Joseph Hill and Mary [Unk]

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Husband Joseph Hill ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1736
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Wife Mary [Unk] ³

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Children

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1 F Sarah Hill ^{3 5 6 7 8}

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            AKA: Mary Hill 4
           Born: Abt 1782
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           Died: Jul 1869 3 6 8 9 10
         Buried:  - Fell’s M. E. Church, Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

         Spouse: Isaac Shepler (      -1837) 1 3 5 6 8 11 12

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2 M Joseph Hill, Jr. ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Hill

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At the age of eighteen he came to Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, several years before the Braddock expedition, the first white settler of the township.

He was a colonial soldier in the French and Indian war, and also a soldier in the Revolutionary war.

The first actual settler in Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was Joseph Hill, who came from Winchester (now Westminster), Carroll County, Maryland, in 1754. He was then eighteen years old, and had made quite extensive improvement when Braddock's army passed in the summer following (1755). He settled about one mile a little northwest of Rehoboth Church. His father, also named Joseph Hill, served seven years in the Revolution, and after its close settled in the township near his son.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 544.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 561.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 308.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1220.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 566.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 567.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 261.

8 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 97.

9 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

10 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 262, 1220.

11 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 635.

12 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 261, 1220.