They will live ...
as long as we remember.

Welcome to the History section of the Hill Family Club's website This part of the site is devoted to history of all the different Hill families. This website is sponsored by the Hill Family Club. See the HOME page for more about the family club. Most of these families settled in the American Colonies before they gained independence.

Most of the Hill families settled in the American Colonies before they gained independence. The vast majority of Hill families are descendants of Hill pioneers who came from the British Isles and settled in the 1600's and early 1700's. They came mostly from England. There are also Hill families from Germany who settled mainly in Pennsylvania and spread from there to the Midwest.

Of course, the different Hill families of America are not all related because this is a common family name in England. It is a place-name so it can be found in many regions.

Please be patient with us as we work on the site. Hope to add a lot of family history in the coming months. You are invited to submit brief histories of your branch of the family to be included on the site and more detailed information to preserve in the Family Library.

If you came directly to this page, be sure and visit the Hill Family Club's HOME page where you can jump to the Hill Family QUERIES section, the "FAMOUS HILLS" section, the Hill Family NEWSLETTER section and our other sites. Click on HOME at the bottom of this page to get started.

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Hill Family National Library

One of our main goals is to create a national family library of records and information on all Hill families in America. We are trying to gather and preserve records of every type, both public documents and private family records. Please take time to make copies of records you have and send these in to preserve in the Family Library. Make xerox copies of obituaries of relatives, family information from your Bible, and write down details on your immediate family as far back as you know of and send these copies and information in.

Among the type of documents and information we are trying to gather and preserve are:

• Family records
  We keep our information on individual families on family data sheets which include the full names of the father and mother, when and where they were born, married, died and are buried; names of their parents and grandparents; names and same info on their children and their spouses--all on one page.
• Census records
  The United States was the first nation to ever gather a record of all the folk living within its borders. By law, a census of every person residing within the nation is taken every ten years, beginning in 1790. All the census records from 1790 up to 1920 are now open to the public: they are one of the best sources of family history.
• Birth and death certificates
  These are the best and most accurate type records available. Most states did not begin recording these until 1912 and in some rural areas until after 1914 or later.
• Family Bible records
  Before the 20th Century, these are the best source of family information.
• Obituaries, military records, cemetery records, deeds, wills, probate records, land grants, homesteads, tax lists, newspaper articles, published records (books, magazines), personal family histories, old letters.

If you write and ask about family history, please -- be courteous enough to give your fullname and at least the town where you live. And remember that the family club is trying to gather and preserve our family history, so give info about yourself and your direct family line as far back as you know.

INDEX

Only the highlighted sections are online yet. Be patient as more information is added in the future.

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Family Records

• EARLY HILL VIRGINIA RECORDS

• HILL REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS

• HILL SEMINOLE WAR SOLDIERS

HILL INDIAN WARS SOLDIERS

HILL CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY SOLDIERS

NORTHERN ARMY

FAMOUS HILLS

• LINKS TO OTHER HILL HISTORY SITES

Family History

Be patient: I'm working on this section.

COLONIAL PERIOD

REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD

LATE 1700's

1800 - 1820

1820 - 1830

1830 - 1860

WAR For SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE
(War Between the States)

LATE 1800's








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11 June, 1999