THE FOLLOWING IS FROM AN ARTICLE CALLED "MARY HILTON'S STORY":

The circumstances under which the Hiltons came or were induced to come to Toppan's Rights, probably meaning Teppan's Land Grant from the King of England, are so well told in the deposition of Mrs. Mary Savage, daughter of Ebenezer Hilton, and wife of James Savage, that you will be interested in it. She testified in 1787.

"I, Mary Savage, testifie and say that about forty years ago (1737) I came from Berwick with my father, Mr. Ebenezer Hilton, and the rest of the family, in a vessel which was sent by Mr. Toppan of Newberry, as I was told, and landed at a place called Toppan's Rights, now in Pownalboro.

"My father and Mr. James Grant improved a double saw mill, belonging to Mr. Toppan, which even than in 1737 appeared to have built several years earlier, which stood in the same place where now (1787) stands the mill belonging to the Hilton's and several others. My father told us that Mr. Toppan, to encourage him, promised to give his sons fifty acres of land apiece (five of them) and one hundred acres for himself. My brothers, William and Moses, now live on the hundred acres that belonged to my father.

"My father and Mr. Grant and others built a garrison and lived in said garrison until the Indians killed my father. I, too, lived in said garrison and saw the Indians when they run out of my father's barn and took off my brother, William, and soon after I saw them killing my father. They shot him and wounded him. I saw them strike him with a hatchet, I saw him fall and saw no more until he was brought in dead, scalped, his feet cut off, and mortified.

"My eldest brother, Joshua, was shot at the same time and mortally wounded as he was running to the garrison and died two days later.

"My brother-in-law, John Boynton, was killed at the same time.

"My brothers, William and Moses, have lived in the same place ever since, except a short time when they were forced to leave the place by reason of war. I was about sixteen years old when I came (up) with My father from Berwick and ever since I have heard the said tract of land called Toppan's Rights.

"The above bloody transaction took place on the lot Mr. Toppan gave to my father."

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