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- Ancestry.com. Lawrence Leach of Salem, Massachusetts : and some of his descendants
Vol. 3, pp. 144-145
Records of Raynham, Mass., and Westmoreland, N.H.
Diadama Leach
was born in Raynham, Mass., 1751; and died 30 Apr. 1842, in West moreland, N. H. She is said to have been a woman of Lovely character and gentle manners. She was blind many years before her death.
She married in 1769 Seth Hall, son of Jonathan5, and Lydia (Leonard), of Raynham (Jonathan4, Samuel3, Samuel2, George1 Hall, of Taunton, Mass.) Seth6 Hall removed to Westmoreland, N. H. in 1773. He was a very religious man and a strict observer of the Sabbath; a deacon of the church. Many amusing anecdotes are still told of him. He wore a wig and was familiarly known as "Old Wig Hall". He was born 4 Oct. 1740, at Raynham; and died 12 Feb. 1824; in Westmoreland, N. H.
Children born in Raynham, (surname Hall):
i. Elijah Augustus,7 b. 19 Oct. 1769; f. 16 Mar. 1847; m. 1 Jan 1795, Chloe Keith.
ii. Abigail, b. 20 Sept. 1771; d. 20 Sept. 1851; m. Samuel Shaw, of Raynham.
iii. A child, b. 1 Mar. 1773; d. in 1773.
iv. Lucinda, b. 21 May, 1775; d. 15 Jan. 1785
v. Joshua, b. 11 Oct. 1777; d. 1859; m. Anna Brockaway.
vi. Gaius, b. 12 June, 1780; d. 1871; m. 19 Dec. 1805, Esther Mason
vii. Seth, b. 31 Jan. 1783; d. 11 Apr. 1839; m. 13 June, 1804; Hannah Britton.
viii. Canullus, b. 18 July, 1785; d. 6 Sept. 1854; m. 13 May, 1910; Betsey Britton.
ix. A child, b. 13 June, 1788; d. in 1788.
x. Diadama, b. 14 Feb. 1790; m. 1 Mar. 1810, Israel Woodward.
xi. Lucinda, b. 16 Oct. 1792; d. 23 Marc. 1830; m. Henry Mason.
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