HILTON, Edward
1596 - 1669 (72 years)Set As Default Person
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Name HILTON, Edward [1] Birth 5 Jun 1596 Northwich, Cheshire, England Gender Male Death 19 May 1669 Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Patriarch & Matriarch HILTON, William, b. 1550, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 8 Feb 1605, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 55 years) (Father)
MAINWARING, Ellen, b. 1555, Northwich, Cheshire, England d. 27 Mar 1606, Northwich, Cheshire, England (Age 51 years) (Mother)Person ID I8062 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 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 SHAPLEIGH, Catherine, b. 2 Apr 1599, Kingswear, Devon, England d. 29 May 1676, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 77 years)
Other Partners: TREWORGYE, James m. 16 Mar 1616Family ID F2060 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Event Map Birth - 5 Jun 1596 - Northwich, Cheshire, England Death - 19 May 1669 - Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Documents Historical Markers in NH - The Hilton Brothers At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
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Notes - 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 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.
- From: https://www.nh.gov/almanac/history.htm?fbclid=IwAR06qmB-n-Kp0zI71dAXbQn0LdTfj0Oaj2ee3X35oO0k1rz_xzyHw-dzCLc
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Sources - [S52] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 1212.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBH.
- [S52] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 1212.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBH.