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I have found several entries in Ancestry.com that give Harbert Hill and his sister Jerusha (they married McCay siblings) William and Priscilla Hill
as parents but they do not offer documentation. So I am looking for parents/siblings for them.
Submitted by: Sherry Osburn. Email
Harbert Hill was born abt 1797 in North Carolina, and died January 1860 in Fannin Co., Ga. He married Jerusha McCay 24 June 1818 in Rutherford Co., N. C., daughter of
Daniel McCay. She was born abt 1804 in South Carolina, and died aft 1880 in Fannin County, Ga.
The Facets of Fannin, a History of Fannin County article on Daniel S. McCay family, states that Rhoda Jane Hill McCay's brothers name was
Arthur, but there is no evidence that Arthur was even his middle name, on the 1870 census the age of Arthur listed with Jerusha was mistaken as 80 instead of
actual 30, his marriage record and all census records give his name as Harbert (or variant spelling).
1850 Gordon Co. Georgia Census, page 10.
Harber Hill 53 farmer NC
Jarusia 48 SC
Phebe 25 GA
Jarusia 22 GA
James 19 GA
Susan 18 GA
Rhoda 16 GA
Research Results.
The 1800 North Carolina Census, Rutherford County lists:
Robert Hill 3 males under 10. Harbert was about 3 years old.
No other Hill family, including William Hill, had a son that young in Rutherford County (1800).
The Story of Henderson County by Sadie Smathers Patton, page 60:
"William Hill, in 1702, left his home in Scotland, came to Virginia and spent several years there. In 1726, he moved to what was then Anson
County, North Carolina, bringing with him his wife and two sons, Robert and Jonathan. During the span of his life time, the site of his
residence was in, successfully, Mecklenburg County, then Tryon, and in 1779, became Rutherford.
"Robert Hill, one of his sons, married Margaret Johnson of the same neighborhood. Their fourth son, John Hill, was born July 25, 1788, in
Rutherford County, and married Sarah Wheeler of Cathey's Creek in 1808. They moved to the Reedy Patch section of what is now Henderson County,
where they spent the remainder of their lives, and are buried near the old home site. They reared twenty children, and have a large number of
descendants throughout this and adjoining States."
Mecklenburg Co., N. C. Deed Book 18, page 314. 12/29/1806. Whereas on 7 Jan 1790 Dr. John Allison and James Waddell bonded themselves in the sum of 2000 pds. proc. to
William Hill as payment for ten tons of bar iron, also on 8 Jan 1760 the sd Allison & Waddell executed a second bond in the sum of 1600 pds. proc for 13 tons of bar iron,
and again on 9 Jan 1790 the sd Allison & Waddell executed a third bond in the sum of 6000 pds. proc for 50 tons of bar iron. These bonds were not paid off
during the lifetime of the sd John Waddell but he directed in his will of 5 Jun 1804 that his executors, James Mitchell and William Smith, settle the
oblication. Therefore the sd Mitchell and Smith conveyed to Solomon Hill and George Latimore the following: (1) 140 acres being a fishery on the Catawba River and
(2) 250 acres adj (1) on which was a gristmill adj the lands of Wm. Greer and Carrothers. Wit: Robert O. Hill, Jurat and John Evans. Proven at April Term 1807.
Mecklenburg Co. Deed Book 14, page 263. 11/2/1784. State Grant No. 364 Newborn (V. 53, p. 212), 100 acres granted to William Hill by J. Glasgow, secretary, 110 acres at head
of Millers Creek adj. Andrew Bowman, John Wiley, Dennis McFall and other lands of Hill.