Alice Walton

Summary

• Not a Hilton

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-147088

Alice is named in her husband's will, dated 14 February 1685. Her family name is unknown.[4] Only six of their children reached adulthood,[5] and nine (9) of their grandchildren were orphaned by 1679.[6]

Disputed Orgins

The parents listed for this individual are speculative and may not be based on sound genealogical research. Sources to prove or disprove this ancestry are needed by discussion.

Unfounded Theories:[7]

Alice Hilton, daughter of William Hilton -- asserted by Charles Libby ... Baker (2007), also prints a speculative pedigree, (p. 55);[2][8]
related to the Waldron family.[9]

Marriage

m. (probably bef. 1642 Exeter) George Walton (b. c. 1615; will: 14 Feb 1685, proved: 09 Mar 1685).[1][10]

Issue:

1. George (living Jun 1678; d.v.p. by summer 1679).[5][11] m. Mary ?[8]
2. Col. Shadrach "Sidrach" Walton.[1][12][5] m. Mary Nutter.[8]
3. Abishag (d. abt. 1679).[1][13][11] m. (separated 1672) Robert Taprill (d. Nov 1678 at sea).[5][11]
4. Martha (d. 1679).[5][8] m. Edward West, Sr. (d. 1677).[6]
5. Dorcas (d. probably mid-1670s).[14] m. Samuel (d. probably mid-1670s), son of James Treworgy and Katherine, dau. of Alexander Shapleigh of Kingsweare, Devon.
6. Mary.[5] m. Samuel "Sam" Roby / Robie (b. 12 Feb 1628).[12]
7. UNKNOWN "died young" (d. 05 May 1657)[15][2]

Residence

1682: Great Island (now New Castle, NH ... near Kittery).[16]

Events

• 02 Feb 1664: convicted with her husband for being a Quaker.[13]
• 11 Jun - Sep 1682 New Castle, NH: lithobolia (Stone throwing Devil).[17] controlled area. ... links suggest Alice Hilton married George Walton.

Sources

1. MBCR 1 :245;
2. NHPP 1:133, 40:6;
3. Lydia Harmon Ancestry 81-108;
4. Ossipee Record Book Recovered: Decades of Vital Records Found Additions and Corrections Who Was Alice, Wife of George1 Walton? John Avery of Epping, New Hampshire: A Peripatetic Ancestor Philatelic Genealogy in New Hampshire, NEHGR 27:141-48;
5. Emerson W. Baker, The Devil of Great Island (New York 2007)]
6. Baker, E.W. (2007). The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. Palgrave Macmillan. Google Books.
7. The Quaker Link between the Waltons and the Hiltons. w3.salemstate.edu.[18]
8. Pope, C.H. (1908). "Walton, George," in The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, pp. 219-220. Boston. Google Books.
9. William (2012 May 4). Cates / Demeritt Family Tree. Rootsweb.[2]

Footnotes

1. Pope, 1908, p. 220
2. The name of George Walton's wife was Alice UNKNOWN. ... The surname Hilton is an assertion by Charles T. Libby. ... NEHGR Vol. 7 lists Alice Hilton, 18, on pasenger list 24 April1635 of "Ann & Elizabeth".
3. Note that George Walton and Alice became Quakers -- after one of their children [toddler] drowned in a well on 05 May 1657, (Baker, 2007, p. 44) -- whereas the Hiltons followed the Church of England. (see William Hilton's profile Hilton-18).
4. Miner Descent. Weblog.[1]
5. ↑ Davis, W.G. (1924). The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon 1755-1836 Wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish Maine, pp. 83. Stanhope Press. ("The maiden name of Mrs. Walton has not been definitely proven.")
6. Baker, 2007, p. xi.
7. Baker, 2007, p. 56
8. "#3, 4," in The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, 27.
9. Walton, J. (2010). Who was Alice, wife of George Walton? NHGR, 27, (3 & 4), pp. 141–8.
10. "circumstantial evidence does suggest that it was Alcie Hilton who married George Walton," (Baker, 2007, p. 39).
11. Baker, 2007, p. 55, pedigree with Hilton.[2]
12. ↑ relationship with Alexander Waldron is examined under the profile of her daughter Abishag.
13. George was living in Exeter in 1642, so that was most likely the place of marriage. (see Walton's will: New Castle, NH Library-State Papers, vol. 1 (1635-171), p. 299.
14. Abishag and her 3 dau. by Taprill were shafted by Robert. He willed his entire estate to a friend, (Baker, 2007, p. 54).
15. "Robie," in Notes (1911). NEHGR, pp. 293. Boston: The Society. Google Books. (Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters).
16. Baker, 2007, p. 48.[3]
17. Baker, 2007, p. xi, 52, 54
18. Baker, 2007, p. 44
19. Dean, J.W. (1885). Notes and queries. NEHGS 39, p. 185. Boston: David Clipp & Son. Google Books.
20. ↑Baker, E. (n.d.) Lithobolia. Salem University. (mirror.[4]);
21. "account by “R.C.,” Richard Chamberlain, NH sec and agent of Mason family. In 1682 Chamberlain was boarding at the Walton tavern, so he witnessed much of the attack. He did not publish this account until 1698. (see text in Burr, G.L. (1914). Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, pp. 55-77. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons).
22. archeology dig at Humphrey and Lucy Chadbourne's home. ... includes tree showing possibility that Chadbournes and Shapleighs were connected to Quakers -- taboo for Puritan

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References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Samuel_Treworgy_%281%29
• Davis, Walter Goodwin. The ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine. (Boston, Massachusetts: Stanhope, 1924 ) 84.m Dorcas Walton, d/o George and Alice Walton, deposition in 1666, m. Samuel Treworgy. [No age or birth given, so apparently none in deposition? But certainly b. bef. 1648 to be of age to testify.]

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The Salem State College maintains a website documenting the archeological dig at Humphrey and Lucy Chadbourne's home. The site includes a tree