Hi to all -- will someone please tell me a definitive source for the surname "Hilton" for the Rebecca who was the wife of Thomas Roberts? Here's my reasoning: We have seen her identified as "Rebecca Hilton", but have not found this in any definitive source. In fact authorities such as The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Noyes, Libby & Davis, do not speculate on her name, other than that Thomas Roberts' Will identifies his wife as "Rebecca". Articles on the Hiltons, who were early settlers with Roberts, do not list them as identified with a Rebecca. The connection between Thomas Roberts and the Hilton brothers was such that if he had married their sister, or any other member of a Hilton family, it would seem that it would have been mentioned by one of the historians or genealogists. While one must always be cautious about conclusions drawn from silence, in this case it would seem that the absence of identifying Rebecca as a Hilton would be strong inference that she was NOT a Hilton. Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration Begins, includes accounts of both Edward Hilton and William Hilton, referring to them as brothers, and including their family information as known. He does not include any sister named Rebecca. Indeed, it seems to me that "Hilton" is the least probable surname for Rebecca. Can someone show me differently? Harman Clark P.O. Box 311, Sheffield, VT 05866 hclark@plainfield.bypass.com -----Original Message----- From: Robert Jackson <High.Seas@breezy.com> To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com <NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 1:57 AM Subject: [Fwd: Re: NORRIS / HEARD] >Fred, thank you very much. >------------------ >John, > >This from Fred Gain... >----------------------------------------------------- >Fred Gain wrote: >> >> Dear Mr. Jackson: >> >> Jonathan Norris son of Nicholas Norris the immigrant married Lydia Hurd >> the daughter of Benjamin Hurd and Elizabeth Roberts. Ben Hurd was the >> son of Lt John Hurd and ......... Elizabeth Roberts was the daughter >> of Thomas Roberts and Rebecca Hilton (Tom, Mark, William) >> >> Fred Gain, P.O. Box 2307, Springfield, Ill. 62705 >> >> Robert Jackson wrote: >> > >> > Hello John, >> > >> > Anne NORRIS & William LANG are my ancestors. >> > >> > Anne was the dau. of Joseph NORRIS & Comfort PIPER. Anne was b. >> > Stratham, NH in 1780. >> > >> > In my paperwork I see Nicholas Norris & Sarah Coxe, and their son >> > Jonathan Norris marrying a LYDIA - with no last name indicated. >> > >> > Any chance the spelling for LYDIA's family name might also be HURD? >> > >> > I'll check around and see what I can find that might lead to Lydia and >> > parents. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Bob Jackson >> > ---- >> > > > >==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== >Send messages to the list to the "To" address found above in THIS message. >To send commands (subscribe/unsubscribe), insert -request between the L >(or D) and the @ in the address. Send only the command. >**************** >