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- From Cheryl Hall, November 2020:
Capt. John Williams Dean Hall
Born 10 Oct 1807 in Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Died 18 Jan 1896 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Your earlier post, John, mentioning Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw's husband being of NEHGS reminded me of Capt. John Williams Dean Hall who was the Secretary and Librarian of the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton, Massachusetts for about a decade prior to his death.
You have him in your master tree (Person ID I4203) as John William Dean Hall (needs the s in William) and also as a descendant of Edward Hall of Rehoboth (DNA family 006), which is correct, but he also is a lineal descendant of George Hall of Taunton (DNA family 024) through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Hall, daughter of Joseph Hall III and Mary Andrews. So when you are able to add his mother's ancestry in your tree, it will give another individual with both an 006 and 024 ancestry.
I think I also saw in your tree 5 children listed whereas I have 8.
It's interesting that during his time with the Old Colony Historical Society he prepared a manuscript, if I am recalling what I read correctly, on the descendants of George Hall of Taunton. I've always wondered why he wouldn't have also prepared one for Edward, and would not also have been known as a lineal descendant of him!
it looks like in 1884 he published an article titled "Ancient Iron Works in Taunton". Still boggles my mind why he would be so intent on his maternal lineal Hall ancestry and nothing on his paternal. Perhaps he did not like Edward's crusty personality and ability to get into and cause trouble in the Colony?
As always, you can go to my public tree on Ancestry, "Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Descendants, Collateral & Allied Families" to fill in anything that I post about to do with family 006. Here's the link directly to Capt. John Williams Dean Hall:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/109948598/person/200075984951/facts
The article below on his death was published in the NEHGS Register. (Vol. 50, p. 248 (1896)).
Capt. JOHN WILLIAMS DEAN HALL, Secretary of the Old Colony Historical Society, died at his home in Taunton, January 18, in the 89th year of his age.
Capt. Hall had suffered from infirmities for several weeks, but was able to be present at the annual meetingof the Society in January, and with a resonant voice to read his official report. But this brief interval of service which gave promise of speedy restoration to his customary condition of vigorous health, was but a dramatic scene of farewell to the duties of his office, and was succeeded by a period of rapid decline. but with no suspension of his faculties to the very hour of his death.
John Williams Dean Hall was a son of John Williams Hall and Anna (Dean) Hall of Raynham, and a lineal descendant of George and Mary Hall, of Taunton. In early life he was an apprentice in the printing office of Barnum Field, of Providence, and became publisher of the "Literary Subaltern" of that city; but in 1835 he removed to Taunton, in the course of a few years became the editor and publisher of the "Taunton Whig", which was afterwards known as the "Taunton Republican". He was also associated in the editorial charge of the "Taunton Daily and Weekly Gazette," and for several years was its publisher; and was engaged in active journalistic life for more than forty years.
Capt. Hall was early interested in the welfare of the local militia, especially of the Providence Cadets and of the Taunton Cohannet Rifle Corps, and resigned from the command of the latter in 1841.; at the outbreak of the Civil War he was indefatigable in his efforts as a drillmaster of recruits, and the office of United States Provost Marshall of the Second Massachusetts District until the close of the conflict; he was a member of the State Legislature in 1863.
As secretary and librarian of the Old Colony Historical Society for the past nine years, Capt. Hall pursued his antiquarian tastes with much enthusiasm, and contributed in great measure to the development of the resources and to the accumulation of treasures of the organization. He was a compiler of a work entitled "The Taunton and Raynham descendants of George and Mary Hall," and was a voluminous contributor to the History of Bristol County.
Capt. Hall m. Nov. 13, 1831, Abby Southworth Jackson, dau. of John T. and Elizabeth (Southworth) Jackson, of Providence.
By Joshua Eddy Crane, Esq., of Taunton.
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1807 - 1896 (88 years)
