Capt. Thomas Hill

Not the son of Edward Hill, of Elizabeth City & his wife Johanna “Hannah” Mountney, whose only child was Elizabeth Pinley.

Biography

Updated 3 December 2024

Captain Thomas Hill, "living in Virginia with two children" in 1638.

footnote, p 60, "Some Colonial Virginia Records (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jul., 1903), pp. 57-68 (Virginia Historical Society). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242574

CAPTAIN THOMAS HILL, born in England, was a captain of the York County, Virginia militia. He was elected Burgess in 1641. In 1652 he patented 500 acres on the Potomac and 5000 acres in York County, Virginia which he named Essex Lodge, since called Washington Lodge, being headquarters of General George Washington.

In 1632 Captain Hill married Mary Piersey, daughter of Abraham Piersey and Elizabeth Draper, born 1613.

Captain Thomas Hill died in York County [sic: Warwick County], Virginia before September 1657, when the widow Mary Hill married Thomas Bushrod (1604-1677) of Essex Lodge, York County, Virginia.

The known children of Thomas Hill and his wife Mary Piersey are:

1. Mary Hilll married Moore Fauntleroy 'as his second wife in 1648'[9] (so she must have been born by 1634)
2. John Hill (born before 1638), died after 9 December 1670 (the date of his will) at Essex Lodge in York County, Virginia.
   1. John's son Thomas Hill married (1) Elizabeth, (2) Eleanor Charles, in 1695,[18] (3) Mary. Thomas left a will dated 28 August 1710 that named wife Mary, son John, and daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Ann and Lucy.[9]

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The children of Captain Thomas Hill and Mary Piersey (unproven / mixed up):

• 1.John Hill born 1633 in York County, Virginia and died 1687.
• 2. THOMAS HILL born October 6, 1634 in York County, Virginia married FRANCES UNKNOWN.
• 3.Lydia Hill born August 1635 in York County, Virginia.
• 4.George Hill born June 18, 1637 in York County, Virginia.
• 5.Elizabeth Hill born May 14, 1638 in York County, Virginia. Married Col. John Scarsbrook.
• 6.Mary Hill born Nov 16, 1640 in York County, Virginia.
• 7.Frances Hill born October 2, 1641 in York County Virginia.

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Mary Peirsey (daughter of Abraham Peirsey); born circa 1613 at England; married first Capt.Thomas Hill by 1633; he died, then she married Thomas Bushrod Sep1657;her 2nd husband, his 1st wife, no issue. Mary Peirsey immigrated in 1623 to Jamestown, VA; on ship 'Southampton.' Capt. Thomas Hill resided at Stanley Hundred, Warwick Co., VA. He died before 1657.

Notes

1659-1661 Westmoreland County, Virginia Deeds-Wills No. 1, Part 1; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 18 [15].
Deposition of Thomas Johnson aged forty yeares or thereabout that living at the house of Mr. Thomas Hill's in Stanly Hundred when Collonell Fanteleroy marryed the daughter of Mr. Hill, Hill giveing a small portion with her told Fantleroy that that small portion should not bee all for at the death of his father hee would make her worth an hundred pounds sterling for hee loved her well but would not have his wife to know it by reason shee did not love her as well as the rest of her children and if she knew of that portion it would breede discontent between them for which reason it was not put in or mentioned at the makeing of the joynture.
Thomas Johnson
29 Aug. 1660. Sworn in Court.

Disputed origins

Thomas Hill's parent are not Edward Hill and Mary [sic: Hannah] Boyle. Do not know who they are. We have a court record of Thomas Hill to Moore Fauntleroy when he married Mary Hill. Thomas's daughter that he would give Moore some more money after his father had passed; their marriage was in 1648, Here is Thomas speaking of his parents in the present. Edward Hill died in 1624. This all comes from a deposition in 1660 of Thomas Johnson.

References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2941...
2. Jamestown Society: Qualifying Ancestors: Hatcher - Luddington < link > Hill, Thomas - A3903; James City Co.: 1642 (Burgess).
3. WikiTree contributors, "Mary (Piersey) Bushrod (abt.1614-abt.1661)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Piersey-2 : accessed 03 December 2024). cites
   1. Jamestowne Society: Qualifying Ancestors: Peirsey - Phipps. < link > Peirsey, Mary - A9660; born ca. 1613, living in 1657; (Muster of 1624/5), wife of Thomas Hill and Thomas Bushrod. accessed 24 December 2020
   2. Abraham Peirsey and Elizabeth Draper married c1608 (McCartney, page 547). When Elizabeth (Draper) Peirsey died has not been established. Her mother's will, probated in England in September 1625: 'Probate of will of Elizabeth Draper, widow, of St. Clement Eastcheap, London, whose son-in-law Abraham Peirsey was in Virginia' (Coldham's Complete Book of Emigrants, page 70), names her grandchildren Elizabeth and Mary Piersey and also her daughter Elizabeth Piersey. The will, proved 3 September 1625, was dated 17 August 1625 (James Branch Cabell, The Majors and Their Marriages, pages 120-121, accessed 30 December 2020).
   3. John Camden Hotten, The original lists of persons of quality... (page 224; see also page 217). Note that a reconstructed passenger list for the Southampton, citing Hotten, incorrectly says Mary is daughter of Elizabeth (Hotten, page 224, has both Elizabeth and Mary as his daughters, aged 15 and 11 'yeres', respectively). Category: Southampton, sailed 1622-1624 lists them as 'Peirsey, Elizabeth nee Draper, wife to Abraham on the 1616 Susan.' and Mary as 'Peirsey, Mary, daughter to Elizabeth.' At the time of the 1624/5 Jamestown Muster, a wife of Abraham is not shown as living at Peirsey's Hundred or with Abraham, Elizabeth, and Mary in James City (Hotten, page 217 and page 224). None of the family is found in the February 1623 Living/Dead list, although several of those listed in the 1624/5 Muster as servants (Coldham's Complete Book of Emigrants, page 50) can be found in the list - John Upton, Henry Rowinge, Nathaniell Thomas, and Robert Okley 'Att Flourdieu Hundred' and Thomas Sawell 'At Warwick Squrake'.
   4. Jamestown Muster search results, Peirsey
   5. The Virginia magazine of history and biography, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents" prepared by W.G. Stanard.
   6. Elmer Collier, Collier, transcription and image of Abraham Peirsey's will begins on page 9 (page 374 of 410) of the Piercy section (begins page 364).
   7. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (2011), volume IV, page 329 WEST 15.viii.
   8. Elmer Ray Collier, Collier (1987, Collier Heritage Foundation), Hill section begins on page 351 of 410; Piercy section begins on page 364 of 410.
   9. Adventurers of Purse and Person, passage shared via comments on this profile.
   10. footnote, p 60, "Some Colonial Virginia Records (Continued)," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jul., 1903), pp. 57-68 (Virginia Historical Society). Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242574
   11. John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P (page 806).
   12. See Hotten (page 224) and Category: Susan, sailed Jul Aug 1616.
   13. Milton next Gravesend : St Peter and St Paul : : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/589659c8f493fd59871abdcd : viewed 30 Dec 2020) baptism Abraham Peirse 2 Mar 1576/7 (son of John)
   14. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, entry for Abraham Percy or Piercy (accessed 30 December 2020).
   15. The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 8. "Colliers of York County" (page 257; text version), accessed 29 December 2020.
   16. Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and pioneers; abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800" (1934 : Virginia State Library; Virginia Genealogical Society), page 353, accessed 30 December 2020.
   17. Eleanor is apparently the second wife of this Thomas - grandson of of Thomas and Mary (Peirsey) Hill. Elmer Ray Collier's research shows that his wife in a 1691 deed is named as Elizabeth (and in a land sale recorded 24 May 1692).
   18. In 1726, the York County Court found that Mary Hill, wife of Thomas Vines, son of Thomas Vines, was the daughter of Thomas Hill and Eleanor Charles. (See Collier, page 358 of 410.) Elmer Ray Collier, Collier, page 355 of 410 (accessed 30 December 2020).
   19. John Camden Hotten. The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England (1874 : London : Hotten). archive.org
   20. McCartney, Martha W. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary (2007 : Genealogical Publishing Com). Pages 345, 547-548 Google Books.
   21. Coldham, Peter Wilson. The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (1987), Google Books. See also:
   22. Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly. Vol. II. Cobb-Hay
   23. Ancestry Family Trees Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
   24. Mary Bushrod Excerpt (apparently from "Colliers of York County"):
4. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Thomas_Hill_(52) (has errors)
5. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5516/hill2.html
6. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. By Martha W. McCartney. Page 389. < GoogleBooks >
7. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 13 2020, 9:52:59 UTC
8. See also http://lindahiser.com/hill2.html (has errors)
9. http://www.jamestowne.org/heale---hinton.html
10. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 13 2020, 10:12:13 UTC
11. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L6DG-L9D "Currently there is no evidence for his birth details or parents in his Sources. Please add any evidence as long as it refers to original documents rather than just internet rumours. Thanks!"
12. https://www.familysearch.org/memories/memory/180894525?cid=mem_copy
13. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hill-1457 (has errors)
14. https://lindahiser.com/hill2.html (has errors)
15. Removed death date and location of 06/01/1661 in Charles City County as per data at https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2941... - death before 1657 at Warwick County, Virginia
16. Removed birth date and location of before June 01, 1610 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England and baptism data of 01/22/1612 as there is no evidence supporting it.
17. Warwick County was a county in southeast Virginia that was established in 1634 and later became the city of Newport News: Created in 1634, King Charles I established Warwick River Shire, one of eight shires in the Virginia Colony. Warwick River Shire took its name from Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick and a prominent member of the Virginia Company who was proprietor of Richneck Plantation. Warwick River Shire became Warwick County in 1643.
18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hundred Stanley Hundred is the name given by Sir George Yeardley around 1626 to the plantation in what would later be part of Warwick River Shire. The name was also used to refer to the corresponding colonial parish in the same area. [2] ...
19. https://www.mygenealogyhound.com/maps/Virginia-County-Maps/VA-Warwi...
20. Almost certainly did not have a middle name.
21. Presumptively third son of Edward Hill and Mary Boyle.