Born near Germanton, North Carolina, Hill completed preparatory studies and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1816.
He was a planter, also serving as clerk of court of Stokes County, North Carolina, for thirty years.
He was a reading clerk in the State Senate in 1850, and served as delegate to the State constitutional convention at Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1861.
Hill died in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 24, 1861, and was interred in Old Hill Burying Ground, near Germanton, North Carolina.
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