Esquire Caleb Hill

Male 1725 - 1804  (79 years)

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  • Name Caleb Hill 
    Title Esquire 
    Birth 29 Mar 1725  North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 May 1804  North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Burial Thomas Hill Lot, Forge Rd., North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I05861  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Esquire Thomas Hill, Sr.,   b. Abt 1692, Prudence Island, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1768, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Allen,   b. 29 Nov 1695   d. 28 Feb 1726/27 (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage 16 Dec 1716  North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Family ID F01872  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mercy Stafford,   b. Abt 1730   d. 6 May 1807 (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 23 Mar 1755  Warwick, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Children 
     1. Stukely Hill,   b. 28 Dec 1755, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1843 (Age 87 years)
     2. Esquire Caleb Hill, Jr.,   b. 5 Sep 1758, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 May 1837 (Age 78 years)
     3. Anne Hill,   b. 29 Jan 1761, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jan 1822 (Age 60 years)
     4. Elizabeth Hill,   b. 5 Nov 1764, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Sarah Hill,   b. 2 Mar 1769, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Rebekah Hill,   b. 19 Nov 1772, North Kingstown, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F02251  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Caleb was a private in Col. Elliott's regiment of volunteers in the Revolutionary War. Also, he served as Lt. of an alarm company, 1778/79, in North Kingstown.

      He was Justice of the Peace in 1780.

      Caleb Hill hired a farm on the southern end of Prudence Island, where he lived for about 7 years (March 1743-March 1750); then he returned to the Quidnessett area of NK where he lived and farmed with his father. He was Justice of the Peace, Overseer of the Poor, and was both a private and a lieutenant in the Revolution. Like his father, he also was active in the Six-Principle Baptist Church -- donating money, hosting meetings, and petitioning the RI General Assembly concerning repairs. (source: Hill manuscript at NK Library)

      The will of Caleb Hill of North Kingstown, yeoman, was proved 14 May 1804. It mentions wife Mary; sons Stukly & Caleb; dtrs Anna Remington w/o Hezekiah, Elizabeth Champlin, Sarah Bowen w/o Benjamin, & Rebecca Bowen w/o Stephen.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012976] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, North Kingstown -- Births and Deaths.

    2. [S012423] Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, Elder John Gorton and the Six-Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, RI, (Greenville, RI: RI Genealogical Society, 2001), 203.

    3. [S012459] RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 2, (Alden G. Beaman, Ph. D., editor), 76.

    4. [S012627] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, North Kingstown -- Marriages.

    5. [S012510] Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams Book I, Waterman & Winsor Lines, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1991), 27.