BIO: Samuel HILL, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 166.
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  HILL, SAMUEL, son of Arundel and Charlotte Hill, was born in 1765 in 
England.  His ancestors belonged to one of the representative families 
of that country.  He received a good English and classical education, 
and learned the trade of clock and watchmaker in London.  He came to 
Pennsylvania about 1785, and shortly afterwards established himself in 
business at Harrisburg, Pa.  He was a skilled and ingenious workman.  
He was a skilled and ingenious workman.  He was quite prominent in the 
early affairs of the new town, and was among the first to jump into the 
water to tear down the obnoxious mill-dam in the Paxtang creek, in 
1795.  He was a volunteer in Captain Reitzell's company on the 
expedition westward in 1794; and twice visited England on matters 
connected with his father's estate, then considered quite an 
undertaking; and what particularly distinguished his last visit was his 
reception by his fellow-citizens of Harrisburg on his return, which was 
an ovation showing what a strong hold he had upon his friends in 
America.  He died very suddenly, while sitting in his chair on Monday 
evening, November 6, 1809, aged 44 years, and the Oracle of Dauphin 
speaks of his loss to the community as "irreparable." Mr. Hill married 
at Harrisburg, February 3, 1790, Nancy Beatty, daughter of James Beatty 
and his wife Alice Ann Irwin.  She was born May 2, 1771, at Bally Red-
Ednagound, county Down, Ireland, and died May 7, 1839, at Steubenville, 
O.