Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Joseph Hills

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Name Joseph Hills [1] Birth Bef 3 Mar 1602 [2, 3] Baptism 3 Mar 1602 Great Burstead, Essex, England [2, 3]
Gender Male Death 5 Feb 1688 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts [2, 3]
Person ID I23037 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 2 May 2022
Father George Hills, b. Abt 1571 d. Aft 1611 (Age ~ 41 years) Mother Mary, b. Abt 1575 d. Aft 16 Jun 1611 (Age ~ 36 years) Marriage 13 Oct 1596 London, England [3]
Family ID F13872 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Rose Clarke, b. Abt 1604 d. 24 Mar 1650, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 46 years)
Marriage 22 Jul 1624 Great Burstead, Essex, England [2, 3]
Children + 1. Mary Hills, b. Bef 13 Nov 1625 d. 25 Nov 1674, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 49 years)
+ 2. Joseph Hills, b. Bef 2 Aug 1629 d. 19 Apr 1674, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 44 years)
Family ID F13871 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 May 2024
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Notes - He and his family arrived at Boston 17 July 1638 on the Susan and Ellen. He was a woolen draper.
Selectman of Charlestown in 1644; in 1646, representative to the General Court. Re-elected in 1647, he was chosen speaker of the House of Deputies. Captain of the Malden train-band. He is most remembered for having, in 1648, led the committee that first codified and published all the laws of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Ironically, this led to a small spot of bother on the occasion of his third marriage, to Helen Atkinson, as reported in Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills (citation details below):
"In the early days of the Colony all marriages were solemnized by magistrates, the clergy having no part in the ceremony. In 1641 Governor Bellingham, as magistrate, married himself to Penelope Pelham, and when called on to come down from the bench and plead to a complaint against him for the act, refused to do so. Joseph Hills was a magistrate for the trial of small causes, and followed the Governor's example in his marriage of January, 1656, but, unlike the Governor, did not escape public censure. The records of the Court for Middlesex County show that, April 1, 1656, 'Mr. Joseph Hills of Mauldon being presented by the Grand Jury for marrying of himself, contrary to the law of this Collony page 38 in ye old Booke. Hee freely acknowledged his offence therein, and his misvnderstanding the grounds whereon he went which he now confesseth to be vnwarrantable, And was admonished by the Court.'"
- He and his family arrived at Boston 17 July 1638 on the Susan and Ellen. He was a woolen draper.
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Sources - [S4092] Deloraine-Pendre Corey, "The Waite Family of Malden, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:188, Apr 1878.
- [S2990] Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, the English Emigrant to New England in 1632, and of Joseph Hills, the English Emigrant to New England in 1638 by William Sanford Hills, ed. Thomas Hills. Boston: Hills Family Genealogical and Historical Association, 1902.
- [S628] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part IV: The Ancestry of Linda Anna Powers 1839-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000.
- [S4092] Deloraine-Pendre Corey, "The Waite Family of Malden, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:188, Apr 1878.