Person:Ephraim Hill (10)

Name^[3]	Capt. Ephraim Hill
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	5 Nov 1688	Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	15 Jun 1715	Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Hannah Sheffield
Death^[2]	18 Apr 1760	Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
p. 61.

HILL, Ephraim, s. Samuell and Ha[nnah], [born] Nov. 5, 1688.
↑ Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Douglas, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1906)
p. 176.

HILL, Capt. Ephraim, [died] April 18, 1760.
↑ Emerson, William A. History of the town of Douglas (Massachusetts): from the earliest period to the close of 1878. (Boston: F.W. Bird, 1879)
p. 29, 155.

Ephraim Hill, s/o Samuel Hill and Hannah Twitchell, d 18 Apr 1760, m. 15 Jun 1715 Hannah Sheffield. "Mr. Ephraim Hill was the first white man that settled in Douglass, and in 1721 the town of Sherborn granted him twenty acres of the 4,000-acre grant, in consideration of this fact."
Source:Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, p. 979, says Capt. Ephraim Hill died 1795 aged 107. The probate file in 1795 clearly belongs to the son Ephraim based on the heirs named, and the death record of Capt. Hill in 1760 is found in Douglas VRs. So this is clearly wrong.