He took on this position after natives killed Col. Richard Waldron on June 27, 1689, at the outbreak of King William's War.
During Queen Anne's War, Major Hilton joined the expedition of Col. Benjamin Church in May 1704, and was gone all summer, marching as far as the Penobscot River and participating in the Raid on Grand Pré.
[1] On 1 July 1706, natives raided Hilton's home in Newfields, killing six of the ten men working the fields and taking two prisoner.
In January 1707, at Casco (specifically Black Point, Maine, near present-day Portland), Hilton ambushed 18 natives as they slept and massacred all but one.
Natives ambushed Hilton and his company at Epping, New Hampshire, on June 23, 1710, killing him and two of his men, and taking more prisoner.