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- Halls of New England. Halls of Wallingford, pp. 87-88.
[Are mostly compiuled from the History of Walligford.]
The emigrant was
(Family 1.) JOHN HALL1 : b. about 1605; d. in the early part of 1676, ae 71 years ; he made an oral will ; m. Jean of Jane Woolen. She had lived with William Wilkes in Boston, and probably came over with him, as he paid her fare and gave her £3 a year as a gift when she should marry; but this he did not do, and Mr. Hall obtained it from his estate by litigation, an account of which is found on the records of New Haven, in which she is called good wife Hall. Mr. Wilkes was in Boston in 1633, and removed with his family to New Haven with the first settlers in 1639. John Hall may also have come from Boston. His autograph signature is found in the Colonial Records of New Haven (page 4) in 1639. His name appears often on those records, mostly in reference to several pieces of land. He was freed from training in 1665, being then in his 60th year of age. Three or four of his sons joined a company and settled in Wallingford in 1670. And the father went with them at that time or soon after. He was a selectman in 1675. Few families have been more respectable than the descendants of John and Jean (Woolen) Hall. Her connections in England have a coat of arms. The names of their children were :
1. John, baptised August 9, 1646 (Family 2).
2. Sarah, baptised August 9, 1646; m., Dec 1664, Wingle Johnson.
3. Richard, b. July 11, 1645 (Family 3).
4. Samuel, b. May 21, 1646 (Family 4).
5. Daniel, b. about 1646 or 7 (Family 5).
6. Thomas, b. March 25, 1649 (Family 6).
7. Jonathan, b. April 5, 1651 (Family 7).
8. David, b. March 17, 1652 (Faily 8).
The original proprietors of Wallingford were John Hall, David Hall, and Doctor Hall. This Dotor Hall was probably Isaac Hall, the son of Francis Hall, of Fairfield, who resided some time in New Haven, but did not settle in Wallingford.
Among those who signed the covenant of the first planter, Nov. 31, 1667, and then proceeded to locate a place for the village, were Thomas Hall, Samuel Hall and John Hall.
After the village was settled certain wood and meadow lands were assigned to each of the 36 families, among whom were those of Samuel Hall, John Hal and Thomas Hall.
At a meeting held Feb. 15, 1675, a committee was appointed to secure the organization of a church. Among the names were John Hall, Sen., and John Hall, Jr.
The town of Wallingford appointed, April 4, 1689, a committee of five to make a call upon Rev. Mr. Whittelsey to come and settle as pastor, among the names were John Hall, Sen., Samuel Hall and John Hall. The committee offer to purchase an acre and a half of Deac. John Hall's home lot for Mr. Whittelsey to build upon.
In 1689 the head of the plain, now Meriden, was laid out for a village 80 rods long, and building lots staked out; these lots were drawn by raffle, one by each planter in Wallingford; among the names were those of Thomas Hall, Samuel Hall, John Hall, Sen., and David Hall.
In 1679 the town of Wallingford granted to David Hall, Thomas Hall and others, three acres each, lying on the east side of the meadow and swamp, called Dog's Misery. In 1707 the town chose David Hall, and two others a committee to see the the misery highway was not pinched the 20 rods in any place, from the town to misery.
In 1696, a protest was signed disapproving of making expense for the town in settling a dispute between Yale and Royce about a watering place, among the signors were John Hall, Jr., David Hall, Thomas Hall, Sen.; but Lieutenant, Samuel Hall, dissented.
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From FindaGrave:
ohn Hall, (Immigrant in 1633)
Sargeant John Hall, Deacon
Son of John Hall "the Elder"
Husband of Jeanne Wollen
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Biography
"Came to Boston in 1633, soon after its settlement, and signed the Order Creating a Board of Selectmen of Charlestown in 1634. Fought in the Pequot War, one of the first English-native American conflicts in American History. Received land in Hartford soon after its settlement due to his service in the Peqout War. One of the earliest settlers of New Haven, signing the Planters Document around 1639. One of the founding settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut, the major suburb of the city of New Haven today. His great-great grandson, Lyman Hall, originally of Wallingford, and who later became the governor of Georgia, is one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence."
excerpt from A Slice of History: A Story of a Hall Family of America Compiled by Roderick A. Hall January, 2001
(copied from WikiTree)
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Charles S. Hall, Hall Ancestry. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1896) p. 82. (In 1637 John Hall was a soldier in the Pequot War for in 1698 a record granting fifty acres of land to his son Thomas, "in consideration of his fathers services in the Pequot War in 1637.")
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(BELOW: copied from www.familysearch.org)
History of John Hall, Sr. (ca. 1605 - 1676)
· 7 October 2014 · 0 Comments
by Garry Bryant
John Hall
Soldier, Deacon,
Freeman, Selectman
(c. 1605 - 1676)
John Hall was born in England about 1605, and possibly lived near Meriden or Coventry in Warwickshire, or Cheshire. It is believed that he immigrated first to Boston, where he was made a 'Freeman' in 1634, and a veteran of the 1637 Pequot War.1
He then settled at New Haven by 1639, although he wasn't at the meeting on 4 June 1639, for his signature is missing on the fundametal agreement of the free planters, his signature does appear on the agreeent of submission to the agreeent dated 1639.2
John lived at New Haven and removed to Wallingford, Connecticut, where he died on 3 May 1676 at the age of sevety-one.3
Jeanne Woolen was the niece or cousin of Mrs. Jeanne Wilkes, wife of William Wilkes, with whom she lived with. The Wilkes immigrated on the 'Griffin' in 1633 and settled in Boston for several years before joining the company of Governor Eaton in the fall of 1637, journeying to New Haven.4
Wilkes returned to England in 1644 and sent for his wife to rejoin him. She sailed on the ill-fated ship that left New Haven for England was lost at sea. Tradition of the time an apparition of this ship, being blown in pieces, was seen in the sky the following June and is still spoken of as the Phantom Ship.5
He married Jane (aka Jeanne) Woolen,6 before 3 July 1644, at which time he demanded "three pounds due him from Roger Knap in right of his wife . . ." 7 Upon her husband's death Jeanne married John Cooper.8
Jane and John are listed as a members of Rev. John Davenport's church at New Haven in the year 1646.9
"he refused ye office of Constable when chosen thereunto," according to the New Haven Court records, and in 1665 freed from training in the milita due to his age of 60.10
In 1670 John and three of his sons, Thomas, Sanuel, & John, removed to Wallingford, Conneticut. Here John, senior, was appointed town Selectman and made a deacon in the church.11
Will of John Hall
"The testimony of Samuel Street,
Samuel Hall, and Mary Hall sayeth, that
about the time he fell sick, they heard him
say, and he said to them, that he, doubtful
not of his wife's love and care of his child-
ren, and therefore would leave and dispose
of, his whole estate to his wife, not quest-
ioning but his children would be satisfied
therewith." (Executed 3 May 1676, Coe,
p. 4.)
John and Jane (Woolen) Hall had seven children, all born at New Haven, Connecticut.12
CHILDREN
1. John Hall - Born about 1644 and baptized 9 August 1646. Married on 6 December 1666, to Mary Parker. He was a Deacon in the church and died 2 September 1721.
2. Sarah Hall - Baptized 9 August 1646. Married
in December 1664, to William Johnson. (Please see Johnson family his story.)
3. Samuel Hall - Baptized 21 May 1648. Married in May 1668, to Hannah Walker. He was a Captain in the militia and died 5 March 725, at Wallingford.
4. Thomas Hall - Baptized 26 March 1649. Marrie about 5 June 1673, to Grace Watson. He was a sergeant in the militia and died 17 September 1711.
5. Jonathan Hall - Born 5 April 1651. Married Hannah ???.
6. David Hall - Born 18 March 1652. Married on 24 December 1676, to Sarah Rockwell, at Wallingford, Connecticut. He died 7July 1727.
7. Mary Hall - Born about 1654. Married on September 1678, to Henry Cook, at Salem, Massa-
chusetts. Died 31 May 1718.
(ABOVE copied from www.familysearch.org)
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Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievement of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2. p. 747-748
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Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the ..., Volume 4, edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams, pg. 2689-2690
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John Hall of Wallingford, Conn, By James Shepard, pg. 30
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Abt 1605 - Bef 1676 (~ 71 years)
