Robert Hill *
Birth: Oct 1650, St. Dunstan's Parish, London, England
Death: 6 May 1697, Charles Co., Maryland, USA
- Married Mary Shaw * on 1685 at Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland, USA
- Child 1: Robert Hill 1686 -
- Child 2: John Hill 1687 -
- Child 3: William Hill 1689 -
- Child 4: Thomas (Phillip) Hill -
- Child 5: Catherine Hill 1692 -
- Child 6: Henry Hill * - 9 Feb 1773 m. Ann Truman *
- Child 7: Joseph Hill 1697 -
Notes: CHAPTERS L - LII, Part I: Royer's Ford, and West Conshohocken Boroughs; Cheltenham Townshi p - Part I : Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co, PA
All these tracts are denoted thereon as extending across the full breadth of the township, fi ve hundred and twenty-six perches. Patrick Robinson's tract lay a short distance west of Shoe makertown. John Russel's purchase of three hundred acres came next, which was surveyed by th e surveyor-general's order 30th of Sixth Month, 1683, and the patent given 16th of Fifth Mont h, 1684, signed by William Penn. He married Mary Woodward 5th' of Twelfth Month, 1683, and di ed in 1698. Joseph Phipps, as assessor of Cheltenham, returned the following list of taxable s in 1693: Humphrey Waterman Edmund McVaugh Samuel Voss Thomas Terwood Philip Hill John Iramo nger Humphrey Morrow Samuel Carl John Roberts John Barnes Thomas Canby William Routledge Jose ph Phipps, Sr. Joseph Phipps, Jr. Richard Wall Tobias Leech George Shoemaker Thomas Whitton J onas Potts Edward Eaton John Russel.
Chapter XXXIX: Abington Township - Part I: Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery Co, PA
The name of Abington has been applied from several parishes so called and formed more than ni ne hundred years ago in Northampton and Cambridgeshire, England. In records of 1696 to 1702 w e also find this called Hill township probably after Philip Hill, who was at the time an exte nsive landholder here. From Thomas Holme's map of original surveys, probably filled up befor e 1696, we secure some additional information as to the first taking up of the lands. Beginni ng at the present Philadelphia line on the south side of the Susquehanna Street road: Thoma s Livezey Robert Fairman Walter King Richard Dunworth William Chamberlain Joseph Phipps Sara h Fuller John Barnes Samuel Cart Widow Shorter John Rush Israel Hobbs and William Powell. O n the north side of Susquehanna Street road from the Philadelphia line: Silas Crispin Willia m Stanley Daniel Heap Thomas Holme Samuel Allen Elizabeth Martin Philip T. Lebinan Silas Cris pin and Samuel Clarridge. All these several tract extended halfway across the township, Susqu ehanna Street road being the centre or dividing line from which the surveys were made, and wa s reserved as an original road and we know from early deeds actually bore this name before 16 95. It seems remarkable that it should have been so called.
From Charles Weidinger cweidi2014@aol.com:
In April 1678, a party titled "Robert Hill, et.al." arrived in the bustling port of Baltimor e in the new State of Maryland. My seventh great grandfather was then nearly 28 years old. Wi th him were likely his brothers Richard, Charles, and William. These young men may have booke d passage as indentured servants for a period of four years to repay their passage to America . In 1685, Robert married Mary Shaugh, who had arrived in America ten years before the Hil l party. She too, may have been a servant, which would have been a convenient way for the tw o to meet. They settled into simple farming life in Charles County, not far from Port Tobacco . Robert died tragically quite young, at age 48. The only documentary link to his death i s an inventory record of his estate, completed in July 1697 by Mrs. Mary Watson, a neighbor , widow of John Watson. In this record, Mary noted that "the widow was left with many poor ch ildren." Mary Shaugh Hill died in probably 1701. In August of that year, the Charles County C ourt awarded two of their sons, including Henry Hill, age 8, to Robert's older brother Richar d until they were of age.
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