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Horace Gray

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Horace Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Justice


    George Hills

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Horace Gray — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 820 
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    • ABT 1571 
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    • AFT 1611 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 13 Oct 1596 
    • Marriage Location:
    • London, England 
    • Notes: 
    • According to Henry Porter Andrews on page 614 in "The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut, 1635-39 (published 1893), Margery Hills (wife of James Morgan) is possibly a sister to Joseph Hill, a son of George.

      In 1908, Thomas Hills published "A supplementary record connecting with the Hills family in America" which lists on pages 26 and 27 the baptisms of George's children at Great Burstead. One baptism is for his daughter Martha on 16 JUN 1610. It is this baptism that everyone is using to link Margery to George. Whether or not Margery and Martha is one and the same, I have found nothing to either prove or disprove it.

      So until other evidence is found, I believe Margery's father is still officially unknown.

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  • Sources for George Hills

    • 1 Cutter, William Richard, Encyclopedia of Massachusetts: Biographical - Genealogical, New York: The American Historical Society (1916), 302.
    • 2 Hills, Thomas and William Sanford Hills, The Hills Family in America: The Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, the English Emigrant to New England . . ., New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1906), 255.
    • 3 Hills, Thomas, comp., A Supplementary Record Connecting with the Hills Family in America, Privately Published (1908), 26.
    • 4 Hills, William Sanford, and Thomas Hills, Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills . . ., Boston: Press of Alfred Mudge and Son (1902), 69.
    • 5 Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 4, The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879, Boston: New England Historica Genealogical Society (2000), 397-398.