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- From FindaGrave:
s/o Joseph Hall / Hannah Miller
He graduated at Harvard College in 1724 and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1777. He was ordained as the 2nd Pastor of the 1st Congregational Church in Sutton 15 Oct 1729. The records of the first 8 years of its existence are lost, having been carried away by the 1st pastor.
He married 24 Jun 1731 Miss Elizabeth Prescott of Concord, MA, d/o Dr. Jonathan Prescott and his wife Rebeckah Buckley.
They had children - David, Elizabeth, Rebeckah, Mary, Hannah, Sarah, John, Benjamin, Lucy, Joseph, Jonathan, Deborah
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From Halls of New England, p. 221 ff
(Family 26) DAVID HALL4. Joseph3, John2, John1 : b. in Yarmouth, Mass., Aug. 6, 1704; d. in Sutton, Mass., May 8, 1789; m., June, 24. 1731, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Jonathan and Rebecca (Bulkley) Prescott, of Concord, Mass.
Mr. Hall graduated at Harvard college, 1724, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dartmouth college, 1777; he was invited to preach in Sutton, Mass, 1728. Oct. 14, 1728, the town of Sutton voted that "Dea. Percival Hall (and others named) should go and get ministers to preach for three months; voted, Nov. 26, to raise £69 for the support of the gospel in Sutton; voted that Mr. David Hall should continue to preach until March next; Feb. 10, voted that Mr. Hall should continue to preach in the pulpit until the middle of May next, with a view to his settlement with us;" such settlement was agreed upon and he was ordained as pastor of Sutton Oct. 15, 1729, and continued in office until his death, nearly sixty years; he "was venerated in life and lamented in death;" there has been a monment erected to his memory by the people of his charge in Sutton; Rev. David Hall was a man of noble bearing, intellectual vigor and fervent piety; he was called several times to settle over other more prominent, but he preferred to remain in Sutton, where the people loved and honored him, and to whome he was strongly attached; he was an intimate friend and admirer of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards, and they were united in opposing those who rejected the revivals of that period, and also in opposing those whose extravagances brought those revivals into disrepute.
Dr. David Hall was one of the candidates for the presidency of Princeton college, N.J., at the time Dr. Jonathan Edwards was elected to that office.
Dr. Hall's ministry was a useful as well as a long one; the people wre well united and built up; the number added during his ministry was 459; his salary was to be £100, "at the present value of paper money;" this led to continual trouble; it was often difficult to ascertain how much was his due; the town also gave him a deed in fee simple of 130 acres of land and materials for building his house.
The likenesses of Dr. and Mrs. Hall are both in the history of Sutton.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall died Aug. 7, 1803, ae. 90.
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Children of Rev. Dr. David and Elizabeth Hall were 12 and probably more.
1. David, b. May 5, 1732 (Family 54).
2. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1734 (Family 55).
3. Rebecca, b. Sept 1, 1736 (Family 56).
4. Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1738 (Family 57).
5. Hannah, b. Aug 1740 (Family 58).
6. Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1742 (Family 59)
7. John, b. March 4, 1744; d. in infancy.
8. Benjamin, b. Feb. 27, 1745 (Family 60)
9. Lucy, b. Mach 19, 1748 (Family 61).
10. Joseph, b. Sept. 8, 1751 (Family 62).
11. Jonathan, b. Jan. 20 1754 (Family 63).
12 Deborah, b. March 5, 1756 (Family 64).
A young minister exchanged pulpis with Dr. Hall, and being at his house and seeing Mrs. Hall with a child in her arms and looking very youthful inquired of her if it was her first child, yes, she replied, it its the first of the second dozen.
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1704 - 1787 (82 years)
