Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: MFVC-L6B
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Will: 1 Aug 1740, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Notes:

This named person, Preserved Hall, may have been the Preserved Hall who, with his wife Lydia in 1709 gave a certificate of good character to a woman accused of being a witch.   (See New England Historical Society Reg., Vol. 5, p.263).

Preserved was a Cooper and a Constable in 1702.

Birth:
1663    HALL     Preserved, March 20, 1663    1    5    Birth

The book, "HALLS OF NEW ENGLAND" shows March 20 or 30, 1663 as Preserved's date of birth.
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Ancestry.com. Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vital Records, 1642-1896

Name:      Preserved Hall
Birth Date:      20 Mar 1663
Birth Place:      Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA
Relative:      chi:Edward Hall
Source:      Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896. Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths, with Supplement containing the Record of 1896, Colonial Returns, Lists of the Early Settlers, Purchasers, Freemen, Inhabitants, the Soldiers serving in Philip's War and the Revolution.
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Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name:      Preserved Hall
Event Type:      Birth
Birth Date:      20 Mar 1663
Birth Place:      Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Vol. 1, p. 5   HALL, Preserved[, of Edward]  March 20, 1663

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MFVC-L6B

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

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

Will:
In his will dated at Hingham, 1 Aug 1740, and presented the 14th day of the same month, he give to Hannah "the improvement of 1/2 of my estate while she remains a widow. "
 
"To the children of my first wife, namely John, Israel, Elisha and Abraham Leavitt, and to the heirs of Sarah Woods deceased, Lydia Sprague, Hannah Hobart, and Mary Lane, all my household goods to be divided equally among them, except four silver spoons which I give to the daughters, heirs of Sarah Woods and Lydia, Hannah and Mary, now living. " 

"To the church of the First Parish in Hingham, 30 pounds to be laid out in the Plate for the Lord's table in such a vessel or vessels as they think proper." 

"To Abigail Hall (neice and wife of John Hall his nephew), 10 pounds and to Dorothy Gay, 10 pounds (of Newton, MA, niece and daughter of Andrew Hall)." 

"To my kinsman John Hall, son of my brother John Hall, all the remainder of my estate real and pesonal, no before disposed of." 

Appoints "kinsman John Hall executor of this my last will and testament." 

Witnesses, Ezekiel Hersey, Peter Ripley, Jr., Benjamin Lincoln. 

Inventory 1569 pounds, 13 shillings.  Appraised 2 Sep 1740 by Josiah Loring, Isaac Lane, and Peter Ripley, Jr.

Died:
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name:      Preserved Hall
Event Type:      Death
Birth Date:      abt 1663
Death Date:      5 Aug 1740
Death Place:      Hingham, Massachusetts
Death Age:      77

Preserved married Lydia Jackson on 25 Jan 1698/99 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. Lydia (daughter of Abraham Jackson and Remember Morton) was born on 19 Nov 1658 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 19 Dec 1729 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Preserved married Hannah Damon on 3 Dec 1730 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of John Damon and Martha Howland) was born on 2 Dec 1672 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; died on 5 Aug 1741 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]