HILL NOTES

Date:   Thu Jul 30 1992  03:49:13
From:   Don Moore
To:     All
Subj:   Hill or Cooper of Portsmouth England
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If this message gets that far I wonder if anyone out there, or over there, 
is also interested in Hill, Cooper, Hayne, Burridge, Ferbridge, or Dumper 
names in the Portsmouth, England area.  I have some information but I sure 
would like to get back a few more generations.  Don Moore here on the board 
or 1300 Fairview Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43212-3309 or 1-614-486-4425

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Date:   Sat Sep 19 1992  00:40:00
From:   Eric Knudsen
To:     All
Subj:   Silas HILL
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    I am looking for any information regarding Silas HILL and his
ancestors. He was born January 28, 1771 in New Milford Conn. and
died February 11, 1847 near Picton in Southern Ontario Canada. He
married  Sarah BARKER (whom I do have some information about) and
had 10 children, (David Barker HILL, Lydia Shove HILL, Silas HILL
Jr., Caleb HILL, Harriet HILL, John Stigney HILL, Asa James HILL,
Sarah Jane HILL, Rebecca Arilla HILL, and Phoebe E. HILL) - I have
more information on these people if anyone is interested. Family
tradition states hat he had four unmarried sisters - Sylvia,
Priscilla, Parthenia and ________, who lived at Four Corners, Utica
N.Y. Another sister is believed to have married someone called
PLATT.

Eric Knudsen
8 Daines Place #207
Perth Ontario CANADA
K7H 3H9  
 
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Date:   Fri Oct 02 1992  02:06:34
From:   Eric Knudsen
To:     Jack Sanders
Subj:   SILAS HILL
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Jack Sanders said in a message on Sep 26:

 JS> The Hill family was big in New Milford; descendants may still 
 JS> live there.

 I was very excited to get your message about the New Milford HILL 
 family - HILL is such a common name; I had almost given up hope of 
 being able to trace my family. 

 JS> According to History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, 
 JS> 1703-1882, by Samuel Orcutt, first pulbished in 1882, Silas "removed 
 JS> to Pictou, Canada, where he left numerous descendants." Orcutt's 
 JS> book is available in bigger genealogical libraries, or I can make 
 JS> you necessary copies.

 I would very much appreciate it if you could send me a copy of the 
 relevant pages of the book - I would be glad to pay you all copying 
 and mailing costs.

 JS> The book does not give Father Silas's parents, but says he is 
 JS> descended from John HILL, one of the early settlers of Plymouth, 
 JS> Mass., who was at Dorchester by 1633 and died there in 1664. 

 When you told me that my HILL family had once settled in Dorchester
 I was able to order a reprint of a book "John Hill of Dorchester Ma. 
 & 5 Generations of his Descendants: Also an account of the Hill 
 Family of Poundsford England" by J.G. Bartlett, 1904. (I had known 
 of the book - but not that it was probably about my HILL family.) 

 JS> There is a book called A Genealogical Register of the 
 JS> Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston, 
 JS> published in 1856 by The Rev. Abner Morse, which may well provide 
 JS> you with the details you need to trace back to John Hill. 

    I am going to make an effort to get hold of a copy of this.

    Thank you very much for your help.

 Eric Knudsen
 8 Daines Place #207
 Perth Ontario CANADA
 K7H 3H9