Gilliam In-Laws: The Hildreths, Part 3
Gilliam In-Laws: The Hildreths, Part 3 In two preceding blog posts, we reviewed the first five generations of Hildreth ancestors (and the families they married into) in North America. Three generations of Hildreth ancestors helped settle the English colonies in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. The fourth generation, Joseph Hildreth, moved his family from Orange County, New York to the Virginia frontier after the American Revolution commenced. His son, Jeffrey Hildreth, left his mark in Virginia before moving to Bourbon County, Kentucky a few years prior to his death in 1820. In this post, we will pick up with the sixth American Hildreth in our direct line, Rees Bowen Hildreth (1790-1849), as the Hildreths help pioneer the American Midwest. My generation’s 3rd great-grandfather, Rees Bowen Hildreth (I will refer to him as RBH in the remainder of this post) was born in about 1790 in Wythe County, Virginia. He was the fourth or fifth child of Jeffrey and Lily Bowen Hildreth an