... SAMUEL HILL, b. there, 22 Sept. 1763, d. 4 June 1824, ae 61, Eliot, son of Joseph and Catherine (Staples) Hill.
Samuel Hill enlisted, 20 Oct. 1779, on the Continental Frigate. Ranger, Capt. Thomas Simpson, as a marine, or ordinary seaman, for one year, and served on her until her capture at Charleston, S. C., 12 May 1780, when that city was taken by the British. He stated in his pension application that he served on her, and after the capture was put on a prison ship for six weeks, then sent in a cartel to Philadelphia, where he went to the hospital with small pox, and arrived home in Kittery, Aug. 1780. He was pensioned, 1 Apr. 1818, was a shipwright in 1820, ae 59, owned house and land in Eliot; his gravestone is in the Fogg Cemetery there; his widow, Rebecca, was a pensioner in 1840, and then living in Eliot, ae 76. ...
