SECOND GENERATION

3. Sarah GOINS was born about 1790.
Her mother, Hannah Findley, brought a successful suit for her freedom in Henry County Court in August 1788. She testified that she was the granddaughter of two Choctaw Indians, James and Chance, who were brought home by Henry Clay, an Indian trader, from a trip beyond the Carolinas to present day Chesterfield County in 1712.

The claim was supported by several residents of Chesterfield County. A Chesterfield County deposition taken in 1772 names the descendants of James and Chance by first name only: Ned, Lucy, Silvia, Bristol, Chance, Ned, Frank, Peter, Sam, Rachell and her children

She was married to Joseph HILL (son of James HILL and FNUK LNUK). Joseph HILL was born in 1790 in the Common Wealth of Virginia. In the 1810 tax record of Brandon's district, Monongalia County, Virginia appeared John Dolton [sic], William Hill, with all of the entries noted as "A man of Colour." The next year the following are all specified as "of color"; Joseph Hill, Henry Dolton [sic], Levi Dolton [sic], John Dolton [sic], James Hill, Sr., William Hill, James Hill, Jr., and John Parsons.
Sarah GOINS and Joseph HILL had the following children:

+11 i. Joseph HILL.
+12 ii. Fannie HILL.
+13 iii. Mary Ann HILL.
+14 iv. Elender "Ellen" HILL.
+15 v. Tabitha "Boutton" HILL.
+16 vi. Burrill HILL.
+17 vii. Basheba HILL.