Gershom Hills

GEDCOM Note

Biography

Name

:: Gershom Hills:: "Joseph" was originally entered as Gershom's middle name, but this was likely an error since middle names didn't come into fashion until the end of the eighteenth century. His father and brother were named Joseph.

Birth

:: 27 Jul 1639, Charlestown, Massachusetts.<ref>Cutter, pp. 974.</ref>

Christening

: 27 Jul 1639, Great Burstead, Billericay, Essex, England<ref>Unlikely if family emigrated in 1638, as per Cutter, p. 973.</ref>

Marriage

: 11 Nov 1667, to Elizabeth Chadwick (born 1648). They resided in Malden/Charlestown.<ref>Torrey, Vol. II, p. 759.</ref>

Death

: between 1710 and 1721, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts. <ref>Cutter, pp. 974.</ref>
:: 1711 Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA :: Age: 72

Sources

• Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 1913)
• Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England MarriagesPrior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998) Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
• Greene, Samuel S. A Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of Thomas Green of Malden, Mass. (Henry W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1858) Page 71
• The Millennium File (Heritage Consulting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)