Alice De Gross, (aka the "French Woman"), 2nd wife to Daniel Hill (1752), (married 1 Jan 1785).
Mother to Stephen (1786), Alice Lerie (1787), Daniel (1789), Johannah (1791), Jabez (1794), Polly (1797), William (1799), John (1800), Elsie (1803), Betsey E. (1805), Abigail (1808), and Almira Hill (1810).
Step-mother to Miriam (1778), Sabry (1779), Sarah Hill (1780), children via Daniel Hill's 1st wife Jane Whitney.
http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/index.html
Use the above genealogy link to look up the Hill family. Once you locate Daniel, you can trace backward all the way to ancestor; Edmund Rice (1638).
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Daniel Hill assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of a volunteer Minute Man, then as enlisted Militia, part of the Natick, Massachusetts company of men serving in the Massachusetts Continental Line. (see excerpts from pension file on Daniel Hill's memorial page).
(See excerpt pages attached) 1840, A Census of Pensioners for Revoluntionary or Military Services with their Names, Ages, and Places of Residences as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. (1841, Published by authority of an Act of Congress under the direction of the Secretary of State).
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We infer that Alice (De Gross) Hill was a God fearing, church going woman based partly on selected entries from the diary of Simeon Brownson, who was a resident of the Town of Fenner, and a member of the Peterboro Baptist Church.
The Peterboro Baptist Church stood next to the cemetery where her husband, Daniel Hill, is buried, (see attached image).
- 1834 - Old Mr. Daniel Hill was buried Thurs. 23rd Jan. 1834.
- 1842 - Mrs. Orison Howe[s] (Alice's daughter Abigail (Hill) Howes), died rather suddenly Jan. 31st 1842.
- Eve. of Feb. 2nd, 1842 - Attended the funeral of Mrs. Orion [sic Orison] Howes.
- 1843 - Self & Mrs. B.[Brownson] attend the funeral of Old Mrs. Daniel Hill at the Baptist Meetinghouse in P.[Peterboro] Wed. April 26, 1843.
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NOTE: Per the Smithfield Town Historian, Simeon kept his diary from 1830-1847.
- A typed copy of the entries is at the Peterboro Area Museum along with an index of all the entries that mention births, deaths, and marriages.
- The original diary is at the Western Theological Seminary Collection at the Joint Archives of Holland in Holland, Michigan.
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Finally, the following citation is from an old newspaper (evidently copied from The Oneida Dispatch, as indicated in the text), which may explain what happened to some of the "missing" gravestones, etc. for the Old Peterboro Cemetery
The Madison Observer,
Morrisville, NY, Wed., June 9, 1869, p. 2, c.3
"Desecration of Burial Grounds" . . .
A Peterboro correspondent of the Dispatch speaks thus of the condition of the old burial ground in the northern part of that village:
Several years ago a new cemetery was laid out, and has since been used in preference to the old one; those who had laid their friends in the old ground supposed their graves would remain undisturbed forever, but land being "scarce and dear," (to some) and a part of this silent city being thinly populated, it was thought advisable by those pecuniarily interested, to abridge its boundaries; therefore, a fence was built through it, since which the plow glides around and over the graves thrown out of the corporation, and one of their "worthy" citizens shows his desire to gain an honest living by the sweat of his brow by raising beans, &c., in a grave-yard
Alice De Gross, (aka the "French Woman"), 2nd wife to Daniel Hill (1752), (married 1 Jan 1785).
Mother to Stephen (1786), Alice Lerie (1787), Daniel (1789), Johannah (1791), Jabez (1794), Polly (1797), William (1799), John (1800), Elsie (1803), Betsey E. (1805), Abigail (1808), and Almira Hill (1810).
Step-mother to Miriam (1778), Sabry (1779), Sarah Hill (1780), children via Daniel Hill's 1st wife Jane Whitney.
http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/index.html
Use the above genealogy link to look up the Hill family. Once you locate Daniel, you can trace backward all the way to ancestor; Edmund Rice (1638).
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Daniel Hill assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of a volunteer Minute Man, then as enlisted Militia, part of the Natick, Massachusetts company of men serving in the Massachusetts Continental Line. (see excerpts from pension file on Daniel Hill's memorial page).
(See excerpt pages attached) 1840, A Census of Pensioners for Revoluntionary or Military Services with their Names, Ages, and Places of Residences as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. (1841, Published by authority of an Act of Congress under the direction of the Secretary of State).
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We infer that Alice (De Gross) Hill was a God fearing, church going woman based partly on selected entries from the diary of Simeon Brownson, who was a resident of the Town of Fenner, and a member of the Peterboro Baptist Church.
The Peterboro Baptist Church stood next to the cemetery where her husband, Daniel Hill, is buried, (see attached image).
- 1834 - Old Mr. Daniel Hill was buried Thurs. 23rd Jan. 1834.
- 1842 - Mrs. Orison Howe[s] (Alice's daughter Abigail (Hill) Howes), died rather suddenly Jan. 31st 1842.
- Eve. of Feb. 2nd, 1842 - Attended the funeral of Mrs. Orion [sic Orison] Howes.
- 1843 - Self & Mrs. B.[Brownson] attend the funeral of Old Mrs. Daniel Hill at the Baptist Meetinghouse in P.[Peterboro] Wed. April 26, 1843.
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NOTE: Per the Smithfield Town Historian, Simeon kept his diary from 1830-1847.
- A typed copy of the entries is at the Peterboro Area Museum along with an index of all the entries that mention births, deaths, and marriages.
- The original diary is at the Western Theological Seminary Collection at the Joint Archives of Holland in Holland, Michigan.
====================================
Finally, the following citation is from an old newspaper (evidently copied from The Oneida Dispatch, as indicated in the text), which may explain what happened to some of the "missing" gravestones, etc. for the Old Peterboro Cemetery
The Madison Observer,
Morrisville, NY, Wed., June 9, 1869, p. 2, c.3
"Desecration of Burial Grounds" . . .
A Peterboro correspondent of the Dispatch speaks thus of the condition of the old burial ground in the northern part of that village:
Several years ago a new cemetery was laid out, and has since been used in preference to the old one; those who had laid their friends in the old ground supposed their graves would remain undisturbed forever, but land being "scarce and dear," (to some) and a part of this silent city being thinly populated, it was thought advisable by those pecuniarily interested, to abridge its boundaries; therefore, a fence was built through it, since which the plow glides around and over the graves thrown out of the corporation, and one of their "worthy" citizens shows his desire to gain an honest living by the sweat of his brow by raising beans, &c., in a grave-yard
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NO MARKER FOUND.
We PRESUME that Alice De Gross Hill is interred in the Old Peterboro Cemetery, (as is her husband DANIEL HILL), based on the above stated notations.
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