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- From Halls of New England, pp. 154-155
(Family 4.) RALPH HALL2, John1 : Deacon John Hall deeded or conveyed to his son Ralph Hall, Feb. 1, 1685,6, one-half of his Dover Neck homestead, the other half to be his on the decease of the deacon.
July 11, 1694, he had a grant of 20 acres on Fresh Creek. This land was lost with numbers of other grants there in a law suit with Richard Waldron, who claimed a prior grant. The town gave lands elsewhere to all the sufferers or their heirs.
Ralph received £10 to quit claim of Richard and Elizabeth (wife) Pinkham of a lot of 3 1/2 acres once the "house lot of our grandfather Thomas Leighton."
Ralph Hall was auditor in 1702 and constable in 1705. Pike's Jornal says, Nov. 13, 1706 : "Ralph Hall, Sen., of Dover, deceased, after six days illness with grevious pain in his side together with the fever."
He must have married twice. The name of his first wife is not ascertained. He married, 2d, May 26, 1701, Mary, dau. of Philip Chesley; in 1713 she, with her sister Esther, wife of John Hall, gave quit claim deed of their father's home plantation at Oyster river for £45. But Mary married again and as wife of John Foy, Feb. 26, 1717,18, quit claimed to John Hall, evidently son of Ralph Hall by a former wife, all her "right in lands that my former husband, Ralph Hall, left me."
Sons of Ralph Hall, John and James, were appointed administrators March 4, 1706,7. The estate was divided between seven sons, a double portion being given to the eldest, and £15 for Jonathan, who was a weak and sick child.
Names of the sons were :
1. John (Family 9).
2. James (Family 10).
3. Jonathan, sickly and weak child
4. Isaac, said by tradition to have moved to Massachusetts.
And by second wife:
5. Benjamin, b. June 1702. (Family 11).
6. Ralph (Family 12).
7. Joseph, b. March 26, 17006 (Family 13).
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1652 - 1706 (54 years)
