Hello Westley and all of you other Hills, I have been just watching this list for a long time. My grandmother was a Hill and from what I can gather, most of the Hills in my line lived rather non-discript lives. I was ready to give up because the name is so common and beyond the 1855 census on Saratoga County in NYS, I have found nothing. Most of you are researching Hills in the southern US and my Hills emigrated to this area from Massachusetts. Westley's letter encouraged me because his line is at least a little closer to home. I should have written instead of just watching the list for so long. If we don't let ourselves be known, the list is only a portion of what it should be. My Hill family came to Saratoga County in NYS circa. 1837. Truman and Hiram were basketmakers. I think Eunice Hill was the mother and there was a sister Terzah. Truman married Mary Ramsey and they had a son named Samuel who married Eva Corp. He was also a basketmaker and was murdered on the road to his home in about 1902. My grandmother Lelah Hill was one of four of his daughters. There really isn't much connection to your family, Westley, except for proximity. But thank you for writing to the list. John Boyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wesley Hill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 5:46 PM Subject: [HILL-L] Hills in NY and CT > Hello to all the Hills on the list! My name is Wesley E. Hill. My Hills I believe originated in Connecticut. My gggGrandfathers' name was Johnson Silas Hill, born in CT in 1782 according to the NY state census for Essex county. He also shows up in the 1810 Federal census for Elisabethtown, Essex county, NY. He also went by his middle name "Silas". > > Essex county land records refer to him as "Johnson", and his tombstone inscription at Black Creek Cemetary in Westport, NY reads:"Johnson S. Hill". He died at age 86 on July 7, 1868. > > Who his parents were or where they lived is not known exactly, I presume it was Connecticut. Johnson Hill was married twice, once to an unknown first wife, and second to Anna A. Beell who was born in 1806 somewhere in Canada. Where she is buried is not known. She is not buried along side her husband. > > Johnson Hill had a total of ten children: > > Silas, b 1818 > Charlotte, b 1821 > Jane, b 1825 > Henry, b 1829 > Montraville, b 1830, m Demmis D. ------------- > Julia M. b 1832 m Joseph Cherbino 10/21/1848 d 3/19/1903 at Weybridge, VT > > Edgar Silas (my ggGrandfather), b 1834 m Mary Cherbino 11/15/1854 d 1905 at Chetopa, KS (?) > > Ion (perhaps Ian) > > Isaiah > > Sarah A. b 1847 m William F. Gregory of Westport, NY 1/26/1865 > > Without vital records its impossible to tell what happened to the other children. I would very much like to find out what happened to them, and I would like to go back further In Johnson Hill's line. > > Is anyone out there working on New York and Vermont Hills? > Does anyone have lines that take them into CT, NY, or VT? > > I would appreciate any advice or info. > > Thanks, > > > Wesley Hill > I > > > > ==== HILL Mailing List ==== > This is a closed list. This means that unless > you are subscribed to the list, you cannot post > messages. >