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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 115730429
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
• Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War

Notes:

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AET 72yrs.

American Revolutionary War Solider in Capt Jonathan Andrews Company, Col. Joesph Paine Regt. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 13, page 253

Birth:
1763    RICHARDSON    Joseph, s. David and Mary, July 3, 1763.      Birth    Newton

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Group:
Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.

Joseph married Mary "Molly" Carpenter on 12 Jan 1782 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine. Mary was born on 25 Mar 1754 in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 23 Feb 1846; was buried after 23 Feb 1846 in West Baldwin Cemetery, West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Abigail married Benjamin McCorison on 16 Aug 1805 in Standish, Cumberland County, Maine. Benjamin (son of James McCorison and Mary Flood) was born on 10 Jan 1783 in Gorham, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 22 Dec 1867; was buried after 22 Dec 1867 in Eddington, Penobscot County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Joseph married Charlotte Thompson on 26 May 1808 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. Charlotte was born on 2 May 1786 in South Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 26 Feb 1843 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 26 Feb 1843 in West Baldwin Cemetery, West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KHYN-R2Q
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 115731462
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Sarah married Eleazer Marr on 18 Oct 1810 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. Eleazer was born on 12 Jul 1789 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 16 Apr 1859; was buried after 16 Apr 1859 in West Baldwin Cemetery, West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KZTY-5YS
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• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Samuel married Sarah Mansfield on 3 Jun 1813 in Maine. Sarah was born about 1792; died on 30 Jan 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Hannah Towle before 1835. Hannah was born about 1793; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: K6H5-87M
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 33980309
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
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• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
• Alt. Death: 19 Nov 1884, Buxton, York County, Maine

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

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Buried:
Inscription
Wife of Barnabus (sic) Sawyer
Aged: 92 yrs. 7 mos. 8 das.

Huldah married Barnabas Whitcomb Sawyer on 19 Oct 1815. Barnabas was born on 23 Oct 1794 in Buxton, York County, Maine; died on 5 Dec 1858 in Buxton, York County, Maine; was buried after 5 Dec 1858 in Highland Cemetery, Buxton, York County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LCBY-FZ3
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 41317100
• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Ephraim married Charlotte Wellington on 21 Oct 1822 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine. Charlotte was born on 4 Apr 1793 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 9 Jul 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Mary Sprague in 1843. Mary was born on 10 May 1801 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 2 Jan 1893; was buried after 2 Jan 1893 in Pine Grove Cemetery, Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KZYT-NX3
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• Group: Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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Wife of Dudley Moody
AEt. 67

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Mary married Dudley Moody on 1 Oct 1816 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. Dudley was born on 28 Oct 1789 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine; died on 2 Oct 1865 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine; was buried after 2 Oct 1865 in Kents Hill Cemetery, Readfield, Kennebec County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHDG-YMZ
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 154655747
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• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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Mary Richardson and her husband, Elkanah Walker, went to Oregon as missionaries with Marcus Whitman in 1838.
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From FindaGrave:

As a young girl in Maine, Mary Richardson set her mind to become a missionary. Upon marrying Elkanah Walker in 1837, the couple set out for the Oregon Country. They settled among the Spokane Indians to teach and preach at their mission, Tshimakain, located 25 miles northwest of present day Spokane. Mary's intimate 125,000-word diary tells of crossing the continent with fur traders, building a rustic shelter in the wilderness, ministering to the Indians, and raising a family under trying conditions. Her words reveal her frustrations, spirit, honesty, and perseverance. She is a symbol of the strength of all pioneer women. Following the murder of the Dr. Marcus Whitman party, near Walla Walla, Mary and her family moved themselves to the peaceful Willamette Valley where they spent the rest of their lives. The work of missionaries paved the way for the next wave of pioneers to cross the Rockies to Oregon.

Choosing the Life of a Missionary

Mary Richardson was born in Maine in 1811. Around this time America was swept up in the Great Awakening that prompted the faithful to strike out around the world in missionary zeal. Mary, the second of 11 children, attended Maine Wesleyan in the early 1830s. Her course of study included history, natural philosophy, chemistry, natural history, botany, mental philosophy, mathematics, French, and Spanish. Mary taught school in Maine, yet she had always been interested in missions. The life of a missionary was the most exciting career open to women at this period. "At the age of 9 or 10 my mind first became interested in the cause of missions, and I determined if it ever were in my power I would become a missionary. This determination I never forgot" (Mary Richardson Walker Diary, December 5,1836).

Mary hoped to be sent to Africa but the Zulu wars were breaking out and the American Board of Missions was reluctant to send a single woman missionary anywhere, let alone to a war zone. The Board also knew of a single male desiring a missionary assignment. The Board wanted to send out missionaries as husband and wife teams, so they played cupid and sent Elkanah Walker of Bangor to meet Mary Richardson. Mary recorded her initial impression, "I saw nothing particularly interesting or disagreeable in the man. He is a tall and rather awkward gentleman" (Diary, April 22, 1837). Elkanah proposed marriage within 48 hours of their meeting and she accepted.

In 1836, William H. Gray had gone west with Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, Reverend Henry Spalding, and his wife Eliza. The Whitmans worked among the Cayuse and the Spauldings with the Nez Perce at Lapwai. In 1837 Gray returned east to get married and ask for more missionaries for the remote Pacific Northwest. The American Board of Missions responded. In the words of Rev. W. J. Armstrong, "A white population may be expected to gather pretty rapidly on the Columbia River and in a few years, if the Gospel is not now given to the poor Indians, the vices and diseases of the whites may spread among them and sweep them away." The Board sent the Walkers along with three other couples, all newlyweds, to the land beyond the Rockies to spread the Gospel and save the Indians.

The Journey West

The extraordinary honeymoon journey began early in 1838. The Walker newlyweds left Maine for Boston with a horse and buggy. This was followed by a coastal steamer trip to New York. First a stagecoach, then a train, at 10 mph, brought them to Pittsburgh. Here they picked up the steamboat Norfolk to St. Louis. It seems all means of transport available in the 1830s were part of the adventure that was only beginning.

At Independence, Missouri they met up with their companions for the overland trip to Oregon, nearly 2,000 miles across the wilds. In addition to Mary and Elkanah Walker, the party now included three other newly married missionary couples: Cushing Eells and his wife Myra, Asa Smith and his wife Sarah, W. H. Gray and his wife, plus three single men. Each couple was limited to 140 pounds of provisions, including a tent. Each person was permitted to pack a two-foot-long valise with their personal effects. On March 13, the missionaries received a passport to Oregon from the U.S. War Department "to pass through the Indian country to the Columbia River" (Drury, 68). Mary rode horseback the entire way on her tiny sidesaddle, feeling the effects of pregnancy all along the way.

Descriptions of the West in the 1830s were based upon rumors, exaggerations, and speculation with very few facts to get in the way. Washington Irving's narrative Astoria states, "While passing through the great defile you are supposed to be at 10,000 feet while you look up to either hand to snow capped peaks rising 8,000 to 10,000 feet above you ... surpassing all other mountains on the globe except the highest peaks of the Himalaya." Deserts, impassable mountains, unfordable rivers, wild beasts, and unfriendly Indians were part of the commonly held picture. Yet, west the newlyweds headed full of determination and faith.

The missionaries attached themselves to a party of fur traders. These agents of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company agreed to act as guides through the Rockies. This was a most valuable service in the unmapped and almost unknown frontier.

It would be hard to find a less congenial group of people than this group of missionaries. Every one of the newly married missionaries was brimming with good intentions, but they bickered about anything and everything. Two couples shared a 9- x 12-foot tent. It seems each could find something that bothered them about the others. Mary noted "There is scarcely one who is not intolerable on some account" (Diary, April 23, 1838). They were all strong-minded determined people.

Mary found out very soon that her husband was subject to moods of melancholy and bad temper. She wrote in her journal on April 11 that she wished he wouldn't embarrass her by his continual watchfulness. She felt he was critical of everything she did. She wrote, "Should feel much better if Mr. W. would only treat me with some cordiality. It is so hard to please him I almost despair of every being able to" (Diary, April 24, 1838). The next day these words: "Rode twenty-one miles without alighting. Had a long bawl. Husband spoke so cross I could scarcely bear it" (Diary, April 25, 1838)

On June 6th Mary was in ill health. In keeping with the medical practices of the day, she was bled. "Find it difficult to keep up a cheerful flow of spirits. Think the bleeding did me good though it reduced my strength more than I expected" (Diary, June 5, 1838). Later on she had a tooth pulled. All this time she was pregnant with her first child.


On August 29, 1838, after six months on the trail, the party arrived at Dr. Marcus Whitman's mission, Waiilatpu, near Fort Walla Walla. A book about Mary Richardson Walker written in 1945 by Ruth Karr McKee was subtitled The Third White Woman To Cross The Rockies.

Conditions were crowded at the small mission and there were tensions among all parties. The Cayuse Indians were very curious, constantly peering through the windows. Mary wrote "I will teach them better manners as soon as I can acquire language enough" (Diary, August 29, 1838). Mary gave birth to her first child while at Waiilatpu, a son she named Cyrus. He was the first boy born to an American couple in the Oregon Territory.

Life at Tshimakain

Elkanah Walker and Cushing Eells scouted north of Waiilatpu and found a place for their own mission among the Spokane Indians. The site, which they called Tshimakain, was located 25 miles northwest of present-day Spokane. The present-day community of Ford, Washington, is near the site of their mission.

In a letter to the American Board, dated October 15, 1838, Elkanah spoke of the nature of the task ahead in working with the Indians. "They must be settled before they can be much enlightened. While they retain the habit of roving they are but a part of the year under religious instruction of any kind. Their children cannot be gathered into schools and instructed. It is necessary that they should be settled and made cultivators of the soil as speedily as possible to save them from extinction" (Drury, 116). Easier said than done.

The Walkers lived nine years in this remote outpost. Mary raised six children during these years in a 14-square-foot log cabin with walls chinked with mud. The dirt floor was strewn with pine needles. The roof of poles, grass, and dirt leaked mud during rainstorms. Cloth served as windows until glass arrived many months later. One day the wall fell in: "This morning part of the wall of our house fell. Husband was in the room in bed when it began to fall. He escaped without being hurt much. Son's little chair was broken to pieces. The chimney fell with the wall and just as it fell, it began to rain" (Diary, March 4, 1840). A year later, Mary seemed resigned to her situation. "Cleaning and setting in order our little hut. Hope the day may come when we shall have a better house though I could be contented to live as we now do all my life long" (Diary, March 13, 1841).

As a young woman she was a serious student of science. By 1847, her diary revealed that she had mastered taxidermy. She collected and stuffed birds, snakes, and other animals despite her husband's lack of enthusiasm or support. She once wryly commented that her husband had decided to give his permission for her to resume her taxidermy. She held her tongue and proceeded to do what she had planned to do anyway.

The Spokane Indians spoke their own language, which was not a written language. The Walkers had difficulty communicating with them, let alone preaching to them or teaching them. Elkanah tried to piece together an alphabet to teach the Indians to read and even attempted to translate the Gospels using the makeshift alphabet. He struggled to translate the first 10 chapters of the book of Mark. In nine years not one Spokane converted to Christianity. The experience was heartbreaking for the Walkers.

Yet the missionaries of the Northwest succeeded in another respect. In 1843 the first great emigration to Oregon took place as a thousand folks headed west. In the words of historian Emerson Hough: "The cowards never started, the weak died along the way. That was how the great Northwest was born." The missionaries had shown the way. They were already in Oregon to greet and aid the newcomers. The resulting increase in the American population assured that, in time, the land south of the 49th parallel would become part of the United States.

On November 29, 1847, a group of Cayuse Indians attacked the Whitman mission and killed 13 occupants, including Marcus and Narcissa Whitman (one man escaped but apparently drowned later). An Indian guide rode to the Tshimakain mission with the news. Those at the trading post at Fort Colville urged the Walkers and the Eells to remove themselves and go to the fort for protection.

Leaving Tshimakain

Though the Spokane Indians had always been friendly, the Walkers followed the advice from Fort Colville and left Eastern Washington for the Willamette Valley in Oregon. There Elkanah bought a 100-acre land claim from a man who planned to set out for the California gold fields.

Elkanah took up farming and preached in the Congregational Church at Forest Grove, Oregon. Here Mary had her seventh and eighth children. The Walkers also adopted a child and took in boarders. The Walkers donated some of their land to help in the establishment of Pacific University at Forest Grove.

In 1871 the Walkers returned to Maine for a visit, this time by train. They attended the graduation of their son, Elkanah, from Bangor Theological Seminary. The new graduate then set off to become a missionary in China. Other descendents of the Walker's were to become missionaries and one became a professor of Biology at the University of Nebraska.

The Walkers moved to Forest Grove, Oregon in October, 1849. On November 21, 1877, Mary Richardson Walker died at Forest Grove.

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Mary married Rev. Joseph Elkanah Walker on 5 Mar 1838 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. Joseph was born on 7 Aug 1805 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 21 Nov 1877 in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon; was buried after 21 Nov 1877 in Mountain View Memorial Gardens, Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: K2QM-ZSY
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 120093884
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

The Portland Daily Press. May 16, 1890:

Daniel Thompson Richardson, who died at his residence at East Baldwin May 12th, was a remarkable man. He combined many qualities which tended to make him, all in all, perhaps, as valuable a citizen to the town of Baldwin as has ever lived there. He graduated at Bowdoin College in the class of 1841, with such distinguished men as Dr. H. T. Cummings, Washington Gilbert, Henry Ingalls, Arno Wiswell, and Ex-Governor Robie. He was an ardent Republican. In 1860 he represented his native town, Baldwin, in the legislature, and in 1865-6 was a member of the State Senate. He was trustee and clerk of the Baldwin parish and ministerial fund for 44 years, town clerk 30 years, a member of the town school committee 40 years, chairman of the selectmen 10 years, and postmaster 36 years. During the war he was assistant United States marshal, and in 1850 and 1870 took the United States census for his town. He was trial justice 35 years, and in trade 38 years, and taught 48 terms of school. He leaves a widow, five sons and three daughters to mourn his loss.

Although not a professional lawyer, his services as trial justice and adviser of his neighbors were, in many instances, of greater value than those of many professionals who have less knowledge of the law and the drafting of legal documents than he had. But it is as a teacher that many will remember him with the greatest fondness; for, in that capacity, he impressed himself upon those under his charge, in a manner which was oftentimes of more value than the mere learning of lessons. A most thorough mathematician, he was also so well versed in Latin and Greek that, up to the time of his death, he preserved not only his love for both, but an accurate knowledge of the same, and could translate readily the most difficult Latin sentence which could be brought to him. The public records kept by him in his various capacities, as also the accounts which he, from time to time, rendered in the Probate Court, are models of correctness. Although during his long experience he drew many legal documents, and some of a complicated nature, none were ever overthrown by any court. Living a life of usefulness for more than 50 years in one and the same neighborhood, he has left behind him nothing but pleasant memories. Thousands of school children will look back upon his earnest teachings and kindly solicitude with a thankfulness which years cannot dim.

Contributor: lazacann (48441824)

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

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Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Daniel married Eliza Ann Sawyer on 8 Aug 1843 in Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine. Eliza was born on 17 Jul 1820 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 16 Jan 1897 in Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 16 Jan 1897 in Dyer Cemetery, Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 75199196
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
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• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Charlotte married Joseph Emerson Smith on 17 Dec 1851 in Pembroke, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Joseph was born on 14 Dec 1804 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died on 18 Mar 1892 in Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; was buried after 18 Mar 1892 in Congregational Church Cemetery, Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: K2QZ-Z6H
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 154588715
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Children of John & Phebe Merrill

Joseph Humphrey Merrill 1848– 1848
John Carpenter Merrill 1850– 1871
Joseph Lane Merrill 1852–
Samuel Hidden Merrill 1854– 1924
Charles Humphrey Merrill 1856– 1861
Jeremiah Evarts Merrill 1858– 1937

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154588715

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Phebe married Rev. John Haskell Merrill on 21 Oct 1847 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. John was born on 23 Feb 1817 in New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine; died on 13 May 1861; was buried after 13 May 1861 in Ordination Rock Cemetery, Tamworth, Carroll County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 9W45-GW9
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 63274712
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft

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FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9W45-GW9

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63274712

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Isaac married Lucia Maria Duncklee on 1 Aug 1849 in Sedgwick, Hancock County, Maine. Lucia (daughter of James Duncklee and Hannah Hall) was born on 27 Jan 1823 in South Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; died on 24 Oct 1853; was buried after 24 Oct 1853 in Reeds Graveyard, Merrimack, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KNWR-HMX
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 122278950
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Groton - DNA Family 019
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Group: Head of Line - Christopher Jackson
• Group: Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
• Obituary: 17 Nov 1918, Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon; Oregon City Enterprise

Notes:

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KNWR-HMX

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122278950

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Hall of Groton, Massachusetts

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

Group:
Descendants of Christopher Jackson of Stepney whose sons Edward and John were immigrants to Boston

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

Obituary:
FIRST CHILD BORN IN STATE OF OREGON IS INFLUENZa VICTIM

YAKIMA, Was., Nov. 12 -- This week the influenza claimed as one of its victims Abigail Karr, almost 79 years of age. She is said to be the first white woman born in the present states of Oregon and Washington. She was the daughter of Elkannah Walker, who came to the Northwest in the second missionary train, arriving at Walla Walla in 1838. She was born May 24, 1840, and at the age of 7 passed throgh the Whitman massacre. Professor Thomas Gatch, for many years president of the University of Washington, and one of the pioneer educators of the Northwest, was one of her teachers. She later took to teaching and while instructing the youth of Hoquiam met and was married to James A. Karr.Mrs. Karr was the mother of 12 children, none of whom survive her.

Family/Spouse: James Anderson Karr. James was born on 20 Oct 1834; died on 7 Nov 1914 in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington; was buried after 7 Nov 1914 in Sunset Memorial Park, Hoquiam, Grays Harbor County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]