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- Halls of New England, pp. 726-727
HALLS OF SCITUATE, MASS.
JOHN HALL, m., Abigail, dau. of Timothy White, and settled in Scituate Harbor, Mass. Children were:
1. Mary, b. Aug 28, 1706.
2. Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1708.
3. Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1710.
4. John, b. 1712 (Family 2.)
5. Timothy, b. 1714 (Family 3).
6. Susanna, b. 1717.
7. Sarah, m., 1752, David Keene.
8. Rachel, b. 1721; m., 1742, John Tilden.
9. Catherine, b. 1723; m., Joshua Bramhall, of Hingham.
NOTE. Several of the members of the family of John Hall removed to Marshfield, Mass.
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Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis. Vol. II. Gardner-Moses
by Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966), c. 1996, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland.
Hall, of Marshfield, p. 132 ff
1. JOHN HALL first appears on the records of the town of Scituate upon his marriage in February 27, 1705, to Abigail White. When he died in 1770 it was stated that he was in his ninety-fifth year, and he was therefore born in 1676, if, indeed, his age was not exaggerated. He was not a native of Scituate, and it is possible that he was an emigrant from England of Scotland. * [Descendants of one of his grandsons, in Bowdoin, Maine, have a tradition of Scotch origin, but they believed the grandson to have been the emigrant.] In any event several attempts to place him in the second or third generation of the many established Hall families of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies have met with no success.
If Hall acquired land in Scituate he did not records his deeds, either of purchase or sale. The sole exception occurs in 1711/2 when he and his wife joined her sisters in selling their shares in the Drinkwater tract and mill which they had inherited from the woman's father, Timothy White, in 1704. It would seem that Hall must have been a tenant farmer,
Hall lived in that part of Scituate known as "the two mile" and on May 27, 1737, he and his two sons were signers of a petition to the Governor and the General Court asking that thise persons living in the northerly part of Marshfield and the southerly part of Scituate be "set off into a Precinct." [Massachusetts Archives, 12: 458] The names of the three Halls follow that of Samuel Tilden, while Amos Jones signed next after them, these men probably being their nearest neighbors. The petition was granted and the territory became known as the second precinct of Marshfield. On May 25, 1748, a list was drawn up oof the men living therein, including Timothy Hall and John Hall (probably John, Jr.), whose neighbors were many Tildens and Silvesters, while John is in a list of "the families set ofe frome Situate that belong to the Second Precinct In Marshfield." [Massachusetts Arcives, 12: 467.]
John Hall died in Marshfield January 30, 1770, in his ninety-fifth year, according the the inscription on his gravestone in the Marshfield Hill cemetery. His wife had probably died before him. Of their nine children whose births are recorded in Scituate, we can follow the history of only two sons and two daughters. Probably some of them died in infancy.
Children, born in Scituate:
i. MARY, b. Aug. 28, 1706.
ii. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 5, 1708.
iii. ELIZABETH, b. June 24, 1710.
2. iv. JOHN, b. Jan 4, 1712/3.
3. v. TIMOTHY, b. Dec. 5, 1714.
vi. SUSANNA, b. May 1, 1717.
vii. SARAH, b. May 14, 1719.
viii. RACHEL, b. Dec. 26, 1721; m. March 4, 1741, John Tilden, 3d.
ix. CATHERINE, b. Oct. 27, 1723; m. July 30, 1747, Joshua Bramhall of Hingham.
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From FindaGrave:
John, died 30 January, 1770, in his 95th year.
Husband of Abigail White, they married in Scituate on 24 Feb 1705.
Children:
Mary (1706)
Abigail (1708)
Elizabeth (1711)
John (1712-3)
Timothy (1714)
Susannah (1717)
Sarah (1719) m. Freeman
Rachel (1721) m. Tilden
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Abt 1676 - 1770 (~ 94 years)
