The following information is taken from the book "GILL FAMILY IN MARYLAND 1642/1659/1950". Any members of the family finding any errors or additions in the information are encouraged to contact me with the information at regill@bellatlantic.net. The book is a limited edition compiled by James D. Gill in 1950. This is an attempt to make the information available to all the Gill Family as was his wish in a tribute to Nicholas Rufus Gill, who in 1886, at the urge of other interested members of the family made appropriate entries in his family Bible to preserve family history.

Tradition has handed down from father to son the information that there was a large family of the Gills in Yorkshire, England. Benjamin was the first to come to Maryland from England, landed at St. Mary's City in 1642 (A B H 27) and with him came his daughter Anne, who married Capt. James Neal.

Stephen Gill, the first from our family in America, the brother of Benjamin, arrived from Yorkshire, England, in 1659(Lib. 7 f.461 H. Of R. Annapolis) and settled in Anne Arundel Co.. His wife's name was Alice. He had two sons JOHN d. 1718 and STEPHEN d.2-17-1734.

JOHN married first wife Sarah ? They had one son Stephen Jr., who never married and died in 1724. John second wife at the death of Sarah was Jane Bond, no issue is listed.

STEPHEN b. 1672 d. 2/17/1734 married Elizabeth Hubbard of Kent City, Va., Dec. 16, 1708 in St. Ann,s P.E. Church, in Annapolis. To them were born: