Facts for Richard(1) Hall:

  1. Town vote: Mentions: “…Goodman Hall’s fence below the burying place…” 1/5/1665[1]. This date is of interest since it is a full 6 years before Martha and Richard are married. (Did Richard go to Hull from Bradford and get in trouble with Martha and then return to Bradford to live?)
  2. Richard and Martha have a daughter, Sarah, c. 1671, who is conceived out of wedlock. (see below). Sarah dies in 1690, age 19.[2]
  3. October 31st, 1671, Richard Hall and Martha Benson are summoned to Suffolk County Court from Hull, Massachusetts, but do not appear, as they have removed to Hauarell (Haverhill). A warrant is put out for them with the Sherriff of Merrimack. They are charged with “fornication”.[3]
  4. April 30th, 1672, Richard and Martha Hall, now married, are sentenced to 15 lashes or 40 shillings.[4]
  5. Applied for Freeman status 10/11/1676[5]
  6. Town meeting: A committee was chosen “…for to advise and consult… as to ye settling ye Rev. Zecheriah Symmes in office. Mr. Symmes, John Tenny, Richard Hall...” 1/11/1681[6]
  7. First Deacons of Bradford: “David Hazeltine and Richard Hall were ‘nominated to provide elements for the Lord’s supper Nov. 2, 1682.’ [7]
  8. With 18 others, signed the covenant to form the first church in Bradford, MA 12/27/1682[8]
  9. Also in 1682: “Martha, wife of Richard Hall, Dis. From Haverhill” indicates that Martha Hall joined the Bradford church from Haverhill, as did almost all of the first members, as that was where they had previously been worshipping.[9]
  10. Deed: Richard Hall to Francis Wainwright 6/20/1687, 3 acres in Bradford[10]
  11. Deed Richard Hall from Samuel Hazeltine et ux 7/30/1697 in Bradford[11]
  12. Deed: Richard Hall of Bradford to Philemon Dalton of Hampton, NH , 12/28/1700 (Abigail Dalton’s brother b. 12/15/1664)[12]
  13. First Deacons of Bradford: “The list of deacons is as follows: John Tenney, Joseph Bailey, Richard Hall, (Probably the first Deacons, and chosen Dec. 13, 1702)”[13]
  14. Deed: Richard Hall Senior to Ebenezer Kimball 3/24/1707, six acres in Bradford on Little Pond[14]
  15. Deed: Richard Hall to Robert Mullikin 2/24/1712 in Bradford[15]
  16. Deed: Richard Hall to Province of Massachusetts Bay 5/2/1719 in Bradford[16]
  17. Deed: Richard Hall of Bradford to Nathan Webster of Chester, NH[17]
  18. Deed: Richard Hall to Thomas Kimball 4/27/1723 in Bradford[18]
  19. Will: Mentions children John, Joseph, Richard, Martha Bond, and Mary (Bradford vital records do not show the birth of Sarah, who David Hall states died young)[19]
  20. Will: November 18th, 1723 Witnessed by Nathaniel Griffin, Daniel Buzell, and Ichabod Boynton[20]
  21. Will: Witness Nathaniel Griffin was Richard(2)’s brother-in-law by Nathaniel’s marriage to Hannah Barker, the sister of Richard(2) Hall’s second wife, Mehetable Barker.[21]
  22. Inventory of property: 5/11/1730; witnesses were Executors John Hall, and Joseph Hall, plus the above witnesses to his original will[22]

 

Facts for Richard(2) Hall:

  1. Marriage to Abigail Dalton, April 24, 1699, Hampton, NH[23]
  2. Abigail was the step-daughter of Zecharias Symmes, Bradford’s first minister
  3. Deed: Richard Hall to Solomon Wood 5/22/1707, ¾ acre in Bradford
  4. Deed: Richard Hall, Jr. from Samuel Hazeltine et ux, 3/27/1710, 35 acres in Bradford on Little Pond Brook[24]
  5. Deed: Richard Hall, Jr. et al from John Simons et al 10/1/1713 in Haverhill[25]
  6. Intentions: Andover 4/26/1715[26]
  7. Deed: Richard Hall, Jr. et al from Solomon Wood 4/17/1717 in Bradford[27]
  8. Deed: Mehetable (ux Richard) et al to William Barker 12/18/1729 in Andover, MA[28]
  9. Deed: Mehetable (ux Richard) et al to Job Marble 12/18/1729 in Andover, MA[29]
  10. Deed: Mehetable (ux Richard) et al to Job Marble 12/18/1729 in Andover, MA[30]
  11. Deed: Richard Hall et ux et al to Wm. Barker 12/18/1729 in Andover, MA[31]
  12. Deed: Richard Hall to Benj. Barker et al 2/28/1746 in Bradford[32]
  13. Deed: Richard Hall et ux et al to Job Marble 10/23/1765 in Andover, MA[33]
  14. Deed: Richard Hall et ux et al to Job Marble 10/23/1765 in Andover, MA[34]
  15. Shabikin Rebellion: 12/8/1747 Richard and his son Timothy sign a petition to the towns of Harvard, Groton and others to form a new town out of the various pieces requested of those towns. The effort fails.[35]
  16. Death: After 9/29/1760[36]
  17. Many additional facts about Richard(2) are contained in the above document by Joy Peach. This document also contains the link to Timothy(2) Hall of Wilton, NH, son of Timothy(1) Hall of Harvard, MA

 

Facts for Joseph Hall (son of Richard(1) Hall):

1.      Military service: in Capt. Hazeltine’s “snowshoo men” [37]

 

Facts for Timothy Hall (Richard(2), Richard(1)):

1.      Mother was Mehetable Barker[38]

2.      Marriage: Mary Coburn, daughter of Jacob [Daniel(2) & Sarah Blood, Edward(1)] Coburn and Johanna (Jewett) Varnum, in 1744[39]


[1] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Page 18. The term “Goodman” meaning “Esteemed or Mister or Citizen”

[2] Bradford V.R.’s.

[3] Records of the Suffolk County Court 1671-1680, p.23, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol XXIX, 1933.

[4] Records of the Suffolk County Court 1671-1680, p. 119, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol XXIX, 1933.

[5] C.R., Vol. V. p. 112, Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91, on Ancestry.com

[6] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Page 26.

[7] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Page 67.

[8] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Page 35.

[9] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA.

[10] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[11] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[12] New Hampshire Archives, Vol 40 p83, 12/28/1700

[13] Memorial History of Bradford,  J.D. Kingsbury, 1883, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA. Page 67

[14] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[15] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[16] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[17] New Hampshire Archives, Vol 29 p390, 5/8/1722

[18] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[19] Essex County Probate Docket 1638-1840, Vol.7, Case No. 12212, Last Will and Testament of Richard Hall, Bradford, gent., Probate 20 March 1730. Inventory 11 May 1730.

[20] Massachusetts Archives Essex County Probate, 316:253-255

[21] LDS Family database

[22] Essex County probate records

[23] Hampton, New Hampshire library website

[24] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[25] ibid

[26] Andover VRs, 2:163

[27] ibid

[28] Ibid

[29] ibid

[30] ibid

[31] Salem/Essex Registry of Deeds

[32] ibid

[33] Ibid

[34] ibid

[35] Massachusetts Archives, 115:221

[36] NEHGS v8, No.5, 139, Joy Peach, “Found: The Later History and Early Progeny of Richard(2) Hall (1676-1760/61)”

[37] Massachusetts Archives, v.71:495 “A List of the Names of the men belonging to the North Regiment in Essex appointed to keep snowshoos & mogginsons am as folowith”

[38] Joy Peach

[39] Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn/Coburn, page 26 shows Mary married to Timothy Hale of Harvard, but is actually Timothy Hall of Harvard.