James HILL

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From: "Nena Smothers"
Subject: Will of Jesse Hill, 1820 SC
Date: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:45 AM


..... 3 Joel HILL b: in Caroline Co., Va d: January 07, 1843 in
Jackson Co., AR
........ +Anna WATSON m: October 16, 1791
..... 3 John H. HILL
..... 3 William HILL, Jr. b: 1737 d: September 29, 1792 in
Rockingham Co, NC
........ +Elizabeth HALBERT m: January 1758
..... 3 Thomas Smither HILL b 1739 Caroline Co Va d 1825 Surry Co, NC
........ +Susannah MOSELY
..... 3 Elizabeth HILL b: Sept 18 1747 d Nov 6 1836
Belton, Anderson Co, SC
........ +William Anson ( Sr.) HALBERT m: 1765
..... 3 Robert HILL Capt b Feb 1752 d Aug 2 1834 Stokes Co NC
........ +Martha HALBERT m: September 1769
..... 3 Uel (Ewell) HILL Major b 1755 Caroline Co Va d Oct 17 1832
Abbeville, SC (Abbeyville, Anderson Co, NC)
..... 3 Dan HILL b: October 16, 1756 d: May 28, 1826
........ +Martha (Patsy) HICKMAN m: October 16, 1779
..... 3 James HILL b: Bet. 1759 - 1761 Caroline Co Va d SC probably
Abbeville
........ +MARY
..... 3 Joshua HILL b: May 26, 1763 in VA
........ +Nancy Wyatt COLLIER b Jan 3 1765 Lunenburg VA.
m: December 08, 1789
.......... 4 Sarah Blackwell HILL b: Abt. 1797
.......... 4 Susan Smither HILL b: Abt. 1799

.. 2 - 8 more children not entered are in the information on the Hills.

Family/Spouse: Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 780

Notes:

Marshall 0001, p. 2 - This source gives his death date as 1777.

!Marshall 0007, Pg. 116 & 280 - "The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina; Volumn I - 1983. Editor, Hester Bartlett Jackson.

From: "Nena Smothers"
Subject: Will of Jesse Hill, 1820 SC
Date: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:45 AM

Descendants of William Hill
1 William HILL b: in MD d: May 06, 1720 in Middlesex Co., VA
+ANN(E) b: in Prob VA. d: Jan 15 1725/26 in Middlesex Co VA.

2. William HILL, Sr b Abt 1710 Middlesex Co VA d 1787 Surry Co NC
+Elizabeth WILLIAMS
*2nd Wife of William HILL, Sr.:
.. +Researchers are debating THIS m: May 01 1718
. *3rd Wife of William HILL, Sr.:
... +Susanna SMITHERS b: Abt. 1715 in Caroline Co Va m Abt 1736 prob
Caroline Co NC d Bef 1799




Marshall 007 - The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina, Volume 1 -1983, Pg. 280




Marshall 0394, pg. 1, 2

1. WILLIAM HILL5 SR. (SION4 HILL, SION W.3, ROBERT2, ROBERT1) was born 1710 in Caroline County, Virginia, and died February 1787 in Surry County, North Carolina. He married (1) ELIZABETH WILLIAMS Abt. 1718 in Virginia. He married (2) BRIDGET HEARN MULLINAX April 24, 1729 in Middlesex County, Virginia. He married (3) SUSANNA SMITHERS 1736 in King George County, Virginia. She was born 1716 in Caroline County, Va., and died Aft. 1786 in Surry County, North Carolina.

Notes for WILLIAM HILL SR.: JH. Records say, " William Hill m. a widow in (Middlesex Co.). She had a grown son...morning after marriage to (Hill) she brought her apron full of money and poured it into his lap, saying 'give my son 50L of that." (N.B.: any grown son would have to have been from a marriage ever prior to that to Mullinax, thus Bridget must have been several years older than William Hill). Hill researchers prior to Mr. Luck?s discovery had not noticed this marriage. It is not known when she died.

Other marriages of William Hill have been subject of diverse views. Worth S. Ray, Tn Cousins, remarked with documentation, " there is a tradition that the wife of William Hill was an Elizabeth Williams but it was later concluded that he married a Susannah Smithers, and the later version has been generally accepted by the Hill family, but it seems plain to me that he probably had as his first wife the Elizabeth Williams, by whom he had at least one son (or more), and after her decease married the Smithers, who was probably the father of most of her children."

A different view is seen by Carl K. Hill of Harriman, Tn who says (docum. unknown) that Williams first wife was Susannah Smithers, and after her death married Elizabeth Williams in 1750. Mrs Helen Leona Warwick (decd.), DAR #434304, says William was the first and only child of Sion Hill Jr. and his first wife Elizabeth Browne: Mrs. Warwick further claimed William Hill first married Mary Catlin and had William Catlin Hill, ?in some places referred to as William Jr."2nd wife Susannah Smithers, m 1736, prob. Caroline Co Va, the mother of William Hill (1737-1792) most often known as Rev. William Hill. (Views of C.K. Hill and Mrs. Warwick sent 2/82 by Jane Goldhamer).

The account by William's own son Joshua says, " William married in King George Co., Va. Susan Smither and settled in Caroline Co., where were born of said marriage 10sons and 1dau." Although it is unknown to this compiler when Elizabeth Williams was first suggested as William's 2nd wife, it may be that Daniel Brown Hill was the source of the original confusion.

Genealogical papers of Lottie Garner Hart in Tennessee State Library include the following (summarized but not quoted by Davis C. Hill). Dr. Hill of Mi in 86th year caused Mrs. Theresa Ewin Perkins in her DAR papers to list William Hill and Elizabeth Williams, and William Hickman and Mildred Smith as ancestors, in addition to other inaccuracies. "In his youth (DBH) had lived in Williamson Co., Tennessee and doubtless heard of his great aunts. Mildred Smith and Elizabeth Williams, daughters of William Hickman, and he made them (great grandmothers).

In any event, Susannah Smither's surname was preserved as part of the name of a son, Thomas Smither Hill, of a daughter of Joshua Hill, b.1799 and of a daughter of Dan Hill, b.1800. As both sons of William, Joshua and Dan, had been born some years after the date seen for his "second Marriage to Elizabeth Williams, usage of the Smither name for children born half a century later strongly implies that Susannah was mother of most of William's children, despite the gap between Elizabeth (b.1747) and Robert (b.1752). Williams will, made 1777, does not mention any wife, so presumably Susannah had died before this.

Prior to the Revelotionary War the Family moved to Surry Co., N.C. (Joshua's account says in 1772). William was a delegate from Surry Co. to the Provincial Congress which met at Hillsborough NC on 20 Aug.1775 to set up the first self-governing Commonwealth, independent of British authority, among the 13 American colonies. He was an Episcopalian. In 4/90 Davis C. Hill of Nashville Tn pointed out that some statements in the Joshua Hill Foster papers (JH Rec.) require revision of previous listing of William's Children: JH Rec. states William
Document: Marshall 0394, pg. 2

had 10 sons and 1daughter, named in the following sequence.

Date of Probate February 1787 in Surry County, North Carolina.
Capt.: A. Rev.War-Pen#16659
Burial: E.R. Voss Farm, formerly, Shore Hill Farm, Germtown, Surry County, North Carolina

More About BRIDGET HEARN MULLINAX:
Widow OF: John Mullinax m: May 1, 1718

Notes for SUSANNA SMITHER:
Prior to the Revolutionary War the family moved to Surry Co., NC (Joshua's account says in 1772). William was a delegate from Surry Co., NC to the Provincial Congress which met at Hillsborough, N.C. on 20 Aug. 1775 to set up the first self-governing Commonwealth, independent of British authority, among the 13 American colonies. He was an Episcopalian.

The marriage to Susannah Smither probably took place about 1776: she was born ca. 1716, and is believed to have been a dau of Thomas Smithers and Susannah Singleton. The will of Robert Singleton of Gloucester Co., Va., dated 15 Apr. 1724, proved 25 Mar. 1725, names his wife Elizabeth, and among other children, a daughter "Susanna the wife of Thomas Smither".

Also, Thomas Smither was Susannah's father is inferred from the name of her second child. The times and places provide circumstantial possibility to support this assumption. May 7 1742 George & Mary [Singleton] Foster sold their 150ac to John Gregg; rec Prince Wm Va. 1751 Susanna [Singleton] Smither Caroline Co Va & John Smither [her son] sold her part of the land. Joshua left his 300ac to his sons, Robert & Stanley Singleton. Mary [Singleton] Foster was Susannah?s sister.

Burial: E.R. Voss Farm, formerly, Shore Hill Farm, Germtown, Surry County, North Carolina

Find-A-Grave Memorial #82163990

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82163990/william-francis-hill






Find-A-Grave Memorial #82163990

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82163990/william-francis-hill

William married Suzannah SMITHERS in 1736. Suzannah (daughter of Thomas SHITHERS and Susanna SINGLETON) was born about 1715 in Caroline County, Virginia; died before 1799 in Surry County, North Carolina; was buried in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 781

Notes:

Marshall 0001

Marshall 0007, Pg. 116 & 280 - "The Heritage of Surry County, North Carolina;
Volumn I - 1983. Editor, Hester Bartlett Jackson.

From: "Nena Smothers"
Subject: Will of Jesse Hill, 1820 SC
Date: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:45 AM

Descendants of William Hill
1 William HILL b: in MD d: May 06, 1720 in Middlesex Co., VA
+ANN(E) b: in Prob VA. d: Jan 15 1725/26 in Middlesex Co VA.

2. William HILL, Sr b Abt 1710 Middlesex Co VA d 1787 Surry Co NC
+Elizabeth WILLIAMS
*2nd Wife of William HILL, Sr.:
.. +Researchers are debating THIS m: May 01 1718
. *3rd Wife of William HILL, Sr.:
... +Susanna SMITHERS b: Abt. 1715 in Caroline Co Va m Abt 1736 prob
Caroline Co NC d Bef 1799




Marshall 0394, pg. 1, 2

1. WILLIAM HILL5 SR. (SION4 HILL, SION W.3, ROBERT2, ROBERT1) was born 1710 in Caroline County, Virginia, and died February 1787 in Surry County, North Carolina. He married (1) ELIZABETH WILLIAMS Abt. 1718 in Virginia. He married (2) BRIDGET HEARN MULLINAX April 24, 1729 in Middlesex County, Virginia. He married (3) SUSANNA SMITHERS 1736 in King George County, Virginia. She was born 1716 in Caroline County, Va., and died Aft. 1786 in Surry County, North Carolina.

Notes for WILLIAM HILL SR.: JH. Records say, " William Hill m. a widow in (Middlesex Co.). She had a grown son...morning after marriage to (Hill) she brought her apron full of money and poured it into his lap, saying 'give my son 50L of that." (N.B.: any grown son would have to have been from a marriage ever prior to that to Mullinax, thus Bridget must have been several years older than William Hill). Hill researchers prior to Mr. Luck?s discovery had not noticed this marriage. It is not known when she died.

Other marriages of William Hill have been subject of diverse views. Worth S. Ray, Tn Cousins, remarked with documentation, " there is a tradition that the wife of William Hill was an Elizabeth Williams but it was later concluded that he married a Susannah Smithers, and the later version has been generally accepted by the Hill family, but it seems plain to me that he probably had as his first wife the Elizabeth Williams, by whom he had at least one son (or more), and after her decease married the Smithers, who was probably the father of most of her children."

A different view is seen by Carl K. Hill of Harriman, Tn who says (docum. unknown) that Williams first wife was Susannah Smithers, and after her death married Elizabeth Williams in 1750. Mrs Helen Leona Warwick (decd.), DAR #434304, says William was the first and only child of Sion Hill Jr. and his first wife Elizabeth Browne: Mrs. Warwick further claimed William Hill first married Mary Catlin and had William Catlin Hill, ?in some places referred to as William Jr."2nd wife Susannah Smithers, m 1736, prob. Caroline Co Va, the mother of William Hill (1737-1792) most often known as Rev. William Hill. (Views of C.K. Hill and Mrs. Warwick sent 2/82 by Jane Goldhamer).

The account by William's own son Joshua says, " William married in King George Co., Va. Susan Smither and settled in Caroline Co., where were born of said marriage 10sons and 1dau." Although it is unknown to this compiler when Elizabeth Williams was first suggested as William's 2nd wife, it may be that Daniel Brown Hill was the source of the original confusion.

Genealogical papers of Lottie Garner Hart in Tennessee State Library include the following (summarized but not quoted by Davis C. Hill). Dr. Hill of Mi in 86th year caused Mrs. Theresa Ewin Perkins in her DAR papers to list William Hill and Elizabeth Williams, and William Hickman and Mildred Smith as ancestors, in addition to other inaccuracies. "In his youth (DBH) had lived in Williamson Co., Tennessee and doubtless heard of his great aunts. Mildred Smith and Elizabeth Williams, daughters of William Hickman, and he made them (great grandmothers).

In any event, Susannah Smither's surname was preserved as part of the name of a son, Thomas Smither Hill, of a daughter of Joshua Hill, b.1799 and of a daughter of Dan Hill, b.1800. As both sons of William, Joshua and Dan, had been born some years after the date seen for his "second Marriage to Elizabeth Williams, usage of the Smither name for children born half a century later strongly implies that Susannah was mother of most of William's children, despite the gap between Elizabeth (b.1747) and Robert (b.1752). Williams will, made 1777, does not mention any wife, so presumably Susannah had died before this.

Prior to the Revelotionary War the Family moved to Surry Co., N.C. (Joshua's account says in 1772). William was a delegate from Surry Co. to the Provincial Congress which met at Hillsborough NC on 20 Aug.1775 to set up the first self-governing Commonwealth, independent of British authority, among the 13 American colonies. He was an Episcopalian. In 4/90 Davis C. Hill of Nashville Tn pointed out that some statements in the Joshua Hill Foster papers (JH Rec.) require revision of previous listing of William's Children: JH Rec. states William
Document: Marshall 0394, pg. 2

had 10 sons and 1daughter, named in the following sequence.

Date of Probate February 1787 in Surry County, North Carolina.
Capt.: A. Rev.War-Pen#16659
Burial: E.R. Voss Farm, formerly, Shore Hill Farm, Germtown, Surry County, North Carolina

More About BRIDGET HEARN MULLINAX:
Widow OF: John Mullinax m: May 1, 1718

Notes for SUSANNA SMITHER:
Prior to the Revolutionary War the family moved to Surry Co., NC (Joshua's account says in 1772). William was a delegate from Surry Co., NC to the Provincial Congress which met at Hillsborough, N.C. on 20 Aug. 1775 to set up the first self-governing Commonwealth, independent of British authority, among the 13 American colonies. He was an Episcopalian.

The marriage to Susannah Smither probably took place about 1776: she was born ca. 1716, and is believed to have been a dau of Thomas Smithers and Susannah Singleton. The will of Robert Singleton of Gloucester Co., Va., dated 15 Apr. 1724, proved 25 Mar. 1725, names his wife Elizabeth, and among other children, a daughter "Susanna the wife of Thomas Smither".

Also, Thomas Smither was Susannah's father is inferred from the name of her second child. The times and places provide circumstantial possibility to support this assumption. May 7 1742 George & Mary [Singleton] Foster sold their 150ac to John Gregg; rec Prince Wm Va. 1751 Susanna [Singleton] Smither Caroline Co Va & John Smither [her son] sold her part of the land. Joshua left his 300ac to his sons, Robert & Stanley Singleton. Mary [Singleton] Foster was Susannah?s sister.

Burial: E.R. Voss Farm, formerly, Shore Hill Farm, Germtown, Surry County, North Carolina
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The Find-A-Grave website says that her burial was a Non-Cenetary Burial in Stokes County.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65524148/susannah-hill

Notes:

From: "Nena Smothers"
Subject: Will of Jesse Hill, 1820 SC
Date: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:45 AM

Will of Jesse Hill, abstract - d. 1820, Edgefield Co, SC.

"Edgefield Co, SC Wills 1787-1836" by James E. and Vivian Wooley gives
the following information on the will of Jesse Hill: p. 132 I have not yet
gone to the original]
I, Jesse Hill, being at this time of sound disposing mind and
memory.I will that my just debts and funeral charges be paid. I give to my
beloved wife Elizabeth after my decease to have & to hold all the property
where I now live during her natural life or widowhood. Also I give her a
negro girl named Isable, I desire that in case my wife should die without
heirs of my body that the land and Isable with her increase to revert bact
to here after named legatees.
I give unto my daughter Susannah Cosey a tract of land beginning
at the road where it crosses the draw at the head of the branch where I now
live and the lands of John Lyons esq. Also I give her a negro woman
named Phebe & a boy named Sharper....I give unto my daughter Saley Garrett
all that tract of land wheron Thomas Garret now lives bound by Stephen White
and the land bought from Susannah Cosey...I give to my daughter Saley Jaur &
the heirs of her body a negro girl named Taby and her increase.I give to my
sons John & William the ballance of my land not already given to be divided
as: John shall have the lower part according to a line marked out by Thomas
Garrett and I will that my son william have the land lying on the north side
of the branch wereon I now live to the line between William and my wife
Elizabeth.I give unto my son John Hill a negro boy called Sam. I give to my
son William Hill a negro boy called Mike. I give to my son Joel a negro boy
called Phillip. I give to my dtr. Elizabeth during her life or widow a negro
girl named Ann. I desire that my negro Patro be hired out until my youngest
son is of age and then to be sold to benefit the estate. I also desire that
my son Joel have a good english education paid out of the estate. I appoint
my son-in-law Thomas Garrett as executor. Signed Jesse Hill.Wit: Joshua
Hill & James Oliver____

Descendants of William Hill
1 William HILL b: in MD d: May 06, 1720 in Middlesex Co., VA
+ANN(E) b: in Prob VA. d: Jan 15 1725/26 in Middlesex Co VA.


Ancestry and desc. of Jesse Hill taken from Richard N. Gookins, "Gookin
Genealogy: Line of William Hill", (Salem, Oregon, Revised Edition,

William married Anne, Virginia. Anne died on 15 Jan 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Descendants of William Hill
1 William HILL b: in MD d: May 06, 1720 in Middlesex Co., VA
+ANN(E) b: in Prob VA. d: Jan 15 1725/26 in Middlesex Co VA.

Notes:

This information comes from Find-A-Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65524148/susannah-hill

Thomas married Susanna SINGLETON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This information comes from Find-A-Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65524148/susannah-hill