John Hilliard

John was born near Mt. Holly, New Jersey. In April 1798 he came to what is now Springcreek Township in Miami County Ohio. He recieved a land patent 31 Dec 1802. It is said that he died soon after and is buried without a surviving gravemarker. His was the first whiteman funeral in the area and was attended by both whitemen and Indians. The place was in the woods of Section 25 of Springcreek Township. (Sec 25, Town 01, range 12) Very likely to be near, yet back away from the banks of the Great Miami River at that place.

Hillard was a private in Cornet Barnes Smock's Company of Light Dragoons, in active service under command of Colonel Asher Holmes from 12 September to 16 October 1779, Manmouth County New Jersey Militia.