Jacomyntie (Jemima) Van Valkenburgh Hilton

According to family based sources, Jacomyntie (aka Jemima) Van Valkenburgh was born in September 1775 and christened at the Dutch church in Kinderhook. Thus, she would have been the daughter of Kinderhook area residents Abraham and Cornelia Ten Eyck Van Valkenburgh. Perhaps she had but one sibling.

In December 1797, she married Benjamin Hilton at the Dutch church in Kinderhook. By 1802, the first two of their children had been christened at the Dutch church in Albany. Subsequent baptisms were recorded in Kinderhook.

Following her marriage, these Hiltons lived briefly in Albany where Benjamin appears to have been a grocer. But the end of the first decade of the 1800s, they had returned to Kinderhook their home for the remainder of their lives

Jacomyntie (Jemima) Van Valkenburgh, "wife of Benjamin Hilton," died at Kinderhook in September 1826. She had lived for fifty-one years. Her locally prominent husband may have lived somewhat longer.

Sources: The life of Jacomyntie (Jemima) Van Valkenburgh Hilton is CAP biography number 1336. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.