O RIGIN: Beaminster, Dorsetshire
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1636, Northampton by 1660
OCCUPATION: Trader [Pynchon Papers 2:13, 22, 24-25, 30, 31, 34-35]. In late 1632 William Pynchon, as Massachusetts Bay treasurer, reported receiving payment from "Davis Wilton of Dorchester" for his part in the beaver trade [MHSC 2:8:231].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 11 June 1633 implied by freemanship.
"I here note down concerning br. Lieutenant Wi[l(ton)] did remove from Windsor Church to go to No[rth(ampton)] to help further a Church there the beginn[ing] March 25, and now February ye 6. 1677. he wa[s b(uried)] here in Windsor, he died the day before" [Grant 9]. (This record is much mutilated in the original, and so some portions of this passage have been lost.)
FREEMAN: 11 June 1633 [MBCR 1:368].
EDUCATION: He signed his will. His inventory included "books" valued at 15s.
OFFICES: Dorchester fenceviewer at the north field, 8 October 1633 [DTR 3].
Deputy to Connecticut Legislature, April 1646, May 1650, September 1650, May 1651, September 1651, May 1652, September 1652, May 1653, September 1653, May 1654, October 1655 [CT Civil List 63]. War Committee for Windsor, May 1653 [CT Civil List 63]. Jury, 24 October 1644, 4 September 1645, 9 October 1645, 19 May 1647, 22 November 1647, 28 December 1648, 6 December 1649, 20 February 1650[/1], 7 December 1654, 4 March 1657[/8], 5 May 1658, 3 March 1658/9 [RPCC 29, 36-37, 46, 48, 57, 72, 93, 132, 185, 188, 197].
Chosen ensign at Windsor on 28 May 1655 [Brady Anc 379, citing Windsor Town Records]. Lieutenant of the Hampshire Troop by 1663 [Brady Anc 384-85].
ESTATE: On 6 January 1633/4 the town of Dorchester "ordered that the marsh and swamp before Goodman Hosford and Davy Wil[ton] shall be divided among themselves and Simon Hoyte" [DTR 5]. Granted Lot #44, five acres, in the meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321].
In the Windsor land inventory on 2 February 1640[/1] David Wilton held nine parcels, the first five of which were granted to him: one acre within the palisado; "a homelot four acres and half"; seven acres in the Great Meadow; fifteen acres in the Northwest Field; over the Great River a parcel eighteen rods in breadth; a homelot by purchase from Thomas Ford; five acres and a half in Hoyte's Meadow by purchase from Elyas Stileman; "by purchase from William Hill all the land about his dwelling house"; two acres in Hoyte's Meadow purchased of Walter Hoyte [WiLR 1:47].
In his will, dated 25 December 1677 and proved 5 March 1677[/8], "Lt. David Wilton of Northampton" bequeathed to "my grandchild Samuel Marshall half my property at Northampton and the other half by reversion after the decease of his wife and daughters"; "if Mr. Joseph Hawley, who hath married Lydia my grandchild & is now living at Northampton, see cause to settle there and build an house, I give him land" there, or else the land to go to Samuel Marshall; to "my wife Katharine Wilton the other half of property at Northampton, also the house in Windsor which was formerly belonging to my son Samuel Marshall deceased, also £75 due to me in Boston in the hands of Mr. John Pynchon ... she [to] pay ... certain legacies"; "my wife" to have £50 to give to whom she pleases; to "the College at Cambridge £10"; to "my daughter Mary Marshall, widow, £10"; to "my brother Nicholas Wilton my best clothes"; to "my sister Joan Wilton £1"; to "John Taylor Sr. £3"; to "the Church in Northampton my silver bowl"; residue to "my wife," including a sawmill in Northampton; "whereas Mary Marshall is my real & native heir, if she shall outlive & survive my wife she shall have the estate which I left to my wife, to possess the same during her life, but it shall remain to her own children"; to "my grandson Thomas Marshall who now lives with me, if he continue with my wife until he come to twenty-one years ... to have £12 more added to his portion"; wife sole executrix; "Capt. John Allyn of Hartford, with Rev. Mr. Solomon Stoddard, Lt. William Clarke & Medad Pomeroy, overseers" [Hartford PD Case #6129; Manwaring 1:386-87].
The inventory of the estate of Lt. David Wilton, taken 2 March 1677/8, totalled £101 11s. 9d., including the "housing and homelot" valued at £75 (an inventory of his land and goods at Windsor only) [Hartford PD Case #6129; Manwaring 1:386].
BIRTH: Baptized Beaminster, Dorsetshire, 1 May 1608, son of Robert Wilton [NEHGR 143:118].
DEATH: Windsor 5 February 1677/8 [Grant 9].
MARRIAGE: By about 1632 Katherine [HOSKINS] (daughter of Anne, the widow of John Hoskins, but not necessarily daughter of John Hoskins) [TAG 30:191-92, 38:3]. She married (2) Hartford 6 May 1679 THOMAS HOSMER [Grant 74].
CHILD:
| i MARY, b. say 1632; m. Windsor 6 May 1652 Samuel Marshall [CTVR 41; TAG 38:8-12]. |
ASSOCIATIONS: Brothers Nicholas and Robert Wilton and sister Joan Wilton also came to New England [TAG 38:1, 7-8; NEHGR 143:119].
COMMENTS: In 1644 David Wilton was sued by Mr. William Whiting for £9 [RPCC 25, 26]. In December 1644 he was executor with Daniel Clarke to the will of Ephraim Huit [RPCC 31]. On 1 June 1648 John Moses was fined for miscarriages with "David Wilton his daughter" [RPCC 51]. On 28 December 1648 David Wilton was fined for failing to appear to serve on the jury [RPCC 59]. In spring of 1651 David Wilton and Mr. Allyn were warned to the next court for drawing of wine contrary to order [RPCC 95]. On 7 March 1650[/1] Robert Hubberd sued David Wilton for damages [RPCC 96]. In March 1652/3 David Wilton was sued for debt by Aaron Cook [RPCC 115]. On 5 June 1656 David Wilton sued Nathaniel Browne for £6 debt with damage [RPCC 165].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: L. Effingham deForest published an account of David Wilton in 1933 [Brady Anc 378-86]. The best treatment is that prepared in 1962 by John Insley Coddington, which discussed in detail the many problems of interpretation regarding this immigrant [TAG 38:1-12]. In 1989, as part of his detailed study of Parsons families in early New England, Gerald James Parsons published evidence on the English origin of David Wilton [NEHGR 143:101-19, especially 118-19].
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