Hiltons in Virginia

History Events

1606 - First Charter granted Virginia

1606 Council for Virginia formed

1607 - 12th May  First settlers land at Jamestown, Virginia,America

 

 

1607 - 19th August  First settlement founded at Fort St George, Sagahadoc, now Maine, New England, America

 

1609 - 3rd of October -  Fort Algernon at Point Comfort, Virginia, built by New England settlers

 

1619 - Sir Edwin Sandys gains control of London Company for Virginia 

 

1620 - Mayflower sets sail for America

 

1620 - 3rd November - Council for New England formed in London

1620 - 20th December - The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth, half the settlers die during the first winter.

1621 - 10th September - Sir William Alexander, obtains a patent for Nova Scotia (New Scotland)

1621 - 9th November - The "Fortune" arrives at Plymouth and rescues the "Pilgrims".

1622 - The grant of the Provinces of Maine and New Hampshire made by  Council of New England, 

1623 - Christopher Levett of York, England secures a grant of six thousand acres on the coast of Casco Bay. in Maine, from the Council for New England 

1623 - June/July - The Anne and Little James arrive at Plymouth with Mary Hilton, and children William and Mary Hilton

1624 - William Hilton and his family found Hilton Point in New Hampshire

1629/30 - 12th March - Edward Hilton granted the"Squamscott Patent.  

1639 -  4 December. Edward Hilton, is recorded living at Exeter in Maine trading furs with the Indians

1643/4 - William Hilton Deputy for Dover to Massachusetts Bay General Court
1648 - 27 June "Mr. William Hilton running an Inn and ferry to New Castle at Kittery on border between Maine & New Hampshire

1652 William Hilton recorded as an Alderman at York in Maine

1682 - John Hilton, part of the "Hilton Gang" working for King Charles II is recorded in London as "bedecked in a blue velvet cape, the best periwig, and a white beaver hat"

1686 - William Hilton arrive at Fort Albany, New York County

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 The first recorded member of the Hilton family recorded in  Virginia  in America is Hugh Hilton , son of Richard Hilton, christened on 20th July 1600, Middleton by Lancaster.

1616. The Virginia Company began the headright system by giving 50 acres to anyone who paid the fare and an 50 additional acres to each person brought with him.

In 1618, Sir Edwin Sandys whose family came from nearby Hawkshead, in Westmoreland County, England, gained control of the Virginia Company of London. Hugh Hilton, son of Richard Hilton of Hylton Castle in North East England,  arrived on the ship "Edwine" in 1619 and in the muster of 1623/4 taken in Virginia he is recorded at Neck-of-Land Charles City in Virginia by Sir Francis Wyatt. In 1635 he is recorded on the island of St Christopher Island (St Kitts in the Caribbean).

A Henry Hilton is recorded in Warrick County, Virginia in 1643;

Ann Hilton in Gent County in 1648;

William Hilton in Westmoreland County in 1654; 

John Hilton -- farmer and Church Sexton, St. Peters Parish, New Kent 
Co., VA, b. abt 1651 or 1669, d. abt 1725, buried at St. Peters Parish 

Church. In 1704 John Hilton paid 'Quit Rent' on 50 acres in New Kent  Co.

Notes on St Peters Church, New Kent County

The parish of St. Peter's was established by the general court of Virginia on April 29, 1679.There were at that time two churches in the parish: one was the "upper church", located about three miles west of the present village of Old Church, near a town on the Pamunkey River named Newcastle, now vanished. The second was called the "lower church" to distinguish  it from the other and was also called the "broken back'd" church, referring apparently to some structural weakness in the building. 
In the book,"The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish, New 
Kent and James City Counties, Virginia, 1706-1786" by C.G. Chamberlayne.  
The title is somewhat misleading because some of the earliest records, such as birthe start in 1686
The index shows the following names: 
Helton: Bridget, Francis, James, John, Mary 
Hilton/Hillton: Anne, Bridgett, Elizabeth, George, John, Mary, Ruth

Margarett in 1656; John in 1674; Therms in 1698; and Sarah, age 25, arrived in 1699

 


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