Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. IV, Part 121

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 878


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(V) George Huffman. son of James Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Hall) Turner, was born in Beth- lchem, New Hampshire, July 29, 1859. He was educated in the common schools and at the Lit- tleton Academy in the neighboring town. He is associated with his father in the management of the farm and the hotel, and is also manager of the


Bethlehem Electric Light Company, which supplies Bethlehem and Whitefield. He is one of the most trusted citizens of the town, and settles a good many estates. In politics he is a strong Republi- can, has been town treasurer and has served several times as selectman, beginning in 1887, and was representative to the legislature during 1907. He was treasurer of Grafton county for four years. has been county commissioner since 1897, and for the last eight years has been chairman of the board. He is an active member of the Congregational Church, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, be- ing a member of Burns Lodge, Littleton, and of Franklin Chapter, of Lisbon. On June 17, 18SI, George Huffman Turner married Susan Rogers White, daughter of George Clinton White and Sarah Jane Huzzey, his wife, of Boston, Massachut- setts. They have four children: Mary Elizabeth, born September 9. 1882, married Walter S. Noyes, of Littleton, New Hampshire; Helen Esther, born May 8, 1885; James Albert, born December 15, 1888; and Gertrude White, born November 8, 1891.


HILL This name was formerly spelled Hilles,


and that form is still used by a large num- ber of the descendants bearing the name. It has been traced to a somewhat remote period in England, having been found nearly two hundred years before the Puritan emigration. It has been borne by numerous prominent citizens of the Ameri- can colonies and of the United States, and is still among the most widely distributed names known in the history of the country.


(I) The first of whom we have distinct infor- mation in the line herein traced was George Hilles, who resided in the parish of Great Burstead, Biller- icay, Essex county, England. Neither his birthplace nor his parentage has yet been discovered. The parish register of Great Burstead between 1579 and 1596 is still missing, and this prevents the discovery of name and parentage of his wife. The earliest known record of George Hilles is in relation to his marriage: "George Hilles, linen draper, and Mary Symonds of Billericay, County Essex, widow of William Symonds, late of the same, tanner; general licences of the Bishop of London, thirteenth of October, 1596."


(II) The records of Burstead gives the follow- ing : "1602, March. Joseph Hilles, sonne of George, was baptized the third day." He was married July 22, 1634, to Rose Clarke, in Great Burstead, and there his elder children were born. Not later than March. 1632. all the family moved to Malden, also of Essex, where three of his children were born. In 1638 he was the "undertaker" of the voyage of the ship "Susan and Ellen." which arrived in Bos- ton, July 17, of that year. He first settled in Charles- town. upon the Charles and Mystic rivers. The family. dwelling was hear the market-place, but in a few years he became a resident of the north side on the Mystic river. and established his home on "Mystic Side." on a farm of considerable size. When this was set off in a separate town it became known as Malden, which name was probably given by him in memory of his former dwelling place in England. He was a man of much influence in the community, and served as selectman in 1644 and 1646, and was representative in the general court. He was re- elected in the following year and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies. During his residence in Mystic and Malden he was captain of the train band. At his death he willed his "buffe coate" to his son Samnel, and his backsword to his stepson Henry Lund. He was the first deputy of Malden, which had


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no other representative until 1664. He moved to Newbury, on the Merrimack river, and was suc- ceeded in this office by his son-in-law. John Wade. In 1645 Joseph Hilles was the first named on a com- mittee "to set the loss of the settlers of the Nasha- way plantacon." Three years later he was the first of a committee of four "to change the location of the highway between Winnesemit and Reading." In 1650 he was the second of a committee to change the government, and was chairman to draw up in- structions for blocks, to a gathering, where "com- missioners of all the colonies shall meete." In 1635 he was one of a committee to consider whether the colonies by their articles of agreement were em- powered to engage the colonies in "warre." In 1654 he was appointed with others to frame a reply to the Holden government, which had demanded an explanation of certain acts of the colonies. He was three times on a committee to audit the treasury accounts, and in 1648 was leading member of the committee which reported to the general court the first codification of the loss of the colony. He was the actual compiler of the law, prepared the copy for the press, and supervised the printing. Be- sides a money compensation he was granted by the colony for his work, five hundred acres of land on the Nashaway river, and the remission of his taxes in his old age.


His first wife, Rose Clarke, died March 24. 1650, in Malden, and he was married, June 24, 1651, to Hannah Smith, widow of Edward Mellows, of Charlestown, who died about 1655. In January, 1656, he married (third) Helen ( Elline or Elea- nor), daughter of Hugh Atkinson, of Kendall, West- moreland. England. She died between January 8, 1861, and November 10, 1662. On March 8. 1665. he was married in Newbury, to Ann, the widow of Henry Lunt, of that town, and until his death re- sided in her dwelling in Newbury. He died Febru- ary 5, 1688, at Newbury, having been deprived of his sight by blindness for about eight years. The children of his first wife were: Mary. Elizabeth, Joseph, James, Rebecca, Stephen, Sarah, Gershom and Mehitable. The first four were born in Eng- land. The children of Joseph and Hannah were : Samuel, Nathaniel and Hannah. The children of Joseph and Helen (Atkinson) Hilles were: Deb- orah and Abigail.


(III) Samuel. eleventh child of Joseph Hilles, and the eldest of his second wife, Hannah (Smith) Mellows, was born in July, 1652, in Malden, and died in Newbury. Massachusetts, August 18, 1732. He was sergeant in King Philip's war, and was at the battle of Bloody Brook and Narragansett, in 1675. He was married in Newbury, Massachusetts, May 20, 1679, to Abigail Wheeler, who died April 13, 1712. She was the daughter of David and Sarah (Wise) Wheeler. of Newbury, David being the son of John Wheeler, who was born at Salisbury, Wilke- shire, England, in 1625, and came to New England in the ship "Confidence," in 1638. He was married, May II, 1650, to Mary, daughter of Samnel Wise. Their children were: Samuel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Abigail (died young), Henry, William, Josiah, John, Abigail, James and Hannah (twins). Daniel and Smith. (Mention of Daniel and de- scendants follows in this article.)


(IV) Henry, fifth son and sixth child of Samuel and Abigail (Wheeler) Hilles, was born April 23, 1688. in Newbury, and died August 20. + 1757, in Hudson, New Hampshire. He received from his father, before his death, a deed of lands and meadow on the east side of the Merrimac river, in Dunstable. that portion which is now the


town of Hudson. This was a part of the land granted by the colony to Joseph Hilles, the grand- father of Henry. On October 16, 1721, Henry Ililles bought of John Usher fifteen acres of land in Dunstable, where he was then living, and on the twentieth of the same month he sold his land in Essex county, Massachusetts, to his brother John. In the record of his third marriage at Newbury he is described as of Nottingham, which is the same locality as Hudson. It is probable that he removed to New Hampshire immediately after receiving his father's deed, which is dated August 22, 1721. He was married (intention published May 23, 1715, in Newbury), to Hannah, daughter of Henry and Bethiah (Emery) Bodwell, of Haverhill. She was born September, 1696, in Methuen, Massachusetts, which was formerly a part of Haverhill. Henry Hill's second wife was named Abigail, but no date of the marriage or of her birth and parentage has been found. He married (third) at Newbury, No- vember II, 1736, Dorcas Thornton. There were probably no children of the third marriage. Those of the first were: Ezekiel, and Henry and of the second, Ebenezer and Jonathan.


(V) Lieutenant Ezekiel, eldest child of Henry and Hannah (Bodwell) Hill, was born April II, 1718, in Newbury, Massachusetts, and died in Hud- son, New Hampshire, May 14, 1790. His wife Han- nah was born in 1719, and died September 27, 1816, in Hudson. Their children were : Mehitable, Thomas and Esther.


(VI) Thomas, only son and second child of Lieutenant Ezekiel and Hannah Hill, was born March 30, 1751, in Hudson, and died in that town May 21, 1833. His wife Ruth died there August 25, 1826. Their children were: Amos, Isaac, Thomas, Hannah, Sally and Ruth.


(VII) Isaac, second son and child of Thomas and Ruth Hill, was born October 15, 1782, in Hud- son, and resided in Arlington, Massachusetts. He died in 188I.


(VIII) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (I) and Lt- cinda (Cutter) Hill, was born October 13, 1829, in Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated in Dra- cut, Massachusetts, and engaged there in farming. He was an attendant of the Congregational Church, and a Republican in politics. He was married, 1854, to Eliza Ann Peabody, daughter of Nathaniel Peabody, of Dracut (see Peabody, V). They had eight children : Frank A., John P., Fred Roland, Martha E., Orton, Grant, Sarah, and Emma.


(IX) John P., second son and child of Isaac (2) and Eliza A. (Peabody) Hill, was born Sep- tember 15, 1856, in Dracut, Massachusetts, and was educated in the public schools of that town. He carried on the old farm there, of one hundred and fifty acres, for about fifteen years, when he engaged in the wholesale manufacturing of lumber, and in 1895 he removed to Warner, New Hampshire, and engaged in the lumber business there in which he has been successful, and is numbered among the rep- resentative citizens of the town, popular, and re- spected by his fellows. He has served the town four years as selectman, and is a leading member and treasurer of the Grange. He attends and sup- ports the Baptist Church, and is an ardent Republi- can in politics. He is affiliated with Centreville Lodge, No. 215, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and of the Welcome Rebekah Lodge of Warner, and is past master of Haris Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Warner. He was married, October 15, 1895. to Hannah Burbank, daughter of David S. and Amanda Augusta Burbank, of Warner. They have four


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children : Florence, Orton F., Edna Amanda and Alice Burbank. His wife died April 25, 1903, and June 28, 1906, he married Kate S. Hardy, of Warner, a daughter of Charles E. and Sarah A. (Clough) Hardy.


(IV) Captain Daniel, tenth son and twelfth of the fourteen children of Samuel and Abigail ( Wheeler) Hills, was born at Newbury, Massachu- setts, December 8, 1700. He was of the Colonial army that captured Louisburg in 1745. From March, 1748, to September, 1749, with the rank of captain, he was in command of a detached company in the unsettled district of Maine. He was con- nected with the artillery train under command of Colonel Richard Gridley from February 18, 1756, till his death in October of that year. For a short time. about 1730, he was living in a township that is now a part of Hudson, New Hampshire. In De- cember, 1724 (published December 5), Daniel Hills married Elizabeth Biggs, daughter of John and Ruth (Wheeler) Biggs, who was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts, June 28, 1707. They had three chil- dren: Ruth, born February 5. 1726; Abigail, May 10, 1728; and Daniel (2), whose sketch follows. Captain Daniel Hills died October 28, 1756, on the second expedition to Crown Point.


(V) Captain Daniel (2), only son and third and youngest child of Captain Daniel (I) and Elizabeth (Biggs) Hills, was born in that part of Newbury, Massachusetts, which is now a part of Hudson, New Hampshire. From 1758 to 1786 he was assessed as a citizen of Haverhill, Massachu- setts. In November. 1789, fifty acres of land in Northfield were deeded to him as a cordwainer in Concord, New Hampshire. In January, 1791, a lot of one hundred acres in the same township was conveyed to him as a resident of Haverhill, and in this conveyance he is styled gentleman. Like his father in the Colonial wars, he held a commission as captain in the Revolution, and he drilled the Haverhill company that marched upon the Lex- ington alarm. In the history of Haverhill, Massa- ' chusetts, among the list of those who gave clothing for the soldiers of the Revolution, appears the name of Captain Daniel (2) Hills, who contributed nine pairs of "Shuss." On May 10, 1757, at New- bury, Captain Daniel (2) Hills married Hannah Emery, daughter of David and Abigail (Chase) Emery, who was born in Newbury, in February, 1739. They had six children: Daniel, whose sketch follows ; Abigail, born March 7, 1760, married Amos Clement ; David, June 4, 1761, died at Northfield, March 9, 1820; Timothy, whose sketch follows ; Hannah, July 17. 1768, died at Sanbornton, New Hampshire, July 24, 1826; John, June 15, 1770, died at Northfield, January 20, 1825. All of these chiil- dren were born at Haverhill, Massachusetts. Cap- tain Daniel (2) Hills died at Northfield, New Hamp- shire, some time after January 16, 1810.


(VI) Daniel (3), eldest child of Captain Daniel (2) and Hannah (Emery) Hills, was born at Haver- hill, Massachusetts, May 12. 1758. He was in the Revolutionary army during the siege of Boston, and served six weeks in Roxbury in a company con- manded by Captain Elton. On or before his mar- riage he moved to Northfield, New Hampshire, where he was town clerk for many years. Daniel Hills married Hannah Young, and they had five children, all born in Northfield: Betsey, whose sketch follows; Susan, married (first) Benjamin Darling, (second ) Favor, (third) Samuel Leanard, had six children and died at Troy, Indi- ana, August 10. 1855; Hannah, married Richard Blanchard, of Northfield; Sally, married Sherborn


Locke, who moved to Schenectady, New York, with his family ; Daniel, married Abi B. Ambler, and lived in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Daniel Hills died about 1815, at Northfield, New Hampshire, and his estate was administered on May 17, of that year.


(VII) Betsey, eldest child of Daniel (3) and Hannah (Young) Hills, was born at Northfield, New Hampshire, June 10, 1793. On May 27, 1814. she was married to Jolin Cilley, who was born at Northfield, March 21, 1793. They removed to Co- lumbia, Coos county, this state, where their six children were born: Mary A., Sarah J., Susan,


Hannah, Lydia and John. Mary Ann Cilley married her second cousin, Barker Lanham Hill, of North- field and Campton (see Hill, VII). Sarah J. Cilley married Jacob Sanborn, and died at Franklin, this state, March 18, 1884, aged forty-seven. Susan died unmarried, December 5, 1886, aged fifty-eight. Han- nah and Lydia died in early childhood. John Cilley married Maria Hibbard, and lives at Colebrook, New Hampshire.


(VI) Coloniel Timothy Hill, third son and fourth child of Captain Daniel (2) and Hannah (Emery) Hills, was born at Haverhill, Massachu- setts, January 27, 1764. Like his father and grand- father he saw extended service in behalf of his country. He was commissioned colonel of the First New Hampshire Regiment, July 4, 1812, and took part in the three years' war with England. Either before or at the time of his marriage, which took place about 1793, he migrated to Northfield, New Hampshire, where he was one of the first settlers. Colonel Timothy Hill married Elizabeth Lapham, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, September 18, 1771, and they had five children, all born in North- field, New Hampshire: King L., born January 22, 1794, married Sally Gillman, settled in Sheffield, Vermont, had twelve children, and died December 22, 1868; Harriet, born September 13, 1797, married Lowell Land, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, had eight children, and died at the early age of thirty- three, June 4, 1830; Warren L., born September 28, 1801, married Betsey Tucker, had seven chil- dren, and died at Northfield, March 23, 1887; Betsey. born October 1, 1803, married Furber A. Goodwin .. had seven children, lived at Sheffield, Vermont, and died at forty-three years of age, April 18, 1846; Barker L., whose sketch follows. Colonel Timothy Hill died April 22, 1850, at the age of eighty-six, and his wife died August 17, 1845, aged seventy- four.


(VII) Barker Lapham, third son and fifth and youngest child of Colonel Timothy and Eliza- beth (Lapham) Hill, was born at Northfield, New Hampshire, September 20, 1805. He lived in his native town till the age of twenty-seven, when he removed to Campton, this state, where for sixty years he was a successful farmer and useful citizen. He was a Whig in politics, later joining the Re- publican party, and he held the position of highway surveyor and other minor town offices. On January 7, 1835, Barker Lapham Hill married his cousin, Mary Ann Cilley, daughter of John and Betsey (Hills) Cilley, who was born at Columbia, Coos county. New Hampshire, September 16, 1815 (see Hill, VII). They had two children: Elizabeth L., born at Campton, February 10, 1837, married Abel Mitchell, of Bridgewater, New Hampshire; and Daniel C., whose sketch follows. Barker L. Hill died at Campton, January 21, 1895. aged eighty- eight, and his wife died at Campton, February 13, 1888, aged seventy-one.


(VIII) Daniel Cilley, younger child and only


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son of Barker Laphani and Mary A. (Cilley) Hill, was born at Campton, New Hampshire, November 28, 1844. He was educated in the schools of Camp- ton, Plymouth Academy and Tilton Seminary. For the next five years after finishing his studies he taught school in Campton, Thornton, Bridgewater, Hebron and Holderness. He served six years on the school board of his native town. Mr. Hill con- tinued to live on the old Hill homestead at Camp- ton till May, 1895, when lie moved to Ashland vil- lage, where he has since made his home. On Janu- ary 17. 1902, he was elected president of the Ash- land Savings Bank, and was also made trustee. During that year he engaged in the fire insurance business with Willis F. Hardy, which partnership continues until the present time. Mr. Hill is a Republican in politics, and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was selectman of Ashland in1 1902-03-04-08, and tax collector of his town during 1904-05. He is not married.


(Second Family.)


HILL (I) Abraham Hill, the first American ancestor of this branch of the family, was born in 1615, and was an inhabitant of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1636. He kept a mill for John Coitmore, and was the owner of five lots of land in Charlestown and the neighborhood. He was admitted to the church in 1639, and his wife, Sarahı Long, daughter of Robert Long, born in England in 1617, was admitted to the church in 1644. Abraham and Sarah (Long) Hill were mar- ried in 1639, and had eight children: Ruth, bap- tized in 1640, married William Augur; Isaac, 1641 ; Abraham. 1643; Zachary, whose sketch follows; Sarah, 1647; Sarah, born and died in 1649; Mary, 1652: Jacob, March, 1656-57. Abraham Hill died February 13, 1669-70, and the inventory of his estate amounted to six hundred and thirty-three pounds.


(II) Zachary, third son and fourth child of Abraham and Sarah (Long) Hill, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, probably about 1645, though the record of his baptism is not given, as in the case of his brothers and sisters. On Sep- tember 24, 1667, Zachary Hill married Deborah Nor- ton, daughter of Captain Francis and Mary Norton, of Charlestown, and they had three children: Zach- ary, born November 10, 1668; Abraham, born about 1670; and Benjamin, who died intestate about 1698. Zachary Hill probably died at the age of twenty- seven, as the inventory of his estate was taken June 12, 1672. The estate was valued at eiglity- six pounds, and that same year the widow sold a house, probably the homestead, to W. Stilson. Mrs. Deborah Hill afterwards married Matthew Griffin, and died in 1698.


(III) Abraham (2), second son and child of Zachary and Deborah (Norton) Hill, was born about 1670, probably at Charlestown, Massachusetts, though he lived afterwards at Cambridge. Abra- ham Hill married Saralı Cooper, daugliter of Timothy Cooper, of Groton, Massachusetts. and they had three children : Abraham, who died Febru- ary II. 1723-24, in his thirtieth year; Deboralı, born February 25. 1696-97 : and Zachariah, whose sketch follows. Abraham Hill (2) died March 9, 1746, at Cambridge, aged seventy-five, and his widow died March 30, 1762, at Cambridge, in her eightieth year. (IV) Zachariah, second son and youngest of the three children of Abraham (2) and Sarah .( Cooper) Hill, was baptized April 2, 1707 or 1708. He lived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was probably born. On February 10, 1731-32, he mar- ried Rebecca Cutter, daughter of Deacon John and


Lydia Cutter, and they had eleven children, some of whose names are not recorded. They were Sarah, born 1732, married William Adams; Abraham, whose sketcli follows; Zachariah, born in 1737; Samuel, born 1741; Rebecca, who married John Cutter (3); Susanna, married Thomas Francis; Deborah, born in 1756, married Nehemiah Cutter. Zacharialı Hill died March 10 or 11, 1768. aged sixty years. On December 11, 1770, his widow mar- ried Samuel Carter, and died February 1, 1797.


(V) Abraham (3), eldest son and second child of Zachariah and Rebecca (Cutter) Ilill, was born in 1734 at Menotomy, now Arlington, Massachu- setts. He was one of the minute men at Concord and Lexington, and also fought at Bunker Hill. It is said that he and his next brother Zachariah liad also served in the French and Indian wars. Abraham (3) Hill has a record of five enlistments during the Revolution, and his longest term of ser- vice at one time was nine months, July 27, 1779, to April 27, 1780. His service was mostly in the Thirty-seventh Regiment of Foot, commanded by Captain Benjamin Locke, and known as the "Me- notomy Boys." Abraham (3) Hill married. Febru- ary 16, 1757, Susanna Wellington, daughter of Thomas Wellington, of Cambridge, and they had at least seven children, of whom the names of the fourth, fifth and seventh only have been preserved : Thomas; Isaac, whose sketch follows; and Saralı, born in 1769, who married Thomas Rand. Abra- ham (3) Hill died December 16, 1812, at Menotomy, now Arlington, Massachusetts.


(VI) Isaac, fifth child of Abraham (3) and Susanna (Wellington) Hill, was born at Menotomy, now Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1766. At the age of nine years he took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. With his brother Thomas, who was but eleven at the time, the boy Isaac drove a heavy rack, loaded probably with hay, which was used to fill the redoubts, and they were fired upon by cannon. Such childish heroism recalls Kipling's tale, "The Drums of the Fore and Aft," which had been thought to be almost without a parallel. The early life of Isaac Hill was one continued struggle. His father returned at the close of the revolution to take charge of a large family, who were nearly destitute, owing to the circumstances of the times, and the depreciation of his wages caused complete financial ruin.


Isaac Hill married, in 1787, Hannah Russell, daughter of Walter and Hannah (Adams) Russell, who was born in that part of Menotomy, 110w Charlestown, Massachusetts. She was a descendant of William Russell, the English emigrant, who came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1645. Her father, Walter Russell, commanded a company of Alarm- ists at Lexington, and did great service in harassing the enemy. Walter Russell died March 5, 1783, aged forty-five years. Isaac and Hannah ( Russell) Hill had nine children, four boys and five girls, and the mother of this family was but fifteen when she was married. The children were: Governor Isaac, whose sketch follows; Walter Russell. born February 22, 1790; Hannah Russell, born October 31, 1792, married George E. Cushing; Sultina, born June 2, 1795, married Reuben Townsend; Susan Wellington, born October 3, 1797, married Charles Hastings; Mary Adams, born July 10, 1800, married, August 26, 1820, Jacob Bailey Moore, a prominent publisher and historian of Concord, New Hampshire, and postmaster of San Francisco from 1849 to 1852; George Washington, born Jan. 4, 1804, lived at Mont- pelier where he was editor of the Vermont Patriot; Horatio, born Marchi 19, 1807, was in the publish-


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ing business early in life, and afterwards moved to Chicago; Rebecca Russell, born July 3, 1810, married John R. Reding, member of congress from Massa- chusetts, 1841-45. Mrs. Reding died January 28, 1844, and the house adjourned to enable the members to attend her funeral, the first time such a mark of respect had been paid to a woman. Isaac Hill's health had become impaired, and the management of affairs fell upon his wife, who contrived to save enough out of their ruined fortunes to purchase a farm at Ashburnham, Massachusetts, where the whole family moved in the spring of 1798. In 1819 the farm was sold and the family removed to the central village, where Isaac Hill died December 23, 1843, aged seventy-seven; his wife died March I, 1847, aged seventy-five.




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