Hiram Hill Alexander Hill Oliver Hill John Hill Thomas Hill A. D. 1812: "Thursday, 12th, we left Potato camp and marched six miles to Mr. Hills and camped on the same ground the Pennsylvania troops did." Captain Alexander Hill's company was recruited principally in Washington county for the regular army in the summer of 1813, and was part of the Nineteenth United States infantry. Captain. Hill was, in the fall of 1813, ordered by Colonel George Paul, commanding the regiment and having charge of the recruiting station of Zanesville, to report at that place. Captain Hill after his arrival at Zanesville was ordered to Detroit, arriving there after the battle of the Thames. The company was next ordered back to Zanesville by Colonel Paul, soon after arriving there. Captain Hill was placed in command of a battalion of the Ninth infantry and ordered to report at Fort Erie, in Canada, near the head of the Niagara river, where he arrived before the battle at that place in 1814. Colonel Trimble with a detachment of the Nineteenth infantry, including Captain Oliver Hill's company, whose well-directed fire, at the same time that it galled the enemy severely in the bastion, had completely defeated every attempt he made to penetrate farther. A list of names, with rank, in Captain Alexander Hill's company, Nineteenth United States infantry, War of 1812. Privates John Hill Thomas Hill CAPTAIN ALEXANDER HILL. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born February 28, 1777, in the County of Antrim, Ireland, near Belfast, and landed at Philadelphia in 1784. His parents were strict Scotch Presbyterians, and Captain Hill doubtless owed much of his success in life to the wholesome training of his youth. Force of circumstances put him in the way of learning the cabinetmakers trade, though his tastes strongly impelled him to a seafaring life. Captain Hill started from Pittsburgh with an English emigrant named Alcock, in canoes rashed together, expecting to have gone to New Orleans and shipped as a sailor at that point, but on arriving at Marietta, in 1798, he found it inadvisable to proceed further without more money than he possessed. He, therefore, plied his trade at Marietta, and soon found that the demand for furniture to supply the new settlers was increasing, and offering opportunities for active and profitable business in that line. He established the first furniture factory in that county, and the cabinetmaker of those days was also the undertaker, and Captain Hill constructed the first coffin that was placed in Mound cemetery. Captain Hill was married in 1801 to Sarah Foster, daughter of Ephraim Foster, a Revolutionary soldier. Captain Hill now became prosperous, and the idea of going to sea was abandoned. He was accustomed to toad a boat (one of the old time "broad horns") every year with furniture for the southern market, generally going to New Orleans, and either walking back or going around by to Philadelphia, and thence across the mountains in a wagon train. On one of these trips south the broad-horn had just reached New Madrid, Missouri, at the time of the great earthquake, which occurred in that country in 18/, and it was with much difficulty that the boat was rescued from destruction. At the breaking out of the war with Great Britain Captain Hill was a major in the State militia. In the spring of 1813 he received a commission as captain in the Twenty-seventh United States infantry, and on April 22, 1813, he advertised for recruits in the counties of Washington, Athens, and Gallia. He was ordered with his men to Zanesville, and the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh regiments were consolidated, and the Nineteenth United States infantry formed out of the two. Captain Hill, in the fall of 1813, was ordered to Detroit, and is said to have been placed in command of Malden. He was ordered from there to Zanesville, and from there to Fort Erie. He took part in the battle and siege of that fort, his company being stationed on the right in a block-house, from which they maintained a destructive fire on the enemy, who had captured an outlying work, but could not hold it. The battalion of the Nineteenth infantry, in this battle, was commanded by Major Trimble. and the garrison and post by General Gaines. Soon after his return from the war Captain Hill was summoned to New York to attend a court-martial. Meeting General Gaines there he asked the general what he thought of the conduct of his men, seeing that it was the first time many of them had been in battle. "Why, sir," said General Gaines, "I could not have expected better service from veterans." Upon his return from the war, his term of enlistment being for one yea, he opened a tavern in Marietta, under the "Sign of the Swan." Captain Hill was elected sheriff of Washington county as the successor of Captain Buell in 1815. Captain Hill kept tavern until 1827, when, owing to the prevalence of the use of spirituous liquor and necessity almost of keeping a bar if he kept hotel, he decided rather than do it to quit, and accordingly, with his own hand, sawed down his sign-post and closed the tavern. His Scotch Presbyterian training was stronger than the greed for gain. The furniture business was not neglected during these years, but kept up, and when the market would justify it, a boat was loaded for the south, and the outcome was uniformly profitable until the fall of 1836, when he entered into a contract with the State to build the dam and one-half the canal at Lowell, the State being engaged at that time in providing slack water navigation for the Muskingum river; but Captain Hill died in February, 1841, before the work was completed, leaving his heirs to finish the contract, the consideration of which was eighty-five thousand dollars. This money enabled the heirs to settle the estate and pay the debts of Captain Hill, who had become somewhat embarrassed, financially. Captain Hill was of temperate and exemplary habits, and considering the extent and character of his public services, had very few enemies. He had seven sons and two daughters ; one son and daughter died in childhood. Ephraim Hill died of the prevailing fever in 1823, aged nineteen years. The remaining children all grew up to mature age. They were John, Hugh, Jessie, Hiram A., Daniel Y., and Eliza Hill. Eliza Hill was married to Spencer T. Bukey, June, 1835. He was a son of Hezekiah Bukey, a pioneer who settled on and owned a tract of land in Virginia, nearly opposite to Marietta. The children of Spencer T. Bukey were Van H., Alexander H., John, Joseph T., and Sarah Bukey. Wallace Hill, son of John Hill, was lieutenant of company B, Eighteenth Ohio volunteer militia, for the three months' service, April, 1861. Alexander H. Bukey, son of Spencer T. Bukey, was a private in the same company; also served as commandant of a gun in Buell's battery during the war. Subsequently Wallace Hill was lieutenant in company C, First West Virginia light artillery, familiarly known as Buell's Pierpoint battery, command by Captain Frank Buell, and after the death of Captain Frank Buell, at the battle of Freeman’s Ford, August 22, 1862, Wallace Hill became captain of the battery, and so continued during the remainder of the war. Frank Hill, son of Hiram A. Hill, born 1847, was appointed third sergeant of company A, One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio National guards, Samuel S. Knowles, captain, and on July 23, 1864, was appointed commissary sergeant of the regiment. Ephraim A. Hill, son of Daniel Y. Hill, served three months in company A, Eighty-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, and returning enlisted in battery K, Second Ohio heavy artillery, and served until April 15, 1865, when he died at Knoxville. Tennessee. Alexander Hill, son of John Hill, served in the same company Van H. Bukey enlisted in--the Eleventh West Virginia infantry-October x6, 1862; was commissioned first lieutenant February, 1862; captain August, 1862; major March, 1863; lieutenant colonel August. 1863, colonel November, 1864; Brigadier general, by brevet, May, 1865. Captain Buell was sheriff of the county for several years, being succeeded in that office by Captain Alexander Hill, in 1825. HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO CHAPTER XVI.* WAR OF 1812. http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Washington/WashingtonMilitary133.htm _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009