Re: Mary born 1790 N.C.,Nancy born 1804 N.C.
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Mary born 1790 N.C.,Nancy born 1804 N.C.
4/10/01
I have been researching this family for several years and have found many researchersmistaking "Old John Hill for his son John who married 1. possibly Catherine James, 2. Nancy Dennis.The following except from the book John Perry Alderman's "Carroll 1765-1815 The Settlements", page 249, gives the following sketch on the John Hill family.
JOHN HILL
It is not clear where he came from, but he seems to be closely connected to Joseph Hill who came to the same area from Rockbridge County, Virginia (Grayson Deed Book 1-427).
John probably came to Cranberry Creek in the 1790's.He bought an old survey from Edmund Clonch, the grant being issued to Hill in 1797 (Grants 36-534);title to part of the land was faulty, so John had it re-surveyed and obtained a corrected grant in 1804 (Grants 53-415).He was a man of prominence in the county.By 1806 he was a member of the court and Commissioner of the Revenue for Grayson County.At April Court 1809 he was recommended for the prestigious job of county coroner.He was appointed by the governor but did not qualify, having decided to move.On October 24, 1809 he deeded his farm to James and Abel Hill and apparently moved away.
It is thought that Abel Hill and James Hill were his sons.James married Rachel Coulson.It also seems that Joseph Hill, Mary Hillwho married Stephen Frost, Pheby Hill who married Archibald McCoy, and perhaps Nancy Hill who married Joshua Edwards were also his children, but the records in Grayson courthouse do not contain proof for the parentage of any of them.
Joseph Hill also sold out in 1809 (Grayson, Deed Book 2-498.Abel Hill having moved to Grainger County, Tennessee, sold his part of John's (his father) farm to John Coulson in 1811, while James sold his part in 1810 (Grayson Deed Book 2-584; Deed Book 2-586).
I am descended from John's daughter Phoebe Hill, who married Archibald McCoy and will glady share my findings.
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