Person:Joseph Hills (9)

m. 1648
  1. Joseph Hills1649/50 - 1713
  2. Susannah HillsAbt 1651 - 1701
m. Bef 1676
  1. Hannah HillsEst 1676 -
  2. Dorothy HillsAbt 1678 - 1741
  3. Susanna HillsAbt 1680 - 1748/49
  4. Benjamin HillsEst 1682 -
  5. Joseph HillsEst 1685 - Aft 1759
m. Est 1699
  1. Benoni HillsAbt 1701 - 1793
m. Bef 1703
  1. Samuel HillsEst 1703 - Bef 1727
  2. Henry HillsEst 1704 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Joseph Hills
Gender Male
Christening[1][2][3] 17 Mar 1649/50 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1676 to Hannah Edwards
Marriage Est 1699 to Mehitable Hinsdale
Marriage Bef 1703 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Samuel).
to Elizabeth _____
Will[2][4] 2 May 1713
Death[2][5] 8 Nov 1713 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[5] Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[4] Aft 8 Nov 1713 Untotalled; £386-04-06. Taken by Samuel Welles, Richard Smith, Sen., and William Wickham.
Probate[2][4] 7 Dec 1713 Will proved.

The Estate of Joseph Hills, Sr., of Glastonbury

"Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 257.

Hills, Joseph, Sen., Glastonbury. Died 8 November, 1713. Invt. £386-04-06. Taken by Samuel Welles, Richard Smith, Sen., and William Wickham.

Will dated 2 May, 1713: I, Joseph Hills of Glastonbury, do make this my last will and testament: I give unto Joseph Hills, my son, 100 rods in length of my upper lot which I bought of John Coleman. I give unto Benoni Hill part of that upper lot in Glastonbury. I give unto my daughter, Hannah Keeny, and to my daughter Susannah Kilbourn, to each 10 shillings money. I give unto my daughter Dorothy Hollister £6 money. With respect to the children I now have or hereafter may have by my present wife Elizabeth, my will is that they have, hold and enjoy that lot of land whereon I now dwell, with the buildings, fences and trees thereupon (which lot of land I made over to my sd. wife by way of jointure before my marriage with her, in that tenure that the remainder thereof should be to the children that I should happen to have by her). I give to my wife Elizabeth Hill the use and improvement of all my lands until the children come to age to receive them. I give unto my wife, whom I appoint sole executrix, the whole of my moveable estate in goods and chattells, etc. I give unto my son Henry Hill the remaining part of my upper lot joining to my son Joseph Hill.

Joseph Hill Sen., LS.

Witness: Thomas Welles, Thomas Kimberly.

Court Record, Page 163 - 7 December, 1713: Will proven. Joseph Hill, being dissatisfied, appealed to the Superior Court."[4]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 William Hills, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:944.

    Joseph (Hills), bp. 17 March 1649 [HaVR 581] (aged eight on 24 February 1657/8 [WMJ 88]; aged 9 on 14 March 1658/9 [WMJ 148].

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 William Hills, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    584-89.

    Joseph2 Hills (William1), baptized at Hartford, Conn., 17 Mar. 1649/50, died at Glastonbury, Conn., 8 Nov. 1713 in his 64th year (gravestone); married first ----- -----; married second, about 1699, Mehitabel (Hinsdale) Dickinson, born at Medfield, Mass., 18 Oct. 1663, died at Glastonbury, about 1701, daughter of Samuel and Mehitabel (Johnson) Hinsdale, and widow of Sergt. Obadiah Dickinson; married third, about 1703, Elizabeth -----, born about 1673, died at Glastonbury, 8 Apr. (Old Style) 1754, aged about 81 (gravestone, Eastbury).

  3. Hartford Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    157.

    Hills, Joseph, s. William, bp. Mar. 17, 1649 [D:7].
    Hills, Joseph, s. W[illia]m, bp. Mar. 17, 1649 [FFS:3].

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Hills, Joseph, Sen., Glastonbury., in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:225-26.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Joseph Hills, in Find A Grave.