Hiltons in Bermuda

1610 - 150 settlers survive, build 2 ships "Deliverance" and "Patience" and sail on to Virginia with 100 settlers. Martial law declared at Jamestown.

1611
Nov. 1-  Shakespeare's "The Tempest" based on William Strachey's account performed in London

1612  - Sixty settlers arrive on the "Plough". Bermuda sold to the Virginia Company

1614 - The Virginia Company surrenders Bermuda to the Crown.

1615 Bermuda Company formed (Somer Isles Company) by English investors.

1618 - Sir James Lancaster, merchant adventurer dies in England and Sir Miles Kendall becomes Governor

1623 Thomas Hilton recorded as holding 50 acres on St David's Island

1629 Horatio Mallory married Dorothy Forster on Bermuda in 1629. The Mallory family had inherited Washington Old Hall, next to Hylton Castle

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Helton Hylton Hilton International Family Reunion Hylton Castle May 2007

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Davids Island and first the Easterne part thereof which is Called ye Companyes land there An account of the Generall Lands belonging to the Somer Islands Compa taken out Mr Richard Norwoods Survey booke by him made in the years 1622; 1623:”

1623 Lievt. Tomas Hilton holds of Ye Honoble Compa est 2sh; Con:…………………………………50 acr. Davids Island and first the Easterne part thereof which is Called ye Companyes land there

Source; An account of the Generall Lands belonging to the Somer Islands Compa taken out Mr Richard Norwoods Survey booke by him made in the years 1622; 1623:”

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