1747 - 1831

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• Title	Rev.
  Birth	28 Jul 1747	Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Nov 1831	Clarendon, Rutland County, Vermont   [2]
  Buried	Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire (Johnson Farm Cemetery)
  Person ID	I76940	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2003 00:00:00
  Father	Joshua HILLARD, b. 27 Oct 1719, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Mother	Esther BURGESS, b. 27 Jul 1725, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F32872	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Phoebe YERRINGTON, b. 1747
  Married	Abt 1766  [2]
  Children	1. Sarah HILLIARD, b. 16 Nov 1768, Preston, New London County, Connecticut   2. Amos Avery HILLIARD, b. 7 Jul 1770, Preston, New London County, Connecticut   3. Benjamin HILLIARD, b. 19 Mar 1773, Preston, New London County, Connecticut   4. Mary HILLIARD, b. 10 Dec 1776, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire   5. Phoebe HILLIARD, b. 17 Sep 1780, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire   6. Samuel HILLIARD, b. 6 Apr 1784, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire   7. Joseph HILLIARD, b. 1 May 1787, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire   8. Esther Burgess HILLIARD, b. 18 Jan 1788, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F33036	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Caroline LATHROP, b. 1 Jun 1770
  Married	Abt 1800  [2]
  Children	1. Caroline HILLIARD, b. 26 Sep 1801, New Hampshire   2. Pashur Lathrop HILLIARD, b. 8 Sep 1803, Vermont   3. Lois HILLIARD, b. 11 Jul 1806, Vermont   4. Harry HILLIARD, b. 19 Dec 1807, Vermont   5. Jerome Bonaparte HILLIARD, b. 22 Jun 1810, Londonderry, Windham County, Vermont   6. Pamelia HILLARD, b. 17 Sep 1813, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont
  Family ID	F33037	Group Sheet

• Notes

  It is said that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Bennington. He supposedly served as a drummer in Capt. Joshua Hayward's company, Col. David Gilman's regiment, New Hampshire militia. They resided in Preston, New London Co., CT, then Cornish. After his settlement in Cornish, he helped organize the Cornish Baptist Church in 1789, and was one of its first deacons. On 3 JUL 1792, the church expressed their approbation that "Deacon Hilliard improve his gift in public." He soon after became as popular as a Baptist preacher, but after some years his religious views changed and he became a Universalist, and as such was settled as pastor in Shrewsbury and Wallingford, VT, and finally at Clarendon, VT, where he died. His remains were brought to Cornish and buried besides those of his wife, Phoebe, in a lot, that in 1910 was an open pasture belonging to Freeman A, Johnson. Samuel 'Hillard' also owned the covenant on 5 DEC 1779.

• Sources

  [S204] James N. Arnold, Arnold Collection, Vital Records of Rhode Island; 1636-1850 (Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Pub. Volume 4, Newport County, Little Compton, page 128. [S1069] Wm. H. Child, Town of Cornish, New Hampshire, Volume II, History and Genealogical Record, 1763-1910 (Concord, NH: The Rum, page 199-206.