Eleventh Generation

1620. William* HILLS^{1522,1717,1719,2154} was born about 1610 in , Essexshire, England.^1719,2154 He signed a will on 21 Feb 1681 in , Hartford Co., CT.^2155,2156 I William Hills sen., of Hoccanum, within the Township of Hartford, doe make thisto be my Last Will & Testament: And in the first place, after my death, I desire my Exeecutors & Overseers to take cae for a decent Burial, & my deisre is that due care be taken for payment of all my just debts. Imprimis. my will is that my wife Mary Hills & my son Jonathan Hills be Joynt Executors of this my will. My will is that my wife shall have the use of the one halfe of my housen & Lands that I now live in and upon, & the halfe of all my stock, catle & moveables during her naturall life, which sayd Lands are 8 acres on the east side of my dwelling house & about 18 acres of the west side of my sayd house. I give to my wife the use of one halfe of 17 rods wide of unimproved Lands Lying on the east end ofthe foresayd 8 acres which runneth to the east end of the 3 mile Lotts, during her Life. I give and bequeath, & my will is, that my sonn Jonathan Hills shall have the other full halfe ofthe foresayd housen and Lottments with their appurtenances, & my will is that after my wive's Decease I doe give the whole and full of that Land left in her hand to my son Jonathan Hills & to his heirs forever, with all catle, Stock & moveables, tohave and to hold forever. And Whereas I have one Lott of Twenty-five rods broad abutting on the widdow Andrews house lott on the West, running to the end of the 3 mile Lotts east. abutting onthe country Highway on the south, & on the widdow Anderws Lott North, that she bought of Deacon Wm.Holton, One Third part of said Lott being taken off which I have sould to Mr. William Pitkin, the other Two parts thereof Left and remaining in my hands I give and bequeath Two Thirds thereof to my Daughter Mary Hills and her heirs for ever, and the other Third of the foresayd Two parts I give and bequeath to my Daughter Hanna Kilbern, to her and her heirs forever. And Whereas there is a consederable part of that Land I bought of Thomas Hosmore of Hartford, Lyeing in & within the south division, wch I have not yet taken up, I doe give that sayd Land (about six score acres, abuttting on Benjamin Hills & Joseph Hills there Lotts on the west, & abuttting on James Curtice on the south, & on my Land on the North, running east to the end of the 3 mile Lotts), my will is, & I bequeath, the sayd Land & all of it to my sonn William Hills, to my son John Hills, to my son Joseph Hills, & to my son Benjamin Hills, to my daughter Sarah Ward, & tomy daughter Susannah Kilbourn, to be divided by an equal proportion to each child, & their heirs forever; & the death of my sonn William Hills the proportion given to him I give and bequeath to my grand sonn, the eldest sonn of my son William, whoe is of the same name to him, and to his heirs forever. Farther, my will is, that within one yeare after the death ofmy wife, Mary Hlls, that my son Jonathan Hills shall pay out of the Estate the just & fullsume of Ten pounds to my daughter Mary Hills. And my will is that all my Land given to my children shall forever & att all tiems hereafter contribute & pay a Just proportion of all rates, dues & leases required toward the Mayntenance of the ministry of that particular Church within the Township of Hartford which my overseers of this my will & Testament shall by their Joynt act in writeing under their hands agree upon. I doe desire Major John Talcott, Mr. Jonathan Gilbert & Corpora Gilbert to be my overseers with full power to fill vacancies in case of the death of any of them. Farther I doe desire & will that the revenues of the Lands in Farmington that I have right unto by * in right of my wife, that it be duly demanded & received for the help of my wife, & desire my overseers with my Executors to take care about the same, which is the final conclusion of this my Last Will & Testament Pr me William Hill, Sen., Ls.
Witness: John Hill
Thomas Kilbourn,
John Gilbert.
Court Record, Page 76-6 Dececmber, 1683: Will Proven.
He died in Jul 1683 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. Arrived in Boston MA 16 Sep 1632. William Hills was probably a native of Essex County, England; he was a passenger on the ship Lyon, William Pearce, master, which sailed from Bristol, June 24th and entered the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 16th of September, 1632. Eighty four days on the ocean. He became a resident of Roxbury and was admitted a freeman of that town on the 14th of May, 1634.
The Reverend John Eliot, in the church records of Roxborough, says William Hills, a manservant, came over in 1632, married Phillice Lyman, daughter of Richard Lyman: he did not give good satisfaction to the consciences of the saints and removed to Hartford with his wife and his father-in-law, Richard Lyman, October 15, 1635.
The harsh criticism of William Hills by his master and Pastor probably followed some disagreement as to service or religious belief. It was frequently the custom for young men to bind themselves to their more prosperous neighbors and emigrate with them to New England. Of the 70 passengers on the Mayflower nine can be identified as minors and servants.
Rev. John Eliot, in his record of Church Membership, says of Phillis Lyman, the daughter of Richard Lyman; "She came to this land with her father in 1631, she grew deaf, which was a great affliction; she was married to William Hills and lived with him at Hartford, Connecticut." She was living when the will of her father, the first on record at Hartford, was probated in 1640. By this will Phillis Lyman Hills received a legacy. It is probable that she died prior to 1648.
William Hills had three wives. After the death of Phillis Lyman, he married Risley, widow of Richard Risley, who had three children, the oldest being less than eight years old when the inventory of Richard Risley's estate was made, October 17, 1648. William Hills agreed to bring them up and gave security to the court for their several portions of their fathers estate.
William Hills was married to Mary, widow of John Steele, and daughter of Andrew Warner of Hadley, Massachusetts She had married John Steel January 22, 1646. It is not known when she married William Hills. At the date of the settlement of the Steel Estate, January 25, 1669, Mary was referred to as Mary Hill, wife of William Hill. The Steel Estate may have been in the court several years.
William* HILLS and Mary* ARNOLD were married about 1649 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.

1621. Mary* ARNOLD¹⁷¹⁷ died in 1669 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. She was born in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. Children were:

810	i.	Joseph* HILLS.
	ii.	Sussanna HILLS1717 was born in 1651 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. She died on 23 Oct 1701.
	iii.	Benjamin HILLS1717 died in 1727. He was born at 1653 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.
	iv.	Abraham HILLS1717 was born in 1655 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. He died after 1658 in CT?. Died young.