i. Thomas
(1) HALE was born about 24 Jun 1616 in Walton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, Eng.
He died before 19 Feb 1678/79 in Norwalk CT. See note under brother Samuel
Hale (Sr) for some details.
"HALE, HEALD ..... THOMAS. Bapt. Walton-at-Stone, co. Herts, Eng., 24 June 1610. Roxbury (Mass.) 1634, Hartford 1635, Norwalk 1651, Charlestown 1666, Norwalk 1674. d. Norwalk by 19 Feb 1678/9. Freeman. Brother of Samuel. Hale-House 1952; *English origin of Samuel, Thomas, and Martha Hale* (pamph.) 1967; tag 38:237 (clue); *Descendants of Thomas Hale* 1889, (reprint 1983)."
--- Meredith B Colket, *Founders of Early American Families*, Cleveland OH 1985, p 140. Colket has another THOMAS, bapt. same place as first THOMAS but on 15 June 1606; came over 1637 to Newbury MA. Cites *Thomas Hale of Newbury* 1889; *Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton* 1947, and some articles.
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Samuel (1) HALE Captain.
iii.
Samuel (1) + HALE. "Samuel Haill or Hale, the founder of this family,
was born in England in 1610, died in Glastonbury, Connecticut, November 9, 1693.
He was in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1637. He served in the Pequot war and
received a grant of sixty acres of land for his military services. In 1639 he
was in Hartford, and in 1642 he was again in Wethersfield, where he was selectman
in 1647. He was one of the first proprietors of Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1654,
and was deputy from that town to the general court from 1656 to 1659. In 1660
he returned to Wethersfield and leased the estate of Governor Welles on the east
side of the Connecticut river. He married Mary -----, who died January 19, 1711-12.
Children: 1. Martha, born October 2, 1643. 2. Samuel, referred to below [i.e.
Samuel (JR)]. 3. John, born Frbraury 21, 1646-47, died July 9, 1709; married,
May 8, 1668, Hannah Nott. 4. Mary, born April 29, 1649; married Caleb Benjamin.
5. Rebecca, born October 29, 1651. 6. Thomas, born in 1653, died December 23,
1723; married, October 30, 1679, Naomi Kilbourn. 7. Ebenezer, born July 29,
1661. 8. Dorothy."
--- William Richard Cutter, *New England Families*, NY 1913, p 593
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Appendix 2: Name of the Town of Glastenbury, Conn.
Excerpt from Rev. Alonzo B. Chapin, D.D., Glastenbury for Two Hundred Years, A Centennial Discourse, May 18th, A.D. 1853. With an Appendix containing Historical and Statistical Papers of Interest; Hartford, CT (Case, Tiffany & Co.) 1853; p. 55-57:
"Name of the Town.
One evidence of the design and intention of those who first gave form and shape to things in Glastonbury, as a Town distinct by itself, is furnished by the name selected by the inhabitants for the new Town, and approved by the General Court in 1692. This name, in connection with the very strong and decided measures adopted in favor of public worship, and public education, immediately after the incorporation of the town, warrants the belief, that the design and the hope were entertained, of making Glastenbury in Connecticut, in comparison with other towns about it, what Glastonbury in England had been for many ages to the parts of England about that. The celebrity of Glastonbury in England, both in religion and learning, begins with its conversion to Christianity, which took place at a very early period, probably within the first century. [Footnote: On the first preaching of Chris. in Eng., see Chapin's Prim. Church, [2d ed.], pp. 370-380.] The English historians of the middle ages agree in supposing that the first building in the world, erected expressly for a Christian Church, was erected in Glastonbury. Whether this be true or not, in regard to the world, there can be little doubt that the first Christian Church in England, was erected in that place. The building is said to have been sixty feet long, and twenty-six feet wide, and to have been composed of rods woven or wattled together. [Footnote: Fuller's Ch. H. in loco.] The present name is Anglo-Saxon; derived from Glaes, glass, whence come glasting and glistening, and from byrig, a town. The name therefore, properly signifies, Glistening- town, thereby seeming to denote its preeminence above the places in its vicinity. The previous British name was Ynys-wydryn, which may signify either Island of glass, or Green Island; and also Ynys-afallon, Apple Island; the last of which has been Latinized into Avalonia, [Footnote: Richards' Geiriadur Saesoneg. A Chymrag. Comp. Bos. Ang. Sax. Lex. in vocem; Life of St. Patrick, 91, 92. The British name Latinized, was Avallonia. Parsons' Three Cove. n. 25.] as Glastonbury has been Latinized into Glastonia. Some of the same historians have preserved a tradition, that Joseph of Arimathea with his son and ten other companions preached the faith of Christ in Britain, A. D. 63, and William of Malmesbury, who wrote The Antiquities of Glastonbury, about A. D. 1140, says that the Church was built by Joseph and his associates. [Footnote: Capgrave, Joceline, and Patrick, in Mason's Vindic. 54-56.] The Church having fallen into something of decay in the eighth century, it was rebuilt by Ina, king of the West Saxons, about A. D. 730, with great splendor, richly endowed, made a monastery, and for several centuries was among the first of the seats of learning in England, and even in Europe. It was again rebuilt by Henry II., about A. D. 1170, [Footnote: Rog. Wend. I. 216. Malms. Ant. Glas. in Turner's Hist. Anglo-Sax. I. 263, 264. Ling. Hist. Eng. I. 134, 135.] and retained its celebrity for a long time, numbering among its pupils, many of the first men of England. [Footnote: Mason's Vindic. 55.] This was the Town after which our own was named, and which our ancestors desired, and designed, in the most important points to emulate; the proff of which will appear, as we consider the history of the Church and the School. We may also add that the presumption is very strong that several of the leading men at the settlement of the Town, came from Glastonbury in England. The Welles's were no doubt originally from the city of Wells, in the County of Somersetshire, if they did not come directly from that place to this country; while Glastonbury was an adjoining town."
General History of this Period.
One of the first acts of this Town, was, to hold out inducements to persuade active and industrious people to settle here, by giving to individuals a small farm out of the common land, on condition that they improved the same within a given number of years. Decided measures were also taken to prevent the unnecessary or wanton destruction of valuable timber, especially such as would be needed for the comfort or convenience of the inhabitants. As early as 1700, no person was allowed to cut any "Candlewood," (Pine) for tar or turpentine, under penalty of 20s. a load, and forfeit of the wood.
At the same time, a mile in width, running through the Town from north to south, and joining the three mile lots on the west, was set out as a public common forever. Saw milles were also erected in various parts of the Town, at its suggestion, or by its direction, lands being given for ponds and for procuring timber. One of these, authorized by vote of the Town, Dec. 25th, 1712, still exists at Wassuc. Swine were restrained or permitted to go at large according to the circumstances of the times, but especially in reference to the abundance of "mast." Bounties were offered for the destruction of rattlesnakes; committees appointed to warn off intruders upon the common lands, to throw down the bounds and demolish the fences of squatters; the Town paying all bills of expense ariswing therefrom. Pains was [sic] also taken to imrove the breed of cattle, by authorizing the selectmen to procure good bulls for the use of the Town. In 1732, the number was "seven, three for the Town platt, two at Nayaug, and two at Eastbury."
Growth of the Town.
The increase of the population seems to have been more rapid at this period, than could have been expected. In 1693, we have seen there were thirty-four householders, and it will appear from documents given below, that in 1714, there were sixty-four resident tax payers, and probably householders. In 1723, the number had increased to one hundred and eighteen. As late as 1757, the number was one hundred and ninety-nine. This increase of population was so rapid, that the meeting-house which had been built in 1693, was found too small to accommodate the people as early as 1706, and it was accordingly voted to enlarge the same "by galleries or leantoos, as the committee should judge most expedient." What order was first observed in regard to seats in the meeting- house, does not appear; but in 1712, a committee was appointed "to seat the meeting0- house," and a vote passed that persons not sitting in the seats assigned by the committee, should pay "a fine of five shills a year." The committee finding the subject attended with very great difficulty, declined going through with the work; in consequence of which it is said there had been "great disorders on Sabbath days, and other days of Public Worship," whereupon a new committe was appointed, and persons refusing to sit in the seats assigned them were fined "fifteen shillings a month." What kind of seats were employed in the meeting-house is no where mentioned, but that they were not pews, is evident from a vote passed Dec., 1717, permitting Thomas Kimberly, and Richard Goodrich "to build each of them a pue in the meeting-house." But while the Town was strict to enforce order, it was not unmindful of the poor and afflicted, as may be inferred from the fact, (among other things,) that in 1701, it was voted to remit "the Town and minister tax, of John Hale, because of his lameness." Within this period, Samuel Emmons "beat the drum on the Sabbath," Thomas Hall was the "Cordwainer," and Thomas Hollister "the weaver." In 1714, Thomas Hale was "appointed to keep a public house of entertainment to travelers and others, for the year ensuing, and until this Town, by their vote, turn him out of that trust." "
iv.
Samuel (1) ++ HALE. Appendix 6, Samuel Hale's Will
Taken from Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Hartford, CT (Connecticut Historical Society) 1952, p. 5-7, 14-18.
The will of Samuel Hale, Sr.:
Glassonbury December the twenty sixt one thousand sixe hundred and ninetie two---
I Samll Hale senir being of perfect understanding and memorie and perceiving in myself the symptoms of mortality and knowing that all flesh must yield to death when God shall call and being minded to sett things in order, doe make and declare this my last will and testamt in maner and form following, hereby revoking and annulling all former and other will and wills testament and testaments heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writing and this to be taken onely for my last will and testamt and no other: And first and principally I commend my soul into the hands of almight god, in christ Jesus my merciful creator and redeemer, my body to the earth from whence it was taken, to be buried in such decent and christian like manner as to my executrs hereafter by me named shall seem meet and convenient---And for the setling of my temporall estate and such goods and Chattells as god of his meer bounty farre above my desert hath given to me, I doe give and dispose of the same in manner and forme following. And first my will is that all my debts whatsoever that I owe either in lawe or conscience to any prson or persons whatsoever be well and truely paid or ordained to be paid within convenient time after my decease, my debts and funerall expenses being discharged. As I have formerly given to my beloved sons Samuel, John, Thomas, and Benezer considerable portions in lands I doe now give and bequeath to my beloved son Samuel my Muskett and my two horsbrands. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son John a pair of shoes the best pair of my wearing shoes that I shall leave at my decease. Item I give and bequeath to my son Benezer all my right and title to threscore acrs of land granted to me by the Generall Court for my service in the pequot warre: my said right and title to stand as good and firm to him to all Intents and purposes and to his heirs for ever as it should or might have done to me and to my heirs for ever. I doe also give and bequeath to my said Beloved son Benezer my great bible and all the rest of my books except one of Mr Dikes his works formerly given to my daughter in law Naomi. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son Thomas all my Cask and barls whatsoever that have been used to hold Corn. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Daughters Marie Rebeccah and Dorothie to each of them one of my greatest peauter platters. And to my said daughter Rebeccah I also give my three pint peauter pot. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Grandchildren John Hale and Thomas Hale the sons of my son John Hale, all my Interest in that tract of land lying on the east side of the said town of Glassenbury and being sixemiles in length and five in breadth, to have and to hold all my right and Interest in the said tract of land to them and their heirs for ever: And my will is that if either of my said grandchildren shall happen to dye before me, or under age: that then all my right and Interest in the said tract of land shall be to the serviver and his heirs for ever. Item I give and bequeath to my said grandchild Thomas Hale my great chest and all my wearing Clothes, a sword, a great square glasse a pint glasse and a half pint glasse also all my axes hoes beetle rings and wedges also a horse or mare my sadle and handsaw and powder flask: and a hive of bees. Item I give and bequeath to my grandchild Abigail Beniamin all my bedsteds beds and bedding and all the linnen that I shall leave at my decease. Also 1 cowe and 1 mare and my great brass Kettle, my firepan tongs trammel frying pan and warming pan. Also one peauter platter and bason with my name on them, and a small bason, an Iron pot a quart skillet and a pint skillet, her grandmothers chest and all her grandmothers linnen and woollen (which I formerly Inhuaged to her that she should have them) Also I give and bequeath to my said grandchild Abigail, my gridiron, chamber pot, two great chairs and a little one and all my wooden bowles platters dishes and spoons, a new poudering tub with the flesh I shall leave in it at my decease also my boxiron and heaters. Also my brass chafing dish, stewpan lid, lamp, and candlestick, two wheels two apir of Kards and Kneeding trough or bowl, my spit and sieve, also my pannel pillion and bridle scaels two pound weight 1 pound weight, half pound weight and 1 hive of bees I give to my said grandchild abigail. Also I give to her my half bushel my bear barrel a small milk keeler and two pails. And I doe appoint and constitute my forementioned beloved sons Samll Hale and Thomas Hale executrs of this my last will and Testament. In Witness thereof I have hereunto sett to my hand the day and year above written---Signed and delivered in the presence of us
his
Eleazr Kimberly Samuel + Hale senr
Samuel Emons mark
Eleazar Kimberly and samll Emons personally appearing this sixt day of december 1693 gave their severall respective testimonies upon oath before me that the abovewritten Instrument was signed and delivered by Samll Hale senr the testator therein mentioned as his last will and testament I say before me
John Chester: Comisser
Glassenbury Novembr 13: 1693 An Inventorie of the estate of Samll Hale senr deceased the 9th of this Instnat---taken by us Eleazr Kimberly and Joseph Hill select men:
lb s d
Impr His apparell 08 00 00
Item: bedsteads bedds and bedding 10 00 00
Item: gun sword and belt and flash 02 00 00
Item: pewter platters pots and basons 01 10 00
Item: Brasse and Iron vessels 03 00 00
Item: Books 01 00 00
Chests 1lb: wooden vessells and sieve 10s 01 10 00
Item: frying pan spitt 10s: hour glasse looking glasse and brush 4s---all
00 14 00
Item: beetle rings wedges axes and other Iron implements 01 10 00
Item: Trammel tongs fire pan smoothing Iron and heaters 01 00 00
Item: Sadle pannell and bridle 00 10 00
Item: Scaols and weights 3s Coopers ware 20s 01 03 00
Item: provision for the familie 15s: baggs 4s 00 19 00
Item: Corn in the Chamber and in the barn 14 00 00
Item: hops 10s: tobacco 15s: hay 3lb 04 05 00
Item: flaxe 1lb 10s: 2 cowes 8lb 1 Calf 15s 10 05 00
Item: 2 swine 1lb: 10s i horse 2 mares 2 Colts 9lb 10 10 00
Item: 24 pound of yarn 02 08 00
Item: Glasse bottles baskets and pumpions 00 08 00
Item: 2 brand Irons 5s 2 chairs and wheels 8s i hive of bees 12s 01 05 00
Item: salt 00 04 00
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74 01 00
[Signed by Eleazr Kimberly and Joseph Hills.]
v.
Samuel (1) +++ HALE. APPENDIX 7, SOME HALE GENEALOGY
"HALE GENEALOGY.
Nathan Hale [1755-1776] was directly descended from Robert Hale, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, one of the early settlers of the "Bay Colony" in that State.
Robert Hale belonged to the family of Hales of Kent, England. There were in England at that time at least three large families of the name, belonging to different parts of the kingdom. These were the Hales of Kent, the Hales of Hertford, and the Hales of Gloucestershire. Of the last of these familes was the celebrated Sir Matthew Hale, who was nearly contemporary with Robert Hale, the emigrant to America, who was born in 1609 and died in 1676.
From the Hales of Hertfordshire spring the family of Thomas Hale, one of the early settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts. Of this family are a large part of those persons who now bear the name of Hale in New England.
Robert Hale, of Charlestown, and his descendants retained the coat of arms of the Hale family of Kent, to which, therefore, there seems no doubt that they belong.
This family existed in Kent as early as the reign of Edward III. Nicholas up Hales [sic], then resided at Hales Place, Halden, Kent. His son, Sir Robert Hales, was Prior of the Knights of St. John, and Lord High Treasurer of England. He was murdered by Wat Tyler's mob, on Tower Hill, in 1381. His brother, Sir Nicholas de Hales, was the ancestor of three subdivisions of the family, described in Halsted's Kent as the Hales of Kent, Coventry and of Essex.
To the Kent family belonged---we may say in passing down to the emigration of Robert Hales,---Sir James Hales, whose suicide by drowning led to the "Case of Dame Hales," reported by Plowden, and commented on by the clowns in Hamlet: "Sir James Hales was dead and came he to his death? It may be answered by drowning, and who drowned him? Sir James Hales, being alive, caused Sir James Hales to die, and the act of the living man was the death of the dead man. And then for this offense it is reasonable to punish the living man who committed the offense and not the dead man.:
Of the same family was Sir Edward Hales, the loyal companion of James II. in his exile, made by him Earl of Tenterden and Viscount Tonstall.
The name in England was spelt with a final "s" and without. Hale Place, near Canterbury, bears the same name as the New England family, and the residents spell their names with the "s." "
--- Charlotte Molyneux Holloway; Nathan Hale, The Martyr-Hero of the Revolution, With a Hale Genealogy and Hale's Diary; New York, NY (The Perkins Book Company); copyright 1889 by F. Tennyson Neely; copyright, 1902, by A.L.Burt Company; p. 237-240.
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"THE SAMUEL HALE FAMILY OF GLASTONBURY. The family of Samuel Hale of Wethersfield, Connecticut, has never been completely set forth, and the account of early generations compiled by the late Seymour Morris, Esq., contains some manifest errors. (P) We are concerned with Connecticut Hales, a large majority of whom belong to the Glastonbury family. Our plan is to follow the descendants of Samuel Hale so far as they lived in Connecticut, and to drop those branches which removed from the state if they prove difficult to trace. (P) Two brothers and a sister were the first Hales to settle in Connecticut. These were Samuel of Wethersfield, Thomas, and Martha (wife of Deacon Paul Peck). The proof of their relationship is found in Winthrop's mention of Mrs. Peck, and an account of her and her children and grandchildren will follow the genealogy of Samuel Hale and his descendants and of Thomas Hale and his descendants. An appendix will be devoted to the smaller family units of the Hale surname which came into Connecticut: the Suffield-Longmeadow family of Timothy Hale; the Coventry family of Deacon Richard Hale (father of the patriot Nathan); the Guilford famkily of Zebulon Hale; and the Heald-Hale group of Springfield, Massachusetts, in which we have included the New Haven-Derby family of Samuel Hale. (P) Our account is based largely on public records, with some items drawn from printed sources. Acknowledgement is made for some helpful items to the Hale data collected by the late Horace Dickerman, of Miami, Florida, which he gave to the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and to the Hale collection of the late Charles R. Hale of Hartford, Connecticut, at the Connecticut State Library."
---Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, *Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley*, Hartford, CT (Connecticut Historical Society) 1952, p. 3.
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From Oscar Fitzalan Hale, Ancestry and Descendants of Josiah Hale, Fifth in Descent from Samuel Hale of Hartford, Conn., 1637, to which is added an epistolary appendix showing other lines of Descent, Rutland, VT (The Tuttle Co., Printers) 1909, Appendix, p. 109-111: "LETTER "F." [P] 105 Christy St., Akron, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1901. [P] Mr. Oscar F. Hale, [P] Pocahontas, Iowa [P] My Dear Cousin: [P] Your letter to Edward Warren Hale, which I enclose, was sent to me by some mistake or misunderstanding of the advice given you by Mrs. Marcia Turner Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn., who is a very dear friend and relative of mine. Her husband, Hezekiah Hale, Jr., is a son of my grandfather, Gideon Hale, Jr.'s brother, Hezekiah Hale, Sr. She has a habit of referring genealogists to me, due I suppose to her knowledge of my interest in the history of our family. Some years ago when I had more leisure, I enjoyed very much hunting up records of our ancestors, but of late have been too busy with other matters. [P] I think your letter should have gone to Mr. E. W. Hale, of New York City, who I believe is connected with the U. S. Sub-Treasury. I have not his exact address, but if you will write to Mr. W. Farrand Felch , of Hartford, Conn., P.O. Box 149, I think you may get it from him, and I preseume he can furnish you with some of the information you require. [P] I have been writing to him to-night and have mentioned you and your letter to him. He is editor of the Genealogical Department of The Hartford "Times." I think he is in some way related to the E. W. Hale of New York City. I would be very glad if it were in my power to furnish the information you seek, but cannot except as this may put you on the right track. [P] In your letter you speak of Bishop Charles Reuben Hale, late bishop of Cairo, Ill. He died on last Christmas day. His father, Reuben C. Hale, was the sone of Elias White Hale (another brother of my grandfather Gideon Hale, Jr.), who was the son of Gideon, Sr., of Benjamin, of Samuel, Jr., of Samuel, Sr., who was the father of your ancestor Thomas, from whom you descend through Thomas, Jr., Moses, Josiah and Daniel. [P] I am going to send you with this a copy of part of a letter which I wrote to a lady in Minnesota, which may contain something of interest to you. [See Ap. Letter "G."] Please return it to me when you are through with it. [P] There are quite a number of Hales here in Summit County, descendants of Jonathan Hale, who came and settled here from Glastonbuty, Conn., in 1810. Jonathan was the son of Theodore, of Jonathan, of Samuel, Jr., of Samuel, Sr. [P] They are *good* people; no better anywhere. I came here from Connecticut three years ago. Othello W. Hale, Deputy Clerk of our County, a grandson of Jonathan, a few years ago published a chart shoing the ancestry of Jonathan Hale and giving a complete list of his descendants down to the date of publication. [P] He intends to send you a copy. I don't think he will forget; if he does just write and jog his memory. [P] Mr. James Buckingham, of Sanesville, Ohio, son of Eunice Hale (Buckingham) the daughter of Benjamin Hale, son of Timothy, Jr., son of Timothy, Sr., of Thomas, of Samuel, Sr., has also compiled and published a history and chart which I am sure would interest you, as it includes some of your ancestors. [P] I wish you all success in your work, and wish I could help, but unfortunately the pressure of other work prevents. I would be glad to have a copy of the chart enclosed in your letter. If you ever comet this way be sure to come and see us. Very Respectfully, [P] Your kinsman, [P] EDWARD WHITE HALE."
Same source, p. 111-113: "LETTER "G." [P] Portion of a letter written by Edward White Hale, of Akron, Ohio, to Miss Julia M. Bassett, of Glyndon, Minn. [P] Edward White Hale is the son of Osmer and Susan Smith (North) Hale, son of Gideon Hale, Jr., son of Gideon Hale, Sr., son of Benjamin Hale, son of Samuel Hale, Jr., son of Samuel Hale, "the settler" at Hartford, Conn., 1637. Miss Julia M. Bassett is the maternal granddaughter of Mason Hale, son of Benjamin Hale, who was born in R.I. and removed to Pa. [P] About the end of the twelfth century Alexander Hales was a noted scholar and philosopher. He is reputed to have been the teacher of Saint Thomas Aquinas. At the time when the settlement of New England was begun there were in England at least three large families of the name of Hale in different parts of the Kingdom. There were the Hales of Kent, the Hales of Hertford, and the Hales of Gloucestershire. Of the last of these families was the celebrated Sir Mathew [sic] Hale, who was nearly contemporary with Samuel, Robert and Thomas Hale, having been born 1609 and died in 1676. [P] Robert Hale, the ancestor of the immortal Nathan Hale, was of the family of Kent. He came to Massachusetts in 1632 and settled at Charleston. I think that you may find that you are descended from him---Robert---of whose descendants, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, Mass., has written some history---part of which I have seen in his appendix to "The Life of Nathan Hale," by I. W. Stewart, published at Hartford, Conn., about 1850. My only reason for this opinion is the proximity of Bristol R.I. to Charleston, Mass., as compared with Newbury, Mass., where Thomas Hale settled in 1635, or with Hartford, Conn., where we find Samuel Hale in 1637. [P] Thomas Hale, who settled in Newbury, belonged to the Hertfordshire family. The name in England appears to have been spelled, now with a final s, and now without. Probably most of the Hales in New England have sprung from *Thomas* of Newbury, *Robert* of Charlestown, or *Samuel* of Hartford. There is a tradition that *Thomas* had a brother who came with him to Newbury and afterward went to Connecticut and settled there. This may have been my ancestor, *Samuel Hale*. [P] We know that he was at Hartford in 1637 and that he was a soldier in the Pequot War and that for his services therein, he received a lot in the "Soldiers' Field." In 1639, he owned land in Hartford on the east side of the river, but in 1643 he lived in Westersfield [sic]. In 1655, he resided in Norwalk, Conn., but returned to Westersfield in 1660---though he did not sell his property in Norwalk until 1669. [P] While residing in Norwalk he represented that town in the General Court, 1656-7 and in 1660. After his return to Westersfield he hired the estate of Gov. Thomas Welles, which, from testimony in a case tried in 1671, appears to have been on the east side of the Connecticut River. [P] *Samuel Hale's* wife's name was Mary. When they were married we do not know. Their children were all born in this country as follows: (1) Martha, b. 1643, (2) Samuel, b. 1645, (3) John [1647], (4) Mary, b. 1649, (5) Rebeckah, 1651, (6) Thomas [1653], (7) Ebinezer [1661], (8) Dorothy. Samuel Hale, Sr., died Nov. 9, 1693. Of his wife's death we have no record. [P] Samuel Hale, Jr., of Glastonbury, Conn., was married in 1679 to Ruth, daughter of Thomas Edwards and had the following children: Samuel, Mary, Ruth. His first wife died Dec. 16, 1682, and Samuel Hale married Mary Welles, daughter of Samuel Welles and granddaughter of Governor Thomas Welles, and had the following children [by second wife]: Jonathan, David, Joseph and BENJAMIN. [P] Lieut. Samuel Hale died Nov. 18, 1711. [P] Mrs. Mary (Welles) Hale died Feb. 18, 1715. [P] BENJAMIN HALE, of Glastonbury, Conn., married Hannah Talcott, Jan. 30, 1792 [1729] and had the following children: (1) Hannah, b. May 9, 1732, (2) Ruth, b. July 14, 1734, (3) GIDEON, b. Dec. 30, 1736, (4) Rachel, b. April 25, 1739, (5) Mary, b. March 1, 1742, d. June 22, 1790, (6) Benjamin, b. Feb. 1, 1745, (7) Josiah, b. Jan. 27, 1747; graduated at Yale College, 1765, was clerk of his native town, Glastonbury, from 1781 until 1804. He died July 8, 1808, of consumption. [P] BENJAMIN HALE died July 22, 1784 at 76; Hannah Talcott died Feb. 6, 1796, at 89. [P] GIDEON HALE, son of Benjamin Hale and Hannah Talott, his wife, was married to Mary White, daughter of Ebinezer and Ann (Hollister) White, of Catham, Conn., Dec. 23, 1762. They had the following children: (1) Anna, b. Sept. 21, 1763; married May 2, 1782, Samuel Welles, of Glastonbury. She died Jan. 11, 1816 (Gideon Welles, Sec. of the Navy, 1861-1869, was her son); (2) Hannah born March 2, 1765; married her brother-in-law, Samuel Welles, Oct., 1816. She died Dec. 6, 1818; (3) GIDEON [Jr.], born Feb. 28, 1767, married Anna Case, May 18, 1803; (4) Esther, born ---, baptized Mar. 12, 1769, died Jan. 30, aged 60; (5) Ebenezer, born Jan. 22, 1771, married Sarah Cornwall, died June 25, 1843; (6) Reuben, born Feb. 6, 1773, married Wealthy Tracy, of Towander, Pa.; (7) Elias White, born April 11, 1775; graduated at Yale, 1794, married Jane Mulhallan, Feb. 26, 1810; (8) Amelia, born Aug. 16, 1777, married Aaron Kinnie, of Groton, Conn. She died March 12, 1847, aged 69. (Aaron Kinnie died April 24, 1815.) (9) Hezekiah, born Oct. 14, 1779, married Pamelia Coleman (b. 1792). He died Feb. 25, 1832, aged 52. (10) Mary, born Jan. 25, 1782, [married] Samuel Cole, of Glastonbury, Conn. She died March 9, 1860. (11) Nancy, born April 11, 1785, died, unmarried, March 19, 1808, aged 22. Gideon Hale, Sr., died Oct. 10, 1812. Mrs. Mary (White) Hale, his wife, born July 11, 1740, died April 11, 1820. [P] Gideon Hale, Jr., son of Gideon and Mary (White) Hale, was born in Glastonbury, Conn., Feb. 28, 1767. He married Anna Case, daughter of John and Rachel (Smith) Case, May 18, 1803. They had the following children: (1) a son, b. Oct. 30, 1807, died Oct. 30, 1807; (2) Nancy, born 1809, died unmarried Nov. 20, 1844; (3) OSMER, born Oct. 14, 1811. Gideon Hale, Jr., died April 27, 1831, aged 67. Anna (Case) Hale, his wife, died Jan. 9, 1859, aged 78.
. . . . . [The letter continues, p. 114-115, with OSMER HALE, later EDWARD WHITE HALE, and descendants, up to 1898. Numerous are from Glastonbury or Wethersfield, a couple from Middletown, CT. See Xerox copy of this book.]
Same source, from LETTER "C." of the Appendix, headed Elizabethtown, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1870, signed ROBERT S. HALE (p. 104): "Among the descendants of Samuel [i.e., Sr.] I will mention, besides the descendants of your family, the following: Rev. Albert Hale, D.D., of Springfield, Ill, Hon. James T. Hale, late M.C. from from Penn., Hon. Reuber C. Hale, of Philadephia, Hon. Gideon Welles, late Secretary of the Navy, and his wife, Sylvester Hale and his son William Henry Hale, both of Albany, and a large number of the name still residing in Glastonbury. [P] During the Revolutionary War, sixteen of the name of Hale [one Josiah, 1777] residing in Glastonbury, took the oath of fidelity to the colonies and seven of them served in the Revolutionary army, two dying in service. They were doubtless all descendants of your ancestor Samuel. This gives about all I have of the Glastonbury Hales except the descendants of the other sons (some of them) of Samuel." [See note under Capt. Jonathan Hale.]
[CONTINUED IN HALE, Samuel (1) ++++]
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Samuel (1) ++++ HALE. Appendix 8, Hale-Hills Connection
Excerpt from Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Hartford, CT (Connecticut Historical Society) 1952, p. 608-609
II. DR. EBENEZER HILLS OF HARTFORD
The will of Ebenezer Hills, "now resident of Hartford, practicioner of physic," made 4 Dec. 1711, gave his bed and bedding to "my Cousin Dorothy Hills, daughter to Lt. Jonathan Hills, now of sd. Hartford . . . I give unto my relations (vizt., unto the heirs of Lt. Samuel Hale, late of Glastonbuty, decd.; the heirs of John Hale, late of sd. town, decd.; the heirs of Nathaniel Hunn, late of Wethersfield, decd.; the heirs of Caleb Benjamin, late of sd. Town, decd.; to Thomas Hale, Sen., now of Glastonbury; Ebenezer Hale of Wethersfield; and the sd. Lt. Jonathan Hills) an equal share of the rest of my estate . . . being divided into 7 equal parts. He made his friend, Thomas Kimberley of Glastonbury, executor. Witnesses: Joseph Tryon, Joseph Hollister. The will was proved 19 Dec. 1711.
The inventory was taken at Hartford 21 Dec. 1711 by Samuel Welles, Thomas Kilbourn and Hezekiah Porter, and amounted to œ108.03.07. He also had property in Lebanon, Conn., and his estate there was inventories by Joseph Bradford and Hezekiah Mason.
Who was Dr. Ebenezer Hills? He left his estate in seven equal shares to his "relations," and these were the seven children of Samuel Hale [SR] (or the heirs of the deceased children) who are known to have survived and left issue; furthermore, the seven branches of the family are named in the precise order of birth of the Hale children except that the representatives of the older daughters, Mary (Mrs. Benjamin) and Rebecca (Mrs. Hunn), are reversed. That these people were his close relatives by blood, seems clearly indicated. But how does Dr. Hills fit into the Hale family?
Stiles's History of Wethersfield (2:406), following Chapin's Glastonbury Centennial (p. 166) states that Dorothy2 Hale married Caleb Benjamin, and had a daughter Abigail who married Dr. Ebenezer Hills. It was Mary2 not Dorothy who married Caleb Benjamin. and Mary did indeed have a daughter Abigail who married an Ebenezer Hills; see Hale Family (record of Mary2) and Hills Family (No. 6). But her husband was Ebenezer3 Hills (William,2 William1), born about 1676, died 1750, and Abigail survived him until 1755.
The Hills Family in America (1906) gives a different account, by placing Ebenezer Hills (died Dec. 1711, unm.( among the children of Joseph2 Hills (William1). but if he were, he had brothers and sisters of both the whole and the half blood, and it is strange that he should give his entire estate to cousins in that event. Furthermore, the children and grandchildren of Samuel1 Hale could not have been his "relations" unless the first (unkown) wife of Joseph2 Hills was a daughter of Samuel1 Hale. The only one not accounted for was Martha2 Hale, but she was between six and seven years old than Joseph2 Hills, and Ebenezer made no provision in his will for the heirs of Martha. It is inconceivable that he would have named as his heirs the seven children of Samuel1 Hale or their representatives, and omitted the heirs of Martha, if they were his own brothers and sisters. Hence we cannot concur in placing Dr. Ebenezer as a son of Joseph2 Hills.
In fact, in his will and in other papers connected with his estate, there is nothing whatever to indicate any relationship to the family of William1 Hills. None of the sons of William1 could legitimately have been his father. The cousin Dorothy Hills he names was daughter of Lieut. Jonathan and Dorothy2 (Hale) Hills, so was related to him through her Hale mother. There is no way Dr. Ebenezer Hills could have been uncle of the grandchildren of Samuel1 Hale, and he could not have been their great-uncle unless he were a half-brother of Samuel1 Hale. But that would make extremely aged, near ninety at death, and the previous lack of record concerning him indicates that he was a much younger man.
The most likely explanation is that he was son of Martha2 Hale (born 1643); if legitimate, his father was an unknown Hills, not closely related to the Hills family; if illegitimate, then either of the two elder sons of William1, William or John, would be suitable in age for his father, but it is to be noted that William2 had a legitimate son Ebenezer,3 already mentioned. In either case, he was probably orphaned and raised by the Hales. His youngest aunt, Dorothy2 Hale, would have been near his own age, and she married Lieut. Jonathan2 Hills and was mother of his cousin, Dorothy3 Hills, the only cousin to whom he gave a personal legacy.
He evidently studied medicine and settled in Lebanon, but before his death removed to Hartford, perhaps because of ill health, and was "now resident of Hartford" when he made his will. He was evidently a bachelor, and since most of his Hale relatives were in Glastonbury and Wethersfield, while only the family of Dorothy2 (Hale) Hills was then living in East Hartford, it seems likely that he was living with this Hills family and perhaps received care and attention from his cousin, Dorothy3 Hills, which he acknowledged by the special legacy to her.
From an Internet genealogy of Tracy Ashley Crocker:
1,704 Samuel Hale: He married Phebe Bracy. Samuel was born circa
1615 in England. Samuel immigrated to circa 1634. He
married Mary Smith circa 1643. Samuel died 9 November 1693
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, at approximately 78 years of
age.
1,705 Mary Smith: Mary was born circa 1624 in England. She
married Samuel Hale circa 1643.
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Martha (1) HALE was born in 1618 in Watton, Stone, Hertfordshire, Eng. See
note under brother Samuel Hale (Sr) for some details
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