[2] Richard and Phoebe sailed from Portsmouth on 20 November 1818 for New South Wales on the Hibernia, which was the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet.

For example, in 1835, he baptized triplets born to Mr and Mrs Whitehead and in 1836 he married the Police Magistrate to the daughter of the Postmaster General at St.

[6][7] In addition to this normal work, Hill conducted services in the region of the Hunter River, and his involvement in humanitarian work included service in a range of organisations, such as being a trustee of the Male and Female Orphan Institutions and the Church and School Lands Corporation and serving sixteen years as Secretary of the Benevolent Society.

The poem in tribute to Hill revealed his reputation in the lines at the end of its Stanza III: "... he did most kindly feel For all others' woes, and laboured for their weal.

Speaking of him in St James' Church on 5 June 1836 after Hill's death, the Bishop of Australia, William Grant Broughton, said: You know his works: his unwearied labours in the discharge of his public ministry; his serene resignation under no ordinary trials; his blameless and useful life; his prompt attention to every call of distress; his faithful and fearless reproof of the sinner; his disregard of personal ease when any work of charity required his services; his peculiar ability in engaging the attention and affection of the young and in imbuing them with a deep reverence for the words of everlasting salvation.

[11][12] Property in the colony owned by Hill included suburban lots near Darlinghurst and hundreds of acres in the counties of Hunter and Northumberland, as well as land granted to him.

[2] Hill's theological library, described as "the most extensive ... ever submitted to the community of New South Wales" was sold at auction on 25 and 26 July 1836 in King Street, Sydney.