Mary Hale

Mary - b. about 1624, England. Married by 1643 Samuel HALE (bap. Jul. 15, 1615, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England; d. Jan. 13, 1710/1, Stratford, CT), son of John and Martha HALE . Children: Martha died young; Samuel married first Ruth EDWARDS, and second Mary WELLES; John married Hannah NOTT; Mary married first Caleb BENJAMIN, and second Walter HARRIS; Rebecca married Nathaniel NUNN; Thomas married Naomi KILBOURN; Ebenezer married first Mary, and second Mary (LOVELAND) DICKINSON; and Dorothy married Jonathan HILLS.

Mary is reported to be the daughter of Henry Smith's first wife, who died in England, before he married Dorothy Cotton, and brought all the children to both mothers' to America because of the persecution under Charles II, in England.

http://kinnexions.com/ancestries/smithh.htm#HSmith

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MARY SMITH, b. October 09, 1629, Hadley, Suffolk, England; d. December 16, 1668, Hadley, Hampshire, MA. http://home.earthlink.net/~herblst/smithgen.htm

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Mary, daughter of Rev. Henry Smith and his wife Dorothy (_______) Smith was born about 1624-5. She married about 1642 Samuel Hale of Wethersfield.[1]

"Mary is placed as a daughter of Rev. Henry Smith because Samuel Hale and Rebecca Bowman in 1680 made a deposition pertaining to the lands originally granted to Rev. Henry Smith; Hale had acquired Smith's home lot; and Francis Hall (second husband of Dorothy2 Smith) in a letter mentions my sister Bowman and my brother Hale. Mary named daughters Rebecca and Dorothy for her sisters and mother. On 28 March 1664, Rebecca wife of Lieut. Samuel Smith of New London, sold land in the absence of her husband and the deed was witnessed I Gershom Bulkeley [the New London minister], Obadiah Bruen [the local magistrate] and Samuel Hale. [New London town records 1647 to 66 pp. 105-6]."[2]

Born say 1624. m. before 1643 Samuel Hale. Samuel remarried and outlived his second wife also and died 9 Nov 1693.[2]

Said by some to be the daughter of the Rev. Henry Smith, b. 1588 near Norwich, England. This Henry Smith did some land transactions with the Hale family, but Mary is not included in the list of the eight children of Henry Smith listed in the History of Wethersfield, Vol. II. , p. 628-629. The source lists other accounts of Henry Smith's origins. According to New England Families, Vol. IV, Rev. Smith was married to Dorthey, sister of the Rev. John Cotton. This also gives eight children, but does not name two of the daughters.

Savage has long discussion of two Henry Smith's but is unsure what to conclude.

The daughter of Rev. Henry Smith (1599-1648), she married Samuel Hale in 1642 or 1643 in Wethersfield, Conn. Her birth and death dates have never been verified, but it is assumed that Mary died between 1668 when their daughter Dorothy was born and 1675 as Samuel married Phebe Dickinson after 1675. It is Phebe who was listed as widow Hale died on 19 Jan 1711/12 in the Barbour Records. That is also confirmed on page 7 of Hale, House and related families, by Donald Lines Jacobus. Samuel's marriage to Phebe can be confirmed on page 637 of NE Marriages, Prior to 1700.

Mary's death was not recorded in the Wethersfield records, where she lived. Samuel remarried after her death. He died 9 Nov 1693. Note - 20 Jul 1680 from a merged profile has no known source, although Samuel Hale's wife's husband, John Rose, died before June 1683.

Children
Martha, d/o Samuel and Mary was b. 2 Oct 1643, Wethersfield;[3][4] d. young[4]
Samuel b. 7 Feb 1644/5, Wethersfield;[3][4] d. 18 Nov 1711.[4]
John b. 21 Feb 1646/7, Wethersfield;[3][4] d. 19 July 1709.[4]
Mary, b. 29 Apr 1649, Wethersfield;[3][4] d. probably by 1700.[4]
Rebecca b. 29 Oct 1651, Wethersfield[3][4]
Thomas b. abt 1654; d. 23 Dec 1723.[4]
Bennezer b. 29 July 1661, Wethersfield;[3][4] d. after 4 Feb 1743/4[4]
Dorothy b. abt 1667; d. East Hartford 23 Jun 1733; m. Lt. Jonathan Hills.[4]
Sources
↑ Brainard, Homer W."The Reverend Henry Smith of Wethersfield." The American Genealogist 10:12. (1933/34) citing Wethersfield Records Vol 1, p. 171 American Ancestors ($)
↑ 2.0 2.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. footnote p 733
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978. pp 3-8
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) American History and Genealogy Project, Vol. II, Vol. IV, Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994. Savage Cross Index
Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry.com
Jacobus, Donald. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952) Page 3
Stiles, Henry. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut (Grafton Press, New York, 1904) Vol. I. Histories. Vol. II. , p. 628-629
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Mary SMITH was born on 9 Oct 1629 in Hadley, Suffolk, England. She died on 16 Dec 1668 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Parents: Reverand Henry SMITH and UNKNOWN.

References

• http://www.familyorigins.com/users/b/l/o/Peter-E-Blood/FAMO5-0001/d...
• Ancestry.com. Hale, House and Related Families [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. “ Rev. Henry Smith, Wethersfield, Connecticut.” Page 732. Archive.Org
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Smith_%28857%29

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The daughter of REV. HENRY SMITH, she married Samuel Hale in 1642 or 1643 in Wethersfield, Conn. Her birth and death dates have never been verified, but it is assumed that Mary died between 1668 when their daughter Dorothy was born and 1675 as Samuel married Phebe Dickinson after 1675. It is Phebe who was listed as widow Hale died on 19 Jan 1711/12 in the Barbour Records. That is also confirmed on page 7 of Hale, House and related families, by Donald Lines Jacobus. Samuel's marriage to Phebe can be confirmed on page 637 of NE Marriages, Prior to 1700.

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