Gregory
Hill
Born about in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Simeon Hill
[uncertain]
and Esther (Unknown) Turner
[uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Lovina (Lusk) Hill
— married
26 Jan 1822 in Victor, Ontario County, New York, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Jerome Hill, Sophia Josephine (Hill) Hamilton, Olive (Hill) Young, Harlow Hill, Lysander Hill, Elvina Hill, George Washington Hill and William H. Hill
Died
at about age 80
in Victor, Ontario, New York, United States
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Biography
Gregory Hill died 2 Aug. 1873, age 80 years, 3 months, 1 day. He was buried in Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York, USA.[1][2]
Biography by Margaret Gillett Atherton 1981
Gregory Hill, father of Sophia Josephine Hill, was born May 1, 1793, in Weathersfield, Vermont. In 1981, Margie Larson and I stopped there when we saw "Weathersfield Town Office". However, we were in Ascutney, Vermont. The office had just been moved from Perkinsville, Vt., and though all are in Windsor County, Weathersfield is, I guess, what we could call a township.
Gregory's family moved to Westford, Vermont, near Burlington, shortly after 1800. I think Gregory's father was Simeon Hill and have found many things that prove it to me, but not in black and white. Sophia Hill Gillett kept a deed throughout her life to a small farm in Massachusetts, which was bought by Simeon Hill in 1776, after a year in the Revolutionary Army. I have his war and pension record which shows that the last three towns he lived in were Weathersfield, Vt., Westford, Vt., and Victor, N.Y.
Back to Gregory. In 1807, at age 14, he went to Victor, New York, or nearby town, Bloomfield, on foot. He went to work for a farmer. In his spare time, he chopped wood for people and was finally able to begin buying land. He eventually had 700 acres in one parcel and was considered a wealthy man. He is mentioned thus in histories of early Victor, New York. He had two brothers, Charles and Jerome. Charles later moved to Mendon, a nearby town.
Gregory went back to Vermont around 1816 and brought his parents to Victor on horseback to live with him. The historian of Ontario County had a leather satchel or knapsack which Gregory had originally carried on his shoulder to Victor in 1807. The 1820 census in Victor shows Gregory with an old man and old woman living with him. The 1830 census shows only the old man. By then, it also shows a wife (Lovina Lusk) and several children.
Gregory married the neighbor's daughter, Lovina Lusk, on January 26, 1822. They had eight children, of whom Sophia Josephine Hill was the second and the oldest daughter. Gregory died August 2, 1873, at age 80. His marble monument to the Hill family is the tallest in Boughton Hill Cemetery near Victor. I suppose he purchased it after Lovina's death.
I would like to have known Gregory Hill. He sounds like a man of character, determination, responsibility and a well-planned life.
Biography 2 by Margaret Gillett Atherton
From Rootsweb page by Doug Atherton
When 18 years of age, walked to Victor, NY from Vermont. His knapsack is at the Victor/Fishers Historical Museum.
Family History
Before the Revolutionary War, a Hill came from England, fought in the war, and settled in or near Perth Amboy, Middlesex Col, NJ. He (only he it says!!) had 12 sons whom he bounded out or apprenticed to pioneers going to Vermont, Ohio, etc. One son Lucius went to Westvelt, Vermont. He later married and had three sons: Gregory (1793, Wethersfield, Vt.), Charles and Jerome. (Note: Mother later decides that Simeon Hill, not Lucius, is Gregory's father.)
In 1807, at the age of 14, Gregory set our westward to seek his fortune. He worked for _______ on Bloomfield Road the first year, chopping and bought, which by 1830-40 was 400 or 500 or 700 acres in one parcel. Ontario Co. history relates that he was a pioneer of the country, settling west of Victor and was a prosperous farmer.
He married Lovina Lusk, daughter of Asahel Lusk, whose father was in the Revolutionary War, another pioneer, and they had 8 children. All the Hill boys (5) had farms near the old home, and many of their farm houses are standing today (1965), including the original stone cabin with its big frame wing added later, which Gregory (built). This is on the road to Mendon, NY, from Victor.
Two of Gregory's daughters, Sophia and Olive, later moved to Eckford, Michigan with their husbands, John Gillett of Mendon and Ed Young. Sophia and John in 1853, with one child Mary Elizabeth. They bought ___ acres, and Gregory Hill gave them each 50 acres that he had bought previously.
There are great grandchildren of Gregory living in or near Victor today. Gregory C. Hill, Jerome's family, Ruth (Mrs. Russell) Simonds, Lysander's family, and John Knapp Hill from William's family. The cemetery at Boughton Hill, south of town, is the resting place of many of these people. A 25 foot granite spire marks Lovina and Gregory's graves, and many other Hills are nearby. George and Laura and others in different parts.
In Eckford, there were many to greet this contingent from Victor, for Lovina's brother among them Col. John Lusk had come our earlier in the 1830s. Sophia and John returned in 1861, as John's father Daniel died.
George and Laura came in 1862 after their marriage, but stayed only 6 years before returning to Victor. In 1868, John Gillett died and just one month later his son Vernor John was born. Sophia remarried in a year or so. Her second husband...(note: was Flavius Hamilton).
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Margaret Gillett Atherton (from her handwritten notes)
Victor Herald Biography
Gregory Hill, was born in Wethersfield, Vermont, May 1, 1793, and came to the town of Victor in 1812, purchasing twelve acres of land across the road, opposite the residence on the homestead farm. He cleared up his small holding, worked for neighbors and others until he was able to buy more land, which course he pursued, until after many years of hard work, he owned about 700 acres of land in that vicinity. At the time Hill came to Victor, the western part of the town was called the "openings" from the fact that the land was of a sandy nature and lightly timbered, much of it having been repeatedly burnt over and overgrown with scrub brush, being easily cleared for tillage, and at the time of early occupation not considered very profitable or desirable, having since become the most profitable crop-producing part of the town. In 1822, Mr. Hill married Lovina Lusk, daughter of Asahel Lusk, then living on the farm now owned by William Peck. They were married at the house of a friend, at what is known as "Goff's Corners," about a mile west from Mendon, riding there in a sleigh, which is yet in a good state of preservation and in the possession of his son, William H. Hill. He raised a family of eight children, five boys and three girls, of whom George W. Hill, of this village, and William H. Hill are the only survivors. It is stated that about the time Mr. Hill came to Victor and for some time afterward, wild game and Indians were plenty, and Mrs. Hill has stated that the bears would sometimes push aside the blanket door of their house and look in, while the Indians would frequently call and ask for a loaf of bread, which was never refused.[3]
Census
- 1820 US Census[4]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Victor, Ontario, New York
- Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1 [Gregory]
- Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [could be his father]
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
- Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
- Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 4
- Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 4
- 1830 US Census[5]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Victor, Ontario, New York
- Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 [Gregory]
- Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79: 1 [could be his father]
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 [Sophia, ?]
- Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 [Lovinia]
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 8
- Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 8
- 1840 US Census[6]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Victor, Ontario, New York
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 [Gregory]
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 [Sophia, ?]
- Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 [Lovinia]
- Persons Employed in Agriculture: 5
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 9
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 11
- Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 11
- 1850 US Census[7]
- Name: Gregeory Hill
- Age: 58
- Birth Year: abt 1792
- Birthplace: Vermont
- Home in 1850: Victor, Ontario, New York
- Gender: Male
- Family Number: 243
- Household Members: Name Age
- Gregeory Hill 58
- Lovinna Hill 49
- Harlow Hill 19
- Lysander Hill 18
- George Hill 13
- William Hill 9
- Elizabeth Medough 21
- Sarah D Walker 15
- Robert Wood 25
- 1855 NY Census[8]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Birth Year: abt 1795
- Age: 60
- Gender: Male
- Relation to Head: Head
- Residence: Victor, Ontario, New York, USA
- Household number: 338
- Line Number: 33
- Sheet Number: 39
- Household Members: Name Age
- Gregory Hill 60
- Lavina Hill 54
- Lysander Hill 22
- Geo Hill 17
- William Hill 14
- Carver Brook 22
- Elisabeth McDaugh 26
- 1860 US Census[9]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Age in 1860: 67
- Birth Year: abt 1793
- Birthplace: New York
- Home in 1860: Victor, Ontario, New York
- Gender: Male
- Post Office: Victor
- Value of real estate: 25,000
- Value of personal estate: 3075
- Household Members: Name Age
- Gregory Hill 67
- Lovina Hill 59
- Lysander Hill 27
- Geo Hill 22
- Wm Hill 19
- Elizabeth Middaugh 22
- 1860 Agriculture Census[10]
- Improved 230
- Unimproved 70
- Cash value of farm 18000
- Value of farming implements and machinery 400
- Horses 6
- Milch cows 6
- Other cows 11
- Sheep 200
- Swine 7
- Value of livestock 1975
- Bushels of wheat 150
- Bushels of Indian Corn 300
- Bushels of oat 300
- Pounds of wool 1000
- 1865 NY Census[11]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Gender: Male
- Relation to Head: Head
- Birth Year: abt 1793
- Age: 72
- Residence: Victor, Ontario, New York, USA
- Line Number: 21
- Page Number: 26
- Household Members: Name Age
- Gregory Hill 72
- Sovina Hill 65
- William Hill 22
- Miranda Hill 20
- William Sullivan 20
- 1870 US Census[12]
- Name: Gregory Hill
- Age in 1870: 76
- Birth Year: abt 1794
- Birthplace: Vermont
- Home in 1870: Victor, Ontario, New York
- Race: White
- Gender: Male
- Post Office: Victor
- Value of real estate: [blank]
- Household Members: Name Age
- Gregory Hill 76
- Alvina Hill 69
Research Notes
His mother may be Deliverance Pease, d: Bet. 1820 - 1830 in Victor, Ontario, New York.
Sources
- ↑ Boughton Hill Cemetery Records, Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York Viewed 25 Apr 2015
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 February 2021), memorial page for Gregory Hill (1 May 1793–2 Aug 1873), Find A Grave: Memorial #149603195, citing Boughton Hill Cemetery, Victor, Ontario County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Butterfly~Kisses (contributor 46994799) .
- ↑ Victor Herald 30 March 1900, transcribed by Ontario County NY GenWeb
- ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLB-XFL : accessed 16 December 2017), Gregory Hill, Victor, Ontario, New York, United States; citing p. 324, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 62; FHL microfilm 193,717.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG1-1N3 : 22 August 2017), Gregory Hill, Victor, Ontario, New York, United States; citing 215, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 101; FHL microfilm 17,161.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTR-ZJL : 16 August 2017), Gregory Hill, Victor, Ontario, New York, United States; citing p. 190, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 320; FHL microfilm 17,201.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCBB-JPQ : 12 April 2016), Gregory Hill, Victor, Ontario, New York, United States; citing family 243, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K63N-435 : 7 September 2016), Gregory Hill, Victor, Ontario, New York, United States; citing p. 39, line #33, family #338, county clerk offices, New York; FHL microfilm 590,803.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC7J-5CR : 12 December 2017), Gregory Hill, 1860.
- ↑ Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Victor, Ontario, New York, Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, p.9 line 11. From Ancestry, p.5
- ↑ Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. From Ancestry, p. 14
- ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8VN-WCF : 12 April 2016), Gregory Hill, New York, United States; citing p. 48, family 394, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,565.
See also:
- Rootsweb entry for Gregory Hill compiled by Doug Atherton
- Ancestry board discussion about the Hill family https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=6750&p=surnames.hill
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