Hannah Hill

Hannah Hill was a member of the Baptist meeting in Unicorn Yard, Southwark.  According to the Church Book, she was received into the church on 21 February 1766, based on profession of faith and a prior baptism ‘some years ago by Mr Davis’ (f. 203).  At the meeting for 26 September 1766 she asked the church for permission to leave to join another church where her husband was worshiping.  His church practiced mixed communion, and thus the Unicorn Yard congregation desired to send messengers to Mrs. Hill to see if she would reconsider, for they ‘could not give her a dismission to yt Church they not being of ye same faith & order’.  She still persisted and was removed from Unicorn Yard at a church meeting of 25 October 1766 (f. 205).  She is probably the same Mrs. Hannah Hill of Blackfields, Southwark, who subscribed to John Ryland jun’s Serious Essays in 1771. See Unicorn Yard Church Book, 1719-1820, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford.