Epitaph: "Be still my friends, dry up your tears, I must lie here, 'till Christ appears"

Phebe, wife of Samuel Hillard also "owned the covenant" on 5 DEC 1779..

1. 2. Sarah HILLIARD   b. 16 Nov 1768, Preston, New London County, Connecticut; d. 5 Jul 1798, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
2. 3. Amos Avery HILLIARD   b. 7 Jul 1770, Preston, New London County, Connecticut; d. 24 Apr 1856, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
3. 4. Benjamin HILLIARD   b. 19 Mar 1773, Preston, New London County, Connecticut; d. 4 Jul 1858, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
4. 5. Mary HILLIARD   b. 10 Dec 1776, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire; d. 7 May 1822, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
5. 6. Phoebe HILLIARD   b. 17 Sep 1780, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
6. 7. Samuel HILLIARD   b. 6 Apr 1784, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
7. 8. Joseph HILLIARD   b. 1 May 1787, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire; d. 1 Jul 1870, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
8. 9. Esther Burgess HILLIARD   b. 18 Jan 1788, Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.

Amos spent his boyhood and youth on his father's farm. On reaching his majority he purchased a tract of timber land and at once began the work of clearing and getting the land into a state of cultivation. At first he made his home in a log house, but long after erected frame buildings, and still later on built the brick house in which he lived up to the time of his death, which occurred in his eighty-sixth year.

Benjamin lived a few years in Claremont, but most of his life was spent in Cornish. The last years of his life, he and his wife lived with their son, David H. He was an excellant carpenter and erected many buildings in Cornish and elsewhere. Of a very social nature and said to have been fond of telling stories.

Joseph was a prosperous farmer and lived in the south part of the town. He was a zealot supporter of the Baptist Church.