Genealogy of Thomas Hill & Rebecca Miles47955 Pg 6 (Thomas Hill & Philip Miles) proposed journey was begun in Feb, and toward the end of March, on the very day they expected to make landing above the falls of the Ohio, their boat was fired upon by Indians with fatal effect. A negro belonging to Thomas Hill was killed, as were, also all the horses on the boat, and Hill himself was seriously wounded by the passage of an ounce ball through both of his thighs. This happened at a point then and still known as Eighteen Miles Island, its distance above Louisville being just so many miles. Happily for the remainder of the emigrants, the boat was soon carried by the current beyond gun-shot range of the lurking savages, and before night its living freightage of men, women and children was safely housed in Louisville. Clement Hill, an eleven year old son of Thomas Hill, was lying on the deck of the boat when his father’s slave was shot, and he was covered by his body when he fell.
The grandson of Thomas Hill, Rev Walter Henry Hill, S.J. .... The grandchildren of Thomas Hill were being baptized at St Rose’s Priory (KY). ... The first brick Catholic church in KY.