I was using up Ancestry.coms free offer and I found the following article listed that might clear things up a bit on the Ferris Hill/Samuel Hill I am researching. Historical and gen. rec. Dutchess and Putnam cos, N.Y. Poughkeepsie, 1912. (16, 467p.):p203 On the 1865 census, Ferris Hill put that he was from Putnam Co., as was his mother Hannah. Does anybody have access to this article? I would, of course, pay postage and copying costs. Vicki