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Son of Joseph Hills, Sr. and Mehitable Hinsdale Spouse of Hannah Strong Father of Hannah (Hills) Loomis, Zimri Hills, Beriah Hills, Medad Hills,Lt Colonel, Mary Hills, John Hills, Captain, Mary Hills, Seth Hills, Deacon, Rachel Hills, Bela Hills, Anne Hills. More on children: Hannah Hills b: 5 OCT 1724 in Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut Zimri Hills b: 16 DEC 1725 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA Beriah Hills b: 31 AUG 1727 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Medad Hills b: 27 APR 1729 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Mary Hills b: 1 JAN 1730/31 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut John Hills b: 13 DEC 1732 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Mary Hills b: 25 SEP 1734 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Seth Hills b: 13 SEP 1736 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Rachel Hills b: 8 JUL 1739 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut Bela Hills b: 24 AUG 1741 in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut Anne Hills b: 11 JUN 1743 in Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Gravestone Inscriptions: Benoni Hills spent years crafting his own two grave stones. One stone reads "Benoni Hills, this my house". The other stone reads "O Eternity, death is come" and the date June 24, 1793. Find A Grave Memorial# 41576150 https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aztextor&id=I41648 ID: I41648 Name: Benoni HILLS Given Name: Benoni Surname: HILLS Sex: M Birth: 1701 in Glastonbury, Hartford, CT Death: 24 JUN 1793 in Winchester, Litchfield, CT Note: Resided 1723-25 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. Resided 1725-1740 in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut. Resided 1740-43 in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut (this is near Winchester) The township of Goshen was sold at New Haven, in December, 1737, and its settlement commenced in one or two years afterwards. The first inhabitants were principally from New Haven, Wallingford, and Farmington. It is stated that the houses of Gideon Thompson and John Beach, who were among the first settlers, were palisadoed in, for a defense against the Indians. Mr. Beach's house was situated on East street, about 2-1/2 miles from the present South Congregational church; the house of Mr. Thompson, stood on West street, near a mile to the southwest. Goshen was incorporated as a town in 1749. Resided 1776-1793 in Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut 1790 Census for Litchfiled, Connecticut Hill, A Gift --------- 4, 1, 5, 0, 0, Page 70 Hill, Benona --------- 2, 1, 4, 0, 0, Page 60 Hill, Huste --------- 2, 2, 6, 0, 0, Page 64 Hill, James --------- 1, 0, 8, 0, 0, Page 70 Hill, John --------- 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, Page 70 Hill, Medad --------- 3, 2, 2, 0, 0, Page 61 Hill, Michael --------- 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, Page 62 Hill, Michael 2d --------- 1, 2, 4, 0, 0, Page 62 Hillhouse, Samuel --------- 1, 1, 4, 0, 0, Page 67 Hills, Jessee --------- 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, Page 63 Hills, Justice --------- 1, 3, 3, 0, 0, Page 70 Hills, Seth --------- 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, Page 60 Goshen CT Marriages as found in The History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut By Rev. A. G. Hibbard, A. M. Intro to Marriages ..The following list of the marriages is taken from the records in the office of the town clerk. it will be noticed that some marriages are recorded that took place prior to the settlement. The peculiar and uncertain orthography will also be noticed. It seemed best to make the copy a literal following of the original, if for no other reason than that it would relieve the writer of all responsibility in the matter. Originality in spelling should receive more encouragement, and the man who can spell his father?s name ?Hoide,? which that father has spelled ?Hyde? for fifty years before him, and without the excuse of Celtic blood in his veins, should not have his feelings lacerated by criticism. it is unfortunate that this record is greatly lessened in value by the loss of a book containing the marriages for 34 years, and including the period between 1786 and 1820, in regard to which so many now living are greatly interested. Ambrose Hill & Lucia Beach ----- 10 Oct 1764 Asa Hill & Elizabeth Richards ----- 13 Mar 1745 Benjamin Hill & Mary Prince ----- 06 Jan 1831 Billious Hill & Lydia Birge ----- 09 Aug 1758 Dan Hill & Hannah Mathews ----- 20 Dec 1757 Ebenezer Hill & Elizabeth Baldwin ----- 27 May 1741 George A. Hill & Harriet Bailey ----- 06 Apr 1830 George Oscar Hill & Mary D. Crossman ----- 01 Jan 1857 Henry W. Hill & Sarah M. Gibbs ----- 25 Nov 1863 John Hill & Mary Richards ----- 01 Mar 1747 Linus Hill & Keziah Hill ----- 21 Dec 1752 Medad Hill & Sarah Smith ----- 05 Dec 1751 Titus Hill & Mindwell Hall ----- 13 Dec 1750 Uri Hill & Hannah Beach ----- 02 Feb 1764 Uri Hill & Mary Root ----- 15 Mar 1756 Zimri Hill & Bathsheba Grant ----- 28 May 1752 John Hills & Jerusha Lewis ----- 11 Sep 1754 Seth Hills & Carine Goodwin ----- 17 Jul 1783 Honor Roll OF Litchfield County Revolutionary Soldiers, Josephine Ellis Richards, Editor PUBLISHED BY, Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Litchfield, Conn., 1912 Town of: Goshen Hills, Augustus ---- Source 1,2 Hills, Medad ---- Source 1,2,3 Hills, Seth ---- Source 1,2 Hills, Uri ---- Source 1,2,5 1) History of Goshen by Hibbart 2) Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 3) Revolution List and Returns - Connecticut Historical Society 4) Revolution Rolls & List - Connecticut Historical Society 5) Goshen Statistics and Family History by Norton Town of: Winchester Hills, Bela --- Source 2 Hills, John --- Source 1 Hills, Seth --- Source 1 Hills, Zimri --- Source 1,3 1) Boyd's Annals. 2) Revolution Rolls and List, Connecticut Historical Society 3) Record of Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 4) Revolution List and Returns - Connecticut Historical Society 5) D. A. R. Lineage Books of N. S. D. A. R. Goshen, CT Cemeteries From the Hale Collection Oct. 1934. Most of the cemeteries in Goshen are small so their are 12 on this page. Key to which Cemetery someone is in. Numbers below were assigned to each cemetery by the State Library when the Hale Collection was made. 607-4 East Street Cemetery 607-7 Bentley Cemetery (607-7) - Hill, Uri, died Dec. 29, 1766, age 37. (607-4) - Hills, Abigail Wilcox, wife of Miles, died Aug. 17, 1793, age 22. (607-4) - Hills, Abigail, wife of Miles, died Aug. 17, 1793, age 22. (607-4) - Hills, Ana Butrick, wife of Miles, born Oct. 10, 1777, died Oct. 12, 1830. (607-4) - Hills, Anna, wife of Miles, died Oct. 12, 1830, age 53. (607-4) - Hills, Augustus, died Apr. 17, 1811, age 57. (607-4) - Hills, Col. Medad, born Apr. 27, 1729, died Apr. 9, 1808. (607-4) - Hills, Dea. Eben M., born Oct. 8, 1801, died Feb.17, 1859. (607-4) - Hills, Dea. Frederick P., born Sept. 1, 1808, died Apr. 10, 1881. (607-4) - Hills, Dea. Levi, born May 29, 1795, died Jan. 27, 1866. (607-4) - Hills, Eliza, born May 23, 1812, died Nov. 25, 1863. (607-4) - Hills, Medad, son of Miles & Anna, . (607-4) - Hills, Medad, son of Seth & Catherine, died Feb. 15, 1788, age 4. (607-4) - Hills, Miles, born Aug. 31, 1766, died Mar. 10, 1815. (607-4) - Hills, Miles, died Mar. 10, 1815, age 48. (607-4) - Hills, Morad, born June 17, 1797, died Sept. 15, 1803. (607-4) - Hills, Polly M., daughter of Abigail & Miles, died Aug. 2, 1793, age 1 yr. 8 mos. (607-4) - Hills, Polly M., died Aug. 2, 1793, age 8 mos. (607-4) - Hills, Reuben, died Mar. 15, 1790, age 25. (607-4) - Hills, Reuben, son of Hedad & Sarah, died Mar. 15, 1790, age 26. (607-4) - Hills, Roxa, born Oct. 6, 1814, died Dec. 15, 1816. (607-4) - Hills, Roxa, daughter of Miles & Anna, died Dec. 15, 1816, age 2 yrs. (607-4) - Hills, Sarah, wife of Col. Medad, died Feb. 18, 1802, age 70. History of the Western Reserve, Harriet Taylor Upton Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1910, p. 997, 998 Transcribed by Susan Kimes Burgess November 11, 2006 "CLINTON W. HILLS. - This venerable and honored citizen of Painesville, where he is now living retired, has had an eventful career and one that has stood representative of consecutive industry and earnest purpose. His experiences in a business way have been varied, but he has had the ability and good fortune to so direct his efforts as to make ample provision for his declining years, which he is passing in peace and prosperity. Mr. Hills is a native of Vernon Center, Oneida county, New York, where he was born on the 1st of September, 1829. He is a son of Manley Miles Hills, and the latter was a son of Jesse Hills, who was prevailed upon to come to Ohio with the Mormons and who led the singing in the old temple of this organization in the village of Kirtland. Jesse Hills was in turn a son of Seth, who was a son of Benoni. The last mentioned was a son of Joseph, whose father, William Hills, the original American progenitor, came from Durham, England, and settled in Boston in 1632. Clinton W. Hills passed the first eleven years of his life on the farm of his father, who was also a cooper by trade and vocation, and thereafter he was "bound out" to a man named Tryon, with whom he remained until he had attained to the age of twenty-one years, when he was given $100 as full compensation for his services during the interval of ten years. His early educational advantages were most meager, but through self-discipline and the experiences gained in connection with the practical affairs of life he has become a man of broad and accurate information. With the $100 which he had received he engaged in the poultry business with a partner, and the latter finally accumulated all the cash and left to him the experience, as is often the case. Under these conditions he secured work on a farm at eleven dollars a month, and within a year he had saved another $100, having lost but two days during the entire year. Realizing his need of better educational training along practical lines, he then went to Buffalo, New York, where he entered the Bryant & Stratton Business College, in which he completed a course of study, in the meanwhile paying his way by sweeping floors and doing such other work as came to hand. After leaving this school he found his cash exhausted, and under these conditions he secured from a dealer in New York a stock of steel pens, lead pencils, etc., which he sold to the trade. He worked day and night and finally gained sufficient experience to make him successful. He traveled in fully twenty different states, selling goods of this description, and in the meanwhile carefully conserved his resources, so that at the end of five years he had about $6,000. He purchased seventy acres of land in Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, having come hither to visit Mr. Tryon, with whom he had lived as a boy and who had located on a farm in Willoughby township, and he assumed possession in 1863. On December 31 of that year, in the city of Cleveland, Mr. Hills married Miss Emeline Horton, who was born in Rochester, New York, and who had come to Ohio to live with an uncle. The young couple settled on their farm in Willoughby township, where they remained five years. Mr. Hills then sold the property and joined his wife's uncle, Austin Fulter, in Kansas, where he engaged in the raising of cattle. He purchased a tract of land near Burlingame, Orange county, where he erected a house and made other improvements, but the Kansas winds proved so disagreeable that he sold the property and went to Winchester valley, Virginia, where he bought a farm of 140 acres, upon which he passed two years. As there were no public schools in the locality, he sold this property and returned to Lake county, Ohio, in order to give his children needed educational advantages. He here bought twenty-six acres in Willoughby township, one-half mile distant from his old farm, but as he liked the climate of the middle south he finally sold out and removed to Tennessee, locating near the village of Newmarket. There he passed two years under most pleasing environment, but he then returned to Lake county and bought a farm of thirty acres in Willoughby township. He again sold out and returned to the south, but finally came back to the same township and bought thirty acres lying adjacent to the first farm he had owned in Willoughby township. During the various removals and changes he had practically "held his own," but had not greatly increased his capital from that with which he started in Lake county. On the last mentioned farm, however, he continued to reside from 1875 until 1903, when he sold the property and removed to Painesville, where he has since lived virtually retired. He made the best of improvements on his farm, which he devoted largely to the growing of fruits, in which line he made a specialty of peaches and grapes. He sold from the farm in one year 4,000 half-bushel baskets of these products, and his success is well indicated by this statement. He became an authority on fruit-growing in this section, and the attractive little homestead of which he was so long the owner is recognized as one of the best in the county. Mr. Hills took a deep interest in all that concerned the welfare and prosperity of his section of the county and held various local offices. His political support is given to the Republican party and he and his wife hold membership in the Church of Christ. They have one son and one daughter - Edwin M., who is proprietor of a livery and boarding stable in the city of Cleveland, and Jennie, who is the wife of Homer P. Cumings, of Painesville, individually mentioned on other pages of this work. Mr. Hills is well preserved in physical and mental powers and in appearance gives slight indication of the four-score years that rest upon him." Father: Joseph HILLS b: 17 MAR 1650 in Hartford, CT Mother: Mehitabel HINSDALE b: 18 OCT 1663 in Medfield, Norfolk, MA Marriage 1 Hannah STRONG b: 29 JUL 1704 in Northhampton, MA Married: 19 DEC 1723 in Northhampton, MA Children Has Children John HILLS b: 13 DEC 1732 in Durham, Middlesex Co., CT Has No Children Hannah HILLS b: 5 OCT 1725 Has No Children Zimri HILLS b: 16 DEC 1725 Has No Children Beriah HILLS b: 31 AUG 1727 Has No Children Medad HILLS b: 27 APR 1729 Has No Children Mary HILLS b: 1 JUN 1731 in Durham, Middlesex Co., CT Has No Children Mary HILLS b: 25 SEP 1734 in Durham, Middlesex Co., CT Has Children Seth HILLS b: 13 SEP 1736 Has No Children Rachel HILLS b: 8 JUL 1739 Has No Children Bela HILLS b: 24 AUG 1741 Has No Children Ann HILLS b: 11 JUN 1743
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