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Gershom Hills

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Walt Disney — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 394 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Hills 
  • Mother:
  • Rose Clark   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jul 1639 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1686 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Nov 1667 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Hills

  Sarah Hills (Ahnentafel No:197 )

  Abigail Hills

• Sources for Gershom Hills

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 4, Birth record for Gershon Hills.
  • ² Essex Antiquarian, 1899, Vol. 3, p. 16.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Malden, Vol. 1, p. 248, Marriage record for Gershom Hills and Elizabeth Chadwick.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Malden, Vol. 1, p. 41, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Hills.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1933, Vol. 87, p. 131.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2001, Vol. 155, p. 414.
  • ⁷ Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut: Genealogies of Woodstock Families, Vol. 3, Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press (1930), 222.
  • ⁸ Chaffee, William Henry, The Chaffee Genealogy: Embracing the Chafe, Chafy, Chafie, Chafey, Chafee . . .Descendants of Thomas Chaffe 1636-1909, New York: The Grafton Press (1909), 38, 565.
  • ⁹ 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), 72, 74-75.
  • ¹⁰ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 3, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 133.
  • ¹¹ 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), 417.