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 A Supplement to 
 
 The Hills Family in America 
 W. S. Hills and Thomas Hills 
 
 WINIFRED 1LQYERING HOLMAN, s,* 
 
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DESCENDANTS OF 
 
 SAMUEL HILLS 
 
 A Supplement to 
 
 The Hills Family in America 
 W. S. Hills and Thomas Hills 
 
 (Published 1906) 
 
 BY 
 
 WINIFRED LOVERING HOLMAN, s.b. 
 
 F.A.S.G. 
 
 COMPILED BY THE AUTHOB FOB 
 
 FRANCIS J. HILLS 
 
 OF BAHWAY, NEW JEBSEY 
 1957 
 

 Copyright 1957 
 by WINIFRED LOVERING HOLMAN 
 
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 THE RUMFORD PRESS 
 CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 
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To my wife 
 EDITH CHRISTINE (SHANNO) HILLS 
 
 through whose constant effort this book has been published 
 
 Francis J. Hills 
 
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 wish 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. 
 
Privately printed at 
 
 The Rumford Press 
 
 Concord, New Hampshire 
 
 Only One Hundred Copies Printed 
 
 51_ 
 
 of which this is No. 
 
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 Saybrook 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 
 
DESCENDANTS OF 
 SAMUEL HILLS 
 
 1. SAMUEL l 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 whom 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 No 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 were 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 Hill? 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. J 
 
 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 was 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 we 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. 
 
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 #174-, 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, 1642-1770, 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 19.58 Pillsbury Ancestry, 1005-1006; Register, 33: 443-444; Mayfloicer 
 Desc. 13: 84; Hazen's 188.S Billerica, 69, et als. 
 
 f Possibly a descendant of Richard 2 Hills, vide post. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 3 
 
 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, 1645-1749, 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 an d 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 Duxbury 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. 
 
 t 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: 18k; Duxbury V. R. (1911) and Pembroke V. R. (1911); Mayflower Desc. 
 (1924), 26: 37. 
 
4 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 flower Descendant (1908), volume 10, 18 1^-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 e 26 th Anno Dom. 1697 
 
 Philip Hill Son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was born. August y e 8 th 
 Anno Domini. 1699. 
 
 Samuel Hill Son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Born, June y e 25 th 
 Anno Dom. 1701. 
 
 Richard Hill y e son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was born, February y e 
 3 d Anno Dom. 170g 
 
 Ebenezar Hill son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Born. December 
 y e 6 th Anno Dom. 1705 
 
 Ephraim Hill son of Samuel Hill & Phebe his wife was Born, December y e 
 13 th Anno. 1707 
 
 Joseph Hill & Lydia Hill Son & Daughter of Samuel Hill and Phebe his 
 wife were Born upon y e 25 th day of August, Anno Dom. 1710 
 
 Lydia Leonard y c wife of Philip Leonard Deceased upon y e 13 th day of 
 November. Anno. 1707 
 
 Philip Leonard. Deceased July y e 3 d Anno Dom. 1708 
 
 Joseph Hill son of Samuel Hill and Phebe his wife. Deceased July Anno 
 Dom. 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 owner 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.)] 
 
 "Duxburrougli 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 42, 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., 
 1645-1749, p. 56.) 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 5 
 
 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., m2-17b5, 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, SI: 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 Leanard 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. 
 
6 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 y 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 Rhoad 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 Coitions 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 Hill* 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 :J 
 
 "We the subscribers being desired by Samuel Hills to renew the bounds of 
 his lind 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 Mayflower Descendant, 24'- 147-149- 
 
 t Italics by W. L. H., note he signed this deed. 
 
 | Duxbury General Reeds., 1646-1749, p. 55. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 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 Town 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: ^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,} 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. 
 
8 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 Duxbo rough . . . & Phebe his Wife . . . 
 for . . . Eighty Pounds ... to us ... in hand by our Son Samuel Hills 
 of Duxborough . . . Paid . . . Confirm unto y e s d Samuel Hills after the 
 Decease of us the s d Samuel & Phebe Hills ... a Certain Parcell of Land 
 Situate . . . in . . . Duxborough . . . 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 y e Bounds of the same . . . 
 Memorand m It is Agreed before Signing & Sealing . . . y l . . . Samuel 
 Hills . . . shall forever hereafter Allow a Cart Way for his Brother Philip 
 Hills . . . through y e Land of y e 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.)\ 
 
 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 jim 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 day; reed. 8 July 1729. 
 [1725-26?] (ibid., 2k: 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 Witherell, 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 9 
 
 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, 4: Q.)\ 
 
 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., 
 
 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. 
 
 f 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. 
 
10 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 in August 1728, and that Eliab [Elihab], son of Samuel Jr., and James, 
 son of Philip, were both baptised in April 1728. 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. 28 July 1726. (Lebanon Deeds, Jf.: 14.) 
 
 21 Sept. 1727, "Elijah Gillet of Wethersfield . . . and formerly of Leba- 
 non," for £53, sells to "Samuel Hill 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 I, volume 1±, document 38: a, b, c, is a petition 
 to the General Court of 12 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 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: 
 Jf3a, 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. 
 
 Kbenezer and Margaret Hills admitted to communion, 6 Aug. 1738. 
 
 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 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 1760, 
 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 
 West, ack. same day and reed. 23 Mar. 1731. {Lebanon Deeds, If.: 34-5.) 
 
 28 Apr. 1733, "Sam 11 Hills of Lebanon whereas I the s d Sam" 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 lifej 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 N. E.) 
 
 t Italics by W. L. H. 
 
12 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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, "wheirof 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" Hills" and "Eph- 
 raim Hills"; wit: John Huntington and John Woodward; reed. 29 Mar. 1735. 
 (ibid., 5: 129.) 
 
 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" 
 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 Windham Probate District, Willimantic, Conn. (If,: 
 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- 
 necticutt in New England, being old and full of days, but of Sound & Dis- 
 posing mind & Memory, for Which bless God; Knowing that it is appointed 
 for all men Once to Dye, do make & ordain this my 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 Hills Notes. 
 The last mention of the first wife, Phebe, by name, 15 Jan. 1725, of Duxbury, appears 
 in the deeds. 3 July 1726, 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 13 
 
 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 Gim 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" Hills 
 as his Last Will & Testament in presence of us — 
 
 Andrew Churchell 
 
 Isaiah Tiffany Jun r 
 
 Jon. Trumble" * 
 
 * I think that Trumble wrote the will. 
 
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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 £5, 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 my 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 Wild to the Widow Abigel Hills By A power 
 of A Torney 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 Dist. Probate, 1889, 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 2 Oct. 1778, on his estate, includes "A Cane" at 18s., 
 vide post. 
 
 % Photo copies of these original documents in my Hills Notes. C. 8. L. refers to the 
 Conn. State Library. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 15 
 
 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 1906 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 Hilta 
 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, 
 Keziah 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. 
 
16 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 182, vide ante.) We have seen the deeds in which Samuel ap- 
 pears with his father in 1725 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 k- 379; 7: 6, 116, 317; 8: 618 
 (2), 640; 9: 52; 10: 89; also Colchester Deeds, fc 31(0; in 1766, 
 he conveyed to his son, Consider, and in 1767, passed deeds with 
 son, Darius. He made his will, 12 May 1767, as of Lebanon, 
 proved 1 Mar. 1792. (Windham Dist., Probate, 1890.) Chil- 
 dren (Hills), 1st two b. Duxbury, rest. b. Lebanon, (1) Joseph 3 , 
 b. 31 July 1723, bapt. 25 Aug. 1723, Marshfield, ad. to 2d Ch., 
 Lebanon, 28 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); (2) Hannah, b. 7 June 1725, bapt. 27 June 1725, 
 Mprshfield; (3) Phebe, b. 10 Dec. 1726, d. 28 Dec. 1726; (4) 
 Eliab, b. 9 Mar. 1728, bapt. 21 Apr. 1728, 1st Ch.; (5) Samuel, 
 b. 28 July 1729, m. Sarah Little and Thankful Rowley; (6) 
 Leonard, b. 4 June 1731, bapt. 13 June 1731, 2d 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, 
 2dCh. 
 iv. Richard, b. 3 Feb. 1702-03, bapt. March 1709, Marshfield, d. 
 between 12 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; lie 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 May 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, 1009^); 
 
 * 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 Harmon V. R. 
 
 t The land transfers of both Richard Sr., and Richard Jr., appear in Plymouth Deeds, 
 32: 21; U: 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 N. E. H. G. Society. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 17 
 
 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 Probate, 2^36; 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 1756, 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. 
 
 Hanxah Bentley and Ltdia . 
 
 vii. Joseph, a twin, b. 25 Aug. 1710, d. July 1711, Duxbury. 
 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., evidently was 
 copied, sans checking, from Pierce's 1899 Foster Gen., p. 15^, 
 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, 
 altho it has been suggested that Sarah was born an Alverson. 
 
18 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 adds a Phineas, b. 15 Aug. 1737, of whom I find no record, and 
 calls Daniel, "David," etc. 
 
 2. EPHRAIM 2 HILLS (Samuel *), born in Duxbury, Mass., 13 
 Dec. 1707, baptised in Marshneld, 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 
 w T ife, through whom this lineage descends. Thus far the results have 
 been negative. A manuscript of some dozen pages about this Lydia 
 has been compiled. J 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 River, 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 name. She had a brother Ephraim Hills, 
 and a sister Mary who m. Oliver Phelps." 
 
 Now we 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 Grst marriage see my Hills Notes. 
 t Vide my Bentley Notes, at N. E. H. G. Society. 
 J Vide my Hills Notes. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 19 
 
 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 1720. 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 22 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 years 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. 1760, 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: £26.) 
 
 28 Feb. 1760, 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 Connecticutt 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" arc 
 concerned.* There is no mention of Ephraim and his wife, Lydia, 
 therein, or in the other Colchester churches. 
 
 The Colchester Town 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, was in 1772, with 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, 
 which 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, Jf.: 374-, see below, of which there is no extant original 
 document: 
 
 "In the Name of God 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 bath 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 desently buried at the descretion of my 
 Executors herein after mentioned hoping to Receive it again att the Resurec- 
 tion of the Just 
 
 Item I Give unto my beloved wife Lydia one third Part of my moveable 
 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' 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 Dist. 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, h: 374.)* 
 
 We 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, two 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 born 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. 
 % 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 23 
 
 By Hannah Bentley, 
 
 i. Hannah 3 , b. 6 Nov. 1736, bapt. 7 Nov. 1736, living 1778; m. (1), 
 27 Aug. 1755, Lebanon 2d Ch., as Hannah Hills 3d., James 
 
 Barnaby. She m. (2), by 15 Mar. 1778, Stuart, or 
 
 Stewart. Further research needed. 
 
 By Lydia , 
 
 3. ii. LEBBEUS, eldest son, b. 3 Oct. 1739, bapt. 7 Oct. 1739, as "Ly- 
 bius"; m. Hannah Brown 
 iii. Ephraim Jr., b. 21 Feb. 1741^2, 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, 496.) 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., 
 4-50, 624.) The name of his wife is unknown to me. Child 
 (Hills), Ephraim 4 , 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., Probate, 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, was 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 Hills Fam., pp. 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, Buckly 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? 
 
24 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 had bapt. said Ch., (a) Noble, bapt. June 1792, d. 2 Oct. 1810, 
 aged 19, apprentice to Samuel Bull (Rocky Hill Ch., 1: 98); 
 (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; (6) Noble, b. 9 Nov. 1803; as see guardianship reeds., in 
 1817. (Farmington Dist., Probate, 1^45.) 
 
 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 (A 7 . 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., H78, 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 1 ), born 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 batter's second wife, living in the Marlborough Parish of Col- 
 chester, Conn., 31 Mar. 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 whom see the Addenda. 
 
 He was evidently named for one of the Twelve Apostles, "Lebbaeus, 
 whose surname was 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 25 
 
 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, which was 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 was 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 we 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, was either 
 deceased or had remarried. Lebbeus' first conveyance was 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 Hill*; ack. same 
 day and reed. 4 Mar. 1763; wit: Epaphras Lord, J.P., and Theodore Lord. 
 (Colchester Deeds, 7: 54.2.)^ 
 
 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. 
 
26 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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, 18 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, 24-9, 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; ack. 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: 6^2, 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 1773, 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 Reeds., 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. 
 
 j Mention has been made of Lebbeus' deed to his father of even date, 5 May 1773, 
 vide ante. 
 
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 for £15, by warranty conveyance; wit: Epaphras Lord, J.P., and Dorothy 
 Lord; ack. 5 May, and reed. 18 May, 1773. (Colchester Deeds, 9: kk, 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 
 Assembly 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. 
 2 A: 25, 25b. )\ 
 
 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, when 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 hond. 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.)% 
 
 * Conn. State Reeds., 11>: 327. 
 
 t Photo copy of original roll included in my Hills Notes. 
 
 % 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. 
 
28 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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: 421.) 
 
 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. I, vol. 3: 237C, C. S. L., of which a photo 
 copy is included in ray 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, were 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. L., 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. 
 
 t Simeon Young, of Chatham, in 1800, had a female over 45 in his home but not in 
 1810. 
 
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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 Hills, aged 90 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. 
 
 * Months only are given, seldom a day, and in some eases only the year. E. W. T. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 31 
 
 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. 1799. (Chatham Deeds, 9: 5U.) 
 
 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"; wit: David White and John Bottom; ack. same day and 
 reed. 10 Oct. 1809. {ibid., ty 13^.) 
 
 A copy of the Colchester Town Vital Records made there personally 
 by me, from the original records, and certified by the Town Clerk,f 
 follows, after which, we consider Lebbeus' large family of children. 
 
 Volume One, page 22, Colchester Vital Records, Colchester, Conn., originals: 
 
 "Lebbeus Hills & Hannah Brown was Married Novemb r 5 th 1760 
 
 Lebbeus their Son was born August the 13 th 1761 
 
 Rozel their Son was born Febru y : 18 th 1763 
 
 Hannah their Daughter warn [was born] May the 6 th 1764 
 
 Asahel their Son was born January the 29 th 1766 
 
 Lucey their Daughter Born December 31 1767 
 
 Ellis their Daughter Born 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 town: 
 
 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.) J, 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. 
 
 t He was most helpful when I worked there and since. 
 
 \ The reeds, of this parish are pub. in Register, vols. 61-62-63. 
 
32 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 her siblings were: Anne, Clara, Florinda, Roger, Ruth and 
 Samuel. As a drummer boy, he served in the Revolution: "A 
 List of Cap* David Millers Co., Lt. Col. Obediah Hosford's reg* 
 that march d in Sept 1776 to East Chester to join Gen 1 Washing- 
 tons Army" includes "Libbeus Hills J r Drummer." (Coll. Conn. 
 Hist. Soc., 8: 160, 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 ." And we have men- 
 tioned that the polls in that parish, or society, in 1787, included 
 Lebbeus 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 Mary 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 %; 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: 5U; W 13U.) 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 family. 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, Iter. War, set. 1, vol. 0: 151, in- 
 cluded in my Hills Notes. 
 
 t Vide ante re photo copy this original petition. 
 
 t By 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. 
 
 § At Utica, N. Y. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 33 
 
 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, Eastbury Ch., "of Lebeus Hills Jr.," to whom his 
 father sold the Chatham property, 8 June 1809; (2) Polly, bapt. 
 30 Oct. 1790, Eastbury 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) Octavia, bapt. 8 Oct. 1797, d. 17 Mar. 1800; all three d. 
 Chatham; (6) Samuel-Gibson, bapt. 10 Nov. 1799; (7) Pamela, 
 bapt. 17 Jan. 1802; (8) Gustavus, bapt. 13 May 1804 f; (9) Char- 
 lotte, bapt. 11 May 1806; (10) Julius-Augustus, 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 .{ 
 
 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 Nov. 1822, 
 aged 53, bur. there in Lakeview Cem., son of Simeon and Me- 
 hitable (?Hubbard) 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 
 Mary who m. Oliver Phelps." The will of Simeon Young of 
 Chatham, dated 3 Nov. 1822, names the children given below; 
 the family attended the 1st Ch. there. (Record, 36: 56-57.) \\ 
 Children (Young), b. Chatham, (1) Demas, 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. Y., was accomplished for us by that very able 
 genealogist, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Merritt, of Utica, N. Y. 
 
 t The Hills Fam., states he m. Elizabeth Mansfield but this seems doubtful. 
 
 j Asahel's name clearly 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? 
 
34 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 1775 [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 Glastonbury. The only 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: 4-75-6.) He does not appear in the Glastonbury 
 or Chatham Deeds. Children (Hills), b. Marlboro, (1) Britta- 
 Curtis \ 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 35 
 
 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, Annis 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: 31$; 17: k57.) 
 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 Mary-W., b. 19 Apr. 1834, d. 30 Dec. 1867; (2) 
 Caroline, b. 21 Nov. 1806; m. 21 Nov. 1826, Philo-H. 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: 134.) 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, 36k; 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 Lebbevs 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) Hills 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 Asahel's children was Lydia, for his sister. 
 
 4. ASAHEL 4 HILLS (Lebbeus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel 1 ), 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 we 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 J ernes Allen.] 
 
 Ithaca, now in Tompkins County, was combed thoroughly, with 
 the able assistance of Helen (Finch) Smith of that city, who 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 with 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. 
 
 t Kneeland spelled incorrectly, as "Neiland." 
 
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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 Hills 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, N. Y., who by wife Sally [sic] 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, 1850- 
 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, was 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 were 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., was 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 born 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 Hills Notes. 
 
38 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 New England Historic Genealogical Society, typed abstracts of Oneida 
 County Wills, in which source, appears the will of Asahel 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., 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 Hills, 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 Utica.f Much 
 of York State was held by renters who leased from wealthy land 
 owners, at that period. Also 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 16 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 39 
 
 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 260, Received letters to other churches [?], Polly Hills; list not dated 
 but probably before 1822. [Should the "to" not read "from" ? W. 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. (N. 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 at that time included not only 
 himself and his wife, and in 1810, he was aged forty-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 Fam., p. 1$, which repeats the error in the 1875 Hart Gen., 
 that Paris is in Herkimer Co.; Elisha m. Polly Hart. 
 
40 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 seventeen. And none of those listed seem to fulfill these require- 
 ments, with the exception, of an "E" Hills, who had two males and 
 one female under 10, one male and two females between 10 and 16, 
 one male, 16 to 26 and one male and one female between 26 and 45. 
 At any event, we know that Asahel was still of Paris in 1810, for he 
 drew his will there in 1811, and he was 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 were 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, 1784-1821, Military Reeds., 1: 688.*) 
 
 We have considered, briefly, Lebbeus Hills Jr., eldest brother of 
 our Asahel Hills, whereby it was noted that Lebbeus sold out his 
 real property in Chatham, Conn., in 1809, and was dismissed from 
 the East Hampton Parish there, in 1810. Lebbeus and his wife, Polly, 
 were admitted members of the Union Society Church, in Paris, 3 
 Nov. 1811, and were 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 which brings us to our last record of Asahel, his will, which 
 was drawn, 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 was 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, Mrs. Merritt was requested to make a verbatim 
 copy of this will and any other records pertaining to the estate and 
 
 ♦Published 1901. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 41 
 
 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 and 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 & Hoel 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 Lcbbeus 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 the 
 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: 31b.) 
 
 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. 1867, aged 
 
 * Mrs. Merritt reported no guardianship reeds, until 1870. This is most unfortunate 
 as Asahel's children were nearly all minors at his death. 
 
42 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 when he arrived at full 
 age was to have $50. He did learn a trade — printing; but where? 
 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, who went 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 was formed in 1814 as Chagrin, the name being changed 
 to Willoughby in 1834. Lake County was set off from Geauga and 
 Cuyahoga Counties, 6 Mar. 1840, before our family went 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 16, both b. N. Y.f 
 
 1860, Lake Co., 37: 305: James Allen, aged 51, farmer, worth $3000; $1000; 
 wife Eunice, aged 60; 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 43 
 
 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 81, keeping 
 house; Delia M. "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 Notes 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 graveyard, 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 Notes 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 graveyard 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 1860 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. 1885, 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. 
 
44 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 Born Oct. 1 1797 
 
 Died Apr. 24 1887 * 
 
 "James Allen 
 
 Born 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. 
 
 t "Neiland" states the Hills Family. Note that the Kneelands of Hebron spelled 
 their names as "Neland" and "Neeland" during the 18th century. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 45 
 
 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 may well be indicative of Polly'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 Library, the D. A. R. Library and to the New 
 England Historic Genealogical Society, where they may be consulted.* 
 
 At first I thought that our Polly was identical with Molly (another 
 diminutive for Mary), born 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 which 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 whom I eliminated from being the father of our 
 Polly. 
 
 The search of the copy books for all Kneeland estates in Colchester 
 Probate 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 would seem that if our 
 Polly was indeed born a Kneeland, the best chances for her are: 
 
 A child of Edward 4 Kneeland, if so, born between 1759 and 1766, and 
 probably in Vermont. I think that some day Edward warrants a more 
 careful study. 
 
 A child of John B Kneeland (John *), 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 born a Kneeland, the possibilities are many. She had two 
 grandsons who bore the given name of Kneeland and that name is not through 
 her husband's ancestry. 
 
 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. 
 
 * Also the Genealogical Society of Utah. 
 
46 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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. // his age of 
 sixteen in 1850 is correct, he was born 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 Villenova 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 born from 1797, in Oneida County, N. Y.: f 
 
 i. Daughter 5 , b. about 1791, prob. Conn., d. ante 1811. 
 
 ii. Asahel, b. 1793, Conn., aged 62 in 1855, shoemaker, b. Conn., 
 res., Villenova, Chautauqua Co.f, N. Y., d. there, 7 Oct. 1859, 
 intest.; m. 1 Oct. 1815, Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y., Polly 
 Wright, b. 1796, Dutchess Co., N. Y., d. intest. 1888, Villenova, 
 prob. related to five Wright brothers, who 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 while still living in Paris, he 
 served in the War of 1812-1814, for which his widow claimed 
 rights to bounty land, rejected, R. 329279-1855: 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). 
 
 t 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. 
 
 \ Chautauqua Co. erected 1808 from Genesee, and Villenova from Hanover in 1823. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 47 
 
 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. 
 Goodie r, that her maiden name was Polly Wright, that her 
 husband d. 7 Oct. 1860 [sic], 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. (4-: 89, 87, 120.) In 
 1830, an Ephraim and our Asahel Hills were 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" [sic], 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 $94.59, 
 map appears in the vol., showing land "heretofore Deeded to the 
 said Asahel Hills," bounded by land deeded to Isaac Corey. 
 (Chautauqua, N. Y., Deeds, 58: 278-279.) 11 Feb. 1852, Abel-J., 
 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 Theron-E. and Edmund-R. 
 Wright to said Warner, 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 Deeds, 17: 174; 29: 52; 
 kl: 88.) 
 
48 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 Villenova, 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 Villenova, 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 Villenova. {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. Villenova; 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 widow, 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 Villenova, as was Jane 
 Hills, a daughter, aged 11. {Surrogate Reeds.) He had: (a) 
 
 Alma; m. Harrington; (b) 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 Villenova 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 (Wall) 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-L, and Ahner-T. Allen, natives of Warren, Mass., early of 
 Willoughby, see 1893 Northeastern Ohio, 1016; Warren V. R.; Willoughby G. S., etc. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 49 
 
 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. 1886; and Eunice is named as his wife in deeds 
 drawn earlier: 12 Sept. 1853, 21 May 1861, 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. [sic], also conveyed.* 10 June 1890, John-F. Ferguson, 
 of Cleveland, "single" [widower], conveyed to James-R. Fergu- 
 son, of same, eighty-seven acres in Willoughby, for love and $1.00, 
 being the homestead of Hezekiah 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; U: 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, Nebr., 
 and grandson, James-R. Ferguson, of Cleveland, the petitioner. 
 (Lake Co., Probate, 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. Lakeview 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 well 
 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. 
 
50 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 Therapy, State Hosp., Morganton, N. C, 1956, unm. ; (b) 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; / 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 Aliens, 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 8 HILLS (Asahel 4 , Lebbeus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel x ), born 
 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 Kikk,J 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, N. Y., being a lineal desc. of Fdward 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. 
 
 J Was Anna Kirk a second wife? Vide ante. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 51 
 
 Family], which we have proved to be Utica, 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 New 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 New 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, 5th and 
 10th Presbyterian; St. Johns, Lutheran; St. Georges, M. E.; Ebenezer, M. E.; 
 1st Reformed; Frankford Presbyterian; St. Johns, N. 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.] 
 
 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 Lawn view Cemetery, Rockledge, Pa. No 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 
 
52 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 Walker'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, 1859-1862, 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. f 
 
 * I had just secured the services and aid of a most experienced Cincinnati genealogist, 
 Marie 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 he 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 53 
 
 David removed to Cincinnati, between 1853, when son George was 
 born in Pennsylvania, according to the 1860 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 Ski: David 
 Hills, aged 52, stereotypist, $1000, $1000, born in N. Y., wife Annie, 
 aged 39, born in Pa., as were: "Nyland," 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 Hilh 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 year? 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, we know that : 
 
 * Courtesy Ref. Dept. Public Library of Cincinnati. 
 
 t Miss Helen Moore scanned the Ledger and other Philadelphia papers for obits., but 
 there were none. 
 
54 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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. 
 
 1884-1895, Anna Hills, widow of David Hills, had house at 822 Carlisle 
 Street, with her was George-F. Hills, bookbinder. 
 
 1896, 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 6 , 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 Vols., 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) Anna-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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 55 
 
 binder. The Hills Family omits him, yet he appears with his 
 siblings in the 1860 census of Cincinnati, and in the Philadelphia 
 Directories, vide ante. 
 
 6. DELOS CHARLES 6 HILLS (David 5 , Asahel\ Lebbeus\ 
 Ephraim 2 , Samuel 1 ), born in Philadelphia, Pa., 21 Nov. 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 Rah way, 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 25 Nov. 
 1844, his marriage as 1£ Jan. 1864, an d 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? 
 
56 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 was 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 Hilh, Civil War, W. C. 63U2: 
 
 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. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 57 
 
 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, Tenn., 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 11 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, who 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. 184^, that she was born in Ireland, 
 5 Feb. 1844 (signed). She died 15 Apr. 1928. 
 
 The stone erected by the United States 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, Wilhamsport, Pa., 
 presumably both were alive in 1906. Children b. Philadelphia 
 (Hills), (1) William-D.\ 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. 
 
58 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 JR. (Delos-Charles 6 , David 5 , 
 Asahel 4 , Lebbeus 3 , Ephraim 2 , Samuel 1 ), born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 22 Dec. 1870, died there, 29 Apr. 1925, aged fifty-four. He married 
 there, 10 Nov. 1896, Ellen-Mary 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-Marion 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 Hermosillo, 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 Rotary and of the Society of the Sons of the 
 Revolution. His wife was educated at St. Joseph's Academy 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; 
 (b) Elizabeth-Allison Farrell, b. 4 Mar. 1954, same; (2) Patricia- 
 Ellen, b. 16 Mar. 1925, Los Angeles, res. Charleston, S. C; m. 17 
 June 1947, Santa Monica, Capt. Grover-P. Parker; issue: 
 (a) Suzanne-Theresa Parker, b. 11 Mar. 1948, Santa Monica; 
 (6) Michelle-Marie 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 Monica, 
 Lt. Charles-L. Sorrentino; issue: (a) Ann-Frances Sorrentino, 
 b. 9 Aug. 1953, Santa Monica; (b) Clare-Marie Sorrentino, b. 9 
 July 1954, same. 
 
 8. ii. FRANCIS-J., b. 30 Mar. 1899; m. Edith-Christine Shanno. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 59 
 
 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 city 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 
 Manhattan ville 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. Vincent-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 \ Defat-Charles 6 , David \ 
 Asahel 4 , 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 W T ar 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. Hills, in public life and in business, he maintains his residence 
 at 1028 Midwood Drive, Rahway, N. J., and his office at 15 North Ave., Garwood, N. J. 
 t Or Anspach. 
 
60 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 Ilderan 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 Ifi 
 Hommes 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 l Hills.* 
 
 Mrs. Hills, a graduate of the Danville State Hospital, Danville, 
 Pa., is a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania. She was 
 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 9 , 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 Ilderan 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 Ilderan 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. 
 
ADDENDA 
 
JOHN HILL 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 HILL 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 born 
 about 1644-1645, buried in East Hartford, 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 (1906) 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., U: 2^8-2^9. 
 
 t Manwaring's Hartford Probate Reeds., 1: Jf66; Jacobus- Waterman 1952 Hale, House 
 and Related Families, 581-2, by permission of the authors, and of the Conn. Hist. 
 Society, which holds the copyright. 
 
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 Jolin Bushnell Senior late of Boston deceased 
 the 31 day of August 1684." [aU 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" 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 65 
 
 lately lived and now in the occupation and "tenur of ye widow of Joseph 
 Haukins," 25 Jan. 1685-86. 
 (Suffolk Probate, Itfl.) 
 
 "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., 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 I, 
 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 Codner's above 
 was 1 acre and a quarter] and 3 Ack of land in the planting field 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 born 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 8t day 
 of August 1684 
 
 * Pub. 1933, after Mrs. Ferris' book was published. The "James" is an original 
 error, of course, for John. 
 
 t 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, paper was so scarce 
 that every blank portion was utilized . 
 
66 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 Page 54.: 
 
 Land 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. (D. 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. 
 
SERGEANT PHILIP LEONARD OF DUXBURY 
 
 SGT. PHILIP » LEONARD (Thomas, Henry), born in England, circa 
 1630, died in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Mass., 3 July 1708, in- 
 testate. He married, perhaps late in life, Lydia , 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 Lennard 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: { 
 
 Robert Fairbanks borne in lestershire in or about the yeare 1632. In or 
 about the yeare 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 Spencefield 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 being 
 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: 71-74. 
 
 X "Origin of James and Henry Leonard," by Lewis-D. Cook, F. A. S. G., in American 
 Genealogist, 10: 200-201. 
 
 67 
 
68 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 Pontypool, Monmouthshire. 
 The claims of descent from the Dacre Lennards (as they consistently spell the 
 name) are conflicting, undocumented, and (disregarding the impossible claim) 
 decidedlv 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 Pontypool." * 
 (The American Genealogist, 10: 162-166, 200-201; 11: 53.) 
 
 And so we can prove that our Philip Leonard was a son of Thomas 
 
 an( j (Martin) Leonard and a grandson of Henry and 
 
 (White) Leonard, presumably from Somerset and in the neighbor- 
 hood of Sparkford and Pontypool. 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, U Dec. 1712, when Samuel 
 renewed the bounds of his lands, they are described as possessed 
 formerly by "his father's Phillip Leonard." {Duxbury Town Reeds., 
 1893, 193, 90; Duxbury Gen. Reeds., 1646-1749, 56; Duxbury Miscl. 
 Reeds., 164-2-1745, 285; Duxbury V.R.; Mayflower Desc, 10: 184; 
 Plymouth Probate, 12663.) f 
 
 * Pontypool is adjacent to Somerset. Both Mr. Jacobus and Mr. Cook have assisted 
 us on the Hills research. 
 
 f Vide ante. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 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, 4: 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- 
 Iey's article in 1888 Coll. Essex Inst., 25: 29^.-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. 
 
70 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 (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 W T illiam Sherman of Marshfield. (Pope's 
 1918 Plymouth Col. Scrap Book, 19; Mayflower Desc., 1>: 172; Holman's 
 1936 Desc. 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 difiicult to discover what years it embraces but it is 
 evidently of an early period, this volume was not scanned for lack 
 
 of time. J 
 
 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 
 
 t Estate of Samuel Nash, 18 June 1683, John Cole and "philip Leanard" named the 
 "prizers." (Plymouth Col. Scrap Book, pp. 35-36.) 
 
 I Gen. Sessions of the Peace, Plymouth Co., covered 1686 past 1725, also concurrent 
 (from 1702 only extant) Reeds, of Court Common Pleas; both negative. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 71 
 
 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 Raynham," 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 will 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 July — 1708 
 
 £ s d 
 
 Imp's to his purs and aparel 02 10 00 
 
 to house and Land 90 00 00 
 
 to 2 oxen 08 10 00 
 
 to 3 Cows 06 10 00 
 
 to 8 swine 03 00 00 
 
 to a feather bed and beding 05 00 00 
 
 to a little bed & 2 bed steads 01 00 00 
 
 to a table cloth and other linen 01 00 00 
 
 to pewter 01 05 00 
 
 to brass and a bellmettle pot 01 00 00 
 
 to a great iron kettle & other iron weare 02 00 00 
 to cob irons fire slice & tongs 
 to tramels and pot hooke 
 
 to books 01 00 00 
 
 to 1 chest and a box and other small things 00 06 00 
 
 to Earthen ware 00 07 06 
 
 * Printed in italics and pub. 1793, in M. II. S. Coll., ser. I, 3: 173. Note that part 
 of Taunton was set off in 1731 as Raynham, both are now in Bristol Co. 
 
 01 00 00 
 
72 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 to wooden wair 00 08 00 
 
 to 2 tables and 5 chears 01 00 00 
 
 to corn and meat and butter 01 06 00 
 
 tolomber 00 04 00 
 
 to a cart & plow chains axs hows 01 10 06 
 To a frying pan & looking glass both old & some Putter 
 
 & a silver whysle given to John Walker 2 guns given 
 
 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 2 , b. circa 1670-1675, 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 I have only given the dates by years. I am 
 grateful to Miss Ruth E. Thomas for her lettering. 
 
 W. L. H. 
 
 73 
 

 JOHN BROWN 
 
 
 
 
 
 (D.ANTE 1708) 
 WOBURN & COLCHESTER 
 M 1 Afl? 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 GEORGE POLLY 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (1697-1760 
 
 
 COLCHE. 
 M.I730 
 
 57 fc-K 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ELIZABETH POLLY 
 
 (D.I683.TE5T.) 
 
 WOBURN 
 
 M.I64-? 
 
 ELIZABETH WINN 
 
 
 
 EDWARD WINN 
 
 
 0657 ANTE 1709) 
 
 (I599-I6&2.TEST.) 
 WOBURN 
 
 ANCESTORS OF 
 
 CD. 1695) 
 
 
 HANNAH (BROWN) HILLS 
 
 (1738 -182.8) 
 
 WIFE OF LEBBEUS HILLS 
 
 ENS. EPHRAIM WELLS 
 
 (A&T.I 672.- ANTE 1751) 
 HATFIELD, NEW LONDON 
 & COLCHESTER 
 M.I696 
 
 ELIZABETH WELLS 
 (B P. 1709 -ANTE 1771) 
 
 ABIGAIL ALLI5 
 
 (I672H73 1) 
 
 THOMAS WELLS 
 
 
 (ABT.I62.9-I676.TEST.) 
 
 HADLEY 
 
 M.I65I 
 
 FRANCES --- 
 
 (D.I678) HADLEY 
 WILLIAM BEARDSLEY 
 
 MARY BEARD5LE.Y 
 
 (1605-1 661 JEST.) 
 STRATFORD 
 
 MARY 
 
 (D.I69I) 
 
 LT. WILLIAM ALLI5 
 
 CAPT.JOHN ALUS 
 
 (1 64-2.- 1 691) 
 
 HATFIELD 
 
 M.I669 
 
 MARY(MEAKIN5) CLARK 
 
 (D. 1673) 
 
 BRAINT REE ^HATFIELD 
 
 MARY 
 
 CD. I 677) 
 
 THOMAS MEAKIN5 (THOMAS) 
 
 (164-1 -ANTE 1705) 
 
 (D.I657) BOSTON, 
 BRAINTREE.ROXBURY «, 
 
 SARAH --- HATFIELD 
 (D.I65I) 
 
 74 
 
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 
 John 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 J 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- 
 08 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 y 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 e 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. 
 
 75 
 
76 HTLLS LINEAGE 
 
 remove out of our towne on the penalty of our towne orders, which is 
 twenty shilling 8 per weeke, unless he gave bond, with security (within one 
 week) that hee should not be chargeable to y e towne, nor his family." Also, 
 George Grymes is also warned of the penalty he would incur "in 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 
 familv, of those so warned.* 
 
 John and Elizabeth (Polly) Brown had five children recorded in 
 Woburn, of whom the eldest is stated to have been born in Billerica, 
 in the Woburn Town Records. These children were: John, born 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, born 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 twenty-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 years of birth of the John, Elizabeth and Hannah, 
 born and recorded in Woburn: John, born 1684; Elizabeth, born 
 1687 and Hannah born 1689. 
 
 Also, Elizabeth Polly's siblings were 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 Brown. Turning to the Middlesex County Deeds, Pro- 
 bate and Court Files in Cambridge, Mass: The land records in the 
 name of John Brown were 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 Edward Winn were 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 
 Forum. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 77 
 
 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 1684, 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: 1684,: 108: 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 
 inventory commences: 
 
 "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 Brown 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. 1 707-08. f 
 
 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., 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. 1763. 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 Pumry 
 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?] (Neio London Dist. 
 Probate, 78 J.) 
 
 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 Kilbourn'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 which is 
 called his first division lying west of Longmeadow bounding first at the north- 
 east corner with a near stone by the road to James Brown's & so runs north- 
 west 80 rods to bounds set by a run of water 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 
 northwesterly 160 rods then runeth southwesterly 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, Surveyor. 
 (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 corner 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, who was of full age in 1716, and who is 
 called Jr., to distinguish him from Samuel, son of Thomas and Hannah 
 (Lee) Brown: 
 
 27 Mar. 1718, laid out to Samuel Brown 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. 8. 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. 1716-17. (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. 1694-95, 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 London, for £50, land in Colchester, comprising some fifty-three acres 
 in upland and meadow with a house, upon part of same, the boundaries being 
 Noah Wells, Joseph Pumery, John Adams, James Taylor, Samuel Pellet and 
 Edward Wolf; wit: 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 Treadway; 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: 4.99, 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, parti: 287.) A Samuel m. 12 May 1713, Colchester, Elizabeth Collins; 
 a Samuel m. 14 Apr. 1715, Sumeld, 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. 
 
 | 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, Mary 
 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 widow 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. 2If.) 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 Huntley, sons of Daniel Huntley. 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), born 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. 1727|. 
 
 vi. Joseph, b. 1693, aged 15 in 1708. //. 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 in. Shubael Rowley, 
 for this Hannah was a dau. of James and Remembrance (Brooks) Brown. 
 
 t See Uartford Times, H. K. B., 8 Jan. 1955; I. H. H. and E. H. R., 30 Oct. 1954. 
 j H. W. Brainard Collections at the Conn. Historical Society. 
 
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 vii. Samuel, b. 1695, aged 13 in 1708. H. W. B. states he m. 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, vide 
 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, b. 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. 
 
 GEORGE 2 BROWN (John l ), born probably in Colchester, Conn., 
 in 1697, died there, intestate, 6 Feb. 1761, aged sixty-four. He 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 was 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: 324-.) 
 
 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 Brown, George's oldest brother, vide 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: 1,83, 7: 89, 121, U8, 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 Brown, 
 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 Dea. 
 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., k: 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 westerly 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 wife and 
 one eleventh to said Hannah, which we now convey to said Thomas; wit: 
 none cited, but ack. same date; reed. 1751. (ibid., 6, part 2: 10.) 
 
 8 Jan. 1751-52, John Brown, 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 Brown, 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: 27k) 
 
 13 Dec. 1753, Joseph Brown, of Lyme, Conn., for £20 old tenor, conveyed 
 to George Brown, 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 Brown, of Colchester, all rights to two hundred acres 
 in latter town, 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, all 
 right and title to land in Colchester, now owned by said George Brown, viz: 
 two hundred acres as laid out to John Brown deed., it being his 2d and 3d 
 divisions; wit: John Beebe and John Beebe, Jr.; ack. 1755 and reed. 1756. 
 (ibid., 7: 289.)\ 
 
 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.] 
 
 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 Notes. 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 books, 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 little 
 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 filed 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: Elizabeth 
 Brown, alias Stark; Chloe Brown; the heirs of Lydia Avery, deed., the wife 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, Jesse, 
 eleven acres, Oliver, twelve acres, Amasa, twelve acres, Elizabeth, ten acres, 
 Chloe nine acres, heirs of Lydia, ten acres, and Hannah, twelve acres, as see 
 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, ra. Mercy Brown and in 1754, Mercy Brown m. 
 in Cornwall, Isaac Spalding, see article by Kendall-P. Hayward in American Gen. 2k- 
 Thus Mercy (Brown) Spalding was undoubtedly an heir of Samuel Brown's. 
 
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 farm Between the lots of Elisabeth and Lydia Bounded as follows Begining 
 at Lydias, north east Corner riming East 28 Degrees north 543^ rods to 
 bounds set by Starks[?J land then South 33 Degrees East 35 rods to Bounds 
 Set by Tredways 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 barn: 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 widow 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, J>20.) 
 
 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 my 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 power 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 c-opy of the will is included in the Hills Notes. 
 
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 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 Sone 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, J+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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 Day, Sarah "Whay," Elizabeth Brown, Hannah ,* Lydia Rowley and 
 
 Rebeckkah Edgerton; witnessed by Elias Worthington Jr., Joshua Morgan 
 and John Watrous. (Cohhester Dist. Probate, 3232.) 
 
 Children of George and Elizabeth (Wells) Brown, born in Colches- 
 ter, Conn.: 
 
 i. Elizabeth 3 , 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.J 
 iv. Lydia, b. 27 Aug. 1736, d. by 1 Mar. 1762; m. Jonathan Avery 
 
 (E. M. 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, 1*37.) 
 
 xi. Amasa, b. 26 Feb. 1751, alive 8 Mar. 1774, of Colchester, when 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. 409, states that Chloe d. 19 Mar. 1767, and m. 28 May 
 1766, Abraham Dewey. It omits her child, Chloe Dewey. He had other wives. 
 
HILLS LINEAGE 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 heerby 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 faile 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'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 
 
88 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 "ffrances Kendall & -lames 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 scilet" 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. 
 
INDEX OF PERSONS 
 
 Lebbeus 18 
 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" Sec 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 
 
 89 
 
 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 
 
 Rollin 41 
 BOTTOM 
 
 John 31 
 BOWKER 
 
 Benjamin 17 
 
 Jemima 17 
 BRADING 
 
 James 64 
 BRAINARD 
 
 Homer-W. 80 86 
 BREWSTER 
 
 Prince 26 
 
90 
 
 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 BROOKS 
 
 Remembrance 79 80 
 
 81 
 BROWN BROWNE 
 
 58 78 81 
 
 Alice 86 
 
 Amasa 27 88 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 86 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 
 
 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 
 
 William 82 
 CHANDLER 
 
 4 
 
 Mary 80 
 CHAPMAN 
 
 Joseph 80 
 
 Ralph 69 
 CHURCH 
 
 Elizabeth 18 
 CHURCHELL 
 
 Andrew 18 
 CLARK CLARKE 
 
 Asael 23 
 
 Bertha-E. 37 
 David 31 
 Gershom 10 
 John 81 66 
 Mary 81 
 Simon 28 
 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 
 
 Lennard 
 
 See Lennard of Dacre 
 
INDEX OF PERSONS 
 
 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 69 
 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 
 FARWELL 
 
 Joseph 40 
 FEDUS 
 
 John-G. 31 
 FERGUSON 
 
 Amy 49 
 
 Clarice-Mariette 48 
 49 50 
 
 Hallie-I. See Hattie-I. 
 
 Hattie-I. 49 
 
 Hezekiah 49 
 
 James-R. 
 
 See James-Ross 
 
 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 
 
 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 
 
 Ebenezer 10 
 
 Elijah 10 
 
 Eliphalet 23 
 
 Jonathan 10 
 
 Joseph 9 11 
 
 Nathaniel 9 10 
 
 Samuel 20 
 GOFF 
 
 Mary-N. 35 
 GOODIER 
 
 Aaron 47 
 GOODSPEED 
 
 Mary 1 
 GRAVES 
 
 Asa 26 
 GRAY 
 
 Asa 38 
 GREEN 
 
 Caroline 54 
 
 Henry 69 
 GRYMES 
 
 George 76 
 GUN GUNN 
 
 Hannah 86 
 
92 
 H- 
 
 I.-H. 80 
 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 3f 
 HARTLEY 
 Neal 69 
 HAWKINS HAUKINS 
 
 Dr. 65 
 
 Widow 65 
 
 Joseph 65 
 William 64 
 HAYWARD 
 
 Kendall-P. 83 
 HAZEN 
 
 Henry A. 2 75 
 HEANY 
 Allan 54 
 Mary 54 
 HEMSTED 
 [HEMPSTEAD] 
 
 Joshua 78 
 HERRICK 
 
 24 
 
 Faith 24 
 
 HEWET 
 
 Solomon 7 
 HIERAN 
 
 William 56 
 HILL HILLS 
 
 2 8 4 7 8 9 10 
 
 14 30 34 37 40 43 
 44 68 
 
 Abigail 1 2 4 5 10 13 
 
 11 15 
 Abijah 17 
 Abner 16 
 Ada 48 
 Adelaide-M. 35 
 Alden 42 
 Alfred-Delos 59 
 
 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 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 Ashbell 33 38 
 Ashel See Asahel 
 Augusta 43 
 Aurora-Octavia 83 39 
 Avis-B. 23 
 Belle 43 
 Benjamin 47 
 Betsey 34 35 
 Betsey-W. 34 
 Britta 84 
 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 82 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 87 
 
 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 86 47 
 Esther 57 
 Eunice 86 87 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 87 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 
 
INDEX OF PERSONS 
 
 93 
 
 HILL HILLS (Cont.) 
 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 
 
 17 
 
 Julia-Augusta 33 
 
 Julius-Augustus 33 
 
 Justin 24 
 
 Keziah 15 
 
 Kneeland 36 37 44 
 45 51 53 54 55 56 
 
 Kneeland-G. 46 47 48 
 
 Kneelon-G. 
 
 See Kneeland-G. 
 
 Knelon-G. 
 
 See Kneeland-G. 
 
 L. 32 
 
 Lebbeus Labeus Labius 
 Labous Lebbeas Leb- 
 eus Lebias Libbeous 
 Libbeus Libeas Libeus 
 Lybius 18 19 20 21 
 22 23 24 25 26 27 
 28 29 30 31 32 83 
 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 87 
 38 41 42 43 45 48 
 49 50 84 
 
 Lyman 34 
 
 Lysander-Baseom 43 
 
 Margaret 10 17 57 
 Margaret-A. 57 
 Margaret-M. 56 
 Maria 34 55 
 Maria-M. 54 55 57 
 Maria-S. 34 
 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 30 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 Rozcl 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-DePaul 59 
 
 William vii 1 42 63 
 
 William-C. 23 
 
 William-D. 57 
 
 William-Sanford vii 1 
 36 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-H. 23 
 
 Jonathan 26 
 HOLMAN 
 
 Mary-Lovering 70 
 HOLMES 
 
 Annis 35 
 
 Charles 35 
 
 Elizabeth 7 
 
 Howell [Hoel] 35 
 
 Martha 35 
 
 Polly 35 
 HORSFORD HOSFORD 
 
 18 33 
 
 Daniel 26 
 
 Dudley 26 
 
 Elizabeth 80 82 83 
 
 Jesse 80 83 
 
94 
 
 HILLS LINEAGE 
 
 HORSFORD HOSFORD 
 
 JOY 
 
 LENARD 
 
 (cont.) 
 
 John 23 
 
 See Leonard 
 
 Joel 26 
 
 
 LENNARD of DACRE 
 
 Lydia 18 33 
 
 KELLOGG 
 
 67 
 
 Obediah 23 32 
 
 Daniel 28 
 
 LEONARD LEANARD 
 
 Samuel 80 
 
 Elijah 22 28 
 
 LENARD 
 
 HOUCK 
 
 Jonathan 81 
 
 3 4 7 67 68 71 
 
 Marietta 49 
 
 Joseph 79 
 
 Abigail 67 
 
 HOWLAND 
 
 Nathaniel 82 
 
 Benjamin 67 
 
 Arthur 5 8 71 
 
 Samuel 22 26 
 
 Hannah 67 68 
 
 HUBBARD 
 
 KENDALL 
 
 Henry 67 68 69 
 
 Mehitable 33 
 
 Francis 88 
 
 James 67 68 69 71 
 
 HUNT 
 
 Mary 35 
 William 35 
 
 KENT 
 
 Priscilla 79 
 
 Joan 67 
 John 67 
 
 KEPHART 
 W.-H. 56 
 
 Lydia 1 4 67 68 72 
 Margery 67 
 
 HUNTINGTON 
 
 KILBOURN 
 
 Nathaniel 69 
 
 John 12 
 
 Jonathan 78 
 
 Phebe 1 3 4 6 12 15 
 
 HUNTLEY 
 
 Thomas 63 
 
 68 72 
 
 81 
 
 KIMBERLY 
 
 Philip 1 3 4 5 6 15 
 
 Aaron 80 
 
 Mary 31 
 
 60 67 68 69 70 71 
 
 Amos 80 
 
 KINGSLEY 
 
 72 
 
 Daniel 80 
 
 W.-G. 14 
 
 Rebecca 67 
 
 Hannah 80 83 
 
 KIRK 
 
 Samuel 69 
 
 Jacob 80 83 
 
 50 52 54 
 
 Sarah 67 68 
 
 James 80 
 
 Anna 47 50 51 52 
 
 Thomas 67 68 69 
 
 
 Jane 52 
 
 Uriah 67 
 
 INGHAM 
 
 Susan 50 51 52 
 
 William 67 
 
 Joseph 66 
 
 KITCHEN 
 
 LITTLE 
 
 INGRAHAM 
 
 James-G. & Co. 59 
 
 Ephraim 24 
 
 Margaret 17 
 
 KNEELAND NELAND 
 
 Mary 8 
 
 
 NEELAND 
 
 Sarah 16 
 
 JACOBUS 
 
 86 44 45 
 
 LOE 
 
 Donald-Lines vii 1 63 
 
 Benjamin 45 
 
 Elizabeth 70 
 
 65 68 
 
 Edward 45 
 
 LOOMIS LOOMYS 
 
 JANES 
 
 Eunice 45 
 
 Nathaniel 77 
 
 Hannah 79 
 
 Hezekiah 27 
 
 LORD 
 
 JEFFERS 
 
 Ichabod 45 
 
 Dorothy 20 27 
 
 Caleb 79 
 
 John 45 
 
 Elisha 22 28 
 
 JENKS 
 
 Joseph 45 
 
 Epaphras 20 22 25 27 
 
 Ann.". Zimmerman 39 
 
 Mary 45 
 
 John 64 
 
 JOHNSON 
 
 Molly 45 
 
 Rebecca 64 
 
 Edward-F. 75 
 
 Polly 36 44 45 
 
 Theodore 25 
 
 John 82 
 
 Ruth 45 
 
 LOVELAND 
 
 L. & Co. 53 
 
 KOOUS See Kounz 
 
 Rachel 23 24 
 
 JONES 
 
 KOUNZ 
 
 LUX 
 
 Charity 24 
 
 Emma 54 
 
 Lewis 47 
 
 James 82 
 
 
 LYMAN 
 
 John 8 9 
 
 LEANARD 
 
 Phillis 63 
 
 Myrtle-A. 29 
 
 See Leonard 
 
 
 Nael 41 
 
 LeCHEVALIER 
 
 M 
 
 Pomeroy 40 
 
 W.-R. 56 
 
 Delia 50 
 
 Samuel 64 
 
 LEE 
 
 MACKALL McCALL 
 
 JOSSELYN 
 
 Benjamin 82 
 
 Archippus 14 
 
 Henry 7 
 
 Hannah 78 
 
 James 14 
 
INDEX OF PERSONS 
 
 95 
 
 MANSFIELD 
 
 Elizabeth 33 
 MANWARING 
 
 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 
 MULFORD 
 
 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 34 
 
 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 83 
 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 
 
 See Pumery 
 POPE 
 
 Charles-H. 70 
 PRATT 
 
 Elisha 82 
 
 Ruth 45 
 PUMERY PUMRY 
 [POMEROY?] 
 
 Joseph 77 78 79 
 
 R 
 
 E.-H. 80 
 RAMEY 
 
 Sue 50 
 RAMSDELL 
 
 Jemima 16 17 
 
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 Treatment Date: 
 
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