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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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DESCENDANTS OF
SAMUEL HILLS
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A Supplement t o
The Hills F a mil y in Amer ica
W. S. Hills and Thomas Hills
(Published 1906)
BY
WINIFRED LOVERING HOLMAN, s.b.
F.A.S.G. --
COMPILED BY THE AUTHOR FOR
FRANCIS J. HILLS
OF RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY
1957
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To my wife
EDITH CHRISTINE (SHANNO) HILLS
through whose constant effort this hook has been published
Francis J. Hills
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FOREWORD
If it were not for the patience and generosity of Francis J. Hills
Esq., of Rahway, N. J., this book would never have become avail¬
able. It is important to note that his earliest known progenitor,
Samuel Hills of Duxbury, Mass., and Lebanon, Conn., wrote the
final “s” to his surname. While some of the descendants changed
the spelling, most of them, including Mr. Hills’ branch, retained the
original form.
Samuel Hills was not a son of John Hill of Saybrook, Conn., nor
was the latter a son of William Hills of Hartford, Conn., as has been
claimed without evidence or proof. Of these facts I am certain.
Throughout the text, reference is made to the Hills Notes , a typed
manuscript, with many photostatic copies of original documents,
which I compiled and which Mr. Hills has presented to the New
England Historic Genealogical Society.
Mr. Hills has particularly requested that full acknowledgement
be accorded to the late William Sanford Hills and Thomas Hills for
their Hills Family in America , published in 1906. I wash to thank
Mrs. Charles D. Townsend of West Hartford, Conn., and Donald
Lines Jacobus, M.A., of New Haven, Conn., for their able assistance
in some of the local research, also Miss Marion C. Reed of Brookline,
Mass., for her help in reading proof with me.
Lexington, Massachusetts. Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B.
January 1957. F.A.S.G.
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CONTENTS
Frontispiece.Francis J. Hills
Hills Lineage
Samuel 1 Hills. 1
Ephraim 2 Hills. 18
Lebbeus 3 Hills. 24
Asahel 4 Hills. 36
David 5 Hills. 50
Delos Charles 6 Hills.. 55
Delos Charles 7 Hills Jr. 58
Francis J. 8 Hills. 59
Delos Charles 9 Hills IV and Francis J. 9 Hills Jr. 60
Addenda
John Hill of Say brook. 63
Sergeant Philip Leonard of Duxbury. 67
Ancestral chart of Hannah (Brown) Hills. 74
The Browns of Woburn and Colchester. 75
Full Name Index. 89
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DESCENDANTS OF
SAMUEL HILLS
1. SAMUEL 1 HILLS, birthplace and parentage unknown, aged
sixty-two in 1735, hence born in 1673, resident of Duxbury, Mass.,
from at least 1694, died in Lebanon, Conn., between 6 Sept. 1748 and
12 Oct. 1753, testate. He married, in Duxbury, 6 Nov. 1694*, Phebe
Leonard, probably living in Lebanon, 28 Apr. 1733, daughter of Sgt.
Philip and Lydia (-) Leonard, about wdiom see the Addenda.
As a second wife, he married, in Lebanon, 25 Feb. 1735, Abigail
Hinckley, born in Barnstable, Mass., about 1693, living in Lebanon,
26 Oct. 1753, daughter of Ensign John and Mary (Goodspeed)
Hinckley, f N o issue by this second marriage.
W. S. Hills’ and Thomas Hills’ 1906 Hills Family in America , page 8 ,
places our Samuel, without any proof, as the Samuel, born in Say-
brook, Conn., 29 May 1671, son of a John Hill, by wife Jane, widow
of John Bushnell; I find nothing to warrant such an assumption.
Our Samuel of Duxbury was not a mariner, but a shoemaker, there¬
fore there was no reason for him to backtrack from Saybrook to Dux¬
bury; the trend was ever westward; nor did the Bushnell children
apparently have relatives in Duxbury. Of our Samuel’s eight chil¬
dren, none w^ere named Jane or John, or bore the names that Jane
gave her Bushnell offspring. Nor was this unknown John Hill of
Saybrook a son of William Hills of Hartford, likewise claimed, for the
latter’s son, John, left no male heirs, as is clearly set forth in Jacobus’
careful 1952, Hale House and Related Families , pages 581-582.%
Therefore, we start this Lineage with the progenitor, Samuel Hills,
of Duxbury and Lebanon, born in or about 1673, died about 1753,
who evidently had just attained his majority, at the time of his 1694
wedding. Apparently possessed of no real property, this marriage
with Phebe w r as a fortunate step for young Samuel, for she was sole
heiress of her parents and in this way, Samuel and Phebe, eventually
became owners of all of her father’s holdings in Duxbury. It has been
stated that Philip Leonard, her father, removed to Duxbury from
Marshfield, Mass., but as w^e shall see in his account, which has been
carefully compiled, this is not true. He lived on the line between the
* Intention not of record.
t Nephew of Gov. Hinckley, for my Hinckley Notes, see N. E. H. G. Society.
t Data about John and Jane (-) (Bushnell) Hill, in the Addenda.
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2 HILLS LINEAGE
two towns and his farm and other lands fell within Duxbury when that
line was straightened.
Before we continue with the account of Samuel Hills, it is well to
point out that a most exhaustive search for his parentage was made
and with a negative result. The name of HILL and HILLS was
often interchanged and this was borne in mind. A list of the principal
authorities consulted has been kept. The only other family of the
name in old Plymouth Colony was Ralph Hill and son, of Plymouth,
but the Samuel, son of Ralph Jr., born in 1672, lived and died (1755)
in Billerica, Mass., so is eliminated.*
The bounds between Duxbury and Marshfield were established,
23 Feb. 1683; earlier, 2 Mar. 1658, “Namassakeesett” was annexed
to Duxbury; more lands were granted both towns, 5 Mar. 1661; the
bounds between Duxbury and the Major’s Purchase were established,
5 July 1670; later, in 1813, the bounds between the towns were again
stipulated. 21 Mar. 1712, Pembroke was set off from Duxbury, being
that part called Mattakeeset, the Major’s Purchase and land known
as Marshfield Upper Lands. (In 1734, Halifax was set off from a
portion of Pembroke and in 1820, Hanson was also set off from Pem¬
broke.) This will help us to understand why, when the Pembroke
Vital Records (1911) were printed, they contain, pages 107 and 289 ,
these records, for Hills:
“Abgell,” b. 26 Mar. 1697
Philip, b. 9 Aug. 1699
Richard, b. 3 Feb. 1702-03
Samuel Jr., b. 25 June 1701
Samuel Hills and-, m. 6 Nov. 1694
The reference to the above is Private Record which was in the
possession of a Henry Torrey, of North Hanson f; doubtful if authen¬
tic or ancient, it was evidently copied, in part, from the Duxbury
Vital Records.
It is most unfortunate that the Town Proceedings (Minutes) of
Duxbury are lost prior to 1686; that the Proprietors’ Records only
commence in 1709; and that the old First Church Records (now
Unitarian) are only extant from 1739.
A personal trip to Duxbury, confirmed the above; also there are no
Warnings in the records. The town proceedings are complete 1686
through 1711, then scattered until 1729. All the material about land
grants, divisions, etc., was printed in 1893 in the Duxbury Town
Records , 164-2-1770 , fully indexed, the preface of which states that
the “Unimportant” town meeting records, as also the vital records
are omitted. Important to us surely! The vital records were issued,
* Holman’s 1938 Pillsbury Ancestry, 1005-1006; Register , S3: 443~444; Mayflower
Dcsc. 13: 84; Hazen’s 1SS3 Billerica, 69, et als.
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in 1911, down to 1850. Also, in divers volumes of the Mayflower
Descendant (34 volumes, 1905-1937), are the early vital records,
verbatim, and exactly by page. Volume 10 (1908), pages 184.-185,
gives the “Hill” Leonard items, which were checked with the origi¬
nals and found, page 41, to be exact. The final “s” is therein
omitted. However in other records we find both spellings, for varia¬
tions in spellings of surnames did not worry unduly our ancestors.
All the land grants in names of Samuel Hills and Philip Leonard were
checked with copies of those printed with the Town Meeting Records ,
a small volume preserved by the Emery Process. The General Rec¬
ords, 1645-174-9, were read to 1730, this is also rebound by the same
process. In this volume appears the Hill-Leonard record referred to
above, page 41. There is also a volume of Miscellaneous Records ,
1642-1745 , again covered to 1730, rebound by the same process; a
volume of Fragments, no dates but mainly 1779 to 1791 within and a
few pages in the back of the book 1684, and Proprietors Second Divi¬
sion, 1712 and 1754 and families. And finally, a book of General
Records, 1710-1786, and some miscellaneous items, 1816-1826. This
last is a much larger book than the rest, and here the town meeting
records commence regularly in 1734, after our family had left. These
original Duxburv sources are explained so that the references given
regarding Samuel’s residence there will be clear. These books are
not indexed and much of the writing is difficult and faded.
At the time our Samuel appears in Duxbury, 1694, the town was
within the newly formed Plymouth County, with the county seat at
Plymouth. Prior to 1686, and before the establishment of this
county, both Duxbury and Marshfield were part of the old Colony,
so-called, Plymouth Colony, which had been annexed by the Bay
Colony (Massachusetts).*
I wish to stress that the first actual record we have for our Samuel
is his marriage in 1694:
Court of Common Pleas, Plymouth County, 1702-1773, volume
one, page three: “Registry of Marriages within ye Town of Dux-
borough ” “ 1694 Samuel Hill married to Phebe Leonard,” 6 Novem¬
ber. An examination of this original entry shows no final “s” to
the name of Hill.f
The complete record as it appears in the General Records of Dux¬
bury, 1645-1749, page 41 •> and which is exactly printed in the May-
* Therefore the records of Plymouth County, as such, only date from 1686 (actually
in most cases 1692) and before then one must turn to the records of Plymouth Colony.
Fortunately the records of this Colony, except the deeds (after the first volume) and
the probate, are printed. There are moreover, copies of the deeds and probate at the
Mass. Archives , but these are not cross-indexed.
f This marriage has been printed in these copies of published vital records: Genealogi¬
cal Advertiser (1898), 1: 2; Bailey’s Mass. Marriages (1900), 2: 54; Mayflower Desc.
(1908), 10: 184; Duxbury V. R. (1911) and Pembroke V. R. (1911); Mayflower Desc.
(1924), 26: 37.
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flower Descendant (1908), volume 10 , 18^-185, follows below:
“Samuel Hill and Phebe Leonard were married upon y e 6 th day of Novem¬
ber. Anno Dom. 1694
Abigail Hill y e daughter of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Born, May
y® 26 th Anno Dom. 1697
Philip Hill Son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was born. August y® 8 th
Anno Domini. 1699.
Samuel Hill Son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Bom, June y e 25 th
Anno Dom. 1701.
Richard Hill y e son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was bom, February y e
3 d Anno Dom. 170^
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Ebenezar Hill son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Bom. December
y® 6 tb Anno Dom. 1705
Ephraim Hill son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Bom, December y«
13 th Anno. 1707
Joseph Hill & Lydia Hill Son & Daughter of Samuel Hill and Phebe his
wife were Bom upon y® 25 th day of August, Anno Dom. 1710
Lydia Leonard v e wife of Philip Leonard Deceased upon y e 13 th day of
November. Anno. 1707
Philip Leonard. Deceased July y e 3 d Ajino Dom. 1708
Joseph Hill son of Samuel Hill and Phebe his wife. Deceased July Anno
Dora. 1711.
John Norcut y e son of Ephraim Norcut & Elisabeth his wife was Born April
y e 6 th Anno Domini. 1732” [end of page 41.*]
The Hills evidently lived with the Leonards and after they inherited
the Leonard place continued there until they went southwest to
Lebanon, at which time, many from Plymouth County, disgusted with
the poor soil, settled in eastern Connecticut, in and near Lebanon.
Before 1702, we only have record of Samuel, as follows: his 1694
marriage to Phebe Leonard and the births of their three eldest: Abi¬
gail, Philip and Samuel, in 1697, 1699 and 1701. At this period, he
was not a land owmer and did not join a church until 1707, vide post.
He then bought land of the town of Duxbury:
15 June 1702, The “town have appointed . . . Capt Arnold and Mr. David
Alden to sell and lay out to Samuel Hill of this town, about twenty acres of
land of the town’s commons, they returning the money to the town.” ( Dux¬
bury Town Reeds., 1893, 193.) f
“Duxburrough July the 9 th 1702. We whose names are here unto sub¬
scribed being Agents for the town, have sold unto Samuel Hills, and laid out
to him, a certain parcel or tract of land containing Twenty acres more or less,
bounded as followeth, Begining at a small birch tree marked on four sides,
standing in the edge of a swamp, and from thence by a line between Dux-
* The last item re “Norcut” was written-in, paper was scarce and every iota of the
pages were used; page 43, commences with a Chandler reed. Throughout the final “s”
in this record, page 41 , is omitted.
t No final “s” in this record, I checked the originals. ( Duxbury General Reeds.,
1643-1749, p. 56.)
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burrough and Marshfield till it meeteth with a large Pine tree standing in said
line, and from said tree, on a Southerly line to a maple tree standing in the
side of a swamp marked on four sides, and from that maple tree on a straight
line, to a Pine tree marked, standing a little within the swamp on that side
next to Phillip Leonard’s land, near said Leonard’s range, and from the afore¬
said Pine tree, directly to said Leonard’s range, and by said range to the end
of Leonard’s land, and extending from thence about Six rods till it meet a
red oak tree marked on four sides, and from said tree till it meet with the
aforesaid Birch tree marked.
Seth Arnold
David Alden.”
{ibid., 196.)
17 May 1703, both Philip Leonard and “Sam 1 Hill,” protest, with
others, an action of the town of Duxbury relative to lands. (Miscl.
Reeds., 16J&-1745, 285.)
In 1909, the records of the First Church in Marshfield were pub¬
lished in the Mayflower Descendant , continuing in later volumes. The
foreword states that this, the oldest known record, begins in 1696,
and that if there was an earlier book, it has been lost. The records
that interest us are below:
31 Aug. 1707, “Samuel hill receaved into this Church.”
2 May 1708, “Sam: Hill” had daughter baptised: Abigail.
- March 1709, “Phebe hill Wife to Samuel Hill was baptised and five of
their children.”
15 July 1711, “Sam: Hill had a child baptised called Lydia.”
Also, 25 Aug. 1723, Samuel Hill Jr., and wife had son Joseph baptised and,
27 June 1725, had daughter “Hanna” baptised.
(Mayflower Descendant, 31: 118, 119, 164, 165.)
Thus we learn that although Samuel and his son and namesake
were considered legal residents of Duxbury, they attended church in
Marshfield, living in the northern part of Duxbury near the town line.
A few months, after Samuel joined the Marshfield church, his mother-
in-law died in Duxbury, 13 Nov. 1707; no estate. When the latter’s
husband, Philip Leonard, died there within a year, 3 July 1708, an
administration was effected on his estate:
“To Samuel Hill Son in law of Phillip Lean&rd Late of Duxburrough in the
County of Plimouth . . . Deceased Greeting ... I do by these presents
Committ unto you full Power to Administer,” to the estate of the deceased,
etc., 12 July 1708. In this connection, an inventory was made, 8 July, by
William Carver and Arthur Howland, to which “Samuel Hill” made oath,
11 July, 1708, only personal property was listed. ( Plymouth Probate, 12663.)*
6 Aug. 1709, “Samuel hills ” witnessed the will of Joseph Waterman,
* There is no bond on file, in the volumes are copies of the inventory and the letter
of administration, 2: 99, 100; see the Addenda.
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of Marshfield, to which he did not testify *; and, in 1710, we note:
“an Account to whom the Lotts fell that belong to ye first Division in the
Common lands in the town of Duxborough Anno Domini 1710 . . . the
second lot fell to Samuel Hill and James Thomas.” Earlier there appears the
bounds of “The Second lot lyeth joyning to y e first and beginneth at a stake
and heap of Stones by v e County Rode and from thence it runneth North 37
degrees East eighty Rods to a gray oak tree & from thence it runneth South 61
degrees east eighty rods to a stake and heap of Stones and from thence it
runneth South 37 degrees West eighty Rods to a Stake and stones by y e
Country Rlioad and as the Road runneth to y e first mentioned stake.” {Dux¬
bury General Reeds., 1710-1786, 9, 3.)
And, the same year, the following record was preserved:
“List of y e Names and those that have a Right in y e last Division of y e
towns Cofnons upland & medow in Duxborough . . . June ye 5 th 1710 .. .
Samuel Hill.” ( Duxbury Proprietors 2d Division Reeds., 16-17.)
Having received Leonard’s property, through his marriage with
Phebe, sole heiress, in addition to the town grant, made in 1702, of
twenty acres in Duxbury, Samuel was now in a position to appear
in the land transfers:
18 Nov. 1710, “Samuel Hills f of . . . Duxborough . . . cordwainer f
Sendeth Greeting Know Ye that I y e sd Samuel Hills for . . . Nine Pounds
. . . Paid by James Thomas of . . . Duxborough . . . Yeoman . . . Con¬
firm . . . unto him . . . Land . . . within . . . Duxborough . . . being y e
one Half of a fourty Acre Lot of Land which fell by Lot to me in y e first Divi¬
sion of . . . Duxborough Common Lands . . . [in] One thousand Seven
Hundred & Nine . . . y e Second Lott in Number” the said land being now
in partnership between the said Thomas and the said Hills; bounds not of
interest as no names cited; wit: Edward Arnold and Seth Arnold Jr.; ack. same
day and reed. 16 July 1718; no release of dower. ( Plymouth Deeds, 14: 64.)
24 Dec. 1712, we have the following record
“We the subscribers being desired by Samuel Hills to renew the bounds of
his land viz Of that -which was his father’s Phillip Leonard, which we did as
followeth We began at a swamp and stones — showed to us to be the corner
bound, and from said stump, we run S.W. by W. to a white oak tree marked
on two sides standing on the Westerly side of a branch of the spruce swamp,
and then bounded on the Northerly side by said spruce swamp, till it come
near the end of the neck, where we marked a spruce tree on four sides standing
upon a ledge of rocks, and from said spruce tree marked on four sides, South¬
erly 48 rods to a maple tree marked on four sides, standing by the side of the
* Photo copy of the original will which shows his signature included in my Hills Notes.
It was proved by the other two witnesses, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas and Isaac Thomas,
12 Mar. 1710-11. The signature clearly shows the final “s” and is the earliest I have
found for him. Also see Mayjloicer Descendant, 24'. 147-149.
t Italics by W. L. //., note he signed this deed.
X Duxbury General Reeds., 1645-1749, p. 55.
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7
brook, and then bounded by said brook up stream through the meadow spot,
and so by the Southermost branch of said brook, till it comes to a red oak
tree blown down, which was accounted to be the S.E. corner bounds of said
lot, and from said oak tree on a straight line to the stump and stones first
mentioned.
Edward Southworth
Seth Arnold.”
(Duxbury Tenon Reeds., 1893, 90.)
Again, two years later, Samuel Hills appears in the deeds, as
grantor:
9 July 1714, “I Samuel Hills of . . . Duxborough . . in the County of
Plimouth in her Majesties Province of the Massechusetts Bay in New England
Cordwainer for . . . the sum of Eighteen pounds . . . paid by Solomon
Hewet of . . . Marshfield . . . yeoman . . . Confirm from me and my
heirs . . . Twelve Acres & an half of Land . . . within . . . Duxborough
. . . part of the Seventieth Lott . . . Second and Last Division of Comons
belonging to the town of Duxborough . . . and Pembroke in the County
aboves d . . . Layd out . . . one thousand seven hundred & thirteen,”
bounded S.E. by the said Hills’ home, etc.; no r.d., signed “Samuel Hills”;
wit: mark of Elizabeth Arnold and by Ichabod Bartlett, ack. same day; reed.
5 Oct. 1714. (Plymouth Deeds , 11:1^9.)
14 Aug. 1714, “I, Samuel Hills of . . . Duxborough . . . for . . . fifteen
Pounds . . . paid by Israel Thomas of . . . Marshfield . . . confirm from
me . . . unto him . . . ten acres ... in Duxborough . . . being part of ye
seventieth lot in . . . ye late allotment of lands,” bounded on the Marshfield
town line, etc.; signed by “Samuel Hills”; ack. same day, at which time
“Phebe his wife” released her dower rights; wit: Elizabeth Thomas and mark
of Elizabeth Holmes; reed. 3 July 1728. (ibid., 23: 85.)*
There are two volumes for the General Sessions of the Peace of Ply¬
mouth County, 1686-1721, f and one volume, 1723-1730 , preserved
by the Emery Process and no index; i scanned all three volumes past
1725, for both Hills and Leonard, but in a hurried search found but
one mention, that of Hills:
In March, 1717, “Sam 1 Hills” served as a grand juror. ( Vol. 2, not paged.)
I regret that I did not have time to run the concurrent, from 1702
Records of the Court of Common Pleas , although the period most
valuable to us is that pre-dating his marriage, in Duxbury, 6 Nov.
1694.
He again appears as a grantor, the same year, 1717:
23 May 1717, “I Samuel Hills of Duxbury . . . for . . . Three Pounds
. . . paid by Henry Josselyn junr of Scittuate . . . Have Sold unto him
. . . all that my tenth Part of the third & the twenty third Lots of Cedar
* 23 is a copied volume.
t These contain many Warnings from about 1715; many fornication cases, which
would serve as valuable clues to marriages not of record.
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Swamp ... in Mattakeesett Swamp now in . . . Pembroke,” signs as
“Samuel Hills”; wit: Patience Norcott and Mary Little Jr.; ack. same day
and reed. 5 Jan. 1736. (Plymouth Deeds , 31: 16.)
In 1725, Samuel Hills conveyed to his second son and namesake,
mentioning a deed of even date to the eldest son, Philip:
5 Jan. 1724-25, “Samuel Hills of Duxbcrougli . . . & Phebe his Wife . . .
for . . . Eighty Pounds ... to us ... in hand by our Son Samuel Hills
of Duxborough . . . Paid . . . Confirm imto y e s d Samuel Hills after the
Decease of us the s d Samuel & Phebe Hills ... a Certain Parcell of Land
Situate . . . in . . . Duxborougli . . . Containing about fifty Seven acres
. . . & it is all y e Land W ch we now have in y e s d TownShip, Except what
we have this Day Sold unto Our Son Philip Hills * as by one Deed under
our hands & Seals bearing Date w th these Presents & it is Adjoyning to y e s d
Land which we Sold to y e s d Philip Hills Reference being had to the former
Grants of y e s d fifty Seven acres of Land for v e Bounds of the same . . .
Memorand m It is Agreed before Signing & Sealing . . . y e . . . Samuel
Hills . . . shall forever hereafter Allow a Cart Wav for his Brother Philip
Hill s . . . through v c Land of y® s d Samuel Hills from the West Side of the
Orchard until it come to Marshfield Line,” he signs as “Samuel Hills,” and
his wife, Phebe Hills, makes her mark; wit: Caleb Samson and Gideon
Thomas; ack. same day and reed. 4 Dec. 1725. (ibid., 19: 173 .)f
There is no doubt that the above conveyance was drawn New Style
1725, since it was recorded in that year, but we are puzzled as to
whether the deeds, abstracted below, were drawn in 1724-1725 or
in 1725-1726. Since the Hills, father and son, were selling out their
Duxbury holdings, and since the elder bought in Lebanon “late of
Duxbrough,” in May 1726, it would appear that New Style 1726, is
correct:
15 Jan. 1725, “Samuel Hills and Phebe Hills & Samuel Hills Jun r all of
Duxborough . . . Know that We . . . for . . . four hundred & fourty five
Pounds Currant Money of s d Province [depreciated currency] . . . paid by
Samuel Baker jun r of Marshfield . . . House Carpenter . . . Confirm unto
him . . . Our whole ffarm ... in Duxborough . . . Whereon We now live
& dwell Containing . . . about Sixty Acres,” bounds of no interest; signed
by “Samuel Hills”, mark of Phebe Hills and by “Samuel Hills jun r ”; wit:
Kenelm Baker and Arthur Howland Jr.; ack. same dav; reed. 8 July 1729.
[1725-26?] (ibid., 2\: 128.)
7 Mar. 1725, Samuel Hills Jr., of Duxbury, labourer, and Hannah, his wife,
a “daughter of Elihab Turner, late of Scituate, deceased,” for £37, sold
William Withered, of Scituate, cordwainer, all rights to certain land there, of
which our father the said Turner, died seized, and passed by deed of our
brother, Elazarus Turner, late of Scituate, by estimation some twenty-five
acres; signs as Samuel Hills Jr., wife Hannah makes her mark; wit: John
* Italics by W. L. II.
t The cited deed to Philip Hills is not of record and there is no sale by him ante 1802.
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Jones Jr., and “Samuel Hills”; reed. 2 Dec. 1728. [1725-26?] (ibid., 23:
182.) [Note the father acts as a witness]*
Our attention now* turns to Lebanon, Conn., to which the Hills
family removed before 25 May 1726. An old township, incorporated
October 1700, and now in New London County, it was settled largely
from Plymouth and Barnstable Counties, Mass., and from Rhode
Island. Originally beautiful and with fine old Eighteenth and early
Nineteenth Century houses, it is now quite foreign in population,
although Miss Abell, the town clerk, is of the original old English
stock. The proof of Samuel Hills of Lebanon being identical with
Samuel Hills of Duxbury is contained in the invaluable land records:
25 May 1726, “I Caleb Hammond of Lebanon . . . for one hundred &
thirty [pounds] to me in hand [paid] by Samuel Hills late of Duxbrough in
the County of Plymouth . . . and now in . . . Lebanon . . . confirm unto
him . . . two certain parcels of land ... in Lebanon . . . two fifth parts
of one hundred acres . . . which I bought [of] Nathaniel Gillet once of
Lebanon,” wit: Samuel West and Daniel Foster; ack. same day; reed. 28 May
1726; he signs. (Lebanon, Conn., Deeds, 6\)f
16 June 1726, Joseph Gillet, formerly of Lebanon (present res. not cited),
for £56, sold Samuel Hills, of Lebanon, part of a 100-acre lot there, in all some
20 acres; wit: Amos and Samuel West; he signs; reed. 14 July 1726. (ibid.,
4:12.)]
Of the Lebanon churches, all Congregational in that era, we note
that the First Church was organized, 27 Nov. 1700; the Second or
Lebanon Crank (since 1804 in Columbia), May 1716, by division of
the older society, and the Third, or Goshen parish, was formed, 26
Nov. 1729, 'with the Rev. Jacob Eliot, who died in 1766, as first
minister. This Goshen parish, is generally called the Second Church
of Lebanon, since the Crank became the town of Columbia. Goshen,
which the Hills family were instrumental in forming, was in the south¬
west part of Lebanon, on the Colchester line. A typed and alphabeti¬
cal copy of the Lebanon First Church Records , 1700-1883 , at the Conn.
State Library, shows, page 90:
Hill, Ann & hus. Philip, owned covenant, 4 Aug. 1728.
Eliab and James, baptised 21 Apr. 1728; no parents given.
Samuel and wife [worn off at bottom of page] admitted 3 July 1726.
Thus we learn that our Samuel and wife joined the First Church, in
July 1726, their son Philip and his wife also owning the Covenant,
* The grantor and grantee indexes were covered at Plymouth, 1685-1801, for Samuel,
Philip and Ephraim and their wives. A Samuel “Hill” appears in Pembroke, 1782,
and a Richard “Hill” of same, in 1764 (vide post); no early Hill or Hills estates. A
search of the copies of the Plymouth Col. Deeds, ante 1686, Mass. Archives, proved
negative.
t Vol.4, is a copy made by Miss Abell’s mother, now deceased. The original cannot
be examined as it is in fragments and under seal.
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in August 1758, and that Eliab [Elihab], son of Samuel Jr., and James,
son of Philip, were both baptised in April 1758. Samuel Hills Sr.,
made further purchases of Gillet property in 1726 and in 1727:
28 July 1726, “Nathaniel Gillet of . . . Litchfield . . . for . . . fourteen
pounds . . . [paid] by Samuel Hills of Lebanon,” conveys to him six and two
thirds acres there, formerly part of Nathaniel Gillet’s land, of Lebanon, and
in part by brother Jonathan Gillet’s land; wit: Samuel and Nathan West;
signs; reed. 58 July 1726. {I^ebanon Deeds, 4: 1J.)
21 Sept. 1727, “Elijah Gillet of Wethersfield . . . and formerly of Leba¬
non,” for £53, sells to “Samuel llill of the afores d Lebanon” *, part of an
one hundred-acre tract there, formerly part of the land that hond. father
died seized of, being one fifth part of same; also mentions loving brother,
Jonathan Gillet, deed.; in all conveys some 26 acres; wit: Gershom Clark
and Ebenezer Gillet, ack. 22 Sept., reed. 29 Sept., 1727. {ibid., J: 56.)
Preserved in the Connecticut Archives, in the State Library, Ec¬
clesiastical Papers, series 1, volume J, document 38: a, b, c., is a petition
to the General Court of 15 Oct. 1727, seeking a new parish in Lebanon,
and signed by “Phillip hills,” “Samuel hills iu r ,” and “Samuel hills.”
All three signatures clearly show the final “s” in the surnames. The
Court appointed a special committee to view T the situation but the
matter dragged and a second petition was presented at the Court of
May 1728, as see the said papers, series and volume, document 13:
43a, which was again signed by “Samuel Hills iur,” “Philip Hills,”
and “Samuel hills.” Again all three signatures show the final “s.”f
The original records of the Lebanon Third, or Goshen, Church may
be consulted at the State Library, from which all Hill and Hills items
were copied ante 1753. From this source may be noted:
Samuel Hills signed the Covenant, no date, probably 1729.
Hannah Hills admitted to communion, from Lebanon First Church, no
date.
Philip and Hannah Hills admitted to communion, 3 Aug. 1730.
Abigail Hills admitted to communion, 4 Oct. 1730.
Samuel Hills Jr., admitted to communion, 3 Oct. 1731.
Abigail Hinckley admitted to communion and baptised, 13 Oct. 1734.
Ephraim and Hannah Hills admitted to full communion, 4 Apr. 1736.
Ebenezer and Margaret Hills admitted to communion, 6 Aug. 1738.
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The baptisms of the children and later admissions will be given in
the account of Samuel’s issue. It seems possible that Phebe’s name
was omitted, for Samuel’s wife was alive in 1733, and she had been
a member of the First Church. Hannah, above, was probably wife
of Samuel Jr., and Abigail was his eldest sister, who did not marry
until 1735. The same day that Ephraim and his first wife became
* No final “s” in the grantee’s name in this copied volume.
t Photo copies of these two original documents are included in my Hills Notes.
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11
members, his youngest sister, Lydia Foster, joined. Of course,
Richard Hills does not appear as he was of Hanover, Mass., from
at least 1729. It is unfortunate that the parson did not give the
children’s parents in recording the baptisms of infants.*
The Lebanon Town Records , 1692-1802 , preserved by the Emery
Process, and difficult to read, were scanned from 1725 to past 17fi0,
from which we learn that Philip Hills was a lister, 21 Dec. 1730;
Samuel Hills Jr., a surveyor of highways, 20 Dec. 1734, and a member
of a committee in 1735; and a Freemen's List of 1730, includes “Sam 11
Hills,” 28 April, as does another such list, 11 Sept. 1739.
Samuel Hills then appears in a few more deeds in Lebanon in con¬
nection with the settlement of his sons:
15 Feb. 1730-31, “I Samuel Hills of ... Lebanon . . . for £35 . . .
paid by my son Samuel Hills,” of Lebanon, convey land there bounded by
land that I bought of Hammond and Gillet; signs; wit: Joshua and Sarah
W est, ack. same day and reed. 23 Mar. 1731. ( Lebanon Deeds, J): JJ5.)
28 Apr. 1733, “Sam 11 Hills of Lebanon whereas I the s d Sam 11 Hills Did
formerly give to my Son Samuel Hills a Good Deed of a peice of Land in
Lebanon ... in which Deed war Some Limitation that wear not to his satis¬
faction,” (viz 1 ) in which deed I reserved to my life and to my wife's life,\ but
now on further consideration do forego part of said deed and now absolutely
give him the said property and is part of the farm on which I now dwell;
signs; wit: Joshua and Sarah West; ack. same day and reed. 30 Nov. 1734.
{ibid., 5: 88.)
22 Feb. 1734 [1734-35], “. . .a Bargain made Between Sam 11 Hills and
his Son Ephraim Hills both of Lebanon . . . the above named Samuel Hills
upon Consideration . . . Do Covenant . . . Unto my son Ephraim Hills
. . . one acre of Land of my farm wheir I now dwell ... at the northside of
my now Dwelling house . . . and also ten acres of my farm . . . and . . .
above mentioned I give to my son Ephraim If he shall Ever Marry and in
case my son Shall out Live me then the above s d Land shall be his,” but if
my said son die first and not marry and does not have an heir, the said prop¬
erty shall return to me; I also give him an ox, two cows and ten sheep, and
my son is to provide for them and to allow me the benefit of the milk, butter,
cheese, etc., a very long and detailed document, “and also provide for me and
my wife if I shall have any what more may be necessary for the comfortable
support of life,” both firewood, meat, drink, clothing, washing and lodging,
during the whole term of my natural life, in sickness and in health, and if it
please God to continue my life so long that I lose my reason so far as I may
think that my son doth not do his duty towards me then the case shall be
laid before the two deacons of the church in Goshen and they shall judge
the matter, etc., and I the said Ephraim do hereby covenant for myself, my
* Goshen Soc., in Lebanon, estb. May 1728, as Southwest Soc., by division of 1st Soc.,
named Goshen, Oct. 1729. (Bates’ 1913 List of Congregational Societies of Conn.)
The church was formed 26 Nov. 1729. (Hine’s 1880 Hist, of Lebanon.) Jacob Eliot,
Harvard 1720, A.B., A.M., ord. Lebanon 3d Ch., 26 Nov. 1729, etc. (Weis’ 1936
Col. Clergy in .V. E.)
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heirs, etc., to perform and fulfill these obligations, and I the said Samuel do
give also unto my said son Ephraim, with my farm abovesaid, all my hus¬
bandry tools and my gun and all my wearing clothes, “wlieirof wee the s d
Samuel Hills and Ephraim Hills have hearunto sett our hands and seals this
twenty second day of February in the year A.D. 1734 Sam 11 Hills” and “Eph¬
raim Hills”; wit: John Huntington and John Woodward; reed. 29 Mar. 1735.
(ibid., 5: 120.)
Three days after the above life care and maintenance agreement
with his youngest living son, Ephraim, through whom this line de¬
scends, Samuel took a second wife, 25 Feb. 1734-35. The record
of this marriage is unusual in that it gives the ages of the bride and
groom, the first matrimonial venture for the former, Abigail Hinck¬
ley, aged forty-two, and the second for the latter, aged sixty-two.
(Goshen Church Records.) *
Five years later, we have the last record for Samuel Hills, as alive,
with the exception of his will, drawn 6 Sept. 1748. This 1740 instru¬
ment is another agreement for life care with the son, Ephraim:
29 Aug. 1740, “I Ephraim Hills of Lebanon,” in consideration of a good
and ample deed of gift, of even date, given by “my Honored Father Sam 11
Hills,” of same town, do confirm unto him all that farm and mansion house,
“In which we do Each of us now Live & Dwell in Lebanon,” said farm contains
sixty-five acres; mentions as a bound, the S.W. corner of “my Brother Sam 11
Hills Land,” with life tenure of said property for my said father and his care
and maintenance, etc.; wit: Jonathan Trumble and Ichabod Robinson; ack.
1 Sept. 1740 by “Mr” Ephraim Hills; reed, same day. ( Lebanon Deeds,
6:157.)
There are seven original documents in Samuel’s estate; all are
recorded in the JVindham Probate District , Willimantic, Conn. (-£•*
392-395; 5: 351.) The copies and abstracts below were made from
these original documents:
“In the Name of God, Amen This 6 th day of Septem r A Dom: 1748
I Samuel Hills of Lebanon in the County of Windham & Colony of Con¬
necticut in New England, being old and full of days, but of Sound & Dis¬
posing mind & Memory, for ^\hich bless God: Knowing that it is appointed
for all men Once to Dye, do make & ordain this mv Last Will & Testament,
Principally & first of all, I Bequeath my Soul to God, The maker Thereof,
& my Body To the Earth To be Decently buried by my Executor hereafter
Named, Nothing doubting but That I Shall receive the same again at The
General Ressurection Through the Power of Almighty God: And as To The
Worldly Estate Where with it has Pleased God to Bless me in This World,
I having made provision in Security which I have Taken of my Son Ephraim
*A photo copy of the page of the original Goshen, or 2d Ch., in my Bills Notes.
The last mention of the first wife, Phebe, by name, 15 Jan. 1725, of Duxburv, appears
in the deeds. 3 July 172G, Samuel had a “wife,” and again 28 Apr. 1733, but in the
last two instances, her name is not given. Presumably he had but the two wives,
Phebe Leonard, mother of his children, and Abigail Hinckley, who survived.
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Hills, That My Just Debts & Funeral expenses should be paid by him Do
Therefore hereby order That he shall do The same, and I do further Divise,
bequeath & dispose of my Estate in the following Manner & form — viz —
Imprimis, I Give & Bequeath to my well beloved wife Abigail all my
household stuffe (except what I have already given to my daughters Abigail
& Lydia; Together with all my books (except Calvins Book on y e four Evan¬
gelists & my old English Print Bible) — I Also give her Two Cows & one Sheep
now in The Hands of my Son Ephraim or Twenty pounds in Money To be
paid To her by him in Leiw of Them, Also I Give her Seventy one pounds in
Bills of Credit old Tenour, for which I have bonds on Interest To me, Together
with The Interest which may be Due Thereon, To be To her Dispose for¬
ever —
Item To my Grand Children The Children of my Deceased Son Philip I
Give no Legacy, because I have given him my s d Son in his Life Time what
I think proper for him To have —
Item To my Son Samuel I Give no Legacy, because I have already given
him, what I Think proper for Him To Have
Item To my Son Richard I Give The aforementioned Book of Calvins
and a Pocket peice of Gold which I have, together with what he hath Already
Had of me.
Item To my Son Ebenezer I Give Five pounds in Money To be paid out
of An Ox which my Son Ephraim has in his Hands.
Item to my Son Ephraim, I Give my Wearing Apparel & my Cane My
Riding Mare or horse If I Leave any, & an Ox He paying To my Son Ebenezer
Five pounds as aforementioned & Five pounds To my Daughter Abigail, as
hereafter To be mentioned, Also my Husbandry Tools & my Gun I Give to
him said Ephraim.
Item To my Daughter Abigail I Give my old English print Bible, & five
pounds in ... to be paid by my Son Ephraim; and Whatsoever other
Things I shall Dye possessed off & undisposed off In This my Will I Give
to Her
Item To my Daughter Lydia I Give no Legacy, because I have Already
Given her what I Trust proper out of my Estate
And Further I the said Sam 11 Hills do hereby Constitute & Appoint
Amos Thomas of s d Lebanon To be The Executor of This my Last Will &
Testament Hereby Revoking all other wills & Bequests heretofore by me
made, holding & Allowing This and No other As my Last Will & Testament
— In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my Hand & fixed my Seal The
day & year first mentioned
N.B. The words (seventy one) on the other side Entred at y e writing
hereof
Signed, Sealed, Published pronounced Samuel hills
& Declared by The Said Sam 11 Hills
as his Last Will & Testament in presence of us —
Andrew Churchell
Isaiah Tiffany Jun r
Jon. Trumble” *
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The will was proved 22 Oct. 1753 by the last two witnesses, who
swore that they saw the testator, “Mr” Samuel Hills sign, etc., and
the executor was confirmed on the same day.
The inventory, dated 12 Oct. 1753 , made by Joseph White and Jo-
siah Bartlett, came to a total of £281-00-06, and comprised his
personal estate including the stock. Among the items listed are two
silver spoons, a Bible at £9 and a book at 4s, also “one Book of
Calvins,” at £o, and “one Bible English print,” at £9; a gun, cane
and pocket Book.*
Receipts were then filed by the heirs for their respective legacies:
by Ephraim Hills, Lebanon, 9 Nov. 1753; by Abigail “Barnrick”
her mark, Lebanon, 10 Dec. 1753; by Ebenezer Hills, Lebanon, 9
Nov. 1753; and by Richard Hills, “Handover,” 24 May 1754. Eph¬
raim’s and Abigail’s were witnessed by Joseph Hills, eldest son of
Samuel 2 , and Asa Foster; Ebenezer’s by Joseph White and Samuel 2
Hills; and Richard’s by two Duxbury men, Isaac Peterson and John
Partridge.
Since this Hills lineage descends through the youngest living son,
Ephraim, his receipt is given below:
“Lebanon november the 9 day 1753
then Recived of Amos Thomas Executer to mv honoured father Samuell
hills will Late of Lebanon Deceased one Gun Prised att six Pounds oald
tenor and one cane Prised att two Pounds oald tenor I Say Recived by me
And Do here by Discharg s d Executer from all further And future Demands
on s d Estate as wittnese my hand in Presents of us wittnesses
Asa Foster Joseph Hills Ephraim Hills” f
There is also, dated at Lebanon, 26 Oct. 1753, this receipt:
“Rec d of M r Amos Thomas Exceter To the Estate or Moveables of Samuel
Hills Late of Lebanon Deceas d W ild to the Widow Abigel Hills By A power
of A Tomey of S d Widow By Me Garshom Hinckley” various items were
listed including two silver spoons, a Bible at £9, a book at 4s., also “By Cash
old Tenor which was Due from Ephraim Hills to his Mother £20-0-0.”
Witnessed by James Mackall Ju r and Archippus Mackall [McCall]. ( Wind¬
ham Diet. Probate, 18S9, C. S. L.) +
Reference is made in the Hills Family , 1906, page eight , to the
“Kingsley’s Record,” of Lebanon. This record was made from
various town and probate records, also some deeds, in and near Leb¬
anon, including family records, by W. G. Kingsley, a former town
clerk, according to a letter written, 2 Aug. 1910, by Mrs. L. W. Abell,
*One wonders what became of the two Bibles especially the "old English print”
one; undoubtedly one or both contained family records.
t Ephraim Hills’ inventory of i Oct. 1778, on his estate, includes “A Cane” at 18s.,
tide post.
t Photo copies of these original documents in my Hills Notes. C. S. L. refers to the
Conn. State Library.
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wife of the then town clerk and mother of Miss Sarah Abell, the pres¬
ent town clerk. It is now in the office of the Town Clerk of Lebanon
and was evidently consulted by the compiler of the 190G work.
The names that Samuel and Phebe (Leonard) Hills gave to their
eight children are of interest: Philip, for Philip Leonard, Phebe’s
father; Samuel for Samuel himself; Richard for ? and Lydia for
Phebe’s mother. Was Richard named for Samuel’s father and Abigail
for his mother? Of course, Ebenezer, Ephraim and Joseph are strong
Biblical names and this was the Bible Commonwealth ne plus ultra!
In this connection we note that Clarence-A. Torrey in his manu¬
script, Marriages in New England ante 1700, lists no Richard Hills
and the only Richard Hill was married around 1613 in England,
much too remote. There was also a Richard Hill, early in Maine,
but again this seems rather farfetched.
Children born in Duxbury, Mass.: *
By Phebe Leonard,
i. Abigail 2 , b. 26 May 1697, bapt. 2 May 1708, Marshfield, Mass.,
living 10 Dec. 1753, Lebanon, Conn.; m. there, Goshen, or 2d
Ch.f, 12 Feb. 1735, William Batharick: no issue reed. Abigail
Hills ad. Communion 2d Ch., 4 Oct. 1730. William Batharick,
bapt. same Ch., 27 June 1736. No further reed.
ii. Philip, b. 8 Aug. 1699, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield, d. ante 6
Sept. 1748; m. 7 Feb. 1726-27, Lebanon, Hannah “Cutten.”
Philip and wife owned Covenant, 1st Ch., 4 Feb. 1728, and were
ad. to Communion 2d Ch., 3 Aug. 1730, the names of “Ann”
and “Hannah” are interchangeable; Hannah his widow was
alive in 1757, if her name was Cutting, her forbears were prob¬
ably of Watertown, Mass. Philip was a lister in Lebanon, 21
Dec. 1730. Children (Hills), b. Lebanon, (1) James 3 , b. 31
Oct. 1727, bapt. 4 Aug. 1728, 1st Ch., d. in service, between 10
Aug. 1757 and 15 Nov. 1758, test.; m. 4 Oct. 1753, Lebanon,
Keziali Cutting, they were ad. Communion 2d Ch., 2 Feb. 1755,
had Dorothy, b. 3 Sept. 1754; (2) Dorothy, b. 20 Nov. 1730,
bapt. 6 Dec. 1730; m. there, 25 May 1748, Jonathan Webster;
(3) ? Jonathan , cites 1906 Hills Fam.; perhaps, all bapt. 2d Ch.,
Anne, 10 Feb. 1740, at her house; Philip, 15 May 1743; and
Ebenezer, 9 Aug. 1747; or do the last three belong to Ebenezer,
Philip’s brother, vide post ? Research needed to settle these
points. Anne may refer to Philip’s wife,
iii. Samuel Jr., b. 25 June 1701, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield, d. 14
Feb. 1792, Lebanon; m. 1 Nov. 1722, Duxbury, Hannah Tur¬
ner, of Marshfield, who d. 17 Mar. 1777, aged 77, Lebanon,
dau. of Elihab Turner of Scituate, Mass. ( Plymouth Deeds, 23 :
* No exhaustive research has been made re the children, with the exceptance of
Ephraim, but such facts as were gathered are included.
t The Goshen Ch. in Lebanon was actually the third church in chronology; Conn,
had a strong parish system, and the church records are important.
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182, vide ante.) We have seen the deeds in which Samuel ap¬
pears with his father in 1755 and 1726, as of Duxbury, and in
1731 and 1733, of Lebanon. As Samuel Jr., he was ad. Com¬
munion 2d Ch. Lebanon, 3 Oct. 1731; served as town official,
30 Dec. 1734, and member of a committee, in 1735. Of his
early Lebanon Deeds, 1731-1767, see 379; 7: 6, 116, 317; 8: 618
(, 2), 640; 9: 52; 10: 39; also Colchester Deeds, 4: 340; in 17C6,
he conveyed to his son. Consider, and in 1767, passed deeds with
son, Darius. lie made his will, 15 May 1767, as of Lebanon,
proved 1 Mar. 1795. ( Windham Dist., Probate, 1890.) Chil¬
dren (Hills), 1st two b. Duxbury, rest. b. Lebanon, (1) Joseph *,
b. 31 July 1753, bapt. 55 Aug. 1753, Marshfield, ad. to 5d Ch.,
Lebanon, 58 May 1738, d. 5 Mar. 1815, aged 91, Columbia,
Conn., and bur. there as Capt., where his 1st wife, Huldah, d.
11 Sept. 1786, aged 58, and bur. there ( Register 60: 371, incorrect
therefore); (5) Hannah, b. 7 June 1755, bapt. 27 June 1725,
Marshfield; (3) Phebe, b. 10 Dec. 1726, d. 28 Dec. 1726; (4)
Eliab, b. 9 Mar. 1758, bapt. 21 Apr. 1728, 1st Ch.; (5) Samuel,
b. 28 July 1759, m. Sarah Little and Thankful Rowley; (6)
Leonard, b. 4 June 1731, bapt. 13 June 1731, 5d Ch.; (7) Abner,
b. 19 Jan. 1733, bapt. 21 Jan. 1733, 2d Ch.; (8) Elijah, b. 6 July
1736, bapt. 11 July 1739; 2d Ch.; (9) Darius , b. 28 Aug. 1739,
bapt. 1 Sept. 1739, 2d Ch., ad. full Communion said Ch., 16
Sept. 1758; (10) Consider, b. 7 Sept. 1741, bapt. 13 Sept. 1741,
2d Ch.
iv. Richard, b. 3 Feb. 1702-03, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield, d.
between 15 Apr. 1773 and 5 Mar. 1779, intest., Pembroke, Mass.,
when son Thomas appointed admr. his estate. ( Plymouth Pro¬
bate, 10095.) He m. 20 Feb. 1728-29, Hanover *, Mass., bride
and groom of same, Jemima Ramsdell, b. 28 July 1710, Pem¬
broke, bapt. 14 May 1715, Scituate 2d Ch., dau. of Thomas and
Sarah (-) Ramsdell, who were m. in Duxbury ( Scituate
V.R.). Evidently Richard did not accompany the family to Leb¬
anon for there is no record of him there; he was of “Handover,”
24 May 1754, when he receipted for his share of his father’s estate
(vide ante), and was given in the will a book of Calvin’s and a
piece of gold, having received the rest of his portion; he receipted
for this book and the value of the gold, but did not receive either
of his father’s Bibles; he and his descendants dropped the final
“s.” Between 20 June 1754 and 23 Mav 1764, Richard went to
Pembroke.! There is no estate for the widow who was alive
as late as March 1782. By trade, Richard was a housewright.
Children (Hills), b. Hanover, (1) Richard 3 , b. 1 Sept. 1729, d.
by 2 May 1757, Pembroke, intest. ( Plymouth Probate, 10094)',
* In 1727, part of Scituate was included in the new town of Hanover; for a further
study of Richard’s descendants see Pembroke, Halifax, Hanover and Hanson V. R.
t The land transfers of both Richard Sr., and Richard Jr., appear in Plymouth Deeds,
32: 21; 44:11; 55:151; 49:148; 53:7; 57:125; 61:42, 43:127; 77:123; 58:81; 86:89. The
research in probate and deeds in Plymouth was accomplished by F. R. Sears, LL.B.,
and his careful report is on file at the X. E. H. G. Society.
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m. by 13 Apr. 1754, Hannah -, who as wife of Richard
Hill Jr., and with Nathaniel, their son, was bapt. 13 Oct. 1754,
Hanover; Jemima, bapt. 3 July 1757, Pembroke, dau. of widow
Hill, was another child, and was living there, unm. 8 Jan. 1787,
and m. there, 14 Jan. 1787, Benjamin Bowker, for will of latter,
in 1797, see Plymouth Prohate , Hannah, widow of Richard,
was living as late as 19 Apr. 1799; (2) Thomas, b. about 1733,
admin, his father’s estate in 1779, living 22 Mar. 1782, Pembroke;
m. Mary -; (3) Leonard, b. July 1739, bapt. July 1739,
living 23 May 1764; m. Jerusha-, who d. 30 June 1769,
Hanover; had Jerusha and Richard, both bapt. there, 5 Aug.
1770; (4) Lettice *, bapt. 2 June 1745; (5) Samuel, bapt. 26 June
1749, prob. living, a yeoman, 11 Mar. 1782, Pembroke; (6)
Joseph, bapt. 12 Apr. 1752. There may have been other chil¬
dren but no others have been revealed. Apparently Richard
Jr., had but two children, Nathaniel and Jemima. It would be
of interest to work out the descendants, now ‘‘Hill” of this
Richard 2 Hills. I am grateful to F. W. Wead Esq., for his
assistance in some of the material about Richard,
v. Ebenezer, b. 6 Dec. 1705, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield, living
9 Nov. 1753, Lebanon; m. 28 Oct. 1737, 1st Ch., New London,
Conn., Margaret Ingraham, of Lebanon. They were ad.
Communion 2d Ch., Lebanon, 6 Aug. 1738. He has no deeds
recorded in New London or Lebanon. Possible children (Hills),
bapt. 2d Ch. Lebanon, (1) Margaret 3 , bapt. 27 Jan. 1740, at
her father's house; (2) ? Anne, bapt. 10 Feb. 1740, at her house;
(3) Philip, bapt. 15 May 1743; (4) Ebenezer, bapt. 9 Aug. 1747;
but see brother, Philip, for last three; (5) Rebecca, bapt. July
1749; (6) Abijah, bapt. 8 Sept. 1751; (7) Ephraim, bapt. 21 Jan.
1753; certainly (8) Submit, bapt. 8 July 1753, dau. Ebenezer
[not at New London as cited in 1906 Hills Fam.}. Undoubtedly
further research would settle the names of Ebenezer’s children
and those of his elder brother, Philip’s.
2. vi. EPHRAIM, b. 13 Dec. 1707, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield; m.
Hannah Bentley and Lydia-.
vii. Joseph, a twin, b. 25 Aug. 1710, d. July 1711, Duxburv.
viii. Lydia, b. 25 Aug. 1710, bapt. 15 July 1711, Marshfield, d. post
1748; m. 1 May 1735, Lebanon, Phineas Foster, bapt. 25 July
1703, Topsfield, Mass., son of Daniel and Katherine (Freese)
Foster. Her account in the 1906 Hills Fam., evidentlv was
copied, sans checking, from Pierce's 1899 Foster Gen., p. 15 J,
which is not correct. As Lydia Foster, she was ad. to Lebanon
2d Ch., 4 Apr. 1736, with her brother, Ephraim and the latter’s
wife. Children (Foster), eldest b. Lebanon, rest b. Sharon,
Conn., (1) Phebe, b. 5 Apr. 1736; (2) Sarah, b. 19 Nov. 1738;
(3) Daniel, b. 2 Feb. 1742, d. 10 Aug. 1751, Sharon; (4) Phineas,
b. 15 Aug. 1745, d. 17 Feb. 1745-46, Sharon. The Foster Gen.
This name may be a clue to the identity of the mother of Jemima (Ramsdell) Hills,
io it has been suggested that Sarah was born an A1 verson.
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adds a Phineas, b. 15 Aug. 1737, of whom I find no record, and
calls Daniel, “David,” etc.
2. EPHRAIM 2 HILLS ( Samuel x ), born in Duxbury, Mass., 13
Dec. 1707, baptised in Marshfield, Mass., with four siblings, in
March 1709, died in Colchester, Conn., 29 July 1778, aged seventy,
testate. He married, first, in Lebanon, Conn., Second Church, 19
Feb. 1735 *, Hannah Bentley, baptised there in the First Church,
1717-1718, died there, from childbirth, 27 Nov. 1736, daughter
of William and Mary (Eliot) Bentley.f He married, secondly,
about 1737-1738, Lydia -, born probably about 1710-1720,
living, his widow, in Colchester, 12 July 1779, her identity not solved.
A most careful search was made in regard to Lydia, the second
■wife, through whom this lineage descends. Thus far the results have
been negative. A manuscript of some dozen pages about this Lydia
has been compiled.! It contains notes on the Nobles-Williams family
of New London, Conn., as Ephraim named his third child, Nobles,
and it is suggested that Lydia was, in some way, related to John
Nobles; also, Ephraim's brother was, in 1737, of New London. There
are also data about Elizabeth (Noble) Church of Colchester, and
Lebanon families in which, early, the name of Lebbeus appears. One
major investigation was the examination of the deed indexes of all
the towns, extant 1770, east of the Connecticut R.iver, plus eight
towns west of the river; these towns are listed. All sorts of possi¬
bilities have been entertained and pursued, and the name of Hosford
considered, inasmuch as the Record , 36: 56-57 , in an account of Lydia
(Hills) Young, vide post , states:
“She was of Marlboro’, Conn. Her mother is said to have been a Hos¬
ford, but I cannot find her father’s nane. She had a brother Ephraim Hills,
and a sister Mary who m. Oliver Phelps.”
Now w^e know that this Lydia (Hills) Young was a daughter of
Lebbeus and Hannah (Brown) Hills, so the question arises was she
named for her grandmother, Lydia (Hosford) Hills? The 1936
Horsford-Hosford Genealogy does not place her nor do any of the Lydias
therein fit the picture. However, this little book is not carefully done.
There were in fact Hosfords in the Lebanon-Colchester area but a
study of extant records has proved negative. I shall never cease my
interest in this Lydia, second wife of Ephraim Hills, and the mother
of all his children but the eldest.
One thing is apparent, as Lydia (-) Hills did not join the
Lebanon Second, or Goshen, Church, after her marriage to Ephraim,
* For a photo copy of this first marriage see my Hills Notes,
t Vide my Bentley Notes, at N. E. H. G. Society.
t Vide my Hills Notes.
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it would seem that she was already a baptised member of the same.
We must bear in mind that our particular Lydia could have been a
young widow when she married Ephraim Hills, and that as her last
child, by Hills, was born in 1752, she could not have been born before
1700; I have placed her birth as between 1710 and 1730. Original
records always give the final “s” to the name of Lydia’s third son.
Nobles Hills, which is a very important factor. And now to return
to her husband, Ephraim Hills.
At the age of nineteen, Ephraim accompanied his parents to Leba¬
non, where he acquired his first wife, when aged twenty-eight, in 1736.
We have already noted the interesting bargain between Ephraim and
his father, Samuel, enacted 32 Feb. 1734-35, when the latter was
about to embark on his second marriage, and before the former’s
initial step in matrimony. Ephraim and Samuel were living together
in the same homestead, and continued to do so. Then we have a
long conveyance, by Ephraim, to his father, with provisions for life
care and maintenance, as was often the custom in that era, drawn
29 Aug. 1740, vide ante , Lebanon Deeds , 5: 129; 6:157.
In the interim, Ephraim and his first wife, Hannah, were admitted
to full Communion with the Second Church of Lebanon, the so-called
Goshen Parish, 4 Apr. 1736, his sister, Lydia (Hills) Foster, joining
the same day; 7 Nov. 1736, Ephraim’s eldest, daughter Hannah, was
baptised therein, his wife dying the following 27th of that month.*
As his first born, son Lebbeus, by the second wife, Lydia, “saw the
light of day,” 3 Oct. 1739, to be baptised in the same church, as
“Lybius,” 7 Oct. 1739, it is apparent that Ephraim married his wife,
Lydia, by 1738.
11 Sept. 1740, “Ephraim Hill” appears in the Freemen’s List of
Lebanon; a careful search of the original Lebanon Town Meeting
Records (1698-1802), from 1725 to past 1760, showed only one other
item for an Ephraim, this was an undated ear mark, page 150 , and
written-in; it may apply to our Ephraim, to his nephew, or to his son!
“Ephraim Hill his mark for his Creaturs is a peice Cutt Slopeing off of the
underside of the Left Ear 4 a Square Crop in the lop of the Right ear.”
Samuel Hills, Ephraim’s father, drew his will, 6 Sept. 1748, proved
22 Oct. 1753, given in full and verbatim in Samuel’s account. In this
document, the agreement with son Ephraim is mentioned and he was
to pay the funeral charges, as he inherited the real property, also
Ephraim was given the wearing apparel, his father’s Cane and riding
mare or horse, etc. We also have presented, in full and verbatim ,
Ephraim Hills’ receipt, dated at Lebanon, 9 Nov. 1753, for a gun and
cane received from the executor of the will, Amos Thomas.
* This church and parish was situated in the s.w. part of Lebanon, near the Colchester
line.
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Thus Ephraim succeeded to the home farm in Lebanon. He was
not a land speculator and only appears once more there in the deeds,
some twenty } r ears later, after his last mention therein in 1740, when
he sold out the farm and moved across the town line to Colchester.
Here he bought in the western part, within Marlborough parish, which
was set off as a separate township, being taken from Colchester,
Glastonbury and Hebron, in October 1803, years after Ephraim’s
death. In Colchester he only appears twice in the deeds: his 1760
purchase and a 1773 sale to his eldest son, Lebbeus:
27 Feb. 1700, warranty deed, Joseph Peters of Colchester, for £350, “Re¬
ceived ... of Ephraim Hills of Lebanon . . . confirm . . . Two Sertain
Tracts of Land ... in Colchester in the parrish of New marlborough one
peice containing 38: Acres Laid out on the Right of Noah Coleman deceas d
. . . the other piece Containing 59 acres,” laid out to right of Noah Fuller
deed.; ack. same day at Hebron, Conn., reed. 29 Feb. 1760; wit: Samuel
Gillet Jr., and Jonathan Peters. ( Colchester, Conn., Deeds, 7: 426.)
28 Feb. 17C0, Ephraim Hills, of Lebanon, sold Amos Thomas, of same, for
£355, land with a dwelling house thereon, in said town, being the farm on
which I now live, in the parish of Goshen, and contains seventy-two acres
and one hundred thirty-seven rods of land, an estate by inheritance, etc.;
ack. and reed, same day; wit: William Metcalf and Abigail Metcalf Jr.
(Lebanon Deeds, 9: 435.)
5 May 1773, “I Lebbeus Hills of Colchester, in the County of Hartford
and Colony of Connecticut! in New England for . . . Twenty Pounds . .
rec d to My full Satisfaction of My Hon d Father Ephraim Hills of Colchester
. . . confirm unto the s d Ephraim Hills one . . . Piece of Land ... in
Colchester in the Parish of Marlborough Containing about four acres,” signed
by “Lebbeus Hills,” ack. same day and recd. 7 May 1773; wit: Epaphras
Lord, J.P., and Dorothy Lord. (Colchester Deeds, 9: 65.)
Marlborough Society, or parish, had been established in May 1747,
as Marlborough Society in Hebron, Colchester and Glastonbury, by
division of Hebron Society, the Colchester First and Third Societies
and Glastonbury Second Society. When the town of Marlborough
was formed in 1803, as noted, it had the same bounds as this Marl¬
borough Society. Unfortunately the records of this church, or parish,
are incomplete, but have been covered as far as various “copies” are
concerned.* There is no mention of Ephraim and his wife, Lydia,
therein, or in the other Colchester churches.
The Colchester Tovm Meeting Records were examined for the period,
1760 to past 1804, with a negative result for any mention of Ephraim.
The records of the Justices Court , 1767-1790 , at the Conn. State
Library, were also scanned, 1767-1780, but the only mention of an
Ephraim, w'as in 1772, wdth the residence of Lebanon, so not our
Ephraim.f
* For further data see the account of Lebbeus Hills, vide post.
t These Colchester Reeds. Justices Courts were read by Mrs. Townsend.
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There is no record of any military services for Ephraim in either
Massachusetts or Connecticut. And a search for the records of his
death, and that of his widow Lydia’s, in town, church and the Hale
Collection of Epitaphs (Conn. State Library), proved negative. Did
Lydia remarry? Possible but not probable.
Ephraim died during the third year of the Revolutionary War,
whicli perhaps explains the lack of any gravestone for him. He fol¬
lowed his father in dying testate.
There are three original documents in the estate of Ephraim Hills,
the will, inventory and distribution of the widow’s dower. All are
recorded in the Colchester District Probate, at Colchester {]+: 375 ,
376 , 67), in addition to which there is an acceptance of the trust, by
the executor, !+: 37 4, see below, of which there is no extant original
document:
“In the Name of Gcd Amen I Ephraim hills of Colchester being in a weak
and Low State of health Yet of a Sound and disposing mind and memory
God be Praised therefore and having a mind to Settle this my outward Estate
as God in his Providence hath betrusted me with all do firstly and Princiably
Commit my Soul to God who gave it hoping for the free Pardon of all my
Sins only through the merritts and Rictionness [righteousness] of Jesus Christ
my body I Commit to the dust to be desentlv buried at the descretion of ray
Executors herein after mentioned hoping to Receive it again att the Resurec-
tion of the Just
Item I Give unto my beloved wife Lvdia one third Part of my moveable
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Estate for Ever and the other two Thirds during her widowhood and at her
death or marriage the two thirds to be delivered to Lydia and faith in Equal
Proportion
Item I Give unto my wife the Improvement of one half of my Real Estate
during her widdowhood and also the East End of the dwelling house with a
Privilidge in the Seller and barn
Item I Give unto my Son Labeus Hills the one half of the house and Lands
for Ever and at his Mothers death or marriage the other half of my farm
houses and appurtinances To him S d Labius for Ever
Item I Give unto my Daughter Hannah Stuart twenty Shillings money
to be Paid by my Son Labeus after the house and farm becomes his
Item I Give unto my Son Ephraim hills twenty Shillings money to be
paid by Labeus after the house and barn becomes his
Item I Give unto the heirs of my Son Noble hills deseas d twenty Shillings
money To Be Paid by Labeus after the house and farm becomes his
Item I Give unto my two Daughters Lydia Dean and faith Root Six Pence
money Each in addition to what I have above Given them after their mothers
desease
Item my will further is and I do here appoint and Constitute Cap 1 David
miller and my Son Labeus to be Excutors of this my Last will and testament
hereby Revoaking and makeing null and void all other and former wills by
me done or made
Item my will further is that my Just debts and funeral Charges be first
Paid out of the moveables before a division thereof be made
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Item I Give unto my Grandson Ephraim hills my Cain
Item my Will further is that allthough I have above-willed all my move¬
ables yet my will is that my waring apparrell be Given and belong to my Son
Labeus
In testimony of what is above written on this Paper I have hereunto Set
my hand and Seall this 15 th day of March A:[D] 1778
Signed Sealed Published and Ephraim Hills
declared to be Last will and
testament of Ephraim hills
in Presence of
David Blish Jr
Elijah Bemiss
Lucy Blish.”
David Blish and Elijah Bemiss attested, 3 Aug. 1778, as did Lucy Blish, 19
Sept. 1778, all before Epaphras Lord, J.P. (Colchester Dust. Probate, 1622 ,
C. S. L .)
Evidently, David Miller, a close neighbor of the testator’s, declined, or
was unable, to serve as co-executor, for, 6 Oct. 1778, the Court appointed
“Labous Hill,” as sole executor of the estate of “Ephraim Hill,” late of Col¬
chester, deceased, and the said executor exhibited the will, the inventory was
also ordered accepted and to be recorded. (Colchester Dist. Probate, 4- 274..)*
W e note that the inventory, dated 2 Oct. 1778, of the estate of “M r Ephraim
Hills of Colchester Latly Deceased,” is lengthy and detailed, the valuations
therein being the depreciated currency of the war years. It lists his wearing
apparel, including a beaver hat, blue coat, great coat, his “Cane,” etc.; his
real estate comes next, with just the house, land and barn itemized; then
considerable household linen, various household effects, twx> large pewter
platters and other pewter, earthen ware and glass, a sidesaddle, two snuff
bottles, candlesticks, two looking glasses, a powdering tub, “Old Books,”
some black steers, an ox, a bull, a cow, pide cow, red cow, two calves, eight
sheep and three hives of bees.f
Elijah Kellogg and Elihu Marvin were appointed by the Court of Probate,
for the District of East Haddam, to distibute the widow’s thirds, “in the
Estate of M r Ephraim Hills late of Colchester Dec d ,” according to his last
will. She was to have the use and improvement of land adjacent to the
dwelling house, about thirty-five acres, bounded by Ebenezer Strong, Eleazer
Carter and “South by Land Given to M r Lebbeus Hills by said Dec d ,” and
to have the west part of the barn and east half of the house, with liberty for
the heirs to pass to the cellar and well in and out of the kitchen “Dore.” She
was also given two small lots of land near the highway, bounded by Samuel
Kellogg, Capt. David Miller and Mr. Elisha Lord. Dated 12 July 1779 and
recorded 1779. (Colchester Dist. Probate, 1622 , C. S. L .%)
Children bom in Lebanon, Conn., baptised there in Second, or
Goshen Church §:
* Original not on file.
t Names of the appraisers difficult to decipher as paper is creased.
t Photo copies of the three original documents are included in my Hills Notes.
§ As Ephraim went to Marlboro Parish of Colchester, Conn., in 1760, presumably
his younger daughters were married there.
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By Hannah Bentley,
i. Hannah 3 , b. 6 Nov. 1736, bapt. 7 Nov. 1736, living 1778; m. (1),
27 Aug. 1755, Lebanon 2d Cli., as Hannah Hills 3d., James
Barxaby. She m. (2), by 15 Mar. 1778, - Stuart, or
Stewart. Further research needed.
By Lydia-,
3. ii. LEBI3EUS, eldest son, b. 3 Oct. 1739, bapt. 7 Oct. 1739, as “Ly-
bius”; m. Hannah Brown
iii. Ephraim Jr., b. 21 Feb. 1741-42, bapt. 28 Feb. 1741-42, living
1778, d. by 1 Mar. 1809, aged 67, as “Hill,” according to Hart¬
ford, Conn., newspapers. He was of Lebanon in 1772, when he
owed Jabin Strong, of Hebron, Conn., 16s. 06d., who recovered.
(Colchester Reeds. Justices Ct.) 6 Apr. 1767, Hinchman Bennet
and Asael Clark, both of Lebanon, for £18, sold Ephraim Hills
Jr., of Colchester, two and a quarter acres with a house thereon
in the N. parish of Lebanon; ack. and reed. 1767; wit: Wm.
Buckingham and Simon Clark; 30 Mar. 1772, for identical sum,
Ephraim Hills, of Lebanon, sold said property to Eliphalet Gillet:
ack. and reed. 1772; wit: James Penneo Jr., and John Joy.
(Lebanon Deeds , 11: 152 , 406.) Probably the Ephraim Hills
who served in the 12th Regt., under Hosford, from Lebanon, in
1776. {Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., 8: 163; 1889 Conn. Mil. Reeds.,
1+50, 624-) The name of his wife is unknown to me. Child
(Hills), Ejphraim *, b. ante 15 Mar. 1778, left a cane in his grand¬
father’s will. Perhaps other children. 16 Feb. 1809, Ezekiel
Skinner was appointed admr. estate of Ephraim Hills, late of
Lebanon, deed.; debts were listed by the Commission of In¬
solvency, 17 Mar. 1809, including names of Simon, Mercy and
William-C. Hills. {Windham Dist., Prohate, 1884-)
iv. Nobles, b. 14 Oct. 1747, bapt. 25 Oct. 1747, d. by 15 Mar. 1778,
perhaps in service, left issue. As “Nobels Hills,” he served from
Colchester, see mention of photo copy of original roll in his
brother, Lebbeus’ account. A gun, blanket and cartridge box
were delivered to him, as a member of Capt. Abijah Rowley's
co., of Hebron, Continental Army, July 1776, see Selectmen's
Accts. of Hebron, Rev. War Archives, 6: 320: 117A (C. S. L.)
He prob. m. about 1770, Sarah -, who, a widow, was
named as her son’s guardian, 1786, at which time her son,
“Richard Hill” of Hebron, xvas aged 15. {Colchester Dist.,
Probate, 1625.) Children (Hills), at least, (1) Richard**, b.
1772, d. 4 Feb. 1831, test., Glastonbury, member of Marlboro
Ch., 21 Feb. 1797; m. (1), Mary-; m. (2), Avis-B. Cook;
* See unplaced Richard Hills, 1906 77 ills Fam., vp. 605-606. Richard made his will,
3 June 1830, reed. 4 Feb. 1831, to wife Avis-B., son Ozias and he to be ex., daus.: Rachel
Loveland and Polly Covel; wit: Sabin Stocking, Buddy Hollister, John-H. Hollister.
Avis decided to take her thirds, 17 Aug. 1831. {Hartford Dist. Probate , — [not num¬
bered]). In 1800, Richard was of Colchester and in 1810 of Glastonbury; in Marlboro
deeds, 1805; in Chatham deeds, as of Colchester, 1802; was his wife a Buel?
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had bapt. said Ch., (a) Noble, bapt. June 1792, d. 2 Oct. 1810,
aged 19, apprentice to Samuel Bull ( Rocky Hill Ch ., 1: 9S)\
(b) Polly, bapt. Nov. 1794; (c) Rachel, b. 17 Sept. 1796, bapt.
Oct. 1796, d. 7 Aug. 1874; ( d ) Ozias, b. 21 May 1799, bapt. 1799,
d. 6 Feb. 1888; perhaps (2) Gains , b. about 1774, d. by 10 Apr.
1817, Bristol, Conn., m. Mary-, had (a) Justin, b. 3 Sept.
1801; (b) Noble, b. 9 Nov. 1803; as see guardianship reeds., in
1817. (Farmington Dint., Probate, 1445.)
v. Lydia, b. 13 Oct. 1750, bapt. 14 Oct. 1750, alive 1778; m. by 15
Mar. 1778,- Dean. Needs further research.
vi. Faith, b. 12 Jan. 1752, bapt. 21 Jan. 1753 (N. S.), d. 2 Aug. 1825,
aged 74, Marlboro; m. about 1775, Capt. Jonah Root, b. 3 Mar.
1744, Hebron, d. 20 Dec. 1831, aged 88, test., Marlboro, son of
Nathaniel and Mary (Tarbox) Root. Both are bur. in the Old
Cem. at Marlboro. The 1906 Hills Fam., #199, p. 37, merely
copies data from the 1870 Root Gen., #478, p. 123. No special
research was made re Faith, but what was gained is added here.
Children (Root), not in order of birth, b. Marlboro Parish of
Colchester, (1) Abijah; m. Charity Jones; (2) Elijah (Dr.), b.
1786, d. 18 Oct. 1827, aged 41, left heirs, (3) Elisha, b. 4 Nov.
1788, d. 22 July 1868, (4) Joel; m. Charlotte Acorn, (5) Jonah ,
d. 1 Sept. 1827, left heirs; (6) Howell, or Hoel, b. 1792, d. 27 Dec.
1859, aged 67, bur. Old Cem.; m. (1), Jerusha Phelps, who d. 18
Mar. 1849, aged 48; he m. (2), Prudence Blish, who d. 1 Dec.
1882, aged 84, both bur. same; (7) Faith; m. - [Herrick?],
left heirs; (8) Lucy; m. Erastus Bigelow, left heirs; (9) Polly;
m. Elisha Strickland, not named in father’s will; (10) Caroline,
b. 1789, d. unm. 4 Nov. 1854, aged 65; (11) Laura, b. 1797, d.
unm. 19 Aug. 1858, aged 61. (Note that Faith (Hills) Root’s
nephew, our Asahel 4 Hills, also named a son Hoel Hills.) Needs
further research.
3. LEBBEUS 3 HILLS (Ephraim 2 , Samuel x ), bom in Lebanon,
Conn., 3 Oct. 1739, baptised there, in the Second or Goshen Church,
as “Lybius,” 7 Oct. 1739, eldest son and the first born of his father,
by the latter’s second wife, living in the Marlborough Parish of Col¬
chester, Conn., 31 Alar. 1784, and probably died between 1792 and
1809. He married, in the First Church of Colchester, ceremony by
the Rev. Ephraim Little, 5 Nov. 1760 *, Hannah Brown, born there,
28 Oct. 1738, died, a widow, in Marlborough, Conn., 21 Jan. 1828,
aged ninety years and three months, daughter of George and Elizabeth
(Wells) Brown, about w’hom see the Addenda.
He was evidently named for one of the Tw*elve Apostles, “Lebbaeus,
whose surname w'as Thaddaeus.” (St. Matthew 10: 3.) About 1760,
his father moved from Lebanon to Colchester, where he settled in the
* Bailey’s Conn. Marriages, 3: 103 gives incorrect name and date. For the Rev.
Ephraim Little, Harvard, 1728, b. 1708, Marshfield, Mass., settled in Colchester 1732-
1787, A.B., A.M., etc. see 1936 Weis’ Col Clergy.
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Marlborough Society or Parish, at which time Lebbeus had just
attained his majority. This Society had been formed in May 1747,
in the towns of Hebron, Colchester and Glastonbury, by division of
Hebron Society, Colchester First and Third Societies, and Glaston¬
bury Second Society. Eventually, in October 1803, the new town
of Marlborough with identical boundaries as the Society, was formed,
from the three towns. Marlborough is thus surrounded by the
towns of Glastonbury, North, Hebron, East, Colchester, South, and
Chatham (since 1915 known as East Hampton), West, of which Glas¬
tonbury was formed 1693, Colchester 1698, Hebron 1708 and Chat¬
ham 1767.*
We have noted, 5 May 1773, Lebbeus’ conveyance, as of Colchester,
to his father, of four acres there, in the parish of Marlborough. In
his father’s will of 15 Mar. 1778, w’hich w r as proved 3 Aug. 1778,
“Labeus” was given one half the house and lands forever and at his
mother’s death, or marriage, the other half forever. He was to pay
out certain token sums to the other heirs and with Capt. David Miller
was to act as co-executor. However, Miller did not serve so, 6 Oct.
1778, the probate court appointed “Labous” as sole executor, and
he w r as bonded and presented an inventory; the widow’s dower being
set off to her, 12 July 1779. As she had some thirty-five acres in land,
the west part of the barn and the east part of the house, we infer that
Lebbeus had about the same quantity of land, with the east half of
the barn and the west part of the house.
As w*e shall see later, Lebbeus only appears as a grantor in the Col¬
chester Deeds , twice, after his father’s death, in 1780 and in 1784, and
by the latter year had apparently succeeded in full to his father’s real
property. Thus we learn that by 1784, his mother, Lydia, w*as either
deceased or had remarried. Lebbeus’ first conveyance w~as probably
of his wife’s property:
29 Mar. 1762, “we Lebbeus Hills and Hannah Hills of Colchester . . . for
. . . Twenty four pounds . . . Received ... of Elias Ransom of Colches¬
ter,” sold the latter a tract of twelve acres there; both sign as Hilb; ack. same
day and reed. 4 Mar. 1763; wit: Epaphras Lord, J.P., and Theodore Lord.
(Colchester Deeds, 7: 5J2.)f
A survey of the unindexed original Town Records of Colchester , 1760-
1804, reveals that “Lebbeus Hills,” was admitted a freeman there,
20 Sept. 1763; as “Lebbeus Hills,” he was sworn a surveyor of high¬
ways, 3 Oct. 1764; as “Lebbeus Hills,” was chosen constable, 9 Dec.
1765; held same office, as “Lebeus Hills,” 10 Dec. 1766; and as
“Lebbeus Hills,” 10 Dec. 1767. He was both constable and the
* Hall’s 1904 Marlboro Centennial gives a diagram showing the formation of the town.
f The amount of land and the fact that it was bounded by Jonathan Avery, Timothy
Stark and - Treadway, surely identifies it as Hannah's inheritance, from her
father, George Brown.
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collector of town rates, 13 Dec. 1768, again a constable, 11 Dec. 1769
and 13 Dec. 1770, as “Lebbeus Hills.” His name thereafter appears
in these records under the same spelling, serving as constable, 12 Dec.
1771 and 8 Dec. 1772, as tything man, 15 Dec. 1778 and as a surveyor
of highways, 1# Dec. 1780, this last being repeated as 15 Dec. 1780,
after which there is no further mention of him.* (Colchester Reeds.,
Vol. I: 155, 222, 223, 225, 226, 228 (. 2), 231, 233, 236, 249, 255; Vol.
II., 1780-1829, early pages not paginated.)
From the above source, it is interesting to learn that, 7 Feb. 1782,
Colchester was a small town, there being then 1675 males and 1690
females.
Returning to land record evidence, we find Lebbeus buying land
in 1767 and 1768, as follows:
29 Apr. 1767, Niles Coleman, of Colchester, for £7-15-00, sold “Lebbeus
Hills,” of same, about four acres there in the parish of New Marlboro; wit:
Daniel and Joel Hosford; aek. same day; reed. 14 May 1767. 21 June 1768,
Samuel Kellogg, of same, for a like sum, conveyed to “Lebbeus Hills,” of
same, about four acres in the parish of New Marlboro; wit: Niles Coleman
and Ebenezer Strong; ack. same day; reed. 30 June 1768. (Colchester Deeds,
8: 642, 332.)
A brief survey of the records of the Justices Court for Colchester,
1767-1790 f, reveals that:
18 June 1770, Lebbeus Hills acted as attorney for Jonathan Hollister in
a case of debt against Jonas Wilder; execution granted 25 July 1770. 31 Mar.
1772, Lebbeus Hills, of Colchester, was sued by Prince Brewster as attorney
for Hosea Foot, in the amount of £5-10-03, per note dated 30 Sept. 1771;
execution granted 18 Apr. 1772. 30 May 1772, Lebbeus Hills, of Colchester,
owed a small sum: £2-08-07, to Asa Graves, of same, per note dated 31 Mar.
1772; execution granted 26 June 1772. 15 Sept. 1772, Lebbeus Hills, of
Colchester, owed Nathaniel Harris, of same, £14-17-00-02, due per note of
4 Sept. 1771; execution granted but date not cited. (29 Oct. 1772, Elijah
Hills was sued for a small sum, execution granted 10 Nov. 1772.) Finally,
insofar as these records are concerned, 21 June 17^3, Lemuel Fitch and
Ebenezer Street owed Lebbeus Hills for £7-03-05, per note of same date [?];
execution granted 24 June 1773.
In the interim and later, he again appears in the land records:
7 Nov. 1772, Thomas Carrier, of Colchester, for £15, sold “Lebbeus Hills,”
of same, thirteen acres and fifty rods in the parish of Marlboro; wit: Daniel
and Dudley Hosford; ack. same day, reed, [no day] Jan. 1773. 5 May 1773,J
Lebbeus Hills, of Colchester, conveyed said land to John Wyllys, of same,
* As the Marlboro Town llecds., commence Oct. 1803, they have not as yet been
covered, for Asahel left there before 1800, and presumably his father either died or left
there soon after 1787. I may decide to examine them later.
t At C. S. L., and covered for us by Mrs. Townsend.
t Mention has been made of Lebbeus’ deed to his father of even date, 5 May 1773,
tide ante.
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for £15, by warranty conveyance; wit: Epapkras Lord, J.P., and Dorothy
Lord; ack. 5 May, and reed. 18 May, 1773. (Colchester Deeds, 9: J4, 66.)
The following deed helps to prove his wife’s identity:
8 Mar. 1774, “We Lebbeus Hills & Hannah Hills both of Colchester,” for
£10, conveyed to Amasa Brown, of same, three and a quarter acres there,
bounded S. by Ezra Brown, W. by heirs of Lydia Brown “Alice Avery” [alias
Avery], deed., N. by land which was Jesse Brown’s, E. by Lemuel Fitch,
“together with ye tenth Part of ye house & Barn which was our Hon rd Fathers
George Brown Late of Colchester Deed”; both sign; wit: Epaphras Lord and
Thomas Fitch; ack. same day and reed. 16 Aug. 1782. (ibid., 10: 276.)
The Revolutionary War commenced with the Battle of Lexington
and Concord, 19 Apr. 1775. Lebbeus Jr., see later, served as a drum¬
mer boy, in 1776.
Lebbeus himself served from Marlborough Society, in Colchester,
Militia, 13th company and 12th regiment, as per orders of the General
Assemblv of Connecticut of October 1774 *, for twelve half-days
training, being paid in June 1775, on the 9th, the receipt being dated
16th, June 1775. (Conn. Archives, Rev. War, 1763-1789, ser. 1, vol.
2A: 25, 25b .)f
It will be noted in the original that Lebbeus’ brother, “Nobels
Hills,” served with him in this local militia service, see second column,
Lebbeus name being the last name in the first column.f Vide ante for
Nobles, who died before 15 Mar. 1778, w’hen their father, Ephraim,
drew his will. This will was proved 3 Aug. 1778, with Lebbeus
eventually acting as sole executor, as has been explained in detail.
Doubtless his concern with the estate, and settlement thereof, pre¬
vented any further military duty.
In 1780, Lebbeus again appears in the deeds:
6 June 1780, Elijah and Grace Hills, of East Windsor, Conn., sold to Leb¬
beus Hills, of Colchester, land in latter place west of Dickensons Stream, said
land being given to them by their bond, father, William Marriner, late of
Colchester, deed., containing about five and a half acres; both sign; it was
bounded N. by land given by said Marriner to Abigail Beebe and S. land
given to Sarah Dickenson, etc.; wit: Samuel Fish and Eben r Russell; ack.
same day; reed, [no day] July 1780. 18 Aug. 1780, Lebbeus Hills, of Col¬
chester, for £10, sold Thomas Hills, of same, the same property; signs; wit:
Joel Fox and Isaac Brown; ack. same day; reed. 15 Jan. 1781. (Colchester
Deeds, 10: 108 , 137.)
In 1783, “Lebbeas Hills” was a creditor of the estate of Hezekiah
Kneeland, late of Colchester, deceased. (Colchester Dist. Probate,
1929.) t
* Conn. State Reeds., 1!+: 327.
t Photo copy of original roll included in my Hills Notes.
j See my Kneeland Notes, at the N. E. H. G. Society, compiled for Mr. Hills, and
given by him, as were the Hinckley Notes and the Bentley Notes, to the said Society.
All three manuscripts were originally part of the Hills Notes.
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His final recorded deed in Colchester was made the next year:
31 Mar. 1784, Lebbeus Hills, of Colchester, for £150, sold to Elisha Lord,
of same, two pieces of land there “in the Society of Marlborough,” containing
about ninety acres; one piece bounded by “Ebin” Strong, Eleazer Carter,
said Lord and Daniel Kellogg; the other piece lying the opposite side of the
highway “against my dwelling house,” bounded by David Miller, etc.;
warranty conveyance; signs; no r.d.; wit: David Miller and Elijah Kellogg;
ack. same day; reed. 2 Apr. 1784. (10: J 21 .)
This is our last record for Lebbeus with absolute proof that he was
alive; moreover, by this deed, he sold out most of his property in
Colchester but apparently did not include the house in this sale.
Ephraim had originally purchased, in two lots, ninety seven acres in
Colchester, 27 Feb. 1760, and bought four more of his son, Lebbeus,
5 May 1773. He built a house apparently on one of the said lots,
and by his will of 15 Mar. 1778, gave his wife, Lydia, the improve¬
ment of one half this real estate and the east end of the dwelling house,
son Lebbeus was to have the other half of the house and after his
mother’s death the rest of the house and land. The widow’s portion
of the land was estimated at about thirty five acres, 12 July 1779.
Lebbeus must have acquired land in Colchester, either by town grant
or by some sale or gift, not of record, for, 29 Mar. 1762, he sold twelve
acres there; however, his wife Hannah joined him in this sale, so that
it may well be it was her inheritance. In 1767, Lebbeus had four
acres sold him which he at once sold or mortgaged. Again in 1772,
he bought and sold (in 1773) some thirteen acres. The 1774 deed in
which his wife Hannah appears was a quitclaim on her rights. In
1780, Lebbeus bought and sold an identical small piece of land.
So, after 31 Mar. 1784, Lebbeus held evidently the home place
consisting of the dwelling house and under ten acres of land. There
is no further action in either the Colchester or the Marlborough (after
that town was formed in 1803) deeds for our Lebbeus; what became
of the house and adjacent land, did a child automatically succeed to
the same? Was there a deed of gift, with an agreement for life care
and maintenance that was never recorded? Of Lebbeus’ known sons
to reach maturity, all left Marlborough but son Ephraim. Recall
that in 1784, Lebbeus was but forty-five years of age, what became of
him? There is no further record in any of the many sources con¬
sulted.
We do know that, 23 Apr. 1786, a petition was signed in Colchester
by Lebbeus Hills Jr .* And Taintor’s 1864 Colchester , page 156 ,
cites: Polls in Marlborough Society, 1787, include both Lebbeus Hills
Jr. and Thomas Hills. Also, as we shall see in this son’s account, in
* Conn. Archives, Travel , 1670-1788, ser. /, vol. 3: 237C., C. S. L., of which a photo
copy is included in my Hills Notes.
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1792, he appears as Jr., in the Chatham deeds, to which town he
removed, but not in 1809. It would then seem probable that our
Lebbeus Sr. was alive as late as 21 Sept. 1792. He does not appear
as head of a family in 1790, in Connecticut or elsewhere. The Leb¬
beus listed that year in Glastonbury was the son. There is no
settlement of Lebbeus Sr.’s estate, nor that of his widow’s, in Connec¬
ticut Probate. The land records of Hebron, Colchester, Marl¬
borough, Glastonbury and Chatham have all been covered and with
a negative result.*
The census records for 1800, 1810 and 1820 have been examined
for all the above noted towns and no male or female, over forty-five,
appears in the records of Lebbeus Hills’ sons, except in the family of
son, Ephraim, of Marlborough, 1810 and 1820, who in both years had
a female over forty-five, in his family, evidently his mother. In 1810,
Ephraim had no male over forty-five with him; in 1800, Marlborough
was part of Colchester, but Ephraim is not listed therein. The
records of the sons-in-law, insofar as census is concerned, w r ere also
covered, f
There are a number of copies of the Marlborough Parish, or Society,
Church Records. There is the Talcott, or Colonial Dames, copy at
the Conn. Historical Society, and a photostatic copy (originally made
by Myrtle A. Jones, of Hebron, in 1901 and loaned to the Conn. State
Library, for purposes of photostating, in 1939, by the late Charles R.
Hale). There is the original Robbins “copy” at C. S. Z., and in
1952, there was printed in the D. A. R. Magazine, The American
Monthly , copies of the baptisms, 1749-1833 only. Not only do these
various copies all vary somewhat, but what is so important in this
search, there are no marriages at all in any of them!
The organization of this Congregational Church and Parish has
already been fully explained. The early records were simply not
kept, but in the Winter of 1798-1799, while serving there as a supply
preacher, Thomas Robbins, then a candidate for the ministry, became
concerned over this lack. And, as best he could, he gathered the
records, mainly relying on verbal accounts, with personal trips to see
the older inhabitants and members, entering the result in a book,
which, in his own hand, is now at the Conn. State Library. Portions
of this “Diary” have been published and in this appears, under date
of 16 Apr. 1799: “Finished with the Church Records. I have done
much more to them than I expected.” Virtually the same remark
appears in the original book in his own hand. From Mrs. Townsend’s
careful search of this original, the following items were gleaned:
* Microfilm at C. S. L., covered by Mrs. Townsend; I personally examined deeds in
the towns of Lebanon and Colchester, in 1954.
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Baptisms *
Oct. 1765, Lebbeus & Roswel, children of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills.
1768, Hannah, dau. of Lebbeus and Hannah Hills; no month cited, the 3d
entry beyond is a March entry.
1770, “Asahel”, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, follows Feb., and precedes
a March entry.
1771, Lucy, dau. of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, first entry followed by a June
entry.
1773, March, Hannah, dau. of Nathan and Hannah Hills; entry above this
is an Alice, dau. of Lebbeus and Hannah Dickinson, “this is obviously a
reversal of given names in the entries since subsequent records give other
children to Nathan and Hannah Dickinson.” It therefore applies to a child
of our Lebbeus and Hannah Hills. E. W. T.
1775, Lydia, dau. of Libbeous and Hannah Hills follows June and precedes
October.
1777, Polly, dau. of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, both follow a May entry and
precede a June entry. The “both” refers to a Phelps record.
1778, Oliver, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, directly follows a Polly Root
entry and precedes a December one.
1779, Ephraim, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, follows August and pre¬
cedes December.
1780, Silas, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, follows October and precedes
November.
1782, Rusel, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, follows May and precedes
August.
1784, David, son of Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, no month cited, this is the
first entry that year and is followed by a 1784 Phelps item likewise no month
given, and then by a November entry.
Deaths.
1777, Lucy, child of Lebbeus Hills aged 6.
1777, Lebbeus Hills child; these two entries follow one of 18 Sept. 1777.
1778, Ephraim Hills died July 29th in the 71 year of his age.
1779, Libbeus Hills child.
1828, 21 Jan., Widow Ililb, aged GO yrs.
Communicants.
1765, Lebbeus & Hannah Hills, no day or month.
Members Dismissed etc.
(No Hills that apply to our family.)
Other Hills noted:
1774, Anna Hill dedicated by her grandparents David & Zeruah Blish,
precedes July and follows May.
1792, June, Nobles son of Richard & Mary Hills.
1794, November, Polly, dau. of same.
1796, October, Rachel, dau. of same.
1799, Ozias, son of same, no month, followed by 24 Nov. entry.
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The above records are not all quoted. I have underscored the death
of a “Widdow Hills,” who died in Marlborough, 21 Jan. 1828, aged
“90” — that is, aged ninety years and three months.* This, of
course, is the death record of Hannah (Brown) Hills, widow of Lebbeus
Hills Sr., and the mother of our Asahel Hills, whom she outlived. She
was born, we recall, in Colchester, 28 Oct. 1738. It is said that there
is no settlement of her estate, apparently, in either land or probate
records.
As to the two deeds of her son Lebbeus Jr., which are important to
us in placing an approximate date of death for her husband, Lebbeus
Sr., brief abstracts follow-
21 Sept. 1792, David Clark, of Chatham, Conn., for £30, sold “Lebbeus
Hills Jr.,” of same, about three acres there, in Easthampton Society, with a
dwelling house thereon, also one half of a barn; wit: John Clark and James
Bill; ack. same and reed. 18 Oct. 1700. (Chatham Deeds, 0: 514.)
8 June 1809, “Libeas Hills” [no Jr., follows his name], of Chatham, for
$200, sold [his son] “Chancy Hills,” of same, a certain piece of land in Chat¬
ham Easthampton Society, containing ten to twelve acres, with a dwelling
house and a barn thereon; same bounds as in the 1792 purchase; signs as
“Libbeus Hills”; writ: David White and John Bottom; ack. same day and
reed. 10 Oct. 1809. (ibid., 14: 134.)
A copy of the Colchester Toicn Vital Records made there personally
by me, from the original records, and certified by the Town Clerk,f
follows, after which, w^e consider Lebbeus’ large family of children.
Volume One , page 22, Colchester Vital Records, Colchester, Conn., originals:
“Lebbeus Hills & Hannah Brown was Married Novemb 1- 5 th 1760
Lebbeus their Son was bom August the 13 th 1761
Rozel their Son was bom Febru y : 18 th 1763
Hannah their Daughter warn [was born] May the 6 th 1764
Asahel their Son was born Januar\ the 29 th 1766
4 /
Lucev their Daughter Born December 31 1767
Ellis their Daughter Bom October 17 th 1769.”
I certify the above is a true copy of the Vital Records in the Colchester Vital
Records, Volume 1, page 22
Attest: John G. Fedus
Register of Vital Records
Children, first six recorded in Colchester, Conn., baptised in Marl¬
borough Parish, or Society, in said towm:
i. Lebbeus 4 , b. 13 Aug. 1761, bapt. Oct. 1765, living 1815, Paris,
Oneida Co., N. Y., where his younger brother, Asahel had pre¬
ceded him; m. 22 Oct. 1789, Eastbury Ch. (2d of Glastonbury,
Conn.) t, Polly Gibson, b. as Mary, 27 June 1772, Glaston¬
bury, alive 1811, dau. of Samuel and Mary (Kimberly) Gibson,
* Original Marlborough Ch. Reeds., C. S. L., a photo copy of Vol. 1: 120 is included
in my Hills Notes.
f He was most helpful when I worked there and since.
t The reeds, of this parish are pub. in Register, cols. 61-02-63.
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her siblings were: Anne, Clara, Florinda, Roger, Ruth and
Samuel. As a drummer boy, he served in the Revolution: “A
List of Cap 1 David Millers Co., Lt. Col. Obediah Hosford’s reg 1
that march d in Sept 177G to East Chester to join Gen 1 Washing¬
tons Army” includes “Libbeus Hills J r Drummer.” {Coll. Conn.
Hist. Soc., 8: 100 , pub. 1901; also 12: 370 , pub. 1909.) * We
have already noted his petition in Marlboro Parish of Colchester,
23 Apr. 1786, signed as “Libeus Hills Ju r .” f And we have men¬
tioned that the polls in that parish, or society, in 1787, included
Lebbcus Hills Jr. His two eldest children were bapt. in the
Eastbury Ch., in 1790, and he appears therefore as of Glaston¬
bury, in the census of 1790, with one male over 16, one under and
two females. “Lebbeus” and wife Marv owned the Covenant
and were admitted to full communion with the Eastbury Ch., 30
Oct. 1790, the day these two children were bapt. therein, but
they soon removed to Chatham, Conn., where their children are
recorded in the town records, 1793-1808; this town, estb. in
1767, had its name changed to East Hampton as late as 1915. A
word about this Eastbury Ch., from which there is no record of
Lebbeus’ dismission: it was established May 1731, as Eastbury,
or 2d Soc., in Glastonbury J; perhaps Polly Gibson’s people were
members. There are no deeds for this Lebbeus in Colchester,
Marlboro or Glastonbury. From the Chatham 1st Ch. Reeds.,
1: 126; 2: 37, at C. S. L., we note Lebbeus Hills, a member in
1792, was dismissed in 1810, and a separate list states that he
removed to another church, place not stated, in 1810. This is
substantiated by the deeds and census records. Note that in
1792, Lebbeus Jr., of Chatham, bought a dwelling house there,
part of a barn and land in the Easthampton Society, which he
sold, in 1809, sans the “Jr.,” to (his son), Chauncey Hills.
{Chatham Deeds , 9: 514; 14-' 1342) In 1800, we find in Chatham,
Middlesex Co., Conn., p. 386: “Lebias Hill” with one male and
one female, 26-45, one male under 10, and one male and one
female, 10-16, in his family; but he is not listed there in 1810 or
1820. Unfortunately the 1810 census for Oneida Co., N. Y. is
not divided into towns and but the 1st initial of the given name
is cited, the only “L” Hills, or Hill, thereof, does not check, in
sex or numbers, with Lebbeus’ known familv. However, 3 Nov.
1811, Lebbeus Hills and wife, Polly, were admitted to the United
Ch., of Paris, Oneida Co., N. Y., and were later dismissed from
same, but no place is given to which they moved, and no date is
given; this church was formed, 8 Jan. 1810. {Paris Ch. Reeds.,
261, 262, 283 , 271, 260, D. A. R. 6, Oneida Chapter 3.) § That
* Photo copy of original Roll from Conn. Archives, Rev. War, ser. 1, vol. 6: 151, in¬
cluded in my Hills .Xotes.
t Vide ante re photo copy this original petition.
♦ % division of the 1st Soc.; a portion set off. May 1747, to Marlboro Soc., later
called the E. Glastonbury Soc., and then Buckingham Soc. The records are not extant
before 1768.
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same year, 22 Oct. 1811, Lebbeus Hills was named as the executor
of the will of his brother, Asahel Hills, of Paris, vide ■post. The
Paris Ch. Records cite that an Aurora-Octavia Hills was bapt.
between 1815 and 1823, “at the house of Lebbeus Hills,” thus
we learn that the family was there as late as 1815. There are no
deeds for him in Oneida Co., nor any estate.* Children (Hills),
3d through 11th, bapt. Chatham, Conn., (1) Chauncey 5 , bapt.
30 Oct. 1790, Eastburv Ch., “of Lebeus Hills Jr.,” to whom his
father sold the Chatham property, 8 June 1809; (2) Poll)/, bapt.
30 Oct. 1790, Eastburv Ch., dau. of “Lebbeus & Mary Hills”;
(3) Zeruiah-Blush [Blish ], bapt. 12 Mar. 1793, d. 11 May 1794;
(4) Zeruiah-Blush [Blish], bapt. 26 July 1795, d. 2 Feb. 1800;
(5) Oclavia, bapt. 8 Oct. 1797, d. 17 Mar. 1800; all three d.
Chatham; (6) Samuel-Gibson , bapt. 10 Xov. 1799; (7) Pamela,
bapt. 17 Jan. 1802; (8) Gustavus, bapt. 13 May 1804 t; (9) Char¬
lotte, bapt. 11 May 1806; (10) Julius-August us, bapt. 18 Sept.
1808; (11) Julia-Augusta, bapt. same, a twin; (12) Aurora-
Octavia, bapt. 1815-1823, prob. b. ante 1820, Paris, N. Y.;
perhaps others between 1808 and 1815?
ii. Rozel, a son, b. 18 Feb. 1763, bapt. with elder brother, Oct. 1765,
as “Roswel,” d. 1770, aged 5, as “Roswel.”
iii. Hannah, b. 6 May 1764, bapt. 1768, d. by 1773.
4. iv. ASAHEL, b. 29 Jan. 1766, bapt. 1770; m. Polly- 4
v. Lucy, b. 31 Dec. 1767, d. by 1771.
vi. Alice, b. 17 Oct. 1769, bapt. March 1773. §
vii. Lucy, bapt. 1771, d. 1777, aged 6.
viii. Hannah, bapt. March 1773. §
ix. Lydia, b. June 1775, bapt. June 1775, d. 18 Mar. 1839, aged 67 [?],
Chatham, Conn.; m. there, 12 Oct. 1790, Simeon Young, b.
about 1768, bapt. there, 21 Jan. 1770, d. there, 30 Xov. 1822,
aged 53, bur. there in Lake view Cem., son of Simeon and Me-
hitable (PHubbard) Young. “She was of Marlboro’ Conn. Her
mother is said to have been a Hosford, but I cannot find her
father’s name. She had a brother Ephraim Hills, and a sister
Man 7 who m. Oliver Phelps.” The will of Simeon Young of
Chatham, dated 3 Xov. 1822, names the children given below;
the family attended the 1st Ch. there. ( Record, 36: 56—57.) ||
Children (Young), b. Chatham, (1) Demos , scholar in Chatham
as see Diary of Elisha Niles, p. 12; m. Sally-, who was ad.
Ch. there, 1 Nov. 1818, dismissed 1820; (2) Abigail, d. 12 July
1884; m. 25 Nov. 1813, Olmsted Gates of Chatham [she was prob.
* The research in Oneida Co., N T . Y., was accomplished for us by that very able
genealogist, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Merritt, of Utica, N T . Y.
f The Hills Fam., states he m. Elizabeth Mansfield but this seems doubtful.
J Asahel’s name clearlv appears under this spelling in both town and church reeds.
He was never called “Ashbel.”
§ As Lebbeus Hills bur. a child (besides Lucy) in 1777, and another in 1779, one or
more of these daughters may have died young.
|| This statement that Lydia’s mother may have been a Hosford has been considered
before; her mother was of course Hannah Brown, but was her paternal grandmother,
Lydia-, wife of Ephraim Hills, born a Hosford?
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the eldest child]; (3) Sally, d. 14 Oct. 1839; m. 8 June 1820, 1st
Ch. there, Willard Sears Jr., of same.
x. Polly, bapt. May or June 1777, according to the 1899 Phelps
Gen., pp. 3S2-3, b. 8 June 1773 [sic 1777], her name a diminutive
for Mary, d. 11 May 1847, Marlboro, Conn.; m. 28 Nov. 1794,
Colchester, Oliver Phelps, b. there, 4 Aug. 1771, d. 15 Aug.
1838, Marlboro, son of Timothy and Sarah (Skinner) Phelps.
Children (Phelps), b. Colchester-Marlboro, (1) Sarah, b. 23 Oct.
1795, d. 21 Mar. 1878, Genesee, Allegany Co., N. Y.; m. Epa-
phroditus Bigelow, went there in 1819; (2) Cyrus, b. 27 Feb.
1799, d. 9 Mar. 1862, Corfu, Genesee Co., N. Y.; m. Sarah-M.
Bailey; (3) Oliver, b. 8 Oct. 1800, d. 16 July 1801; (4) Oliver, b. 23
June 1803, d. 13 July 1887, Bolivar, Allegany Co., N. Y.; m.
Lucy-Ann West; (5) Timothy, b. 26 Mar. 1806, d. 10 Oct. 1844,
Bristol, Conn.; m. Sarah Austin; (6) David, b. 31 Aug. 1810,
d. 10 July 1873, Marlboro; m. Hannah Freeman; (7) Emeline,
b. 11 Mar. 1813, d. 17 Aug. 1840, Cuba, Allegany Co., N. Y.;
m. William Carrier; (8) Caroline, b. 10 Jan. 1815, d. not given;
m. John Freeman.
xi. Oliver, bapt. 1778, named for uncle Oliver Brown. A child of
Lebbeus Hills d. 1779.
xii. Ephraim, named for Lebbeus’ father, bapt. 1779, d. 26 Apr. 1848,
Marlboro, aged 71[?]; m. about 1797, Britta Curtis, prob.
dau. of Nathaniel Curtis. We note a Britta Curtis bapt. 21
Apr. 1799, Eastbury Ch. of Glastonburv. The onlv Hills, or
Hill, in the 1810 census of Marlboro is Ephraim, who had a
family of one male and one female, 26-45, two males under 10,
two females, 10-16, and one female over 45.* In 1815, Ephraim
agreed to a sale that involved Britta Curtis, minor, etc.; in 1817,
with wife Britta, he conveyed land there formerly of Nathaniel
Curtis deed.; and bought land there in 1815. ( Marlboro Deeds,
3: 403; 2: 57; 1: 475-6.) He does not appear in the Glastonbury
or Chatham Deeds. Children (Hills), b. Marlboro, (1) Britta-
Curtis 5 , b. 23 Sept. 1798; (2) David, b. 20 Dec. 1804; (3) Betsey,
b. 21 June 1806; m. 24 Mar. 1829, Edmund Blish; (4) Philo,
b. 30 May 1808, d. 11 Oct. 1843, aged 34, bur. Old Cem. Marl¬
boro; m. Betsey-W. -, and had child, b. Jan. 1838, d. 3
Mar. 1839, and child, b. Oct. 1840, d. 20 Dec. 1841, bur. there;
(5) Nancy, b. 17 June 1810; m. 29 Nov. 1832, Francis Cotton;
(6) Asahel, b. 6 June 1812 [named for Ephraim's brother who d.
1811, vide post], d. 1 Jan. 1829, also 8 Jan. given, Asahel-H., aged
16, bur. Old Cem.; (7) Sherman , b. 8 Dec. 1814, prob. m.-
-, who d. 14 Mar. 1843, aged 30; he m. (2), 24 Apr. 1844,
Glastonbury, Maria-S. Roy, of Middletown, Conn.; (8) Lyman,
b. 22 May 1817; m. (1), 27 Nov. 1839, Glastonbury, Maria
Wier, b. 1817; he m. (2), Alvira-?; issue: Edward-F., b.
* His mother? Ephraim still had a female over 45 in 1820 census of Marlboro; his
brother-in-law, Oliver Phelps, also of Marlboro, in 1810, had no female over 45 in his
family.
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30 Nov. 1840; m. Adelaide-M. Hollister; Frances-C., b. 1842,
d. 17 June 1869; by Alvira, had James-B., b. 1 Jan. 1851 [?] this
is mixed; (9) Cornelia, b. 22 June 1820; (10) Cynthia-Ann, b. 10
Apr. 1824; m. 17 Feb. 1847, Glastonbury, Gaylord Curtis,
xiii. Silas, bapt. 1780, prob. Oct. A Silas appears in Chatham Deeds
from 1834, but evidently a younger man as a Silas m. there,
1834, Mary-N. Goff, etc. No Silas appears in the 1800 or 1810
census of Marlboro-Glastonbury-Chatham.
xiv/ Russell, same name as Roswell above, bapt. 1782, b. 10 Feb.
1782, d. 5 Aug. 1831, aged 49, bur. Old Cem., Marlboro; m. 30
Sept. 1804, Chatham, Ann is Holmes, b. 20 Aug. 1785, Wethers¬
field, Conn., dau. of Charles and Martha (-) Holmes, and
sister of Howell Holmes. Was she also called “Polly”? For
Polly, wife of Russell Hills, d. 5 Aug. 1831, aged 49, bur. Old
Cem. Marlboro. Of Chatham, he appears in the deeds there in
1806 and 1821, as a grantor ( Chatham Deeds, 12: 34-3; 17: 437.)
He is in the census of 1810 as of Chatham but then had no
female over 45 in his family. Children (Hills), b. Chatham,
(1) George 5 , b. 15 Aug. 1805, res. Middletown, Conn.; m. Eliza¬
beth Wright, had Marv-W., b. 19 Apr. 1834, d. 30 Dec. 1867; (2)
Caroline, b. 21 Nov. 1806; m. 21 Nov. 1S26, Philo-II. Taylor, of
Verona, N. Y.; (3) Betsey, b. 25 June 1808; (4) Mary, b. 26 July
1810; m. 4 Oct. 1829, William Hunt, of Chaplin, Ohio; (5) Har¬
riet, b. 21 June 1812; (6) Charles, b. 4 May 1814; (7) Emily, b.
9 Apr. 1816; (8) Martha, b. 24 Mar. 1818; (9) Charlotte, b. 25
July 1820; (10) John, b. 27 Mar. 1822.
xv. David, bapt. 1784. A David appears in the 1800 and the 1810
census in Chatham, in both years having a female over 45 in his
family, but as David was but 16 in 1800, and his sisters married
or dead by that year, this David of the census is an older man,
and probably connected with the Daniel Hills family. A David
bought fifteen acres in Marlboro, which as of Chatham, he
mortgaged in 1808 to James Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.
{Marlboro Deeds, 1: 131/..) In 1816, Daniel Hills of Blandford,
Mass., quits claim to land in Chatham, bounded by Ackley
heirs, to a David Hills of Chatham; this David and a David Jr.,
had further dealings in this land in 1820 and 1821. ( Chatham
Deeds, 18: 99; 17: 362, 364; 19: 371) These references are
obviously not to our David, b. 1784. The David Hills who d.
25 Apr. 1804, aged 18, Chatham (East Hampton) Church
Records probably applies.
These pages have dealt, briefly, with the fifteen children of Leb-
beus Hills Sr., by his wife, Hannah Brown, with the exception of
Asahel, their fourth child, whose account is presented on the following
pages. A number of these children died young, but Lebbeus and
Asahel lived to have children of their own, and went to York State,
where both were living in Paris, Oneida County in 1811. Rozel,
Hannah, Lucy (two of the name died in infancy) died young, and
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probably either Alice or Hannah did, moreover we have no further
record for these two. Then we come to Lydia and Polly , both of
whom lived to marry, remained in Connecticut, and had issue. Many
of the latter’s children settled in Allegany County, N. Y., which might
point a chance for further research on what became of Asahel’s widow.
I think Oliver died in 1779, which brings us to Ephraim, who re¬
mained in Marlborough, where he died as late as 1848, and with whom
I think the widow Hannah (Brown) Kills lived. We have no definite
record for Silas after his baptism in 1780, nor for David, after his bap¬
tism in 1784, perhaps they also died or left the State? Russell re¬
mained and he also was buried in Marlborough in 1831, although a
resident of nearby Chatham.
The children were evidently fond of brother David, for Polly,
Ephraim and Asahel all named children “David.” Ephraim named
a son, Asahel. And among AsaheVs children was Lydia, for his sister.
4. ASAHEL 4 HILLS ( Lehheus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel J ), born in
Colchester, Conn., 29 Jan. 1766, baptised there in the Marlborough
Parish, February or March, 1770, died in Paris, Oneida County,
N. Y., between 22 Oct., and 30 Dec., 1811, testate. He married, un¬
doubtedly in Connecticut, about 1790, Polly- , who survived,
her identity and death as yet unknown.*
Before w r e consider his career, it seems reasonable and proper to
present below* the facts concerned in the positive identification of
David Hills, as a son of this Asahel Hills:
Briefly, in June 1953, I was commissioned to prove, if possible,
the parentage of the David Hills, who appears, as unplaced, in the
1906 Hills Family , by W. S. Hills, and Thomas Hills, page 600 .
This genealogy states that David was born in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1806,
named his sons, Kneeland f and Delos, had brothers Hoel and
Thomas, and sisters Lucy (who married a Coates), and Eunice (who
married Joseph Allen) and removed to Willoughby, Lake County,
Ohio. [If a brother Thomas, he died young, and sister Eunice mar¬
ried James Allen.]
Ithaca, now* in Tompkins County, was combed thoroughly, w T ith
the able assistance of Helen (Finch) Smith of that city, w r ho searched
all possible unpublished sources, such as deeds, surrogate, church
records, as also in the various counties that constitute the “ances¬
try” of Tompkins County, all with a negative result. William-
Galbraith Smith, of Washington, D. C., helped wfith the census
and pension records at the National Archives, and again we gained
nothing.
* Inasmuch as she had two grandsons of the given name of Kneeland, it seems
extremely probable that she was born a Kneeland or had Kneeland ancestry. See
my Kneeland Notes, at N. E. H. G. Society.
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But, in the course of these surveys, Mr. Smith consulted with Leon-
C. Hills, a personal friend of his, and an author, who has amassed a
manuscript on the Ifills family, with many additions and corrections
to the 1906 work, named above, and its 1908 Supplement. Mr.
Leon-C. Hills informed Mr. Smith that the names of Hoel and
Kneeland appeared in the family of an Asahel Hills, of Villenova,
Chautauqua County, X. V., who by wife Sally [sfc] Wright, had:
Hoel, Kneeland, Dora and Harriet; that the said Hoel, born there
23 Jan. 1819, by wife Hannah, daughter of John Dye, had Jane,
George, David, who died aged one year, and Milton Hills. He also
recalled that the names of Kneeland and Delos Hill appeared in a
roster of Ohio men who served in the Civil War, which fact is correct.
So I had Mr. Smith follow up these clues by a search of census and
pension records, in Washington, and of the deeds and surrogate
records in Mayville, county seat of Chautauqua County, the results
of which are included herein.
Surely it was more than a mere coincidence, that our David Hills
had a brother Hoel and a son Kneeland and that this Asahel had sons
Hoel and Kneeland! Were David and Asahel possibly connected,
were they brothers?
Fortunately we have at the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, a typed copy, made in 1923, of gravestone inscriptions in a
small yard in Willoughby Center, Lake County, Ohio. From this
unpublished source, I discovered that not only was Eunice (Hills)
Allen and her husband, James Allen, buried there, with their dates of
birth and death on their stone, but also her sister, Lydia and her
brother, Hoel. Mr. Smith then secured the census records, 18oO-
1860-1870-1880, for this group.
Before 20 Dec. 1908, death records in Ohio were recorded at the
county seat, if recorded at all. The only death record I have been
able to secure of the Hills family of Willoughby, w-as through the
courtesy of the Deputy Clerk of Probate for Lake County, Ohio, at
Painesville, Miss Bertha-E. Clark, who secured the death record of
Eunice (Hills) Allen.* Miss Clark stated that there w'ere no estates for
the family excepting James Allen, vide post; she also most kindly read
the obituaries in the local Painesville Telegraph , at the Public Library,
for a month after each death, but found nothing. A survey of deeds
and a re-check of the probate records, etc., w r as later undertaken for
us by a Cleveland, Ohio, genealogist, vide post , and with positive
results.
And that valuable death record of Eunice (Hills) Allen, who died in
Willoughby, 24 Apr. 1887, aged eighty-nine years and five months,
states she was bom in Oneida County , N. Y. Her birth, 1 Oct. 1797,
appears on her gravestone in Willoughby. Again, we have at the
* Photo copy of the certified death reed, included in the IIills Sotes.
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New England Historic Genealogical Society, typed abstracts of Oneida
County Wills, in which source, appears the will of Asahcl Hills, 1811,
of Paris, naming his daughters as Polly, Eunice, Lydia and Lucy;
sons as Asahel, John-A. [sic], David and Joel [sic]; and executors as
wife Polly and Lebbeus Hills. (Barber’s Abstracts of Oneida Co.,
N. Y.y Wills, 1: 17.) *
Thus was secured, after some six months research by myself and
others (part time), the identification of our David Hills, born in Paris,
near Utica [not in Ithaca], N. Y., about 1804, as a son of Asahel 4 ,
of Colchester, Conn., and Paris, N. Y., a nephew of Lebbeus 4 , and
a grandson of Lebbeus 3 .
Returning then to the subject of this account, our David’s father,
Asahel, we have noted, in his father Lebbeus Hills’ account, that
“Asahel” — never “Ashbel” — for his correct name appears in his
birth record (personally copied by me in Colchester), 29 Jan. 1766,
and in his baptismal record, in 1770, either in February or in March,
noted in the original records of the Marlborough Church, or Parish,
by Mrs. Townsend, at the Conn. State Library, son of Lebbeus and
Hannah Ilills, appears in no other records in Connecticut, thus far
discovered. In 1784, his father’s last appearance in the Colchester
Deeds, Asahel was eighteen; of full age, 29 Jan. 1787, he was not
included among the list of Polls in the Marlborough District in Col¬
chester, that same year. It would seem that he had left that area by
then? He does not appear in the Colchester, Marlborough (from
1803), Glastonbury, Hebron or Chatham Deeds. Unfortunately,
Connecticut has no county system of recording its deed and probate
evidence. That he was still of Connecticut we know, for his son,
Asahel, gives his birth as 1793 and in Connecticut, vide post. Asahel’s
marriage is not of record and the Marlborough Church Records con¬
tain no marriages; a great loss in this search.
Between 1793 and 1 Oct. 1797, Asahel went to what is now Paris,
Oneida County, N. Y., but has no deeds recorded in LTica.f Much
of York State was held by renters who leased from wealthy land
owners, at that period. x\lso many land transactions were never
recorded there.
Paris is now not much more than a hamlet in pretty hill country,
and is a farming community. Saquoit a village in same is much
* Copy of the full will, attested, corrects the errors, vide post.
Note: The results of research in Philadelphia, Pa., and Cincinnati, Ohio, will be
considered in David’s account, both failed to solve his parentage.
t Paris was set off, 10 Apr. 1792, from Whitestown (formed 1788), mainly settled
from Conn. Herkimer formed 1G Feb. 1791 from Montgomery Co., but when Oneida
was set off, 15 Mar. 1798, from Herkimer, Oneida retained the records, the co. seat now
being at Utica. Asa Gray, the famous Botanist, was a native of Paris, which was first
settled about 1789. Mrs. Merritt did the research there for us, consulting land and
surrogate records at the Court House, and copies of church, cemetery and other such
sources at the local library, made by the D. A. R., and in her own personal collections.
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larger and in the valley. Paris is about fifteen miles from Utica
and is bordered on the east by Litchfield, in Herkimer County, which
is of importance to us. Mrs. Anna Zimmerman Jenks, Town His¬
torian of Paris, was unable to give us further data; she reported
there are but a few scraps of the Paris Town Records, ante 1880.
Possibly the school lists, if they have survived, might be of assistance?
Apparently Asahel Hills and his wife were not members of the Paris
Congregational Church, which is still of that faith and did not change
to Presbyterian as did so many of the early New York Congregational
parishes. An offshoot of this church, formed in 1791, was the Union
Society of Paris, formed in January 1810, in Saquoit, in the eastern
part of the township of Paris. This has now become Presbyterian.
A copy of the records of this church, made by the D.A.R., has already
been utilized in the account of Asahel’s brother, Lebbeus, vide ante ,
but all items will now be repeated here:
Page 200, Received letters to other churches [?], Polly Hills; list not dated
but probably before 1822. [Should the “to” not read “from” ? TF. L. H.\
Page 261, Male Members added included Lebbeus Hills, 3 Nov. 1811.
Page 262, Female Members Added, included Polly Hills, same day.
Page 283, Membership List, same information with “Dismissed” but no
data as to when or where.
Page 271, Baptized at the House of Lebbeus Hills, Aurora Octavia Hills.
No date given but probably circa 1815 to 1823, from nearby dates. (A 7 . S.
D. A. R., Vol. VI., Oneida Chapter, vol. 3.)
Query, was the first Polly Hills named in this United Society of Paris
church record Asahel’s wife, or does it refer to Lebbeus’ wife of that
name?
Turning to such positive evidence as has been gleaned, we do find
Asahel Hills appearing in Paris, Oneida County, in the census of 1800,
head of a family consisting of one male and one female, between 26
and 45, one male, between 16 and 26 *, two males under 10 and three
females under 10.
The next federal census, that of 1810, does not help us, for not only
is Oneida County’ not divided into townships, but the Christian names
of those listed are indicated by the first letter only’, and that hard to
decipher. Also, Asahel’s known family r at that time included not only
himself and his wife, and in 1810, he was aged forty r -four and his wife
the same, 26-45 bracket, but at least these children: two sons under
ten, one son about fifteen, one daughter thirteen, two daughters under
ten; if the older children, Polly’ and Asahel were at home in 1810, there
was then to be added one female, about nineteen, and one male of
* Was this a younger brother of Asahel’s or of his wife’s? The only other Hills in
Paris in 1800 was Elisha Hills who is identified. There was also an Asa Hill. For
Elisha Hills see 1906 Hills Famp. 42, which repeats the error in the 1875 Hart Gen.,
that Paris is in Herkimer Co.; Elisha m. Polly Hart.
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seventeen. And none of those listed seem to fulfill these require¬
ments, with the exception, of an “E” Hills, who had tw r o males and
one female under 10, one male and tw T o females between 10 and 16,
one male, 16 to 26 and one male and one female between 26 and 45.
At any event, w r e know that Asahel w*as still of Paris in 1810, for he
drew his will there in 1811, and he w r as certainly there in 1800.
In Jones’ Annals and Recollections of Oneida County , published in
1851, he writes, page 302 , “A man by the name of Hill kept the first
boarding house in a log building,” and as late as 1801, it was the only
building within a mile of Paris Furnace.
This reference to a “Hill” may really be to a “Hills” but there is
nothing to show us to which Hills, and we have already noted that
in 1800, there w’ere two Hills and one Hill listed in Paris as heads of
families.
One further positive record, besides the 1800 census, for Asahel,
before he died, is his service as an officer in the local militia in 1803:
Jesse Hale, Adjutant and “Asahel Hills Quartermaster,” served in 1803 in
Major Commandant .Joseph Farwell’s (Farenrell) Battalion, Oneida County.
(A 7 . Y. Council of Appointment, 178J+-1821, Military Reeds., 1: 688.*)
We have considered, briefly, Lebbeus Hills Jr., eldest brother of
our Asahel Hills, wdierebv it was noted that Lebbeus sold out his
real property in Chatham, Conn., in 1809, and w’as dismissed from
the East Hampton Parish there, in 1810. Lebbeus and his wife, Polly,
w r ere admitted members of the Union Society Church, in Paris, 3
Nov. 1811, and w r ere later, after 1815, dismissed from that church.
We do not know’ where they removed to. They had twins baptised
in the East Hampton Church, in 1808, and between 1815 and 1823,
a twelfth child was baptised for them in Paris, very probably between
1815 and 1820, as Lebbeus does not appear in the 1820 census in Paris.
He does appear in the will of his brother, Asahel, in 1811, being named
co-executor with his sister-in-law’, Polly, the widow. Note that
both Lebbeus and Asahel had wives of the same name, also Elisha
Hills of Paris, a contemporary, had wife, Polly. (Polly is of course
the diminutive of Mary.)
All of wffiich brings us to our last record of Asahel, his will, which
was drawm, 22 Oct. 1811 and proved 30 Dec. 1811. An attempt was
made to have this copied will, as recorded in the surrogate volume,
as no original papers are extant, photostated, but it w r as reported that
the record was so faint that any such idea would be better discarded.
This was a disappointment. So, a certified copy was obtained but
was useless as the officials there are evidently unable to read the old
writing. Therefore, Airs. Merritt w*as requested to make a verbatim
copy of this will and any other records pertaining to the estate and
* Published 1901.
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attest to her copy before a Notary. This was accomplished and a
photostatic copy of her attested copy appears in the Hills Notes ,
of which a copy follows: *
“In the name of God amen ... I Asahel Hills of the Town of Paris in the
County of Oneida and State of New York being in a weak state of body, but
at present of sound memory do make and publish this my last will anti Testa¬
ment in manner following (Viz) In the first place I order and direct that my
Funeral charges be Paid. In the next place I give and bequeath unto my
Wife Polly Hills one third part of all my real and personal Estate, after my
debts are paid, during her life, excepting my farming utensils which I give
and bequeath unto my two sons Asahel Hills & John K Hills I also give and
bequeath unto my two sons Asahel and John K Hills the remaining part of
my real estate on condition that they attend to bring up my two Youngest
Sons David Hills & Iloel Hills and keep them at school untill they arrive at
the age of fourteen years and then put them to some Mechanic to learn a
trade, and Pay them fifty Dollars each when they arrive at the age of Twenty
one years.
I also give and bequeath unto my two Sons Asahel and John K. Hills the
remainder of my personal estate after my debts are paid and my Wife has
received her third part as above. And I order my two sons Asahel & John K.
Hills to pay unto my four Daughters Polly, Eunice, Lucy, & Lydia Hills the
sum of fifty Dollars each when they arrive at the age of Eighteen years;
And untill they arrive at that age I direct my Sons Asahel & John K. Hills
to take Care and Support them and give them Propper Schooling. I also
appoint Lebbeus Hills and my wife Polly Hills Executor and Excutrix to this
my last will and testament; And I hereby order my said executors to attend
and see. that this my last will is performed according to what is above written.
I hereby revoke all wills by me before made; In witness whereof I have set my
hand and seal to this . . . my last will and testament in presence of tlie
subscribing Witnesses Paris 22 nd October 1811
Asahel Hills L. S."
The witnesses, R. Blount, Nael Jones and Nathaniel Hoadley proved the
will 30 Dec. 1811 before the Surrogate, in which the first named is called
Rollin Blount. ( Oneida Surrogate Reeds., 1: 31 J.)
Now it would appear, from the above instrument, that the two sons,
Asahel and John-K. Hills were of full age, and if so, were born before
1790. Yet in the census of 1855, Asahel, then of Villenova, gave his
age as sixty-two. So, if Asahel was born in 1787 and his brother in
1789, their father was married in 1786. Later research might reveal
the correct years of birth of these children. It is certain that the
two sons, David and Hoel, were born after 1797, as under fourteen
in 1811, and that their four sisters, Polly, Eunice, Lucy and Lydia,
were born after 1793, as under eighteen in 1811. The only birth
records we have are those for Eunice and Lydia, 1 Oct. 1797 and 26
Oct. 1801, respectively, and that of Hoel, who died 14 Jan. 18G7, aged
* Mrs. Merritt reported no guardianship reeds, until 1870 . This is most unfortunate
as Asahel’s children were nearly all minors at his death.
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sixty years and six months. These records appear on their grave¬
stones. Due to these uncertainties, I have given the approximate
date for Asahel’s marriage as “about 1790,” although “about 1786”
might be more nearly correct.
Son Asahel was old enough to serve as a teamster in the War
of 1812-1814, as claimed by his widow, although her application
for bounty land was rejected (vide post), from which we learn that
he married, 1 Oct. 1815, in Litchfield, Herkimer County, N. Y.
Litchfield was bounded west by Paris in Oneida County, which indi¬
cates that the Asahel Hills’ heirs were still of Paris in 1815. And
we also know’ that Lebbeus Hills, Asahel’s brother was still there in
1815. By 1820, both families had removed, the only persons of the
name then in Paris, as heads of families, being Alden Hill, Jabez
Hill, Elisha Hills, William Hills and a Dan Hills. As Asahel Jr.,
settled in Chautauqua County, in 1818, possibly the widow and her
younger children also removed there? Or did they go to Jefferson
County.*
The items obtained that apply to Asahel Jr., appear under his ac¬
count; undoubtedly further research would give us more facts about
him but this is not needed as our interest is in his younger brother,
David. The latter, we have learned, was under fourteen, in 1811,
was to be supported and taught a trade and w’hen he arrived at full
age was to have $50. He did learn a trade — printing; but w T here?
Between 1811 and about 1841, when he is stated to have appeared in
Philadelphia, Pa., is a blank of thirty years!
Mention has been made of David’s siblings, w T ho w r ent from York
State to Ohio, where they lived, from at least 1850, in Willoughby,
a town about fifteen miles from the county seat, Painesville, Lake
County, Ohio, and east of Cleveland. Originally called Charlton,
Willoughby w’as formed in 1814 as Chagrin, the name being changed
to Willoughby in 1834. Lake County w r as set off from Geauga and
Cuyahoga Counties, 6 Mar. 1840, before our family w’ent there. A
study of the census records of Willoughby follows:
1850, Lake Co., 28:157: James Allen, aged 45, farmer, worth $1800, b. R. I.
[sic, he was of R. I. ancestry], wife Eunice, aged 40, b. N. Y.; Amy, aged 23
and Samuel, aged 10, both b. N. Y.f
1860, Lake Co., 37: 305: James Allen, aged 51, farmer, w T orth $3000; $1000;
wife Eunice, aged GO; Daniel Allen, aged 62 [brother]; Leander Allen, aged 19
[prob. a nephew]; and Lydia “Hill,” aged 50, all b. N. Y. [For Leander vide
post under Eunice.]
1870, Lake Co., 3k: 181: James Allen, aged 62, farmer, real $6500; personal
$2000; wife Eunice Allen, aged 71, keeping house and Lydia Hills, aged 68,
doing housework, all b. in N. Y.
* Jefferson set off from Oneida in 1805. Eunice probably married in Jefferson Co.
t Hoel Hills, brother of Eunice and Lydia, buried 1867, Willoughby, is not there in
census 1850 or 1860, nor is his widow until 1880.
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1880, Lake Co., vol. not cited, p. 61, Family #300: James Allen, aged 72,
retired farmer, b. N. Y., both parents b. same; wife Eunice, aged SI, keeping
house; Delia 31. “Hills,” aged 73, sister-in-law, boarder and Lydia Hills,
aged 76 sister-in-law, boarder, all b. N. Y., and parents b. same [sic].*
And thus we have full proof that between 1850 and 1860, Lydia
Hills joined her sister in Willoughby, Ohio, and that between 1870
and 1880, the Allen family was augmented by Delia M. Hills, presum¬
ably the widow of Hoel Hills, a brother of Eunice and Lydia, who
died in Willoughby in 1867.
In the Hills Xotes are photostatic copies of the pages of interest to
us, made from the 1923 Philip-L. Cobb typed copy of the epitaphs
in the Willoughby Center Cemetery, through the courtesy' of the
New England Historic Genealogical Society', who possess the full
copy'. A 1928 copy' of the same gravey'ard, made by Rawson, which is
at the Western Reserve Historical Society', in Cleveland, Ohio, calls
this the Willoughby' Ridge Cemetery'. Both copies, 1923 and 1928,
have been checked with each other and neither is fully' correct in
regard to the inscriptions in which we are interested. Also, as part
of the Hills Xotes are photographs of the stones to the memory' of
the three Hills: Eunice, Lydia and Hoel, which were made in Septem¬
ber 1955, courtesy' of Thomas Mazich of Willoughby', who describes
the gravey'ard as the Willoughby' Center Cemetery, in the incor¬
porated Willoughby' Hills Village in the City' of Willoughby. Mr.
Mazich also made a verbatim copy' of the stones, of which a single
polished marble shaft, quite large, gives the inscription of James
Allen and his two wives, the Hills sisters:
[Front] “James Allen
1808-1896
[Right] “Lydia Hills
Wife of
James Allen
Born Oct. 26 1801
Died June 22 1889
[Left] “Eunice Hills
Wife of
James Allen
* A J. C. Hills ran a store in Willoughby, as see the 1878 History of Geauga, and Lake
Counties, 256, and appears there in the 1850 and the 18G0 census. The store is still
extant but under the name of HILL. In 1860, he was 51, a grocer, born Mass., wife
Martha, 50, born Ohio, Belle, 22, Lisander, 19, Frank, 14, and Augusta, 10, all born in
Ohio, and as “Hills.” This was John-Case Hills, who died 6 Feb. 1885, aged 65 years,
one month; his wife, Martha (Meredith) Hills, died 26 Jan. 1S85, aged 61 years, 8
months, both are buried in the Willoughby “Center” Cemetery, where these children
are also buried: Reuben-Byron, died 1857, aged 4; Lysander-Bascom, died 1871, aged
21 ; and Mary-Arabella, died 1889, aged 41.
A Jabez Hill, who lived in Willoughby, in 1850, aged 60, born in N. Y., wife Elizabeth,
aged 58, and others, apparently was not related to our family.
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Bora Oct. 1 1797
. Died Apr. 24 1887 *
“James Allen
Bora Feb. 2 1808
Died Apr. 24 1896”
In the same Allen lot is a small marker with “Lydia” upon it; also
two more on the left side are marked “Mother” and “Father.” Both
Eunice and James died 24 April, although in different years, com¬
ments Mr. Mazich.
Hoel Hills is buried some distance from the Allen lot and has a
sandstone gravestone; it was difficult to photograph:
“Hoel Hills
Died
Jan 14, 1867
Aged 60 Yrs
6 Months
Gone But Not Forgotten ”
There is no stone for Delia M. Hills. It was impossible to take a
good photograph of the left side of the Allen shaft.
My surmise is that Polly was born a Kneeland of the Hebron-
Colchester-^ vie ., Kneeland-Neland family, or that her mother was
a member of the same, and that she, our Polly, wife of Asahel Hills,
and thus the mother of David Hills, was born in Connecticut, between
1765 and 1775, probably about 1770, and was married by 1791, at the
latest. If her two eldest sons were of full age in 1811, she was married
about 1786, but this seems doubtful.
As I have noted, certainly it was more than a coincidence that
David named a son Kneeland f, and that his brother, Asahel Jr., also
had a son, Kneeland. We know that this name does not appear among
the forbears of their father, Asahel Hills.
As Asahel Jr., himself, presumably the second child, gave the place
of his birth as Connecticut, and the year (deduced from his age) as
1793, it is evident that Polly married in, and was undoubtedly from,
the very same section of the Nutmeg State as was her husband. By
1797, she and her husband were living in Paris, Oneida County, N. Y.,
where we know the family continued until at least 1811. Between
1810 and 1822, Polly was a member of the Union Church there and by
her husband’s will, drawn in 1811, received her thirds for her lifetime,
except the farming tools, being also named co-executor.
What names did Polly give her known children? Of these, what
names were perhaps from her side of the family? Her husband had a
* This agrees with her death record which gives her age as 89 years and 5 months
and her birthplace as Oneida Co., N. Y.
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their names as “Neland” and “Neeland” during the 18th century.
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brother, David, and sisters Lucy and Lydia; however little Lucy Hills
died aged six, so this name may also come from Polly’s family.
Hence, these names mav well be indicative of Pollv’s connections:
John-K[neeland?], Eunice , and perhaps Lucy.
As has been pointed out, it is evident that the family of Asahel
Hills, that is, the widow and children, left Paris, about 1818, and
surely by 1820. It is entirely possible that Polly, the widow, re¬
married, for she was only about forty-five at the time of her husband’s
death, and perhaps even younger.
My notes about the Kneeland family have been presented by Mr.
Hills to the Conn. State Librarv, the D. A. R. Librarv and to the New
England Historic Genealogical Society, where they may be consulted.*
At first I thought that our Polly w^as identical with Molly (another
diminutive for Mary), bom in Hebron, Conn., in 1774, and baptised
in Marlborough Parish, in 1775, child of Joseph and Ruth (Pratt)
Kneeland, who had a sister, Eunice Kneeland, born in 1788, etc. But
careful research, in Hartford, on winch I personally engaged, proved
that this Molly married someone else. A great disappointment to me.
Later, for various reasons, I became interested in two Benjamin
Kneelands, both of w’hom I eliminated from being the father of our
Polly.
The search of the copy books for all Kneeland estates in Colchester
Prohate has not been made. For in estates before about 1820, it is
essential to cover both the Files (accomplished) and the copy books,
or volumes, to secure the entire story. Often the Files, or documents,
were destroyed and of course the bonds were never recorded.
Although this difficult search has thus far proved negative, we have
been able to eliminate many possibilities. It w’ould seem that if our
Polly w r as indeed bom a Kneeland, the best chances for her are:
A child of Edward 4 Kneeland, if so, bom between 1759 and 1766, and
probably in Vermont. I think that some day Edward warrants a more
careful study.
A child of John 5 Kneeland ( John 4 ), born 1739, if he lived to marry and
have children.
A child of Ichabod 5 Kneeland (John 4 ), who went to Ballston, now in
Saratoga County, N. Y., and who had a Paris, N. Y., connection. He also
warrants further research.
We must recall that Polly named a son John-K. Hills. Of course, if her
mother was bom a Kneeland, the possibilities are many. She had two
grandsons w’ho bore the given name of Kneeland and that name is not through
her husband’s ancestrv.
There are chances for further research on the identity of Polly, but
these have been put aside, temporarily, in an effort to publish this
account of her husband’s proven lineage.
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Jefferson County *
In the brief account of Eunice (Hills) Allen, certain clues point to this
New York County as being the early home of some of the children of Polly
Hills. Did the widow Polly go there from Oneida County? Sources easily
available to me have been searched but were not helpful, nor was the census;
but the deeds and estates have not been covered as yet.
Omaha, Nebraska
In 1898, James Allen, husband of Eunice Hills, had son Samuel-E. Allen,
then of Omaha, who married, as of Nebraska City, in 1861. If his age of
sixteen in 1850 is correct, he was bom in 1834, and was Eunice’s own son. In
1899, Samuel-E. Allen was still of Omaha. We should try and locate his
heirs, there might be extant a family Bible with its valuable records or some
other family records of importance to us.
Chautauqua County
Descendants of Asahel Hills Jr., son of Polly, were living in the very small
town of Yillenova as late as 1890. It might be possible, by a trip there, or
perhaps by writing there, to locate living heirs, who might have a Family
Bible or some sort of information about Polly.
As two of Polly’s children lived to be really aged, there is the great
possibility that she may have also lived to old age; also, as her husband
died when she was comparatively young, she undoubtedly remarried,
as I have suggested.
Children, those bom from 1797, in Oneida County, N. Y.: f
i. Daughter s , b. about 1791, prob. Conn., d. ante 1811.
ii. Asahel, b. 1793, Conn., aged 62 in 1855, shoemaker, b. Conn.,
res., Villenova, Chautauqua Co.+, N. Y., d. there, 7 Oct. 1859,
intest.; m. 1 Oct. 1815, Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Polly
W right, b. 1796, Dutchess Co., N. Y., d. intest. 1888, Villenova,
prob. related to five Wright brothers, w’ho early settled in
Chautauqua Co., from Herkimer Co.: Charles, Augustin, Lewis,
Daniel and Sylvanus. In 1811, Asahel was named in his father’s
will, in 1815 married in the next town to Paris, and in 1818 re¬
moved to what became, in 1823, Villenova, formerly Hanover.
Young’s 1875 Hist. Chautauqua Co., p. 576, states that in the
village of Hamlet, said Villenova, Asahel Hills settled first on
lot 52, then on lot 36, “deceased. His sons, Hoel and Kneeland
G., reside in town.” Evidently w’hile still living in Paris, he
served in the War of 1812-1814, for which his widow claimed
rights to bounty land, rejected, R. 329270-1855: Declaration:
* Jefferson was formed in 1805 from Oneida. The town of Worth was early settled
by men from Litchfield, Herkimer Co., where Asahel Jr., married. Worth was for¬
merly in Lorrain (set off 1804 as Malta, from Mexico).
f Oneida was set off, 17 Mar. 1798, from Herkimer and the latter, 16 Feb. 1791, from
Montgomery Co. Litchfield was orig. Snowbush and is bounded on west by Oneida
Co. Before 1791, judicial matters were conducted at Whitestown in what is now
Oneida. When the Court House burned in Herkimer, 1834, not all the records perished.
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30 June 1874, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., by Polly Hills, aged 73, of
Villenova, swears she is the widow of Asahel Hills, who was a
teamster, Q.M. Camp Bliss, N. Y. Militia, who served over 30
days, and was hon. disch. Dec. 1812; that she m. him, 1 Oct.
1815, Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., ceremony by the Rev.
Goodier, that her maiden name was Polly Wright, that her
husband d. 7 Oct. 1860 [.vie], Villenova, that her P. O. is Hamlet,
said co., as wit: Lewis Lux of Lyons and G. C. McAllester, of
Forrestville; also, “Kneelon G. Hills” and “Celestia L. Hills,”
of Villenova, swear to knowing them for 30 years and 25 years
respectively. Claim rejected. On reverse of declaration is
statement that Asahel Hills was a teamster for the baggage of
Capt. Campston and also drove twenty other loads to “So.
Harbor.” This minister, the Rev. Aaron Goodier, b. in England,
was bur. Cedar Lake Cem., Litchfield, 9 Mar. 1849, aged 75, and
formed the M.E. Ch. there, ante 1813, his desc. still there in
1879. (Beers’ 1879 Hist. Herkimer Co ., pp. 131-135.) The
census of 1820, for Hanover township, Chautauqua Co., shows
Asahel Hills, one male, 26-45, one female, 16-26, and one male
under 10, no other Hills there but a Benjamin “Hill.” In
nearby Pomfret, was an Anson-B. Coats. (J: 89. 87, 120.) In
1830, an Ephraim and our Asahel Hills w’ere in Villenova, the
latter had one male and one female 30 to 40, and four children.
[It is evident that his mother was not with him.] (p. 176). In
1840, Asahel and Hoel Hills were of same town, but Asahel had
only his own family and Hoel had himself and wife. In 1850,
Asahel’s listing is omitted, but we find his son, as plain “H”
aged 30, farmer, wife Hannah, 30, Jane 6, Milton 3, all b. in
N. Y. (9: 97). The state census of 1855, on file at the co.
seat, was covered by Mr. Smith: Villenova: Asahel Hills, 62, b.
Conn, wife “Hannah” [$ic], aged 59, b. Dutchess Co., N. Y.,
living alone; also in separate home, Hoel Hills, 36, farmer, b.
Chautauqua Co., wife Hannah, 37, b. Chenango Co., Jane 11,
Milton-A., 9. Mr. Smith covered the Deeds and the Surrogate
Reeds., viz: 30 Jan. 1838, reed. 24 May 1852, indenture between
Willink & Co., to Asahel Hills, of Chautauqua Co., for 894.59,
map appears in the vol., showing land “heretofore Deeded to the
said Asahel Hills,” bounded by land deeded to Isaac Corev.
0 Chautauqua , N. Y., Deeds, 58: 278-279.) 11 Feb. 1852, Abel-.T.,
and Annes Wright convey to Asahel Hills, of Villenova, part of
lot 36, 5th T. R. 10 of Township, for $1,725, at SE corner of land
deeded to Sylvanus Wright by George- W. Warner, subject to
bond and mortgage executed by Thcron-E. and Edmund-R.
Wright to said Varner, etc. (ibid., 57:309.) * No formal estate
for Asahel Hills but there is an agreement of his heirs in the
* The David-S. Hills and wife, Louisa-M., of Portland, Chautauqua Co., in deeds
dated 1835, 1838 and 1840 could be our David if he had a first wife. This man appears
as both “David” and “David S. Hills” in the deeds. [Our David, b. about 1804, was
old for a first marriage in 1841 to Anna Kirk.] ( Chautauqua Deetls, 17: 17 4; 29: 52;
bl: 88.)
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deeds, dated 8 Oct. 1859, between Hoel Hills and Hannah, his
wife, James-S. Warner and Flora, his wife, George-W. Warner
and Harriet, his wife, and Polly Hills, “widow of Ashel Hills”
deed., all of said co., and “Knelon G. Hills” of same, for $500 to
“each of us” land in Yillenova, also personal property used by
“Ashel” and “Knelon G. Hills” was divided, (ibid., 86: 67.)
Same day, Polly and “Knelon G. Hills” with others, for $50
quitclaim deed to Hoel Hills, part of lot 19 T.5 R.10, etc. ( ibid .,
86: 150.) Letters of administration were granted on the estate
of Polly Hills, late of Yillenova, deed., 6 Oct. 1888, to Kneelon-G.
Hills, the heirs being listed as: daughter Harriet Warner, aged
62, son Kneelon-G. Hills, aged 65, and son Hoel Hills, aged 69,
all of Yillenova. ( Surrogate, 7: 192.) Children (Hills), b.
Hanover-Villenova, N. Y., (1) Hoel 6 , b. 23 Jan. 1819, aged 69 in
1888; m. Hannah Dye, dau. of John Dye; had (a) Jane, b. 1844;
(b) Milton, b. 1847; (c) George, b. post 1850; (d) David, b. post
1850, d. aged 1 yr.; (2) Flora, b. about 1822, living 1859 but not
in 1888; m. James-S. Warner; (3) Kneeland-G., b. 1823, aged 65
in 1888, d. 1890, intest. Yillenova; m. Celestia-L.-, letters
of administration granted on estate of “Kneelon G. Hills,” 5
June 1890, to his widow, Celestia, and to John-B. Gardner, the
heirs being the wddow, a daughter Elma Harrington, of Dayton,
N. Y., Ader [Ada] Dexter, a daughter; Mark Hills, a son, aged
20; Asahel Hills, a son, of full age, all of Yillenova, as w'as Jane
Hills, a daughter, aged 11. ( Surrogate Reeds.) He had: (a)
Alma; m. - Harrington; (6) Ada; m. - Dexter; (c)
Asahel; (d) Mark, b. 1870; (e) Jane, b. 1879; perhaps Kneeland
m. twice?; (4) Harriet, b. 1826, alive 1888; m. George-W. Warner.
It appears possible that descendants of Asahel Hills Jr., could be
located in Yillenova and might know the identity of our Polly
(-) Hills, wife of Asahel Sr.*
iii. John-K[neeland?], b. about 1795, Conn., or N. Y., living 1811,
one of the two older sons.
iv. Polly, b. about 1796, Conn., or N. Y., living 1811.
v. Eunice, b. 1 Oct. 1797, Oneida Co., N. Y., prob. Paris, d. 24 Apr.
1887, aged 89 yrs., 5 mos., Willoughby, Lake Co., Ohio, where
she is buried, vide ante for gravestone inscription which gives
date of birth; m. by 1834, prob. Jefferson Co., N. Y., as 2d wife,
James Allen, b. 2 Feb. 1808, N. Y., d. 24 Apr. 1896, intest.,
Cleveland, Ohio, bur. Willoughby, gravestone gives date of
birth, son of John-Pearce and Elizabeth (W'all) Allen, of R. I.
descent.f James Allen m. (1), about 1826, Brownville, Jefferson
Co., N. Y., Sally Davis, who d. 1829; he m. (3), his wife’s sister,
post 24 Apr. 1887, Lydia Hills, b. 26 Oct. 1801, d. 22 June 1889,
Willoughby, bur. there, gravestone gives date of birth; he m. (4),
* This clue will be followed up later.
t Allen data courtesy of Miss Clarice-M. Ferguson, of Morganton, N. C. James
was not related to Amasa-I., and Abner-T. Allen, natives of Warren, Mass., early of
Willoughby, see 1893 Northeastern Ohio, 1016; Warren V. R.; Willoughby G. S ., etc.
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Marietta Houck, of Dexter, Jefferson Co., N. Y., from whom
he separated and who survived him. Vide ante for James Allen’s
census reeds. His initial purchase in Willoughby, 2 Jan. 1850,
does not cite his place of residence; his sister-in-law, and later
his wife, “Lydia Hills” wit. a deed passed by James and wife,
Eunice, 1 Feb. 1S80; and Eunice is named as his wife in deeds
drawn earlier; 12 Sept. 1853, 21 May 1801, 23 Jan. 1863, 13 Apr.
1863, 12 Apr. 1865, 15 June 1877 [to George-A. Brown, b. 5 May
1836, d. 10 Aug. 1885]; and 8 Apr. 1854, a purchase by Allen was
wit. by [brother] Sheldon Allen [b. 3 June 1804, d. 9 Mar. 1878,
wife Eliza-A., d. 17 May 1854, aged 49, bur. Brown’s Corner
Cem., Kirtland, Ohio]. 28 Jan. 1893, James and wife “Mari¬
etta” sold and the same day, James-R. Ferguson and wife,
Hallie-I. [.vie], also conveyed.* 10 June 1890, John-F. Ferguson,
of Cleveland, “single” [widownr], conveyed to James-R. Fergu¬
son, of same, eighty-seven acres in Willoughby, for love and $1.00,
being the homestead of Ilezekiah and Martha Ferguson, except
the cemetery and four acres previously sold. 30 Aug. 1902,
James-R. Ferguson sold fifty-four acres of this. [I have at hand
full notes on all these deeds, references: Lake Co., Ohio, Deeds ,
H: 12,15; I: 455, 456; K: 154; L: 67, 68; R: 610; T: 372; V: 455;
X: 454; 5: 532 , 592; 7: 366; 13: 421; 14: 554; 23: 627; 24: 187;
19: 596; 35: 137.) There is no Civil War pension reed, for
Samuel-E. Allen, but a pension was obtained for a Leander
Allen, b. 10 July 1846, Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., N. Y., who rem.
in 1865 to Arbella, Tuscola Co., Mich., where he d. 3 Oct. 1920.
(C. 721313.) Leander may have been a nephew' of James
Allen’s. 8 Feb. 1898, an application for the administration of
James Allen’s estate was made for purpose of mortgage release,
he having d. 24 Apr. 1896, the heirs being: “Martha” Allen,
widow, of Dexter, N. Y., son Samuel-E. Allen, of Omaha, Xebr.,
and grandson, James-R. Ferguson, of Cleveland, the petitioner.
(Lake Co., Probale, 3: 175.) Children (Allen), by Sally Davis,
(1) Amy , b. 9 Mar. 1827, Brownville, N. Y., d. 2 Feb. 1883,
Willoughby, Ohio, bur. there; m. 20 Feb. 1851, Lake Co., Ohio,
John-F. Ferguson, b. 23 Nov. 1821, d. 23 Nov. [?] 1891, bur.
Willoughby, son of Hezekiah and Martha (Smith) Ferguson,
natives of N. Y., and grandson of John Ferguson, a soldier in
the Revolution. In 1867, John-F. Ferguson conveyed the
family cemetery to the Willoughby Center Cem. Asso. Child:
James-Ross Ferguson, b. 12 Nov. 1858, d. 20 Jan. 1928, Deland,
Fla., bur. Lake view Cem., Cleveland, Ohio; m. 16 Nov. 1887,
Lake Co., Hattie-I. Pierce, b. 22 Feb. 1862, d. 12 Feb. 1941, bur.
Lakeview Cem., prob. d. Wilmington, Del., dau. of Dewitt-
Clinton and Mariette (Spencer) Pierce; Mr. Ferguson was a
jeweller in Cleveland about 1882-1883, later became a w'ell
known druggist there; issue: (a) Clarice-Mariette, Director of
* Research at Painesville and Cleveland was handled by Miss Harriet Scofield of
Cleveland, in 1956; we are grateful to her for her careful report.
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Therapy, State Hosp., Morganton, N. C., 1956, unm.; (6) Ray-
mond-Stanley, b. 20 Jan. 1889, Cleveland, res. Taylorsville,
N. C., 1956; m. Sue Ramey, has two children *; probably by
Eunice Hills, if age in 1850 correct, (2) Samuel-E., b. 1834, N. Y.,
aged 16 in 1850, then of Willoughby, with father, in 1898, listed
as son of James Allen and res. Omaha, Nebr., still there in 1899
Directory of Omaha; m. 13 Feb. 1861, Lake Co., groom of
Nebraska City, Maria Waldo; I would like to trace his heirs , for
if his mother was Eunice (Hills) Allen, he was a grandson of
Asahel and Polly (-) Hills.f
vi. Lucy, b. about 1799; m. - Coates; she did not go to Villenova
or to Willoughby; did she go to Jefferson Co., N. Y.? The 1820
census of Pomfret, near Villenova, shows an Anson-B. Coats.
vii. Lydia, b. 26 Oct. 1801, d. 22 June 1889, Willoughby, bur. there;
she m. as his 3d wife, her brother-in-law James Allen and was
at least 86 at the time of her marriage.
5. viii. DAVID, b. about 1804; m. Anna Kirk.
ix. Hoel, b. June 1806, d. 14 Jan. 1867, aged 60 yrs., 6 mos., bur. in
Willoughby, vide ante, probably where he removed post 1860.
Perhaps he never lived there? He m. Delia-M. - , or
Delia M-, who was with the Allens, in 1880, aged 73, no
gravestone for her there and no death reeds, for either of them.
The 1928 Rawson copy of the graveyard in which Hoel is interred
gives his age as 70 yrs., 6 mos., but this is not correct. There
are no deeds or estates for Hoel or Delia. If a Mason, the
Willoughby Lodge, #3-2, F. & A. M., organized 1858, might
have records of help.
5. DAVID 5 HILLS ( Asahel 4 , Lebbeus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel *), bom
in Paris, Oneida County, near Utica, N. Y., about 1804, died in
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 15 Dec. 1862. He married,
perhaps in or near Philadelphia, Pa., about 1841, Anna Kirk,! born
in Pennsylvania, in 1821, died in Philadelphia, 12 Feb. 1900, aged
seventy-nine, daughter of-and Susan (-) Kirk.
It has been claimed that Anna Kirk was a Quakeress but the Friends
Records , always well kept, do not reveal this fact; probably she had
Quaker forbears. Further data about her and her immediate family
will be given later in this account.
Mr. Hills, in filling in a genealogical form for the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, of which he is a colonial member, stated
that David was born in Syracuse, N. Y. [Ithaca, states the 1906 Hills
* Mr. Ferguson and his sister are members of N. C. Soc. Mayflower Desc., their
mother, a native of Floyd, X. Y., being a lineal desc. of Edward Fuller. Both have
been helpful to us in supplying data. Mr. Ferguson’s children are James-Rufus and
Laura-Mariette Ferguson.
t There are no death reeds, at Painesville for Lydia Allen, only for Eunice (Hills)
Allen.
f Was Anna Kirk a second wife? Vide ante.
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Family], which we have proved to be LYica, or near Utica. He also
stated that David was a scholar and printer, being a founder of the
firm of Smith, Driscoll & Hills, of Cincinnati, fore-runner of the
American Book Company and American Type Founders. My brief
survey of Cincinnati Directories , shows David to have been connected
with this firm, but subsequent correspondence with the American
Book Company reveals that this firm was never a fore-runner of the
latter. Another tradition, that David had attended Harvard, has
been discredited. Probably early apprenticed to the printing trade,
he may have carried on this work in Xew York, Ohio, or Pennsyl¬
vania; we really know nothing of him, after the mention of him in his
father’s 1811 will and then of Paris, until his eldest son, Kneeland,
was born in Philadelphia, 28 Dec. 1842. It has also been claimed
that David came to Philadelphia from Boston, Mass., but thus far
no evidence has been ascertained to bear out this idea.
Evidence and proof of the identity of our David Hills, as the son of
Asahel and Polly, and a descendant of an old Xew England family,
will not be repeated here.
A search of census, for Philadelphia, 1840 and 1850, failed to reveal
David; it does not seem likely that he is the David “Hill” who was of
the Middle Ward there in 1840, or the David W. “Hill,” of Locust
Ward, for their families do not “fit” with what we know about his
family.
The services of Lewis-D. Cook, F.A.S.G., of Philadelphia, for re¬
search of the Philadelphia career of the family were secured, especially
in regard to the marriage of David Hills and Anna Kirk. His report
is able and concise, and appears below’, although not verbatim:
The marriage of David Hills and Anna Kirk does not appear in these church
registers, transcripts of which, indexed, have been examined in the Collections
of the Genealogical Society (Philadelphia): Christ, St. James, Gloria Dei,
St. Pauls, St. Stephens and St. Andrews, all P. E.; 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, oth and
10th Presbyterian: St. Johns, Lutheran; St. Georges, M. E.; Ebenezer, M. E.:
1st Reformed; Frankford Presbyterian; St. Johns, X. Liberties of Philadel¬
phia; also N. Dist. Philadelphia Monthly Meetings of Friends; Marriages
Register of Mayor of Philadelphia, several Registers of Aldermen and Jus¬
tices. The newspaper marriage notices, 1840-1841, have not been abstracted
for the Collections of the Society. [Mr. Cook later made a search of marriage
notices in the North American, 1840-1841, with negative result; 1842 should
also be done.l i
The best evidence for the statement that David Hills married Anna Kirk
is the fact that she is buried in the plot owned since 1850 by one Susan Kirk,
Odd Fellows Cemetery’, 23rd and Diamond Streets, Philadelphia, since re¬
moved in 1951, to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, Pa. Xo stone.
Susan Kirk, abovesaid, born in 1793, died 19 May 1865, aged 72, at her
residence at the rear of 326 Garden Street, Philadelphia, and was buried on
22nd in her plot, ?382, Section S in Odd Fellows Cemetery’, abovesaid, which
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plot, she had acquired by deed of 13 May 1850. She was apparently a widow
Kirk, but as a notice of her death is not found in Philadelphia newspapers of
20 and 21 May 1865, and as her estate is not of record in the office of the
Philadelphia Register, her status has not been possible to resolve here defi¬
nitely. Search has also been made in the Philadelphia Deeds, grantors and
grantees, with negative results. But she was evidently the Susan Kirk,
nurse, of 328 Garden Street, so listed in the Philadelphia Directory for 1864,
the year before her death. Susan Kirk, nurse, 3 Baker’s Court, first appears
in the 1840 issue of said Directory , but a search of the issues for the preceding
ten years does not show any Kirk at that address, so it cannot be inferred
thereby that her supposed husband had died there by 1840. Susan Kirk,
nurse, is thereafter listed in 1842 as of 40 Tammany, in 1845, of 16 Eutaw,
in 1846-1847, as of rear of 15 Eutaw. in 1848, as of talker's Court, not listed
in 1850-1851, in 1852 of Walker’s Court, in 1853 of same, in 1854-1855, of 1
Short’s Court, not listed 1856, in 1857 as of Rugan Street, in 1858 as of rear
of 406 Rugan, not listed, 1850-1862, and finally as of rear of 328 Garden
Street, in 1863-1864. From the Records of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Philadel¬
phia, it appears that besides daughter Anna Kirk, who died, 12 Feb. 1900, at
her residence, 1713 N. Darien Street, Philadelphia, widow of David Hills, no
estate on file in Philadelphia and no gravestone; she had daughter Jane
Kirk, born in 1818, who died unmarried, 26 Feb. 1888, at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Anna Kirk Hills, 822 Carlisle Street, Philadelphia.
Kirk, On the 26th Inst. Miss Jane Kirk, in her 71st year. Funeral on
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, from the residence of her sister, 822 Car¬
lisle Street. (The North American, Philadelphia, Wednesday, 29 Feb. 1888.)
Hills, On the 12th Inst., Anna, relict of David Hills, aged 79 years. The
relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral, on Thursday at 2 o’clock, from her late residence, 1713 North Darien
Street. Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. (The North American,
Philadelphia, Wednesday, 14 Feb. 1900.)
With this report, Mr. Cook enclosed a death certificate of Anna
(Kirk) Hills and a letter from the Secretary of the Odd Fellows Ceme¬
tery. Later, a death certificate for Jane Kirk and another letter from
said Secretary was forwarded.* Notes from his search of Directories
of Philadelphia will be given later as the Hills family do not appear
therein until after the return of the widow Anna (Kirk) Hills and her
children to Philadelphia from their stay of some fifteen years in
Cincinnati.!
* I had just secured the services and aid of a most experienced Cincinnati genealogist,
Mfrie Dickore, A.M., to do some research on the sojourn of the family there, 1853-1868
roughly, when Mr. Hills requested that no more research be made there. I trust that
later this can be accomplished. I was and am anxious to secure the correct and full
date of birth of David Hills. Perhaps a further search of death notices in local news-
files there would reveal his faith and the cemetery in which he is buried, and thus a
gravestone or church reed, would reveal this date? It was also suggested that Direc¬
tories, 1853-1870 be done, to know the exact years the family was there; David’s estate
and guardianships for his minor children; his land records, and other routine unpub¬
lished sources.
t Photo copies of these four items are included in the Hills Notes.
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David removed to Cincinnati, between 1853, when son George was
born in Pennsylvania, according to the 18G0 census, and 1856, when
he first appears in the Cincinnati Directories. In 1856, we note:
Hills D. & Co. stereotype foundry 141 Main.
Hills David (D. H. & Co.) 125 Cutter.
From 1859 through 1863, the firm of Hills, O’Driscoll & Co., (David
H., Cornelius F. O’D.) Stereotype & Electrotype Foundry 141 Main,
is listed. Cornelius F. O’Driscoll appears first in the city directory
in 1853 and then had a full page advertisement on page 366 , in which
he states that he had been connected with the type and stereotype
foundry of L. Johnson & Company, in Philadelphia , for upwards of
twenty years.*
The 1860 census of Cincinnati, 8th ward, volume 26, page 3^1: David
Hills, aged 52, stereotypist, $1000, $1000, born in N. Y., wife Annie,
aged 39, born in Pa., as were: “Nvland,” 16, Delos 14, Caroline 12,
Mary 9 and George 7.
The Directory of 1861 lists him at 152 Cutter Street. His death is
not recorded in Cincinnati. In 1884, during the famous riot, the
Court House was burned, but Miss Dickore informs us that not all
the records perished. Moreover, she has a well known collection of
manuscript copies of church, cemetery, family, etc., records which
would be helpful. She discredits the story that Mr. Hills’ home was
commandeered for a hospital during the Civil War. The Cincinnati
Enquirer , issue of 17 Dec. 1862, contains this notice:
“David Hills December 15 at 6 o’clock P.M. David Hills, formerly of
Philadelphia, died in the 58th year of his age. His funeral will take place
from his late residence No. 78 Betts Street, on Thursday, 18th inst, at 2
o’clock P.M. His friends are respectfully invited to attend. (Philadelphia
Ledger please copy.) ” f
The 1906 Hills Family states David was born in 1806, the 1860
census would make him born in 1808, the above notice in 1805, thus
we have 1805, 1806 and 1808, for the years of his birth. But I place
his birth as 1804, vide ante.
His sons, Kneeland and Delos-Charles, both served in the Civil
War, of which we have proof gained from the 1887 Ohio Roster , from
the former’s records at the Adjutant General’s Office and from the
latter’s pension records, vide post; they both enlisted in Cincinnati
and both were mustered out from that city, in fact they served in the
same company.
Between July 1864 and 1868, the family returned to Philadelphia,
and from Mr. Cook’s careful survey of the Directories y we know that:
* Courtesy Ref. Dept. Public Library of Cincinnati.
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1868-1869, Kneeland Hills, hat presser, house at 6 Shaffer’s Court, at same
address were George Hills, student, and Delos-C. Hills, printer.
1870, Anna Hills, widow of David Hills, house at 926 Nectarine Street.
1874, Anna Hills, nurse, 3229 Darby Road, at same address: George-F.
Hills, bookbinder; Delos-C. Hills, compositor, had house at 413 Albion Street.
1875, Anna Hills, widow of David Hills, nurse, at 1009 Nectarine Street,
with her was George-F. Hills, bookbinder.
1884-1S95, Anna Hills, widow of David Hills, had house at 822 Carlisle
Street, with her was George-F. Hills, bookbinder.
1898, Anna, widow of David D. Hills, had house at 1713 Darien Street,
also there in 1899. Not listed 1898 and 1900-1901, but was of that address
in 1900.
The old Odd Fellows Cemetery was located at 23d and Diamond
Streets, in what is known as North Philadelphia but was cleared in
1951 for a Federal Housing Project — all the interments being re¬
moved to Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Pa. The Odd Fellows
still operate another cemetery at 31st and Lehigh Avenue in North
Philadelphia, writes Mr. Cook.
Children born in Pennsylvania, probably all in Philadelphia: *
i. Kneeland # , b. 28 Dec. 1842, Philadelphia, stenotyper; 1906
Hills Family states he d. unm. 1892 but gives no place, calls him
“Neiland.” Kneeland Hills (1-101) (2: 164), Pte., aged 19,
mustered 20 Apr. 1861, for 3 months; mustered out, 20 June
1861, Co. I, 5th Regt., Ohio Yols., mustered in at Camp Harrison,
Ohio, mustered out at Cincinnati, Ohio; also, 20 June 1861, aged
21, 3 years, mustered out, 1 July 1864, order of war dept. ( Ohio
Roster Civil War, 1887, pub. Columbus Ohio, no index; special
index covered at Columbus). He was wounded at various times
in this war but claimed no pension. {A. G. 0.) His brother,
Delos, served in the same outfit and was pensioned, vide post.
Did he leave Philadelphia?
6. ii. DELOS-CHARLES, b. 21 Nov. 1846, Philadelphia; m. Maria-M.
O’Connor.
iii. Caroline, b. 15 Feb. 1849; m. 1867, Albert-M. Wagner. Chil¬
dren (Wagner), b. Philadelphia or vie., (1) Albert-M., b. 6 Jan.
1869; m. Emma Kounz [not “Koous”], had three children, among
them Caroline (Wagner) Green; (2) Atma-R., b. 4 Dec. 1870;
(3) Charles-H., b. 4 Dec. 1872; m. Mary Elmer, had three chil¬
dren; (4) George-F., b. 14 Nov. 1874; m. Agnes Scanlon, had two
children. Who was the Albert-E. Wagner, bur. 5 Sept. 1891, in
the Kirk lot, Odd Fellows Cem., aged six weeks? Was this one of
the children of the eldest son?
iv. Mary, b. 1851; m. Allan Heany and had son, Allan Jr.
v. George-F., b. 1853, living as late as 1895 with his mother; a book-
* The 1860 census of Cincinnati, Ohio, lists all these children as born in Pa., with their
ages, vide ante.
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binder. The Hills Family omits him, yet he appears with his
siblings in the I860 census of Cincinnati, and in the Philadelphia
Directories, vide ante.
6. DELOS CHARLES 6 HILLS ( David 5 , Asahel 4 , Lcbbeus 3 ,
Ephraim 2 , Samuel *), born in Philadelphia, Pa., 21 Now 1846, died
there, 22 Nov. 1906. He married there, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral,
ceremony by the Rev. William O’Hara, D.D., 19 Jan. 1868, Maria-M.
O’Connor, born in Ireland, 5 Feb. 1844, died in Philadelphia, 15 Apr.
1928, sister of Thomas O’Connor, parentage unknown.*
His grandson, Francis-J. Hills of Rahway, N. J., in filling in his
data for the New England Historic Genealogical Society, in 1953,
stated that Delos was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1840, served
in the Civil War in the 5th Ohio Infantry, resided after the war in
Philadelphia, where he married, about 1867, Maria O’Connor, dying
there, 3 Dec. 1906.
The 1906 Hills Family gives the date of Delos’ birth as 2 3 Nov.
184J, his marriage as 1J Jan. 186J, and the dates of birth of three of
the four children are also incorrect.
The dates are correct as given in the first paragraph, above, and
below are presented the facts and the authorities for the same.
Taken by his parents to Cincinnati, from Philadelphia, between
1853 and 1856, Delos appears there in the census of 1860, as “Delos”
aged 14, born in Pennsylvania. Two years later, his father died, at
which time the family were residing at 78 Betts Street. The family
tradition that their home was an army hospital during the Civil War
is doubtful, but they did live very near a large hospital. Miss Marie
Dickore writes, in part, about this, in 1955:
“I do not believe the story that his home was commandeered for a hospital
during the Civil War. The hospital was at Camp Dennison and wounded
soldiers were brought back from battle, sent by train to this large hospital.
However, the confusion comes from the fact that St. Mary’s Hospital was
located on Betts and Linn Streets in 1859. But it was built by the Sisters
who had previously, for about a year occupied a house at another location
before lots were bought at this location where the hospital still is and con¬
sidered one of the best.” f
But a year before their father’s death, both Delos and his brother,
Kneeland, enlisted in the same company and regiment in the Civil
War, in which they served throughout, and as volunteers:
Delos Hills (1-101), (2-164), aged 18, private, mustered 20 Apr. 1861, en¬
listed for three months; mustered out, 20 June 1861. Also, aged 18, private,
enlisted for three years, 20 June 1861, mustered in at Camp Harrison, Ohio,
* It seems odd that no one in the family knows from whence in Ireland, Mrs. Hills
came; undoubtedly the immigration reeds., in Washington, would inform us, but this
source has not been consulted. The R. C. Reeds., in Philadelphia, might reveal the
place of her birth.
f Perhaps the Widow Hills boarded convalescent soldiers for St. Mary’s?
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mustered out, on expiration of term, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 July 1864, by
order of War Department. This was in Company I, 5th Regiment of Ohio
Volunteers. (Civil War Roster of Ohio Men.)
He first appears in the Directories of Philadelphia, in 1868-1869,
as a printer and living at 6 Shaffers Court. Also at that address the
same year were his brothers, George, a student, and Kneeland, hat
presser; Delos is listed as Delos-C. Hills. Their mother first appears
in these Directories, in 1870, then at 926 Nectarine Street, but in
1874, she was at 3229 Darby Road and living with her w T as George-F.
Hills, bookbinder; while Delos-C. Hills, compositor, was in his own
home at 413 Albion Street. Later Directories were not consulted
for the last named.
He became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith and was buried
in the Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia. He followed his father’s
occupation in being a printer. Photostatic copies of his pension appli¬
cation have been secured from which the following digest was made:*
Delos Hills , Civil War, W. C. 63442:
Copy of Marriage Certificate: St. Patrick’s Church, Philadelphia, “Dilos
Hill” and “Mary O’Connor,” married by the Rev. William O’Hara, D.D.,
19 Jan. 1868, according to the rites of the Catholic Church; wit: Thomas
O’Connor and Mary Egan; signed by the Rev. William Hieran, D.D.
22 Apr. 1874, Delos Hills applied for restoration of invalid pension, aged 29,
of 413 Albion St.; wit: W.-R. LeChevalier and L.-F. Steel. 22 May 1874,
aged 29, same addresses and witnesses repeated.
9 Feb. 1876, declaration for original invalid pension, Delos Hills, 31, of
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., swears as to his service, was wounded in the
service; since the war has lived in Pa., a printer, P. O. 2142 Kater St., wit:
Enoch-E. Mulford of 909 Arch St., and A.-F. Adams of 1206 Camac St. He
had suffered a gunshot wound in left thigh, 9 June 1862, at Port Republic,
Va., was in a Washington hospital for treatment; after his discharge, he applied
for a pension through a Cincinnati agent and was given a Pension Paper but
never drew a pension and has since lost this Paper.
10 Mar. 1877, made an application for an increase of pension, same address,
attested by Theodore-A. Waters of 816 Fallon St., and Christopher-G. Pepper
of 1141 South St., all of Philadelphia; he gave age as 31.
In March 1879, he applied for arrears, then lived at 2210 Lombard St.,
Philadelphia.
21 Nov. 1890, he made another request for a pension increase, address care
of the Inquirer office, aged 46; wit: W.-H. Kephart and W.-G. Haegels.
4 June 1898, a questionnaire answered by the soldier, gives name of wife as
Maria M. O’Connor, whom he married, 19 Jan. 1869; their living children:
Delos C. Hills, b. 22 Dec. 1870
Thomas F. Hills, b. 20 Mar. 1875
Margaret M. Hills, b. 25 June 1877
Anna M. Hills, b, 23 June 1879
*From the National Archives, Washington, D. C.; they contain signatures of both
“Delos Hills” and his widow, also certificate of marriage, of which a photo copy is
included in the Hills Notes.
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This statement he signed as “Delos Hills,” for apparently he did not use his
middle name or the initial representing the same.
No date [1900?], then of 624 N. 39th St., Philadelphia, he made a declara¬
tion for an original disability pension, aged 54, cites his service but states
that he was discharged, 20 June 1864, at Chattanooga, Term., and is five feet
seven and one half inches in height, of light complexion, with brown hair
and hazel eyes.
After his death, his widow claimed a widow’s pension, and a copy of his
death certificate is included in the File, of which a photostatic copy is included
in the Hills Notes. This record gives his birth as 21 Nov. 1846; elsewhere it
appears as 22 Nov. 1846.
1 Dec. 1906, declaration for widow's pension made by Maria-M. Hills, aged
61, of 42 N. Hobart St., Philadelphia, wffio swears that she is the widow of
Delos Hills, who died there, 22 Nov. 1906, that she married him under the
name of “Maria O’Connor,” 19 Jan. 1868, in said city, by the Rev. Dr.
O’Hara, and appoints H.-Walter Miller, of the Gerard Trust Building of
Philadelphia, as her agent; wit: Delos-C. Hills [Jr.] and Margaret-A. Noonan.
Affidavits made 22 Dec. 1906, by the widow, that the deceased possessed
no property and left no will; the same by Delos-C. Hills (signed) [Jr.], aged
36, of 1021 Filbert St., and Mrs. Margaret Noonan (signed), aged 30, of 42
N. Hobart St. Also, same day, Carrie Wagner, aged 54, of 2738 N. 8th St.,
and Rose Ferguson, of 219 S. 24th St., testified, the former as to the lack of
property, and the latter as to the marriage of the soldier and the said claimant,
his widow.
Certified copy from Board of Revision of Taxes for Philadelphia, dated 3
Jan. 1907, shows that a negative search has been made of the Indices of the
Assessor’s Book of the 34th Ward and that no property was assessed in 1906
in the name of Delos Hills or Maria M. Hills.
20 Sept. 1916, the widow wrote the Pension Bureau about an increase; she
than states her husband was born 21 Nov. 184J, that she was bom in Ireland,
5 Feb. 1844 (signed). She died 15 Apr. 1928.
The stone erected by the United S cates in Cathedral Cemetery to
Mr. Hills’ memory bears the date of his death, his company and his
regiment.
Children born in Philadelphia, Pa.:*
7. i. DELOS-CHARLES 7 , b. 22 Dec. 1870; m. Ellen -Mary White.
ii. Thomas-Francis, b. 20 Mar. 1875; m. 24 Apr. 1895, Camden,
N. J., Elizabeth McClure, b. 5 Jan. 1876, Williamsport, Pa.,
presumably both were alive in 1906. Children b. Philadelphia
(Hills), (1) William-D . 8 , b. 28 Nov. 1895; (2) Esther , b. 29 Sept.
1896; (3) Thomas, b. 20 June 1898; (4) Mary, b. 11 Dec. 1899;
(5) Margaret, b. 17 Apr. 1901; (6) Leo, b. 23 Apr. 1902; (7)
Charles-D., b. 25 July 1903; (8) Anna, b. 11 June 1904. (Data
from the 1906 Hills Family.)
iii. Margaret -A., b. 25 June 1877, res. with her mother, 42 N. Hobart
St., in 1906, aged 30; m. 10 June 1903, Philadelphia, Joseph-M.
* The dates of birth are from the pension application and not from the 1906 Hills
Family.
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Noonan. Children (Noonan), (1) Helen; m. John Bergin, res.
Elkins Park, Pa., 1956; (2) Margaret; m. -Brown.
iv. Anna-M., b. 23 Jan. 1879.
7. DELOS CHARLES 7 HILLS JIl. ( Delos-Charles \ David \
Asahel 4 , Lebbeus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel *), born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
22 Dec. 1870, died there, 29 Apr. 1925, aged fifty-four. He married
there, 10 Nov. 1896, Ellen-AIary White, born in Sydney, Nova
Scotia, 8 July 1869, died in Santa Monica, Calif., 21 May 1956, buried
in Philadelphia, 26 May 1956, daughter of John and Anna (Mc¬
Carthy) White.
A merchant, Mr. Hills lived for some years in Collingdale and in
Sharon Hill, Pa., but returned to Philadelphia.
Children, all but the youngest, born in Philadelphia, Pa.:
i. Charles-Edwin 8 , b. 29 Sept. 1897, living 1956, Santa Monica,
Calif.; m. 10 Feb. 1923, Tucson, Ariz., Amalia-AIarion Alli¬
son, b. there, 22 Dec. 1900, living 1956, daughter of Warren and
Frances (Corral y Swasteavi) Allison. Mr. Allison, b. 1857,
Dixon, Calif., went to Tucson in 1874, where he was a pioneer in
agriculture and mining; his wife was from Kermosillo, Mexico.
Mr. Hills has lived in Santa Monica for over thirty years and is
a civil engineer, receiving his degree from the Towne Scientific
School of the Univ. of Pa. He served in World War I, 1917-
1919, and was in France for 21 months; is a K. of C., Grand
Knight, District Deputy; Member of Board of Freeholders
(which wrote the new charter) for the City of Santa Monica;
president of the Bay Builders Exchange, 1952; a member of the
Pacific Palisades Rotarv and of the Societv of the Sons of the
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Revolution. His wife was educated at St. Joseph’s xAcademy in
Tucson. Their daughters received degrees of B.A., from Mt.
St. Mary’s College, Bel Aire, Calif. Children (Hills), (1)
Marion-Louisa 9 , b. 2 Jan. 1924, Los Angeles, Calif., res. San
Fernando, Calif.; m. 6 Sept. 1952, Santa Monica, Richard-C.
Farrell; issue: (a) Mary-Jane Farrell, b. 5 Nov. 1953, same;
(6) Elizabeth-Allison Farrell, b. 4 Alar. 1954, same; (2) Patricia-
EUen, b. 16 Alar. 1925, Los Angeles, res. Charleston, S. C.; m. 17
June 1947, Santa Alonica, Capt. Grover-P. Parker; issue:
(a) Suzanne-Theresa Parker, b. 11 Mar. 1948, Santa Alonica;
(b) Michelle-AIarie Parker, b. 25 Feb. 1949, same: (c) Paul-
Edwin Parker, b. 23 Sept. 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii; ( d ) Patricia-
Ann Parker, b. 4 Aug. 1952, same; ( e ) Kathleen-Luamaa Parker,
b. 10 Nov. 1953, same; (/) Philip-Charles Parker, b. 22 Jan.
1955, Charleston; (3) Frances-Delos, b. 3 Jan. 1929, Santa
Monica, res. Hawthorne, Calif.; m. 21 June 1952, Santa Alonica,
Lt. Charles-L. Sorrentino; issue: (a) Ann-Frances Scrrentino,
b. 9 Aug. 1953, Santa Alonica; (6) Clare-AIarie Sorrentino, b. 9
July 1954, same.
8. ii. FRANCIS-J., b. 30 Alar. 1899; m. Edith-Christine Shanno.
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iii. Alfred-Delos, b. 24 Jan. 1903, living 1955; m. 1 Dec. 1934,
Philadelphia, Elizabeth-Gertrude Shelley, b. 15 June 1906,
Clifton Heights, Pa., living 1955, Philadelphia, daughter of
George-Clarence and Elizabeth (McConville) Shelley. Mr.
Shelley, a successful wool merchant, was co-president of the
James G. Kitchen & Co., that citv for some years. Mr. Hills
attended St. Joseph’s College Preparatory School and La Salle
College, taking his degree of Civil Engineer from Drexel Insti¬
tute. Mrs. Hills was educated at St. Leonard’s Academy and
Manhattanville College; she and her husband are separated.
Children (Hills), b. Philadelphia, (1) Alfred-Delos 9 , b. 11 Nov.
1935; (2) George-Gordon , b. 24 June 1941.
iv. Vixcent-DePaul, b. 4 Mar. 1905, d. about August 1908, Colling-
dale, Pa.
v. Helen-White, b. 5 July 1906, Collingdale, d. there, September
1908.
8. FRANCIS J. 8 HILLS * ( Delos-Charles 7 , Delos-Charles 6 , David 5 ,
Asahel*, Lebbeus z , Ephraim 2 , Samuel 1 ), born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
30 Mar. 1899, living in Rahway, N. J., in 1957. He married, in
New York, N. Y., 6 Nov. 1928, Edith-Christine Shanno, born
in Berwick, Pa., 29 Jan. 1903, living 1957, the daughter of Leopold
and Emma (Ansbach f) Shanno.
A contractor, Mr. Hills attended Roman Catholic High School and
St. Joseph’s College Preparatory School in Philadelphia, being gradu¬
ated in June 1917. He then entered Towne Scientific School, the
University of Pennsylvania, for one term, September 1918 — January
1919, followed by three years attendance of Drexel Institute (nights),
1920-1923, and received a degree of Doctor of Chiropractice, April
1925, from Doughty-Marsh College in Philadelphia. He was an
engineer at the Hog Island Shipyard (Stone & Webster), September,
1917-1918, and January to October 1919. His education was inter¬
rupted by World War I, during which he had service as see below
Mr. Hills was Engineer for the Sprinkler Equipment Corporation,
Philadelphia, February 1920 to October 1925, was with the Grinnell
Company of same, 25 Oct. 1925 until 26 June 1926, and then with
the Rockwood Sprinkler Company, the Globe Automatic Sprinkler
Company, the Independent Sprinkler Company and the Ace Auto¬
matic Sprinkler Company. In June 1929, he went to Newark, N. J.,
as Fire Protection Engineer for the Celluloid Corporation, but due to
plant shut-down, he left in April 1930, and started in business, in
partnership, as the Hills-Thompson Incorporated. This firm was
dissolved in 1932, and he then commenced business as the Frank J.
Hills Incorporated, in which he remains the principal.
* Known as Frank J. Ilills, in public life and in business, he maintains his residence
at 1028 Mid wood Drive, Rahway, N. J., and his office at 15 North Ave., Garwood, N. J.
f Or Anspach.
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HILLS LINEAGE
He served as private, United States Army, C5, 133, 662, Co. 5,
S. A. T. C., University of Pennsylvania, September 1918 to December
1918. He has been Commissioner of Health, for the City of Rahway
(1942-1949).
A member of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia, and a junior
member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. Hills
is also a member of Rahway Lodge 1075, B. P. O. E.; the Colonia
Country Club and the Uderan Outing Club, of Rahway; the Pottsville
Club, of Pottsville, Pa.; the American Philatelic Society, #23760;
Rahway Post 5, American Legion; Voiture 227, La Societe des 4.0
Hovimes et 8 Chevaux , and is a very early member (about 1924) of the
Premier Voiture of Philadelphia. He maintains a country place near
Pottsville, Pa.
Francis-J. Hills is a colonial member #284 of the New England His¬
toric Genealogical Society, of Boston, Mass., to which membership his
second son will ultimately succeed, and in which his eldest son is now
a life member. In 1955, Mr. Hills became a member of the Society
of the Sons of the Revolution #1135, through the services of his ances¬
tor, Lebbeus 3 Hills, and a member of the Society of Colonial Wars
#648, through the services of his ancestor, Philip Leonard, the father-
in-law of Samuel 1 Hills.*
Mrs. Hills, a graduate of the Danville State Hospital, Danville,
Pa., is a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania. She w’as
affiliated, during her training, with Bellevue and Fordham Hospitals,
both in New York City, and was Night Supervisor, the Pennsylvania
Hospital Neurological Department in Philadelphia. At present she
is the Secretary (1955-1956), of the Rahway Women’s Club.
Children:
i. Delos-Charles IV ®, b. 10 May 1930, Berwick, Pa.; he prepared
at Valley Forge Military Academy for Lafayette, from which he
received his A.B. degree in 1954, and entered his father’s firm,
on his discharge from the Army in Oct. 1956. A Delta Kappa
Epsilon , he is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society
of Colonial Wars, the Uderan Outing Club, of Rahway, N. J.,
and of the Rahway Lodge, 1078, B. P. O. E.
ii. Francis-J. Jr., b. 17 Dec. 1934, Elizabeth, N. J., will be graduated
from Brown University, June 1957, for which he prepared at
Rahway High School. An Alpha Delta Phi , he is business man¬
ager for Liber Brunensis , and a member of the Sons of the Revolu¬
tion, the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Uderan Outing
Club of Rahway. He plans to enter Law School.
* Later, Mr. Hills will file with the Society of Colonial Wars, as supplemental ances¬
tors: Capt. John Allis, Lt. William Allis, William Beardsley, Ensign Ephraim Wells,
Thomas Wells, Thomas Meakins and George Polly.
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ADDENDA
JOHN IIILL OF SAYBROOK
JOHN 1 HILL, birth and parentage unknown, but of Saybrook,
Conn., by 1670, where he married, 14 Apr. 1670, Jane, widow of John
Bushnell, of Boston, maiden name and birth not known. They were
living in Saybrook, in 1671, when their only recorded child was born,
and probably were there in 1678.
As has been pointed out, under the account of Samuel Hills, W. S.
Hills’ and Thomas Hills' 1906 Hills Family in America , page 8 , places
our Samuel of Duxbury, Mass., sans proof, as that Samuel, born in
Saybrook, 29 May 1671, son of the abovesaid John and Jane (-)
(Bushnell) Hill. I gave the various reasons for which we do not think
the two Samuels the same man. One thing seems quite apparent,
this John of Saybrook was a FULL and not a HILLS, as was our
Samuel, also the latter was born in 1673, and a shoemaker by trade.
And this John Hill of Saybrook is not identical with John Hills of East
Hartford, Conn., son of William Hills of Hartford, as has been er¬
roneously printed and re-printed.
John Hills, son of William and Phillis (Lyman) Hills, was bom
about 1644-1645, buried in East Flartford, 5 Apr. 1692. He married,
date not known, Mary-, who married secondly Thomas Adkins.*
The inventory of John’s estate was taken, 20 Aug. 1692, by Thomas
Kilbourn and Samuel Welles, at which time, Jonathan Hill, aged
twenty-eight, and Dorothy Hill, aged twenty-five, testified, 1 Sept.
1692, that during brother John Hill’s last sickness he said that when
debts were paid his wife should enjoy all the estate for life, and then
what was left at her death, should be divided equally between his two
daughters. It is clear that this John Hills, son of William, left no sons.
He did leave two daughters: Elizabeth , born about 1678; married
first, William Buckland Jr., who died 12 Dec. 1724; she married
secondly, James Forbes Jr., born 14 May 1676; a daughter , who per¬
haps died after 1692, unmarried and at an early age. I quote from
Mr. Jacobus’ footnote page 582 , of his Hills account :f
“He was not the John Hill who m. at Saybrook, 14 Apr. 1670, Jane Bush¬
nell, widow of John Bushnell (1615-1667), a woman probably of over 40 years,
by whom he had one child, Samuel, b. at Saybrook, 29 May 1671. The Hills
Family in America (190G) errs in this identification. John of (East) Hartford
shows in his provision for wife and two daughters that he had no surviving
male issue. The alleged son Samuel was just under the age of 21 when John
Hills died and would not have been cut off without mention in his nuncupa¬
tive will.”
* Coll. Conn. Hist. Soc., 14: 248-249.
f Manwaring’s Hartford Probate Reeds., 1:1^66; Jacobus-Waterman 19.32 Hale , House
and Related Families , 581-2, by permission of the authors, and of the Conn. Hist.
Society, which holds the copyright.
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64 HILLS LINEAGE
The Saybrook Vital Records were published in 1952, and from pages
3 and 7, we note:
“John Hill was married to Jane Bushnell the 14th of Aprill 1670
Samuel Hill his son was born the 29th of May 1671
William Bushnell the son of John Bushnell Senior late of Boston deceased
the 31 day of August 1684.” [all on p. 7.]
Dea. Francis Bushnell d. 4 Dec. 1681. [p. 3.]
Sam Jones m. Mary Bushnell, 1 Jan. 1663. [p . 7.]
Jonathan Smith m. Martha Bushnell, 1 Jan. 1663. [p . 7.] [same day.}
There is an account of the Bushnell family in Dawes-Gates , 2:163-
172 , compiled by the late Mrs. Mary Ferris and printed in 1931.
The progenitor was a Francis Bushnell of Guilford, Conn., who was
probably the father of Francis, the younger, of Saybrook; William of
Saybrook; Rebecca, who married John Lord; Richard, who married
Mary Marvin, and possibly John.
It is thought that the reason that Jane, widow of John, and mother
of his seven children, left Boston, and went to Saybrook, where she
married, in 1670, John Hill of same, and by whom she had one child,
son Samuel, in 1671, was that her deceased husband, John Bushnell,
was closely related to the Saybrook Bushnells.
It has been claimed that John of Boston was the same man as John
of Salem, a glazier, but this is not true, for the former was a barber or
barber-surgeon. Notes on his estate follow:
John Bushnell, 1667, administration; inventory and distribution, originals
all on file. Copies of the same appear in 5: 66, 64, 66. There is also a 1685
administration d.b.n. and warrant for inventory copied in 9: 249. The bond
is copied in new series 1: 516.
Inventory of the estate of “John Bushnell” who died 5 Aug. 1667 appraised
19 Aug. 1667. Contains his plate, books, two Bibles, an apparently well to
do man, all personal property and amounting to £241-01-02, as taken by
Robert Pateshall, “John Conney” and James Brading. [This was Coney
of the famed silversmith family of Boston.] Jane, the relict and widow at¬
tested; it was ordered that she was to have her thirds and the rest to be
divided among the children; the widow to give bond.
Bond, John Bushnell, cordwainer, with John Conney, cooper, both of
Boston, said Conney as his bondsman, appointed administrator d.b.n. of the
estate of his “late father s d John Bushnell of Boston Barber dec d ” 16 Dec.
1685, both sign.
Warrant for inventory, 14 Dec. 1685, full power to administer the estate
de bonis non of John Bushnell, sometime of Boston “Barber” granted to John,
his son, being now come of age in right of himself and in right of his surviving
sister, and the child of his deceased sister. Deacon Henry Alline, Mr. Ed¬
ward Wyllys and Mr. John Usher to make a new inventory of the house and
land; for the administratrix, Jane, has now removed out of this jurisdiction.
On reverse it mentions the house in Boston where Mr. William “Haukins”
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HILLS LINEAGE 65
lately lived and now in the occupation and “tenur of ye widow of Joseph
Haukins,” 25 Jan. 1G85-86.
(Suffolk Probate , J7i.)
“Ordered that notice bee given to James Hill in Saybrook who married
with the widdow of John Bushnell that at the next County Court there wilbe
a Setlement made of that Estate, one of the children being married, and that
in the meane time D r Hawkins who Lives in the house pay no Rent without
order of Court.” 29 Jan. 1677-78.
(Suffolk Co. Ct. Reeds, from Pub. Col. Soc. t 30: 885.)*
Children of John and Jane (-) Bushnell, born in Boston:
i. Dorothy, b. 19 Feb. 1651-52.
ii. Sarah, b. 24 Mar. 1655.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 30 Aug. 1657, d. 17 Apr. 1662.
iv. John, b. 19 Jan. 1659-60, d. 10 Apr. 1662.
v. Jane, b. 18 Dec. 1662.
vi. John, b. about 1665; by wife Sarah had son, John, b. 4 Aug.
1687, Boston.
vii. William, b. 2 June 1666. (d. 31 Aug. 1684, Saybrook, Conn.)
Returning to John Hill of Saybrook, Conn., little is known about
him. The name of Saybrook was changed to that of Deep River,
1 July 1947, and this is where the old records are on file. Mr. Jacobus
covered these for us, as follows: From official copy' of Volume /,
Saybrook Deeds f:
Page 42 :
[“The Lands of Edward Codner” described: under this}
John Hills marke 1670 That he puts upon his Cattle is a crop upon the tope
of each ear and a slott cut down on the Crop of the near ear
The lands of John Hill
the abovesaid [refers to Codner entry! house and home lote of 1 acker and a
quarter [written 11 ackers and looks like a line drawn through one “ 1” and
the “s” of ackers: 11 acres was a good deal for a home lot and ( odner s alxjve
was 1 acre and a quarterl and 3 Ack of land in the planting held and 2 Ack of
meadow at Raged Roke were sold by Thomas Codner to John Hill of Say-
brook this sixteenth of November 1670.
John Hill was married to Jane Bushnell the 14 th of April 1670
Samuel hill his son was bom the 29 th of May 1671.
the lands at Pataconke that was laid out to Edward Codner doth belong to
John Hill being comprised in the bill of sale made by Edward Codner and by
his order was recorded to John Hill
William Bushnell the son of John Bushnell of Boston deceased the 31»* day
of August 1684
* Pub. 1933, after Mrs. Ferris’ book was published. The “Janies is an original
error, of course, for John.
f Not checked with the original states D. L. J. The early deeds, or land records,
contain various types of entries which are not always chronological, piper was so scarce
that every blank portion was utilized.
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HILLS LINEAGE
Page 5J>:
Lind of Mr Bellamy and house 27 th of February 1675. bought of John
Hill his house and home lot consisting of one Ack more or less gining [lying]
and being in the towne of Say Brock bounded by John Westall on the east and
William Southmaid on the north the highway west and the meeting Comon
on the South allso two acres of meadow lying on the north side of William
Dudley and John Clark, and also my distedent [dividend] land at Pataqunk
with all privileges belonging thereunto as doth more fully appear in a deed of
sale under the said Hills hand bearing date with this record
Page 36:
John Hill one of two appraisers, 16 Feb. 1726, of three “Gades” [i.e. jades,
or horses]. This is a much later John Hill, who entered his ear mark, 16
Apr. 1723. {page 90), a different mark entirely than that of the older John.
Lands bought by Joseph Ingham, of John Hill (page 71), could refer to the
older man, as apparently not dated. (Z). L. J.)
We have noted that this John Hill, of Saybrook, sold out his prop¬
erty there, 21 Feb. 1675 and there is no further mention of him in
the local records. However, see the Court action, in Boston, 29
Jan. 1677-78, by which it would appear that John Hill and his wife,
Jane (widow of John Bushnell of Boston), were still of Saybrook at
that time.
Child of John and Jane (-) (Bushnell) Hill:
Samuel, b. 29 May 1671; no further record. In my opinion this
Samuel Hill was not identical with the Samuel Hills, of Duxbury,
aged 62 in 1735, etc., and a shoemaker by trade.
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SERGEANT PHILIP LEONARD OF DUXBURY
SGT. PHILIP 1 LEONARD (Thomas, Henry), bom in England, circa
1630, died in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., 3 July 1708, in¬
testate. He married, perhaps late in life, Lidia -, who died
in Duxbury, 13 Nov. 1707.
A proved brother of the prominent ironmongers, Henry and James
Leonard, early of Taunton, Mass., Philip probably originated in
county Somerset, Old England, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire, in
Wales, where these brothers were presumably apprenticed to the iron
trade. The claim that these Leonards were of the Leonard of Dacre
family is not only without foundation in fact, but quite fantastic.
We have contemporary evidence that Somerset was their home shire
and very possibly the parish of Sparkford.*
As dictated, in 1732, by Hannah (Leonard) Deane, to her great
nephew; she was a daughter of the first James Leonard of Taunton.f
her mother being a Martin and her siblings being: Thomas, James,
Benjamin, Uriah, Abigail and Rebecca Leonard. She also stated
that her grandfather was a Thomas Leonard, whose wife was born
a White, and that their children (in addition to her own father) were:
Henry, William, John, Philip, Thomas, Margery, Joan and Sarah.
Her great-grandfather was Henry Leonard. She gave more data
about the family with the fact that her aunt Sarah died “at New
Salem.” Her various statements, thus made in 1732, have proved to
be correct; she was an old lady with a remarkable memory.
From the Friends’ Records (Salem, N. J. Monthly Meeting [Quak¬
ers]), it appears that: J
Robert Fairbanks borne in lestershire in or about the veare 1632. In or
about the veare 1653 the said Robert Fairbanks transported himself from
England to Ireland. In the yeare 1676 the said Robert Fairbanks took to
wife Sarah Leonard daughter of Thomas Leonard, borne in Spenccfield in
Summerset Shire. In the yeare 1677 the said Robert Fairbanks transported
himself with Sarah his wife and one daughter Elizabeth Stubings he the said
Robert having her by a former wife, and her husband Henry Stubings, from
Ireland to the province of west new Jersey. They set saile on the 16th day
of ye ninth month in the ship called the Mary of dublin, John Wall l>eing
Master, and landed at Elsinburgh in the province of west new Jersey the 22
of the 12 month following.
Mr. Cook then continues with abstracts of the New Jersey wills
which give us the estate of Robert Fairbanck of Elsenburgh (Salem
County), tailor, in 1682, the administration being granted to one
John Thompson, of same, carpenter, “who has married Sarah, the
* Someday I should like to pursue these English clues.
t Register (1853), 7: 71-7
j “Origin of James and Henry Leonard,” by Lewis-D. Cook, F. A. S. G., in American
Genealogist , 10: 200-201.
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widow of Robert Fairbanks.” Also the estate of Sarah Thompson,
will dated 1720, of same, widow, who divided her “worldly estate,”
between kinsmen Henry Leonard of Cape May and Thomas Leonard
of East Jersey, to other relatives and gave legacies to various persons,
including the children of brother James Leonard.
There is no doubt that the “aunt Sarah” who “died at New Salem”
mentioned by Hannah (Leonard) Deane in 1732 is identical with the
above Sarah (Leonard) (Fairbanks) Thompson of New Jersey. How¬
ever, whoever compiled or copied the Friends' Records misread the
name of the place, for Mr. Cook states that “Spencefield” should
be read “Spenceford” [Sparkford]. As Mr. Jacobus, editor of the
American Genealogist comments:
“It is one of life's ironies that a family so uniquely fortunate as to possess
a statement of origin made by a daughter of the first settler should be con¬
cerned to disregard this statement in order to accept an entirely unproved
claim of descent from an English titled family. No reason, so far as I can
learn, has ever been given for disputing any of the statements of fact made
by Mrs. Deane, nor is there any reason to doubt that James Leonard and his
brother Henry [and brother Philip] were from Pontvpool, Monmouthshire.
The claims of descent from the Dacre Lennards (as they consistently spell the
name) are conflicting, undocumented, and (disregarding the impossible claim)
decidedly improbable. . . . With all the interest that has been shown in the
origin of the family, one can but wonder that research has not been under¬
taken in the neighborhood of Pontvpool.” *
{The Americayi Genealogist, 10: 162-166, 200-201; 11: 53.)
And so we can prove that our Philip Leonard was a son of Thomas
and- (Martin) Leonard and a grandson of Henry and-
(White) Leonard, presumably from Somerset and in the neighbor¬
hood of Sparkford and Pontvpool. Inasmuch as Philip Leonard left
no male heirs, he and his career have been sadly neglected.
We have already noted in the account of Samuel Hills, who married
the only child of Philip Leonard, Phebe Leonard, that this marriage
was enacted in Duxbury, 6 Nov. 1694. 9 July 1702, Philip was
named as a bound in a land grant to his son-in-law; 17 May 1703,
both Philip and Samuel protested about a town action; 13 Nov. 1707,
Lydia, Philip’s wife died, followed, 3 July 1708, by Philip’s own death.
Brief notes about Philip’s estate appear in Samuel Hills’ account,
which are amplified later here; finally, 2i\ Dec. 1712, when Samuel
renewed the bounds of his lands, they are described as possessed
formerly by “his father’s Phillip Leonard.” ( Duxbury Tovm Reeds.,
1893, 193, 90; Duxbury Gen. Reeds., 16^5-171^9, 56; Duxbury Miscl.
Reeds., 161^2-17!fi, 285; Duxbury V.R.; Mayflower Desc., 10: 18£;
Plymouth Probate , 12663.) f
* Pontypool is adjacent to Somerset. Both Mr. Jacobus and Mr. Cook have assisted
us on the Hills research.
t Vide ante.
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69
Philip first appears on these shores in connection with the Iron
Works at Hammersmith, on the Saugus River in Massachusetts.
Often known as the Cradle of American Industry, “the Hammer¬
smith works draws significance from the fact that it was the first in
the colonies to produce successfully both cast iron and wrought iron
from pig iron. Its productive life extended from about 1646 to about
1675.” Philip’s brothers, Henry and James, supposedly came over
about 1640; Henry was of Lynn in 1668, and later of Boxford, but
failing in business fled to New Jersey about 1673, where his sons,
Samuel, Nathaniel and Thomas, followed him. James, however,
became established in Taunton and “sired a mighty clan of iron
workers.” *
The only item found for Philip in connection with Hammersmith
is the following: payment to Philip and Henry, for hunting a missing
Scot [perhaps one of the Scotch prisoners, brought to these shores,
after the Battle of Worcester (1651) and sold, in 1652]:
Payment made to “henery and phillipe lennard for seekeing after scott”
six shillings, December 1652. ( Superior Court of Judicature , File 225.)
(Gifford and Undertakers of the Ironworks, paper 11 , case heard 1654.)
By 1657, Philip was of Taunton, then in Plymouth Colony, and
since 1686, within the county of Bristol, when he became a freeman
by taking the “Oath of Fidelitie” as “Phillip Lenard.” ( Plymouth
Col. Reeds., Miscl. 1633-1689, 8:186.) Two years later, 6 Oct. 1659,
we read that: “James Lenard, Phillip Lenard,” and others, all of
Taunton, were warned to appear in court, for sundry misdemeanors
committed in Taunton, (ibid.. Court Orders, 1651-1668, 3: 176.)
1 May 1662, the estate of Thomas Billington, of Taunton, was ap¬
praised and Jeremiah Newland, “Philip Leanard” and “James
Leanard,” had sums due them by the estate. (Mayflower Desc.,
17: 216.) 1 Mar. 1663-64, “Henery Green of Taunton, for breach
of the peace by striking Phillip Leanard, fined 03: 04.” (Plymouth
Col. Reeds., Court Orders, 1651—1668, J: 50.) Next, 29 Oct. 1669,
“Phillip Leanard” and others were presented for not “paying theire
rate to the minnestry,” the verdict being that they must pay as rated
last year “and that the constable be payed for his distresse.” (ibid..
Court Orders, 1668-1678, 5: 28.)
In the estate of Ralph Chapman Sr., late of Marshfield, who died
testate, we find that the inventory was taken by “Philip Leanard
(who signed by a mark) and Peregrine White, 27 Jan. 1671-72.
Chapman’s estate was also indebted to “Philip Leanard,” and others.
* Correspondence with Prof. Neal Hartley of Mass. Inst, of Tech., 1954-1955; Per-
ley’s article in 1888 Coll. Essex Inst., 25: 291-300; Emery’s 1893 Hist, of Taunton.
Those interested in the Saugus Iron Works (Hammersmith) Restoration are referred to
booklets issued by the American Iron and Steel Inst., of New York, N. Y., 1951 and
1952, also various issues their “Gazette,” 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954.
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(.Mayflower Desc., 19: 132-135.) * This item is the first we have
showing Philip to be a resident of Marshfield, from where he did
not remove to Duxbury, as has been stated, but lived on the line
between the two old towns, and when the bounds between them were
finally established, 23 Feb. 1683, his place came under the jurisdiction
of Duxbury.
In the expedition to New York against the Dutch, “Phillip Lean-
ard” was one of four “Sarjeants” and was to be paid three shillings
a day, 17 Dec. 1673. ( Plymouth Col. Reeds., Court Orders, 1668-1678,
5:136.)
5 June 1678, “Phillip Leanard, of Marshfeild, in the jurisdiction of
New Plymouth, nailer,” was bound unto the Court in the sum of £30
sterling, etc., to pay towards the support of a child he had of Eliza¬
beth Loe, a singlewoman, until the child attained the age of seven.
(ibid., 5: 260-261.) We will let the actual records tell the tale.
Debts due the estate of "William Sherman, late of Marshfield, de¬
ceased, included one by Philip “Leonard,” the estate being appraised,
30 Dec. 1680. In January 1680-81, Philip “Leonard” was named
as indebted to the estate of William Sherman of Marshfield. (Pope’s
1918 Plymouth Col. Scrap Book, 19; Mayflower Desc., J: 172; Holman’s
1936 Dcsc. William Sherman of Marshfield.)
Philip Leonard was an appraiser of the estate of Lt. Samuel Nash, of
Duxbury, “being aged, and not in a capassety to live and keep house
of himselfe, hath therfor put his estate unto the hands of William
Clarke, of Duxburrow,” etc., 5 Mar. 1683-84. (ibid., Court Orders,
1678-1691, 6: 126.) t
There is a mention of “Philip Lenard” as a bound in the published
1893 Duxbury Town Records, 25 Apr. 1694 and 30 Oct. 1695, pages
67-68. He was evidently living near the South River there, near
Marshfield line.
He has no recorded deeds in the Plymouth Colony Deeds, the Plym¬
outh or the Bristol, County Deeds, and various sources, published
and unpublished, pertaining to Essex County contain no mention
of him. There is at Plymouth, in the Registry of Deeds, a single
large copied volume entitled: Marshfield Proprietors, not paginated
or indexed; it is difficult to discover what years it embraces but it is
evidently of an early period, this volume was not scanned for lack
of time.t
According to the Duxbury Town Records, 1893, page 91: 25 Dec.
* Copies of the Plymouth Col. Deeds and Estates , made about 1860 when it was in¬
tended to print them, may be consulted at the Mass. Archives. Originals are at
Plymouth.
f Estate of Samuel Nash, 18 June 1683, John Cole and “philip Leanard” named the
“prizers.” ( Plymouth Col. Scrap Book , pp. 35-36.)
J Gen. Sessions of the Peace , Plymouth Co., covered 16S6 past 1725, also concurrent
(from 1702 only extant) Reeds, of Court Common Pleas; both negative.
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1712, Caleb Samson was to have an addition of land to his lot “next
to Phillip Leonard’s land.” For other mentions of Philip, see his
son-in-law Samuel Hills’ account.
In a “Topographical Discription of Ravnham,” 6 Feb. 1793, by
the Rev. Peres Forbes, LL.D., is a statement that James Leonard,
“the great progenitor” had three brothers, and towards the end:
“The circumstance of a family attachment to the iron manufacture is so
well known, as to render it a common observation in this part of the country,
viz. where you find iron works, there you icill find a LEONARD.” *
A brief mention of Philip Leonard’s estate appears in the account
of his son-in-law, Samuel Hills, who, having married Philip’s heiress,
succeeded to the Leonard property. There is no extant bond now
on file, but in the copy books are the inventory and the letter of ad¬
ministration, see volume 2: 99-100. The original inventory appears
in File 12663. Photostatic copies of the two records (inventory and
letter) and of the original document (inventory) are included in the
Hills Notes.
“To Samuel Hill Son in law of Phillip Leonard Late of Duxbor-
rough in the County of Plimouth . . . Deceased Greeting ... I
do by these presents Committ unto you full Power to Administer,”
to the estate of said deceased, 12 July 1708. The inventory was
made, 8 July 1708, by William Carver, and Arthur Howland, to
which “Samuel Hill” made his oath, 11 July 1708, real and personal
effects are listed; a copy of the original follows:
“Inventory of the Estate of Phillip Lenerd taken by William Carver &
Arthur Howland jr the 8 th of julv — 1708
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02
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01
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away in his life time -
127 17 00”
(Plymouth Probate, 12663.)
The silver whistle is of interest. Was it due to his being a “non
com” in the Expedition against the Dutch at New York?
Child of Philip and Lydia (-) Leonard:
PHEBE *, b. circa 1070-1075, perhaps Taunton, Mass.; m. Samuel
Hills.
The small chart , 'printed on the next page , comprises
the ancestry of Hannah (Brown) Hills, and is not the
result of exhaustive research , so is subject to change
and amplification. In an effort to make it easy to
follow 1 have only given the dates by years. I am
grateful to Miss Ruth E. Thomas for her lettering.
W. L. H.
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JOHN BROWN
(D. ANTE 1700)
WOBURN & COLCHESTER
M. 1682.
GEORGE BROWN
(1697-1761)
COLCHESTER
M. 1730 _
Elizabeth poIly
0657 ANTE 1709)
ANCESTORS OF
HANNAH (BROWN) HILLS
C173© -1823)
WIFE OF LEBBEUS HILLS
EN5. EPHRAIM WELLS
CA3T.I 672- ANTE 1751)
HATFIELD, NEW LONDON
& COLCHESTER
M. 1696
ELIZABETH WELLS
(BP. 1709-ANTE 1771)
ABIGAIL ALLIS
(1672-1731)
GEORGE POLLY
(D. 16 83.TEST.)
WOBURN
M.I649
EDWARD WINN
ELIZABETH WINN
(1599-1652JEST.)
WOBURN
(D. 1695)
THOMAS WELLS
(ABT.I6Z9-I676.TEST.)
HADLEY
M-165 1
FRANCES ---
(D.I678) HADLEY
WILLIAM BEARDSLEY
MARY BEARDSLEY
(I605-I66IJEST.)
STRATFORD
MARY-
(D.I69I)
LT. WILLIAM ALUS
CAPT. JOHN ALUS
(164-2-1691)
HATFIELD
M.I669
(D. 1678)
BRAINTREE ^HATFIELD
MARY-
(D. I 677)
THOMAS MEAKIN5 (THOMAS)
MARY (MEAKIN5) CLARK
(1641-ANTE 1705)
(D.I687) BOSTON.
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THE BROWNS OF WOBURN AND COLCHESTER
Preface
Hannah Brown, wife of Lebbeus Hills, was the daughter of George and
Elizabeth (Wells) Brown, and the granddaughter of John and Elizabeth
Brown, of Colchester, Conn. In the course of the identification of her
father, George Brown, a few notes were gathered, not only in relation to him,
but also respecting his father, John. From this research, it would seem that
Jolin Brown is identical with the John of Billerica and Woburn, Middlesex
County, Mass., who married Elizabeth, daughter of George and Elizabeth
(Winn) Polly of Woburn, for reasons that will be explained on the following
pages. Therefore, a few notes about this John and his immediate family,
precede the short account of George, his son. Later we hope to complete the
search on these Polly and Winn ancestors, and to continue the investigation
of the ancestry of Elizabeth (Wells) Brown, viz: Wells, Beardsley, Allis and
Meakins.
There is an unpleasant court case concerning a John Brown of Colchester
but our John is completely absolved as he died before the events took place.
Moreover there were a number of John Browns all living in the early days
within that town and the problem was to differentiate them.
JOHN 1 BROWN of Billerica, Woburn and Colchester, born about
1655, died in Colchester, Conn., intestate, before 14 Nov. 1707. He
married in Woburn, as of Billerica, both towns within Middlesex
County, Mass., 22 Apr. 1682, Elizabeth Polly, born in Woburn,
14 Apr. 1657, who perhaps died in Colchester, between 18 Feb. 1707-
OS and 8 Mar. 1708-09 *, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Winn)
Polly and the granddaughter of Edward Winn of Woburn.f
A footnote in Johnson’s 1891 Woburn Marriages , page 35, states:
In Dec. 1682, a John Brown of Woburn was convicted of stealing a horse
and was sentenced to restore threefold damages to pay costs and to be whipt
twenty stripes. Middlesex County Court Records, Volume 4.
No proof is offered that this applies to John Brown who, April 1682,
and December 1683, was of Billerica.
Hazen’s Billerica , published in 1883, page 18 of genealogical section,
cites:
“31.10 m . 1683. At a meeting of v e Selectmen, John Browne being sumoned
and appearing before y e Selectmen to give an account of his coming to inhabit
in our towne without liberty from the town first had and obtained [?] accord¬
ing to our town orders. The Selectmen having received an evill report of
y® s d pson, they gave him Notice of our towne orders, respecting ye enter¬
tainment of persons into y e towne to be inhabitants, and that wee were not
willing to entertain him as an inhabitant, and warned him forthwith to
* From the dates of the first bond and inventory of her husband’s estate and the
second bond of the same. She could have remarried.
t A copy of the will of George Polly concludes this Brown account.
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remove out of our towne on the penalty of our towne orders, which is
twenty shilling* per weeke, unless lie gave bond, with security (within one
week) that lice should not be chargeable to y e towne, nor his family.” Also,
George Grymes is also warned of the penalty he would incur “hi case he suf¬
fers the s d Brown to live in any of his housing or tenements more than one
week longer.” ‘‘But this Browne did not leave in a week and the constable
reported his tax, with others not paid in Dec., 1687.”
This was merely the old Town Warning Law, which some towns
were careful to keep and other towns ignored and, as a general rule,
had nothing to do with the morals or financial aspect of those so
warned. In case the newcomer, did become indigent, for any manner
of reason, it absolved the town from caring for the person, or their
family, of those so warned.*
John and Elizabeth (Polly) Brown had five children recorded in
Woburn, of whom the eldest is stated to have been bom in Billerica,
in the Woburn Town Records. These children were: John, bom 27
Mar. 1683, died 28 Mar. 1683; John, born 22 Jan. 1684; Elizabeth,
born 6 July" 1685 (who evidently" died in infancy"); a second Elizabeth,
born 10 Feb. 1687; and Hannah, bom 27 Apr. 1689.
On the reverse of the inventory of the estate of John Brown of
Colchester is a list of his children, which gives John, aged tw*entv-four;
Elizabeth, aged twenty-one; Hannah, aged nineteen; Joseph, aged
fifteen; Samuel, aged thirteen and George, aged eleven, in 1708. It
will therefore be noted that the ages of John, Elizabeth and Hannah,
agree as to the \"ears of birth of the John, Elizabeth and Hannah,
bom and recorded in Woburn: John, bom 1684; Elizabeth, bom
1687 and Hannah born 1689.
Also, Elizabeth Poll\"’s siblings w r ere named: John, Joseph, George,
Samuel, Hannah, Sarah and Edward. Disregarding the name of
John, as that was her husband’s given name, we note the appearance,
in the John and Elizabeth of Colchester family, of these names:
Joseph, George, Samuel and Hannah.
An examination of the Colchester Deeds failed to reveal the former
home of John Browm. Turning to the Middlesex County Deeds y Pro¬
bate and Court Files in Cambridge, Mass: The land records in the
name of John Brown w-ere read past 1735 and those of George Brown
past 1765, and nothing was gleaned to disparage our assumption that
the John of Billerica and Woburn and the John of Colchester are one
and the same person. At the same time the estates of George Polly"
and Edw r ard Winn wnre covered. There is no estate for Elizabeth,
wife of George Polly", and no guardianships for Joseph and George
* The Town Warning law in Mass., is considered in my article pub. 1956 in the Oregon
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Brown. There are several items in the Court Files that apply to
John of Billerica and Woburn, one of which reads:
Petition heard 1 April 1684, dated 28 March 1G84, Billerica, that “John
Browne himselfe and his family” are come to inhabit without liberty from
the town and the town is not willing to accept them and he refuses to leave,
etc. [original document]. W. P. A. Index: 168108: 5.
There are three documents in the estate of John Brown of Colches¬
ter *: the inventory and two bonds; photostatic copies of the originals
are included in the Hills Notes, of which brief notes follow. The
inventorv commences:
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“Colchester November the 14 1707 an inventory of the estat of John
Browen deceset
a houes and home Lot of 21 acres at 45 00 00
eight acers of upland an meddow at Stebinges meddow and 12 00 00
tow acers of meddow to mack = that 10 acers at one
hundred acres of Lands more at 25 00 00 ”
Then follows his cattle and stock, household goods, farming tools,
grain, wearing clothes and “severall Bookes,” also a “gunn,” to a
total of £132-01-00. Thus it is clear that at his death, he was
possessed of a house and a total of about one hundred and thirty
acres. On the reverse of the inventory appears:
“The Names and Ages of the Children of y e Deceased.
John Brown 24 years of Age
Elizabeth 21
Hannah 19
Joseph 15
Samuel 13
George 11
This Inventory Tacken and Sett dowen in November 1707 By us
Joseph pumery
Nathaniel loomys”
And “Elizabeth Brown widow’ and Relict of John Btowti Late of
Colchester deceased” appeared at the Probate Court held in New
London, 18 Feb. 1707-08 and attested this inventory, which was
recorded in the Book of Wills in folio 101, 28 Feb. 1707-08.|
Bond: 18 Feb. 1707-08, Elizabeth Brown with John Brown, as her surety,
both of Colchester, was bonded in the sum of £80, and appointed the adminis¬
tratrix of the estate of John Brown, late of same, deceased: both sign by mark.
* C. S. L. y Hartford, Conn. Note that when Benedict Arnold invaded New' Lon¬
don, 6 Sept. 1781, all the Probate Records were destroyed, also the Files from 1777 and
the Journals from Apr. 17G3. So there are no extant records (copy books) for this
estate. The Deeds and Town Records were in the part, now Waterford, so were saved.
t Only in Conn., do we find that quite commonly the names and ages of the children
are written on the inventories.
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Bond: 8 Feb. 1708 [-09], John Brown of Colchester, with Joseph Pumrv
of same, as his surety, was appointed the administrator of John Brown de¬
ceased [no residence cited]; signed by “John brown'’ and “Joseph pumery.”
[The latter’s signature agrees with that on the inventory, but had John Brown,
the son, learned to write his name during the past year?] ( New London Dist.
Probate , 781.)
Some of the following surveys apply to this John Brown and some
to his eldest son * [Born in 1684, John was of full age in 1705]:
By virtue of a former grant to John Brown deceased of a homelot it is now-
recorded which is in breadth "21 rods & in length 160 rods bounded north on
Jonathan Ivilbourn’s homelot and south on Henry Tomison’s lot east and
west on highways; entered 3 Mar. 1708-09. ( Colchester Deeds, 1: 137.)
Laid out for John Brown in March 6th 1704 sixty acres of land w-hich is
called his first division lying west of Longmeadow bounding first at the north¬
east comer with a near stone by the road to James Brown's & so runs north-
w-est 80 rods to bounds set by a run of w-ater and then runs southwest 120
rods to a black oak tree marked by the Governor’s road and then runs south¬
east 80 rods to bounds and then northeast 120 rods to the first bounds laid
out; entered 3 Mar. 1708-09, John Skinner, Surveyor, (ibid.)
17 Jan. 1709, laid out for John Brown two hundred acres of land which is
his second and third division lying near the deep brook beginning at the south¬
east corner bounds of Lt. Well’s land and runeth southeasterly 8 score rods
then runeth northeasterly 200 rods to a place called the falls then runeth
northw-esterlv 160 rods then runeth southwesterlv 200 rods to the first bounds,
Samuel Pellet Surveyor, [probably 1709-10] (ibid.)
5 Mar. 1706, laid out for John Brown eight acres of meadow in the meadow
called the Stebbins meadow- bounding north on land of Joseph Wright's 111
rods west on common land 12 rods bounding south on Joshua Hemsted’s land
111 rods bounded east with common land 12 rods, John Skinner, Survevor.
(ibid.)
3 Apr. 1716, Then laid out for the heirs of John Brown, deceased, one hun¬
dred acres of land which is in the fourth division lying on the north side of
land of Ebenezer Colman on the east side of the old road to New- London
bounding first at Colman’s northeast comer and so runeth east by 8 score
rods to Colman’s northeast corner and from thence north and by west 100
rods to bounds set and from thence west by south 8 score rods to bounds set
by the road and from thence south and by east 100 rods to the first bounds
aforesaid, John Skinner, Surveyor, (ibid., 1: 223.)
As the following survey appears on the same page it probably per¬
tains to Samuel, son of John, wdio w^as of full age in 1716, and who is
called Jr., to distinguish him from Samuel, son of Thomas and Hannah
(Lee) Browm:
27 Mar. 1718, laid out to Samuel Brow-n Jr., one hundred acres of land
which is the fourth division of that right which was his father’s lying about
* Abstracted for me from the microfilm copies at the C. S. L., by Mrs. Townsend:
I did not personally cover the Colchester Deeds on the Browns.
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half a mile from Salmon River on the east side of a place called Chestnut Hill,
bounding first at a white oak tree marked stones about it and from thence
northeast 8 score rods to a heap of stones and from thence northwest 100 rods
to a black oak tree marked stones about it and from thence southwest 8 score
rods to a chestnut tree marked stones about it and from thence southeast 100
rods to the first bounds above said, John Skinner, Surveyor. This is again
recorded 4 Feb. 1710-17. (ibid., 1: 223, 110.)*
Those deeds that deal with the estate of John Brown in which
George Brown, his youngest son, appears, will be considered in that
son’s account. They should be consulted by those interested in the
children of John, for they prove where some of them removed, e.g.,
John went to Farmington and then to Canaan, Conn., and Joseph
settled in Lyme, Conn., etc.
The abstracts below probably apply to John Brown Jr., born in
1684; he must not be confused with that John, born in Deerfield,
Mass., 10 Feb. 1694-9.5, son of James and Remembrance (Brooks)
Brown. After the father’s death, in 1707, John Jr., became, it seems,
the senior John in Colchester.
22 May 1710, John Brown, of Colchester, sold John Baker, of same, land
there, on the road to New* London, one mile below Lt. Wells’ dwelling house
and bounded north on land of Benjamin Fox, etc.; wit: Joseph Pumery and
Ephraim Foot; ack. 13 Nov. 1710 and reed. 11 July 1713. ( Colchester Deeds,
1:458.)
10 Nov. 1710, John “Browne” of Colchester sold to Ephraim Wells, of
New r London, for £50, land in Colchester, comprising some fifty-three acres
in upland and meadow r with a house, upon part of same, the boundaries being
Noah Wells, Joseph Pumery, John Adams, James Taylor, Samuel Pellet and
Edward Wolf; w r it: Joseph Pumery and Caleb Jeffers; ack. 13 Nov. 1710 and
reed. 13 Nov. 1712. (ibid., 1: 405.)
2 Nov. 1717, John Brown, husbandman, of Colchester, sold to Joseph
Kellogg, for £30, land there; wit: Josiah Phelps and James Treadw r ay; ack.
17 Dec. 1718 and reed. same, (ibid., 2, part 1: 284.)
In 1724 and in 1728, by three deeds, a John Brown Jr., of Colchester, sold
land there. Evidently a younger man. (ibid., 2, part 1: 409, 654, 776.)
Testimony was given by a John Brown, aged eighteen, 10 Sept.
1713, at Colchester, in a witchcraft case.f This was evidently John,
son of James, born 10 Feb. 1695, who is said to have married 28 Nov.
1725, Hannah Janes.
In the Preface to this little Brown account, reference was made to
* Samuel, of full age in 1719, son of Thomas Brown, appears in the deeds. (Col¬
chester Deeds, 2, part 1: 287.) A Samuel m. 12 May 1713, Colchester, Elizabeth Collins;
a Samuel m. 14 Apr. 1715, Suffield, Conn., as of Colchester, Priscilla Kent, reed, both
places. Mrs. Townsend states that the Samuel who m. 6 Aug. 1729, Colchester, Mary
Dunham, by whom he had three children 1729-1732, was an illeg. son of Thankful
Brown, dau. of James and Remembrance (Brooks) Brown, by Samuel Fuller; later
Thankful m. Richard Carrier.
t Crimes and Misdemeanors, 2: 75, at C. S. L ., noted by Mrs. Townsend.
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a court case. This relates to the events about a John Brown of Col¬
chester that took place there, 11 Oct. 1710, the case being heard 19
Sept. 1713. Joseph Chapman was also accused of the same crime
(sodomy), the verdict:
“viz 1 that they shall sit on the Gallows the space of one hour with a rope
about their necks and then be taken down and whipt on their naked bodies
the number of thirty nine stripes.”
(Crimes and misdemeanors , 2: 82-88.)
Children of John and Elizabeth (Polly) Brown, first five recorded
in Woburn, Mass., rest probably born in Colchester, Conn.:
i. John *, b. 27 Mar. 1683, Billerica, Mass., d. 28 Mar. 1683.
ii. John, b. 22 Jan. 1684, aged 24 in 1708; m. 1710, Colchester, M\ry
Chandler. He was the admr. of his father’s estate, 8 Feb. 1709,
was of Farmington, Conn., by 1732 and of Canaan, Conn., 1752,
as see his brother George Brown’s deeds. A wddow Mary Brown,
d. 22 Dec. 1761, Cornwall, Conn., near Canaan. Children
(Brown), b. Colchester, 1710-1729, (1) Elizabeth; (2) John;
(3) Hannah; (4) Sarah; (5) Timothy; (6) Nehemiah. A few* notes
on another John Brown of Colchester are given at the end of this
list of children.
iii. Elizabeth, b. 6 July 1685, d. infancy.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 10 Feb. 1687, aged 21 in 1708; m. as his 2d wife,
17 Apr. 1717, Samuel Horsford, b. 1669, Windsor, Conn., d.
there, 1746. 3 Jan. 1725-26, Samuel Horsford and his wife,
Elizabeth, conveyed to brother Samuel Brown, of Colchester,
all rights in the estate there of their hon. father, John Brown,
late of same, deed. (1936, Horsford Gen., p. £J.) Children
(Horsford), (1) Samuel; (2) Jesse; (3) Elizabeth.
v. Hannah, b. 27 Apr. 1689, aged 19 in 1708 *; m. (1), 27 July 1720,
Colchester, Daniel Huntley, b. 5 May 1682, Lyme, Conn., d.
there, test., 14 Jan. 1732-33, son of Aaron Huntley; she m. (2),
6 Mar. 1735, Thomas Baker. Daniel Huntley in his will of
1733 cites land that came to him from his wife Hannah Brown.
11 Oct. 1737, George Brown, of Colchester, was apptd. guardian
of James and Amos Huntlev, sons of Daniel Huntlev. 8 Oct.
1755, the sons of Daniel and Hannah Huntley, viz: Daniel, James
and Amos, of Lyme, gave their rights in Colchester lands to their
brother, Jacob. Children (Huntley), bom in Lyme, (1) Daniel ,
b. 17 Aug. 1721; (2) Jacob , b. 5 June 1723; (3) James, b. 16 Aug.
1725; (4) Amos, b. 31 Oct. 1727f.
vi. Joseph, b. 1693, aged 15 in 1708. H. W. B.\ states he m. Ruth
-. The deeds show him to be of Lyme in 1746 and 1753,
vide post.
* The Record 36: 100, incorrectly identifies the Hannah who m. Shubael Rowley,
for this Hannah was a dau. of James and Remembrance (Brooks) Brown.
t See Hartford Times, H. K. B., 8 Jan. 1955; I. H. H. and E. H. R., 30 Oct. 1954.
t H. W. Brainard Collections at the Conn. Historical Society.
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vii. Samuel, b. 1695, aged 13 in 1708. II. W. B. states he rn. 13 Aug.
1724, Mercy Brown, b. 4 Jan. 1689-90, dau. of James and
Remembrance (Brooks) Brown. Note that a Mercy Brown m.
10 Dec. 1754, Cornwall, Isaac Spalding and that in 1755, for
one shilling, they quitclaimed rights to 200 acres originally laid
out in Colchester to John Brown, deed., to George Brown, tide
post.
viii. GEORGE, b. 1697, aged 11 in 1708; m. Elizabeth Wells.
A John Brown of Colchester m. there, 13 Aug. 1724, Sarah Harris, who m.
(2), Pelatiah Bliss. Children (Brown), b. Colchester, (1) Sarah , 1>. 20 June
1725; m. Joshua Ransom; (2) John , b. 11 Sept. 1727. I have a few notes on
various early Colchester Browns. W. L. II.
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GEORGE 2 BROWN (John x ), born probably in Colchester, Conn.,
in 1697, died there, intestate, 6 Feb. 1761, aged sixty-four. lie mar¬
ried there, 12 Apr. 1730, Elizabeth Wells, baptised in New London,
Conn., 17 July 1709, died in Colchester, testate, between 25 June 1769
and 1 Jan. 1771, daughter of Ensign Ephraim and Abigail (Allis)
Wells.*
Evidently named for his maternal grandfather, George Polly, when
the inventory of John Brown’s estate w r as made, the youngest child
listed in this original document is “George-11.” As an orphan,
he had his way to make and did not marry until he was thirty-three.
We have noted that, 11 Oct. 1737, George Brown was appointed the
guardian of two of his Huntley nephews, vide ante. In 1745, he was
administrator of the estate of Jonathan Kellogg of Colchester. No
exhaustive research has been made; only his deeds and probate records
have been covered:
4 Nov. 1719, Colchester, Mr. Taintor pray be pleased to record to my
brother George Brown a piece of land lying on Deep Brook Hill being in esti¬
mation 70 acres be it more or less which is part of the 3d and 4th division
begining at a stake and runing northward half a mile to a stake from thence
eastward 70 rods to a black oak tree from thence southward half a mile to a
place call’d the falls from thence westward 70 rods to the first bounds and also
his part of the land not yet divided
Your friend and servant John Brown
Reed. 13 Nov. 1719. ( Colchester Deeds, 1: 32J4.)
15 Feb. 1727-28, James Pison [Persons?] of Hartford, Conn., for £18-10,
sold to George Brown, of Colchester, eighteen acres there bounded by land
* Ephraim Wells was of New London, 10 Nov. 1710, when he bought a house and
land in Colchester, of John Brou n, George’s oldest brother, vvie ante. A son of Thomas
and Mary (Beardsley) Wells of Hadley, Mass., Ephraim was a grandson of Frances
(-) Wells and of William Beardsley; his wife, Abigail, a dau. of Capt. John and
Mary (Meakins) (Clark) Allis, was a granddau. of Lt. William Allis and of Thomas
Meakins.
Ephraim Wells was appointed Ensign of the Colchester Co. 12 May 1715, (Col.
Reeds, of Conn., 5: 496); also served as deputy for the said town, 1724, 1727, 1728 and
1730. (ibid., 6: 483, 7: 89, 121, 148, 190, 266.)
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of the said grantee; wit: John Dod and Aaron Gillet; ack. same and reed.
1728. (ibid., 2, part 2: 775.)
7 June 1732, a quitclaim by John Brown, yeoman, of Farmington, Conn.,
to Joseph and George Brown, both of Colchester, for a valuable sum of money,
land in Colchester, bounded by land of the heirs of Noah Wells deed., to¬
gether with all such divisions as have been laid to said Joseph and George,
since the death of our hond. father, John Brown deed., on a £200-right in
undivided lands there; wit: Samuel Welles and John Bulkley; ack. same day,
date of reed, not cited, (ibid., 5: 270.)
8 Sept. 1732, George Brown, of Colchester, for £25, sold eight acres and
sixty-four rods of land there to Lemuel Fitch, of same; wit: John Bulkley and
Gershom Bulkley; ack. and reed. 1732. (ibid., 3: 217-218.)
2 Jan. 1745-46, Joseph Brown, of Lyme, Conn., for £32 sold George Browm,
of Colchester, all his right in the sequestered commons so-called in the two
divisions laid out on the right of our hond. father, John Brown, late of Col¬
chester deed.; wit: Young Fuller and Daniel Foot; ack. 1746; no date of reed.
(ibid., 5: 310.)
12 Mar. 1746, George Brown, of Colchester, sold John Johnson Jr., of same,
for £57-16-06, old tenor, nine fourteenths part of a lot there laid out in the
sequestered commons, containing twenty acres in ye whole, bounded by Dca.
Taintor, Elisha Pratt, Wm. Chamberlain and Dill Waters, the other five
parts not being mine as highway running across it being excepted; wit:
Nathaniel Kellogg and Elisha Pratt; ack. and reed. 1746. (ibid.. If.: 325.)
24 Oct. 1750, George Brown, and Elizabeth, his wife, with Hannah Wells
convey to their brother, Thomas Wells, all of Colchester, for £80 old tenor,
all right and title to one house and land there which was left to us by our
hond. father, Ephraim Wells, late of same, deed., bounded east on the New'
London road, southerly and westerlv on Thomas Wells’ own land, north on
Samuel Tozer, being about eight acres, divided into eleven parts, and one
eleventh part of said house and land belongs to said George and his w*ife and
one eleventh to said Hannah, which we now convey to said Thomas; w T it:
none cited, but ack. same date; reed. 1751. (ibid., 6, part 2: 10.)
8 Jan. 1751-52, John Browm, of Canaan, Conn., conveys, for £5 old tenor,
to George Brown, of Colchester, land in latter place in the sequestered com¬
mons and all undivided land that is not yet conveyed to get survey on record
to himself and that already laid out in said commons; wit: Nathaniel Foot
and James Jones; ack. same day; reed. 1752. (ibid., 6, part 2: 109.)
25 May 1752, George Brown, of Colchester, conveyed to Oliver Buckley,
of same, for £30 old tenor, small plot of land to be laid out in undivided land
on right of John Browm, late of Colchester deed., which right I purchased of
my brother, John Brown; wit: Nathaniel and Daniel Foot; ack. 1752 and
reed. 10 Nov. 1762. (ibid., 7: 27Jf.)
13 Dec. 1753, Joseph Brown, of Lyme, Conn., for £20 old tenor, conveyed
to George Browm, of Colchester, rights to any lands and buildings in Colches¬
ter; wit: James Smith and Benjamin Lee; ack. and reed. Dec. 1753. (ibid.,
6, part 2: 390.)
18 June 1755, Elizabeth Horsford, of Litchfield, Conn., quitclaimed, for
one shilling, to George Brow n, of Colchester, all rights to two hundred acres
in latter towm, laid out to John Brown, being his 2d and 3d divisions, and
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lying near the Deep Brook; wit: Ebenezer Marsh, J.P., Jesse Hosford and
Isaac Baldwin; ack. and reed. 1755. (ibid., 6, part 2: 20.)*
19 June 1755, Isaac Spalding and Mercy Spalding, both of Cornwall, Conn.,
convey to George Brown, of Colchester, for one shilling, by quitclaim, ail
right and title to land in Colchester, now owned by said George Brown, riz:
two hundred acres as laid out to John Brown deed., it l>eing his id and 3d
divisions; wit: John Beebe and John Beebe, Jr.; ack. 1755 and reed. 1753.
(ibid., 7: 289 .)f
16 Oct. 1755, Jacob Huntley, of Hartford, Conn., for £10, quitclaimed to
George Brown, of Colchester, land in latter place on which said George Brown
now dwells and which was laid out, 17 Jan. 1709-10, to John Brown, for his
2d and 3d division, containing two hundred acres and bounded as in the
records of the town of Colchester, Liber 1, Folio 138; wit: Joseph and Jerusha
Pitkin; ack. and reed. Oct. 1755. (ibid., 6, part 1: 5.) [He was an heir of
Hannah (Brown) (Huntley) Baker, sister of George Brown.J
Notes on George Brown’s estate appear below. The original file
consists of one bond, one inventory (not dated), and one distribution,
of which photostatic copies are included in the Hills Xotes. The con¬
temporary copybooks, (probate volumes) have not been consulted.
2 Mar. 1761, Elizabeth Brown, with Elias Worthington, both of Colchester,
as her surety, was appointed the administratrix of the estate of George Brown,
late of same deed., and signs the bond by mark.
The inventory was filed 3 Mar. 1761, having been made by Daniel Morgan.
Elijah and Elias Worthington. It lists the household furnishings and farm
utensils, as well as the clothing of the deceased, among these items we take
special note of a Bible, an old Bible, two spelling books and other a
gun and bullets, pewter and brass, a beaver hat, a great coat, leather breeches,
beds and bedding, linen goods, cows, sheep and oxen, an old mare, a httle
mare and a year-old colt, grains, and finally the real property: one hundred
twenty acres with buildings and orchard itemized at £480. [Depreciated
currency of that era.]
The distribution, made by the appraisers of the estate, was filet i in the
Probate Court, 1 Mar. 1762. The real property was accorded the widow.
Elizabeth, who had her thirds; then to Darius Brown, the eldest son; Ezra
Brown; Jesse Brown; Oliver Brown; Amasa Brown; daughters: Ehzal*eth
Brown, alias Stark; Chloe Brown; the heirs of Lydia Avery, deed., the w dr of
Jonathan Avery; Hannah Brown, alias Hills, as see verbatim copy below,
a “pent way” is provided for across the lots of land. Roughly the widow
received twenty-seven acres, Darius, sixteen acres, Ezra eight acres, Jcv*\
eleven acres, Oliver, twelve acres, Amasa, twelve acres. Elizal>eth. ten aerr-*.
Chloe nine acres, heirs of Lydia, ten acres, and Hannah, twelve acres, as sec
below:
“To Hannah Brown alias Hills twelve acres lying at the South end of the
* This was Elizabeth (Brown) Horsford, sister of George.
t George’s brother, Samuel Brown, m. Mercy Brown and in 1751, Mercy Brown rn.
in Cornwall, Isaac Spalding, see article by Kendall-P. Hayward in i’ imran (itn. 21.
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farm Between the lots of Elisabeth and Lydia Bounded as follows Begining
at Lydias, north east Corner runing East 28 Degrees north 54)/2 rods to
bounds set by Starks[?] land then South 33 Degrees East 35 rods to Bounds
Set by Tredwavs land thence west 28 Degrees South 55 rods to bounds set
by Treadways and Lydias land thence north 27 Degrees west 36 rods to the
first mentioned bounds with Liberty of a pentway through the northeast
Corner of Lydias lot to the west side of the farm And [one ninth of two thirds]
. . . of the old house and Barn.”
The others also received varying amounts of the old house and bam: the
children, except the eldest son, each had the same share as Hannah, the eldest
son had two ninths of two thirds and the widow had her full thirds, or dower
rights in the same. Finally:
“Distribution of the personal Estate of m r George Brown late of Colchester
Deceasd as follows (viz)
To Elisabeth Brown alias Stark £15-18-03
Received of Her parents
07
17
11
To Chloe Brown
21
15
02
To the heirs of Lydia Deceas d
09
03
00
Received of her parents
12
12
03
To Hannah Browne alias Hills
09
07
04
Received of her parents
12
09
02
To the w idow
27
00
08
So, each daughter had about the same in personal goods, the value of about
£21. Chloe Brown, as unmarried, had not had her share. (Colchester Dist.
Probate, 420.)
The widow drew her will, 25 June 1769, which was proved 1 Jan.
1771, so, at most, she only survived her husband not quite ten years.
The probate volumes have not been examined for her estate but a copy
of her original will follows:*
“In the Name of God amen June the 25 th 1769
I Elisebeth Brown of Colchester in the County of Hartford Widdow
Being at present Weak in Body but through Divine goodness of Sound
Mind and Memory Praised to God therefor And Calling to mind my Mortal¬
ity Make and ordain this my Last will and Testiment
firstly when ray great Change shall Come Would Resign my Soul into the
hands of God that Gave it hoping to Receive the Remission of all my Sins
through the merits of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior and to be admitted
to Life Eternal my body then I would Committ to the Earth to be buried in a
Decent manner Nothing Doubting that I shall Receive the Same Again at
the Ressurection of the Just by the Mighty powder of god and as Touching my
Temporal Estate I Give Dispose of and bequeath the Same in Manner fol¬
lowing Viz my Will is and I do Order that all my Just Debts and funeral
Charges be paid and Discharged by my Sones in Manner following and here¬
after Mentioned Viz I Give and bequeath unto my four Sones Ezra Brown
Jesse Brown and Oliver Brown and Amasa Brown all my Land that I shall
Die Seised of on Conditions hereafter Mentioned Viz that they the sd Ezra
* A photo copy of the will is included in the Hills Notes.
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85
Jesse Oliver and Amasa pay and Discharge the one half of all the Debts that
I shall owe at my Decease and the one half of My funeral Charges and probate
Charges out of s d Lands that I Give them or out of their own Estate Said
Land to [be] Equally Divided between them
Item to my Sonc Darius Brown and to my Grand Children Mary Avery
and Abel Avery And to my Grand Daughter Cloe Dewey I give four shillings
— Lawfull money to be paid to them out of my Moovable Estate by my
Executors hereafter Named Within one Year after my Decease to be Equally
Divided between them
Item my Will is and I Do order that the Other half of my Just Debts and
funeral Charges be paid out of my Moovable Estate by my Executors here
after named Item to my Daughters Elisebeth Stark and Hannah Hills I
Give all the Residue of my Moovable Estate that shall be Left after s d Debts
Charges and Legacies be paid to be Equally Divided between them
and further more I Do hereby Nominate and appoint my two Sones Ezra
Brown and Jesse Brown of s d Colchester to bee the sole Executors of this my
Last Will and Testiment and Do hereby Dissannull Revoke and Make Void
all . . . Other Wills and Testiments by me heretofore made and in confirma¬
tion of What is above Written I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seal the
Day of the Date aboves d *
Signed Sealed published and Declared to be the Last will and testiment of
the above Testator in the presence of
her
John Watrous Elisabeth Brown”
Lemuel Fitch mark
Zebulon Ames
Proved 1 Jan. 1771 by all three witnesses; the will was evidently written
by John Watrous. (Colchester Dist. Probate, 4.16.)
We have noted, that Hannah joined with her husband, Lebbeus
Hills in a quitclaim of rights in her father, George Brown’s homestead,
in Colchester, 8 Mar. 1774, recorded in 1782, to her brother, Amasa
Brown, this property being bounded by Lemuel Fitch, Ezra Brown,
heirs of “Lydia Brown Alice Avery,” [alias Avery] and land formerly
Jesse Brown’s. An earlier deed by Lebbeus and Hannah (Brown)
Hills, dated 29 Mar. 1762, recorded in 1763, conveying property
(twelve acres) there, to Elias Ransom, may also have been her in¬
heritance, it was bounded by Jonathan Avery, Timothy Stark, and
-Treadway, (vide ante.)
Apparently no stones are extant to the memories of George Brown
and his widow, Elizabeth; her record of death is not in the church or
town records so we lack the exact date. In 1779, her brother remem¬
bered his deceased sister:
The will of Thomas Wells of Colchester, advanced in years, drawn 13 Nov.
1779, filed 3 Mar. 1780, names wife Sarah; heirs of: deceased brother, Ephraim
Wells, of brother Joshua Wells, of deceased sisters Abigail Marriner, Mary
* The part I have omitted is merely a repetition at top of reverse of the page.
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HILLS LINEAGE
Day, Sarah “Whay,” Elizabeth Brown , Hannah-,* Lydia Rowley and
Rebeckkah Edgerton; witnessed by Elias Worthington Jr., Joshua Morgan
and John Watrous. (Colchester Dist. Probate, 3232.)
Children of George and Elizabeth (Wells) Brown, born in Colches¬
ter, Conn.:
i. Elizabeth*, b. 7 June 1731, alive 25 June 1769; m. by 1 Mar.
1762,-Stark.
ii. Darius, b. 24 Apr. 1733, alive 25 June 1769; removed to Horton,
Kings Co., Nova Scotia (E. M. R.) f; m. 6 Dec. 1753, Sarah
Bacon.
iii. Chloe, b. 30 June 1735, d. by 25 June 1769; m. after 1 Mar. 1762,
Abraham Dewey. Child (Dewey), Chloe, alive 25 June 1769.|
iv. Lydia, b. 27 Aug. 1736, d. by 1 Mar. 1762; m. Jonathan Avery
( E . 3/. R.). Children (Avery), alive 25 June 1769, (1) Mary;
(2) Abel.
v. HANNAH, b. 28 Oct. 1738; m. Lebbeus Hills.
vi. Child, b. 9 Sept. 1740, d. 28 Sept. 1740.
vii. Child, b. 10 Feb. 1743, d. y.
viii. Ezra, b. 29 Aug. 1744, alive 25 June 1769.
ix. Jesse, b. 2 Feb. 1747, alive 25 June 1769.
x. Oliver, b. 21 Sept. 1748, d. 23 May 1823, aged 75, bur. Linwood
Cem., Colchester; m. there, 24 May 1770, Mary Arnold, b.
1748, d. 17 Feb. 1821, aged 74, dau. of Enoch and Dorothy
(Emmons) Arnold. He gave two sons the name of ASAHEL.
Children (Brown), b. Colchester, (1) Asahel, b. 18 Oct. 1770,
d. 31 Dec. 1774; (2) Anna , b. 11 Oct. 1772; m.-Wightman;
(3) Alice, b. 17 July 1774; m.-Rathbone; (4) Polly, b. 1
Nov. 1776; m. - Randall; (5) Lucy, b. 31 Jan. 1779; m.
-Rathbone; (6) Asahel, b. 20 Mar. 1781, d. 9 Feb. 1859,
Norwich, Conn.; (7) Russell, b. 15 July 1783, alive 1823; (8)
Enoch, b. 28 Feb. 1786; m. Sept. 1814, Delia Brown; (9) Betsey,
b. 23 Aug. 1789; m.-Rathbone; (10) Daughter, b. and d.
Sept. 1791. See Brown Ms. of Colchester, by the late H. W.
Brainard. Four daughters of Oliver Brown married into the
Rathbone family. The will of Oliver Brown, of Colchester, 1
Jan. 1823, names son Asahel; eldest dau. Anna Wightman; six of
my children: Alice Rathbone, Mary Randall, Lucy Rathbone,
Russell Brown, Enoch Brown and Betsey Rathbone. ( Colches¬
ter Dist. Probate, L37.)
xi. Amasa, b. 26 Feb. 1751, alive 8 Mar. 1774, of Colchester, wdien he
acquired his sister Hannah’s rights in their father’s land there,
vide ante. He m. Sarah- , who d. 5 Nov. 1775, aged 22.
* ? Gun.
t E. M. Rogers Collections at the Conn. Historical Society.
j The 1898 Dewey Gen., p. i09, states that Chloe d. 19 Mar. 1767, and m. 28 May
1766, Abraham Dewey. It omits her child, Chloe Dewey. He had other wives.
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87
A copy of the original will of George Polly follows:
By these presents be it Knowne that I George Polly sen of Woburn in
the Massachusets Colony in the County of Middlesex being of sound under¬
standing and perfect memory: Doe heerbv make this writeing my last will
and Testament: Renouncing all former wills by me made Committing my
soule unto g d in Christ my Saviour and my body Decently to be interred in
the Earth: And After my Debts are paid and my funerall expenses discharged;
I Doe give my estate both personal and Reall as follows
Imp: I give unto my beloved wife Elizabeth the use of my now dwelling
house all my land which I now posses my household stuff and the use of two
oxen two Cows a mare together with cart plow and to my son John Polly
all my land and meadow belonging to my houselott lying on the south west
side bounded by a white oake stump at the upper end and so by a line through
the middle of Drie pole swamp to the river and one Cow; two thirds of all
my woodland: paying fourty Pounds as is heer after Expressed: I give
unto my son George the other part of my land on the North East side of
my houselott and my meadow on the south side of the river one third part
of my woodland and one Cow: paying fourty pounds as I hereafter appoint;
but if he fade to pay the fourty pounds: then I give him only his ten Acre
lott he now possesseth one Cow and one quarter part of my woodlands: I
Doe give unto my Daughter Elizabeth twenty pounds and one Cow as part
of the twenty pounds: with that she hath already received: to my Daughter
Hannah twenty pounds and my seven Acre lott on the other side [of] maple
meadow river: to my son Samuel twenty one pounds or my great lott and
twenty shillings and my musket; to my son Edward twenty one pounds; to
my Daughter Sarah twenty one pounds: I Doe Give to my Daughter Hannah
one Cow as part of the twenty pounds mentioned before: I Doe Appoint
my sons John and George to pay my legacies to the other Children when
they come to possese the lands; that is to say ten pounds yearly as it ariseth
due untill the four scoure pounds be paid: only when Edward comes to Receive
his legacy I Doe Appoint them to pay fiveteen pounds that yeer. I Doe
give to my son Samuel a pair of steers Coming three year old when he is
at age: I Doe give unto my beloved wife Elizabeth two cows a mare and my
household stuff for her use dureing her Naturall life after my wives decease
I Doe give my household stuffe equally to be devided Among my Children:
I Doe Constitute and ordaine my sons John and George joint executours to
this my will: I Doe Appoint my trustie friends Mathew Edwards and John
Baker overseers: unto what is above written I George Polly have put to
my hand and seal the fifth day of June one thousand six hundred and Eighty
three
his mark
In p r sence off George X Polly
Sam Carter
her mark
Deborah X pierce.”
Proved 1 Apr. 1684. The first named witness evidently wrote the will.
“An Inventory of the Estate of George poly sen r who deceased upon the
twenty second daye of Janewary 1683-4,” was taken, 21 Feb. 1683[-84], by
.
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88
HILLS LINEAGE
4 ‘{Trances Kendall & James Converse,” the total amount being £298-09-06.
It included ‘‘one small hous and about 35 acres of upland adjoyning,” some
one hundred and one additional acres in upland, swamp, meadow and wood-
lot; his stock, with “one mare and bridle sadle and pilion and harnes”;
carpenter’s tools; household effects with a “brass seilet” listed; a “Swarm
of bees,” etc. 1 Apr. 1684, “Deborah Polly” attested to the truth of the
inventory. {Middlesex Probate , 17699.) *
* Photo copies of the original will and inventory are included in Mr. Hills’ files which
contain unfinished data on the various families in the ancestry of Hannah (Brown) Hills.
(See chart.) The “Deborah Polly,” is an original error for Elizabeth Polly , the widow.
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INDEX OF PERSONS
Lebbeus IS
ABELL
L.-W., Mrs. 9 14
Sarah-L. 9 15
ACKLEY
- 35
ACORN
Charlotte 24
ADAMS
A.-F. 56
John 79
ADKINS
Mary 63
Thomas 63
ALDEN
David 4 5
ALLEN
- 44 48 50
Abner-T. 48
Amasa-I. 48
Amy 42 49
Daniel 42
Eliza-A. 49
Elizabeth 48
Eunice 36 37 42 43
44 46 48 49 50
Henry 64
James 36 37 42 43 44
46 48 49 50
John-Pearce 48
Joseph 36
Leander 42 49
Lydia 43 44 48 49 50
Maria 50
Marietta 49
Martha 49
Sally 48 49
Samuel 42
Samuel-E. 46 49 50
Sheldon 49
ALLINE
See Allen
ALLIS
- 75
Abigail 74 81
John 60 74 81
Mary 74 81
William 60 74 81
ALLISON
Amalia-Marion 58
Frances 58
Warren 58
ALVERSON
Sarah 17
AMES
Zebulon 85
ANSBACH ANSPACH
Emma 59
ARNOLD
Benedict 77
Dorothy 86
Edward 6
Elizabeth 7
Enoch 86
Mary 86
Seth 4 5 6 7
AUSTIN
Sarah 34
AVERY
Abel 85 86
“Alice” See Lydia
Jonathan 25 83 85 86
Lydia 27 83 84 85 86
Mary 85 86
B-
H.-K. 80
BACON
Sarah 86
BAILEY
Frederic-W. 3 24
Sarah-M. 34
BAKER
Hannah 80 83
John 79 87
Kenelm 8
Samuel 8
Thomas 80
BALDWIN
Isaac 83
BARNABY
Hannah 23
James 23
BARNRICK
See Batharick
BARTLETT
Ichabod 7
Josiah 14
BATES
Albert-C. 11
BATHARICK
Abigail 14 15
William 15
BEARDSLEY
- 75
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Mary 74 81
William 60 74 81
BEEBE
Abigail 27
John 83
BEERS
F.-W. & Co. 47
BELLAMY
-Mr. 66
BEMISS
Elijah 22
BENNET
Hinchman 23
BENTLEY
Hannah 17 18 23
Mary 18
William 18
BERGIN
Helen 58
John 58
BIGELOW
Epaphroditus 34
Erastus 24
Lucy 24
Sarah 34
BILL
James 31
BILLINGTON
Thomas 69
BLISH
Betsey 34
David 22 30
Edmund 34
Lucy 22
Prudence 24
Zeruah Zeruiah 30
BLISS
Pelatiah 81
Sarah 81
BLOUNT
Roll in 41
BOTTOM
John 31
BOWKER
Benjamin 17
Jemima 17
BRADING
James 64
BRAINARD
Homer-W. 80 86
BREWSTER
Prince 26
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Remembrance 79 80
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BROWN BROWNE
- 58 78 81
Alice 86
Amasa 27 83 84 85 86
Anna 86
Asahel 86
Betsey 86
Chloe* 83 84 86
Darius 83 85 86
Delia 86
Elizabeth 24 74 75 76
77 79 80 81 82 83 84
85 86
Enoch 86
Ezra 27 83 84 85 86
George 24 25 27 74
75 76 77 79 80 81
82 83 84 85 86
George-A. 49
Hannah 18 23 24 31
33 35 36 73 74 75
76 77 78 79 80 83
84 85 86 88
Isaac 27
James 78 79 80 81
Jesse 27 83 84 85 86
John 74 75 76 77 78
79 80 81 82 83
Joseph 76 77 79 80
82
Lucy 86
Lydia 27 84 85 86
Margaret 58
Mary 79 80 86
Mercy 81 83
Nehemiah 80
Oliver 34 83 84 85 86
Polly 86
Priscilla 79
Remembrance 79 80
81
Russell 86
Ruth 80
Samuel 76 77 78 79
80 81 83
Sarah 80 81 86
Thankful 79
Thomas 78 79
Timothy 80
BUCKINGHAM
William 23
HILLS LINEAGE
BUCKLAND
Elizabeth 63
William 63
BUCKLEY [BULKLEY?]
Oliver 82
BUEL
- 23
BULKLEY
Gershom 82
John 82
BULL
Samuel 24
BUSHNELL
- 1 64
Dorothy 65
Elizabeth 65
Francis 64
Jane 1 63 64 65 66
John 1 63 64 65 66
Martha 64
Mary 64
Rebecca 64
Richard 64
Sarah 65
William 64 65
CALVIN
John 13 14 16
CAMPSTON
-Capt. 47
CARRIER
Emeline 34
Richard 79
Thankful 79
Thomas 26
William 34
CARTER
Eleazer 22 28
Samuel 87
CARVER
William 5 71
CHAMBERLAIN
W'illiam 82
CHANDLER
- 4
Mary 80
CHAPMAN
Joseph 80
Ralph 69
CHURCH
Elizabeth 18
CHURCIIELL
Andrew 13
CLARK CLARKE
Asael 23
Bertha-E. 37
David 31
Gershom 10
John 31 66
Mary 81
Simon 23
William 70
COATES COATS
- 36 50
Anson-B. 47 50
Lucy 36 50
COBB
Philip-L. 43
CODNER
Edward 65
Thomas 65
COLE
John 70
COLEMAN COLMAN
Ebenezer 78
Niles 26
Noah 20
COLLINS
Elizabeth 79
CONEY CONNEY
John 64
CONVERSE
James 88
COOK
Avis-B. 23
Lewis-D. 51 52 53
54 67 68
COREY
Isaac 47
CORRAL y SWASTEAVI
Frances 58
COTTON
Francis 34
Nancy 34
COVEL
Polly 23 24
CURTIS
Britta 34
Cynthia-Ann 35
Gaylord 35
Nathaniel 34
CUTTEN CUTTING
Ann Anne 15
Hannah 15
Keziah 15
DACRE
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91
DAVIS
Sally 48 49
DAY
Mary 85 86
DEAN DEANE
- 24 67
Hannah 67 68
Lydia 21 24
DEWEY
Abraham 86
Chloe 85 86
DEXTER
Ada 48
DICKENSON
Alice 30
Hannah 30
Lebbeus 30
Nathan 30
Sarah 27
DICKORE
Marie 52 53 55
DOD
John 82
DUDLEY
William 66
DUNHAM
Mary 79
DYE
Hannah 37 48
John 37 48
EDGERTON
Rebecca 86
EDWARDS
Mathew 87
EGAN
Mary 56
ELIOT
Jacob 9 11
Mary 18
ELMER
Mary 54
EMERY
Samuel-Hopkins
EMMONS
Dorothy 86
FAIRBANCK
FAIRBANKS
Elizabeth 67
Robert 67 68
Sarah 67 68
FARENRELL
Joseph 40
FARRELL
Elizabeth-Allison 58
Marion-Louise 58
Mary-Jane 58
Richard-C. 58
FAR WELL
Joseph 40
FEDUS
John-G. 31
FERGUSON
Amy 49
Clarice-Mariette 48
49 50
Hallie-L See Hattie-I.
Hattie-I. 49
Hezekiah 49
James-R.
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James-Ross 49
James-Rufus 50
John 49
John-F. 49
Laura-Mariette 50
Martha 49
Raymond-Stanley 50
Rose 57
Sue 50
FERRIS
Mary 64 65
FISH
Samuel 27
FITCH
Lemuel 26 27 82 85
Thomas 27
FOOT
Daniel 82
Ephraim 79
Hosea 26
Nathaniel 82
FORBES
Elizabeth 63
James 63
Peres 71
FOSTER
69 Asa 14
Daniel 9 17 18
David 18
Katherine 17
Lydia 11 17 19
Phebe 17
Phineas 17 18
Sarah 17
FOX
Benjamin 79
Joel 27
FREEMAN
Caroline 34
Hannah 34
John 34
FREESE
Katherine 17
FULLER
Edward 50
Noah 20
Samuel 79
Young 82
GARDNER
John-B. 48
GATES
Abigail 33
Olmsted 33
GIBSON
Anne 32
Clara 32
Florinda 32
Mary 31
Polly 31 32
Roger 32
Ruth 32
Samuel 31 32
GIFFORD
John 69
GILLET
- 10
Aaron 82
Ebenczcr 10
Elijah 10
Eliphalet 23
Jonathan 10
Joseph 9 11
Nathaniel 9 10
Samuel 20
GOFF
Mary-N. 35
GOODIE R
Aaron 47
GOODSPEED
Mary 1
GRAVES
Asa 26
GRAY
Asa 38
GREEN
Caroline 54
Henry 69
GRYMES
George 76
GUN GUNN
Hannah 86
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HAEGELS
W.-G. 56
HALE
Charles-R. 29
Jesse 40
HALL
Mary 25
HAMMOND
Caleb 9 11
HARRINGTON
Alma 48
Elma See Alma
HARRIS
Nathaniel 26
Sarah 81
HART
Polly 39
HARTLEY
Neal 69
HAWKINS HAUKINS
-Dr. 65
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Joseph 65
William 64
HAYWARD
Kendall-P. 83
HAZEN
Henry A. 2 75
HEANY
Allan 54
Mary 54
HEMSTED
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Joshua 78
HERRICK
—— 24
Faith 24
HE WET
Solomon 7
HIERAN
William 56
HILL HILLS
- 2 3 4 7 8 9 10
14 30 34 37 40 43
44 68
Abigail 1 2 4 5 10 13
14 15
Abijah 17
Abner 16
Ada 48
Adelaide-M. 35
Alden 42
Alfred-Delos 59
Alice 31 33 36
Alma 48
Alvira 34 35
Amalia-Marion 58
Ann Anna Anne Annie
9 15 17 30 47 50
52 53 54 55 57
Anna-M. 56 58
Annis 35
Asa 39
Asahel 24 26 30 31
33 34 35 36 37 38
39 40 41 42 44 45
46 47 48 50 51
Asahel-H. 34
Ashbel Ash bell 33 38
Ashel See Asahel
Augusta 43
Aurora-Octavia 33 39
Avis-B. 23
Belle 43
Benjamin 47
Betsey 34 35
Betsey-W. 34
Britta 34
Britta-Curtis 34
Caroline 35 53 54
Celestia 48
Celestia-L. 47 48
Charles 35
Charles-D. 57
Charles-Edwin 58
Charlotte 33 35
Chauncey 31 32 33
Consider 16
Cornelia 35
Cynthia-Ann 35
D. & Co. 53
Dan 42
Daniel 35
Darius 16
David 30 34 35 36 37
38 41 42 44 45 47
48 50 51 52 53 54
David & Co. 53
David-D. 54
David-S. 47
David-W. 51
Delia 50
Delia M. 43 44 50
Delos 36 37 53 54
55 56 57
Delos-C. 54 56 57
Delos-Charles 53 54
55 57 58 60
Dilos See Delos
Dora 37
Dorothy 15 63
E. 40
Ebenezer 4 10 13 14
15 17
Edith-Christine v 58
59 60
Edward-F. 34
Eliab Elihab 9 10 16
Elijah 16 26 27
Elisha 39 40 42
Elizabeth 35 43 57 63
Elizabeth-Gertrude 59
Ellen-Mary 57 58
Ellis See Alice
Elma See Alma
Emily 35
Ephraim 4 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 28
29 30 33 34 36 47
Esther 57
Eunice 36 37 38 41
42 43 45 46 48 49
50
Faith 21 24
Flora 48
Frances-C. 35
Frances-Delos 58
Francis-J. v vii 27 45
50 55 58 59 60 88
Frank 43
Frank-J. 59
Frank J. Incorporated
59
Gaius 24
George 35 37 48 53
54 56
George-F. 54 56
George-Gordon 59
Grace 27
Gustavus 33
H. 47
Hannah 5 8 10 15 16
17 18 19 21 23 24
25 27 28 30 31 33
35 36 37 38 47 48
73 74 75 83 84 85
86 88
Harriet 35 37 48
Helen-White 59
Hoel 24 36 37 41 42
43 44 46 47 48 50
Huldah 16
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93
HILL HILLS (Cant.)
J.-C. See John-Case
Jabez 42 43
James 9 10 15 65
James-B. 35
Jane 1 37 47 48 63
64 66
Jemima 16 17
Jerusha 17
Joel 38
John vii 1 35 63 64
65 66
John-A. 38
John-Case 43
John-K. 41 45 48
John-Kneeland 45 48
Jonathan 15 63
Joseph 4 5 14 15 16
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Julia-Augusta 33
Julius-Augustus 83
Justin 24
Keziah 15
Kneeland 86 37 44
45 51 53 54 55 56
Kneeland-G. 46 47 48
Kneelon-G.
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L. 32
Lebbeus Labe us Labius
Labous Lebbeas Leb-
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Libbeus Libeas Libeus
Lybius 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 32 33
34 35 38 39 40 41
42 60 74 75 85 86
Leo 57
Leon-C. 37
Leonard 16 17
Lettice 17
Lisander 43
Louisa-M. 47
Lucy 30 31 33 35 36
38 41 45 50
Lydia 4 5 13 15 17
18 19 20 21 23 24
25 28 30 33 36 37
38 41 42 43 45 48
49 50 84
Lyman 34
Lysander-Bascom 43
Margaret 10 17 57
Margaret-A. 57
Margaret-M. 56
Maria 34 55
Maria-M. 54 55 57
Maria-S. 84
Marion-Louise 58
Mark 48
Martha 35 43
Mary 17 18 23 24 30
31 32 33 34 35 40
45 53 54 56 57 63
Mary-Arabella 43
Mary-N. 35
Mary-W. 35
Mercy 23
Milton 37 47 48
Milton-A. 47
Molly 45
Nancy 34
Nathan 30
Nathaniel 17
Neiland See Kneeland
Nobles Noble Nobels
18 19 21 23 24 27
30
Nyland See Kneeland
Octavia 33
O’Driscoll & Co. 53
Oliver 30 34 36
Ozias 23 24 30
Pamela 33
Patricia-Ellen 58
Phebe 1 4 5 7 8 10
12 15 16 72
Philip 2 4 8 9 10 11
13 15 17
Phillis 63
Philo 34
Polly 24 80 31 32 33
34 35 36 38 39 40
41 44 45 46 47 48
50 51
Rachel 24 30
Ralph 2
Rebecca 17
Reuben-Byron 43
Richard 2 4 9 11 13
14 15 16 17 23 30
Roswel Roswell
See Russell
Rozel See Russell
Russell Rusel Roswel
Roswell Rozel 30
31 33 35 36
Samuel vii 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 19
60 63 64 65 66 68
71 72
Samuel-Gibson 33
Sarah 16 23
Sherman 34
Silas 30 35 36
Simon 23
Submit 17
Thankful 16
Thomas vii 1 16 17
27 28 36 57 63
Thomas-F. 56
Thomas-Francis 57
Thompson Incorporated
59
Vincent-De Paul 59
William vii 1 42 63
William-C. 23
William-D. 57
William-Sanford vii 1
30 63
Zeruiah-Blish 33
HINCKLEY
Abigail 1 10 12
Gershom 14
John 1
Mary 1
Thomas 1
HINE
Orlo-D. 11
HOADLEY
Nathaniel 41
HOLLISTER
Adelaide- M. 35
Buckly 23
John-II. 23
Jonathan 26
HOLMAN
Mary-Ixtvering 70
HOLMES
Annis 85
Charles 35
Elizabeth 7
Howell [Iloel] 35
Martha 35
Polly 35
HORSFOIU) HOSFORD
- 18 33
Daniel 26
Dudley 26
Elizabeth 80 82 83
Jesse 80 83
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Joel 26
Lydia 18 38
Obediah 23 32
Samuel 80
HOUCK
Marietta 49
HOWLAND
Arthur 5 8 71
HUBBARD
Mehitable 33
HUNT
Mary 35
William 35
HUNTINGTON
John 12
HUNTLEY
- 81
Aaron 80
Amos 80
Daniel 80
Hannah 80 83
Jacob 80 83
James 80
INGHAM
Joseph 66
INGRAHAM
Margaret 17
JACOBUS
Donald-Lines vii 1 63
65 68
JANES
Hannah 79
JEFFERS
Caleb 79
JENKS
Anna Zimmerman 39
JOHNSON
Edward-F. 75
John 82
L. & Co. 53
JONES
Charity 24
James 82
John 8 9
Myrtle-A. 29
Nael 41
Pomeroy 40
Samuel 64
JOSSELYN
Henry 7
JOY
John 23
KELLOGG
Daniel 28
Elijah 22 28
Jonathan 81
Joseph 79
Nathaniel 82
Samuel 22 26
KENDALL
Francis 88
KENT
Priscilla 79
KEPHART
W.-H. 56
KILBOURN
Jonathan 78
Thomas 63
KIMBERLY
Mary 31
KINGSLEY
W.-G. 14
KIRK
- 50 52 54
Anna 47 50 51 52
Jane 52
Susan 50 51 52
KITCHEN
James-G. & Co. 59
KNEELAND NELAND
NEELAND
- 36 44 45
Benjamin 45
Edward 45
Eunice 45
Hezekiah 27
Ichabod 45
John 45
Joseph 45
Mary 45
Molly 45
Polly 36 44 45
Ruth 45
KOOUS See Kounz
KOUNZ
Emma 54
LEANARD
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LeCHEVALIER
W.-R. 56
LEE
Benjamin 82
Hannah 78
LENARD
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LENNARD of DACRE
- 67
LEONARD LEANARD
LENARD
- 3 4 7 67 68 71
Abigail 67
Benjamin 67
Hannah 67 68
Henry 67 68 69
James 67 68 69 71
Joan 67
John 67
Lydia 1 4 67 68 72
Margery 67
Nathaniel 69
Phebe 1 3 4 6 12 15
68 72
Philip 1 3 4 5 6 15
60 67 68 69 70 71
72
Rebecca 67
Samuel 69
Sarah 67 68
Thomas 67 68 69
Uriah 67
William 67
LITTLE
Ephraim 24
Mary 8
Sarah 16
LOE
Elizabeth 70
LOOMIS LOOMYS
Nathaniel 77
LORD
Dorothy 20 27
Elisha 22 28
Epaphras 20 22 25 27
John 64
Rebecca 64
Theodore 25
LOVELAND
Rachel 23 24
LUX
Lewis 47
LYMAN
Phillis 63
M-
Delia 50
MACKALL McCALL
Archippus 14
James 14
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95
MANSFIELD
Elizabeth 38
MAN WARING
Charles-William 63
MARRINER
Abigail 85
William 27
MARSH
Ebenezer 83
MARTIN
- 67 68
MARVIN
Elihu 22
Mary 64
MAZICH
Thomas 43 44
McALLESTER
G. -C. 47
McCarthy
Anna 58
McCLURE
Elizabeth 57
McCONVILLE
Elizabeth 59
MEAKINS
- 75
Mary 74 81
Sarah 74
Thomas 60 74 81
MEREDITH
Martha 43
MERRITT
Elizabeth A. 33 38
40 41
METCALF
Abigail 20
"William 20
MILLER
David 21 22 25 28 32
H. -Walter 57
MOORE
Helen 53
MORGAN
Daniel 83
Joshua 86
MTJLFORD
Enoch-E. 56
NASH
Samuel 70
NELAND NEELAND
See Kneeland
NEWLAND
Jeremiah 69
NILES
Elisha 33
NOBLE NOBLES
- 18
Elizabeth 18
John 18
NOONAN
Helen 58
Joseph-M. 57 58
Margaret 57 58
Margaret-A. 57
NORCOTT NORCUT
Elisabeth 4
Ephraim 4
John 4
Patience 8
O’CONNOR
Maria 55 57
Maria-M. 54 55 56
Mary 56
Thomas 55 56
O’DRISCOLL
Cornelius-F. 53
O’HARA
William 55 56 57
PARKER
Grover-P. 58
Kathleen-Luamaa 58
Michelle-Marie 58
Patricia-Ann 58
Patricia-Ellen 58
Paul-Edwin 58
Philip-Charles 58
Suzanne-Theresa 58
PARTRIDGE
John 14
PATESHALL
Robert 64
PELLET
Samuel 78 79
PENNEO PINNEO
James 23
PEPPER
Christopher-G. 56
PERLEY
Sidney 69
PETERS
Jonathan 20
Joseph 20
PETERSON
Isaac 14
PHELPS
- 30
Caroline 34
Cyrus 34
David 34
Emeline 34
Hannah 34
Jerusha 24
Josiah 79
Lucy-Ann 34
Mary 31
Oliver 18 33 34
Polly 34
Sarah 34
Sarah-M. 34
Timothy 34
PIERCE
Deborah 87
Dewitt-Clinton 49
Frederick-Clifton 17
Hattie-I. 49
Mariette 49
PISON [PERSONS?]
James 81
PITKIN
Jerusha 83
Joseph S3
POLLY
- 75
Deborah 88
Edward 76 87
Elizabeth 75 76
80 87 88
George 60 74 75 76
81 87
Hannah 76 87
John 76 87
Samuel 76 87
Sarah 76
POMEROY
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POPE
Charles-H. 70
PRATT
Elisha 82
Ruth 45
PUMERY Pl'MRY
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Joseph 77 78 79
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RAMEY
Sue 50
RAMSDELL
Jemima 16 17
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RANDALL
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Mary 86
Polly 86
RANSOM
Elias 25 85
Joshua 81
Sarah 81
RATIIBOXE
- 86
Alice 86
Betsey 86
Lucy 86
RAWSON
- 43 50
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Marion-Charlotte vii
ROBBINS
Thomas 29
ROBINSON
Ichabod 12
ROGERS
Elizabeth-M. 86
ROOT
Abijah 24
Caroline 24
Charity 24
Charlotte 24
Elijah 24
Elisha 24
Faith 21 24
Hoel Howell 24
Jerusha 24
Joel 24
Jonah 24
Laura 24
Lucy 24
Mary 24
Nathaniel 24
Polly 24 30
Prudence 24
ROWLEY
Abijah 23
Hannah 80
Lydia 86
Shubael 80
Thankful 16
ROY
Maria-S. 34
RUSSELL
Ebenezer 27
HILLS LINEAGE
ST. MATTHEW
- 24
SAMSON
Caleb 8 71
SCANLON
Agnes 54
SCOFIELD
Harriet 49
SEARS
Francis-Richmond 16
Sally 34
Willard 34
SHANNO
Edith-Christine v 58
59
Emma 59
Leopold 59
SHELLEY
Elizabeth 59
Elizabeth-Gertrude 59
Gcorge-Clarence 59
SHERMAN
William 70
SKINNER
Ezekiel 23
John 78 79
Sarah 34
SMITH
Driscoll & Hills 51
Helen (Finch)
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James 82
Jonathan 64
Martha 49
W.-A., Mrs. 36
William-Galbraith 36
37 47
SORRENTINO
Ann-Frances 58
Charles-L. 58
Clare-Marie 58
Frances-Delos 58
SOUTHMAID
William 66
SOUTHWORTH
Edward 7
SPALDING
SPAULDING
Isaac 81 83
Mercy 81 83
SPENCER
Mariette 49
STARK
- 84 86
Elizabeth 83 84 85 86
Timothy 25 85
STEEL
L.-F. 56
STEWART
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STOCKING
Sabin 23
STREET
Ebenezer 26
STRICKLAND
Elisha 24
Pollv 24
STRONG
Ebenezer 22 26 28
Jabin 23
STUART
- 23
Hannah 21 23
STUBINGS
Elizabeth 67
Henry 67
TAINTOR
-Dea. 82
-Mr. 81
Charles-M. 28
TALCOTT
Mary-K. 29
TARBOX
Mary 24
TAYLOR
Caroline 35
James 79
Philo-H. 35
THADDAEUS
Lebbaeus 24
THOMAS
Amos 13 14 19 20
Elizabeth 6 7
Gideon 8
Isaac 6
Israel 7
James 6
Ruth-E. 73
THOMPSON
John 67
Sarah 67 68
TIFFANY
Isaiah 13
TOMISON [TOMPSON?]
Henry 78
TORREY
Clarence-Almon 15
Henry 2
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TOWNSEND
Charles-Delmnr, Mrs.
vii 20 20 29 30 38
78 79
Edna (Waugh)
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TOZER
Samuel 82
TREADWAY
TREDWAY
- 25 84 85
James 79
TRUMBLE
Jonathan 12 13
TURNER
Elazarus 8
Eliab Elihab S 15
Hannah 15
USHER
John 64
WADSWORTH
James 35
WAGNER
Agnes 54
Albert-E. 54
Albert-M. 54
Anna-R. 54
Caroline 54
Carrie 57
Charles-H. 54
Emma 54
George-F. 54
Mary 54
WALDO
Maria 50
WALKER
John 72
WALL
Elizabeth 48
John 67
WARNER
Flora 48
George-W. 47 48
Harriet 48
James-S. 48
WASHINGTON
George 32
WATERMAN
- 63
Edgar-Francis 63
Joseph 5
WATERS
Dill 82
Theodore-A. 56
WATROUS
John 85 86
WAY WHAY
Sarah 86
WE AD
Frederick-Whitcomb
17
WEBSTER
Dorothy 15
Jonathan 15
WEIS
Frederick-Lewis 11 24
WELLS WELLES
- 75
-Lt. 78 79
Abigail 74 81
Elizabeth 24 74 75 81
86
Ephraim 60 74 79 81
82 85
Frances 74 81
Hannah 82
Joshua 85
Mary 74 81
Noah 79 82
Samuel 63 82
Sarah 85
Thomas 60 74 81 82
85
WEST
Amos 9
Joshua 11
Lucy-Ann 34
Nathan 10
Samuel 9 10
Sarah 11
WESTALL
John 66
WHITE
- 67 68
Anna 58
David 31
Ellen-Mary 57 58
John 58
Joseph 14
Peregrine 69
WTER
Maria 34
WIGHTMAN
- 86
Anna 86
WILDER
Jonas 26
WILLIAMS
- 18
WTNN
- 75
Edward 74 75 76
Elizabeth 74 75
WTTHERELL
William 8
WOLF
Edward 79
WOODWARD
John 12
WORTHINGTON
Elias 83 86
Elijah 83
W r RIGHT
Abel-J. 47
Annes 47
Augustin 46
Charles 46
Daniel 46
Edmund-R. 47
Elizabeth 35
Joseph 78
Lewis 46
Polly 46 47
Sally 37
Sylvanus 46 47
Theron-E. 47
WTLLYS
Edward 64
John 26
YOUNG
Abigail 33
Andrew-W\ 46
Demas 33
Lydia 18 33
Mehitable 33
Sally 33 34
Simeon 29 33
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