[1] Thomas Hill's family included two brothers, Joseph and Waldron, and two sisters, Mary and Sarah.
[1] When the leases on land around Blaenavon, also known as Lord Abergavenny’s Hills, were not renewed Thomas Hill, as senior partner, with Thomas Hopkins and Benjamin Pratt, took the chance to invest £40,000 in the area which they knew was rich in mineral deposits.
[7] To improve communications with the port of Newport for shipping the products of the ironworks Thomas Hill became one of the promoters of the Monmouthshire Canal.
[10] Thomas Hill died in 1824 at his home in Stourbridge, Dennis Hall, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Oldswinford.
[2] In 1804 Hill and Samuel Hopkins, both devout men, paid for the building of an Anglican church, St Peter's, at Blaenavon which was consecrated in 1805.