Person:Ralph Hill (10)

Ralph Hill's house was at the crest of a slope leading down to the Concord River. Today it is approximately mid-point of State Route 3. Midway between the Concord River and Concord RoadHill Families Search By DNA For Their Roots: A DNA test was taken of Richard Hill, for the HILL FAMILY DNA PROJECT. We have since found a male HILL, who is a cousin of Jan Saunders, who was a 25/25 markers DNA match with Richard Hill. Jan, and her cousin, Ralph Hill, are proven descendants of Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony Plymouth Plantation, in 1638. The 25/25 DNA markers match proved that our ancestor William Hill, I, of Fayette Co, and Crawford, Co, PA, from 1783-1807, who married Mary Rittenhouse?, and Ralph Hill born about 1600, died 1663 were related. It meant that we may belong to the same family clan, or tribe of HILLs. Both have now had 37 DNA marker tests taken, and the results came in, in January 2006. Jan's cousin Ralph Hill and Richard Hill show 36/37 markers match with the Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony in 1638. This means that we are very closely related.

Dorian Hill, a descendant of Jonathan Hill, whose family came with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co, IL, entered his DNA about this time, and has, also proved a 36/37 DNA marker match with Ralph Hill and Richard Hill. This means that they are all from the same family clan, or tribe of HILLs. We have all now, January 2007, received our 67 DNA marker tests, and they have proved to be 66/67 DNA marker matches! Very few people achieve this close level of a match. It is believed that Richard?s ancestor, William Hill?s DNA, may be the base line of this Hill family. Jan?s, Ralph Hill, is only off ?1? marker and that is in the ?CDYa? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?1?, while Dorian?s, Jonathan is off ?1? marker in the ?CDYb? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?2?.

William Hill, I, of Fayette, and Crawford Co?s in PA, and Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Plantation, MA in 1638, and Jonathan Hill, whom we believe came with William?s son, Peter Hill in 1807 to St. Clair Co, IL, are all very closely related.

Distance Relation Explanation - 1, Closely Related 36/37 You share the same surname or a variant with another male and you mismatch by only one 'point' at only one marker--a 36/37 match. It's most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on a previous Y-DNA test and your mismatch will be found within DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb. Very few people achieve this close level of a match.

Richard Hill's Family Tree DNA Certificate - Y-DNA - They sent with it an article about "Understanding your 37 markers." They give a chart: "Number of matching markers". Jan's cousin, Ralph, and Richard's markers showing a 66/67 marker match; Dorian Hill also shows a 66/67 marker match. Richard is the 7th generation back counting William Hill, Sr. - Ralph is the 10th generation back counting Ralph Hill, of Plymouth Colony in 1638. Dorian is the 6th generation back counting Jonathan Hill. Was Jonathan Hill, a nephew or cousin of William Hill, Sr.[--?--] According to the Chart - There is a 90% probability that the MRCA Most Recent Common Ancestor lived no longer than 8 generations ago. - There is a 95% probability that the MRCA lived no longer than 10 generations ago. This is a remarkable match, and there is a very great chance that we need only 1 to 3 generations to find the link. At least we can be pretty sure that it may not be longer than 10 or 11 generations ago altogether.

The remarkable thing about all of this is that none of us know one another, and have never met! We have found one another through the Hill Family DNA Project. We have always heard that another Hill family traveled with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co, IL about 1807-1808, and it is believed that this was the family was Jonathan Hill.

"Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, etc." by Donna Valley Russell: "Ralph Hill, one of the founders of Billerica, Middlesex, MA, was the progenitor of a large family of landowners and farmers, most of whom stayed in Billerica through the fifth generation. They took an active part in town affairs, attended the church services at the Meeting House, and were responsible in matters of defense against Indian attack in the 1665-1710 period, in the French and Indian Wars, and later in the Revolution. "In the absence of personal records, we can only speculate as to why people move from one place to another, except to say that they expect to better their lives economically and/or find an environment more sympathetic to their views. Ralph Hill's reasons for leaving Britain and Plymouth Colony, only a few years later, to join the settlement at Woburn, may have been religious. Less than ten years later, about 1652-3, he moved to Billerica, located between the Concord and Shawshin Rivers a few miles northwest of Woburn. This new area, the Shawshin wilderness, was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1644, although several large individual grants had been made earlier. Cambridge made several additional large grants to individuals, but did not occupy the wilderness immediately. Actual settlement was precipitated in 1651/2 by sale of the early grant to Governor Dudley, the Dudley Farm of 1500 acres. Dudley's heirs sold it to three Woburn men, noe of whom finally settled in Billerica. They laid out Billerica's first subdivision of twelve lots and sold them to others from Woburn William Chamberlain, George Farley, Ralph Hill, Henry Jefts, and John Stearns and Cambridge Richard Champncy, William French, and Robert Parker. These men formed the nucleus of the "now inhabitants of Shawshin" who, in October 1654, petitioned for additional land west of the Concord River; favorable action on this petition in May 1655 is taken to be the act of incorporation of Billerica. "Dr. Charles E. Stearns, Billerica historian and a Hill descendant, has generously given me advice and information, much taken from the family papers in his possession. "Accounts of some branches of the family have been published. The Rev. Henry A. Hazen's 'History of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss". Boston, 1883, is fairly accurate but abbreviated. A short sketch of Ralph Hill's immediate family is included under The Toothaker Line" in Mary Lovering Holman's Pillsbury genealogy. A lineage called The Hill Family of Hounston, Somersetshire, and Heligan, Cornwall, in England, and of Wellingsley, Plymouth Colony, and Billerica, Middlesex Co, in New England" appears in Mackenzie's Colonial Families, in which the authors claim a long English ancestry for Ralph and his alleged brother Thomas. Richard Spencer's "Memoirs of Charles E. Hill Baltimore, 1919 makes the same claims. I am reluctant to accept the English background given in these accounts; dates and places are vague and scattered and no documentation is offered. But even more pertinent to the present study is the claim in the latter two accounts that Ebenezer Hill, the "Little Minister" of Mason, N.H., descends from this line. I found no proof that this is a valid lineage and much evidence that it is not...etc. "Hazen and others have suggested that Ralph Hill came from Billericay, Essex Co, England. This suggestion is based on the association of Billericay with the "Mayflower"[1] and the possibility that Hill, as one of the founders of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss., was responsible for naming the town after his home in England[2]. Hazen further cites records of a clergyman from Billericay by the same name[3]. Research in the parish registers at the Society of Genealogists of London, as well as the International Genealogical Index IGI files of the LDS Church, shows a large Hill family, and even occurrences of the name Ralph Hill, in Billericay, Great Burstead, Chigwell, and other neighboring towns, and Billericay literature states Hill was from a town near Chelmsford, but nothing even remotely conclusive could be gleaned. "Also, because Ralph Hill calls William French 'brother' in his will, this connection was explored, but the French family's origins have not been established[4]. Much more work needs to be done in parish and probate records to validate any allegations about Hill's origin in England. The answer is not in the IGI files, which were examined Co by Co for all of England, and found nonproductive, with one possible exception[5]. "We know nothing of Hill's first wife, except that she has been called a relative of William French, nor do we have any passenger list for him and his two children, Jane and Ralph and possibly his first wife. We know that he was in Plymouth Colony by 7 August 1638, when he was granted five acres of land at Woeberry Plaine and a garden place at Wellingsly, abutting on the south lands owned by John Allen and Margrett Toothaker[6]. The following 21 December 1638 he married the widow Margaret Toothaker[7], whose name is found among the passengers on the 'Hopewell,' aged 28, along with her husband, Roger Toothaker, aged 23, and a son Roger, aged 1 year, enrolled 11 September 1636[8] s/b 1635. Roger Toothaker died between that date and 5 February 1638[9], when 'Margret Toothaker widdow' was granted a garden place at Wellingsley and six acres at Woeberry Plaine[9]. On 4 September 1638, she, John Weeks, and John Allen were presented at the Court of Assistants for 'stopping the heighway that goeth to Manomett[11]."

I personally believe that Margaret Toothaker's maiden name was French, and that William French was Margaret's brother. The Toothaker's Genealogy gives the wife of Roger Toothaker as Margaret French, whom he married 16 July 1627 in Halstead, Essex, England. We have found a DNA 23/25 match with a Warren E. French. The probability that Richard K. Hill and Warren E. French shared a common ancestor within the last 300 years is 53.69%, 400 years is 71.98%, 500 years is 84.10%, and 600 years is 91.40%.

con. "Apparently they stayed in Plymouth until at least 17 September 1643, when Ralph Hill of Wellingsley sold to Steeven Wood, planter of Plymouth, his house, outhouses, garden places adjoining, and the 12 acres of upland at Wobery for L12[11]. In the same year he took the oath of fidelity there[12]. "He next appears in Woburn, Middlesex Co, as a Selectman on 19 February 1644/5[13]. On the 22nd of the 10th month December 1646, he was charged a tax of 6 shillings 5 pence[14], apparently on a house he sold to Richard Snow in 1659[15]. He was made a freeman in Woburn in 1647 and by 1654 he was one of the first settlers of Billerica. "Ralph Hill's name appears on several documents concerned with the founding of Billerica. He signed a petition for Shawshin to be renamed Billerica, not dated, but received by the General Court 23 8 1654[2]. At a town meeting 16 6 1658, he voted to hire Samuel Whiting, Jr. as the first pastor; his name appears Forst on this document. He reaffirmed his loyalty to King Charles II at the time of the Restoration in 1660, one of the two or three able to sign his name. He was a selectman in the first list of town officers for 1659-60, and his name is signed to papers relating to the laying out of the road to Woburn 9 September 1660 and surveying the Andover and Chelmsford boundaries. Also in that year he was involved in setting up the Meeting House on 27 7 1660, and in 1663 he paid a rate of 3s 12d for the minister's salary[17]. The first division of land was of the 1500-acre Dudley Farm; Ralph bought one and one-half lots, including 1 118 acres of upland bounded on the north by George Farley, east by William French, and west by Concord River, where he settled, and 2 60 acres of upland between the great pond near Cambridge bounds and Robert Parker[18], and 3 four separate parcels of meadow. This is the 1-1/2 'lots' referred to in later deeds; that he bought additional lots of which there is no records is implied by his description of the second parcel in his will as 'two half-lots,' and by the determination in 1685 that his heirs Nathaniel and Jonathan each held 12-1/2-acre rights in the division of common lands one lot on the Dudley Farm was the basis for the 10-acre right[19] . On 6 9 1655, he requested the Town Committee to grant to his son Ralph, Jr. a parcel of land to build his house on, at the south end of his own house lot; it was granted[20]. In April 1663, he gave one-half acre of land at the northeast corner of his homestead to the town for a cemetery now part of the Old South Burying Ground. He was buried there later that month[3]. "Ralph Hill made his will 18 November 1662 and died the following April. It was probated 12 November 1663; executors were his sons Nathaniel and Jonathan; overseers were William Tay and John Parker and 'my brother.' Richard French, witnessed by George Farley and John Parker. he left to his wife, Margaret her thirds of land, meadows, and buildings, and one cow. His son Ralph was given L23 'due from the land I sold at Woburn, his full portion.' Son Nathaniel was to have the land toward Concord and one-third of 'my improvable land until he has broken and fenced up land of his own'; also 5 acres of meadow next to Ralph's. Son Jonathan received the rest of the land and houses and Hill's Meadow. Son-in-law and stepson Roger Toothaker was to have the 33-1/2 acres of land lying in the common field and some at Shawshin River. Daughter Martha L20; to Benjamin Parker was devised Long Meadow; each grandchild 15sh except Elizabeth Hill, who was to have 20sh at age 12; daughter Rebecca Hill L30; and grandchild Mary Littlefield L15[21]. "In the following account, unless otherwise stated, all towns in MA and all vital records cited are from the official series of published records; they will not be referenced separately. "Ralph Hill was probably born in England and died testate in Billerica 29 April 1663. He married first in England [name [--?--]] and second in Plymouth Colony 21 December 1638 Margaret [------], widow of Roger Toothaker. She was born in England between 1597 and 1610 and died in Billerica 22 November 1683, aged 88 years. She came to America with her husband and son, Roger, aged 1 year, sailing from London on the 'Hopewell' 11 September 1635, at which time she gave her age as 28[8].' By Roger Toothaker she had two children, whom Ralph Hill raised: 1 Roger Toothaker, born England ca. 1634; d. in prison at Salem shortly before 16 June 1692, where he was on trial for witchcraft[22]; married at Billerica 9 June 1665 Mary Allen; and 2 Martha Toothaker, born Plymouth ca 1635; d. Billerica 4 January 1703/4; and married there 15 November 1660 Ralph Hill[16]." [See below sources: pg. 30, "Notes and References," 1-22].

The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "THE HILL FAMILY" "Ralph Hill sold September 16, 1643, to Stephen Wood, house and garden, 'upland at Woburn, twelve acres, or thereabouts,' and we afterwards find him in Woburn, where he was freeman in 1647,and selectman in 1649. He joined in the settlement of Shoshine Cambridge at an early date, and lived on 'the farm' a mile southwest of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where his descendant, Mrs. Judkins, now lives. "In April, 1663, he gave the town one-half acre of land for a 'burying place,' and on the twenty-ninth he died, his own body perhaps the first to be laid in the 'South burying ground'. "His wife died, and he married, at Plymouth, 12-31-1638, Margaret, widow of Dr. Roger Toothacre. The Toothacres came in the 'Hopewell', 9-16-1635, he aged twenty-three, and she aged twenty-eight, with a son Roger, aged one year. Dr. Roger died soon after. Lands were granted to hi widow, Margaret, 2-5-1637/8. She married that same year Ralph Hill. She died November 22, 1683, aged seventy-six years. "They had 'child Jane, b. in England.' In his will, dated September 12, 1663, Billerica, Ralph Hill mentions a 'granddaughter Mary Littlefield,' 'Ralph,' 'Martha,' 'Nathaniel,' 'Jonathan b. April 20, 1646,' 'Rebecca who m. Caleb Farley,' 'sonne Roger Toothacre,' ' gr.child Elizabeth Hill, brother William Franch'..."

SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@comcast.net; pg. 30, Notes and References: [1] R. J. Carpenter, "Christopher Martin, Great Burstead, and the Mayflower Chelmsford, Eng., 1982 is the most recent and includes all the information in earlier publications seen by the compiler, all published in England: i.e., Grant and Wynford, Billerica and the Mayflower 1962." [2] Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss. with a "Genealogical Register" Boston, 1883, pp. 16-19. [3] Ibid., "Gen. Register, p. 68, which abstracts information about a Ralph Hill, clergyman, during the1640's, taken from David's "Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, p. 440. [4] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England: French," "New England Historical and Genealogical register hereafter NEHGR 65:284-6." [5] A family found in Binfield, Berkshire, coincides in many ways with the family that came to Plymouth: Ralphe Hill m. there 2 Aug. 1616 Johan Trebbick. 4 children rec. 1st Jane, bp. 8 Nov. 1616; 2nd Johan, bp. 17 Sept. 1620; 3rd Margaret, bp. 22 Jan. 1625; 4th Ralph, bp. 8 Apr. 1627. Binfield Parish Register. [6] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England Boston, 1866, 1:93. [7] Ibid., 1:107. [8] John Camden Hotten, "Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 1874, p. 130. Tho. Babb was master of the "Hopewell." [9] Shurtleff, "Plymouth," p. 76. [10] Ibid., p. 98. [11] David Pulsifer, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Deeds" Boston, 1861, 1:96 [12] "Plymouth Colony Records 1633-1689: Misc. Records" Boston, 1857, 8:181. [13] Proprietors' records, Woburn Town Hall, p. 8. [14] Ibid., p. 10. [15] George N. Mackenzie, "Colonial Families of the USA" New York-Boston, 1907, 1:237-9. [16] Mary Lovering Holmes, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" 1938, 2:1005-9. [17] Hazen, "Billerica," pp. 23, 185, 153, 156, 59, 88, 75. [18] Middlesex Co Deeds, Northern Registry [hereafter MD], 2:16. [19] Ibid. 1:17, 20. [20] Middlesex Co Deeds, Southern Registry, 1:59. [21] Middlesex Probate Records [hereafter MPR], no. 11502. [22] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, The Salem Witchcraft Paper New York, 1977, 3:771-2

Other Sources: The Rev. Henry A. Hazen, A. M., Member of the New England Historic, & Genealogical Society, History of Billerica, Middlesex, MA, with A Genealogical Register", Boston: A. Williams and Co, Old Corner Bookstore, © 1883, Pgs. 68-72. The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": The Hill Family"; we have no other information about this book; found on the Internet. Middlesex Co, MA Probate Index, 1648-1870, Ralph Hill, billerica, 1663, Will No. 11502. P. William Filby, edit. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Research, 2003; "Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750," by Frederick A. Virkus; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1964, 75p. Repr. 1985, Page 38, source Publication: 9448, Ralph Hill, 1638, Plymouth, MA.Ralph Hill, one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony, came from England before 1638: sold his land at Wellingsley, a locality of Plymouth, 16 September, 1643; admitted freeman of Woburn 1647; selectman 1649; with his son, Ralph, was one of the signers of the petition to Governor Bellingham and the General Court, which resulted in the grant and settlement of Billerica in 1653. He was twice married. Hill Families Search By DNA For Their Roots: A DNA test was taken of Richard Hill, for the HILL FAMILY DNA PROJECT. We have since found a male HILL, who is a cousin of Jan Saunders, who was a 25/25 markers DNA match with Richard Hill. Jan, and her cousin, Ralph Hill, are proven descendants of Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony (Plymouth Plantation), in 1638. The 25/25 DNA markers match proved that our ancestor William Hill, I, of Fayette County, and Crawford, County, Pennsylvania, from 1783-1807, who married Mary (Rittenhouse?), and Ralph Hill (born about 1600, died 1663) were related. It meant that we may belong to the same family (clan, or tribe) of HILLs. Both have now had 37 DNA marker tests taken, and the results came in, in January 2006. Jan's cousin Ralph Hill and Richard Hill show 36/37 markers match with the Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony in 1638. This means that we are very closely related.

Dorian Hill, a descendant of Jonathan Hill, whose family came with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co., IL, entered his DNA about this time, and has, also proved a 36/37 DNA marker match with Ralph Hill and Richard Hill. This means that they are all from the same family (clan, or tribe) of HILLs. We have all now, January 2007, received our 67 DNA marker tests, and they have proved to be 66/67 DNA marker matches! Very few people achieve this close level of a match. It is believed that Richard?s ancestor, William Hill?s DNA, may be the base line of this Hill family. Jan?s, Ralph Hill, is only off ?1? marker and that is in the ?CDYa? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?1?, while Dorian?s, Jonathan is off ?1? marker in the ?CDYb? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?2?.

William Hill, I, of Fayette, and Crawford Co.?s in Pennsylvania, and Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts in 1638, and Jonathan Hill, whom we believe came with William?s son, Peter Hill in 1807 to St. Clair Co., Illinois, are all very closely related.

Distance Relation Explanation - 1, Closely Related 36/37 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male and you mismatch by only one 'point' at only one marker--a 36/37 match. It's most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on a previous Y-DNA test and your mismatch will be found within DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb. Very few people achieve this close level of a match.

Richard Hill's Family Tree DNA Certificate - Y-DNA - They sent with it an article about "Understanding your 37 markers." They give a chart: "Number of matching markers". Jan's cousin, Ralph, and Richard's markers showing a 66/67 marker match; Dorian Hill also shows a 66/67 marker match. Richard is the 7th generation back counting William Hill, Sr. - Ralph is the 10th generation back counting Ralph Hill, of Plymouth Colony in 1638. Dorian is the 6th generation back counting Jonathan Hill. Was Jonathan Hill, a nephew or cousin of William Hill, Sr.? According to the Chart - There is a 90% probability that the MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) lived no longer than 8 generations ago. - There is a 95% probability that the MRCA lived no longer than 10 generations ago. This is a remarkable match, and there is a very great chance that we need only 1 to 3 generations to find the link. At least we can be pretty sure that it may not be longer than 10 or 11 generations ago altogether.

The remarkable thing about all of this is that none of us know one another, and have never met! We have found one another through the Hill Family DNA Project. We have always heard that another Hill family traveled with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair County, Illinois about 1807-1808, and it is believed that this was the family was Jonathan Hill.

"Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, etc." by Donna Valley Russell: "Ralph Hill, one of the founders of Billerica, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of a large family of landowners and farmers, most of whom stayed in Billerica through the fifth generation. They took an active part in town affairs, attended the church services at the Meeting House, and were responsible in matters of defense against Indian attack in the 1665-1710 period, in the French and Indian Wars, and later in the Revolution. "In the absence of personal records, we can only speculate as to why people move from one place to another, except to say that they expect to better their lives economically and/or find an environment more sympathetic to their views. Ralph Hill's reasons for leaving Britain and Plymouth Colony, only a few years later, to join the settlement at Woburn, may have been religious. Less than ten years later, about 1652-3, he moved to Billerica, located between the Concord and Shawshin Rivers a few miles northwest of Woburn. This new area, the Shawshin wilderness, was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1644, although several large individual grants had been made earlier. Cambridge made several additional large grants to individuals, but did not occupy the wilderness immediately. Actual settlement was precipitated in 1651/2 by sale of the early grant to Governor Dudley, the Dudley Farm of 1500 acres. Dudley's heirs sold it to three Woburn men, noe of whom finally settled in Billerica. They laid out Billerica's first subdivision of twelve lots and sold them to others from Woburn (William Chamberlain, George Farley, Ralph Hill, Henry Jefts, and John Stearns) and Cambridge (Richard Champncy, William French, and Robert Parker). These men formed the nucleus of the "now inhabitants of Shawshin" who, in October 1654, petitioned for additional land west of the Concord River; favorable action on this petition in May 1655 is taken to be the act of incorporation of Billerica. "Dr. Charles E. Stearns, Billerica historian and a Hill descendant, has generously given me advice and information, much taken from the family papers in his possession. "Accounts of some branches of the family have been published. The Rev. Henry A. Hazen's 'History of Billerica, Mass". (Boston, 1883), is fairly accurate but abbreviated. A short sketch of Ralph Hill's immediate family is included under "The Toothaker Line" in Mary Lovering Holman's Pillsbury genealogy. A lineage called "The Hill Family of Hounston, Somersetshire, and Heligan, Cornwall, in England, and of Wellingsley, Plymouth Colony, and Billerica, Middlesex County, in New England" appears in Mackenzie's Colonial Families, in which the authors claim a long English ancestry for Ralph and his alleged brother Thomas. Richard Spencer's "Memoirs of Charles E. Hill (Baltimore, 1919) makes the same claims. I am reluctant to accept the English background given in these accounts; dates and places are vague and scattered and no documentation is offered. But even more pertinent to the present study is the claim in the latter two accounts that Ebenezer Hill, the "Little Minister" of Mason, N.H., descends from this line. I found no proof that this is a valid lineage and much evidence that it is not...etc. "Hazen and others have suggested that Ralph Hill came from Billericay, Essex County, England. This suggestion is based on the association of Billericay with the "Mayflower"[1] and the possibility that Hill, as one of the founders of Billerica, Mass., was responsible for naming the town after his home in England[2]. Hazen further cites records of a clergyman from Billericay by the same name[3]. Research in the parish registers at the Society of Genealogists of London, as well as the International Genealogical Index (IGI) files of the LDS Church, shows a large Hill family, and even occurrences of the name Ralph Hill, in Billericay, Great Burstead, Chigwell, and other neighboring towns, and Billericay literature states Hill was from a town near Chelmsford, but nothing even remotely conclusive could be gleaned. "Also, because Ralph Hill calls William French 'brother' in his will, this connection was explored, but the French family's origins have not been established[4]. Much more work needs to be done in parish and probate records to validate any allegations about Hill's origin in England. The answer is not in the IGI files, which were examined county by county for all of England, and found nonproductive, with one possible exception[5]. "We know nothing of Hill's first wife, except that she has been called a relative of William French, nor do we have any passenger list for him and his two children, Jane and Ralph (and possibly his first wife). We know that he was in Plymouth Colony by 7 August 1638, when he was granted five acres of land at Woeberry Plaine and a garden place at Wellingsly, abutting on the south lands owned by John Allen and Margrett Toothaker[6]. The following 21 December 1638 he married the widow Margaret Toothaker[7], whose name is found among the passengers on the 'Hopewell,' aged 28, along with her husband, Roger Toothaker, aged 23, and a son Roger, aged 1 year, enrolled 11 September 1636[8] (s/b 1635). Roger Toothaker died between that date and 5 February 1638[9], when 'Margret Toothaker widdow' was granted a garden place at Wellingsley and six acres at Woeberry Plaine[9]. On 4 September 1638, she, John Weeks, and John Allen were presented at the Court of Assistants for 'stopping the heighway that goeth to Manomett[11]."

(I personally believe that Margaret Toothaker's maiden name was French, and that William French was Margaret's brother. The Toothaker's Genealogy gives the wife of Roger Toothaker as Margaret French, whom he married 16 July 1627 in Halstead, Essex, England. We have found a DNA 23/25 match with a Warren E. French. The probability that Richard K. Hill and Warren E. French shared a common ancestor within the last 300 years is 53.69%, 400 years is 71.98%, 500 years is 84.10%, and 600 years is 91.40%).

(con.) "Apparently they stayed in Plymouth until at least 17 September 1643, when Ralph Hill of Wellingsley sold to Steeven Wood, planter of Plymouth, his house, outhouses, garden places adjoining, and the 12 acres of upland at Wobery for L12[11]. In the same year he took the oath of fidelity there[12]. "He next appears in Woburn, Middlesex County, as a Selectman on 19 February 1644/5[13]. On the 22nd of the 10th month (December) 1646, he was charged a tax of 6 shillings 5 pence[14], apparently on a house he sold to Richard Snow in 1659[15]. He was made a freeman in Woburn in 1647 and by 1654 he was one of the first settlers of Billerica. "Ralph Hill's name appears on several documents concerned with the founding of Billerica. He signed a petition for Shawshin to be renamed Billerica, not dated, but received by the General Court 23 (8) 1654[2]. At a town meeting 16 (6) 1658, he voted to hire Samuel Whiting, Jr. as the first pastor; his name appears Forst on this document. He reaffirmed his loyalty to King Charles II at the time of the Restoration in 1660, one of the two or three able to sign his name. He was a selectman in the first list of town officers for 1659-60, and his name is signed to papers relating to the laying out of the road to Woburn 9 September 1660 and surveying the Andover and Chelmsford boundaries. Also in that year he was involved in setting up the Meeting House on 27 (7) 1660, and in 1663 he paid a rate of 3s 12d for the minister's salary[17]. "The first division of land was of the 1500-acre Dudley Farm; Ralph bought one and one-half lots, including (1) 118 acres of upland bounded on the north by George Farley, east by William French, and west by Concord River, where he settled, and (2) 60 acres of upland between the great pond near Cambridge bounds and Robert Parker[18], and (3) four separate parcels of meadow. This is the 1-1/2 'lots' referred to in later deeds; that he bought additional lots (of which there is no records) is implied by his description of the second parcel in his will as 'two half-lots,' and by the determination in 1685 that his heirs (Nathaniel and Jonathan) each held 12-1/2-acre rights in the division of common lands (one lot on the Dudley Farm was the basis for the 10-acre right[19] ). On 6 (9) 1655, he requested the Town Committee to grant to his son Ralph, Jr. a parcel of land to build his house on, at the south end of his own house lot; it was granted[20]. In April 1663, he gave one-half acre of land at the northeast corner of his homestead to the town for a cemetery (now part of the Old South Burying Ground). He was buried there later that month[3]. "Ralph Hill made his will 18 November 1662 and died the following April. It was probated 12 November 1663; executors were his sons Nathaniel and Jonathan; overseers were William Tay and John Parker and 'my brother.' Richard French, witnessed by George Farley and John Parker. he left to his wife, Margaret her thirds of land, meadows, and buildings, and one cow. His son Ralph was given L23 'due from the land I sold at Woburn, his full portion.' Son Nathaniel was to have the land toward Concord and one-third of 'my improvable land until he has broken and fenced up land of his own'; also 5 acres of meadow next to Ralph's. Son Jonathan received the rest of the land and houses and Hill's Meadow. Son-in-law (and stepson) Roger Toothaker was to have the 33-1/2 acres of land lying in the common field and some at Shawshin River. Daughter Martha L20; to Benjamin Parker was devised Long Meadow; each grandchild 15sh except Elizabeth Hill, who was to have 20sh at age 12; daughter Rebecca Hill L30; and grandchild Mary Littlefield L15[21]. "In the following account, unless otherwise stated, all towns in Massachusetts and all vital records cited are from the official series of published records; they will not be referenced separately. "Ralph Hill was probably born in England and died testate in Billerica 29 April 1663. He married first in England [name unknown] and second in Plymouth Colony 21 December 1638 Margaret [------], widow of Roger Toothaker. She was born in England between 1597 and 1610 and died in Billerica 22 November 1683, aged 88 years. She came to America with her husband and son, Roger, aged 1 year, sailing from London on the 'Hopewell' 11 September 1635, at which time she gave her age as 28[8].' By Roger Toothaker she had two children, whom Ralph Hill raised: (1) Roger Toothaker, born England ca. 1634; d. in prison at Salem shortly before 16 June 1692, where he was on trial for witchcraft[22]; married at Billerica 9 June 1665 Mary Allen; and (2) Martha Toothaker, born Plymouth ca 1635; d. Billerica 4 January 1703/4; and married there 15 November 1660 Ralph Hill[16]." [See below sources: pg. 30, "Notes and References," 1-22].

"The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "THE HILL FAMILY" "Ralph Hill sold September 16, 1643, to Stephen Wood, house and garden, 'upland at Woburn, twelve acres, or thereabouts,' and we afterwards find him in Woburn, where he was freeman in 1647,and selectman in 1649. He joined in the settlement of Shoshine (Cambridge) at an early date, and lived on 'the farm' a mile southwest of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where his descendant, Mrs. Judkins, now lives. "In April, 1663, he gave the town one-half acre of land for a 'burying place,' and on the twenty-ninth he died, his own body perhaps the first to be laid in the 'South burying ground'. "His wife died, and he married, at Plymouth, 12-31-1638, Margaret, widow of Dr. Roger Toothacre. The Toothacres came in the 'Hopewell', 9-16-1635, he aged twenty-three, and she aged twenty-eight, with a son Roger, aged one year. Dr. Roger died soon after. Lands were granted to hi widow, Margaret, 2-5-1637/8. She married that same year Ralph Hill. She died November 22, 1683, aged seventy-six years. "They had 'child Jane, b. in England.' In his will, dated September 12, 1663, Billerica, Ralph Hill mentions a 'granddaughter Mary Littlefield,' 'Ralph,' 'Martha,' 'Nathaniel,' 'Jonathan (b. April 20, 1646),' 'Rebecca who m. Caleb Farley,' 'sonne Roger Toothacre,' ' gr.child Elizabeth Hill, brother William Franch'..."

SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; (National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@comcast.net); (pg. 30, Notes and References: [1] R. J. Carpenter, "Christopher Martin, Great Burstead, and the Mayflower (Chelmsford, Eng., 1982) is the most recent and includes all the information in earlier publications seen by the compiler, all published in England: i.e., Grant and Wynford, Billerica and the Mayflower (1962)." [2] Henry A. Hazen, "History of Billerica, Mass. with a "Genealogical Register" (Boston, 1883), pp. 16-19. [3] Ibid., "Gen. Register, p. 68, which abstracts information about a Ralph Hill, clergyman, during the1640's, taken from David's "Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, p. 440. [4] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England: French," "New England Historical and Genealogical register (hereafter NEHGR) 65:284-6." [5] A family found in Binfield, Berkshire, coincides in many ways with the family that came to Plymouth: Ralphe Hill m. there 2 Aug. 1616 Johan Trebbick. 4 children rec. (1st) Jane, bp. 8 Nov. 1616; (2nd) Johan, bp. 17 Sept. 1620; (3rd) Margaret, bp. 22 Jan. 1625; (4th) Ralph, bp. 8 Apr. 1627. (Binfield Parish Register). [6] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (Boston, 1866), 1:93. [7] Ibid., 1:107. [8] John Camden Hotten, "Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 (1874), p. 130. Tho. Babb was master of the "Hopewell." [9] Shurtleff, "Plymouth," p. 76. [10] Ibid., p. 98. [11] David Pulsifer, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Deeds" (Boston, 1861), 1:96 [12] "Plymouth Colony Records 1633-1689: Misc. Records" (Boston, 1857), 8:181. [13] Proprietors' records, Woburn Town Hall, p. 8. [14] Ibid., p. 10. [15] George N. Mackenzie, "Colonial Families of the USA" (New York-Boston, 1907), 1:237-9. [16] Mary Lovering Holmes, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" (1938), 2:1005-9. [17] Hazen, "Billerica," pp. 23, 185, 153, 156, 59, 88, 75. [18] Middlesex County Deeds, Northern Registry [hereafter MD], 2:16. [19] Ibid. 1:17, 20. [20] Middlesex County Deeds, Southern Registry, 1:59. [21] Middlesex Probate Records [hereafter MPR], no. 11502. [22] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, "The Salem Witchcraft Paper (New York), 1977, 3:771-2

Other Sources: The Rev. Henry A. Hazen, A. M., Member of the New England Historic, & Genealogical Society, "History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with A Genealogical Register", (Boston: A. Williams and Co., Old Corner Bookstore, © 1883), Pgs. 68-72. "The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "The Hill Family"; we have no other information about this book; found on the Internet. Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870, Ralph Hill, billerica, 1663, Will No. 11502. P. William Filby, edit. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Research, 2003; "Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750," by Frederick A. Virkus; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964, 75p. Repr. 1985, Page 38, source Publication: 9448, Ralph Hill, 1638, Plymouth, Massachusetts. SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@comcast.net. Clarence Almon Torrey, with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," pg. 371; Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, ©1985. Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700," pg. 39; Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, © 1991. Ralph Hill's house was at the crest of a slope leading down to the Concord River. Today it is approximately mid-point of State Route 3. Midway between the Concord River and Concord RoadHill Families Search By DNA For Their Roots: A DNA test was taken of Richard Hill, for the HILL FAMILY DNA PROJECT. We have since found a male HILL, who is a cousin of Jan Saunders, who was a 25/25 markers DNA match with Richard Hill. Jan, and her cousin, Ralph Hill, are proven descendants of Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony Plymouth Plantation, in 1638. The 25/25 DNA markers match proved that our ancestor William Hill, I, of Fayette Co, and Crawford, Co, PA, from 1783-1807, who married Mary Rittenhouse?, and Ralph Hill born about 1600, died 1663 were related. It meant that we may belong to the same family clan, or tribe of HILLs. Both have now had 37 DNA marker tests taken, and the results came in, in January 2006. Jan's cousin Ralph Hill and Richard Hill show 36/37 markers match with the Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony in 1638. This means that we are very closely related.

Dorian Hill, a descendant of Jonathan Hill, whose family came with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co, IL, entered his DNA about this time, and has, also proved a 36/37 DNA marker match with Ralph Hill and Richard Hill. This means that they are all from the same family clan, or tribe of HILLs. We have all now, January 2007, received our 67 DNA marker tests, and they have proved to be 66/67 DNA marker matches! Very few people achieve this close level of a match. It is believed that Richard?s ancestor, William Hill?s DNA, may be the base line of this Hill family. Jan?s, Ralph Hill, is only off ?1? marker and that is in the ?CDYa? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?1?, while Dorian?s, Jonathan is off ?1? marker in the ?CDYb? marker, with a Genetic Distance of ?2?.

William Hill, I, of Fayette, and Crawford Co?s in PA, and Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Plantation, MA in 1638, and Jonathan Hill, whom we believe came with William?s son, Peter Hill in 1807 to St. Clair Co, IL, are all very closely related.

Distance Relation Explanation - 1, Closely Related 36/37 You share the same surname or a variant with another male and you mismatch by only one 'point' at only one marker--a 36/37 match. It's most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on a previous Y-DNA test and your mismatch will be found within DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb. Very few people achieve this close level of a match.

Richard Hill's Family Tree DNA Certificate - Y-DNA - They sent with it an article about "Understanding your 37 markers." They give a chart: "Number of matching markers". Jan's cousin, Ralph, and Richard's markers showing a 66/67 marker match; Dorian Hill also shows a 66/67 marker match. Richard is the 7th generation back counting William Hill, Sr. - Ralph is the 10th generation back counting Ralph Hill, of Plymouth Colony in 1638. Dorian is the 6th generation back counting Jonathan Hill. Was Jonathan Hill, a nephew or cousin of William Hill, Sr.[--?--] According to the Chart - There is a 90% probability that the MRCA Most Recent Common Ancestor lived no longer than 8 generations ago. - There is a 95% probability that the MRCA lived no longer than 10 generations ago. This is a remarkable match, and there is a very great chance that we need only 1 to 3 generations to find the link. At least we can be pretty sure that it may not be longer than 10 or 11 generations ago altogether.

The remarkable thing about all of this is that none of us know one another, and have never met! We have found one another through the Hill Family DNA Project. We have always heard that another Hill family traveled with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co, IL about 1807-1808, and it is believed that this was the family was Jonathan Hill.

"Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, etc." by Donna Valley Russell: "Ralph Hill, one of the founders of Billerica, Middlesex, MA, was the progenitor of a large family of landowners and farmers, most of whom stayed in Billerica through the fifth generation. They took an active part in town affairs, attended the church services at the Meeting House, and were responsible in matters of defense against Indian attack in the 1665-1710 period, in the French and Indian Wars, and later in the Revolution. "In the absence of personal records, we can only speculate as to why people move from one place to another, except to say that they expect to better their lives economically and/or find an environment more sympathetic to their views. Ralph Hill's reasons for leaving Britain and Plymouth Colony, only a few years later, to join the settlement at Woburn, may have been religious. Less than ten years later, about 1652-3, he moved to Billerica, located between the Concord and Shawshin Rivers a few miles northwest of Woburn. This new area, the Shawshin wilderness, was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1644, although several large individual grants had been made earlier. Cambridge made several additional large grants to individuals, but did not occupy the wilderness immediately. Actual settlement was precipitated in 1651/2 by sale of the early grant to Governor Dudley, the Dudley Farm of 1500 acres. Dudley's heirs sold it to three Woburn men, noe of whom finally settled in Billerica. They laid out Billerica's first subdivision of twelve lots and sold them to others from Woburn William Chamberlain, George Farley, Ralph Hill, Henry Jefts, and John Stearns and Cambridge Richard Champncy, William French, and Robert Parker. These men formed the nucleus of the "now inhabitants of Shawshin" who, in October 1654, petitioned for additional land west of the Concord River; favorable action on this petition in May 1655 is taken to be the act of incorporation of Billerica. "Dr. Charles E. Stearns, Billerica historian and a Hill descendant, has generously given me advice and information, much taken from the family papers in his possession. "Accounts of some branches of the family have been published. The Rev. Henry A. Hazen's 'History of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss". Boston, 1883, is fairly accurate but abbreviated. A short sketch of Ralph Hill's immediate family is included under The Toothaker Line" in Mary Lovering Holman's Pillsbury genealogy. A lineage called The Hill Family of Hounston, Somersetshire, and Heligan, Cornwall, in England, and of Wellingsley, Plymouth Colony, and Billerica, Middlesex Co, in New England" appears in Mackenzie's Colonial Families, in which the authors claim a long English ancestry for Ralph and his alleged brother Thomas. Richard Spencer's "Memoirs of Charles E. Hill Baltimore, 1919 makes the same claims. I am reluctant to accept the English background given in these accounts; dates and places are vague and scattered and no documentation is offered. But even more pertinent to the present study is the claim in the latter two accounts that Ebenezer Hill, the "Little Minister" of Mason, N.H., descends from this line. I found no proof that this is a valid lineage and much evidence that it is not...etc. "Hazen and others have suggested that Ralph Hill came from Billericay, Essex Co, England. This suggestion is based on the association of Billericay with the "Mayflower"[1] and the possibility that Hill, as one of the founders of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss., was responsible for naming the town after his home in England[2]. Hazen further cites records of a clergyman from Billericay by the same name[3]. Research in the parish registers at the Society of Genealogists of London, as well as the International Genealogical Index IGI files of the LDS Church, shows a large Hill family, and even occurrences of the name Ralph Hill, in Billericay, Great Burstead, Chigwell, and other neighboring towns, and Billericay literature states Hill was from a town near Chelmsford, but nothing even remotely conclusive could be gleaned. "Also, because Ralph Hill calls William French 'brother' in his will, this connection was explored, but the French family's origins have not been established[4]. Much more work needs to be done in parish and probate records to validate any allegations about Hill's origin in England. The answer is not in the IGI files, which were examined Co by Co for all of England, and found nonproductive, with one possible exception[5]. "We know nothing of Hill's first wife, except that she has been called a relative of William French, nor do we have any passenger list for him and his two children, Jane and Ralph and possibly his first wife. We know that he was in Plymouth Colony by 7 August 1638, when he was granted five acres of land at Woeberry Plaine and a garden place at Wellingsly, abutting on the south lands owned by John Allen and Margrett Toothaker[6]. The following 21 December 1638 he married the widow Margaret Toothaker[7], whose name is found among the passengers on the 'Hopewell,' aged 28, along with her husband, Roger Toothaker, aged 23, and a son Roger, aged 1 year, enrolled 11 September 1636[8] s/b 1635. Roger Toothaker died between that date and 5 February 1638[9], when 'Margret Toothaker widdow' was granted a garden place at Wellingsley and six acres at Woeberry Plaine[9]. On 4 September 1638, she, John Weeks, and John Allen were presented at the Court of Assistants for 'stopping the heighway that goeth to Manomett[11]."

I personally believe that Margaret Toothaker's maiden name was French, and that William French was Margaret's brother. The Toothaker's Genealogy gives the wife of Roger Toothaker as Margaret French, whom he married 16 July 1627 in Halstead, Essex, England. We have found a DNA 23/25 match with a Warren E. French. The probability that Richard K. Hill and Warren E. French shared a common ancestor within the last 300 years is 53.69%, 400 years is 71.98%, 500 years is 84.10%, and 600 years is 91.40%.

con. "Apparently they stayed in Plymouth until at least 17 September 1643, when Ralph Hill of Wellingsley sold to Steeven Wood, planter of Plymouth, his house, outhouses, garden places adjoining, and the 12 acres of upland at Wobery for L12[11]. In the same year he took the oath of fidelity there[12]. "He next appears in Woburn, Middlesex Co, as a Selectman on 19 February 1644/5[13]. On the 22nd of the 10th month December 1646, he was charged a tax of 6 shillings 5 pence[14], apparently on a house he sold to Richard Snow in 1659[15]. He was made a freeman in Woburn in 1647 and by 1654 he was one of the first settlers of Billerica. "Ralph Hill's name appears on several documents concerned with the founding of Billerica. He signed a petition for Shawshin to be renamed Billerica, not dated, but received by the General Court 23 8 1654[2]. At a town meeting 16 6 1658, he voted to hire Samuel Whiting, Jr. as the first pastor; his name appears Forst on this document. He reaffirmed his loyalty to King Charles II at the time of the Restoration in 1660, one of the two or three able to sign his name. He was a selectman in the first list of town officers for 1659-60, and his name is signed to papers relating to the laying out of the road to Woburn 9 September 1660 and surveying the Andover and Chelmsford boundaries. Also in that year he was involved in setting up the Meeting House on 27 7 1660, and in 1663 he paid a rate of 3s 12d for the minister's salary[17]. The first division of land was of the 1500-acre Dudley Farm; Ralph bought one and one-half lots, including 1 118 acres of upland bounded on the north by George Farley, east by William French, and west by Concord River, where he settled, and 2 60 acres of upland between the great pond near Cambridge bounds and Robert Parker[18], and 3 four separate parcels of meadow. This is the 1-1/2 'lots' referred to in later deeds; that he bought additional lots of which there is no records is implied by his description of the second parcel in his will as 'two half-lots,' and by the determination in 1685 that his heirs Nathaniel and Jonathan each held 12-1/2-acre rights in the division of common lands one lot on the Dudley Farm was the basis for the 10-acre right[19] . On 6 9 1655, he requested the Town Committee to grant to his son Ralph, Jr. a parcel of land to build his house on, at the south end of his own house lot; it was granted[20]. In April 1663, he gave one-half acre of land at the northeast corner of his homestead to the town for a cemetery now part of the Old South Burying Ground. He was buried there later that month[3]. "Ralph Hill made his will 18 November 1662 and died the following April. It was probated 12 November 1663; executors were his sons Nathaniel and Jonathan; overseers were William Tay and John Parker and 'my brother.' Richard French, witnessed by George Farley and John Parker. he left to his wife, Margaret her thirds of land, meadows, and buildings, and one cow. His son Ralph was given L23 'due from the land I sold at Woburn, his full portion.' Son Nathaniel was to have the land toward Concord and one-third of 'my improvable land until he has broken and fenced up land of his own'; also 5 acres of meadow next to Ralph's. Son Jonathan received the rest of the land and houses and Hill's Meadow. Son-in-law and stepson Roger Toothaker was to have the 33-1/2 acres of land lying in the common field and some at Shawshin River. Daughter Martha L20; to Benjamin Parker was devised Long Meadow; each grandchild 15sh except Elizabeth Hill, who was to have 20sh at age 12; daughter Rebecca Hill L30; and grandchild Mary Littlefield L15[21]. "In the following account, unless otherwise stated, all towns in MA and all vital records cited are from the official series of published records; they will not be referenced separately. "Ralph Hill was probably born in England and died testate in Billerica 29 April 1663. He married first in England [name [--?--]] and second in Plymouth Colony 21 December 1638 Margaret [------], widow of Roger Toothaker. She was born in England between 1597 and 1610 and died in Billerica 22 November 1683, aged 88 years. She came to America with her husband and son, Roger, aged 1 year, sailing from London on the 'Hopewell' 11 September 1635, at which time she gave her age as 28[8].' By Roger Toothaker she had two children, whom Ralph Hill raised: 1 Roger Toothaker, born England ca. 1634; d. in prison at Salem shortly before 16 June 1692, where he was on trial for witchcraft[22]; married at Billerica 9 June 1665 Mary Allen; and 2 Martha Toothaker, born Plymouth ca 1635; d. Billerica 4 January 1703/4; and married there 15 November 1660 Ralph Hill[16]." [See below sources: pg. 30, "Notes and References," 1-22].

The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "THE HILL FAMILY" "Ralph Hill sold September 16, 1643, to Stephen Wood, house and garden, 'upland at Woburn, twelve acres, or thereabouts,' and we afterwards find him in Woburn, where he was freeman in 1647,and selectman in 1649. He joined in the settlement of Shoshine Cambridge at an early date, and lived on 'the farm' a mile southwest of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where his descendant, Mrs. Judkins, now lives. "In April, 1663, he gave the town one-half acre of land for a 'burying place,' and on the twenty-ninth he died, his own body perhaps the first to be laid in the 'South burying ground'. "His wife died, and he married, at Plymouth, 12-31-1638, Margaret, widow of Dr. Roger Toothacre. The Toothacres came in the 'Hopewell', 9-16-1635, he aged twenty-three, and she aged twenty-eight, with a son Roger, aged one year. Dr. Roger died soon after. Lands were granted to hi widow, Margaret, 2-5-1637/8. She married that same year Ralph Hill. She died November 22, 1683, aged seventy-six years. "They had 'child Jane, b. in England.' In his will, dated September 12, 1663, Billerica, Ralph Hill mentions a 'granddaughter Mary Littlefield,' 'Ralph,' 'Martha,' 'Nathaniel,' 'Jonathan b. April 20, 1646,' 'Rebecca who m. Caleb Farley,' 'sonne Roger Toothacre,' ' gr.child Elizabeth Hill, brother William Franch'..."

SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@comcast.net; pg. 30, Notes and References: [1] R. J. Carpenter, "Christopher Martin, Great Burstead, and the Mayflower Chelmsford, Eng., 1982 is the most recent and includes all the information in earlier publications seen by the compiler, all published in England: i.e., Grant and Wynford, Billerica and the Mayflower 1962." [2] Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss. with a "Genealogical Register" Boston, 1883, pp. 16-19. [3] Ibid., "Gen. Register, p. 68, which abstracts information about a Ralph Hill, clergyman, during the1640's, taken from David's "Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, p. 440. [4] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England: French," "New England Historical and Genealogical register hereafter NEHGR 65:284-6." [5] A family found in Binfield, Berkshire, coincides in many ways with the family that came to Plymouth: Ralphe Hill m. there 2 Aug. 1616 Johan Trebbick. 4 children rec. 1st Jane, bp. 8 Nov. 1616; 2nd Johan, bp. 17 Sept. 1620; 3rd Margaret, bp. 22 Jan. 1625; 4th Ralph, bp. 8 Apr. 1627. Binfield Parish Register. [6] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England Boston, 1866, 1:93. [7] Ibid., 1:107. [8] John Camden Hotten, "Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 1874, p. 130. Tho. Babb was master of the "Hopewell." [9] Shurtleff, "Plymouth," p. 76. [10] Ibid., p. 98. [11] David Pulsifer, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Deeds" Boston, 1861, 1:96 [12] "Plymouth Colony Records 1633-1689: Misc. Records" Boston, 1857, 8:181. [13] Proprietors' records, Woburn Town Hall, p. 8. [14] Ibid., p. 10. [15] George N. Mackenzie, "Colonial Families of the USA" New York-Boston, 1907, 1:237-9. [16] Mary Lovering Holmes, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" 1938, 2:1005-9. [17] Hazen, "Billerica," pp. 23, 185, 153, 156, 59, 88, 75. [18] Middlesex Co Deeds, Northern Registry [hereafter MD], 2:16. [19] Ibid. 1:17, 20. [20] Middlesex Co Deeds, Southern Registry, 1:59. [21] Middlesex Probate Records [hereafter MPR], no. 11502. [22] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, The Salem Witchcraft Paper New York, 1977, 3:771-2

Other Sources: The Rev. Henry A. Hazen, A. M., Member of the New England Historic, & Genealogical Society, History of Billerica, Middlesex, MA, with A Genealogical Register", Boston: A. Williams and Co, Old Corner Bookstore, © 1883, Pgs. 68-72. The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": The Hill Family"; we have no other information about this book; found on the Internet. Middlesex Co, MA Probate Index, 1648-1870, Ralph Hill, billerica, 1663, Will No. 11502. P. William Filby, edit. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Research, 2003; "Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750," by Frederick A. Virkus; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1964, 75p. Repr. 1985, Page 38, source Publication: 9448, Ralph Hill, 1638, Plymouth, MA.Ralph Hill, one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony, came from England before 1638: sold his land at Wellingsley, a locality of Plymouth, 16 September, 1643; admitted freeman of Woburn 1647; selectman 1649; with his son, Ralph, was one of the signers of the petition to Governor Bellingham and the General Court, which resulted in the grant and settlement of Billerica in 1653. He was twice married. Hill Families Search By DNA For Their Roots: A DNA test was taken of Richard Hill, for the HILL FAMILY DNA PROJECT. We have since found a male HILL, who is a cousin of Jan Saunders, who was a 25/25 markers DNA match with Richard Hill. Jan, and her cousin, Ralph Hill, are proven descendants of Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony (Plymouth Plantation), in 1638. The 25/25 DNA markers match proved that our ancestor William Hill, I, of Fayette County, and Crawford, County, Pennsylvania, from 1783-1807, who married Mary (Rittenhouse?), and Ralph Hill (born about 1600, died 1663) were related. It meant that we may belong to the same family (clan, or tribe) of HILLs. Both have now had 37 DNA marker tests taken, and the results came in, in January 2006. Jan's cousin Ralph Hill and Richard Hill show 36/37 markers match with the Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Colony in 1638. This means that we are very closely related.

Dorian Hill, a descendant of Jonathan Hill, whose family came with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair Co., IL, entered his DNA about this time, and has, also proved a 36/37 DNA marker match with Ralph Hill and Richard Hill. This means that they are all from the same family (clan, or tribe) of HILLs. We have all now, January 2007, received our 67 DNA marker tests, and they have proved to be 66/67 DNA marker matches! Very few people achieve this close level of a match. It is believed that Richard’s ancestor, William Hill’s DNA, may be the base line of this Hill family. Jan’s, Ralph Hill, is only off “1” marker and that is in the “CDYa” marker, with a Genetic Distance of “1”, while Dorian’s, Jonathan is off “1” marker in the “CDYb” marker, with a Genetic Distance of “2”.

William Hill, I, of Fayette, and Crawford Co.’s in Pennsylvania, and Ralph Hill, of the Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts in 1638, and Jonathan Hill, whom we believe came with William’s son, Peter Hill in 1807 to St. Clair Co., Illinois, are all very closely related.

Distance Relation Explanation - 1, Closely Related 36/37 You share the same surname (or a variant) with another male and you mismatch by only one 'point' at only one marker--a 36/37 match. It's most likely that you matched 24/25 or 25/25 on a previous Y-DNA test and your mismatch will be found within DYS 576, 570, CDYa or CDYb. Very few people achieve this close level of a match.

Richard Hill's Family Tree DNA Certificate - Y-DNA - They sent with it an article about "Understanding your 37 markers." They give a chart: "Number of matching markers". Jan's cousin, Ralph, and Richard's markers showing a 66/67 marker match; Dorian Hill also shows a 66/67 marker match. Richard is the 7th generation back counting William Hill, Sr. - Ralph is the 10th generation back counting Ralph Hill, of Plymouth Colony in 1638. Dorian is the 6th generation back counting Jonathan Hill. Was Jonathan Hill, a nephew or cousin of William Hill, Sr.? According to the Chart - There is a 90% probability that the MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor) lived no longer than 8 generations ago. - There is a 95% probability that the MRCA lived no longer than 10 generations ago. This is a remarkable match, and there is a very great chance that we need only 1 to 3 generations to find the link. At least we can be pretty sure that it may not be longer than 10 or 11 generations ago altogether.

The remarkable thing about all of this is that none of us know one another, and have never met! We have found one another through the Hill Family DNA Project. We have always heard that another Hill family traveled with Peter Hill, I, to St. Clair County, Illinois about 1807-1808, and it is believed that this was the family was Jonathan Hill.

"Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, etc." by Donna Valley Russell: "Ralph Hill, one of the founders of Billerica, Massachusetts, was the progenitor of a large family of landowners and farmers, most of whom stayed in Billerica through the fifth generation. They took an active part in town affairs, attended the church services at the Meeting House, and were responsible in matters of defense against Indian attack in the 1665-1710 period, in the French and Indian Wars, and later in the Revolution. "In the absence of personal records, we can only speculate as to why people move from one place to another, except to say that they expect to better their lives economically and/or find an environment more sympathetic to their views. Ralph Hill's reasons for leaving Britain and Plymouth Colony, only a few years later, to join the settlement at Woburn, may have been religious. Less than ten years later, about 1652-3, he moved to Billerica, located between the Concord and Shawshin Rivers a few miles northwest of Woburn. This new area, the Shawshin wilderness, was granted to the town of Cambridge in 1644, although several large individual grants had been made earlier. Cambridge made several additional large grants to individuals, but did not occupy the wilderness immediately. Actual settlement was precipitated in 1651/2 by sale of the early grant to Governor Dudley, the Dudley Farm of 1500 acres. Dudley's heirs sold it to three Woburn men, noe of whom finally settled in Billerica. They laid out Billerica's first subdivision of twelve lots and sold them to others from Woburn (William Chamberlain, George Farley, Ralph Hill, Henry Jefts, and John Stearns) and Cambridge (Richard Champncy, William French, and Robert Parker). These men formed the nucleus of the "now inhabitants of Shawshin" who, in October 1654, petitioned for additional land west of the Concord River; favorable action on this petition in May 1655 is taken to be the act of incorporation of Billerica. "Dr. Charles E. Stearns, Billerica historian and a Hill descendant, has generously given me advice and information, much taken from the family papers in his possession. "Accounts of some branches of the family have been published. The Rev. Henry A. Hazen's 'History of Billerica, Mass". (Boston, 1883), is fairly accurate but abbreviated. A short sketch of Ralph Hill's immediate family is included under "The Toothaker Line" in Mary Lovering Holman's Pillsbury genealogy. A lineage called "The Hill Family of Hounston, Somersetshire, and Heligan, Cornwall, in England, and of Wellingsley, Plymouth Colony, and Billerica, Middlesex County, in New England" appears in Mackenzie's Colonial Families, in which the authors claim a long English ancestry for Ralph and his alleged brother Thomas. Richard Spencer's "Memoirs of Charles E. Hill (Baltimore, 1919) makes the same claims. I am reluctant to accept the English background given in these accounts; dates and places are vague and scattered and no documentation is offered. But even more pertinent to the present study is the claim in the latter two accounts that Ebenezer Hill, the "Little Minister" of Mason, N.H., descends from this line. I found no proof that this is a valid lineage and much evidence that it is not...etc. "Hazen and others have suggested that Ralph Hill came from Billericay, Essex County, England. This suggestion is based on the association of Billericay with the "Mayflower"[1] and the possibility that Hill, as one of the founders of Billerica, Mass., was responsible for naming the town after his home in England[2]. Hazen further cites records of a clergyman from Billericay by the same name[3]. Research in the parish registers at the Society of Genealogists of London, as well as the International Genealogical Index (IGI) files of the LDS Church, shows a large Hill family, and even occurrences of the name Ralph Hill, in Billericay, Great Burstead, Chigwell, and other neighboring towns, and Billericay literature states Hill was from a town near Chelmsford, but nothing even remotely conclusive could be gleaned. "Also, because Ralph Hill calls William French 'brother' in his will, this connection was explored, but the French family's origins have not been established[4]. Much more work needs to be done in parish and probate records to validate any allegations about Hill's origin in England. The answer is not in the IGI files, which were examined county by county for all of England, and found nonproductive, with one possible exception[5]. "We know nothing of Hill's first wife, except that she has been called a relative of William French, nor do we have any passenger list for him and his two children, Jane and Ralph (and possibly his first wife). We know that he was in Plymouth Colony by 7 August 1638, when he was granted five acres of land at Woeberry Plaine and a garden place at Wellingsly, abutting on the south lands owned by John Allen and Margrett Toothaker[6]. The following 21 December 1638 he married the widow Margaret Toothaker[7], whose name is found among the passengers on the 'Hopewell,' aged 28, along with her husband, Roger Toothaker, aged 23, and a son Roger, aged 1 year, enrolled 11 September 1636[8] (s/b 1635). Roger Toothaker died between that date and 5 February 1638[9], when 'Margret Toothaker widdow' was granted a garden place at Wellingsley and six acres at Woeberry Plaine[9]. On 4 September 1638, she, John Weeks, and John Allen were presented at the Court of Assistants for 'stopping the heighway that goeth to Manomett[11]."

(I personally believe that Margaret Toothaker's maiden name was French, and that William French was Margaret's brother. The Toothaker's Genealogy gives the wife of Roger Toothaker as Margaret French, whom he married 16 July 1627 in Halstead, Essex, England. We have found a DNA 23/25 match with a Warren E. French. The probability that Richard K. Hill and Warren E. French shared a common ancestor within the last 300 years is 53.69%, 400 years is 71.98%, 500 years is 84.10%, and 600 years is 91.40%).

(con.) "Apparently they stayed in Plymouth until at least 17 September 1643, when Ralph Hill of Wellingsley sold to Steeven Wood, planter of Plymouth, his house, outhouses, garden places adjoining, and the 12 acres of upland at Wobery for L12[11]. In the same year he took the oath of fidelity there[12]. "He next appears in Woburn, Middlesex County, as a Selectman on 19 February 1644/5[13]. On the 22nd of the 10th month (December) 1646, he was charged a tax of 6 shillings 5 pence[14], apparently on a house he sold to Richard Snow in 1659[15]. He was made a freeman in Woburn in 1647 and by 1654 he was one of the first settlers of Billerica. "Ralph Hill's name appears on several documents concerned with the founding of Billerica. He signed a petition for Shawshin to be renamed Billerica, not dated, but received by the General Court 23 (8) 1654[2]. At a town meeting 16 (6) 1658, he voted to hire Samuel Whiting, Jr. as the first pastor; his name appears Forst on this document. He reaffirmed his loyalty to King Charles II at the time of the Restoration in 1660, one of the two or three able to sign his name. He was a selectman in the first list of town officers for 1659-60, and his name is signed to papers relating to the laying out of the road to Woburn 9 September 1660 and surveying the Andover and Chelmsford boundaries. Also in that year he was involved in setting up the Meeting House on 27 (7) 1660, and in 1663 he paid a rate of 3s 12d for the minister's salary[17]. "The first division of land was of the 1500-acre Dudley Farm; Ralph bought one and one-half lots, including (1) 118 acres of upland bounded on the north by George Farley, east by William French, and west by Concord River, where he settled, and (2) 60 acres of upland between the great pond near Cambridge bounds and Robert Parker[18], and (3) four separate parcels of meadow. This is the 1-1/2 'lots' referred to in later deeds; that he bought additional lots (of which there is no records) is implied by his description of the second parcel in his will as 'two half-lots,' and by the determination in 1685 that his heirs (Nathaniel and Jonathan) each held 12-1/2-acre rights in the division of common lands (one lot on the Dudley Farm was the basis for the 10-acre right[19] ). On 6 (9) 1655, he requested the Town Committee to grant to his son Ralph, Jr. a parcel of land to build his house on, at the south end of his own house lot; it was granted[20]. In April 1663, he gave one-half acre of land at the northeast corner of his homestead to the town for a cemetery (now part of the Old South Burying Ground). He was buried there later that month[3]. "Ralph Hill made his will 18 November 1662 and died the following April. It was probated 12 November 1663; executors were his sons Nathaniel and Jonathan; overseers were William Tay and John Parker and 'my brother.' Richard French, witnessed by George Farley and John Parker. he left to his wife, Margaret her thirds of land, meadows, and buildings, and one cow. His son Ralph was given L23 'due from the land I sold at Woburn, his full portion.' Son Nathaniel was to have the land toward Concord and one-third of 'my improvable land until he has broken and fenced up land of his own'; also 5 acres of meadow next to Ralph's. Son Jonathan received the rest of the land and houses and Hill's Meadow. Son-in-law (and stepson) Roger Toothaker was to have the 33-1/2 acres of land lying in the common field and some at Shawshin River. Daughter Martha L20; to Benjamin Parker was devised Long Meadow; each grandchild 15sh except Elizabeth Hill, who was to have 20sh at age 12; daughter Rebecca Hill L30; and grandchild Mary Littlefield L15[21]. "In the following account, unless otherwise stated, all towns in Massachusetts and all vital records cited are from the official series of published records; they will not be referenced separately. "Ralph Hill was probably born in England and died testate in Billerica 29 April 1663. He married first in England [name unknown] and second in Plymouth Colony 21 December 1638 Margaret [------], widow of Roger Toothaker. She was born in England between 1597 and 1610 and died in Billerica 22 November 1683, aged 88 years. She came to America with her husband and son, Roger, aged 1 year, sailing from London on the 'Hopewell' 11 September 1635, at which time she gave her age as 28[8].' By Roger Toothaker she had two children, whom Ralph Hill raised: (1) Roger Toothaker, born England ca. 1634; d. in prison at Salem shortly before 16 June 1692, where he was on trial for witchcraft[22]; married at Billerica 9 June 1665 Mary Allen; and (2) Martha Toothaker, born Plymouth ca 1635; d. Billerica 4 January 1703/4; and married there 15 November 1660 Ralph Hill[16]." [See below sources: pg. 30, "Notes and References," 1-22].

"The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "THE HILL FAMILY" "Ralph Hill sold September 16, 1643, to Stephen Wood, house and garden, 'upland at Woburn, twelve acres, or thereabouts,' and we afterwards find him in Woburn, where he was freeman in 1647,and selectman in 1649. He joined in the settlement of Shoshine (Cambridge) at an early date, and lived on 'the farm' a mile southwest of the village, his house standing a little west of the place where his descendant, Mrs. Judkins, now lives. "In April, 1663, he gave the town one-half acre of land for a 'burying place,' and on the twenty-ninth he died, his own body perhaps the first to be laid in the 'South burying ground'. "His wife died, and he married, at Plymouth, 12-31-1638, Margaret, widow of Dr. Roger Toothacre. The Toothacres came in the 'Hopewell', 9-16-1635, he aged twenty-three, and she aged twenty-eight, with a son Roger, aged one year. Dr. Roger died soon after. Lands were granted to hi widow, Margaret, 2-5-1637/8. She married that same year Ralph Hill. She died November 22, 1683, aged seventy-six years. "They had 'child Jane, b. in England.' In his will, dated September 12, 1663, Billerica, Ralph Hill mentions a 'granddaughter Mary Littlefield,' 'Ralph,' 'Martha,' 'Nathaniel,' 'Jonathan (b. April 20, 1646),' 'Rebecca who m. Caleb Farley,' 'sonne Roger Toothacre,' ' gr.child Elizabeth Hill, brother William Franch'..."

SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Massachusetts, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; (National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@@comcast.net); (pg. 30, Notes and References: [1] R. J. Carpenter, "Christopher Martin, Great Burstead, and the Mayflower (Chelmsford, Eng., 1982) is the most recent and includes all the information in earlier publications seen by the compiler, all published in England: i.e., Grant and Wynford, Billerica and the Mayflower (1962)." [2] Henry A. Hazen, "History of Billerica, Mass. with a "Genealogical Register" (Boston, 1883), pp. 16-19. [3] Ibid., "Gen. Register, p. 68, which abstracts information about a Ralph Hill, clergyman, during the1640's, taken from David's "Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, p. 440. [4] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England: French," "New England Historical and Genealogical register (hereafter NEHGR) 65:284-6." [5] A family found in Binfield, Berkshire, coincides in many ways with the family that came to Plymouth: Ralphe Hill m. there 2 Aug. 1616 Johan Trebbick. 4 children rec. (1st) Jane, bp. 8 Nov. 1616; (2nd) Johan, bp. 17 Sept. 1620; (3rd) Margaret, bp. 22 Jan. 1625; (4th) Ralph, bp. 8 Apr. 1627. (Binfield Parish Register). [6] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England (Boston, 1866), 1:93. [7] Ibid., 1:107. [8] John Camden Hotten, "Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 (1874), p. 130. Tho. Babb was master of the "Hopewell." [9] Shurtleff, "Plymouth," p. 76. [10] Ibid., p. 98. [11] David Pulsifer, "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth: Deeds" (Boston, 1861), 1:96 [12] "Plymouth Colony Records 1633-1689: Misc. Records" (Boston, 1857), 8:181. [13] Proprietors' records, Woburn Town Hall, p. 8. [14] Ibid., p. 10. [15] George N. Mackenzie, "Colonial Families of the USA" (New York-Boston, 1907), 1:237-9. [16] Mary Lovering Holmes, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" (1938), 2:1005-9. [17] Hazen, "Billerica," pp. 23, 185, 153, 156, 59, 88, 75. [18] Middlesex County Deeds, Northern Registry [hereafter MD], 2:16. [19] Ibid. 1:17, 20. [20] Middlesex County Deeds, Southern Registry, 1:59. [21] Middlesex Probate Records [hereafter MPR], no. 11502. [22] Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, "The Salem Witchcraft Paper (New York), 1977, 3:771-2

Other Sources: The Rev. Henry A. Hazen, A. M., Member of the New England Historic, & Genealogical Society, "History of Billerica, Massachusetts, with A Genealogical Register", (Boston: A. Williams and Co., Old Corner Bookstore, © 1883), Pgs. 68-72. "The Kilpatrick Family: ancestors and descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick:with Related families": "The Hill Family"; we have no other information about this book; found on the Internet. Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870, Ralph Hill, billerica, 1663, Will No. 11502. P. William Filby, edit. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Research, 2003; "Immigrant Ancestors: A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750," by Frederick A. Virkus; Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964, 75p. Repr. 1985, Page 38, source Publication: 9448, Ralph Hill, 1638, Plymouth, Massachusetts. SOURCES: Donna Valley Russell, C.G., Gray Haven at Airview, 709 E. Main St., Middletown, MD 21769, "Ralph Hill of Plymouth and Billerica, Middlesex, MA, Descendants to the Fifth Generation", Pgs. 3-6"; National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 1, March 1984; received from Jan Saunders, e-mail jsaunders1@comcast.net. Clarence Almon Torrey, with a revised introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," pg. 371; Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, ©1985. Melinde Lutz Sanborn, "Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700," pg. 39; Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, © 1991.

1.   Hill Genealogy - Russell
   pgs. 3-6.

   "Hazen and others have suggested that Ralph Hill came from Billericay, Essex Co, England. This suggestion is based on the association of Billericay with the 'Mayflower' and the possibility that Hill, as one of the founders of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss., was responsible for naming the town after his home in England." [pg. 30, "Notes and References: 1. R. J. Carpenter, "Christopher Martin, Great Burstead, and the Mayflower Chelmsford, Eng., 1982 is the most recent and includes all the information in earlier publications seen by the compiler, all published in England: i.e., Grant and Wynford, Billerica and the Mayflower 1962." 2. Henry A. Hazen, History of Billerica, Middlesex, MAss. with a "Genealogical Register boston, 1883, pp. 16-19. 3. Ibid., "Gen. Register, p. 68, which abstracts information about a Ralph Hill, clergyman, during the1640's, taken from David's "Annals of Nonconformity in Essex, p. 440.

2.   Billerica, Middlesex, MA - History of with A Genealogical Register
   Pages 68-72.

   http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=4837026&pid=-1537296290

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Hill Genealogy - Russell
   Pg. 5.

   http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=4837026&pid=-1537296290

4. ↑ “Billerica deaths”, in Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
   p. 368.

   “HILL, Ralph Sr. [h. Margeret], Apr. 29, [16]63.”