Ann Elisabetha Hill

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PHILIP HILL and his wife ANN [UNKNOWN] presumably were born in England, possibly around 1610 based on the approximate birth date of their daughter. They settled in Barbados, the eastern-most island in the Caribbean, at an unknown date, but possibly prior to their daughter’s birth around 1633 (noting that the earliest settlement there was in 1627).If they were among the early British planters, they would have likely cultivated tobacco and cotton, as the famous sugar plantations did not develop extensively until after 1642.

The only documentation of where they probably lived is the record of their daughter’s marriage in Christ Church Parish at the southern tip of the island, whose only town of any size was Oistins.

Ann’s marital history appears to include three husbands.She may have been a widow of Philip when she left Barbados with her daughter Ann, son-in-law Peter Tallman and son Robert in late 1649/early 1650 for Newport, Rhode Island.If Ann was not already a widow, Philip must have died very shortly thereafter, as she remarried in 1650 in Newport to a John Elton, who was involved in business with her son-in-law as early as 1650.(For example, he held a power-of-attorney from Tallman in Nov 1650 to collect debts and pursue an escaped slave, and their dealings went back about a year prior to that).

Nothing more of Ann is known until a court record of 14 Oct 1662, which indicates a John Hudson charged Peter Tallman on her behalf for cheating her and her children of £300, a charge to which Tallman pleaded not guilty and was cleared by a jury.Hudson appealed but final resolution is not known.This falling out with her son-in-law may have begun much earlier, for another item from 1650 is apparently copied into the 1662 court record, documenting that Ann had charged Tallman in 1650 with “craftily” obtaining her goods and substance and being unwilling to pay for or return them.

Coincidentally we know John Elton was still alive on 14 Oct 1662 because he sat on the jury that day for two other cases.

At some point after this Ann left Newport and spent time in Flushing, Long Island.Peter Tallman had business dealings there, but they were possibly originally derived from those of her first husband Philip Hill.Ann apparently either acquired 100 acres of land in Flushing, or had inherited it from her first husband, and apparently later left it or gave it to her daughter.

It’s unclear whether John Elton had died or whether she went to Flushing with him.A deposition Tallman made in 1702 omits Elton’s name but states her son Robert Hill accompanied her, which might imply Elton was deceased.However, it is said (with no named source) that Elton was alive in 1665 to arrange Tallman’s second marriage, although we don’t know for sure if Ann was in Long Island by 1665.It’s also possible that Ann left her second husband.

Tallman’s deposition says she next moved to Staten Island and then to Virginia and married there a Captain Hudson and had at least one child with him.Could he be the same “John Hudson” mentioned above?One other document dating back to July 1650 indicates a John Hudson (presumably the same one) involved with Ann in a business transaction.This could be just a coincidence; Ann could also have left Elton for Hudson before leaving Rhode Island; we have no record of Elton’s death.

The exit from Rhode Island presumably occurred relatively soon after 1662 if two other statements were true.First, Tallman said that Ann had another child in Virginia; her age (late 40's at the least) makes this a little unlikely, but if true it must have occurred sooner rather than later.Also, it was said that her divorced daughter Ann fled to Virginia in 1665.The death date for Ann (the elder) is not known.

The only known children of Philip and Ann Hill were:
• ANN HILL (c. 1633-c.1683).See details below.
• ROBERT HILL (c. 1645?-c. 1702).Presumably born in Barbados.Accompanied his mother to Newport, then Long Island, and Virginia, where he settled.It is believed that Peter Tallman’s deposition of 1702 was made in relation to Hill’s estate being settled by Peter Tallman Jr. of Guilford, Conn., who traveled for that purpose to Virginia.

ANN HILL (the younger) was born possibly around 1633, either in England or Barbados, estimated from an early marriage at , say age 16, that would still make just feasible bearing her last child in 1679 at, say, age 48.Nothing is known about her until she married PETER TALLMAN in Christ Church Parish on 2 January 1649.

• 'The genealogical dictionary of Rhode Island: comprising three generations of ... By John Osborne Austin
• http://books.google.com/books?id=LA7ntaS11ocC&pg=PA458&lpg=PA458&dq...
• Pg. 457 /115
• TALLMAN, Peter (p. 196, 1st col.) came from Hamburg, Germany, of a burgher family, which probably originated in Schleswig-Holstein. He was born about 1623, probably the son of Heinrich and Ann Tuelmon of Humburg and was made a burgher of that City 14 Aug. 1646. Soon after he emigrated to Barbados, where on 2 Jan. 1649 (?1649/9) he married in Christ Church Parish, Anne, daughter of 'Philip and Anne Hill' of that parish. Soon after, he came to Rhode Island. On 2 June 1648 he contracted with Nathaniel Maverick to transport him, with his goods, in the ship Golden Dolphin to New England. He occurs on 5:12:1650 as "Peter Talmon of Newport on Rhode Island apothecary" (Aspinwall, pp. 209, 370). He was at New Amsterdam in 1651 and was trading with Delaware. He was at Hartford and on 20 May 1652 he was styled "Dutchman" in the Conn. records. He was residing at Flushing and New Amsterdam 1655-1658, but was a Freeman at Newport, R. I., in 1655.
• Pg. 458 /116
• On 4 Oct. 1655, he bought a house and lot in New Amsterdam, and on 25 May 1658, "Pieter Taelman burgher and inhabitant of New Amsterdam," sold the same to Dirck Jansen van Daventer (N.Y. City Rec., Dutch Deeds, Bk, A. pp. 95, 135). He returned to Rhode Island and settled at Portsmouth in 1658. Bought lands on the Taunton River in Plymouth Colony (now Dighton, Mass.) and at Dartmouth, as well as a considerable tract on Martha's Vineyard. He was Commissioner in 1661 at Warwick, R. I. In 1665 his wife Anne was sentenced to be whipped for adultery. He deposed at Portsmouth on 13 March 1702/3, aged 80 years or thereabouts, that he was born in Hamburg and went to Barbados, where he married at Christ Church Parish, Anne, daughter of 'Philip and Anne Hill, and thereafter removed to R. I. with his wife's mother, who remarried Mr. John Elton and removed to Flushing and later to Staten Island and eventually went with her son Robert Hill to Virginia, where as he had heard, she married once more, a Capt. Hudson'. Dr. Peter Tallman of Guilford, Conn., was his son (Portsmouth Town Records).
  • Peter of Guilford (2nd col.) on 5 Nov 1703 sold land at Dragon Swamp in Furnham Parish, Rappahannock Co., Va., as heir of Robert Hill (his uncle) of Rappahannock Co., Va. (Essex Co., Va., Deeds, Bk. 11. p. 115).
  • Anne (2nd col.) married Joseph Beckett [Beckwith] of New London.
  • Delete the nameless daughter, "___ married William Potter."
• (New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reb., Vol. 69, p. 90; Vol. 87. pp. 69-74.)
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• Peter Tallman
• M, b. 20 February 1623, d. 1708
• Peter Tallman was born on 20 February 1623 at Hamburg, Germany. He married Ann Hill, daughter of 'Phillip Hill and Ann (?)', on 2 January 1649 at Christ Church, Barbados. Peter Tallman immigrated in 1649; To Barbados, 1647, then from Barbados to Portsmouth, Rhode Island about 1649, with first wife Ann Hill. He and Ann Hill were divorced in 1665; Adultery, complaint that she had a child by another man. Peter Tallman married Joan Briggs, daughter of Samuel Briggs, on 24 July 1665 at Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. Peter Tallman married Esther (?) circa 1686 at Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. Note: Deposition of Joseph Sheffield regarding a declaration made by Peter Tallman of Portsmouth on 13 March, 1702/3:
• "Joseph Sheffield, one of Her Majesty's Assistants, testified that being in the house of Peter Tallman in Portsmouth March 13, 1702/3, Peter declared:
• 'I am now 80 years of age and in the year 1647 I came from Hambrough to the Island of Barbados, and within two years after my arrival I married with Ann Hill the daughter of 'Phillip Hill and Ann his wife',' and he was married in Christ Church in said Island, and after seven or eight months after his marriage the said Tallman moved from the Island of Barbados to Rhode Island bringing with him his wife and wife's brother called Robert Hill, as likewise his 'wife's mother' ... and further said Tallman declared to me the said deponent that the Peter Tallman whose habitation is now at Guildford in the County of New Haven in Connecticut is eldest lawfull son of said Peter Tallman." Peter Tallman died in 1708 at Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI.
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• Ann Hill
• Father: 'Phillip Hill Mother: Ann
• Individual: Ann Hill
• Born: BET 1625 AND 1665 Married: 2 JAN 1648/49 at Barbados, West Indies *Died: BEF 1688
• Spouse: Peter Tallman Born: ABT 1623 Died: 1708
• Father: Peter Tallman Mother: Maria Von Peene
• Other Spouses: Thomas Durfee
• Children
  • Mary Tallman Born: ABT 1650 Died: 1720
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• Thomas Durfee
• Father: Job Durfee Mother: Judieh Borden
• Individual: Thomas Durfee Born: ABT 1643 Married: 1664 at Portsmouth, Newport, RI Died: 14 JUL 1712
• Spouse: Ann Hill Born: BET 1625 AND 1665 Died: BEF 1688
• Father: 'Phillip Hill Mother: Ann
• Children
  • Thomas Durfee Born: 28 MAR 1669 Died: 11 FEB 1728/29
  • Benjamin Durfee Born: 1679 Died: 6 JAN 1754
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• Father: Peter Tallman Mother: Maria Von Peene
• Individual: Peter Tallman Born: ABT 1623 Married: Died: 1708
• Spouse: Joan Briggs Born: Died: 24 JUL 1685
• Other Spouses: Ann Hill
• Children
  • Jonathan Tallman Born: ABT 1666 Died: JUL 1762
  • James Tallman Born: ABT 1668 Died: 1724
  • Ann Tallman Born: ABT 1670 Died: 1732
• Notes
• Note1: an ante nuptial agreement was made between Peter Tallman and Joan Briggs. He agreed to give her land he had bought from Richard Morris, Daniel Wilcox and William Wilbur and also a house, all to be hers and her heirs born of this marriage . He gave her beside a bed and half the household goods, but if she die without issue the estate given her was to revert to Peter Tallman's eldest son, viz. Peter Jr., and if the latter die without issue then to Peter Tallman Sr.'s eldes t daughter viz Mary and her heirs. To Joan, absolutely as a "free gift of donation" he gave 3 good cows and a good breeding mare.
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• Individual: Peter Tallman
• Born: ABT 1623 Married: 2 JAN 1648/49 at Barbados, West Indies Died: 1708
• Spouse: Ann Hill Born: BET 1625 AND 1665 Died: BEF 1688
• Father: 'Phillip Hill Mother: Ann
• Other Spouses: Joan Briggs
• Children
  • Mary Tallman Born: ABT 1650 Died: 1720
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Ann Hill (born Chittenham)

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Birth: 1602 - England
Death: 1658 - Virginia
Husband: Phillip Hill
Son: Robert Hill