Person:Lucretia Bill (1)

Check the Norwich area for the Bill family.

The information for generations before Lucretia are derived from LDS information, beginning with Thomas Bill, AFN G776-V0. It has not been verified. There is also a serious problem with dates, etc. in this info.

    Thomas Bill b 9 26 1705 Groton, New London, Conn
    son of Phillip and Mary Bill of Ipswich, Essex, Mass and Groton, New London, Conn
    m
    Abigail

Ch: born between 1720 and 1740 - all in Groton or Montville, Conn.

    Abigail        Lucretia (1729)
    Jabez          Bashua
    Charles        Philena
    Lucretia (1727)   Susanna
    Pricilla       Jabez
    Abigail        Charles
    Bethshua       William
    Susanna       Priscilla
    Anna      Susannah

Another record (Batch #7624608, Sheet 5) gives Lucretia's birth as 9 Mar, 1729, Groton, New London, Conn.

Baker makes reference to gravestones of Lucretia and some other Holmeses in "the old Salem burying-ground".

From the Thompson Family Magazine, Vol 2 No 3 July 1963 p. 49

William (4) Thompson, youngest child of Isaac and Anna (Stanton) Thompson of Montville Conn. was born July 2, 1742 and was bapt. Aug. 1742 at the 1st Church Stonington Conn.. He married Lucretia (perhaps daughter of Samuel and Lucretia (Bill) Holmes). No dates are known for Lucretia Thompson. William died in 1834. In the 1790 census of New London Co. Conn., William was listed with 3 males of 16 and over (including himself), none under 16 and one female, which would indicate that Lucretia had died.

References: Stonington Vital and Chruch Records New London Vital, Chruch, Land and Probate Records Conn. Census Records History of Montville Conn., by Henry Baker Michigan Cemetery Records

From Ledyard Bill's "History of the Bill Family", pub. 1867, reprinted 1980, at the Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse, New York

It has an entry for Thomas and Abigail Bill with daughter Lucretia, but no information on Lucretia. [This information is included in this database.]

From Margaret Harris Stover's article on Samuel Holmes of Montville, Connecticut in the Mayflower Quarterly (references omitted)

A Holmes biographical sketch gives her name as Lucretia Bill. The will of Thomas Bill, dated 6 Nov 1753, names daughter Lucretia (no surname) among other heirs.

1. ↑ Researcher Elaine Tillquist Pavone (Driver).

   Elaine Tillquist Pavone, William S. Harbold, Rich Holmes

2. ↑ Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County Connecticut. (J. H. Beers & Co. Chicago, 1905).
3. ↑ Hale Collection
   Wesley Brown Cemetery 317-7, p. 17.
4. ↑ Henry A. Baker. History of Montville, Connecticut. (Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford Conn 1896)
   p. 329.
5. ↑ Ledyard Bill. History of the Bill Family. (75 Fulton Street, New York 1867).
6. ↑ Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Quarterly
   Sept, 2000. Samuel Holmes of Montville, Connecticut by Margaret Harris Stover, C.G.