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HILL Family

This site is designed with the HILL family researcher in mind. This site will grow and change as we receive input from you. If you would like to contribute primary source documentation, querys, or personal theories to this site, please send information (and permission to post) to Martha Marble .

 

INTRODUCTION

HILL'S In Other States

Virginia

Maryland

Study of Richard & Francis HILL of Craven and Lenoir Counties

HILL: Notes for Craven, Dobbs, and Lenoir Co., NC

Dobbs County Cross Index

HILL: New Information (not yet put into regular files)

HILL: Richard and Levi of Lenoir County

Richard

Levi

The Francis Hill Line (as best as can be determined)

Richard Croom HILL & Martha Ann NUNN HILL

 

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

 

NOTES ON THE RICHARD AND FRANCIS HILL FAMILY

OF CRAVEN, DOBBS, AND LENOIR COUNTIES, N.C.

 

 

This short paper is just as stated above - NOTES on the Hill Family. It is not

meant to be a history due to the lack of documentation. This paper is meant to

be a companion to Sue Johnson Rouse's splendid book "Weaving of the Hill" which

starts with Richard and Mary Hill bc l755-60.

 

This complier comes down this line through Richard and Mary Rouse Hill; their

son Alexander and his wife Finette Rouse, daughter of Jonathan and Catherine

Hardee Rouse; their son Richard Croom and his wife Martha Ann Nunn, daughter of

Redding and Zeolta Nunn; their daughter Ada and her lst husband Needham Moore

Phillips, son of Drury and Martha Jan Elizabeth Moore; and their daughter Susie

Moore Phillips and her husband Ronald Earl Mewborn, Sr. who were the grandparents

of the compiler.

 

This is full of guesswork, but maybe someone will see it and have in their

possession something that will prove or disprove a generation. If so, please let

me know.

 

There is only one Will for this family between l709 when Richard and Francis

Hill appear to arrive in N.C. until c l790. I can't find any early Deeds for

Craven County especially during the period from l7l5 and l739. The Indian Wars

were during this period and everything burned. No one seems to know what

happened to the Records after the Wars until Deed Book I which starts c l739. Some of

the early Craven County information can be found in Beaufort Deed Book I and 2,

but there is nothing on the Hills. The Clerks of the Court in Craven County

rarely put down former owners or any genealogical information in Deeds as they

did in Pitt County. Of course, all the Records for Dobbs and Lenoir Counties

were burned. To my knowledge there are no Bible Records earlier than the

Alexander Hill Bible. The Hill men did not give their sons land by Deed. Put all this

together and there is not a whole lot to go on.

 

Let me encourage anyone who has a different theory that stated here on

generations to please let me know.

 

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