When Benjamin J Hilton I was born on 11 January 1740, in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Hilton, was 36 and his mother, Mary Lord, was 33. He married Susannah Harnden on 9 July 1766, in British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 7 March 1802, in United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hilton Cemetery, Starks, Somerset, Maine, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1772: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1809: Somerset, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Somerset, Maine, United States
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English (Lancashire):
habitational name from any of various places called Hilton (e.g. in Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland), most of which derive from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some come from Old English helde ‘slope’ + tūn.
occasionally, as in the case of Ralph filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219), perhaps from the personal name Hilton, itself a possible form of Norman Hildun, composed of the ancient Germanic elements hild ‘strife, battle’ + hūn ‘bear cub’. Compare Hilt . This English surname is present in Ireland (mainly taken to Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in Dublin).
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