Benjamin Hills

Biography

7. Benjamin HILLS Source (William-1) was born about 1653 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut. He died in 1727 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.

Benjamin HILLS and Mary BRONSON were married on 11 Jan 1688/89 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.

Mary BRONSON, daughter of John Bronson and Hannah Scott, was born 15 September 1668 in Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, and died before 1726, as she’s not mentioned in his Will.

Children of Mary Bronson and Benjamin Hills:

1. Susannah Hills, b. Abt. 1691. Married John Kilbourn.
2. Benjamin Hills, b. Abt 1694. Married Elizabeth Warren.
3. Abigail Hills, b. Abt. 1702. Married Samuel Steadman.
4. Samuel Hills, b. Abt 1708. Married Violet Steadman.

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Estate

A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS 1710-1715 Pg 184 Vol. XII Name: Benjamin Hills Location : Hartford Invt. oe208-14-00 Taken by Daniel Dickinson and Timothy Willams. will dated 4 February 1726

• I , Benjamin Hills being weak in body and in expectation of my last change, and being willing to dispose of those worldy goods which God hath given me, and set my house in order befroe I die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament:
• My will is that my son Benjamin have and do enjoy that part of my estate which I have already given him in a deed. And further I give him 5 shillings out of my estate and that to be his whole share.
• 2ndly I give to my two daughters, Susannah and Abigail, besides what they have already received , 5 shillings to each, to be paid out of my estate.
• 3rdly I give to my son Samuel the remaining part of my estate , both real and persoanl, after the sons above mentioned are paid.
• And my will is that my son Samuel be the executor of this my last will.

Witness: Jonanthan Hills Jr., John Hazeltine , Nathaniel Risley. Benjamin X Hills , Is. Court Record Pg. 189 ... 2 April, 1728 : Will now exhibited by Samuel Hills , Executor. Accepted

Origins

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lyman/hills.html#p10

William HILLS and Mary ARNOLD were married about 1648 in , , Connecticut. Mary ARNOLD died about 1655 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut.

William HILLS and Mary ARNOLD had the following children:

• 5 i Joseph HILLS.
• 6 ii. Susannah HILLS (born about 1651).
• 7 iii. Benjamin HILLS (born about 1653).
• 8 iv. Benoni HILLS was born about 1655 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut. He died after 8 Jul 1659.

William HILLS and Mary WARNER Sources were married about 1656. Mary WARNER was born about 1626. She died after Feb 1680/81.

William HILLS and Mary WARNER had the following children:

• 9 i. Abraham HILLS Sources was born in 1656 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut. He died after 14 Mar 1658/59.
• 10 ii Hannah HILLS (born about 6 Dec 1658).
• 11 iii. Mary HILLS Sources was born about 1660 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut. She died after 25 Feb 1680/81.
• 12 iv. Jonathan HILLS born about 1664).
• 13 v. Hester HILLS Sources was born about 1667 in Hartford, Hartford , Connecticut.

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Sources

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hills-358
   1. Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978) pp. 589-591.
   2. "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F78P-7JZ : accessed 4 February 2016), Benjamin Hills, 10 Jan 1728; citing Conn, reference death; FHL microfilm 3,140.
   3. Find A Grave Memorial# 125211754
   4. Robert Charles Anderson Title: The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995
   5. John Insley Coddington, "The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family ofEarl's Colne, Essex, England, Connecticut & South Carolina," in TheAmerican Genealogist, Vol. 39, 1963: pg. 116.
   6. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) Vol. II, p. 758. HILLS, Benjamin (ca 1653-1728?) & Mary BRONSON (1668-); 11 Jan 1688; ?Hartford

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