Jacob Hill

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Husband Jacob Hill ¹

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• Family History: from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914).
To read this history of the Hill family, click here.

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1 M Daniel Hill ²

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2 M Frederick Hill ²

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3 M John Jacob Hill ²

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           Born: Abt 1716
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         Spouse: Maria Appolonia Merklin (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 3 Jul 1739 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Hill

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He was the immigrant ancestor of the family in America, who came to this country at the time of the Palantine emigration in the early years of the eighteenth century. The history of the Hill family goes back to the time when they were Protestant refugees in Switzerland, probably French Huguenots. Later they had gone down the Rhine, making common cause with the French Huguenots, and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 they were in the Palatinate in the Hunricher mountain district and near Coblentz, where they were called Switzers. Tiring of the unsettled condition of the country resulting from religious wars and persecutions, they came to America, where they were called Pennsylvania Dutch.

He settled in Maxatawny township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and was one of the founders of the Moselem Stone Lutheran Church in that county.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 570.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 571.