Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameMary 4180, p 36
Birth1615, England5189
Deathbef 1680, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut5189, place only,4180, p 37; date only Age: 65
Individual Notes
• Torrey states [?Mary]/___?___ RESLEY/RISELY, w ?Richard, aft 17 Oct 1648, bef 7 Dec 1648?, Hartford.2101, p 373
Spouses
Birthbef 1615, Oxon?, Lancashire, England4180, p 34
Removal15 Jul 1633, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts4180, p 34 Age: 18
Settlement31 May 1636, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut4180, p 34 Age: 21
DeathOct 1648, Hockanum, East Hartford, Connecticut2101, p 626; states 1648?,4180, p 35 Age: 33
Memonow East Hartford
Probate7 Dec 16484180, p 35 Age: 33
MemoInventory
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, sailing from Downs in the ship Griffin July 15th, 1633, in company with Rev. Thomas Hooker, Rev. Wm. Stone, Rev. John Cotton and the Hon. John Haynes. The ship Griffin brought from England many of Hooker’s church in Braintree, numbering more than a hundred persons. The vessel landed in Boston Harbor, Sept. 4, 1633. Hooker and his associates located in Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass., where a church had been previously erected to accomodate the new comers.4180, p 34

• Richard Risley, with the Hooker Company, was one of the original founders of the Commonwealth of Connecticut.
Richard and Mary, his wife, lived on the east of the “Great River.”4180, p 35
Marriageabt 16402101,4180, p 36
Family Notes
• 3 children.4180, p 37
ChildrenRichard (1648->1716)
Birth27 Dec 1608, Upminster, Essex, England5189
RemovalSep 1632, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts1167, p 1 Age: 23
Death15 Aug 1683, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut2101, p 373; year only,5189 Age: 74
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• William Hills, doubtless the first of the name to land in New England, was probably a native of the County of Essex, in the mother country, the shire in which Joseph Hills was born and from which he emigrated in 1638. As has been stated researches in England point strongly to the probability that they had a common ancestor, who was living about two hundred years before they left Old for New England.1167, p 1

• The next record concerning him proves that as a resident of Roxbury he was admitted a freeman of that town on the 14th of May, 1634.1167, p 1

• ...who was also one of the landed proprietors of Hartford. He lived at Hockanum, on the east side of the “Great River,” and was possessed of some military talent.4180, p 36
MarriageDec 1648, Hartford?, Hartford, Connecticut2101, p 373,5189,4180, p 36; marriage only
Marr Memohis second wife
Marriage Notes
• The proof of the marriage of Mary with Mr. Hill (Hills) is found in the inventory of Richard Risley’s estate and the book of distribution in the Hartford clerk’s office, p. 219, it is recorded that on Feb. 26, 1680, Thomas Bunse bought land of Wm. Hills in Podunk Swamp, which formerly belonged to Richard Risley and came to said Hill by right of his wife mary, “relict of said Risley.” The land was a part of the early undivided lands belonging to Richard Risley and others of Hartford.4180, p 37
ChildrenJoseph (1649-1713)
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