Person:Isaac Hildreth (1)

According to the Hildreth Family of America

Isaac's name is mentioned January 18, 1673, on the Chelmsford church records as on that day having had granted him his dismissal with that of his brother Thomas and of his sister Persis and also that of his father to the church at Cambridge, Mass., where his father had proposed to go and settle, but later events show that his father evidently was prevailed upon to remain in Chelmsford. Presumably the son, Isaac, also remained.

Shortly after Isaac's marriage he and his young wife Elizabeth lived in Stow, Mass., where his brother Ephraim kept a tavern and owned a plantation. Here on June 14, 1687, Isaac's daughter Elizabeth was born. How long they resided in Stow our data at present do not tell, but evidently not more than three or four years because on November 25, 1691, at Woburn, Mass., another daughter, Persis, was born.

During this period between 1687 and 1691 our data do not mention his name. Possibly when his brother-in-law, Samuel Cleveland, and others of his neighborhood were migrating to Connecticut where they founded the new town since called Canterbury he went with them. But if he did go to Connecticut he did not settle there, for we find that sometime previous to January 16, 1692, he acquired 60 or more acres of land in Cambridge, Mass., at a place locally known as "The World's End" or "Tophet Swamp," which on that date he and his wife Elizabeth deeded, stating they were "of ye towne of Cambridge," in exchange with James Wilson, of Woburn, Mass., for 50 acres of land with dwelling house, barn and orchard thereon, and a piece of meadow-land near Billerica line, but all in the town of Woburn. (Camb. Deeds, Vol. 10, pp. 277-8.) The deed in part reads as follows:

"... Isaac and Elizabeth Hildreth of ye towne of Cambridge, . . . exchange with James Wilson of Woburn. . .for and in consideration of fifty acres of land, be ye same more or less, and Dwelling House, with a Barn & Orchard standing and growing upon same. Also one half part of the piece of Meadow and swamp that lyeth upon Sto—(?) Brook, near Billerica line, both quantitie & quality; whichmeadow my father-in-law, John Wilson, had by way of exchange with Mr. Samuel Carter for a piece of meadow at a place called Salve (?) Meadow and three pounds in hand well and truly paid by James Wilson of ye town of Woburn aforesaid, husbandman,—All which land and Meadow lyeith in ye Towne of Woburn, joining to ye Land called the Wyman Farm—convey to said James Wilson a parcel of land by estimation three score acres & lyeith in ye town of Cambridge at a place called the Worlds End or Tophet Swamp . . . ."

Isaac Hildreth January 16, 1692.

Elizabeth Hildreth

(Note: The Cambridge records show that James Wilson later conveyed his Cambridge purchase of "Isaac Hildreth" to William Brattle, of Cambridge, March 27, 1694.)

In 1696 Isaac was residing in Woburn, for in that year we find Samuel Allen, of Cambridge, Mass., conveys to "Isaac Hildreth of Woburn, Mass.," land in Charlestown, Mass. (Camb. Records, Vol. 15, p. 27). But not long after this, Isaac with his wife and family moved to Chelmsford and evidently settled there. In Chelmsford on Aug. 1, 1698, his son Isaac was born. (Note: This son, Isaac was later called "Isaac Jr.," also "Isaac of Petersham.") From this time on we find Isaac's name as of Chelmsford on various records. In 1710 he conveys land in Chelmsford to Ezra Colburn, of Chelmsford. In 1721 he and his wife Elizabeth convey land in Chelmsford to their "son, Isaac Hildreth, Jr., husbandman." In 1720, '22, '23, '24, his name is on the Chelmsford Tax Lists jointly with that of Isaac Hildreth, Jr. Isaac Hildreth, the father, d. April 15, 1730, at Chelmsford, Mass. His widow, Elizabeth (Wilson) Hildreth, d. January 4, 1743, Her funeral, according to the Chelmsford church records, was held January 9, 1743. Our data do not as yet state where either was buried.

Isaac and Elizabeth (Wilson) Hildreth had five (5) children, viz.:
Elizabeth Hildreth, b. June 14, 1687, in Stow, Mass.
Persis Hildreth, b. Nov. 25, 1691, Woburn,
Joanna Hildreth, b. Nov. 16, 1695,
Isaac Hildreth, b. Aug. 1, 1698, Chelmsford,
Sarah Hildreth, b. Nov. 21, 1700

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Hildreth Family Association, and John Lyman Porter. Second publication of the Hildreth family association: genealogical and historical data relating to Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Mass.; Thomas Hildreth (died 1657), of Long Island, Southampton, N.Y.; including a history of the second generation of Hildreths in America. (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986)
   pp. 73-74.
2. ↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
   page 82.

   HILLDERETH .. Isake, s. Richard and Elisabeth, July [20, 1661. T. C.; 1663?].'

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
   2:181, 183.

   'Children with second wife, Elizabeth, surname HILDRETH: ...
   ISAAC, born in Chelmsford, Mass., 20 July 1663 [citing Chelmsford Vital Records]; died in Chelmsford, Mass., 15 April 1730 [citing Chelmsford Vital Records, 402]; married in Woburn, Mass., 12 November 1685 [citing Woburn Vital Records, 129] ELIZABETH WILSON, died in Chelmsford 4 January 1742/3 [citing Chelmsford Vital Records, 402], daughter of John Wilson [citing Middlesex Co., Mass., deed, 10:277].'

4. ↑ Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1914)
   page 402, Deaths.

   'HILDRETH ... Isaac, sr., Apr. 15, 1730.'