Other Events:

• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Medford - DNA Family 070
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
• FamilySearch ID: MXK4-BZ1

Notes:

From Halls of New England - Halls of Medford (Part Seventh), p. 384.

(Family 235.) ASA SWINNERTON⁵, (Benjamin Swinnerton) Elizabeth Hall⁴, Stephen³, Percival², John¹: m., Jan. 10, 1807, Chloe, dai. of Samuel R. Hall; residence Cornish, N. H. They only had one child, Hannah Hall, b. Oct. 5, 1807; m., Oct. 25, 1841, Rev. Charles Pulsifer, of Plymouth, N. H., and had no children.

In the spring of 1842 they were sent out as teachers to the Cherokee Indians, among whom they laborer for six years; they spent one year in New England to regain health and Strength, after which they were sent out by the A. B. C. F. M. as teachers, to labor among the Ojibway Indians on Lake Superior; they arrived at La Point, Madaline Island, Nov. 10, 1849. In 1853 Rev. C. Pulsifer, Rev. Sherman Hall and Rev. Henry Blatchford left La Point to establish a mission at the moutn of the Crow Wing, west of the Mississippi river, where part of the Ojibway tribe had been removed; but before the mission could become established, war broke out between the Ojibways and the Sioux, and the Missionaries returned to La Point, except Rev. S. Hall, who withdrew. In 1855 Mr. Pulsifer's eyes failing him, he removed to Illinois, where he died, May 6, 1861.

Mrs. Pulsifer m., 2d, March 25, 1866, Abram W. Rice, and removed to Granby, Vt.; she was his 2nd wife; Mr. Rice died Jan. 15, 1868, and she was living in Granby in Jan., 1882. She has very kindly furnished the record of the posterity of her grandmother Elizabeth Hall Swinnerton, and Thompson, and of Rev. Samuel Read Hall, of Rumford, Me., with the co-operation of her uncle, Rev. Dr. Samuel R. Hall, of Brownington, Vt. And additions have been made by Alonzo Allen, Esq., town clerk of Croydon, N. H.

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Medford, Massachusetts

Group:
Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MXK4-BZ1

Asa married Chloe Hall on 10 Jan 1807 in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Chloe (daughter of Reverend Samuel Read Hall and Elizabeth Hall) was born on 11 May 1786 in Croydon, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; died on 7 Dec 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Medford - DNA Family 070
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Halls of Taunton - DNA Family 024
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

Notes:

Group:
DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall of Medford, Massachusetts

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Group:
Descendants of George Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Group:
Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.

Hannah married Reverend Charles Pulsifer, of Plymouth, NH on 25 Oct 1841 in Croydon, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Charles died on 6 May 1861 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Abram Webster Rice on 25 Mar 1866 in Granby, Essex County, Vermont. Abram was born on 6 Apr 1807 in Thetford, Orange County, Vermont; died on 15 Jan 1868 in Granby, Essex County, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]