TerryAnn: Please send any more details you have on this. The names of the sons (John, James, Green and William) match those listed by many researchers for William Hill b 1737 in Caroline Co., VA, married Hannah Elizabeth Halbert. The son named William was the Secretary of State of NC. I am interested in your information because I have confirmed my Hill line back to James Hill b Bet. 1765 - 1775 and suspect he may be the brother of William Hill, Sec of State of NC. The one piece that may not fit precisely is that William Hill b. 1737 is said to have died in 1785 by some sources and 1792 by others. You state that the land grant was in 1793-1794? Here is what appears on the Hill Families of America website by Byron Hill: REV. WILLIAM2 HILL JR. (William1); born 1737 at Caroline Co., VA; married Elizabeth Halbert, daughter of Joel Halbert and Frances Elizabeth Jones, between 1764 and 1767 at Caroline Co., VA; died before Feb 21, 1785; died Sep 29, 1792 at Surry Co., NC. He was a Baptist minister, and also said by second source to have been Chaplain and a member of the Committee of Safety, Salisbury Dist., NC during the Revolutionary War. He was Chaplain on Mar 15, 1781 at Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Greensboro, Guilford, NC. Children of Rev. William2 Hill Jr. and Elizabeth Halbert were as follows: a.. + 12 i. MARY POLLY3 HILL, born 1764 at Surry Co. or Stokes Co., NC; married Osborne Childress; married Thomas Blount. b.. + 13 ii. JOHN HILL, born 1767 at Surry Co., NC. c.. 14 iii. JAMES HILL; born after 1767. d.. 15 iv. ELIZABETH HILL; married John Moore; born 1768. e.. 16 v. WILLIAM HILL III; born Sep 23, 1773 at Surry Co. (now Stokes), NC; married Sarah Geddy 1803; died Oct 29, 1857 at Raleigh, Wake Co., NC, at age 84. He was said to have come to Raleigh as a clerk to James Glascow, who went out of office in 1798 when William White was elected. On the death of White in Oct. 1811, William became Secretary Of State for NC. a.. + 17 vi. CYNTHIA HILL, married A. Crawford; born 1776 at Surry Co., NC. b.. 18 vii. FRANCES HILL; born circa 1778 at Surry Co., NC; married Major Mark Hardin Jan 26, 1796 at Rockingham Co., NC. c.. + 19 viii. GREEN HILL, married Nancy Geddy Mitchell; born circa 1782 at Surry Co., NC. 4. ELIZABETH2 HILL (William1); born Sep 18, 1747 at Caroline Co., VA; married William Anson Halbert, son of Joel Halbert and Frances Elizabeth Jones, Jun, 1765 at Caroline Co., VA; died Nov 6, 1836 at Belton, Anderson Co., SC, at age 89. Pat Murphy, Chandler, AZ Source: [email protected] Subject: [HILL-L] William Hill in Green Co. NC - Davidson Co. TN I have a partition of land that was originally a land grant to a William Hill in what was Green Co. NC in 1793-1794. The partition took place in 1810 and it is now in Davidson Co.TN. The partition was found however in the county clerk office of Lincoln Co. TN. In the partition it states that William's sons were John, James, Green and William. Does anyone know this line? TerryAnn