Mary Thomas (28 Jan 1793-25 Dec 1887) — m. Asa Shaw on 7 Jan 1814
Nathaniel S. III (Sep 1795-7 Jan 1879) — m. Eliza Stevens on 11 Apr 1829
Betsey (~1798-7 Nov 1875) — m. Nathaniel Bachelder, Jr. on 3 Jan 1815
Hannah (~1798-8 Sep 1883) — m. David ?Pelitt?
John M. (1799-187x) — m. Eliza H. Folsom on 26 Mar 1832; m. Lydia Ann Mack Carpenter on 8 or 13 Dec 1835
Valentine (16 Jan 1802/1804-11 Feb 1880) — m. Olive Rogers on 13 Apr 1828
David F. (~1807-15 Jun 1893) — m. Martha Hanson or Ramsen on 11 Jan 1835
Jacob Osborn (25 Apr 1809-16 Sep 1892) — m. Nancy Kimball on 22 Nov 1832
Nathaniel was born in Loudon, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, an area that later became Merrimack County. His parents were Nathaniel Hill, Sr. and his first wife Mary.
Hannah, daughter of John Moore and Abia Stevens, was born in Canterbury Township, Merrimack County (at the time part of Rockingham County), New Hampshire. In the 1780s her family moved to a larger house her father built in Loudon, a couple of miles east-southeast of Canterbury.
Between 1785 and 1790, Nathaniel’s father transferred most of the family land to him. The 1790 census for Loudon listed three adult males in the house of Nathaniel’s father. Nathaniel, Jr. was undoubtedly one of them. It also listed three women, and one male under 16. Nathaniel and Hannah married about 1789 in Loudon.
The 1800 census for Loudon listed the family of Nathaniel Hill as a couple between 26 and 45, with three girls and two boys all under 10.
In February 1810, Nathaniel sold his property in Loudon to his brother-in-law Elkins Moore, and moved his family to Exeter, Hancock County, Maine, an area that in 1816 became Penobscot County. They were in time for the 1810 census to catch them: a couple between 26 and 44, with two girls age 16-25, two boys and a girl age 10-15, and three boys under 10.
In 1830, Nathaniel and Hannah were living next door to their newly married son Nathaniel III in Exeter. In 1840, they were living with son Jacob and family.
In 1850, Nathaniel and Hannah were back to living with son Nathaniel III and family, still in Exeter. Nathaniel, Sr. died the following year. He is buried in Crowell Cemetery, Exeter Center, Penobscot County.
In 1860, Hannah was living with son Valentine and family in Exeter. (One web site claims Valentine was her nephew by marriage, the son of Nathaniel’s half-brother Valentine. Doubt it.) A Thomas Hill (58) and family were next door. Hannah died in 1861, and is buried with Nathaniel. Her tombstone gets her age wrong by about nine years. Other members of the family are buried in Crowell Cemetery as well.
Mary married Asa Shaw (5 Feb 1785-2 Apr 1866) from New Durham, Strafford County, New Hampshire on 7 Jan 1814 in Exeter, Penobscot County, Maine. The family lived in Exeter. Their children:
Asa George, Jr. (26 Dec 1814-15 Aug 1901)
Nathaniel Hill (4 Apr 1816-????) — m. Louisa B. ???
Mary Thomas (16 May 1818-21 Sep 1861) — m. Charles Butters Grinnell
Betsey Townsend (24 May 1820-????)
Thomas Jefferson (17 Apr 1822-????)
Hannah Moore (9 Dec 1824-31 Dec 1907) — m. J. K. C. Sleeper
Erastus Otis (18 Sep 1827-16 Jul 1906) — m. ????
Serena W. (28 Feb 1830-12 Dec 1904) — m. Charles Butters Grinnell
Julia Morrill (13 Jan 1833-????)
The 1850 census showed the family in Exeter with daughters Serena and Julia, and an unexplained George Hill (17). By 1860, they were living with son Nathaniel, still in Exeter. Asa died in 1866 and is buried in Crowell Cemetery, Exeter Center. Mary died in 1887 and is buried with him.
Nathaniel has his own entry in the family tree.
Betsey married Nathaniel Bachelder, Jr. (1799-7 May 1828), son of Nathaniel and Ruth Bachelder, in 1815 in Exeter. I don’t know whether they had children, but consider it significant that Nathaniel married at the very young age of 15 or 16.
The 1820 census for Exeter showed a family headed by a Nathaniel Bachelder, but too old to be this Nathaniel and Betsey. An older man named Nathan Bachelder was head of household next door. Curiously, there was a nearly identical set of Nathaniel and Nathan Bachelder households in Palermo, Waldo County. It’s likely that Betsey’s husband, because he was so young, didn’t have a place of his own in 1820. He died in 1828, and is buried in Common Cemetery, Union, Knox County, Maine.
Betsey apparently never remarried. She was living with relatives in the 1850 and 1870 censuses. She died in 1875, and is buried in the same cemetery as Nathaniel. Caution: There was a Betsy Hutchins born about 1796 in New Hampshire who married Stephen Bachelder and lived in Penobscot County.
Hannah married David ?Pelitt?. She died in 1883 in Boston. The guess at her husband’s surname comes from her death record, and is hard to make out, which is why I have nothing else for her.
John married Eliza H. Folsom (1812-1834) in 1832 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. They had two children:
George Samuel (6 Jul 1832-28 Aug 1886) — m. Ella Elizabeth Raynes on 24 Oct 1854
Eliza (1 Dec 1834-183x)
Eliza died in 1834. In 1835, John married Lydia Ann Mack Carpenter (~1807-????) in Exeter, Penobscot County. They had seven more children:
unknown boy (183x-184x)
Melissa Ann (3 Apr 1838-????)
Luther Mack (8 Apr 1840-18 Feb 1921) — m. Mary A. (from Ireland) in 186x
Mary Ellen (15 Nov 1841-????) — m. Walter S. Willey on 10 Apr 1859
Adriannah (Apr 1843-27 May 1906) — m. George W. Plummer on 20 Dec 1860
John F. (1845-10 Mar 1874)
Ruel Calvin (9 Jan 1849-3 May 1924) — m. Viola Lovisa Bangs on 16 Mar 1873
The 1840 census for Exeter listed John with one boy age 5-9, one girl under 5, and two boys under 5. That would be George, Melissa, Luther, and an unidentified boy. The 1850 census listed John and Lydia in Exeter with children George L. (17), Melissa A. (12), Luther M. (10), Mary E. (8), Adriannah (6), John F. (4), and Patrick (1). I guess “Patrick” was Ruel. In 1860, it was down to Melissa (21), Luther M. (20), Adriannah (16), John F. (12), and Rhuel (11). By 1870 it was just Melissa A. (34) and John F. (24), although John Sr. was claiming to be 76.
John Sr. apparently died in the 1870s. So did John Jr., who’s buried in Crowell Cemetery. The 1880 census found daughter Melissa working as housekeeper for a couple in Newport.
Valentine, born in New Hampshire before the move to Maine, married Olive Rogers (~1799-11 Dec 1890) on 13 Apr 1828. Their children:
Sarah T. (18 Dec 1828-????)
John M. (20 Aug 1831-8 May 1911) — m. Lydia G. Lovell on 2 Jan 1857
Betsey S. “Bessie” (23 Aug 1833-9 Dec 1872) — m. Walter David Eaton
Wealthy (~1835-????)
Olive A. (19 Dec 1836-1917) — m. ??? Rogers
Abiah (13 Jan 1838-????)
Abigail L. (19 Aug 1840-????)
The 1850 census showed them in Dexter, Penobscot County. In 1860 they were in Exeter, and Valentine’s mother Hannah was with them. In 1870, Valentine and Olive were living back in Dexter with their son John and family and some wool-mill workers.
David married Martha Hanson or Ramsen on 11 Jan 1835 in Exeter. They remained in Exeter until at least 1850, in which year a young man named Jacob O. Hill (20) was staying with them. Too old to be a son, too young to be David’s brother Jacob. A nephew, probably. Known children:
Charles E. (1836)
Martha Maria (1839-5 Mar 1894) — m. Sanford S. Coan
George E. (1846)
In 1860, they were living in Buxton, York County with Martha’s parents, their sons Charles and David, daughter Maria (aka Martha), and Maria’s husband and child. The 1870 and 1880 censuses showed David and Martha back in Exeter, alone. David and Martha both died in 1893, and are buried together in Crowell Cemetery, Exeter Center.
Jacob was named for Jacob Osborn, the husband of his aunt Betsey Moore (and much later the husband of his aunt Patty Moore). In 1832 he married Nancy Kimball (6 Apr 1814-5 Jan 1886). Known children:
Hannah (1 Aug 1833-????)
Nancy K. (15 Nov 1835-????)
Minerva B. (12 May 1838-5 Dec 1925) — m. Thomas Henny Heald
Martin Van Buren (9 Oct 1840-5 Aug 1863)
David K. (5 Mar 1843-14 Apr 1931)
Betsey G. (Sep 1846-18 Jun 1908) — m. Benjamin Franklin Heald
James (1847-????)
Son Martin joined the Union army, and was a lieutenant of the 1st Louisiana U.S.V. (a.k.a. 1st Louisiana Native Guard), a unit of black volunteers with white officers – not to be confused with the Confederate unit of the same name formed in 1861 and disbanded in 1862. He was wounded in New Orleans in June 1863, and died almost two months later. Nancy died in 1886, and Jacob in 1892. They are buried in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/a/l/Katherine-T-Walter/GENE20-0001.html -- The Hills of NH; lots of detail
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKB-FD5 -- 1790 census, father’s house
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR3-TS2 -- 1800 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2W-261 -- 1810 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-535 -- 1814 wedding of Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-QR5 -- 1814 birth of Mary’s son Asa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-B23 -- 1815 wedding of Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-7MS -- 1816 birth of Mary’s son Nathaniel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-5MS -- 1818 birth of Mary’s daughter Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-5NR -- 1820 birth of Mary’s daughter Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-7QC -- 1822 birth of Mary’s son Thomas
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-5NB -- 1824 birth of Mary’s daughter Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-7QD -- 1827 birth of Mary’s son Erastus
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HK2-F3J -- 1828 wedding of Valentine
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-2SS -- 1828 birth of Valentine’s daughter Sarah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-TRMS -- 1828 burial of Betsey’s husband
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183870730/nathaniel-bachelder -- 1828 grave of Betsey’s husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH55-94N -- 1830 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-5J9 -- 1830 birth of Mary’s daughter Serene
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-MWR -- 1831 birth of Valentine’s son John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-RQV -- 1832 wedding of Jacob
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4XK-P4M -- ditto, alternate date
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-2S7 -- 1833 birth of Valentine’s daughter Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-GKQ -- 1833 birth of Jacob’s daughter Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-5JQ -- 1833 birth of Mary’s daughter Julia
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FH-RQW -- 1835 wedding of David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-3WZL -- 1835, John’s second marriage
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-GPD -- 1835 birth of Jacob’s daughter Nancy
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-2SH -- 1836 birth of Valentine’s daughter Olive
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-MWB -- 1838 birth of Valentine’s son Abiah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-GPF -- 1838 birth of Jacob’s daughter Minerva
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44R-JR5 -- 1838 birth of John’s daughter Melissa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-81G -- 1840 census, Valentine
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-81R -- 1840 census, Jacob
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHYS-815 -- 1840 census, John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-3QL -- 1840 birth of John’s son Luther
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-2S8 -- 1840 birth of Valentine’s daughter Abbie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-37M -- 1840 birth of Jacob’s son Martin
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44R-VHB -- 1841 birth of John’s daughter Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F44R-VC9 -- 1843 birth of John’s daughter Adriannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-373 -- 1843 birth of Jacob’s son David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SG-GPV -- 1845 birth of Jacob’s daughter Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-3Q5 -- 1845 birth of John’s son John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4SP-37W -- 1847 birth of Jacob’s son James
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V3-LB5 -- 1850 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V3-YPK -- 1850 census, Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V3-NHT -- 1850 census, Valentine
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VQ-QLG -- 1850 census, David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VQ-FYX -- 1850 census, John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V4-2JR -- 1850 census, Betsey
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166532315 -- 1851 grave of Nathaniel; links to others
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HK2-44P -- 1857 wedding of Valentine’s son John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-3WXQ -- 1859 wedding of John’s daughter Mary Ellen
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-QWX -- 1860 census, Mary
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-3Y8 -- 1860 census, Hannah with son Valentine
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCH-Q6G -- 1860 census, John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDHB-938 -- 1860 census, David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DR-BSC -- 1870 census, Jacob
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DR-Z1Q -- 1870 census, Valentine with son John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6D2-3KT -- 1870 census, Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DR-BS7 -- 1870 census, David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6DR-B9P -- 1870 census, John
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167113639/john-f-hill# -- 1874 grave of John’s son John F.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183699883 -- 1875 grave of Betsey
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF31-N54 -- 1880 census, David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKXM-QGFF -- 1880 death of Valentine
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118696679 -- 1880 grave of Valentine
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHHJ-X2H -- 1883 death of Hannah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQX-FNG -- 1893 death of David
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ32-6GS -- 1894 death of David’s daughter Maria
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-31PJ -- 1911 death of Valentine’s son John
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCD2-78W -- 1901 death of Mary’s son Asa
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWLZ-J2G -- 1904 death of Mary’s daughter Serene
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW1Z-MFX -- 1906 death of Mary’s son Erastus
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWRJ-3GV -- 1907 death of Mary’s daughter Hannah
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24443212/ruel-c-hill -- 1924 grave of John’s son Ruel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3W-93N9 -- 1931 death of Jacob’s son David