Note that KIT 55872 (added on 4/15/06) shows a -3 and a -2 mismatch to the others. FTDNA has determined that this is actually a mismatch of only -2 ("probably related"...within the 25 Marker test. A 37 Marker testing would confirm the relation.

KIT 61272: Joshua Daniel Hills (b. 5/10/1824 NY; d. 10/3/1863: Greenbush, WI) m. (c1847 WI) Dorcas Amelia Hall (bc1832: NY; d6/23/1902 Eagle Bend, MN The family is listed as farmers in 1850 &1860 federal census records of Plymouth & Greenbush, WI, respectively. They are listed as “Hill” in the 1860 census, with two other “Hill” families as neighbors: Dan & Eliza, and Lyman & Minerva. All but Minerva are listed as having been born in NY; Minerva’s birth place is identified as PA.

KIT 35828: JOSIAH LEWIS HILL, b. 8 May 1774, probably Litchfield Co. CT, d. 4 Sept. 1840, Knox Co. OH; married 21 Oct. 1795, VT or NY, Submit or Submittee Crosby, b. about 1776, d. about 1831, Coshocton Co. OH. Children: (1) Calvin Hill, b. 6 Oct. 1796, NY, d. 28 Feb. 1871, Miami Co. OH; m. 1st, 1818 Sarah Roberts, 2nd Phoebe Farquhar, (2) Hiram Hill, b. 8 Feb. 1798, NY, d. 11 Feb. 1867, Knox Co. OH; m. 1824 OH, Margaret Glaze, (3) Luther Hill, b. 30 Aug. 1800, Essex Co. NY, d. 22 June 1878, Miami Co. OH; m. 1829 Huldah Mariah Gibbs 1809-1874, (4) Lois Milton Hill, b. 15 Sept. 1802, NY, d. 15 Sept. 1876, Jackson Co. IN; m. 1830 OH, Alvin M. Critchfield, (5) Sally Hill, b. 11 Sept. 1804, NY, d. 7 June 1871, IL; married 3 times: Hutchinson, Clifton, and Dufield, (6) Charity Hill, b. 9 Sept 1806, NY, d. ? ; m. 1824 OH, Daniel Stevens, (7) Zula or Zola Hill, b. 7 Aug. 1808, NY, d. ? ; m. 1830 OH, William Critchfield, (8) Julia Hill b. 7 Aug. 1808, NY, d. ? , (9) Hulda Hill b. 6 Mar. 1811, NY or OH.

LUTHER HILL (son of Josiah Lewis Hill), b. 30 Aug. 1800, Wilsborough, Essex Co. NY, d. 22 June 1878, Fletcher, Miami Co. OH; married 10 Mar. 1829, Knox Co. OH, Huldah Mariah Gibbs, b. 26 Feb. 1809, Lisle, Broome Co. NY, d. 29 Aug. 1874, Akron, Summit Co. OH. Children: (1) Philander Spance Hill, b. 27 Feb. 1830, Knox Co. OH, d. 9 Jan. 1836, Knox Co. OH, (2) Philo Woodruff Hill, b. 1 Feb. 1832, Knox Co. OH, d. 26 Jan. 1863, near Vicksburg, MS; m. 1855 IL, Fidelia Matthews, (3) Josiah Lewis Hill, b. 4 Dec. 1833, Knox Co. OH, d. 31 Mar. 1917, Montgomery Co. OH; m. 1876 Catherine Dinsmore, (4) Theda Ellen Hill, b. 30 Apr. 1836, Knox Co. OH, d. 3 Oct. 1854, IL, (5) Martin Luther Hill, b. 28 Aug. 1838, Knox Co. OH, d. 25 Dec. 1862, near Nashville, TN, (6) Enoch Gibbs Hill, b. 6 Oct. 1841, Knox Co. OH, d. 29 Aug. 1843, Knox Co. OH, (7) Huldah Maria Hill, b. 19 Aug. 1843, Knox Co. OH, d. 23 July 1892, Summit Co. OH; m. 1863 OH, William C. Jacobs, (8) Charity Emmaline Hill, b. 15 Aug. 1845, Knox Co. OH, d. 26 Sept. 1927, Summit Co. OH; m. 1882 Norman Strauss.

KIT 30931: JOSEPH REUBEN HILLS was born April 10, 1835 in Jefferson County, New York, and died January 26, 1899 in Storm Lake, IA. He married CHARITY JANE ECKLEY March 15, 1862 in Henry County, Illinois, daughter of JOHN ECKLEY and ABIGAIL HENDERSON. Children of JOSEPH HILLS and CHARITY ECKLEY are: (1) JOSEPH HILLS, d. Aitken MN, (2) VINE HILLS. (3) NELL HILLS, (4) GEORGE WILLIAM HILLS, b. June 19, 1871, Kewanee Ill.; d. 1944, Bird Island, Mn.

KIT 55872: A known descendent of William Hills Jr b abt 1640 and died 1693 of Hartford Conn. Jacobus in Hale, House and Related Families of the Connecticut River Valley in his Hills chapter lists the ancestry and various records for children of a Daniel Hills wife Mabel (--) of Glastonbury, Conn. Their son Aaron, whose baptism and marriage show in the Eastbury church records along with various probate records, moved to Washington Co, NY in the early 1800's. His older brother Nathan had settled at Hartford, Washington County NY by 1792. Aaron subsequently moved to Warren Co., NY and is presumed to be buried there. Some of his descendents moved to the midwest in the 1820's and 1830's with Jimmie's line, later migrating down the Mississippi into the South in the 1850's or so. Members of this group can be found in both Georgia and Alabama today. Much of the family and their migration are verified through census, county history and other public records along with various family and cemetery records. Jimmie's dna test is designed to provide a baseline of data from a verified known descendent of William Hills Sr of Hartford, Conn.

Contact: John HILLS at: ktbricks@msn.com, or Jimmie HILLS at: JimmieHills@aol.com

KIT 58414: A descendent of Lewis Samuel Hills (Lewis6, Samuel5, John4, John3, Joseph2, William1) #1035 in the published 1906 genealogy The Hills Family In America. William1 was the 1632 emigrant to Roxbury, Mass and later one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. Joseph2 is a half brother to William Hills Jr and John Hills. There have been dna tests for presumed descendents of William Hills Jr and brother John Hills. This test provides additional baseline information to confirm or not confirm a common ancestor and to assist future researchers.

Participant is not named.

For all inquiries, contact: John Hills: ktbricks@msn.com

KIT 111975: A descendant of William Hills (c1640 Hartford CT), through his son Joseph Hills and Joseph's second wife. Joseph's son Benoni had Capt John Hills who served in the American Revolution along with his brother Colonel Medad Hills. Both men were gunsmiths.

Contact: John Hills ktbricks@comcast.net

KIT 165230: Our ancestry at this point, would be as follows: Joseph Coxwell, Sr. b. 1891 GA. Parents: mother- Ila Ione Pearson/Coxwell b. 1872 GA?, (later married John Coxwell NOT the birth father of Joseph). father-unknown (possibly Hill?). Ila Ione Pearson's mother was Elizabeth Pearson b. abt. 1841 GA?

My husband's great-grandmother, Ila Ione Pearson was first found on the 1880 Coffee County, Georgia census as a little girl living with her widowed mother (Elizabeth Pearson) and 2 little sisters (Georgia and Angel). By 1891, she had a child, then another one 2 years later. The first child was my husband's grandfather, Joseph Coxwell, Sr., the next was Joseph's brother, E.J..(Elza). Ila married John Coxwell in 1893 and raised several more children, later settling in Florida. When Joseph and E.J. were much older, Ila told them that John Coxwell was not their birth father. I am the family genealogist so I was off hunting when I learned this fact. That's when I found the 1900 census of Coffee County, GA that proved that John Coxwell had married Ila in 1993...pretty much proving what Ila had told her boys about their birth-father. We have never been able to find out who the birth father was. Now that DNA tests have become so accessible for genealogical purposes, we decided to have Joseph, Jr. tested. That brings us up to today and the match with the Daniel Hills/Mike Hills/Donohue family.

I've been in touch with Mike Hills/Donohue and he told me that George, his grandfather, after a bad experience in high school in Iowa, went to "the deep South" for several years. George was only a year older than our Ila at the time. His trip to the "Deep South" is right around the timeframe that Ila became pregnant with Joseph Sr. and later E.J.. We're still trying to iron all of this out. Because Ila was in Coffee County, GA, I looked at the records there....I find several Hill/Hills there, but Mike's branch doesn't seem to know if any of their people ever lived there. I wondered if there were some cousins or other connections of George's there. Just thinking and wondering if George might have stayed with family in "the deep South"....if in fact, he turns out to be our man.

Contact: Bev Tiner: chozijoy@aol.com