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• Group: Halls of Dover - DNA Family 028
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• FamilySearch ID: 9H11-5DG

Notes:

From Halls of New England, pp. 152ff

HALLS OF DOVER, N.H.
[Compiled mostly from newspaper articles furnished by Rev. Dr. Quint]

The emigrant ancestor was

(Family 1.) JOHN HALL¹: b. in England, 1617. Tradition says he was brother to Ralph Hall, of Exeter, and that another brother lived near Boston. John Hall and his wife, Elizabeth, appear first on the church records of Charlestown, Mass., at the baptism of their son John in 1645, and he and his family have been mistaken for that John Hall and his family who removed from Charlestown to Barnstable in 1640.

This John Hall removed from Charlestown to Dover, N. H., in 1648 or 9, as his name appears on the tax list of Dover, dated March 18, 1648-9, and his name continued until 1677, after which the lists were destroyed. His name appears on the records often as buying or receiving grants of land.

In 1677 Deacon Hall received a lot of 20 acres on the west side of Back river, the same which was laid out to George Webb in 1642, as his success, John Hall, was the earliest deacon of the the first church of Dover, as early as 1655. He was a deacon, perhaps, in the days of good Parson Maud. Certainly through the ministries of Reyner and into that of Parson Pike.

He was a lot layer as early as 1657 and as late as 1674. He was occasionally "commissioner to end small causes," and was selectman in 1660. He was grand juror in 1663, 6, and 8. He was one of a committee of three to call selectmen to account, 1657 and 1666. In 1658,9 he was one of three to lay oout the town bounds between Lamprey and Newichawannock Rivers, and to run the northern boundary. In 1663 he and Lieut. Ralph Hall were to Lay out a highway from Lamprey River to the water side.

He was for a series of years "clerk of ye writs" for the court. His signatures as such is found in 1663, 68, 69, and 71. He was chosen town clerk 1670. His signature appears as such in 1675 and 1679. He had the town records in custody in 1665, 6.

The date of his birth or death is not given. A deposition makes him born about 1617. In Feb. 1, 1685, 6 being in perfect health but aged, he gives his son Ralph half of his house and lad, &c., the half also to go to Ralph after his death. This paper was proved May 4, 1692, and recorded Feb. 1694, 5. It would appear that he died before these dates, this is before May 4, 1692, or at least before Feb. 16, 1694,5.

John Hall lived on Dover Neck in 1652, next to the meeting house lot on the south-westerly side. This lot appears to have reached the river and embraced a large spring, still flowing, called "Hall's spring," and on the higher land near it was found, in 1852, the relics of an ancuent cellar.

He may have been called John Hall, Jr., as there were two others living in the town by the sam name.

Children were:
1. John, bapt., 1645, in Charlestown, Mass. (Family 2).
2. Elizabeth, bapt. 1647, Charlestown; d. in infancy.
3. Elizabeth, bapt. 1648, Charlestown; d. in infancy.
4. Nathaniel, taxed 1680 (Family 3).
5. Ralph (Family 4).
6. Grace, b. May 16, 1663,4; this is all we know of her.

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Hall Immigrant Ancestors who are designated as the Head of a Family Line in New England

Group:
Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

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John married Elizabeth [--?--] before 1645. Elizabeth died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Proven DNA Family 028
• FamilySearch ID: MVLD-2YP

Notes:

From Halls of New England, pp. 153-154

(Family 2.) John Hall², John¹ : b. Charlestown, 1645.

Received bounty money with his father and thirteen others for killing a wolf in 1663. John Hall, Jr., was a witness, Feb. 8, 1664,5, to a deed from Thomas Beard to Parson John Reyner. In 1675 he bought land of the town committee. He was on the tax list of the Province in 1680. He lived on Dover Neck, Dec. 6, 1693; he gave bonds as tavern keeper; his sureties being Job Clements and Kingsley Hall. He probably had land from his father, and received several other grants of land from the town, and from his wife's father.

John Hall was Representative of Dover in the New Hampshire Legislature, and was sworn in Nov. 1, 1694, May 15, 1695, and Sept. 16, 1696. He died while a member.

Parson Pike's Journal says, April 28, 1697, "John Hall, Sen., was drowned coming up the river in a little float, near Green-point." His estate was returned by Ralph Hall and John Tuttle at £104 18s, 0d, Feb. 1, 1700. His sons Thomas and Joseph were appointed administrators Dec. 3, 1700; their mother, Abigail Downs, having declined the trust. The administrators, with their mother Abigail, conveyed to Samuel Emerson, Dec. 18, 1700, for £25, the thrity acres granted their father by the town in 1693,4, west of Back river.

John Hall married, Nov. 8, 1671, Abigail, dau. of John and Abigail (Nutter) Roberts. John Roberts was son of the emigrant Thomas Roberts, and Abigail was daughter of Elder Hatevil Nutter.

John Hall's widow m.. Oct. 24, 1698, Thomas Downs, of Cocheco, who was kiled by Indians in 1711.

Children of John and Abigail Hall were:

1. John, b. June 37, 1673 (Family 5).

2. Thomas, b. June 19, 1675 (Family 6).

3. Joseph, b. Feb. 24, 1679,80.

4. Hatevil, (Family 7).

5. Sarah, she conveyed land Jan 9, 1718,19, (which had been conveyed to her father in 1693,4) to Richard Rook, or Rookes, of Dover, for £100; she m. Richard Goodwin and had children baptised in Dover as follows:
  i.    Elizabeth, bapt. Oct. 15, 1721;
  ii.   Richard, bapt. April 19, 1724;
  iii.  Hannah, bapt. Aug. 7, 1726.

6  Mary, m. --- Sanders of the island of Nantucket.

It is barely possible that the above named Mary and Sarah were daughters of John Hall³, the tavern keeper, They both made quit claim to land in Dover in 1730.

Birth:
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Charlestown - Archives Births

21 (7) 1645 John Haule son of John & lisabeth Haule 

  4 (7) 1647 Elisabeth Halll dau of John Hall 

21 (9) 1648 Elisabeth Hall dau of John Hal

Note: January is month 11 and December is month 10

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John married Abigail Roberts on 8 Nov 1671 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Abigail (daughter of John Roberts and Abigail Nutter) was born about 1651 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died after Nov 1700 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

from Halls of New England, p. 154

(Family 3.) NATHANIEL HALL², John¹ : his name appears on the Province tax lists of 1680 and 81, also on a list of petitioners for military defense, Feb. 20, 1589,90. He had a grant of ten acres at the head of his 20 acre lot west of Back river, and it would seem that the deacon's Back river property went to him. Nathaniel and his wife, Hannah, of Dover, conveyed, Nov. 16, 1696, for £36, to Nathaniel Meader, of Oyster Bay, 30 acres of land "granted my deceased father, Deacon John Hall," and ten acres on Back river. This is all we know of Nathaniel Hall.

Group:
Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

Nathaniel married Hannah Swett in 1696. Hannah (daughter of Benjamin Swett and Hester "Ester" Weare) was born on 16 Mar 1663/64 in Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LH1Z-N6S

Notes:

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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Ralph married Sarah Philbrick before 1685. Sarah died before 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Mary Chesley on 26 May 1701 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Mary (daughter of Philip Chesley and Elizabeth Leighton) was born about 1642 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire; died in 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: G3TR-SZZ

Notes:

Halls of New England, p. 155

(Family 5.)  JOHN HALL³, John², John¹ : b. June 27, 1673; residence Dover, in the part called Oyster river; m. Elizabeth.

John Hall, "eldest son and heir" of John Hall, deceased, with Elizabeth his wife and his mother Abigail, conveyed, Aug. 3, 1698, to John Tuttle ten acres of land (then in possession of said Tuttle), formerly belonging to grandfather, Deacon Hall, being west of the road to Cochecho, the purchase of June 8, 1675.

Dec. 10, 1700, his younger brothers Thomas and Joseph were appointed to administer on their father's estate, and no allusion to him is made; nor in any subsequent transaction on record. Probably he was dead at this time.

It is possible that Sarah Hall who married a Meader, and Mary Hall who married a Sanders, mentioned in account of his father, were his children.

"Widow Elizabeth Hall, of Dover," married Sept. 7, 1705, Benjamin Pierce from Watertown, Mass., and had : i. Benjamin Pierce, b. 1707; ii. Joseph Pierce, b. 1709. She d. and Benjamin Pierce m. 2d, 1714, Hannah Ash and had seven more children, all on the Dover records.

One child of John and Elizabeth Hall is recorded viz. : Sarah, b. July 25, 1696.

The was a John Hall (whose pedigree we cannot trace) who had a wife Sarah and lived at Oyster river about this time, and had : John , b. Dec 17, 1720. And a Sarah was bapt. March 6, 1720.

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John married Elizabeth [--?--] before 1696. Elizabeth died before 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LBH5-3LZ
• Alt. Birth: 24 Apr 1680, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

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Abigail married Bachelor Hussey on 11 Oct 1704 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. Bachelor was born on 18 Feb 1684/85 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; died in 1761 in Biddeford, York County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: M9F4-2MJ

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Sarah married Richard Goodwin before 1721. Richard died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: M1KP-ZW3
• Residence: Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire

Notes:

Halls of New England. Halls of Dover, p. 156.

(Family 8.) HATEVIL HALL³, John², John¹ : residence Dover, lived on the west side of Back river; m., March 14, 1706, 7, Mercy Cromwell. The tradition among his descendants is that he was drowned in early manhood and left but one son.

1. Hatevil (Family 17).

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Hatevil married Mercy Cromwell on 14 Mar 1706/07 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. Mercy (daughter of Philip Cromwell and Elizabeth Leighton) was born about 1672 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire; died in 1733 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Halls of Dover - DNA Family 028
• FamilySearch ID: G3TR-442

Notes:

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Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

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Family/Spouse: Mister Sanders, of Nantucket. Mister died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Halls of Dover - DNA Family 028
• FamilySearch ID: LR4S-SP4

Notes:

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John married Hester "Esther" Chesley on 9 Aug 1705. Hester was born in 1682 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire; died about 1737 in Somersworth, Strafford County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 2Z3Q-JTT

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https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2Z3Q-JTT

Ralph married Elizabeth Wiley in 1725 in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Wiley and Frances Hussey) died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 2HSD-867

Notes:

Birth:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL52-7YX

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Joseph married Peniel Bean on 19 Dec 1731 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Peniel was born about 1718 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died on 22 Dec 1785 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHNY-8XY

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Jedidah married Benjamin Coffin on 5 Feb 1726/27 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer) was born on 3 Apr 1705 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; died on 3 Nov 1780 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Group: Halls of Dover - DNA Family 028
• Group: Proven DNA Family 028
• FamilySearch ID: LZ2Y-73B
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 209607630
• Removed to: Abt 1753, Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine

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Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

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Hatevil married Sarah Furbish, of Kittery on 13 Apr 1733 in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine. Sarah (daughter of Daniel Furbish and Dorothy Pray) was born on 15 Feb 1706/07 in Kittery, York County, Maine; died on 2 Mar 1790 in Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine; was buried after 2 Mar 1790 in Friend's Cemetery, Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L2VN-DJR

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Samuel married Lydia Blackstone about 1726 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Lydia was born in 1716 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire; died about 1790 in Newcastle, Lincoln County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L2Q5-HJ2

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James married Susannah Blackstone in 1743 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Susannah was born in 1717 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire; died on 31 Dec 1801 in Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KZH8-ZRF

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Descendants of John & Elizabeth Hall of Dover, New Hampshire

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Joseph married Mary Foss on 4 Apr 1764 in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire. Mary (daughter of Wallis Foss and Mary Dowrst) died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]