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Colonel Humphrey Hill
1706–c. 1775
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 6×-great-grandfather · Temple line
Life
- Born
- 22 May 1706 · Hillsborough, King and Queen County, Virginia
- Died
- before 13 Mar 1775 · Hillsborough, King and Queen, Virginia, United States
Parents
Marriage & children
Ann Hill (1700–1777)
Elizabeth HILL (1726–)
Frances HILL Magruder (1729–1810)
Humphrey HILL (1732–1841)
Rev. James Hill Hill (1736–1802)
Robert Hill (1736–1795)
Frances Hill (1740–1795)
John I Hill (1740–1830)
Mary Frances A. Hill (1740–1824)
William Hill (1744–1802)
John Hill (1745–1830)
Edward Hill (1746–1816)
Baylor Hill (1760–1802)
Timeline
- (ABOUT 1725/1730/1734/1740/1763)MarriedFrances Baylor — Virginia, USA
- 15 Feb 1734MarriedFrances Baylor — Hillsboro, King and Queen, Virginia, United States
- (15 Feb 1734/27 Jun 1763)MarriedFrances Baylor — Hillsborough, King and Queen County, Virginia
- —Immigrated
- —MarriedFrances Baylor — of VA
Records behind this page
Unnamed source
pp. 56, 135, et al.
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Crozier, Spotsylvania County Records 1721-1800, personally read in the archive.org full text 3 Aug 2026 (identifier virginiacountyre01croz; local copy ancestry/sources/crozier-spotsylvania-county-records-v1-1905-djvu.txt). Administration bonds, p. 56: "£1000 Humphrey Hill, admr. of Thomas Hill, decd., with John Waller, sec. July 7, 1741." Deed Book C, p. 135: "Sept. 3, 1734. Humphrey Hill of King William Co. to his nieces, Susannah and Sarah Hill, several slaves. Deed of gift, 'my brother Thomas Hill.' Witnesses: Roderick Gordon, Thomas Todd, Anthony Rhodes." Also: 4 May 1736 Chiles deed to "Humphrey Hill of St. Margaret's Par., King William Co., Merchant"; Nov 1727 "£170 (pd. by Humphrey Hill, agent of sd. Bell [Humphrey Bell of London, Mercht.])"; 19 Jul 1758 power of attorney "executed before the Lord Mayor of London ... impower Humphrey Hill, of King and Queen Co., Va., Gent., to sell ... the whole of the estates in Va."; 9 Jun 1743 "Humphrey Hill of King and Queen Co. and Frances, his wife, to William Lynn of Fredericksburg ... Lot No. 22." Supports: residence King William Co. (merchant, 1734-1736) then King and Queen Co. (by 1741); brother Thomas Hill (d. 1741 Spotsylvania); wife Frances by 1743; agency for Humphrey Bell of London 1727-1769. PROVENANCE: printed abstracts (1905) of the county order/deed books — an informant about the originals. This citation asserts NOTHING about Humphrey's father; the deed of gift's "brother" is Thomas of Spotsylvania, NOT the tree's father-rung [1990].
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pp. 97-99
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Will of Humphrey Hill of King & Queen Co., holograph dated 8 Feb 1774, proved at King & Queen court 13 Mar 1775 — full text as printed in William and Mary Quarterly vol. XVI (1907), pp. 97-99, "communicated by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Courtney" (public domain; verbatim OCR at ancestry/sources/hill-humphrey-will-wmq16-pp97-99-ocr.txt, key facts re-verified in the text 3 Aug 2026). Names wife Frances and ten children incl. son Baylor Hill; the £500 St. Stephen's Parish school trust; survival chain "Teste: Robert Pollard, C.C." (K&Q records otherwise burned 1828/1833/1864). The death-date correction written with this citation rests on the probate line: the old exact "13 Mar 1775" was the PROBATE date. PROVENANCE: printed transcription of a clerk-attested copy — an informant about the will.
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supplement p. 3 (image 0075), Deaths column
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Supplement p. 3 (image 0075), Deaths column, read verbatim on the hi-res image 3 Aug 2026: "Deaths.] Mrs. ELIZABETH BLAND, consort of Col. Richard Bland, of Jordan's, in Prince George. JAMES BURWELL, Esq; of King's Creek, near this city. Col. HUMPHREY HILL, of King and Queen county. This Gentleman left a valuable donation to the parish of St. Stephen." A contemporary printed notice of [2032]'s death (will 8 Feb 1774, probate 13 Mar 1775 per WMQ XVI), independently corroborating the will's 500-pound St. Stephen's Parish school trust from a second informant class. Note the title COL. here vs the will materials. Register K61; memo browser-session-2026-08-03-census-wb12-geneanet-gazette.md.
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open.
Research note · 11 Aug 2026
AUDITED 11 Aug 2026 - DUPLICATE CLUSTER MERGED. This man was in the tree twice, as [1988] 'Colonel Humphrey Hill' (rank in the GIVEN field) and as [2032] 'Humphrey Hill Colonel' (rank in the SUFFIX field). Because the rank sat in different fields the two never sorted together and no duplicate check paired them; they agree EXACTLY on birth 22 May 1706, and both carry 13 Mar 1775 as the death day - though the deleted record stated it as an EXACT date while this one qualifies it 'before' (DB). The exact form was NOT adopted here: nothing sourced supports promoting it, and a merge is not the place to upgrade a claim. Merged into [2032], which held the citations, the media, the parents (Major Thomas Hill + Edith Bell) and the direct line to Owen via Mary Molly Hill. Deleted with him: his duplicate wife [1989] 'Frances Brooke Baylor' (into [2033]) and his duplicate daughter [2087] 'Mary Frances Hill' (into [1983], who carries the Baylor Walker marriage). PRESERVED FROM THE DELETED RECORDS, because a merge must not silently drop a claim: (1) [1988] recorded his BIRTHPLACE as 'London, Middlesex, , England', against 'Hillsborough, King and Queen County, Virginia' here. NOT ADJUDICATED - the Immigration fact on this record ('England to Virginia') makes an English birth plausible rather than simply wrong, and Courtney's Hill Family of Virginia (1905) would settle it. (2) [1989] carried DEATH 10 Apr 1802. That date is REFUTED and was deliberately deleted from [2033] on 3 Aug 2026 - see her Audited note: per Courtney read at source, it is the death of Edward Hill's wife Fannie Baylor Hill, a generation down. It is discarded again here and must not be restored. (3) The MARRIAGE of 15 Feb 1734 was on the deleted family F576, properly encoded, while the surviving family F584 holds only unparseable text dates; that event was MOVED here, not dropped. F584's remaining junk marriage dates are untouched and still need a decision. ANCESTRY PROFILES RETIRED - the next TreeShare push is EXPECTED TO DELETE THEM, because PERSON deletions DO propagate (corrected 2 Aug 2026 by a controlled test; rm-sqlite-playbook.md step 6 - fact and citation deletions do NOT, and are unmeasured). VERIFY each page after the push and delete by hand only if it survived: 392406160355 = Humphrey, 392406160357 = Frances, 392406163353 = Mary. Script: ancestry/rm-apply-humphrey-hill-merge-20260811.py
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