His father, Richard Hill, a merchant[1] and Alderman of London, was appointed by the Long parliament treasurer of sequestrations in the summer of 1642, and acted in that capacity until 1649.
On his father's death in January 1660 he inherited a fortune, and hired chambers in Gresham College.
In the next reign Hill resigned his seat at the board of trade, and retired to his estate of St. John's in Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, which he had purchased in 1665.
[2] Hill wrote a life of Isaac Barrow for the first volume of his Works, published in 1683, and reissued in subsequent editions.
The manuscript of this correspondence, together with other papers of Hill and his father, is preserved among the Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum, where are also ten volumes of Hill's commonplace books, his official memoranda as commissioner of trade, and his letters to Sir Hans Sloane, 1697–1720.