Thank you for your comment and correction! My principal source on Willey Hill is “Wille Hill of Durham, N.H.: a Soldier of the Revolution,” New Hampshire Genealogical Record 5.3 (1908), 97-102. This article does not make the same mistake. I may have kept ‘sergeant’ from some other source but I note that Willey’s father Edward Hill was a sergeant in the same company in which Willey served as a fifer. I was not aware of the sergeant *William* Hill with whom Willey has also been confused. My wife’s descent is through Willey Hill’s son Trueworthy Hill (b. 1799). — NLT

My comment is on Willey Hill. He was not a sergeant. Many records, and in fact his own grave, incorrectly list him as a sergeant in the Revolution. He was a teenager at that time and that was his only military service-he lied about his age to accompany his father. The reason for this confusion is that Willey, from Lee, and William, from Barrington (both Hills but unrelated) signed up to fight in Barrington. Both men had sons named Samuel who married women named Hannah and then moved to Barnstead. So many accounts combine the accomplishments of both men. William was, indeed, a sergeant-his gravestone is identical to that of Willey. William’s stone is at his home in Barrington, Willey’s stone is at his family’s homestead (now UNH business offices) in Lee. My husband and I try to correct this whenever we see it in print.

Thanks,
Ruby Hill