A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hill, Joseph Augustus Witham
HILL. (Lieutenant, 1825.)
Joseph Augustus Witham Hill entered the Navy 10 Dec. 1811; passed his examination in 1818; obtained his commission 4 Oct. 1825; and from that date until June, 1827, was employed with Capt. Hugh Patton in the Iris frigate. His last appointments afloat were – 23 July, 1832, as First-Lieutenant, to the Rover 18, Capt. Sir Geo. Young – and, 2 Sept. 1833, to the Pelican 16, Capt. Joseph Gape, both on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned home and was paid off in March, 1834.
The Lieutenant, who has been for some time employed under the Commissioners of Public Works, married, 23 July, 1831, Mrs. Heslop, widow of Capt. Heslop, formerly of the 60th Regt., and daughter of Jacob Owen, Esq., of Landport.