NH Web Address https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hilton-18 Residence Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA [1] Residence Maine, USA [2] Residence 1651 York, York, Maine, USA [1] Death 28 Jun 1655 York, York, Maine, USA [1, 3] Person ID I6750 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father HILTON, William, b. 1550, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 8 Feb 1605, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 55 years) Relationship natural Mother MAINWARING, Ellen, b. 1555, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 27 Mar 1606, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 51 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1569 Northwich, Cheshire, England Family ID F2061 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 HAYWARD, Frances, b. Abt 1600, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d. 27 Feb 1688, Kittery, York, Maine, USA (Age 88 years) Marriage 1636 York, York, Maine, USA Children 1. HILTON, Anne, b. 1644, York, York, Maine, USA d. 1715, York, York, Maine, USA (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. HILTON, William, b. 28 Jun 1653, Kittery, York, Maine, USA d. Mar 1699, York, York, Maine, USA (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. HILTON, Magdalene, b. 1635, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 13 Apr 1714, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. HILTON, Agnes, b. 1647, York, York, Maine, USA d. 1715 (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. HILTON, Elizabeth, b. 6 Nov 1650, York, Maine, USA [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1613 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Family 2 WINSLOW, Mary, b. 1590, Durham, Durham, England d. 1648, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 58 years) Married 1610 Northwich, Cheshire, England Marriage Bef 1617 England Children 1. HILTON, William Captain, b. 22 Jun 1617, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 7 Sep 1675, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. HILTON, Mainwaring, b. 1627, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 4 Jul 1671, York, York, Maine, USA (Age 44 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. HILTON, Mary, b. 11 May 1619, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 28 Oct 1699, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. HILTON, John, b. 1624, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 26 Nov 1640, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 16 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. HILTON, John, b. 1610, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 26 Nov 1610, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. HILTON, Richard, b. 1614 d. Abt 1665 (Age 51 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. HILTON, Elizabeth, b. 27 Jun 1616, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 1 Aug 1616, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]8. HILTON, Magdalene, b. 1623 d. 30 Aug 1712, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 89 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1616 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 1590 - Northwich, Cheshire, England 
Married - 1610 - Northwich, Cheshire, England 
Marriage - Bef 1617 - England Departure - to America on the Fortune bound for Plymouth Colony - 1621 - England 
Historical Importance - Established the first colony in Dover and fishing industry in NH - 1621 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA 
Residence - - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA 
Residence - - Maine, USA 
Marriage - 1636 - York, York, Maine, USA Residence - 1651 - York, York, Maine, USA Death - 28 Jun 1655 - York, York, Maine, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Historical Markers in NH - The Hilton Brothers Great Migration William Hilton (1590-1655) Letter from William Hilton to his cousin William_Hilton_m1641_update_6-26-2014 At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. Great Migration: William Hilton (1590-1655)
William Hilton emigrated to America in 1621 on the Fortune. He lived at first in Plymouth Colony and his wife and two children (William b. 1617 and Mary) joined him in 1623. This can be a bit confusing, but after his first wife (name unknown) died, William married Frances Hayward and William our ancestor) was born in 1653. These two Williams brothers were decade apart in age and while it wasn't common, it wasn't unknown that a father would name two children the same name with two wives. As the sign at Hilton's park in Dover says:The first settlement at Dover was made here at the southernmost point of Dover neck and was called Hilton’s Point after Edward and William Hilton. They were fishmongers from London who, in 1623, established their fishing industry at this scenic site.We are descended from William and Frances through the Laviolette (Shorey) line.
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The "Great Migration," as defined by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), encompasses the English Puritan migration to New England from 1620 to 1640. This movement primarily involved English Puritans who relocated in family units, driven by a quest for religious freedom and the aspiration to establish a Puritan commonwealth. These migrants originated from various regions of England and settled in areas that now form Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, including the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
An individual's inclusion in the Great Migration Study Project requires evidence of migration to New England within the specified period of 1620 to 1640. The project's objective is to compile biographical and genealogical profiles of all immigrants who arrived in New England during these two decades. The NEHGS has produced extensive volumes and directories, providing details about the lives of these immigrants. This collection presents research on many ancestors who were part of this significant historical migration.
You may be shocked by how many there are. Even I was at first. However, most of these Great Migration ancestors are my 9th and 10th great-grandparents, and in some cases 11th and 12th, and with the number of great-grandparents doubling with each generation, the possibilities quickly become immense. We have a total of 1024 sets of 9th great-grandparents and 2048 sets of 10th great-grandparents. This makes finding so many Great Migration ancestors more understandable.
Founding Families of Dover (1)
Dover, New Hampshire, holds the distinction of being the oldest permanent settlement in the state and the seventh oldest in the United States, established in 1623 by William and Edward Hilton at Pomeroy Cove on Dover Point. Originally known as Bristol, the area saw a second settlement at Dover Neck in 1633. Briefly an independent colony named Northam, it was officially named Dover in 1637, potentially after Robert Dover, an English lawyer known for his resistance to Puritanism.
The early township encompassed what are now Durham, Madbury, Newington, Lee, Somersworth, and Rollinsford. Nicknamed "the Garrison City" due to its garrisoned homes built from abundant trees for protection, Dover thrived despite challenges. The town utilized the Cocheco River for industrial purposes as early as 1642, starting with a sawmill, and later developing an extensive shipbuilding industry in the 1700s. By 1830, Dover had evolved into a prominent cotton goods manufacturer, with the Dover Cotton Factory established in 1814 marking the beginning of its textile industry.
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Notes - William Hilton emigrated to America in 1621 on the Fortune. He lived at first in Plymouth Colony and his wife and two children (William b. 1617 and Mary) joined him in 1623. This can be a bit confusing, but after his first wife (name unknown) died, William married Frances Hayward and William our ancestor) was born in 1653. These two Williams brothers were decade apart in age and while it wasn't common, it wasn't unknown that a father woudl name two children the same name with two wives.
From: https://www.nh.gov/almanac/history.htm?fbclid=IwAR06qmB-n-Kp0zI71dAXbQn0LdTfj0Oaj2ee3X35oO0k1rz_xzyHw-dzCLc
Early historians record that in 1623, under the authority of an English land-grant, Captain John Mason, in conjunction with several others, sent David Thomson, a Scotsman, and Edward and Thomas [William] Hilton, fish-merchants of London, with a number of other people in two divisions to establish a fishing colony in what is now New Hampshire, at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.
One of these divisions, under Thomson, settled near the river’s mouth at a place they called Little Harbor or "Pannaway," now the town of Rye, where they erected salt-drying fish racks and a "factory" or stone house. The other division under the Hilton brothers set up their fishing stages on a neck of land eight miles above, which they called Northam, afterwards named Dover.
Nine years before that Captain John Smith of England and later of Virginia, sailing along the New England coast and inspired by the charm of our summer shores and the solitude of our countrysides, wrote back to his countrymen that:
"Here should be no landlords to rack us with high rents, or extorted fines to consume us. Here every man may be a master of his own labor and land in a short time. The sea there is the strangest pond I ever saw. What sport doth yield a more pleasant content and less hurt or charge than angling with a hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle over the silent streams of a calm sea?"
Thus the settlement of New Hampshire did not happen because those who came here were persecuted out of England. The occasion, which is one of the great events in the annals of the English people, was one planned with much care and earnestness by the English crown and the English parliament. Here James the first began a colonization project which not only provided ships and provisions, but free land bestowed with but one important condition, that it remain always subject to English sovereignty.
- William Hilton emigrated to America in 1621 on the Fortune. He lived at first in Plymouth Colony and his wife and two children (William b. 1617 and Mary) joined him in 1623. This can be a bit confusing, but after his first wife (name unknown) died, William married Frances Hayward and William our ancestor) was born in 1653. These two Williams brothers were decade apart in age and while it wasn't common, it wasn't unknown that a father woudl name two children the same name with two wives.
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Sources - [S1390] Ancestry.com, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).
New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 - [S2549] Ancestry.com, Maine Pioneers, 1623-60, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
- [S1557] Ancestry.com, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S1772] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Peabody Genealogy.
- [S1390] Ancestry.com, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).