Margery (Gilliam) Hill (abt. 1728 - aft. 1774)

Born about 1728 in Surry County, Colony of Virginia

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Died after 3 Oct 1774 after about age 46 in Sussex County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Margery was born about 1728 and died after 3 Oct 1774, Sussex Co., VA - The will of Richard Hill names his wife, "Margery." ^[1]

She was the daughter of William Gilliam and Susanna Greene

From Southside Virginia Genealogies by John W. Pritchett
Margery Gilliam married Richard Hill by 16 Nov. 1742 when her father gave them the 200 acres he bought from Lewis Green.
As Richard Hill, planter of Surry County, he sold 2 tracts on the south side of Three Creeks in Brunswick County 31 March 1752. Richard Hill of Surry County bought 111 acres on the north side of the Nottoway River from Robert Bolling 20 May 1753, 205 and was a resident of Sussex County when Thomas Chambers sold him 100 acres on the north side of the Nottoway River 5 March 1755. On Southwestern Swamp Hill patented 102 acres 10 Sept. 1755 and purchased 60 acres 16 Feb. 1758, and William Gilliam sold him 700 acres on the north side of the Nottoway River in 1762. When Richard Hill sold 3 tracts in Brunswick County aggregating 627 acres to Bolling Starke of Dinwiddie County 17 Dec. 1764, Margery relinquished her dower right. Three days later Stark sold Richard Hill 1,400 acres on the Nottoway River in Sussex County.

Richard Hill, a merchant, and captain of the Sussex County militia 1769, made his will in Sussex County in 1774 leaving a life estate to his wife, Margery, and land and other property to children and grandchildren (will dated 3 Oct. 1774 and proved 17 Aug. 1775). Mrs. Brodnax reported Capt. Richard Hill died 9 July 1775. He had, “joined himself to the Methodists, signed their association and had frequent meetings at their house; but, a few hours before his death, gave charge that no Methodist should ever preach under his roof.” Sussex County taxed Margery Hill on 11 tithes and 600 acres in 1777, and she was still living in 1788 when her daughter Rebecca married. She was possibly the Margery Hill in Greensville County who provided pasturage to the army during the Revolutionary War. A Dinwiddie County record of 1789 mentions Green Hill and Margery Hill, executors of Richard Hill, deceased.

Research Notes

Death date adjusted from about 1765 to about 1770 because her last daughter would have been born two years after her death. Another family tree lists: Richard married Margret GILLIAM on 1742 in SURREY CO VA. Margret was born in SUSSEX CO VA. She died 1780. ^[2]

1775 --- ORIGINAL WILL OF RICHARD HILL, PROBATED IN 1775, SUSSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA: COPY OF RECORD IN WILL BOOK C, PAGE 175.

In the name of God, Amen, I, Richard Hill, of the County of sussex being of perfect mind and memory do make and ordain this my last mind and testment, hereby revoking and disannuling all former wills or testments by me heretofore nade in manner and form following: that is to say, Imprints, I lend to my beloved wife, Margery, during her natural life the use of my tract of land in the following manner beginning at a gum tree in the Southwest Swamp, thence, by a line marked by trees up to the pld field which is now tobacco ground, thence, a straight line course to the spring at the main road and thence, to the corner of the Mill and up the Goose Pond to Michael Hill's corner tree, being a Red Oak, I also lend my beloved wife during her natural life all my right ad interest in the land I purchased of Joh n Holt. As also a tract of land I purchased of Thomas Chambles. I alo lend my bloved wife, the use and laboiur of the follwoing slaves. to wit: Abram, violet, Harry, Phoebe, York, chinak, Brick, amey, old Anca, Little Nan and Samson, as also all the cattle, hogs and half of the sheep belomgin to the manor plantion with all the residue of my household furniture except things hereafter given away with all the plantation utnsils at the said planation.

Sources

1. ↑ Will of Richard Hill. Sussex Co., VA, WB C, pp. 175-179, w. 3 Oct 1774, codicil w. 23 Jan 1775, p. 17 Aug 1775. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62347/images/007676314_00304?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
2. ↑ https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/a/l/Roy-E-Hall/GENE5-0003.html

• Source S4418 Abbreviation: Virginia Historical Genealogies. Title: Boddie, John Bennett, Virginia Historical Genealogies (Orig. publ in Redwood City, CA, 1954. Reprinted for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, MD 1990). Repository: #R41 Call Number: LOC Catalogue Card #54-3721. Repository R41 Name: FTM's Family Archives. Family History: Southern Genealogies #1 1600s-1800s.