Vital Records of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts 1686 through 1890, I have found the following. This book doesn't have any page numbers. Marriages Hill, Freelove & John Rider, int. 8 Mar 1735/6. Nothing else appears in the book. Good luck on your search. Dianna ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: [MABRISTO] Hill names for Dianna > Dianna > > Thank you for the offer. > > My end of the liners and the last of my "known" that I am looking at are: > > John RIDER of Newport and > Freelove HILL of Freetown > who were married in Swansea by Joseph Mason esq. on 4 Apr 1736. > (This probably puts their births in the 1700s or 1710s.) > > According to information in a book on a Greene lineage, Freelove's parents > were a Joshua HILL and Judith TUCKER with Joshua being a probable descendent > of John Hill. I think this parent information may have come from a Briggs > descendent who corresponded with the author. But the author did not clearly > identify the source of the info. I have the Hill lineage that appeared in the > NEH&GR and the Hill listed in the "Dictionary". No entries match this > Hill/Tucker nor did I see any mentioned as residing in Freetown; however > several branches were not traced fully. I have neither proved descent from > this John Hill nor disproved it or that this Joshua and Judith were her > parents. > > Lisa > > Just as an FYI > > I did a little looking on those Masons I mentioned in my initial message and > I think they were all Baptist ministers, sons and grandsons of a Sampson > Mason. > > Also John and Freelove's first two kids are recorded in Swansea Vital Records > and the next three in Tiverton VR. For the rest of the almost dozen kids, > I've found no "official" records of births yet. At some point in the > 1740s/1750s they moved to Dutchess Co NY. I am working at narrowing this down > to a smaller time frame if possible. At some point and place John married a > Rachel after Freelove's death (date unknown). > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/03