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From: "Nena Smothers" <>
Subject: Capt Robert Hill [Billie]
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 16:35:15 -0700

6. Robert Hill, b. 17 Feb 1751/52, Caroline Co. VA. and d. 2 Aug 1834
Germantown, Stokes Co. NC. He married Martha Halbert Sep 1769 VA.She b.
1747, Caroline Co. VA. and dd. 20 Sep 1833 in
Germantown,Stokes Co. NC.
*Need sources for dates and locations for he and his wife.
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CAPTAIN ROBERT HILL 2/.

4. Captain Robert Hill 2/ was the fourth child of William Hill Sr. 1/
(1710-1787) and Susannah Smither. He was called Captain Robert Hill due to
his military service in the Revolutionary War and to help separate him from
many other Robert Hills listed.

Robert Hill 2/ was born 17th of Feb 1752 Caroline Co Va. (Some other sources
say he was born 19th of Feb 1752). He died 2nd Augt 1834 Stokes Co N.C. He
will was drawn up on 6th of April 1833 and was probated in September of
1834.
Robert Hill 2/ married Martha Halbert Sep 1769 Henderson Co SC. Martha was
born 1750 Caroline Co Va and daughter of Joel Halbert Sr. (1712-1762) and
Frances Elizabeth Jones.

Martha Halbert Hill died 20th of Sep 1833 and according to information from
a grandson, Dr. L. H. Hill 4/, both are buried in the Hill cemetery, located
four miles west of Walnut Cove, in Stokes County, N.C.

Robert Hill 2/ served in the army during the Revolution from 1776 until
1781. Since he was a resident of Surry County, N.C. he started as a Private
in the North Carolina Regiments. In 1780 he was a Lieutenant in Captain
William Meredith's Company and early in 1781 he was a Capt under Maj Joseph
Winston's and Col Robert Smith's Companies.

Will Book I, Page 101, under the Inventory of Estate of James McJoin,
deceased, dated 20th March 1778, shows that the deceased owned 360 acres of
land in Captain Hill's District.

It appears all of the children of Robert Hill 2/ and Martha Halbert born
Stokes Co N.C. This information comes from a letter by grandson, Dr. L.H.
Hill 4/, to his grandson, William C. Rierson 6/.
children:

A.Susannah Hill 3/, born 25th of June 1770, she married Edmund Samuel on the
15th of March 1788 (marriage bond # 147222), Surry Co., N.C. He was born in
1767 and died in 1833.

B.William Hill 3/, born 8th of April 1773, died young. He was not named in
the Will of his father.

C.Caleb Hill 3/, born 12th of July 1775, died in either Bone or Cooper
County, Missouri. He married 28th Dec 1797 Stokes Co N.C. Mary (Nancy?)
Flint.
Children of Caleb Hill/Nancy Flint were:
1.James Hill 5/ m. Elizabeth Peters. Had A daughter a.Martha Hill 6/ m.Dr.
Joseph Miller Gibson and their daughter was: i. Lelia Elizabeth Hill 7/ m.
Richard H. Kerr.

D.Elizabeth (Betsy) Hill 3/, born on the 17th of September 1777. She died
on the 23rd of January 1853, Walkerstown, Forsyth County, N.C. She married
on the 21st or 27th of October 1797 in Stokes County, N.C. to Tandy
Matthews, born in April of 1775 or 1777 and who died on the 11th of August
1856. They had 10 children.

E.Joel Hill 3/, was born 4th of July 1780 and died on 12th Sep 1857
Stokes Co N.C. His marriage bond was issued 28th Jan 1813 Stokes Co N.C. for
a marriage to Mildred Golding. She was born 29th Dec 1794 and died 20th Sep
1869. They are buried in Hill Cemetery Stokes Co N.C. [Voss Burying Grounds]
They had 12 children and Dr. L. D. Hill 4/ was the youngest son.
Children Joel Hill/Mildred Golding were:
1.Robert William Hill 5/, b. 1813 in NC, d. in 1886 in NC, m.1840 to ?? His
birth date is before parents married unless there was a 1st wife??
2.Sarah Golding Hill 5/, b. 1816 in N.C., d. 1886, m. 1840 to Col. James
Madison Covington.
3.John Gideon Hill 5/, b. 11 October 1817 Stokes Co., NC, d. 1885, m. in
Stokes Co NC on 16 Sept 1846 to Susan Frances Poindexter.
4.Martha A. Hill 5/, b. 1819 NC, d. 1872 m 1850 Samuel Fulton.
5.Joel Felix Hill 5/, b. 1821 in NC, d. 1899, m. a cousin,Harriet Kiser,
granddaughter of Rev Wm Hill Jr. 3/, through a daughter.
6.Caleb Hill 5/, b 1823 NC d. 1893 Mo m. 1861 Sallie F Rierson.
7.Elizabeth Hill 5/, b. 1862 NC, m 1844 Samuel S. Blackburn.
8.Isaac Luther Hill 5/, b. 1824 NC, d.1847, m 1847 (just before death?) to
Mary Fulton.
9.Frances Jane Hill 5/, b. 1830 NC d 1902, m 1849 Jas M Hardy.
10.Jas Stadler Hill 5/, b. 1832 NC d 1919 m 28 May 1860 Surry Co NC to Mary
Letitia Banner. Their daughter was: Sallie Hill 6/, b.in Surry Co., NC, m.
Merrill Doyle Arnold.
11.Thomas Davis Hill 5/, b. 1834 in NC, d.1856 Tx. No other info. 12.Dr
Lauriston Hardin Hill 5/ b 1837 NC d 1921 m Minerva Rierson.

F.Sarah (Sallie) Hill 3/, was born on the 30th of December 1782 and died
on the 20th of September 1805 in Stokes County, N.C. She is buried in the
Hill Cemetery of that county.

G.Martha (Patsy) Hill 3/, (said to be a twin of Robert Hill Jr. 3/) was born
on the 30th of December 1785, and died in Stokes County, N.C. (no date
listed). She married on the 3rd of March 1810 to William G. Haynes. They
had one daughter.

H. Robert Hill Jr. 3/, (said to be a twin of Martha Hill 3/) was born 30th
Dec 1785. He died in Surry Co., N.C. 1844. He married Elizabeth Vest on the
9th of May 1807 in Stokes County, N.C. Elizabeth Vest was born on the 9th
of May in 1787 and died ca. 1870. Both are buried at Hill's Chapel Church
(Hill Cemetery?) in Stokes Co., N.C.

I.Frances Hill 3/, was born 23rd Feb 1788, and was dead by 1833. She married
25th July 1809 to Thomas Locke Davis, born 2nd September 1789 in Virginia.

J.Senator John Hill 3/, born on the 9th of September 1797 at Germantown,
Stokes County, N.C. I personally think his birth date is wrong and should
probably be 1787 but it has been listed as 1797 in two different sources,
this is listed as such. He died on the 25th of May 1861 at Raleigh, Wake
County, N.C., the day before N.C. seceded from the Union. He married Julia
Crawford in 1819. He served various times for the government from 1819
until his death. He was Clerk of Court for Stokes Co., N.C.
buried in the old burying grounds in that county. He was educated in
University of NC, was elected seven times to the legislature and once in
Congress in 1839. He was opposed to secession and against his will was
appointed to the convention that carried the state out of the Union. He said
that if there was secession he did not want to live and during the
convention he was stricken with apoplexy and died. Source of the above
Information was from a letter from Capt Robert Hill's grandson, filed at
Wake Forest, N.C. University Library; Stokes County Will Book 3, Page 277
and family group sheets by Mrs. M.L. Vernon of Stoneville, N.C.

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