This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BILL AMON COLBURN PALMETER GIFFORD HAMILTON DAVIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12111 Message Board Post: This concerns the ancestors of Jonathan and Asenath (Bill) Bill who are buried at Tucker Cemetery, Chautauqua Co. NY There is a message at this cemetery page asking for information about the descendants of Jonathan and Asenath Bill so I thought i would send these two excerpts along to this message board. I am connected through their son Joseph Bill married to a Ruth Amon. ============= Found at the Bill Surname Message Board at Rootsweb: BILL FAMILY Author: Donna Starring Date: 29 Dec 2003 6:45 AM GMT Surnames: ALBRIGHT, BILL, CARPENTER, CORBIN, FOWLER, FRENCH, HITCHCOCK, INGHAM, MOUNTFORD, NORTON, STARRING, TUTTLE Classification: Lookup There is a chapter on the BILL Family in Our Albright and Allied Families by Elinor Corbin (c.1976) I am willing to do lookups and share any information I have on this family. The families for whom I have information are: Nancy Maria BILL 1824 - 1874, m. Charles H. CARPENTER 1823 - 1862; Amos BILL 1779 - 1874, m. Hannah INGHAM 1786 - 1862; James BILL 1779 - 1823, m. Asenath NORTON 1738 - 1810, d/o John NORTON 1715 - 1778 & Eunice HITCHCOCK 1712 - 1796; James BILL 1703 - 1781, m. Keziah FRENCH 1702 - 1786, d/o John FRENCH 1671 - 1730 & Elizabeth 16__ - 1796; John BILL 1667 - 1739, m. Mercy FOWLER; Philip BILL 1620 - 1689, m. Hannah 16__ - 1709; John BILL 15__ - 1638 m. Dorothy TUTTLE; John BILL 1576 - 163_, m. Anne MOUNTFORD 1588 - 1621, d/o Thomas MOUNTFORD. I have not included children in this listing, but would be happy to supply information about these families =================================== Found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/bios/chatham_bios.htm The History of Middlesex County 1635-1885 J. H. Beers & Co., 36 Vesey Street, New York 1884 Pages 198-217. CHATHAM. THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. PART 1 [transcribed by Janece Streig] James BILL, son of Lieut. James, and Kesiah (FRENCH) BILL, was born in Lebanon, February 20th 1736. He married, July 13th 1758, Asenath, daughter of the Rev. John NORTON, and settled on land given him by his father, northwest of Pocotopaug Lake. He was justice of the peace for a considerable length of time, and during the Revolution served on the committee of inspection. He represented Chatham in the General Assembly for several sessions. He was deacon of the East Hampton church from February 5th 1795, until his death, which occurred July 25th 1823. His wife died January 2d 1810, and he married, September 19th 1818, Phœbe PELTON. His children were all by his first wife, and were: Asenath, born November 18th 1759, married her cousin, Jonathan BILL, of Lebanon, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, who was at the battle of Bunker Hill, with Arnold in that remarkable expedition to Quebec, and also suffered the hardships of Valley forge; Lucy, born December 31st 1761, mar! ried Apollas ARNOLD; James, born February 4th 1764, married, August 31st 1783, Hannah GOODRICH, and removed to the State of New York, and at one time represented Albany in the State Legislature; was afterwards county clerk of Greene county, and again appears as judge in Oswego county; Elvira, born February 4th 1764, married Eleazer SKINNER; Erastus, born July 6th 1768, married, November 27th 1788, Sarah HALL, and lived in Southwick, Mass.; Norton, born July 14th 1770, studied medicine with Dr. John RICHMOND, and was a physician of great promise (He married, May 1st 1791, Sally, daughter of Joseph BUELL. She died April 17th 1794, aged 20 years and 8 months, and he died January 6th 1798, aged 27, leaving two children); Clarissa, born August 18th 1772, married her cousin, Oliver BILL, and removed to Steuben, New York; Achsah, born November 1st 1774, died July 8th 1775; Amos, born June 9th 1779; and Abner, born August 11th 1781.