_John HILL _______________
_Ebenezer HILL _|_Frances TILDEN-TILESTON _
_Ebenezer HILL ____|
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| |_Ruth BAILEY ___|_Elizabeth _______________
_Jacob HILL _______|
| | _Solomon LEONARD _________
| | _Jacob LEONARD _|_Sarah CHANDLER __________
| |_Susannah LEONARD _|
| | _Samuel KING _____________
| |_Susannah KING _|_Experience PHILLIPS _____
_Hezekiah HILL __|
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| | _Ebenezer BONNEY __|
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| |_Abigail BONNEY ___|
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| |_Elizabeth PARRIS _|
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|--Ebenezer HILL
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| _Ebenezer COLLINS _|
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|_Eunice COLLINS _|
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|_Sarah ____________|
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Yarmouth, Maine, regarding the ancestry of my great grandfather, Joseph
G. Mansfield, I received a response from Katherine P. Tinker. She cited no
sources. In that letter she wrote:
..."Ebenezer was born on Cousins Island the son of Hezekiah and Eunice
(Collins) Hill, on Aug. 23, 1782. He married on Sept. 28, 1802 Lucy Hamilton
the daughter of Ambrose and Deborah (Soule) Hamilton of Chebeauge. She
was born in 1782. Ebenezer went to Chebeauge to live when he got
married.
...He was a ship builder, a Mariner, and had a salt quarry and a brickyard.
Stone Sloops of Chebeague" (1949), chart, pp.106 & 122. Page 64 has the
following to say about Ebenezer:
. "The colorful story of Ebenezer Hill (1782-1828) appears in about every
article about Chebeague or Casco Bay. Our story is taken from Mabel
Hamilton Hill's family history, supplemented by other facts.
. Ebenezer was born August 23, 1782 on Cousins Island. He married at 20
(1802) Lucy daughter of Ambrose and Deborah Soule Hamilton and settled
on Chebeague. In 1804 he purchased from the Waite's the easterly half of
Division Point - this was immediately adjacent to the farm of his parents -
in - law. He built a brick house, and of bricks that he made and baked
himself. Nearby Master Hill, as he was called, had a shipyard. In this
shipyard he built five vessels (there might have been more, but probably
not) - three of the vessels were built before the war of 1812: FOUNTAIN,
DASH, EUNICE (note his daughter Eunice was born 1810). After the war of
1812 he built: brig DECATUR (named after Commodore Stephen Decatur),
COLUMBIA (on which he died).
. During the war of 1812 he was a prisoner of war, his vessel having been
captured by British - he was confined in the West Indies (encyclopedia says
Bermuda) and while in this prison he became fast friends with another
prisoner of war, Commodore Stephen Decatur of the Tripoli War fame.
After the war was over, after a dangerous sail home in a leaky vessel, he
built at Division Point the brig of 231 tons which he named after his friend
"Decatur". In 1827 on this ship's maiden voyage she made Havre, France
and on her return, bound for New Orleans with 520 emigrants, she was
captured by Gibbs, the pirate. [Katherine P. Tinker wrote to me in 1964
that "Another ship that Ebenezer built he sold, and her flag was found in
Capt. Kidd's collection." I would presume that she was also referring to the
Decatur.]
. Master Hill was on his ship Columbia, returning from the West Indies with
molasses when he died (1828). He had caught yellow fever down there, had
partially recovered, but off New York they ran into a severe snow storm -
the crew was short handed (deaths by yellow fever), so Master Hill went on
deck to bring the Columbia in to port - he had a relapse and died. He was
buried in Trinity Churchyard, Broadway at Wall Street, New York City."