Joseph Hill (1706 - aft. 1782)

Born 28 Jul 1706 in Kittery, York, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Libby) Hill — married 2 May 1728 (to 1 Feb 1737) in Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire

Husband of Amme (Johnson) Hill — married 29 Jul 1739 (to 14 May 1782) in Biddeford, York, Maine

Descendants

Died after 14 May 1782 after age 75 in Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Joseph was a cordwainer in Kittery. He was listed on tax lists of people who owned land from Great Cove to Sturgeon Creek in 1751 along with his brother Samuel Hill Jr.

Joseph was in Biddeford by 1736 and by 1749 he had swapped his land in Biddeford for land in Scarborough and was still in Scarborough 30 Aug. 1762 when he deeded land to his son Japhet. By 1764 he had moved to Granville, NS where he was granted 500 acres, lot #117, which stretched from the Annapolis River to the Bay of Fundy.(1)

Libby Family in America pg. 38-39:

3. Abigail, m. 2 May 1728 in Durham, Joseph Hill

1. Abigail Hill, m. 7 Nov 1751, James Foss

2. Lydia Hill, m. 1 Jan 1752 James Marr Children:

1. John Marr, bap. 1752, m. Sarah Jordan

2. James Marr, bap. 1754; m. Lydia Libby, 11-7-2-5

3. Mercy Marr, m. Reuben Libby, 10-5-2-3

4. William Marr, probably died young

5. Lydia Marr, m. George Fogg, 9-5-4-9

6. Catherine Marr, unmarried in 1804

7. Abigail Marr, m 29 Dec 1797, Joseph Calef

8. Daniel Marr, m. Elizabeth Sawyer

9. Rufus Marr, m. Lucy March 11-6-1-14

3. Susannah Hill, m. 15 July 1755 Nathania Jordan

4. Elizabeth Hill m. Thomas Millett or Falmouth

5. Daniel Hill of Scarborough in 176

6. Mary Hill of Scarborough, unmarried in 1762

Sources

• (1) Lifting the Fog from the Hills of Machias- Gerald Gower & Kathleen Nichols, The Maine Genealogist- Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 128-9 (Aug. 2000)

• Old Kittery and Her Families- Everett S. Stackpole, Lewiston Journal, 1903- p.518
• Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- pp.329

• New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Name: Joseph Hill

Event Type: Birth

Birth Date: 28 Jul 1706

Birth Place: New Hampshire, USA

Father's name: Samuel Hill

Mother's name: Elizabeth Hill

• Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Marriages by the Reb. Hugh Adams p. 180 http://americanancestors.com/databases/vital-records-from-the-nehgs-register/image/?volumeId=21087&pageName=180&rId=426698605

1728 May 2 Joseph Hill, of Kitery, and Abigail Lebbey, of Dover, O. R. P.

Volume 71 page 133 - http://americanancestors.com/databases/vital-records-from-the-nehgs-register/image/?volumeId=21135&pageName=133&rId=426744120

Joseph Hill of Biddeford and Amme Johnson of Kittery intend Marriage Biddeford July 1739

• ”The Libby family in America,1602-1881”, by Libby, Charles Thornton, 1861-1948 Published 1882 Publisher Portland, Me. : B. Thurston & Co. Libby Family in America

• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

Name: Joseph Hill

Gender: Male

Birth Year:1706

Spouse Name:Abigail Libby

Marriage Year: 1728

Marriage State: ME

Number Pages: 1

• Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Maine Census, 1800-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

Name:Joseph Hill

State: ME

County: York County

Year:1748

Page:440

Database: ME Early Census Index

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