Phillis (Lyman) Hills (1611 - abt. 1648)

Born 12 Sep 1611 in High Ongar, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of William Hills Sr — married 1632 (to before 1648) in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1648 at about age 36 in Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Phillis (Lyman) Hills immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Baptism: Phillis Lyman was baptized September 12, 1611 in High Ongar, Essex, , England, to Richard and Sarah Lyman.^[1][2]

She immigrated to New England with her family about 1631. They arrived first in Roxbury, Massachusetts, then settled in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1635/6.^[2]

Passenger record:

Name Sarah Lyman Arrival Place Roxbury Massachusetts Primary Immigrant Lyman Richard family Members wife Sarah; Son Richard; Daughter Anne; Son John; Son Robert; Daughter Sarah; Daughter Phillis.

Phillis married William Hills before 1638.^[2]

Marriage: (1) By about 1638 William Hills. Eliot reports that "she came to the land with her father anno 1631. God wrought upon her heart in this Land, she grew deaf which disease increasing was a great affliction to her, she was married to William Hills & lived with him at Hartford on Conecticut".[Cites RChR 78]^[2]

Death: She died in Hartford, Connecticut, before the estimated date, 1648, of her husband's second marriage^[2]

Children

• Sarah Hills, b. abt. 1638 Hartford, Conn.^[2]
• William Hills, b. abt. 1640 Hartford, Conn.^[2]
• John Hills, b. abt. 1644 Hartford, Conn.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Mother of Richard Lyman of Hartford, Connecticut, The American Genealogist. vol 30, page 187 - 190
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). pp 943 (Hills); 1219 (Lyman) Paid subscription to view link.

• https://www.foundersofhartford.org/the-founders/william-hills/

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Sources Publication Code116.1AnnotationDate. Anderson, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. 2386p.

• Source: *The Hills family in America, by William Sanford Hills and ed. by Thomas Hills. Published 1906 by The Grafton press in New York .

• Genealogy of the Lyman family in Great Britain & America, the ancestors and descendants of Richard Lyman, from High Ongar in England, 1631; by Coleman Lyman; Published 1872 by J. Munsell in Albany, N.Y . Full will and inventory given Page 37-38

• Genealogical and family history of central New York, By William Richard Cutter. Published 1912 by Lewis Historical Pub. Co. in New York

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995). Page 1219. AmericanAncestors.org (by subscription).

• A sketch of the record of the descendants of Daniel Lyman and Sally Clapp of Easthampton, Mass. By Lyman, Eunice Almena, b. 1850, The Munroe Press, Fall River, Mass., 1923

• The Hills family in America, by William Sanford Hills and ed. by Thomas Hills. Published 1906 by The Grafton press in New York .

• Hills, William Sanford. Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills (A. Mudge & son, 1902) Page 18

• Verified from the Genealogy worksheets compiled by Ralph Pryor during his 40 years of research, traveling extensively in the military and in retirement. Entered by * Greg Rose, Grandson.