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- As I continue to march through the descendants of Rev. Samuel Read Hall (1755-1814, Halls of Medford) and his wife Elizabeth Taft Hall (1754-1806, Halls of Rehoboth), I find another problem person whom I need some help with...
They had a son, Hezekiah Hall, b. 16 March 1787 in Cheshire county, New Hampshire. (I suspect it was either in Croydon or Cornish.)
I can find no obvious death record or other for him, but in FamilySearch, I see that they identify him as the Hezekiah Hall who married Mary/Polly Howes (1797-1884) on 18 Feb 1816 in New Sharon, Maine. They has Lydia Sears Hall (1819-1890) in 1819 and divorced in June 1822.
The marriage, birth and divorce are confirmed in the Howes genealogy. Hezekiah there is listed as Reverend, but his parents are not identified. Mary is a daughter of James Howes and Priscilla Sears and has three Halls of Yarmouth ancestral lines.
I can find no obvious Hezekiah Hall on the Yarmouth family and would be surprised that a Hezekiah of the "Upper Valley" New Hampshire would head east to Maine and not like others of his family west to Vermont... of course assuming he did not die young.
One suggestion was that he might be part of the Hatevil Hall family but I cannot prove that.
Lydia Sears Hall married late in life in Washington, DC where she worked as a clerk in Treasury to Isaiah W Graffum. She was living in Newton, Mass. when she died in 1890. Her death record only mentions her mother Mary Hall.
I have looked in Maine census for clues, but I have not found Mary or Hezekiah in 1820 or other census. I suspect they were separated at the time of that census.
As always, I appreciate any help to solve this. As FamilySearch does not offer any proof, I will not link these Hezekiah's for now.
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--> I should have checked Halls of New England before those last posts...
From Halls of New England - Hall of Medford (Part Seventh), pp. 388-389.
(Family 248.) HEZEKIAH HALL5, pedigree as before : b. March 16, 1787; was minister of the gospel ; m. Feb., 1816, Mary, dau. of James and Priscilla Hawes, of New Sharon, Franklin Co., Me. Had only one child :
1. Lydia Sears, b. March 14, 1817; m., April, 1872, Isaiah Graffaw or Graffam, a native of Maiine; resided at New Bedford, Mass. Her maternal grandparents were among the earliest and most enterprizing inhabitants of Cape Cod Hill, Me.; the hill commands one of the most extensive and varied prospects in the state; the vicinity of this charming spot Lydia spent her youth, and for several years engaged in her favorite employment of teaching school, subsequently she spent six years at Lowell, Mass., where she gained a favorable notoriety in connection with the "Lowell Offering:; in Sept., 1844 the A. B. C. F. M., sent her (with others) as a teacher to the Choctaw Indians ; she was cared for and supported by the John street church, of Lowell, principally in this mission; she was one of the original members of this church; her health failing, she removed after five years of labor and retired for recuperation to the quiet life of former times in Maine and Massachusetts. One of the irritating causes of her ill health among the Indians, was their toleration of slavery, although few practiced it. The repeal by congress of what was called the Missouri compromise (which forbade the extension of slavery to the north, beyond a specific line), aroused her patriotism and love of universal freedom ; and she with many others of like mind, rushed to the west and established themselves at Lawrence, Kansas, where they fought a moral battle and to some extent a physical one, for five long yearsm in order to keep the virgin soil of that new territory from the cursed with the blight if slavery. The task of these patriots would have been an easy one, had not the general government at Washington lent its influence to the side of slavery extension and against the cause of freedom; here is where the war began which subsequently deluged the land in blood. After the battle of Antietam, Lydia was found nursing the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals at Washington, until her health failed, and she recieved an appointments as clerk in the Treasury department, until May, 1872, when she went to reside in New Bedford, Mass.
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