Miranda Twining

Female 1812 - 1860  (47 years)


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  • Name Miranda Twining  [1
    Born 1 Aug 1812  [1
    Gender Female 
    Group Hall Direct Descendant 
    • A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family
    Group Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024 
    • Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.
    Died 14 May 1860  [1
    Person ID I4956  New England Hall Families Master Tree
    Last Modified 18 Oct 2017 

    Father Timothy Twining,   b. 16 Feb 1782, Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Dec 1824, Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Hall,   d. Unknown 
    Family ID F1137  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Austin Goodale,   d. Unknown 
    Last Modified 17 Oct 2017 
    Family ID F1193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S66] Ishams in England and America by Homer Worthington Brainard, Homer Worthington Brainard, (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company Inc., 1938.), http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=10297&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0., pp. 163-164 (Reliability: 3).


      33. ELIZABETH ISHAM (Benjamin, John, John), born in Windsor (East, now Ellington), Conn. Sept. 12, 1756; date of her death not found; married about 1780, Nathan Hall, son of Thomas and Sarah (Clark) Hall.

      Thomas Hall, born 1712 in Easton, Mass.; died in Ellington 1777. Sarah his wife died in Ellington 1776, aged 55 years.

      Nathan Hall was a farmer; removed from Ellington to West Granville, now Tolland, Mass.

      Children:

      Nancy, b. ____; m. Jesse Dudley Hawley, b. Dec. 7, 1774, son of Rev. Rufus and Deborah (Kent) Hawley of Avon, Conn. They removed to Morgan, O. and thence to Napoli, N. Y. He had, perhaps by another wife, children: Aratus, Philena and Elvira.

      Elizabeth, b. ____; m. Timothy Twining, b. 1782, d. Sept. 22, 1824, son of Elijah and Lois (Rogers) Twining of Tolland, Mass., where he resided. Only child Miranda, b. Aug. 1, 1812; d. May 14, 1860; m. Austin Goodale of Jefferson, O. Another source says that TImothy Twining m. Betsey Hamilton; perhaps an error.

      Gordon, b. Apr. 8, 1784, at West Granville (now Tolland), Mass.; d. in Bombay, India, Mar. 20, 1826, 1826; m. in 1816 Margaret Lewis, b. in Carew Newton, Wales, in 1783, d. in Northampton, Mass. in 1868. Gordon Hall was the first American missionary to India. His son Gordon Hall, Jr. was long a minister at Northampton, Mass. His widow was living at Chicago in 1908; had a large family. George Hall, a brother of Gordon, Jr., m. a daughter of Francis Cooley.

      Nathan, b. ____; m. Esther Wolcott, b. July 19, 1787, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bosworth) of Sandisfield, Mass. Nathan Hall, Jr. lived in Tolland, Mass. for many years, and then removed to Ohio.

      Authorities: Twining Genealogy, p. 48; Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, Vol. II, p. 931; Memoir of Gordon Hall, by H. Bardwell, Andover, Mass., 1834; letter of Mrs. Gordon Hall, 1908.