Person:Uri Hill (3)

Gene {Rook} says that son Uri K. Hill was born in 1780-- 14 years after Uri's death... something's awry.

According to the Goshen VR, there was, in addition to this man's son Uri, born 1760, another Uri, son of Zenas Hill, born in 1757. Either could have been father of the Uri born in 1780, although the elder the two is more likely.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Hill, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   3:743.

   "Uri (Hill), b 19 June 1729 (Wallingford Vital Records)."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Hibbard, A. G. History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut: with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton. (Hartford, CT: Press of the Case: Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1897)
   357.

   "Uri Hill was born in Wallingford and died in Goshen of small-pox on Dec 29 1766. The disease was contracted while in New York, buying goods. His house was on the west side of West Street about twenty rods south of the family graveyard at the place where the road leaves West Street for Town Hill. The north part of his house was devoted to mercantile purposes. From the books of Nathaniel Stanley it appears he was trading as early as August, 1759. He did a thriving business, was much respected, but had feeble health and a weak constitution."