"Hezekiah Kilborn (Yale, 1720) Hezekiah Kilborn, fourth child of George Kilbourn, of Wethersfield. Connecticut, by his wife, Abigail, daughter of Captain Thomas Atwood, was born in Wethersfield, June 24, 1700. A younger brother was graduated in 1724. During the year after graduation he taught the Hopkins Grammar School in Hadley, Massachusetts. On December 19, 1722, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Joseph and Mary (Doty) Allyn, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Wethersfield, by whom he had five daughters and four sons. She was a sister of the wife of the Rev. Ebenezer Wright (Y. C. 1724), and also of the mother of the Revolutionary patriot, James Otis. His two elder children were born in Wethersfield, in 1724 and 1725, and the next four children (1726-32) in Durham. Connecticut. At a later period he returned to his native town, and kept a tavern there, being so occupied in 1753. He is said to have died in 1755."