b. 1715
Historical maker
Named in 1 book.
What the books printed
Old violins, Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald). Edinburgh, Grant, 1905. Page 137, scan 155.
Joseph was a prolific and excellent violin-maker, and carried on business in the early part of the eighteenth century at the sign of the Harp and Flute in the Haymarket. — surname inherited from the headword at line 7: "Mr William Ebsworth Hill came of a family of violin-makers and violin-players. Joseph Hill, who was born 1715, was proud to trace his descent from the "Mr Hill" mentioned in Pepys' Diary as being employed to alter his lute and viall."