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- Author of Halls of New England.
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Halls of New England, Halls of Medford, p. 483
(Family 489) DAVID B. HALL5, pedigree as before: b. March 16, 1812; residence Duanesburg, Schenectedy Co., N.Y.; m. April 14, 1856, Jane Eliza, daughter of Mulford and Roxana (Hitchcock) Dayton, of Middle Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., b. Feb. 14, 1824, d. May 29, 1878; she graduated at Castleton Seminary, Vermont, and was engaged in teaching in district schools and higher schools in the states of New York, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and irginia, many years; she was a good scholar and a kind-hearted teacher, ruling her scholars by the influence of her kindness, more than by physical coercion. Mr. Hall spent two years in study at Burr Seminary, in Manchester, Vt., and four years at Union College, in Schenectady, where he graduated in 1839; studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, N.J., and was licensed and ordained to preach the gospel, by the Association of Pawlet, Vt.; has labored with considerable success in several churches in connection with the "Reformed (Dutch) Church in America," and has now retired upon a farm in Duanesburgh, Schenectady Co., N. Y.; he has labored occasionally for many years in collecting materials, and compiling this genealogy of the Halls of New England. His children were born in the parsonage of the Reformed (Dutch) church in Princetown, near Schenectady, N. Y.:
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