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Hill, Isaac (1789-1851)

Name:
Hill, Isaac (1789-1851)
Title:
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1826
Member, New Hampshire State Senate, 1820-1823, 1827-1828
Clerk, New Hampshire State Senate, 1819, 1825
Second Comptroller, United States Department of the Treasury, 1829-1830
United States Senator, New Hampshire, 1830-1836
Governor, State of New Hampshire, 1836-1839
Sub-Treasurer, United States Department of the Treasury, Boston, 1840-1841
Born:
04/06/1789
Birthplace:
Cambridge, MA
Died:
03/22/1851
Death Location:
Washington, DC
Residence:
Charlestown, MA 1788-1798
Ashburnham, MA 1798-1802
Amherst, NH 1802-1809
Concord, NH 1809-1829, 1830-1840
Washington, DC 1829-1830
Boston, MA 1840-1841
Nationality:
American
Occupation:
Publisher and Editor, New Hampshire Patriot 1809-
Publisher, Hill's New-Hampshire Patriot, 1840-1847
Publisher, Farmer's Monthly Visitor, 1839-1851
Politician
Father:
Hill, Isaac
Mother:
Russell, Hannah
Relations:
Great-uncle of Margaret Jewell (Margaret Jewell's grandmother, Elizabeth Ayer, was sister of Isaac Hill's wife, Susan Ayer).
Spouse:
Married Susannah Ayer (1789-1880), February 2, 1814
Children:
William Pickering, born October 19, 1819, Concord, NH
John McClary, born November 5, 1821, Concord, NH; m. Elizabeth H. Lincoln 1891)
Georgiana Toscan, born October 1, 1824, Concord, NH
Isaac Andrew, born September 16, 1827, Concord, NH
Notes:
Cyrus P. Bradley, Biography of Isaac Hill, of New Hampshire, With an Appendix, Comprising Selections from His Speeches, And Miscellaneous Writings. (Concord, New Hampshire: John F. Brown, 1835).

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume IV. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 1981-1984.

Donald B. Cole, Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970).

"Death of Gov. Hill," New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, March 27, 1851.

Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
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