The property was acquired in 1872 by Judge Joseph Prentice, the son of William Prentice, a prosperous merchant whose home and store are located on Duke of Gloucester Street. The judge was a distinguished Virginian who took an active part in the struggle for independence. He held many important positions of public trust, being a member of the Virginia convention (1775), a judge of the court of Admiralty during the Revolutionary war, delegate to the House of Delegates (1777-1788), speaker of the house (1786), member of the Privy Council under Gov. Patrick Henry (1779-1781), a code revisor (1792), and a judge of the General Court (1788-1809). The first burials were for the Prentices' eight children who died between 1783 and 1794. When Judge died and 1809, his will directed that he be buried here next to his wife, Margaret Bowdoin, who preceded him and 1801. After Judge Prentisss death, the house was sold to fulwar Skipwith, a member of a prominent Williamsburg family who had been consul general to France at Paris during the administration of President Thomas Jefferson. Mrs. Skipwith occupied the home briefly before she joined her husband in the Louisiana Territory, which the United States had recently acquired from France. By successive sales, title to the property passed to John Goodall, Robert B. Randolph, and Lieut. Gov. John B. Gregory. No records of burials by these families have been located, although archaeological evidence established that during this period the Prentice graveyard near the corner was enlarged to the South and West and now contains at least 24 graves. A plat showing the graves and records of the burials is recorded in the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Williamsburg plat book 46, page 67. When Gregory left Williamsburg around 1840 to become acting governor of Virginia, he sold the home to his late partner, Col. Robert Armistead, who lived here with his wife Julia Samuel Travis. Between 1848 and 1856, three of their children were buried in the family graveyard. Col. Armistead's nephew William Payton, the son of his sister, Marie Tabb Payton and the Rev. William Payton, died at Green Hill on July 2, 1859, it was buried and was buried next to the three Armistead children. The Rev. Peyton had died in 1831 and is believed that he was reinteered near his son in the in 1861 when the graveyard was enlarged for the future use of the Payton and Armistead families. On the eve of the battle Williamsburg in 1862, Col. Armistead's family fled across James River and were unable to return until the Civil War ended. The colonel's wife and son died while they were refugees. Greenhill was occupied by Federal Forces, and it was probable that the soldiers killed during the conflicts in and around Williamsburg are buried here in 1872, the last to be buried in the family graveyard was Col. Armistead's granddaughter, the child of his oldest son, Robert Travis Armistead and Mary Frances Nee Armistead, his wife. Greenhill was sold in 1883 pursuant to a court order that excluded the graveyard. It was thereafter not used; other family members are buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery. This graveyard is maintained by descendents of Col. Robert Armistead.

A portion of the sign at Green Hill Family Burial, Williamsburg, VA

Part two of the sign.

This small plaque is at the foot of the large plaque.