Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills; The English Emigrant to New England in 1632 and of Joseph Hills, the Engl (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...settlers of Nashaway plantacon." In 1648 he was first of a committee of four to change the location of the highway " between Winnesemet and Redding." In 1650 he was second of a committee, of which the governor was chairman, appointed to draw up instructions for the Massachusetts delegates to a gathering where " the commissioners of all the colonies shall meete." In 1653 he was one of a committee of six to consider the question, " if the Vnited Collonjes haue power by the articles of Agreement... toingage the Collonjes" " in warre." In 1654, with Captains Hawthorne and Johnson, and the treasurer of the Colony, he was appointed to frame a reply to the home government, which had demanded an explanation of certain acts. Three times, in 1650, 1653, and 1661, he was of committees to audit the treasury accounts, but his greatest public service was that of the leading member of the committee that in 1648 reported to the General Court the first codification of the laws of the Colony. The story of his part of the work is well told by one of his descendants, Mr. D. P. Corey, in his history of Malden, published in that city, in 1899. That he was the actual compiler of the laws, that he prepared the copy for the press and supervised their printing, is clearly proved. The colony recognized the great value of his work, not only by a money payment but by a grant of five hundred acres of land on the Nashua River, now a part of Southern New Hampshire, and the remission of his taxes in his old age. But new laws were from time to time enacted and old ones changed, and "the Courte finding by experience the great benefitt that doth redound to the country by putting of the lawes into printe," in 1649-50, 1653, 1654 and 1661 a...