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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... Joseph, the third son of the second Edward Hilton, was born about the year 1681, and died at the age of eightyfour; by his second wife, a widow Adams, he had a son, named Theodore, who lived in Newmarket, and married Mary Sinclair of Stratham; and their eldest son, Joseph* settled in Deerfield, where he died in 1826; this Joseph Hilton married Sarah Thurston of Epping; he lived where the brick house now stands, near the mills owned by Sawyer, Dearborn, and Philbrick; was a large land-owner, and had corn to spare when others had not; he also carried on blacksmithing upon a large scale; made oil of flax-seed; was a very industrious man, succeeding in every branch of business to which he gave his attention, and accumulated a large estate; he had, for children, Stephen, who removed to Maine; Joseph, who lived in Deerfield, and died a young man, leaving children; John, who also lived in Deerfield; Daniel, who went into Maine; Winthrop, who graduated at Dartmouth College, and died in Deerfield; Hannah, who married a Mr. Butler, and moved into Maine: Mehitable, who became the wife of Capt. David Haines, who commanded a company of artillery at Portsmouth. He subsequently removed to Manchester, having a daughter who married Rev. J. L. Sinclair, whose son, Joseph H., married a sister of Col. Peter Sanborn of Concord, and they live in Manchester; Elizabeth, born March 30, 1780, married a Mr. Ford, and lived in Gilmanton, and their sons, W. P. and T. H. Ford, are hardware dealers in Concord; John, who married Abigail Prescott of Deerfield. Col. Hilton's second wife was the widow of Joseph Mills, Esq., who was her second husband, her first being Joseph March, Esq. It is believed that, at her first marriage, she was a Coffin. Col. Hilton was a...