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Note: Notes regarding children attributed to Green Hill, Jr.: In "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight" the author lists Sarah Hill, born 1783 who married a Peebles. This is the only time I've seen her listed. The biography "Pioneers and Perfecters of Our Faith" stated that he had a total of 13 children. The Isle of Wight book doesn't show Sally Hicks Hill but she is buried in the Green Hill Cemetery in Brentwood; and this book shows a total of 12 children. Have to be cautious with reference material. In "Tennessee Records - Bible Records and Marriages", there is a listing from Green Hill, Jr.'s own family bible. His children are listed as: Jordan (1765), Hannah (1766), Nancy (1768), Martha (1769), Richard (1771-died as a baby), Green Hill III (1774), Lucy (1776), John (1778), Thomas (1781), Sally Hicks (1783), Mary Seawell (1786), William (1792), Joshua Cannon (1795) - - for a total of 13 children. There is also a listing from the bible of John Hill (son of Thomas Hill) with the same information - although there are some apparent typographical errors in the dates; i.e., Jordan is shown as born in 1864. _____________________ 1790 Census for Franklin County, North Carolina lists Green Hill as head of household. Household consisted of: White males - 16 and up: 2 White males - under 16: 2 White females: 5 Slaves: 14 1820 Census Records for Williamson County, TN, show that Green Hill and his son, Joshua C. Hill, lived at the same residence, along with 2 male children under age 10 (W.H.S. and James G. Hill), 1 female 16-26 (Lemiza) and 1 female over 45 (Mary Seawell). Green Hill was age 79 and Joshua was about 26. In addition, there were 13 slaves listed. (These records only show the name of the head of household.) Neighbors: Joseph Crockett, James Brown died: 1826 _____________________ Excerpts from "A History of Methodism", Holland N. McTyeire, D. D., Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., 1884: Page 487: "Asbury says: October 19, 1800--I rode to Nashville, long heard of but never seen by me until now. Some thought the congregation would be small, but I believed in would be large. Not less than one thousand people were in and out of the stone church, which if floored, ceiled and glazed, would be a grand house. We had three hours' public exercises. Mr. McKendree upon "The wages of sin is death;" myself on Rom. x. 14, 15; Brother Whatcoat on "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." We returned the same evening, and had a night meeting at Mr. Dickinson's." His old North Carolina friend, and the Gaius of the Church, had moved to the West a year before, and opened a farm twelve miles from Nashville; and he adds: "I had a feeling sight of my dear old friend Green Hill, and his wife. Who would have thought we should ever meet in this distant land? I had not time, as formerly, to go to their house to eat and sleep." Pages 488-489: The Hon. and Rev. Green Hill, a few years before locating in Wilson county, went on a tour through the lower part of the Cumberland Circuit, preaching and baptizing. "At a new town on the south side of Cumberland River, twelve miles below Clarksville, he preached and says: "I had much liberty in speaking. The people were attentive, and flexible as melted wax. I hope good was done." Four days later: "We then went up to Winter's (thirteen miles) and I preached to an attentive congregation. Three Baptist preachers and one Presbyterian preacher were present, and all spoke in turn, after I had preached, but without controversy, and parted very affectionately." ******************************** From "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight": He was a member of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina at Newbern August 25, 1774 and at Halifax April 3, 1775. He was a member of the Committee of Safety for Bute County 1774, also a member of the Provincial Congress which met at Halifax and declared for Independence April 4, 1776. He was a justice of peace in 1778 and a major of the Bute county Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Easton and Lt. Colonel William Alston. He was also Treasurer of the Halifax District and a member of the Council of State, 1783 ********************************** http://www.ncgenweb.us/franklin/ Franklin county was formed in 1779 from Bute county in the midst of the American Revolution and was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin who had recently negotiated an alliance and secured loan agreements with France that would eventually help to win America's independence. The abolishment of Bute county came at the urging of area resident and strong political activist, Benjamin Seawell, who introduced a bill to separate from the county which had been named after the Earl of Bute. Seawell had also been among those selected to represent the county at the Halifax Congress of April 1776. Fellow representatives of Bute at that meeting included Green Hill, William Alston, Thomas Sherrod, Thomas Eaton, Benjamin Person, Benjamin Word, and Philemon Hawkins. The act establishing the county authorized that the first court be held at the home of Benjamin Seawell and it was left to the justices to determine where subsequent courts were to be held until a courthouse could be erected - a goal that was finally met in 1781 with the construction of a log courthouse ---------------------- First Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America was at Green Hill's home, Liberty Hall, in Louisburg, North Carolina April 20, 1785. This conference was attended by Bishop Francis Asbury, Reverend Coke and about 20 lay preachers. This was noted in Bishop Asbury's journal and Green Hill's family bible. Next conference at his home was held in North Carolina in 1792; he was appointed a deacon. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina at least two sessions and served in the Revolutionary War as a chaplain, then as a colonel and later as Treasurer of the State of North Carolina. He was forced to flee from Cornwallis taking important papers, records and funds. He managed to escape and save papers, records and fund. He went to Tennessee in 1796 and decided to make the new territory his home. Three years later in 1799 he emigrated from Franklin County, NC to Williamson County, TN taking 9 of his 13 children with him (3 had already married and remained in North Carolina and Richard had died as a baby). They settled on property near the Harpeth River in Williamson County, this having been a land grant from North Carolina several years before. This grant was for 640 acres, although he received several others of smaller acreage later. His home in Tennessee was called Liberty Hill. About 1807 Liberty Hill Church was built approximately between Brentwood and Nashville. _______________________ Marker Located at Liberty United Methodist Church, Brentwood, Tennessee: This church was founded by Maj. Green Hill and a group of Methodist leaders who settled in this area ca. 1800. The original trustees were Green Hill, Joshua Cannon, Benjamin Seawell, Spencer Hill and Moses Spear. The church moved here in the 1830's from a nearby location. The trustees at the time were Jeremiah Primm, Green H. Primm, William Brown, Lawrence Fly, Harris Hamer, Charles H. Primm, and John Hamer. The church was the center of the Liberty Community. The Liberty School, which opened in 1900, stood across the road from the church. Note: The church is located at 9487 Liberty Church Road, Brentwood, Tennessee _______________________ GREEN HILL PLACE GRAVEYARD: Inscriptions on the tombstone in graveyard on the old Green Hill place near Brentwood, in Williamson County, Tenn. From "Pioneers and Perfecters of Our Faith". Rev. Green Hill, born in the old county of Bute, N. C., Nov 3, 1741; died, Sept. 11, 1826. He was a major in the Provincial Army of North Carolina and a member of the first and each successive session of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina. " Blessed is the man that trusteth in Thee." __________________________ Marker Located at Green Hill Cemetery: GREEN HILL SHRINE Green Hill (Nov. 3, 1749 - Sept. 11, 1826) moved from North Carolina to the large plantation of which this is a center in 1799. Hill was a Revolutionary war Colonel, generous philanthropist, and a Methodist preacher for over 50 years. On Oct. 1-7, 1808, he entertained the ninth session of the Western Conference of the Methodist Church at this place. The cemetery nearby, in which Hill and his family are buried, was given by 58 of his descendants to the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Church on June 25, 1960 and was accepted as a Methodist Shrine. Note: The Green Hill Cemetery is located at 9401 Glen Ridge Drive, Brentwood, TN. __________________________ From Williamson County Records: Will - 1825 Inventory - 1826 Inventory by Guardian - 1828 __________________________ Excerpt from "Early Families of Northeastern Williamson County" by T. Vance Little: "Bishop Robert Paine and Rev. Turner Saunders, a friend of Mrs. Hill, preached the funeral sermon of Colonel Green Hill "on the spot where the Western Conference of 1808 was held." He was buried in a small family cemetery near his residence. Liberty Methodist Church, about one mile away, on the Nolensville Circuit, is the successor of Liberty Hill. The original log residence of Mr. Hill was recently torn down to make room for a modern residence." ____________________________ Abstracts of North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee: #152 Green Hill 640 acres On the north side of Tennessee River #166 Green Hill 640 acres On Mill Creek waters of Little Harpeth #181 Green Hill 1,000 acres On the south side Duck River #184 Green Hill 640 acres On the north side of Tennessee River #208 Green Hill 274 acres On the north side Cumberland River #229 Green Hill 640 acres On Big Hurricane Creek waters of Stones River _____________________________ IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, Green Hill, of the County of Williamson and State of Tennessee, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament revoking all others in manner and form as follows. First, I resign my Soul to Almighty God trusting with confidence in his promises for Life and Salvation by Grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. With respect to my temporal Estate with which it hath pleased God to help me, I dispose of as follows (to wit): I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter Lucy Cannon, one hundred and ninety five acres of land, whereon she now lives, Bounded as follows: Beginning at a Mulberry & Box Elder, Thomas Denton (now David Bells) south west corner, then running South 64 poles to Hightower's, South East corner, a rock in the center between an Elm and _____ and White ash then north Hightower's line south 71 � degrees west 188 degrees to a dead Walnut in the center between a white ash and a Sugar tree, thence East 149 poles to a small white ash, then South 35 poles to a Sugar tree and Elm then East 187 poles to a Beech in Hunt's lines thence North with said line 155 poles to a Dogwood in Edna(?) _____South boundary line, then West 160 poles to the beginning. The same to her and her kin forever. item: I give, devise and bequest to my son Joshua Cannon Hill 571 acres of land in Williamson County including all the land contained in my three Grants and to my daughter Lucy Cannon whereon I now live and bounded by the lines of Hightower and Cannon in the North by Hunts, Stones and Browning on the East by Thompson's, my own and Crockett's lines on the South and by Smiths(?) on the West. To him and his heirs forever. item: I give my daughter Martha Brown one hundred dollars to be lodged in the hands of my son John Hill for her own use. Respecting my Coloured people whom I now possess, it is my sincere desire that when ever Government shall permit that they all be liberated, for I consider Slavery to be unjust and inconsistent with the spirit and doctrine of the Gospel of Christ. But under present existing laws, we are restrained that liberty, therefore until that desirable event shall take place, I dispose of them as follows: item: I lend to my daughter Lucy Cannon one Negro girl, Mary, during her natural life and at her death, I give the said Negro to her children. For them and their heirs. item: I give to my son John Hill one Negro girl, Mariah. For him and his heirs. item: I give to my son Thomas Hill one Negro man, York, also one bay mare that I purchased of James Ray. To him and his heirs. item: I give to my son William Hill's children one Negro man, Ephraim, to be kept under the directions of my Executors, hereafter named who are hereby appointed guardians to my said Grand Children and that his services go to the support and education of said Children until the youngest child arrives at lawful age, and that the Negro then be sold , and the money arising from such sale be then divided equally between the said Children, the same for them and their heirs. item: I give to my son Joshua Cannon Hill the following named Negroes, Nancy, Thom, Luckey and Moses, the same to him and his Heirs. item: I give to my son William Hill's Children one good bed and furniture, one black mare, one Bureau and one Cow and Calf to them and their Heirs forever. After all my just debts are paid I give to my son Joshua Cannon Hill all the remainder of my estate that is not already disposed of. To him and his Heirs forever. Lastly I nominate and appoint my three sons John Hill, Thomas Hill and Joshua Cannon Hill, Executors to this my last Will and Testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 12th day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty five and in the Eighty fourth year of my age. Signed, Sealed, Published & Declared in presence of Tho. L. Douglass } G. T. Allen, Jurat } G. Hill {SEAL} Alexander Porter } -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- An Inventory Of The Real And Personal Estate Of Green Hill, decd. 766 Acres Land & 1 Note on John Hill for $80.00 8 Negroes 6 Head of Horses 22 Head of Cattle 18 Head of Sheep 65 Head of Hogs 8 Beds & Furniture 6 Bedsteads 1 China press & furniture 1 Bureau, 1 Secretary & 1 Sugar Chest & 3 Tables 4 Ploughs & 4 Pair Gears Four of the above mentioned Negroes, 1 woman age 60, 1 Man aged 22, 1 girl aged 15 & 1 Boy aged 9 were devised to Joshua Cannon Hill in the Last Will & Testament of Green Hill, decd. Likewise the other four 1 man aged 30 devised by said decd. to William Hill's children. 1 girl aged 19 devised to Lucy Cannon 1 girl aged 17 devised to John Hill 1 man age 58 devised to Thomas Hill Of which a regular distribution has been made agreeable to the Last will and Testament of Green Hill decd. Joshua C. Hill, Esq. Filed in Williamson County in the April Term 1826 of the Court Recorded in Will Book 4 (old Book D), page 98 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Notes regarding children attributed to Green Hill, Jr.: In "Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight" the author lists Sarah Hill, born 1783 who married a Peebles. This is the only time I've seen her listed. The biography "Pioneers and Perfecters of Our Faith" stated that he had a total of 13 children. The Isle of Wight book doesn't show Sally Hicks Hill but she is buried in the Green Hill Cemetery in Brentwood; and this book shows a total of 12 children. Have to be cautious with reference material. In "Tennessee Records - Bible Records and Marriages", there is a listing from Green Hill, Jr. own family bible. His children are listed as: Jordan (1765), Hannah (1766), Nancy (1768), Martha (1769), Richard (1771-died as a baby), Green Hill III (1774), Lucy (1776), John (1778), Thomas (1781), Sally Hicks (1783), Mary Seawell (1786), William (1792), Joshua Cannon (1795) - - for a total of 13 children. There is also a listing from the bible of John Hill (son of Thomas Hill) with the same information - although there are some apparent typographical errors in the dates; i.e., Jordan is shown as born in 1864. _____________________ 1790 Census for Franklin County, North Carolina lists Green Hill as head of household. Household consisted of: White males - 16 and up: 2 White males - under 16: 2 White females: 5 Slaves: 14 _____________________
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