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William Hilton Jr (1617-1675) [1] was an English explorer who explored the coast of The Carolinas in what is today the United States. [2] Hilton was born on June 22, 1617, at Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father came to the New England colonies in 1621, with William Jr and his mother following two years later on the ship Anne. [3]
William Hilton, Jr.'s Map of His Expedition. After sixteen days of fair weather, and prosperous winds, Wednesday the 26 instant, four of the clock in the Afternoon, and God be thanked, we espied Land on the Coast of Florida, the lat. of 32 deg. 30 min. being four Leagues or thereabouts to the Northwards of Saint Ellens, having run five hundred ...
Captain William Hilton was a true explorer and adventurer! William Hilton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Self portrait *oil on canvas* 76 x 61 cm. Born in 1605, he became one of the first settlers to explore the area around today’s Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Hilton was born on June 22, 1617, in Northwich, Cheshire, England.
Jun 8, 2010 · William Hilton Jr. Posted onJune 8, 2010by markeminer. William HILTON Jr (1617 – 1675) was an explorer who mapped Cape Fear eventually leading to the founding of Wilmington NC which has a large port in on the Cape Fear River. He named Hilton Head SC after himself. He was Alex’s 11th Great Grandfather, one of 4,096 in this generation of the ...
In 1663, English sea captain William Hilton landed on Hilton Head Island and, thus, the seeds of the first successful plantations were sown. Commissioned by a group of Barbados planters to find new land on which to plant sugar and indigo, Hilton soon claimed the Island in the name of the British Crown. Hilton, however, was not the first ...
Jul 26, 2023 · Hilton Head Island is actually named after Captain William Hilton Jr., an English explorer who moved to New Plymouth as a child. Hilton is known to have previously captained the Adventure from Charlestown, Massachusetts to Florida. Back then, they considered the southern geographical region up to the Carolinas to be Florida, therefore Hilton ...
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Apr 15, 2016 · In 1663 an English explorer, Captain William Hilton, sighted the headland of a “Countrey very pleasant and delightful” and named the island for himself. The first white settler on Hilton Head was Colonel John Barnwell, who came in 1717 to claim a one-thousand-acre land grant from the Lords Proprietors.
