Capt. Thomas Hill, son of Edward Hill and Mary Boyle, was born in England in 1612. He was a captain of the York County, Virginia militia. Thomas was elected as Burgess in 1641. In 1652 he patented 500 acres on the Potomac and 5,000 acres in York County, Virginia which he named "Essex Lodge", later called Washington Lodge, being headquarters of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
In 1632 Captain Hill married Mary Piersey, daughter of Abraham Piersey and Elizabeth Draper, born 1613.
Capt. Thomas Hill died in York County, Virginia in 1659. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Draper Hill married Col. Thomas Bushrod. She died at Essex Lodge in 1679.
