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- [S66] Ishams in England and America by Homer Worthington Brainard, Homer Worthington Brainard, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company Inc., 1938.), http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10297&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0., pp. 163-164 (Reliability: 3).
33. ELIZABETH ISHAM (Benjamin, John, John), born in Windsor (East, now Ellington), Conn. Sept. 12, 1756; date of her death not found; married about 1780, Nathan Hall, son of Thomas and Sarah (Clark) Hall.
Thomas Hall, born 1712 in Easton, Mass.; died in Ellington 1777. Sarah his wife died in Ellington 1776, aged 55 years.
Nathan Hall was a farmer; removed from Ellington to West Granville, now Tolland, Mass.
Children:
Nancy, b. ____; m. Jesse Dudley Hawley, b. Dec. 7, 1774, son of Rev. Rufus and Deborah (Kent) Hawley of Avon, Conn. They removed to Morgan, O. and thence to Napoli, N. Y. He had, perhaps by another wife, children: Aratus, Philena and Elvira.
Elizabeth, b. ____; m. Timothy Twining, b. 1782, d. Sept. 22, 1824, son of Elijah and Lois (Rogers) Twining of Tolland, Mass., where he resided. Only child Miranda, b. Aug. 1, 1812; d. May 14, 1860; m. Austin Goodale of Jefferson, O. Another source says that TImothy Twining m. Betsey Hamilton; perhaps an error.
Gordon, b. Apr. 8, 1784, at West Granville (now Tolland), Mass.; d. in Bombay, India, Mar. 20, 1826, 1826; m. in 1816 Margaret Lewis, b. in Carew Newton, Wales, in 1783, d. in Northampton, Mass. in 1868. Gordon Hall was the first American missionary to India. His son Gordon Hall, Jr. was long a minister at Northampton, Mass. His widow was living at Chicago in 1908; had a large family. George Hall, a brother of Gordon, Jr., m. a daughter of Francis Cooley.
Nathan, b. ____; m. Esther Wolcott, b. July 19, 1787, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bosworth) of Sandisfield, Mass. Nathan Hall, Jr. lived in Tolland, Mass. for many years, and then removed to Ohio.
Authorities: Twining Genealogy, p. 48; Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 931; Memoir of Gordon Hall, by H. Bardwell, Andover, Mass., 1834; letter of Mrs. Gordon Hall, 1908.
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