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| Notes for William HILTON Jr. | ||||||||||||||
| According to Lewis Parker Abell, "The immigrant ancestor of the Hiltons of Albany County, New York, was William Hilton. He was born in England, locality uncertain, and came to America from Leeds, Yorkshire, in 1686, when about 21 years of age. His first wife was Sarah Ebb who died probably soon after the birth of her daughter Sarah in 1693 as the records show that he married his second wife, Anna Berkhoven (Beekhoven) that year. He resided in Albany County, New York, and was active in military affairs of the colony. The Records of the State of New York (Annual Report of the State Historian 1897, Colonial Series, Vol. 2, pages 467-468) on a list headed "1698, Earl of Bellomont Governor, Colonel Richard Ingoldesby's Company" : "Ye underwritten non Commissioned officers and Private Centinells under ye command of Coll. Rich'd Ingoldsby doe acknowledged to have received of his Excellency Rich'd Earl of Bellomont our Capt Gen'll &c by the hands of R't Livingston each of us the somme of five and forty shillings & three pence Per diem for each souldier for six months Commencing P'mo Novemb: 1697 & ending P'mo May 1698 out of the money raised by act of assembly for the makeing 300 Effective men at ye fronteers at Albany"- Then follows the list of men which appears "Will x Hilton L2 : 5 : 3 " In addition to the above service on the Albany Frontier, William Hilton later served as a private in Colonel Richard Ingolesby's Company of Grenadiers as shown by the Records of the State of New York (Annual Report of the State Historian, 1897, Colonial Series, Vol. 1, pages 451-453) being a "Muster Roll, Colonel Richard Ingolesby's Company of Grenadiers from Oct. 25 to December 24, 1713" on which the name of Wm Hilton appears as a private." According to Lewis Parker Abell, "A persistent tradition comes down this Hilton line that one of their members served under General Wolfe at the battle of Plains of Abraham at Quebec in 1759. In "New York in Colonial Wars" on a list of 100 volunteers under Capt. Nathaniel Richards in the Expedition against Canada, appears Israel Hilton, private. It is not yet established of which Albany family he was a member." | ||||||||||||||
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