who was engaged in fisheries and the coasting trade at Muscongus, Me., and Manchester, Mass., died in Manchester in 1723. He married in Marblehead, in 1699, Margaret, daughter of James Stilson. The eldest child born of this union was named Stilson. In 1723 Stilson Hilton and his wife Hannah joined the church in Marblehead. Their son, Samuel,5 born in Manchester, Mass., in 1741, died at Alna, Me., in 1809.
Samuel5 Hilton was in Colonel William Allen's regiment and afterward in Captain Gidding's company, Colonel Jonathan Bagley's regiment of provincial troops, raised for the invasion of Canada in 1759. He removed to Alna, Me., in 1763.
In the Revolutionary War Samuel Hilton served as private in Captain Benjamin Lemont's company. Colonel Samuel McCobb's regiment, and in Captain John Blunt's company, Colonel Prim's regiment, under Brigadier General Wadsworth in 17.S(). Company raised for the defence of Western Massachusetts. James Hilton, of Bristol, Me., was chosen Captain of the Seventh Company (Third Bristol) of the Third Lincoln County Regiment of Massachusetts militia, and was commisioned on May S, 1776, as ordered in council. He was one of the men raised to serve in the Continental army from the Seventh Company, Third Lincoln County Regiment, as returned by said Hilton, Captain, agreeable to order of council, November 7, 1777.
The marriage of Harriet Peasley Chaney and Greenlief Wadleigh Simpson took place May 29, 1866, in Bath, Me. Her home has since been in Massachusetts. Mrs. Simpson is a graduate of the public .schools of Bath, Me., including the high school.
Mr. Simpson, a Boston merchant, was born in Alna, Me. He is a lineal descendant of William1 Simpson, of Brunswick, Me. The following is a brief ancestral record:—William1 Simpson was born in Scotland in 1691. AMien a young man he removed to the north of Ireland with his wife, Agnes Lewis, and their small children, About the year 1728 he came to America, and settled at New Wharf, Brunswick, Me., now known as Simpson's Point. About seven years later his wife came with their two daughters, Mary and Jane, leaving one son, David, with his uncle. In this country were born to them six children—Sanmel, William, .Ir., Robert. James. Lewis, and Josiah.
Robert2 Simpson, born October 30, 1740, married Margaret Spear, January 19, 1769. He married a second wife, Jane Given, October 25, 1783. He .settled at Balltown, now Whitetield, Me. His children were: Nancy, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Margaret, and Robert, Jr. Robert3 Simpson, Jr., married Bertha Ford and had ten children — John, Lewis, George, Abner, Nancy, Mary, Lydia. Elizabeth, Julia, and Abbie. John4 Simpson married Sophronia Dole m July, 1839. They had four children — Myrick. Greenlief W.,5Hannah E., and Thomas A.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have five children—Caroline K., Clarence W., Harry J., Edna H., and Charles F. Their residence at Brookline is enriched hy many art treasures collected during their visits to foreign countries, and also by many . ancestral relics, among them choice pieces of furniture, invaluable for age and family associations. While sincerely devoted to her home and family, Mrs. Simpson, with the generous co-operation of her congenial and sympathizing husband, has been able to do more than an ordinary amount of public work: and her efforts and success in both walks of life may well he a lesson and example to younger women, stalling out with many impulses and untried purposes.
Mr. and Mrs. Simpson are members of the Baptist church, and have labored zealousy to promote its influence in the community. Mrs. Simpson is one of the five ladies on the executive board of the Tremont Temple Church, Boston. She has been for many years a director of the Benevolent Society of the church and a member of the Home and Foreign Mission Society'. She is a constant attendant at Tremont Temple Church, an active working member of its various charities and .societies, and prominent in its councils. She is a charter member and director of the Baptist Social Union, which specially appeals to her kindly nature, as the aim of the society is the encouragement of a more
