Person:Benjamin Hilliard (4)

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m. Est 1632
  1. Job Hilliard1636 - 1669/70
  2. Benjamin Hilliard
  3. John H Hilliard
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Name[1] Benjamin Hilliard
Gender Male
Other[1] 16 Mar 1640/41 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesBond for behavior
Occupation[4] 1648 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesKeeper of the Town Herd
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Benjamin Hilliard, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    v 1 p 9.

    Wethersfield Records, Vol. I, Page I. (1640) 16 March, 1641.

    Hillyard's Bond: This present writing witnesseth, that I, Benjamin Hillyard, of Wethersfield; on Connecticut River, being fined by the Cou(rt) ten pounds, and caused by the Court to pro (cure) a bond of ten to be of good behavior for twelve months after the prticular Court, being the first thursday of this Instant March, my father-in-law, Tho Wright, being bound for me for my good behavior in ten pounds, as also for and in consideratio for the paym for me the first ten pounds, I do bind me, my heirs, executs or assigns, to fully satisfy or cause to fully satisfy my father, Tho. Wright, the ten pounds in currant pay within a twelve month after the day of the date hereof, and do further ingage me, my exse and assigns, to keep harmless or warrant my said father for his bond of ten pounds wch he is Ingaged for me unto Court and County, standing bound in the ten pounds in the Court Roules, and (for the) better securing of my said father-in-law, ( trans )fer my house, and barne, and home lot, that was given me by my father-in-law, John Elsen, in his last will & Testament, in (re) version after the decease of my mother, and if the said Benjamin Hillyard preserve these covenants according as he ingages himself, then this obligation to be void and of none effect.
    Witness: Nath. Dickinson of Wethersfield, Keeper of the Records.

  2.   Hugh Hilliard, in Whittemore, Henry. Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America: with a brief history of those of the first generation and references to the various local histories and other sources of information where additional data may be found. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1898-1906)
    p 256.

    Hugh Hillard, Salem,freeman 1634, had wife Margaret, son Job, and Benjamin, and died early. His widow married John Elson, who died 1648 at Wethersfied, and she took third husband, Thomas Wright, of W., and died 1671.

  3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:660.

    "Margaret, wid. of John Elson (wh. had been wid. of Hilliard, perhaps Hugh, and had s. Benjamin, Job, and John H.)"

  4. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:421.
  5.   In Benjamin's bond is mentioned, ".. may father-in-law (step father) and land ".. that was given me by my father-in-law, John Elsen, in his last will & Testament." Margaret Butler whose 1st husband was Hugh Hilliard, m. Capt John Elson, who died 1637; and m. Thomas Wright.
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