To those interested in Benajah Bill and Content Park(e):
I was pleasantly delighted when I heard from distant Bill kinsman,descendant of one of the most fascinating Bill's ever,Capt. James Alexander Bill.I visited his home which is located on Bill Hill Road last month.Also I visited his and associated Bill gravesites in Lyme,Connecticut.Benajah Bill and Content Park(e) are in Ely Cemetery,while Lodowick and his family are in or mostly in the Congregational Church Cemetery.The Political Graveyard lists Lodowick Bill,James Alexander Bill,James Bard Bill,my maternal grandfather,and myself on that web site.
However I prefer to use the e-mail above not my exite e-mail.I have much information on this couple's ancestry.Among the families in Content's lineage include Avery,Billings,and Benjamin.Through the Woodworth connection through Benajah's mother Mehitable Woodworth, it goes to a Wheeler family in Massachusetts.Among the Presidents descended from that couple(Wheeler) are current President Bush and his father.Although not a direct line from Benajah Bill,President Franklin D.Roosevelt has two Bill lines.
Lodowick Bill and his brother Elisha Satterlee Bill both married Geer women.For information on the Geer family which includes such variations as Gere and Gear contact Ms.Ginger August,32 Stetson Way,Princeton,NY 08540,.Ginger is Historian of the Geer Family Association.
My postal address is 20 Maple Court,Ashaway,RI 02804-9630,and phone number is (401)377-4643.
My line from Benajah Bill and Content Park(e):
Elisha Satterlee Bill (Olivet Geer),
James Leonard Bill (Julia Bill)
Leonard Eugene Bill (Ruth Babcock)
James Bard Bill (Harriet Elizabeth Bill)
Ruth Carolyn Bill (Robert Scott Hirst)
Scott Bill Hirst and James Robert Hirst
In closing descendants of Benajah Bill can join the Daughters of the American Revolution and like organizations through him.Also those Bill's who have a Geer tie-in I hope you share family photos and like information with Ginger August listed above and Russell Geer,Editor of the Geer Family association at P.O. Box 218,Lebanon,CT 06249,.You don'y have to join Geer association to do so.
Relatively yours,
Scott Bill Hirst