sentences:  In time he made his way to America, landing in Boston, where he earned a living as a sailor on numerous small schooners that provided paving stones to the city.Eventually he made his home in Hull and via frugality became the owner of his own schooner and engaged in the paving-stone business for himself.Esther Dill was the daughter of Nathaniel and Esther (Stoddard) Dill, of Hull, both descended from the early English colonists.