Rev. Gordon Hall

1784 - 1826  (41 years)

• Name	Gordon Hall  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	8 Apr 1784	Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  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	20 Mar 1826	Bombay, ____, Mahåråshtra, India   [1]
  Person ID	I63800	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	Nathan Hall,   b. 11 Dec 1746, Lyme, New London County, Connecticut ,   d. 26 Oct 1821, Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Elisabeth Isham,   b. 12 Sep 1756, Ellington, Tolland County, Connecticut ,   d. 9 Sep 1834  (Age 77 years)
  Married	Bef 1773	Ellington, Tolland County, Connecticut   [1]
  Family ID	F584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Lewis,   b. 1783, Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales ,   d. 1868, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1816  [1]
  Children	1. Gordon Hall, Jr.,   d. Bef 1908   2. George Hall,   d. Unknown
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F1139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 8 Apr 1784 - Tolland, Hampden County, Massachusetts Died - 20 Mar 1826 - Bombay, ____, Mahåråshtra, India  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [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.