John Hall, of Hartford & Middletown

Biographical Summary:

John Hall, born in the Co. of Kent, 1584; freeman, Boston, 1635; went with John Oldham to view the lands in Connecticut, in 1633;1 Hartford, 1639, was a proprietor "by courtesie of the town;" his home-lot was on the brow of " the Hill," about where the Catlin place now is; this lot he sold to William Spencer; removed to Middletown, where his land is recorded, June 10, 1654; collector of customs there, 1659; married (1) Esther, who probably died before he left England; … he died May 26, 1673, "in the 89th year of his age, and the 40th of his being in New England."

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 242. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books This may be John Hall the Younger (mixed up with other John Halls)

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John Hall Sr. was born abt 1584 in England and died on 26 May 1673, Middletown, Middlesex, CT. His origins are unknown.

Came to New England in the 1630s and settled at Cambridge, MA, then moved to Roxbury, later to Hartford, CT about 1640, the same time as his future son-in-law Thomas and his family. He may have been a carpenter by trade, and in 1643 contracted with William Bloomfield for the erection of a building in town. In 1650, he moved to Middletown, an original settler.

John and all four of his children are listed among the original settlers of Middletown. The Middletown site puts his migration at Boston in 1635, Hartford in 1636 and Middletown in 1654.

Family

John Hall married bef 1622 in England to Esther (unknown). She was born abt 1590 and died in England Sometime before the family emigrated to New England.

Children of Esther and John Hall born at England:

1. M John Hall Sr. Birth 1619, [Kent] England 390 Death 22 Jan 1693/4, Middletown, Middlesex, CT. Married 1) Ann Wilcox est 1645 (1 child) 2) Mary Curtice, widow of Thomas Hubbard, on 1 Oct 1674 (no children).
2. M Richard Hall Birth 1620 Death Mar 1691, Middletown, Middlesex, CT. Married Mary [not Anthony] abt 1646, Hartford, Hartford, CT. (7 children)
3. F Sarah HALL Birth 9 Aug 1622, Kent, England (357) (?) Death 7 Dec 1664, Middletown, Middlesex, CT. Married Deacon Thomas WETMORE Marriage 11 Dec 1645, Hartford, Hartford, CT. (13 children)
4. M Samuel Hall Birth abt 1626 Death 14 Mar 1690, of Middletown, Middlesex, CT. Married Elizabeth Cook(e). (3 children)

Disambiguation

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Hall_%2876%29

” His widow, Ann, d. July 20, 1673, aged ab. 57. [NO] [This man's son John married, as his first wife, Ann, daughter of John Wilcox. There is no evidence that this John Hall had a second wife.] [1]

"Ann Wilcox has often been assigned to John1 Hall, Sr., as a second wife, in former accounts. L. Effingham de Forest in Moore and Allied Families (1938), 289, gives reasons for rejecting this view, though he leaves the question open. The will of John1 Hall names no wife, though he survived Ann; she was called wife (not widow) of John (not described as senior) in the record of her death. She was more suitable in age for John,2 and presumably John2 was married before his marriage to a widow when he was about 55 years old."[5]

http://www.middletown1650.org/SettlersOfMattabeseckforWeb.pdf, page 2 has father and 3 sons although it states he left 4 children alive in 1673.

Will

Hall, John, sen., Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06) 1:205. "Probate Records. Vol. III, 1663 to 1677. Page 121-2.

Hall, John, sen., Middletown. Died 26 May, 1673. Invt. £54-13-07. Taken in June by Robert Warner, Samuel Collins. Will dated 3rd month, 1673:

• I John Hall sen. of Middletown, Carpenter, aged about 89 years, do leave what followeth as my last Will & Testament;
• I give unto my son Richard Hall £10, and I give to his Children a Noble apeice.
• I give to my son John Hall my Cow and Heifer, to be delivered to him after my decease.
• I give to the Children of my daughter Wetmore, Decd, 20 Shillings to each; to the Children of my daughter Sarah, Decd, 25 Shillings apeice.
• I give to my son [in law] Thomas Wetmore 5 Shillings.
• I give 10 Shillings towards the Encouragement of a Reading and Writeing school south side of the Rivulet.
• I bequeath the Remainder of my Estate to my son Samuel Hall, he to pay all my Just Debts.
• I request Deacon Stocking and my son John Hall to be helpfull to him as Overseers to see to the Execution of the Premises.
• JOHN X HALL SEN. LS.
• Witness: Nathaniel Collins, William Cheeny.
• Court Record, Page 137—5 March, 1673-4: Will proven

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Birth1584 Bury, Huntingdonshire, England, United Kingdom Marriage to Esther Ann Willocke1619 — Age: 35 Kent, England Death1673 26 May — Age: 89 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

References

• ”Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants” John Hall, Sr. (1650) Name: John Hall, Sr. in-depth profile PDF
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~amorrow/fg08/fg08_320.html
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctsmfsd/HallJohnJrInDepth.pdf
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Hall_%2876%29_ cites
  • 211. Middletown, CT Vital Records. Barbour Collection, CT State Library, 1923 (NEHGS)
  • 390. Stadel, Katherine Wetmore, Wetmore History, Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1970.
  • Hall, David Brainerd. The Halls of New England: Genealogical And Biographical. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, 1883. page 1-3
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24140693/john-hall This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial.
  • John Hall, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015) 147. "Hall, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1640; [Resided] Hartford, Middletown [HaBOP 42, 286, 293, 373; Manwaring 1:205; Moore Anc 285-91]."