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- The records that seem to exist show that Thomas Hall and wife came to America but returned to England.
His wife is alternatively name Elizabeth and Isabel.
The following are Cambridge birth records for this couple:
HALL,
---, Hannah, f. of Thomas and Elizabeth, bp. ----, 16---. C. R. I.
---, Hannah, d. of Thomas and Isabel, Mar. 4, 1648.
---, Lydia, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth, bp. -----, 16--- C. R. I.
---, Mary, d. Thomas and Elizabeth, bp. ------, 16--- C. R. I.
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From Halls of New England, Halls of Medford (Part First), p. 301
NOTE. Thomas Hall. of Cambridge, is supposed to have come in the Plain Joan to Virginia in 1635, se. He had land in Cambridge in 1645; he claimed the property of Edward Hall, of Cambridge, as his brother and sole heir, 1681. His wife was Isabella or Elizabeth (both names are given in the records). She was a member of the church in full communion before 1658, and her three daughters were baptized; she died April 28, 1682; and Thomas Halll m., 2d, March 24, 1683, Martha or Mary, widow of Humphrey Bradshaw, who m. her March 24, 1665, when she was the widow of William Russell, who d. Feb. 14, 1661. Humphrey Bradshaw was the father of John Bradshaw, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Hall. Humphrey d. May 9, 1682, ae. 68. Thomas Hall's estate was inventoried 1691. Children were :
1. Mary, m. Feb. 26, 1670, Israel Meade, of Woburn.
2. Hannah, b. March 4, 1648; d. April 2, 1683 ; m., Dec. 27, 1670, Stephen Francis, and was ancestor of Lydia Maria Child, the distinguished write, late of Medford.
3. Lydia, m., March 6, 1678, Gershom Cutter (see Cutter History).
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