Son of Benoni Hills. Together with his Brother Medad he learned the gun business from his
father. They worked together in Goshen, Connecticut.
Medad and John carried on their gun and tool work after their father's dead. At the
beginning of the Revolutionary War Medad would have received a contract for muskets from
Connecticut's War governor Jonathan Trumbull. John and Medad became big producers of muskets
and bayonets.
When the Revolutionary War ended John went to Charlotte, Vermont. He continued gunsmithing
and made also pistols. John Hills is the earliest documented gunsmith in Charlotte, Vermont.
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