Person:William Hilton (47)

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1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} "William Hilton, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004)
   254ff.

   ORIGIN: London.
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: In his discussion of the controversy surrounding Rev. John Lyford [Pilgrim Migration, 309] and his followers, Hubbard noted that "the first occasion of quarrel with them was, the baptizing of Mr. Hilton's child, who was not joined to the church at Plymouth" [Hubbard, 93-94]; this event apparently took place in 1624.
   FREEMAN: 19 May 1642 [MBCR 2:292]. "Mr. W[illia]m Hilton" was among the residents of York who on 22 November 1652 subjected themselves to Massachusetts Bay government and took the freeman's oath [MBCR 4:1:129].
   DEATH: Between 28 Jun 1655 (when he was appointed to a committee [MPCR 2:38] and 30 June 1656 (by which date the widow had remarried [MPCR 2:47]).

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 "William Hilton (17)", in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
   334ff.
3. ↑ "The pioneers recognized two settlements, Upper and Lower, each taking in the settlers on both sides of the (Piscataqua) river.", Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939), "Topography"