Ezekiel Hale (1689 - 1740)

Born 13 May 1689 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Emery) Hale — married 1711 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 15 Apr 1740 at age 50 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

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Biography

Born 13 May 1689 in Newbury, Massachusetts - son of Thomas Hale and Sarah Northend Hale.

Married twice: first to Ruth Emery about 1711, daughter of John Emery and Mary Sawyer Emery and mother of his children; second to Mrs Sarah (Poor) Spafford, widow of Captain John Spafford, in 1736 in Rowley, Massachusetts. "Hale. Ezekiell, of Newbury, and wid. Sarah Spaford, Oct. 26, 1736."

Children mentioned in his will written in 1736: Ezekiel, Ruth, Mary, Edna, Sarah, Lydia, and Hannah Hale.

Died in West Newbury 15 April 1740 at 50 years of age. Buried at Walnut Hill Cemetery, West Newbury, Massachusetts.

Inscription: HERE LYES BURIED the/BODY OF Mr EZEKIEL/HALE WHO DEParteD/THIS LIFE ON the 15/Day OF APRIL A: D:/1740 & in the 50/FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE

Probate was filed in Essex County, Massachusetts 28 April 1740 - a will and intestate estate of Ezekiel Hale - a prosperous citizen. Thomas Hale, Executor and Administrator.

Sources

Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, Births page 206.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850, Volume 1, Rowley Marriages, page 302.

Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Deaths page 607.

Find A Grave Memorial #54874384 created and photographed by John Glassford.

Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, Essex Cases 12,000-13,999, #12102.

"Queries " - Essex Antiquarian, V1, page 118, 1897.

• * Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale of Walton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. By Hale, Robert Safford, 1822-1881. cn; Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899, ed. Publication date 1889. Publisher Weed, Parsons and Co., Albany, N.Y. Page 83. [1]

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SBXF-3KV : accessed 4 July 2019), entry for Ezekiel /Hale/; file (2:2:2:MMWQ-BYX)

• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-HWTG : 29 November 2018), Ezekiel Hale, 13 May 1689; citing Birth, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009724.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8W-WQY : 10 November 2020), Ezekiel Hale, 15 Apr 1740; citing Death, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009725.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZMP-Z4X : 15 January 2020), Ezekel Hale in entry for Edna Hale, 1716.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54874384/ezekiel-hale

Acknowledgements

This person was created through the import of ackley_wiki_tree_15sep2010.GED on 16 September 2010.