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December 1, 1663, the Eliot, Maine, explorer Capt. William Hilton,Jr., master of the ship "Adventure" purchased and named the Cape Fear River, North Carolina; and purchased the land "Wattacoosa"; location of present day, Southport, North Carolina; Miller's home. Capt. Hilton's kinsman, Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh, also of Eliot, Maine; prepared the map of the new lands.
Capt. Hilton was the brother of Edward Hilton, Sr.,lawyer of Eliot, Maine; who's wife, Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Hilton, was the sister of mapmaker Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh.
Edward Hilton, Jr's wife, Mrs. Ann Dudley Hilton, twice descended Gov. Thomas Dudley, and once Gov. John Winthrop.
Edward and Catherine's, Southport, North Carolina, descendant; James Alfred Locke Miller, Jr., retired airline, FAA licensed and FCC licensed airline mechanic; ex-ILA longshoreman, port of Morehead City, N.C.; an NMU ordinary seaman helmsman aboard the Navy Research Lab's special projects ship, USNS Mizar, T-AGOR 11, on Voyage 50; the 1971 voyage six-miles excusion into six-feet thick, Polar icecap; entrapped a week.
Also, as a helmsman aboard the USNS Corpus Christi Bay, Miller observed French A-bomb detonations in the South Pacific. Miller was also a U.S. Customs tobacco warehouse officer, Port of Winston-Salem, N.C.
Likely, in simuliarly situated storms, both Hilton and Miller said the same sailor's prayer: "Oh Lord: Thy Seas are so Big, my Ship, so Small".
Any Corrections or Additions appreciated.
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