Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

William Hilton

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 774 
  • Father:
  • William Hilton 
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  • Christening Date:
  • 22 Jun 1617 
  • Christening Location:
  • Northwich, Cheshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Greenleaf
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1641 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Hilton

  Hannah Hilton (Ahnentafel No:387 )

  Elizabeth Hilton

• Additional marriages for William Hilton

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitable Nowell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Sep 1659
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for William Hilton

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, William Hilton (m. 1640), pp. 1-6.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1877, Vol. 31, pp. 183-184.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 953, 1345.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 2029-2030.
  • ⁵ Burrows, Louisa Libby, Genealogy of William French Burrows, Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed (1938), 64.
  • ⁶ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 190.
  • ⁷ Sherman, Robert Moody et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 15, James Chilton-Richard More, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 14.

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