Joesph HILLS and Hannah EDWARDS1649

A Part of the Early Marriages, Births, and Baptisms, in Hartford, Connecticut., from Record. Marriages by John Marsh, Esq.
Joseph, son of William Hills, bap. Mar. 17, 1649! (1) "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," by Robert Charle s Anderson (NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995) 2:944. Cites: (a) Medical Journals of John Winthrop Jr. , 1657-1669, manuscript, Massachusetts Hist. Soc., Boston, Massachusetts, p.88,148. (b) "Hale, House and Related Fa milies, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley," by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (H artford, 1952; rpt. Baltimore 1978) p.585,586. (c) NEHGS "Register," 149:41-45. (d) "Early Ha rtford Vital Records," in "Collections of the Connecticut Hist. Soc.," Vol. 14, p.581 (Hartford 1912 ; rpt. Bowie, MD, 1989)
(2) NEHGS "Register," Vol. 149, Jan 1995, "Hannah Edwards, First Wife of Joseph Hills of Glastonbury, Connecticut," by Gale Ion Harris and Anthony Hale Burke, p.41-45. Cites: (a) Grave stone, Glastonbury Green Cemetery. (b) "Hale, House and Related Families," by Donald Lines Ja cobus & Edgar Francis Waterman (Hartford, 1952; rpt. Baltimore 1978) p.584,587,588. (c) "Th e History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut," by Henry R. Stiles (1904; rpt. Somersworth, NH, 1975 ) 2:897,903. (d) Hartford District Probate, 4:78; file 5016; file 5489. (e) Glastonbury, Connecticut D eeds, 2:10. (f) "A Digest of the Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District," by Charle s William Manwaring (Hartford, 1904-1906; rpt. Baltimore, 1995) 1:362-363.
(3) "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," comp. by Charles William Manwaring , Vol. 1, Hartford District 1635-1700 (Hartford, 1904) p.321-322. Cites: (a) Vol. IV, p.143-1 45.
! Birth: (1,2) s/o William HILLS/Mary. (1a) Age 8 on 24 Feb 1657/8 (b. 1649/50). Age 9 on 1 4 Mar 1658/9 (b. 1649/50). (2a) In his 64th year at death on 8 Nov 1713 (b. 1649).
Baptism: (1d,2) 17 Mar 1649/50, Hartford, Connecticut.
Marriage to Hannah EDWARDS: (1c,2b) By about 1676. (2b) Estimated date is based on birth o f first child.
Marriage to Mehitable HINSDALE: (1b,2) By about 1699, Mehitable (HINSDALE) DICKINSON.
Marriage to Elizabeth __: (1b) By about 1703. (2) About 1702.
Death: (2a) 8 Nov 1713, Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
Burial: (2a) Glastonbury Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Connecticut.
(1) 1680/1, 25 Feb: (3a) 1680/1, 21 Feb: (1,3a) William HILLS Sr. of Hocanum within the township of Hartford wrote his will. Bequeathed a parcel of sixscore acres near the end of the T hree Mile lots abutting on Benjamin HILLS & Joseph HILLS on the west & on James CURTICE on th e south & on my land on the north, to son William HILLS, to son John HILLS, to son Joseph HIL LS, and to son Benjamin HILLS, to daughter Sarah WARD and to daughter Suzanah KILLBURN in equ al proportions.
1687/8, 3 Mar: An inventory of the estate of Widow TOUSLAND, Wethersfield, Connecticut, contain ed two lists of personal items. One includes her personal clothing, an old Bible, a variety o f kitchen utensils, two chests, and a feather bed, being "all that Joseph HILLS & his wife ga ve in" to the inventory. The other list were items given in to the inventory by Samuel CURTIS . A note attached states, "Mother TOUSLEYs Estate is in debted to me" for 14s 3d. The invento ry contains further notes by Joseph HILLS concerning amounts due from her estate. The last it em listed is one "due to said HILLS Wife as shall Apere by Abraham FFINCH his will" 23.0.4. ( 1) The amount of the last note, 23.0.4, with interest, equals that bequeathed by Abraham FINC H at Saybrook in 1667 to his then unmarried half-sister Hannah EDWARDS. Widow TOUSLAND (his mother-in-law, Dorothy (MOULTON) (FINCH) (EDWARDS) TOUSLEY) had been residing with Joseph HILLS and his wife in Wethersfield (Glastonbury) when she died. ! (1) NEHGS "Register," Vol. 149, Jan 1995, "Hannah Edwards, First Wife of Joseph Hills of Glastonbury, Connecticut," by Gale Ion Harris and Anthony Hale Burke, p.41-45.
(2) NEHGS "Register," Vol. 145, Oct 1991, "John Edwards of Wethersfield, Connecticut," by G ale Ion Harris, p.331-332.
(3) "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," comp. by Charles William Manwaring , Vol. 1, Hartford District 1635-1700 (Hartford, 1904) p.193. Cites: (a) Vol. III, p.39.
! Birth: (1,2) Jan 1644/5, Wethersfield, Connecticut, d/o John EDWARDS/Dorothy MOULTON. (1,2,3a) Age d 19 "last January 1664" according to her father's inventory (b. 1645). (3a) d/o John EDWARDS .

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