The Hilton Family of Albany, New York
A
typescript filed with the New York State Library, by Lewis Parker Abell, 1936
Transcription
of typescript (not including postscript of other Hilton families in America),
by Steven Matthew Hahn, January 17, 2013
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HIlton,
John
(Westmoreland)
(E.
III Roll)
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Hilton
(Durham,
1172.)
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Robert
Hilton
(Northumberland)
1322
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Hilton
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Hylton
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HIlton
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Hilton
Hilton
Castle, Durham
1328
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Hilton
(Dyons,
Durham)
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Hilton-Simpson
(for
Hilton)
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Hilton-Simpson
(for
Hilton)
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Hilton
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Hilton
(Lancaster
& York)
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Robt'
d Hilton
(Lincoln
& Lancaster)
1297-8
Acknowledgement
is hereby accorded to, Burke's Encyclopaedia of Armory; Cozier's General Armory; Fairbairn's Book of Crests; Berry Encyclopaedia Heraldica; Grant's
Manual; Foster's Feudel Coats of
Arms; "Americana"; etc.
Collected
and Compiled by
Lewis
P. Abell [[ signature of author
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at
various times and places since about 1914 and drawing completed June 30, 1939.
Los
Angeles. California.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
FOREWORD
The title of this volume, as
above selected, is so chosen to distinguish from two or three printed histories
or genealogies of the other families of the same name, under titles omitting
the word "Albany", although at least one of whom settled in and near
this city and at other points along the Hudson River, as referred to elsewhere
herein.
These pages are dedicated to the
memory of Rachel Josephine Hilton (Mrs. C. M. Abell) the writer's mother and
also to Julia Ann Tucker (Mrs. Robert Abell) his father's mother, under whose
influence in his early childhood was implanted the pride of family honor and
integrity followed by the active interest developing in later years in, at
times, the most hopeless attempts to recover from threatened oblivion the sacrifices,
self-denials and hardships encountered by the pioneers as well as their
successes, fulfillments and attainments and also some record of their
personalities. May their high
standard set like mile-stones along the way, be perpetually maintained.
Cordial acknowledgement is
rendered to several members and friends of the family for their invaluable
contributions to this work, especially to the late Mr. and Mrs. James Hilton,
New Scotland, Albany County, N.Y., and to Mr. Frank R. Hilton, Leonia, N.J.,
William E. Hilton, Buffalo, N.Y., the Rev. John R. Ramsay, Schuylkill Haven,
Pa., Miss Marcia F. Hilton, East Andover, N.H., and others, not forgetting the
authors of the many historical collections now in print, to whom due credit is
offered for the very foundation stones of this present collection. Acknowledgement is also made to the
efforts of the late Warren C. Tudbury for his original collections in 1916 of
which these pages are, except for latter additions, the third revision.
By
Lewis
P. Abell
Los
Angeles, California,
1936.
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(1)
THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
First
Generation in America.
WILLIAM
HILTON
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.
William Hilton
died, and was buried on February 12th, 1749.
His children,
all baptized in Albany were as follows:-
By his
first wife Sarah Ebb.
(1) Sara Hilton, bapt. April 9, 1693.
By his
second wife Anna Berkhoven.
(2) Anna Hilton, bapt. Jan. 23, 1695; died Feb. 25, 1748.
(3) Elizabeth Hilton, bapt. Dec. 10, 1696; died in
infancy.
(4) Mary Hilton, bapt. Nov. 20, 1698; died in infancy.
(5) Richard Hilton, bapt. March 2, 1701; died in 1805 aged
104, "the oldest man in the city" (Albany). Ensign 13th Regt., pp.
122,123,221, Land Bounty Rights.
(6) Elizabeth Hilton, bapt. Feb. 20, 1703.
(7) JACOBUS (James) HILTON, bapt. Aug. 19, 1705; md.(1st)
Nov. 11, 1733, Judith Marten; md.(2nd) Mar. 29, 1762, Sarah Barnton. He died in Albany County, of "old
age".
(8) William Hilton, bapt. May 16, 1708; died Feb. 12,
1749.
Second
Generation
JACOBUS
(James) HILTON.
Jacobus (James)
Hilton son of William and Anna Berkhoven Hilton, was bapt. in Albany, August
19th, 1705. He was a farmer and
died of "old age" on his farm in Albany County, New York. (date uncertain).
He also was
twice married - First, to Judith Marten (Martin) on Nov. 11, 1733. She died and he married second wife,
Sarah Barnton, March 29, 1762 (New York Marriages - page 184). He was a member of the Episcopal
Church.
His children,
all by his first wife, Judith Martin:-
(1) William Hilton, bapt. Aug. 18, 1734; died June 19,
1825.
(2) Maria Hilton, bapt. Nov. 7, 1736.
(3) Peter Hilton, bapt. Feb. 20, 1739. 13th Regt. of the
line, page 123.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
1st
& 2nd Gen's Sup'l'mntl.
A considerable portion of the
records given under the "Postscript" were collected by Miss Marcia F.
Hilton, East Andover, N.H., a descendant of the Edward or William Hilton
therein referred to and included the following notes on the Hiltons of Albany,
N.Y. There were obtained probably
from similar notes listed in Cutter's Gen. & Fam. Hist. of Central and also
of Western New York and under the authorities given in Munsell's Gen'l Index
and others.
"Richard Hilton, m. ___?___ and
had Alexander, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, Catharine and Ann Hilton.
William Hilton, m. Ellen Segar
and had, Daniel D. Tompkins Hilton who m. Sophy Wands and had, Wm. D., Benj.
J., Albert J., Robert F., Burgess, Ellen and Susan.
Jacob (prob. Jacobus) Hilton, of
whom no records." Comparing
with (5), (7) & (8) on page
(1) of the identities are quite evident.
"Another Richard Hilton, b.
Albany, N.Y., 1819; m. 1843 Harriett Hugg. He ran away from home when a small boy; d. at Elmire, N.Y.,
Feb. 18, 1857. No child'n. Had 3 bros., one a doctor, 1 a lawyer
and 1 a tailor."
"In 1800, Col. Hilton with
others purchased a large tract of land in Livingston County, N.Y., near
Danville."
It may be
appropriate to quote here a few notes from "American Ancestry", vol.
1, p. 37; 2, p.55., for altho the dates given appear to be in conflict, yet the
identities of several individuals are reasonably in evidence.
"Hilton, Philip, Albany; son
of Simon VanAntwerp, of Albany, b. 1792; d. 1875; son of Johnson, of Albany, b.
1750; served in the Revolutionary army; lost at sea; son of Johnson, b. about
1730, d. 1810; son of William Hilton, younger brother of Baron Hilton who both
came from England to America."
"HIlton, Benjamin J., of
East Chatham (N.Y.) b. 1847; m. ___?___; & Albert J., of East Chatham, b.
1849; sons of Daniel D. T. Hilton, of Rayville, b. 1822; m. Sophia Wands; son
William of Guilderland; b. 1770; d. 1840; son of William Hilton who come from
England."
From records as
copied from tombstones in the vicinity of Albany, N.Y., and as appeared in the
boston Transcript of July 27, 1927, the following, probably identical with the
Nicholas, son of Richard Hilton, above:
"Emelize, dau. of Nicholas
and Elizabeth Hilton, d. Sept. 11, 1854, aged 10 mos.
Andrew Wilson, son of Nicholas
and Elizabeth Hilton, d. Nov. 2, 1856, aged 2 1/2 yrs.
William B, Nicholas and Elizabeth
Hilton, d. Feb. 4, 1854, aged 19 yrs."
also; in the
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., a Land Grant, from the U.S. to
Nicholas Hilton, signed by President Monroe.
It should be noted that on page
(1) the date of death of William Hilton, (Jr.) No. (8), is given as Feb. 12,
1749 the same as for the burial of his father William Hilton, (Sr.). It is not reasonably probable these two
events concerning the two persons of the same name could have occurred on the
same day but that the reference is to the father, only, and it was probably the
son who became known as William of Guilderland, above referred to, a town of
Albany County adjoining New Scotland.
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.
In Pearson's "First Settlers
of Albany County, 1630 - 1800." p. 61, 62, is entered the death of Richard
Hilton, Jan. 1, 1795, in his 97th year, the oldest man in the city. This may fix the date of death of his
brother Jacobus (James) as 1805 (an even century) as "the oldest man in
the city", instead of Richard.
It is reasonably probable that
the first William Hilton of this line, p. 1, was in fact the youngest son, b.
28 June 1753, of the William Hilton who came to Mass., in the
"Fortune" in 1621, as per Pope's "Pioneers of Mass" and
others.
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The
Hilton Homestead, "Devondale", New Scotland, Albany County, N.Y.
Established
by Robert Hilton, after the Revolution.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Second
Generation, continued.
(4) Adam Hilton, bapt. Aug. 9, 1741. Removed to and settled in or near
Cooperstown, N.Y., about 1770.
(5) Anna Hilton, bapt. Feb. 26 1743.
(6) Robert Hilton, bapt. Feb. 15, 1745; died in infancy.
(7) Sarah Hilton, bapt. June 28, 1747.
(8) ROBERT HILTON (Rev. Soldier), bapt. Nov. 5, 1749; died
June 9, 1829 at Bethlehem, Albany County, New York. m. Elizabeth Burgess
(Bortjes).
(9) James (Jacobus) Hilton, bapt. Mar. 18,1753; died Dec.
7, 1836. Rev. soldier.
(10) Richard (Dirk) Hilton, bapt. Nov. 30, 1755. Listed as "Derrick" in
"N.Y. in the Rev." Vol. 1, p. 221, Land Bounty Rights.
Third
Generation
ROBERT
HILTON
Robert Hilton, son of James
(Jacobus) Hilton and his first wife Judith Marten, was baptized at Albany, New
York, November 5, 1749, and died on his farm in the town of Bethlehem, Albany
County, N.Y., June 9, 1829.
When he became of age he leased a
farm of 260 acres of the Van Rensselears, located in what is now a part of New
Scotland. This property is still
owned (1936) by his direct descendants.
He was a man of prominence and influence in the town, and was a member
of the Episcopal Church.
He married in New Scotland,
Albany County, N.Y., Elizabeth Burgess or Bortjes. She was born in 1754 and died January 8, 1822, in New
Scotland.
Before the Revolution, Robert
Hilton served as a fifer in the company of Captain Abraham Cuyler of the first
Battalion of Albany militia as shown by a Return of said Company dated May 1,
1767. Richard Hilton, his uncle,
was Seargent of the same company.
(Annual Report of the State Historian, 1897, Colonial Series, Vol. 2,
page 800) The Return Roll of this
Company was made at Albany.
During the Revolutionary War he
had the following service:- He was
a Private in the First Regiment of Albany Militia in the State of New York,
commanded by Captain John Scott - (Land Bounty Rights) as shown by a list of
men in said regiment in "New York in the Revolution", page 221, where
his name appears as - Robert Hilten.
Children, all
born in New Scotland (Bethlehem) Albany County, New York:
(1) Maria Hilton, b. Sept. 7, 1775; m. 1st, William
Tucker; m. 2nd, C. McKelsey.
(2) Sara Hilton, b. Nov. 20, 1777.
(3) JAMES HILTON, b. Jan. 5, 1780; d. Nov. 11, 1845; m.
Mary Dennison of New Scotland, N.Y.
(4) JOHN BURGESS HILTON, b. May 1, 1783; removed to
Welland County, Canada West, (Ontario).Died there Sept. 1, 1832. m. Hannah,
daughter of Andrew and Jane (Davis) Ostrander, formerly of Albany, N.Y., b.
Dec. 6, 1789 at Stamford, Welland County, Canada West, (Ontario).
(5) Julia Hilton, b. in 1792; m. Silas Crawford.
(6) Robert Hilton, b. ?
(7) Jeannette Hilton, b. ? m. Robert Ackenburg.
(8) William Hilton, b. ?
(9) Anna Hilton, b. in 1798; m. Robert Randall.
Fourth
Generation.
MARIA
HILTON
Maria Hilton, born in New
Scotland, Albany County, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1775; married, 1st, William Tucker, of
Albany, N.Y., and 2nd, C. McKelsey.
Child, born at Albany, New York:-
Julia Ann Tucker, bapt. Aug 16, 1807. m. May 10, 1828, Robert Abell, at
Lewiston, N.Y.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fourth
Generation, continued.
JAMES
HILTON
James Hilton, eldest son of
Robert & Elizabeth (Burgess) Hilton, b. Jan. 5, 1780; d. Dec.11, 1845;
succeeded to the ownership of the farm in "fee simple" receiving deed
from Van Rensselaers who stated that among all their vast possessions there was
not a farm equalling the Hilton estate for fertility and capable handling, as a
token of which they received a set of six solid silver spoons which are
preserved among the family heirlooms.
James Hilton was an active man in
the town and aided the Church with liberal contributions. He married in New Scotland, Mary
Dennison, born in that town in 1780; died March 9, 1862.
Children:-
(1) Robert James Hilton, b. Aug.
19, 1805; d. in Albany, July 1, 1871.
He was a farmer of the town, an attorney-at-law and Judge of U.S.
Circuit Court. He married Margaret
Van Vorst. He is buried in
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Guilderland, and she, in Rural Cemetery, Albany.
(2) Maria Hilton, b. 1808; d.
1864; m. Mathew Hendrickson.
(3) JOSEPH HILTON (Capt) b. 1811;
d. 1891.
(4) William Hilton, b. Sept. 11,
1815; d. unm. Nov. 1883. He was an
attorney in Albany.
JOHN
BURGESS HILTON
John Burgess Hilton, second
son of Robert & Elizabeth (Burgess) Hilton, was born in New Scotland,
Albany County, N.Y., May 1st, 1783 and removed about 1805 to that part of the
Niagara later known as Welland County, Ontario, Canada, where he died Sept.
1st, 1832. He married, probably in
1810 or 11, Hannah, b. Dec. 6, 1789, daughter of Andrew and Jane (Davis)
Ostrander. The parents of his
wife, formerly of Albany, probably came to Canada with a party of "United
Empire Loyalists" soon after the revolution, and it appears natural that
he should have directed his course toward the same settlements. He served in the War of 1812, on the
British side, as claimed by several of his descendants, and left to his eldest
son his sword and uniform which were objects of much interest in the home of
his grand-daughter, Mrs. R. Josephine (Hilton) Abell, at St. Catharines, Ont.,
and later remained for a time in possession of the Mizner family and in more
recent years after the death of Mr. James B. J. Hilton remained in possession
of the Stokes family, reverting there to Leonard M. Hilton by whom the sword
was presented on July 3, 1918, to Lewis P. Abell, son of Rachel Josephine
(Hilton) Abell, and grandson of James B. J. Hilton.
The following notes covering
services of "John Hilton" in the War of 1812, have been procured from
the Archives of Canada, Div. of Manuscripts, dated, Ottawa, 17 March 1917, but
no certainty is conveyed that the John Hilton therein listed is the same as
John Burgess Hilton, of Albany, N.Y.:-
""Officers of the
British Forces in Canada", 1812-1815, by Irving, 2nd Regt. of Lincoln
Militia.
Engagements: Queenston Heights
and Rowes Fort Erie, 2nd Dec. 1812.
Frenchman's Creek, Hamilton's & Kirby's 11th July 1813. Niagara, 19th Dec. 1813, Black Rock,
30th Dec. 1813; Lundy's Lane, 25th July 1814; Chippewa, 5th July, 1814.
2nd Regt. of Lincoln Militia.
"The conduct of the officers
and men of this Regt. has also been highly praiseworthy" in General
Riall's despatch, London Gazette, August 1814. Muster Roll of Capt. John Chrysler's Company of the 2nd
Lincoln Militia on duty in the 3rd Riding of the County of Lincoln, from the 26th
of June to 27th July both days inclusive, 1814. Name - Private John Hilton, No. 16 from the 20th of July to
the 27th of July 1814. 8 days at
6d per day- £ 0.4.0.
Certified
correct, David Secord, Major 2nd Regt. Lincoln Mil.
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
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THE
SWORD OF
JOHN
BURGESS HILTON,
And
Service in the War of 1812.
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The following Notes covering
Services of Private "John Hilton" in the War of 1812, were procured
from the Archives of Canada, Div. of Manuscripts, dated at Ottawa, 17 March
1917, but no certainty is conveyed that the John Hilton therein listed is the
same as John Burgess Hilton, of Albany, New York.
'"Officers of the British
Forces in Canada", 1812-1815, By Irving 2nd Regt. of Lincoln Militia. Engagements: Queenston Heights and
Rowes Fort Erie, 2nd Dec. 1812.
Frenchman's Creek, Hamilton's and Kirby's 11th July 1813. Niagara, 19th Dec. 1813; Black Rock,
30th Dec. 1813; Lundy's Lane, 25th July 1814; Chippewa, 5th July, 1814.
"The conduct of the officers
and men of this regiment has also been highly praiseworthy" in Gen'l
Riall's despatch, London Gazette, August 1814.
Muster Roll of Capt. John
Chrysler's Company of the 2nd Lincoln Militia on duty in the 3rd Riding of the
County of Lincoln, from the 26th June to 27th July both days inclusive, 1814.
Name - Private John Hilton, No.
16, from the 20th July to the 27th July 1814. 8 days at 6d. - £ 0.4.0.
Certified correct, David Secord,
Major 2nd Regt., Lincoln Mil.
Stationed at Chippaway from the 1st to the 6th of Sept. 1814 both days
inclusive. No. 5, Private John
Hilton from the 1st to the 6th both days inclusive 6 days at 6d per day -
£ 0.3.0.
John Chrysler Capt. Comm'g
Detachment 2nd Lincoln Militia.
Stationed at Niagara Falls from the 13th to the 31st Oct. 1814 both days
inclusive. No. 17, Private John
Hilton from the 19th to 31st Oct. 1814, 15 days at . . . . . . Certified correct John Chrysler Capt.
2nd Lincoln Militia.
Thomas Dickson, Lt. Col. Comm'g
2nd Regt. Lincoln Militia. Hilton,
John, has brought all Barrack stores from Block House on Chateauguay River. C. Bordwine to Major P. VanCortland,
Montreal. Hilton, John, Clerk to
Store-keeper, Barrack Dept.
Proposed pay for the year 1816.
Major VanCortland, D'ty B. M. Genl. Quebec, 20-10-15.
C. 556 p. 175'.
This sword was presented by his
grandson, Leonard M. Hilton, to his great-grandson, Lewis P. Abell, on July 3,
1918 at Welland, Ont., and by him deposited as a loan to the Buffalo Historical
Society Museum at Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 5, 1933.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fourth
Generation, continued
JOHN
BURGESS HILTON
Stationed at Chippaway from the
1st to the 6th of Sept. 1814 both days inclusive. No. 5 Private John Hilton from the 1st to the 6th both days
inclusive - 6 days at 6d per day - £ 0.3.0.
John Chrysler
Capt. Comm'g Detachment 2nd Lincoln Militia.
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Stationed at Niagara Falls from
the 13th to the 31st Oct. 1814 both days inclusive. No. 17 Private John Hilton from the 19th to 31st Oct. 1814,
13 days at . . . . . .
Certified correct John Chrysler Capt.
2nd Lincoln Militia.
Thomas Dickson,
Lt. Col. Comm'g 2nd Regt. Lincoln Militia.
Hilton, John, has brought all
Barrack stores from Block House on Chateauguay River. C. Bordwine to Major P. VanCortland, Montreal, 1-8-15. C. 555 p 45
Hilton, John, Clerk to
Store-keeper, Barrack Dept.
Proposed pay for the year 1816.
Major VanCortland, D'ty B. Mr. Genl. Quebec, 20-10-15.
C. 556 p. 175".
Children of
John Burgess and Hannah (Ostrander) Hilton, all born in Stamford, Welland
County, Ontario, except the youngest who was born in Albany, New York, at the
time of a visit of his parents, to the homestead in 1830.
(1) JAMES BENSON JOHN HILTON, b. Jan. 12, 1812; d. Nov.
25, 1896.
(2) Robert Hilton, b, May 8, 1813; d. _____?_____
(3) Andrew Hilton, b, March 5, 1815; d. _____?_____
(4) Elizabeth Jane Hilton, b, Nov. 17, 1816; d. Feb. 17,
1910.
(5) Peter S. Hilton, b, Sept. 13, 1818; d. Feb. 25, 1861.
(6) Daniel D. Hilton, b, Feb. 19, 1820; d. Oct. 17, 1911.
(7) Caroline Hilton, b, June 13, 1821; d. in infancy.
(8) Simeon R. Hilton, b, Aug. 21, 1822; d. Jan. 14, 1920
in his 98th yr.
(9) David Hilton, b, April 9, 1825; d. in infancy.
(10) Margaret Hilton, b, June 16, 1828; d. June 4, 1911.
(11) William Henry Harrison, b, Jan. 1, 1830; d. Jan. 6,
1905.
Fifth
Generation.
JULIA
ANN TUCKER
Julia Ann Tucker, daughter of
William and Maria (Hilton) Tucker, was born in Albany, N.Y., in April 1806, but
the earliest available record is of her baptism on August 16, 1807 as entered
in the records of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, in Albany, N.Y., v. 3, p.
75. According to her own
recollection, as related to the writer, her grandson, in his early boyhood, she
was visiting or temporarily residing with a friend or relative of the family,
who to escape foreclosure or seizure of his goods and chattels for debt, packed
everything on bob-sleds in the dead of winter of 1816-17 and departed for the
Niagara frontier, taking with him little Miss Tucker, who never again saw her
old home. However, she found
herself among friends who had preceded and eventually met and married Robert
Abell, of Middle Haddam, Conn. The
ceremony is said to have taken place at Lewiston, N.Y., May 10, 1828, but
records have not as yet been found.
She d. at Woodstock, Ont. June 28, 1889.
Children, all born at St. John's,
Welland County, Canada West (Ontario).
William Tucker,
b. 1829; d. 1892.
John Street, b.
1831; d. 1900.
Robert Hubbard,
b. 1833; d. 1885.
CHANDLER
McKELSEY, b. 1835; d. 1882.
Mary Eliza, b.
1837; d. 1891.
Daniel Webster,
b. 1842; d. 1886.
Alice, b. 1839;
d. 1875.
Ashael, b.
1845; d. 1894.
Joseph White,
b. 1847; d. 1888.
Julia Anna, b.
1849; d. 1929.
Sarah Maria, b.
1843; d. 1844.
Olive Amira, b.
1852; d. 1853.
Julia Ann Tucker (Mrs. Robert Abell)
appeared to be endowed with a most unusual memory, clearly recalling events,
personal observations and experiences as early as the War of 1812, when she was
but 6 years of age and later of the troublesome times of the depression of 1837
and of the Canadian Rebellion of that year and of the Fenian raids of the 60's
and 70's. The rebel activities of
one, Samuel Chandler, a friend of the family, were perhaps the most thrilling
and romantic.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fifth
Generation, continued.
CAPTAIN
JOSEPH HILTON
Capt. Joseph Hilton, was born on
the Hilton homestead, New Scotland, Albany County, N.Y., July 16, 1811; died
there Oct. 23, 1891. He was reared
on the farm and educated in the town schools. He succeeded to the paternal acres and in addition to
general farming introduced the specialty that made (DEVONDALE) the farm
famous. He imported about 1860 the
first of the famous "Devonshire" herd that later had been brought by
careful selection and scientific breeding to such a high condition of excellence
that they carried away all "blue ribbons" wherever shown.
Capt. Hilton exhibited at County
and State Fair all over the United States and at national associations meetings
where he had to compete with the picked herds of the country. He was uniformly successful and won
hundreds of premiums. He was well
known among stock breeders everywhere and cattle from his herd were eagerly
sought and fancy prices given. He
was an official of the New York State Agricultural Association, active in local
grange, Patrons of Industry. He
was Captain of militia, was a Whig, a Republican and later a Democrat.
He was married in Albany by Rev.
Wyckoff, Dec. 2, 1860 to Maria Van Der Zee.
Children; all
born on the homestead farm "Devondale":
(1) JAMES HILTON, b. Jan. 2, 1862; d. Nov. 5, 1931.
(2) Catharine Hilton, b. Sept. 27, 1863; d. Jan. 29, 1898;
m. F. H. Dewey.
(3) Maria H. Hilton, b. Dec. 16, 1865; unm'd. d. May 21,
1922.
(4) Joseph Hilton, b. Oct. 17, 1868; m. Harriett Wood.
(5) Henry VanDerZee Hilton, b. Mar. 27, 1871; unm'd:
resides on homestead.
(6) Mary Dennison Hilton, b. Sept. 18, 1873; md. John B.
Mosher.
(7) Robert J. Hilton, b. June 26, 1876; d. Aug. 22, 1916.
(8) Frank Richard Hilton, b. June 12, 1879; emplyd With
N.Y.C.R.R.Co.
JAMES
BENSON JOHN HILTON
James B. J. Hilton, born Jan. 12,
1812 at Stamford, Welland County, Ontario, Canada; died at Wainfleet, Welland
County, Nov. 25, 1896. He finished
his education at the Boy's Academy, Albany, as had become customary with
members of the Hilton family and afterwards took a teacher's course at the
State Normal School at Troy, N.Y., upon completion of which he taught school
for a period in New Jersey. In the
meantime he had met, perhaps as a classmate at the Troy Normal School, and
married Hannah Sayre, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sayre) Richards, of
Madison, N.J. This marriage is
entered on the Records of State Street Methodist Church, of Troy, N.Y., as of
June 3, 1833, by R. W. Rogers. She
died at Thorold, Ont., 1863.
Sometime late in the 40's
perhaps, Mr. Hilton returned to Canada with his family and followed his
profession of schoolteacher until an advanced age when he was retired on a
pension. He may have been assisted
for a period by his wife or by his only surviving child, Rachel Josephine,
before her marriage in 1862. Then,
to the time of her death in 1883, he made his home with his daughter in St.
Catharine's, Ont., at intervals, and therefore, passed his later years at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Margaret (Hilton) Stokes, in the town of Wainfleet,
Welland Co. He was buried at
Fonthill.
Children:
(1) RACHEL JOSEPHINE HILTON, b. May 7, 1841 at Troy, N.Y.;
d. June 24, 1883. At least one
other child, a girl, who died after the return to Canada. It was frequently remarked by friends
and acquaintances how nearly alike the Hilton "twins" appeared to be
in all but their hair, the curly light ringlets of the other child contrasting
so vividly with wavy-brown of "Josie".
Following Horace Greeley's advice
to "go west, young man", during the second half of the 19th century,
the descendants of John Burgess Hilton have become separated and scattered and
it has been very difficult to collect more than the incomplete records and
notes on the following pages as supplied by several remaining in or near the
Niagara district. Corrections and
additions are still solicited.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fifth
Generation, continued.
The following sketches of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Hilton, Sr., which appeared as obituary notices in the local press,
were submitted for inclusion in the Hilton family history, by their son, Mr.
Frank Richard Hilton, of Leonia, N.J.
JOSEPH HILTON died at his
residence in New Scotland yesterday, October 23, 1891, aged eighty years. Mr. Hilton's long life has been spent
in the town where he died and upon the farm which has been made so beautiful,
and in a home rendered at all times happy and hospitable by his loving,
industrious, intelligent family which has surrounded him and helped to carry
out his well devised plans for the improvement of everything which tends to
make life comfortable. By
inheritance, choice and rural tastes, he has been many years one of our most
active and successful agriculturalists, well known throughout the sate and one
of the earliest and most persevering workers for the improvement of domestic
and imported cattle, fine fruits, and agricultural methods generally. To these efforts he has devoted his
life, although always taking a deep interest and decided stand in political
matters, but declining the promotions in that line which the entire confidence
of his neighbors would often and always otherwise have forced upon him. His efforts to improve the roads, the
dwellings, and the productions of our county were made and sustained by liberal
investments, personal labor, and general sacrifices, rather than from any
personal ambition, or selfish interests, although the result has been more than
ordinary success in his chosen walk of life, and has enabled him to leave to
his devoted wife and eight children the name of an honest and faithful man.
The death of Mrs. Maria Van
Derzee Hilton, a daughter of the late Henry Van Derzee and Catharine Bradt, and
widow of the late Captain Joseph Hilton, occurred at the family home on
Tuesday, June 15, 1926. She was born
in the town of Bethlehem on June 21, 1840, married Captain Hilton in Albany, on
December 2, 1860, and since her marriage had resided in the home in which she
passed out of life. Mrs. Hilton
suffered a stroke a few years ago and since that time gradually lost health and
strength. She was a woman of
pleasing personality and possessed of many loveable qualities, and her passing
is one of great sorrow to her family and to her many friends.
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ROBERT HILTON, 2nd son of John
Burgess Hilton, b. May 8, 1813 at Thorold, Welland County, Ont., married 1st,
Jane Currant, date uncertain, by whom he had:
(1) William Hilton, who resided at Port Huron, Mich., and
had 3 or 4 children.
(2) Leonard Mizner Hilton, b. May 14, 1841, who in his
later years resided at the Stokes' and the Stewart's near Welland until his
death early in 1927. He was said
to have been married and had 2 or 3 children but little is known of them. The name of one of William Hilton's
children (above) is said to be William G. Hilton.
(3) Nancy Jane Hilton, b. __?__; m. Elijah Newton.
Robert Hilton,
m. 2nd, date uncertain, Elizabeth Young, by whom he had:
(4) John B. Hilton, of Jackson, Mich. He is said to have become an Episcopal
minister and later locating in Wisconsin or Minnesota but a statement from the
secretary of the synod of the mid-west, dated, Quincy, Ill., Sept. 24, 1923,
says that after examining various records and registers, his name is not found.
(5) James Hilton, of Jackson, Mich.
(6) Alexander Hilton, of Liberty, near Jackson, and
(7) Joseph Hilton
ANDREW HILTON, 3rd son of John
Burgess Hilton, b. March 5, 1815 at Thorold, Ont., m. Helen Elliot, date
uncertain, and had three daughters, Mary Jane, Margaret and Jennie and at least
one son, Andrew E. Hilton, who resided in Detroit, but it is said that he had eight
children altogether. This may have
referred to his sons' family. One
of the daughters is said to have married a Mr. Kelderhome.
Mark E. Hilton, a son of Andrew
E. Hilton, - has resided in Los Angeles, Cal. since about 1915, is married but
has no children. He conducts a
modern barber-shop on Florence Ave., in southeast part of the city. He regrets their family records were
lost in a fire destroying their home but hopes his sister, Mrs. Ethel Atkinson,
of Maple City, Lelanaw County, Mich., may yet replace some of the records from
memory.
In "Michigan Pioneer &
Historical Society Reports & Collections", Vols. I to XV, may be found
numerous references to Hilton individuals. Those under the names John. sheriff of St. Clair County, and
of Robert, may be of members of this Hilton line.
ELIZABETH JANE HILTON, eldest
daughter of John B. Hilton, was born at Thorold, Ont., Nov. 17, 1816. She substituted as housekeeper, nurse
and "little mother" for younger members of the family, ably assisted
by her older brothers Robert & Andrew, while her parents drove with an ox
team back to Albany in October 1829 returning the following May with their
youngest son, born in Albany Jan. 1, 1830. The eldest son James, was already in Albany attending
school. She married Daniel Milton
Skinner in 1834 and resided at Vienna, Ont. They had 8 or 9 children whose names are given as: -
William, Andrew, Lilia, Ruth, Emmaline, John B., Mary, Rachel and Augusta Jane. Emmaline married Frank Raymond and had
George, Florence, Myrtle, Grace and Margaret (b. in Clear Creek, Ont.) who
married John Maltby and had a daughter Alice who married D. E. Northrop and
residing in Kingsport, Tenn. in 1934.
John B. Skinner served 4 years in
the Civil War, enlisting at Madison, Wis., and saw action at The Wilderness,
Pittsburg Landing and other battles, receiving from the government the Black
Charger to replace two horses shot from under him. His widow, Mrs. Lucy A. Skinner was residing in Baltimore,
Md., as late as 1918.
Mary Skinner, who married a Mr.
Oakes, sent two grandsons to France during the World War and a granddaughter
who served as a red-cross nurse.
Rachel Skinner, who married a Mr.
Pace, had a son, Lieut. Dr. Arthur A. Pace stationed at Camp Funston, Kansas,
but probably he did not go "overseas".
Augusta Jane Skinner was
unmarried and residing at home at Vienna, Ont. in 1918, and altho suffering
some of the infirmities of advanced years, favored us with the larger portion
of these notes. Other portions
were supplied by Mrs. Alice Northrop.
It is said that Mary Skinner
resided for a time when a little girl, with her uncle James Hilton in Thorold,
and was a playmate with "Josie". and may have been the other
"twin" referred to on page 5.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fifth
Generation, continued
PETER S. HILTON, 4th son of John
Burgess Hilton, b. Sept. 13, 1818 in Crowland, Welland Co., Ont.; d. Feb. 25,
1861; m. Catharine E. Snyder (or Davis) b. July 13, 1824, d. Feb. 25,
1904. Date and place of marriage
uncertain. They had two sons:
George Hilton, b. 1852; m. Mary
Houghton; resided in Buffalo, N.Y.
See under 7th generation for their children.
James C. Hilton (listed as
Charles by other relatives, probably James Charles) b. Aug. 21, 1854; d. July
15, 1923; m. Isabella E. Palmer, b. Nov. 5, 1860; d. Sept. 9, 1925. They resided at Buffalo, N.Y.
Children:-
Arthur B. b. May 17, 1890; m. Jessie McFarland; no children.
Catharine I, b. Mar. 14, 1892; m. James H. Hutch; child:- Norbert James
Hutch, b. Sept. 20, '11
Beatrice M. b. July 11, 1895; d. Apr. 17, 1927; m. W. Hornberger.
DANIEL D. HILTON, 5th son of John
Burgess Hilton, b. Feb. 19, 1820; d. Oct. 17, '11 m. in 1849, Eva Scott, b.
Dec. 15, 1835; d. Nov. 18, 1914.
Resided in or near Port Robinson, Welland County, Ont.
Children:-
Sarah Elizabeth; b. Jan. 19, 1853; d. Oct. 17, 1916; m. William Ives and
resided at Batavia, N.Y.
Lydia Maria, b. July 24, 1856; d. May 16, 1928; m. William Ludwig and
resided at Scotia, N.Y.
Children:-
Carolyne S., m. Wm. Sprague.
George F. Ludwig; not m., 1918.
Henry R. Ludwig; not m., 1918.
Nellie E., m. F. R. Grant; res. Scotia, N.Y.
William, m. Birdie Chase.
Ethel May, m/ Floyd A. Glenn.
Alexander Vedder Hilton, b. Feb. 4, 1858; m. Mary Trumbell; b. July 10,
1870; res. Liberty, Mich.
Children:-
Raymond Rexford Hilton, b. Oct. 12, 1893.
Gladys M. Hilton, b. Aug. 6, 1895.
Orrin Elwood Hilton, b. June 19, 1897; m. and has two children, Virginia
and Forest.
Courtland Alexander Hilton, b. Aug. 2, 1905.
Helen Emily Hilton, b. Jan. 5, 1860; d. July 22, 1860.
David James Hilton, b. Jan. 18,
1861; d. Jan. 25, 1861.
Helen Jeanette Hilton, b. Jan. 5, 1862; d. July 16, 1918; m. William
Preston.
Mary Margaret Hilton, b. Aug. 24, 1863; m. Peter Van Duke.
William Edward Hilton, b. Sept. 12, 1868; m. July 22, 1931, Clara Goll.
SIMEON R. HILTON, 6th son of John
Burgess Hilton, b. Aug. 21, 1822 in Crowland, Welland County, Ont.; d. Jan. 14,
1920 at his home in the city of Welland, in his 98th year. He married Sarah Spencer of Thorold,
Welland County, Ont., and had one or two daughters, and one son, Edward R.
Hilton, with whom he resided in Welland, and who married shortly after his
father's death, but passes away a year or two later, leaving no issue.
MARGARET HILTON, youngest daughter
of John Burgess Hilton, b. June 16, 1828 in Crowland, Welland County, Ont.; d.
June 4, 1911 in Wainfleet. Buried
in Fonthill.
She married, 1st, about 1848,
John Goodwillie, b. Dec. 7, 1824; Had two sons:
George B.
Goodwillie, b. Sept. 29, 1850; res. at Flint, Mich., and in 1934 was living in
Indianapolis, Ind.
Charles W.
Goodwillie, b. Nov. 24, 1851; m. twice; 1st wife, Annie Grauff. residing in Vancouver, B.C., as late as
1934.
She married, 2nd, about 1853,
Francis Stokes, b. North Dalton, Yorkshire, Eng., about Nov. 1820. He died Dec. 12, 1894.
They resided on a large farm at
Hewitt station, 7 miles west of Welland, where the writer spent a happy
fortnight's vacation in July 1883 before he came to realize that he had just
been left an orphan. Here also his
grandfather spent his last years in the kindly care of his sister.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Fifth
Generation, continued.
Children of Margaret Hilton and
Francis Stokes:
Lidey E.
Stokes, b. Apr. 22, 1854; m. John Prest, b. in England
James B.
Stokes, b. Mar. 18, 1856; m. Eunice Schram, of Wainfleet.
Helen Louisa
Stokes, b. Feb. 28, 1858; m. David Ramsay, Nairn Scotland.
Sarah Grey
Stokes, b. July 11, 1860; d. Jan. 16, 1927; m. Albert Stewart
Albert Edward
Stokes, b. Oct. 19, 1862; d. Dec. 5, 1900; unm.
Mary M. Stokes,
b. Feb. 18, 1865; m. Simeon Carroll; res. Michigan.
Frances
Josephine Stokes, b. Apr, 21, 1867; m. Leaser Warner; res. Batavia, N.Y.
Lemuel H.
Stokes, b. Dec. 21, 1869; d. Dec. 31, 1917 from accident at the Steel Works in
Welland. m. Jennie Hoag, of Wainfleet. 4 children:- James, Evan, Gladys and
Orville.
Joseph Stokes,
b. Dec. 7, 1872; m. Alice Robinson; res. Wainfleet. Children:- Frank, Evelyn, Ray and George.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON HILTON,
youngest son of John Burgess Hilton, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in the home of his
Aunt Jeannette (Mrs. Robt. Arkenburg) in the town of New Scotland, Albany
County, N.Y. Leaving the older children,
except James, to care for the home, his parents drove back to Albany from
Niagara with an ox team, in October 1829, partly in the expectation of sharing
further in the estate of his father, Robert Hilton who died in June of that
year, but it appears they were not entirely successful, returning in May 1830
with their youngest son.
Uncle "Billy" is said
to have walked from Buffalo to Chicago in 1849, but it is more probable that he
shipped up the great lakes.
However, he bought a yoke of oxen in Chicago and drove or walked to
California to seek his fortune in the "gold rush", joining a party
following the "Overland Trail" through Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming
and the "Mormon Trail" through Utah, Nevada to Placerville, Calif.,
where he spent several years in the gold fields. But his greater success was found in stock raising after
vainly prospecting from Oregon to Arizona finally settling near Santa Ynez,
Santa Barbara County, Calif., where he was employed for many years as
"major domo" on the extensive ranchos of Don Luis Burton and Dr.
Brinkerhonn. He entered
partnership with these gentlemen raising horses for the army during the civil
war and later, in 1868-9, shipping or driving from Shasta County to the Salt
Lake City, Utah, markets. He
became an authority on the raising ands handling of all livestock and his later
years were devoted to a ranch of his own, known as the "Bee Rock" on
the San Maroos Trail between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez.
In 1869 he married Dolores,
daughter of Don Francisco Cavalleri, a native of Italy, who was born in Santa
Barbara County, California, March 29, 1849 and whose mother was a prominent
family of Spanish descent, and is said to have planted the famously large
grape-vine which was still thriving in 1920 in front of the school in
Carpenteria. Ten years or so later
it had disappeared and was replaced by the school flagpole. About the time of his marriage, perhaps
on that account, he finally found the opportunity to communicate with his
family folks back east, who had long since given him up for lost. In 1903 he retired to Santa Barbara,
where he died Jan. 6, 1905. His
wife survived him until Feb. 4, 1915.
Children:-
(1) John Harrison, b. Mar. 1, 1870; m. Mar. 17, 1914,
Nellie, dau. of John Kirby of New York, N.Y. He was employed by the Associated Oil Company at Gaviota, 30
miles west of Santa Barbara, and later developed a claim adjoining the camp of
the County Boy Scouts on the San Marcos Trail, but retired to Santa Barbara on
account of ill-health about 1932.
No children.
(2) Emma Jane, b. June 12, 1875; m. John H. Hector; res.
Lompoc and Oceano.
(3) Nellie Louise, b. Feb. 27, 1877; m. James Knox.
(4) Ella May, b. June 13, 1880; unm.
(5) Cecilia, b. Nov. 22, 1884; d. June 23, 1905.
(6) Allie, b. Mar. 6, 1887; d. Dec. 24, 1895.
(7) Freda Beatrice, b. Apr. 22, 1890; m. Ralph Hill.
(8) Grace Frances, b. Oct. 16, 1892; res. in San
Francisco, Calif.
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[[
photograph ]]
Joseph
Hilton Sr.
New
Scotland, N.Y.
[[
photograph ]]
James
Hilton
Oct.
1902.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Sixth
Generation.
JAMES HILTON, born on the
"Devondale" homestead in New Scotland, Albany County, New York, Jan.
2, 1862, was educated in Albany, graduating from the Model School in 1877 and
from the Boys Academy in 1879. He
won for excellence in military tactics both the Rathbun and Prentiss
medals. He succeeded his father in
the management of the home farm and herds, later purchasing a part of the
family estate where he made his home.
He continued the farm specialty blooded "Devonshire" cattle
under the name of James Hilton & Brother and became as widely known as his
father as an exhibitor. He was a
strong supporter of the State Agricultural Society and other similar matters. He was elected to the State Assembly in
1892 and served as chairman of the committee on Agriculture and holding
positions on other important committees.
He enlisted and served in the State National Guard, Co. A, Tenth
Regiment, for 16 years and is a member of the "Old Guard" of Albany. He was an active Democrat and served as
chairman of the County Committee and his presence was often noted at state and
county conventions.
After a lingering illness he died
at his home in New Scotland, Nov. 5, 1931.
He married in "Washington,
D.C., Oct. 21, 1901, Harriet Merle Aspinwall, born in Henderson, Jefferson
County, N.Y., in 1857. She was a
teacher in the schools for five years, then for 14 years was connected with the
dead-letter division, of the department of the U.S. postal service at Washington,
resigning in 1985 to become confidential clerk to the state superintendent of
public instruction, until her marriage.
After the death of Mr. Hilton she sold off their portion of the estate
retaining only the home place with its gardens in which she attempted to
continue and indulge her hobby of choice rose culture. She sought a milder climate for the
winters but fell ill at St. Petersburg, Florida, a victim of the unusually
severe season of 1934/5, where she died March 3, 1935. They had no children.
JOSEPH HILTON, born on the
homestead, Oct. 17, 1868; m. Harriett Wood of New Scotland, b. Mar. 6, 1870,
dau. of Charles & Catharine H. Flansburg, of New Salem.
He operates the homestead acres,
which remain undivided except for the portion purchased by his brother James,
but in partnership with his brother and leasing from other members of the
family their individual shares in the estate.
There was some action by the
county about 1930 to acquire the whole property for a "Rest Home" for
the elderly, but apparently the plan was not carried out. They have one daughter, Catharine W., b.
June 26, 1904; m. William Randall Wands, of the family of one of the early
settlers in New Scotland. They
reside at the neighboring station of Voorheesville, N.Y. Joseph Hilton was a graduate of Albany
Business College and served as Town Supervisor two terms and is now Postmaster.
ROBERT JAMES HILTON, b. June 26,
1876; d. Aug. 22, 1916; m. Ella Lawless and resided at Union Hill, N.J. He was in the employs of the N.Y.C.
& H.R.R.R. system. They had
one daughter, Phoebe Maria, b. Feb. 6, 1910; married George Frederick Kain, and
reside in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Robert J. Hilton was a graduate of the Albany Boys Academy in 1895 and
of the Albany Business College in 1896.
FRANK RICHARD HILTON, b. June 12,
1879; m. June 30, 1917, Mary Anna Mayer, of Fort Lee, N.J. She was born Jan. 10, 1892. They reside at Leonia, N.J.
Mr. Frank R. Hilton received his
education in the New Scotland public school, the Boys Academy, a private
military school, the State Normal High and the State teachers College, all at
Albany, N.Y., and the Walworth Institute in New York city.
He entered the employ of the New
York Central System of Railroads in 1902 and advanced steadily to a position of
responsibility in the vice president's office in 1922, his continuous service
with this corporation covering a period of 34 years to date. He united with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows in April 1904, Mechanics Lodge, No. 113, which was instituted in
1844, and was elected Presiding Officer or Noble Grand, Jan. 1, 1907, became
Junior Past Grand, Jan. 1, 1908, and received Past Grand award July 1, 1908. They are members of the Presbyterian
Church at Leonia, N.J. They have
one son;
Robert Mayer Hilton, b. Feb. 10,
1919, who is now a student in his sophomore year and president of his class, at
Montclair State teachers College, New Jersey.
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[[
photograph ]]
Mr.
& Mrs. James B. J. Hilton and daughter Rachel Josephine.
Photo
taken about 1855.
[[
photograph ]]
Mr.
& Mrs. Chandler M. Abell,
(R.
Josephine Hilton)
Photo
taken about 1865.
[[
photograph ]]
The
Home of Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Abell
St.
Catharines, Ont.
About
1880.
[[
photograph ]]
Lewis
P. Abell
(son
of C. M. and Josephine Hilton, Abell)
Photo
taken in 1916.
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Sixth
Generation, continued.
RACHEL
JOSEPHINE HILTON, b. May 17, 1841, at Troy, N.Y.; m. May 13, 1862, Chandler
McKelsey Abell, proprietor of the C. M. Abell Foundry & Machine Works, St.
Catharines, Ont., Canada; b. May 26, 1835, son of Julia Ann Tucker and Robert
Abell (see page 2). C. M. Abell
developed a business to a high degree of success and 1877 built an imposing
residence which became the center of family reunions and associations but he
suffered a stroke of paralysis and died Oct. 5, 1882 in his prime. His widow survived him less than a
year, dying of a lingering illness on June 24, 1883. The children were located with friends and relatives.
Children:- born
in St. Catharines, Ont.
(1) James Sayre Abell, b. Feb. 8, 1864; d. Feb. 23, 1871.
(2) Julia Anna Abell, b. Feb. 27, 1866; m. June 19, 1895
at Thorold, Ont., to Jesse Albright, of Rochester, N.Y., where they went to
reside and to continue their work together as soloists and in duet in church
choir, concert and chorus. They
had one son, Harold Lewis Albright, b. in Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 21, 1901.
They removed
Dec. 31, 1911 to Santa Ana, Calif., where they continued their musical works
for many years. Mr. Albright
became secy-treas. of the Taylor's Inc., canners and packers of fruits.
Harold L.
Albright graduated from the Santa Ana High School and attended Calif. Inst. of
Technology at Pasadena and after a year with the Los Angeles Dept. of Power
& Light he entered the employ of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.,
at San Francisco.
He m. Aug. 26,
1927, Phyllis Rogers, daughter of James S. Brown, of Berkeley, Calif. They have a daughter, Barbara Jean, b.
Sept. 16, 1930.
(3) Rebecca Josephine Abell, b. Oct. 11, 1868; d. Jan. 21,
1874.
(4) Asahel Hubbard Abell, b. Feb. 11, 1871; entered the
tailoring business with his cousin S. D. Abell, at Petrolia, Ont. He followed this line for a number of
years at Ithaca, Mich., Lockport and at Rochester, N.Y., and for the last 6 or
more years at Toronto, Ont., where S. D. Abell had later established his
trade. A. H. Abell was a skillful
amateur in photography and for several years was in the employ of the Eastman
Kodak Co., in Rochester. He
inherited and developed a remarkable musical talent both vocal and
instrumental.
(5) Lewis Parker Abell, b. Apr. 29, 1873. See under 7th gen.
(6) Charles Richards Abell, b. Aug. 24, 1875; d. Mar. 25,
1878.
(7) Franklin Theodore Abell, b. Oct. 14, 1877. He became an electrical mechanic and
employed in Cleveland, Ohio, Schenectady and in Rochester, N.Y. He died in Rochester, Sept. 16, 1919,
unm.
(8) Chandler McK. Abell, Jr., b. Mar. 6, 1880; d. Oct. 24,
1880.
LIDEY
ELIZABETH STOKES, b. Apr. 22, 1854; m. about 1874, John Prest, b. in
England. They resided on a farm at
Hewitt station west of Welland, Ont.
After his death Mrs. Prest resided in Batavia, N.Y., near her daughter,
Mrs. White, where she was still living in 1936. Children:- Edward, b. 1875; d. 1919. Anna Bell, b. 1877; m. Wm. G. White;
Margaret. b. 1879; d. 1882; Charles, b. 1881; d. 1887; Nellie May. b. 1893; d. 1934; m. Harold
Talbot, 1910 m. 2nd, a Mr. Boldrin.
John Prest, b. 1849; d. 1893.
HELEN
LOUISA STOKES, b. Feb. 1858; m. about 1878, David Ramsay, a native of Nairn,
Scotland. They resided in
Merritton, Ont. where they built up an extensive bakery business serving
patrons also in St. Catharines and Thorold, on each side. They sold the bakery about 1925 and
retired from business. Mr. Ramsay
died June 12, 1930 of infirmities of advancing years. They were active members and liberal supporters of the
Episcopal Church.
Children:
Francis, b.
about 1879; d. from being "gassed" in World War.
William, b.
Florence, b.
June 4, 1883(?) m. a Mr. Eshelman who d. Dec. 4, '35.
(Continued
on page 11)
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THE
HILTON FAMILY OF ALBANY, N.Y.
Sixth
Generation continued & Seventh Generation.
Children
(continued) of Helen Louisa Stokes and David Ramsay:
Donald Ramsay, b. abt 1885; m.
____?____; still living in 1934, at Merritton.
Charles Ramsay, b. abt 1887; m.
____?____; deceased before 1934
Norman Ramsay, b. abt 1889; m.
____?____; deceased before 1934.
Elsie Ramsay, b. abt 1891; m.
____?____; still living in 1934, at Merritton.
Albert Ramsay, b. abt 1893; m.
____?____; deceased before 1934.
Maggie Ramsay, b. abt 1895; m.
____?____; deceased before 1934.
John Ramsay, b. June 29, 1897; m.
____?____; Educated at the schools of the St. Catharines district and after a
secretarial course entered the employ of a large steel company in Buffalo,
N.Y. He returned later to finish a
course for the Episcopal ministry and received his first assignment as rector
in a growing parish in Alberta, northwest Canada, where he remained several
years, until receiving assignment to St. James Episcopal Church at Schuylkill
Haven, Penna.
He
married July 6, 1932, Helen Kendrick, of Hamilton, Ont.
The Rev. Ramsay managed to
collect most of the notes for their family but as unable to supply many dates
accurately. Another brother,
besides Francis, probably Charles or Norman, or perhaps both, served
"over-seas" in the World War and was severely "gassed" from
the effects of which they all died soon after the return home.
William Ramsay, with his family,
resides in Buffalo, N.Y., and Florence, (Mrs. Eshelman) resides in Scranton,
Pa.
Sixth
Generation.
Referring to page (6) ANDREW
ELLIOTT HILTON, born June 12, 1855, Crowland Township, Welland County, Ontario;
married Rachel Ann VanWormer, b. Apr. 13, 1860, in Chautauqua, N.Y. They resided at various points in
Michigan and at Detroit in later years.
Their children were:
Walter Hilton,
residing in Yakima, Wash.
John Hilton,
residing in Glen Arbor, Mich.
Robert Hilton,
residing in Darrington, Wash.
Margaret
Hilton, m. Mr. Ruegsegger, reside in Kalispell, Mont.
Ethel Hilton,
m. Mr. Atkinson, reside in Burdickville, Mich.
West Hilton,
resides at Cusick, Wash.
Mark E. Hilton,
married and resides at 1836 E. 71st St., Los Angeles, Cal.
Howard Hilton,
res. Traverse City, Mich; &
Eugene Hilton,
res. Detroit.
Seventh
Generation
ANNIE BELL PRIEST, b. in Thorold,
Ont., Apr. 18, 1877; m. William George White, born Dec. 10, 1870, Wexford,
Ireland. Reside in Batavia, N.Y.
Children:-
Mildred Lovina,
b. Jan. 26, 1897; m. June 28, 1916, Frank H. Wardour, b. in England. He is employed in Buffalo, N.Y.,
offices of the New York Central Railroad lines and now resides in Buffalo,
formerly Batavia.
Children:-
Wesley William, b. Apr. 18, 1917; at Batavia, N.Y.
Reginald Elliott, b. June 11, 1919, at Batavia, N.Y.
Jacquelyn Lois, b. Aug. 3, 1928; d. Sept. 5, 1929.
Dianne Esther, b. June 28, 1932, at Buffalo, N.Y.
Esther
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 5, 1898; d. Dec. 22, 1929; m. Oct. 19, 1921, in Batavia,
N.Y., to Elliott R. Aulph. No
children.
Edward John, b.
Aug. 29, 1901, Buffalo. m. Apr. 21, 1923, Pearl Foster
Children:-
William, b. Jan. 8, 1927.
Richard, b. ___?___
Donald, b. ___?___
Leroy James, b. Jan. 18, 1937.
Nellie May, b.
Apr. 21, 1904; m. LeRoy Bender, Dec. 5, 1925.
Children:-
Shirley Margaret, b. Nov. 18, 1926, at Batavia, N.Y.
Ardith, b. Aug. 28, 1928, at Batavia, N.Y.
Agnes Isabell,
b. Apr. 21, 1904; m. Ely Gonyea, Nov. 28, 1922.
Children:-
Romaine, b. July 16, 1923;
Nellie May, b. Apr. ?
Geraldine, b.
Frances, b.
Lewis Ely, b.
Frances
Margaret, b. Dec. 12, 1914; m. Paul Smith, June 30, 1934. Child:-
Margaret Estelle, b. Sept. 18, 1935.
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Seventh
Generation.
LEWIS PARKER ABELL, born at St.
Catharines, Ont., April 29, 1873; m. at Denver, Colorado, June 5, 1907, Edna
Brooks, daughter of William S. and Alma V. Lafferty, b. at Abilene, Kansas,
Sept. 12, 1880.
L. P. Abell was educated at the
public and high schools of St. Catharines, Aylmer and Woodstock, Ont., and
later improved by correspondence, tutoring and private study. Entered employ as apprentice draftsman
in the engineering departments of Detroit Electrical Works, the Brush Electric
Co., of Cleveland, O., Fort Wayne Electric Corp'n, and finally in 1899 with
General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y.
The two years previous, however, with the Electric World in New
York. In 1901, for benefit of
health, he was transferred to the G.E.Co's district office in Denver Colo., but
in 1903 engaged with Gilbert Wilkes & Co., of Denver Construction Engineers
(a former employer in Detroit) until 1906 when he received appointment in the
U.S. Reclamation Service, locating at Williston, N.D., until 1909 when he was
transferred to the office at Los Angeles, Calif. Upon completion of this work in 1910 he received appointment
in the engineering dept. of the City of Los Angeles, continuing to date, except
for 18 months "loaned out" to the U.S. Geol. Survey and other
departments in Washington for the period of the World War, returning upon final
discharge, Oct. 1919, to his duties with the city of Los Angeles.
He was admitted as a member of
the Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution, in 1899; transferred
to the Colorado Society of the same in 1905 and to the California Society, Sons
of the Revolution, in 1915.
Assisting in the establishment of
a neighborhood church near his home in Glendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, he
became a member of the Congregational Church, the denomination of his paternal
ancestors down to his grandfather, but had been reared in the Methodist Episcopal
Church to which his parents and nearly all members of their generation were
actively connected. He was elected
a deacon of the Glendale Congregational Church and took part of first bass in
the choir and quartet and was known as the "singing deacon".
Children:-
Herbert Lewis,
b. in May 1909 at Williston, N.D.; died soon after.
Alma Louis, b.
July 21, 1911 at Los Angeles, Cal.
She graduated from the Atwater grade school, Belmont high school, 1929;
McKay Business College, 1930, and left the Glendale Junior College in 2nd year
to accept appointment 1933, in the California Highway Division under state
civil service and is located at San Luis Obispo. She had passed the tests in city, county, state &
federal civil service and had received temporary appointments in the Cal. state
Motor Vehicle Registration Bureau.
ROSCOE R. HILTON, b. __________
prob. at Buffalo, N.Y., son of George Hilton see page 7, and grandson of Peter
S. Hilton. Left an orphan at 12
years of age and lived with relatives for several years in the
Albany-Schenectady, N.Y. district and later entered employ of the American
Bridge Company following their construction work in various parts of the
world. When the U.S. entered the
World War he enlisted in the Navy as a special mechanic attached to the Naval
High Powered Radio Unit in July 1917 and promoted to Chief of the same unit
attached to Naval And Marine high powered battery of 14" railroad guns in
Sept. 1917 and served in active duty on the Western Front until the Armistice
and received final discharge in Feb. 1919.
Mr. Hilton was ready to settle
down in 1921, married and established The Hilton Company in Aurora, Ind.,
wholesale & retail dealers in paints, wall-papers, shades, radios, etc. (No
children mentioned in 1928)
Reference was made to his sister,
Laura, who had married a Mr. Ed. Heartwell, vide-president of the Painsville,
Ohio, National Bank. She had
recently (1928) been left a widow and was indulging some long cherished
opportunities for travel.
They had a son, Robert, born
about 1912.
Children of James B. Stokes, page
8, Minnie, m. Mr. Robinson, res. Chippewa, Ont.
Frank, Isadore,
Eunice, William and Charles.
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THE
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REFERENCES
COLONIAL
PERIOD
Records of the State of New York,
Annual Report of the State Historian, 1897.
Colonial
Series; 1698, Vol. 2, pp. 467-8; 800; 1713, Vol. 1, pp. 451-3, Wm. Hilton.
Colonial
Series; 1715, Muster Roll of Capt. Daniel Rumsey, County of Salem, N.J., Jno
Hilton (private)
Colonial
Series; 1738, Blue Artillery Co., under John Waldron, William Hilton - pvte
Colonial
Series; 1746, List of 100 Volunteers under Capt. Nathaniel Richards to serve in
Present Expedition against Canada.
Mustered in New York.
Israel Hilton (private).
Colonial
Series; 1767, Capt. Abraham C. Cuyler's Co., 1st Battalion Albany Militia. Richard Hilton, Sergeant. Robert Hilton, Fifer. Peter Hilton, Private; also a Peter
Hilton and a Thomas Hilton, Privates.
Colonial
Series; 1767, Capt. Hendrick M. Roseboom's Co., Albany City Militia. Benjamin Hilton, Private. John Hilton, Private.
REVOLUTIONARY
PERIOD
New York in the Revolution as
Colony and State, by James A. Roberts, Comptroller
Pages
22, 80, 87, 97, 102, 113, 122, 123, 220, 221, 222 and 223.
Hiltons serving:- William,
Jonathan, Jacob R., Peter, Jacob W., Richard, Joseph, Robert, Derrick (Dick)
and John.
MISCELLANEOUS
RECORDS
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogy &
Family Memoirs, Vol. III, p. 1181, Cuyler Renold's, '11.
Genealogical
& Family History of Central New York, Vol. III, p. 1182, Wm. R. Cutter,
A.M.
Genealogical
& Family History of Western New York, Vol. III, p. 1182, Wm. R. Cutter,
A.M.
Pioneers
of Massachusetts, by Charles Henry Pope, 1900.
Pioneers
of Maine & New Hampshire, by Charles Henry Pope, p. 98.
Genealogical
Dictionary of New England, by Savage, Vol. 2, pp. 422,3,4.
Records
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Vol. 2, pp. 54, 66, 292; Vol. 3, p. 2.
New
England Genealogical & Historical Register, Vol. 31, pp. 179, 194; Vol. 36,
p. 40; Vol. 7, pp. 50, 52, 155.
Farmer
& Moore's Historical Collections, pp. 98, 144, 244, 251.
First
Settlers of Albany County, Pearson.
The
Hilton Family, by John T. Hassam.
Hilton
Genealogy, 196, 24 pages.
American
Ancestry. 1 - 37; 2 - 55.
Munsell's
Genealogical Index, 1900, p. 161.
Munsell's
Albany Collections, IV, p. 132.
Cleveland's
History of Yates Co. N.Y., 213.
Archives
of Canada, Division of Manuscripts; Hilton, John; William B.; Charles; Henry;
Benjamin; Sarah; Thomas; James; William, Sr. and Jr.;
Michigan
Pioneer & Historical Collections; Vol. I, p.424; II, 668, 79, 186, 485;
III, ix, xi, 3, 7, 100, 110,570.
IV, ix, 6, 293. V, 1,
10. VI, vi, 3, 74, 75, 411,
437. VII, ix, 3, 5, 7, 488. VIII, xiii, 9, 50, 107. IX, 6, 12, 54. XIII, 225. XIV, 148, 164.
XXII, 423. XXVII, 157, 563. Also in Vol. III, 106, 108, 544, 547.
The
Abell Family in America, 1930, by H. A. & L. P. Abell, (MS)
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