Person:Aaron Hill (8)

HILL, Aaron, s. of Abraham, bp. May 3, 1730. CR1

HILL, Aaron, Dea., [died] Oct. (16, GR1), 1792 (in his 63d y., GR11 [sic, appears to be a typo since no GR11 listed on p. 5]). (Oct. 24, 1792. Smallpox, CR1)
[GR1=Cemetery at Harvard Square]

In memory of
Deacon Aaron Hill
who died October 16
Anno Domini 1792
in the 63^d year
of his age.
[Age 62, so born about 1730.]

"Aaron, the second son [of Abraham Hill and Prudence Hancock], married Susanna Tainter of Watertown. He followed his father's trade, as mason, was deacon of the First Church for twenty years before his death, and was a prominent man. He was selectman during the troublous time of the Revolution, and he it was who was appointed at the March town meeting, in 1776, to attend upon General Washington, to ask him what lands he would like for the use of the camp during the ensuing year, never dreaming that within a fortnight the army would enter Boston and never return to Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hill both died in October, 1792, of the dreaded small-pox."