Samuel Hale (abt. 1615 - 1693)

Born about 1 Jul 1615 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Smith) Hale — married 1642 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

Husband of Phebe (Bracy) Hale — married after 1683 in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1693 at about age 78 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Possible parents and baptism

S. Allyn Peck (The American Genealogist, (1968) 38:237-30) suggests he was son of John and Martha (____) Hale of Watton-at-Stone. John, the father, was of the right age and in the right circumstance to be the brother of Thomas, father of Thomas of Newbury, Massachusetts.^[1]

• Martha Peck, wife of Paul Peck, Samuel Hale of Wethersfield and Thomas Hale were siblings, proved by mention in Winthrop's Medical Journal.
• Parish Register Watton, Hertfordshire, England
  • 15 May 1608 John Hale, son of John and Martha Hale, baptized
  • 24 Jun 1610 Thomas Hale, son of John and Martha his wife baptized
  • 27 Sep 1612 Abraham Hale, son of John and Martha, baptized
  • 1 July 1615 Samuel Hale, son of John and Martha baptized
  • 16 Dec 1618 Martha Halle. dtr of John and martha bapt.

• • 18 Sep 1620 Abraham Haile buried
  • 20 April 1628 Goodwife Hale buried
• New England records show Samuel b. about 1615, Martha b. 1621 (From Winthrop's Journal) and Thomas the elder brother.

Birth

Samuel Hale ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} was born about 1615^[2][4] in England.^[4] In a deposition 8 March 1679/80, Samuel's age was stated as sixty-five years.^[7]

Marriages

He m. (1) by 1643 Mary Smith, d/o Rev. Henry and Dorothy _______ Smith.^[4]

He m. (2) Phebe (Bracy) (Dickinson) Rose b. (1631-36, died at Wethersfield, 19 Jan 1711/12, d/o Thomas and Phebe (Bisby) Bracy, and widow of Joseph Dickinson of Northfield, Mass and of John Rose, Sr., of Branford and East Haven, Connecticut.^[4]

Immigration

Donald Lines Jacobus in "Hale, House ..." speculated that Samuel and his sister Martha, probably came to New England as early as 1634 along with their brother Thomas (who was a Roxbury church member in 1634)^[8]), and went with Thomas to Hartford in 1635.

Pequot War

The two brothers served in Pequot War and received a lot in the Hartford Soldier's Field.^[2][8][4] 11 May 1671: "This Court grants Samll Hale, of Wethersfeild, sixty acres of land, upon the same termes with the Pequitt soldiers. (that is they take it somewhere not already taken.)^[5]

Hartford

The General Court of Connecticut ordered, Oct 1639, that towns keep a record of land owned. Most of the entries in Hartford's inventory are dated 1639.^[4] Samuel and Thomas' inventories are not dated, which leaves a small question as to the date, but is generally assumed to be 1639. Samuel owned several small parcels: one parcel with dwelling house, outhouses, gardens; one in the westfield; one in the soldiers field; one in the pine field; one on the east side of the great river.^[9]

Wethersfield

Rev. Henry Smith, was the minister at the nearby town of Wethersfield. his daughter became the wife of Samuel and Samuel became a resident of Wethersfield.^[10] It is here that he began his "public life."

• Juryman at the Connecticut Colony Court: 4 Sept & 9 Nov 1643, Oct 1646, Sep 1648, Dec 1648, and Apr 1649.^[4][6]
• 4 Dec 1645 he was fined 20 nobles, for his misdemeanor by excess of drinking.^[4][6]
• Oct 1646 Juryman again^[4]
• 1647 Wethersfield Selectman^[2][4]

Norwalk

Norwalk Founder's Monument

The two first settlers, of Norwalk, Richard Olmsted and Nathaniel Ely arrived from Hartford in 1649. Fourteen others followed. Norwalk was incorporated on September 11, 1651^[11] Samuel and his brother Thomas were among these founders.^[4][8] In 1655, the town valued his estate at £250 (one of the wealthier persons) for the purpose of rates (taxes)^[4] Samuel was chosen Deputy to Connecticut General Court, from Norwalk, many times between 1656 and 1658^[4][6] Samuel sold his land in Norwalk 8 Mar 1660/1.^[4]

Wethersfield/Glastonbury

Samuel returned to Wethersfield, where he was a Deputy to the Court May 1665 and he and sons Samuel Jr. and John were on the 1669 list of freeman^[4][5] He was living in the part that became Glastonbury.^[8] 7 March 1669/70, Samuell Hale Sr. had nine persons, living in his house hold. John had a separate listing^[4] He leased, in 1660, the estate of Governor Thomas Welles on the Glastonbury (east) side of the Connecticut River^[3]

Death

Samuel died 9 Nov 1693 according to his probate documents in Glastonbury^[4] This was the same year that Glastonbury became an independent town from Wethersfield, shortly before Samuel's death.^[12]

His widow Phebe survived him, but was not mentioned in his will.^[4] ______ widow Hale died 19 Jan 1711/12, in Wethersfield.^[13]

Will & Inventory

"Glassonbury" 06 Dec 1692 Sam^ll Hale seni^r. Samuel stipulates that his just debts be paid first. His will names his sons Samuel, John, Thomas, and Benezer; a daughter in law Naomi; daughters Marie, Rebeccah and Dorothie; grandchildren John Hale and Thomas Hale (sons of son John); grandchild Abigail Beniamin. He named his sons, Samuel and Thomas Hale, executors.^[4]

"Glassenbury Novemb^r 13: 1693 An Inventorie of the estate of Sam^ll Hale sen^r deceased the 9th of this Instant" contained household goods and was valued at £74. 1s. 0d.^r[4]

Full will and inventory are available in Jacobus' Hale, House, and Related Families.

Children^[8]

1. Martha, d/o Samuel and Mary was b. 2 Oct 1643, Wethersfield;^[13][4] d. young^[4]
2. Samuel b. 7 Feb 1644/5, Wethersfield;^[13][4] d. 18 Nov 1711.^[4]
3. John b. 21 Feb 1646/7, Wethersfield;^[13][4] d. 19 July 1709.^[4]
4. Mary, b. 29 Apr 1649, Wethersfield;^[13][4] d. probably by 1700.^[4]
5. Rebecca b. 29 Oct 1651, Wethersfield^[13][4]
6. Thomas b. abt 1654; d. 23 Dec 1723.^[4]
7. Bennezer b. 29 July 1661, Wethersfield;^[13][4] d. after 4 Feb 1743/4^[4]
8. Dorothy b. abt 1667; d. East Hartford 23 Jun 1733; m. Lt. Jonathan Hills.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Peck, S. Allyn. "Have We Found the Parents of Thomas, Samuel and Martha Hale of Connecticut?" The American Genealogist, v38 (1962) p 237-39. AmericanAncestors.org (by subscription)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Stiles, Henry. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut (Grafton Press, New York, 1904) Vol. II. Genealogies and Biographies
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Adams, Charles Collard. Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family. (The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, New York) 1908. p. 166. archive.org
4. ↑ ^{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 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 4.30 4.31 4.32 4.33} 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. HathiTrust
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut from 1665 to 1676; with the Journal of the Coucil of War 1675 to 1678... Hartford: F A Brown, 1852. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Vol II.1665-1678. Google Books pp. Deputy 13; Soldier's field 151; 1669 freeman 520.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 Google Books: 92, 95, 136, 143: p. 144 misdemeanor; p. 92 Sep 1643 Juryman; p. 95 Nov 1643 juryman; p. 143 Oct 1646 juryman; 165 sep 1648 juryman; 172 Dec 1648 Juryman; p. 180 Apr 1649 juryman; p. 288 Feb 1656 Deputies; p 306 Oct 1657 Deputy; p. 308 11 mar 1657/8 Deputy; p. 457 took inventory of estate of John Cattell July 1644; Searched on Hale, should search Haile Hales and others.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} 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 ($)
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4} Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862), v 2, p 331
9. ↑ Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers, 1639, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 14. Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 (Hartford 1912; rpt. Bowie, Maryland, 1989) p. 369
10. ↑ The births of most of his chilren were recorded there.
11. ↑ Wikipedia: History of Norwalk, Connecticut
12. ↑ Hoadley, Charles J. The public records of the colony of Connecticut from August, 1689, to May 1706. Hartford: Brown & Parsons, 1850-1890. Vol 4. p. 104. This doesn't seem to have occurred on a given day, but by Sept when taxes were mentioned. Accessed at Ancestry.
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6} Connecticut Vital Records to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Hale, House, and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1952) Page 3
• Morris, Tyler Seymour. The Hale Family of Connecticut (David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1907) Page 3
• Stiles, Henry. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut (Grafton Press, New York, 1904) Vol. II. Genealogies and Biographies Page 405-6:

SAMUEL HALE, Sen., b. 1615, came early to New Eng.; was a soldier in the Pequot War, received for his services a lot in "the Soldier's Field"; owned lot in Htfd. in 1639, on E. side the River; in 1643 res. in Weth., where he was selectmen, 1647 (W.T.V.); rem. to Norwalk, were he res. in 1655 and rep. that town in Gen. Ct., 1655-7, and in '60; ret. again to Weth. in 1660, altho' he did not dispose of all his N. pp. until 1669, in which yr. (14 Apl.) he exch. ld. with the Town of Weth. (W.T.V., I, p. 17). He hired the Gov. Welles estate, which appears to have been on the E. side of the Great River; and it is an evidence of the then existing lack of conveniences of domestic life, that the ho. had no staircase, and the 2d floor was reached only be a ladder, See, also, Chapt. VII, Vol I. He m. Mary_____. He d. Nov., 1693; the Invent. of his estate, taken 13 Nov., 1693, by Eleazur Kimberly and Joseph Hills, gives a val. of abt. £100 personal estate. His will, dated 6 Dec., 1692, mentions "considerable portions of lds.;" then proceeds to devise to his s. Samuel "my musket and my two horse brands;" to John, "the best pair of my wearing shoes that I shall leave at my deceast;" to Ebiunezer, "all my right and title to 3 score acres of ld. gr. to me by the Gen. Court for my services in the Pequot War, also, my great Bible and all the rest of my books, except one I gave my dau.-in-law Naomi [Kilbourn, wife of son Thomas];" to his son Thomas he gives a "great pewter platters" and to Rebecca, his "three-pint pewter pot;" to his gd.-sons, John and Thomas, sons of his s. John, "my interest in the tract of ld. lying on the E. side of the Town of Glastonbury, and being six mile in length and give in breath, to them and their heirs forever;" he also remembers his gd.-child, Abigail Benjamin, dau. of his dau. Dorothie, and appts, sons Samuel and Thomas his executors. Signed. Samule X. Halle -- Hrfd. Co. Prob. Rec. The wid. Hale d. 19 Jan., 1711-12. -- W. Rec

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) v 2, p 330-1. Archive.org

"SAMUEL, Hartford 1640, one of the first proprs. at Norwalk 1654, had first been at Wethersfield 1642, and with his br. Thomas serv. in the Pequot war 1637, was rep. for N. 1657, 8, and 60, went back to Wethersfield, and liv. in that part wh. is now Glastonbury; where sev. descend. cont. In his will ch. nam. are Samuel, b. a. 1644; John; Thomas; Ebenezer; Mary; Rebecca; and Dorothy." "SAMUEL, Glastonbury, s. of Samuel of Wethersfield, m. 20 June 1670, Ruth, d. of Thomas Edwards of the same, had Ruth, b. 20 Jan. 1672, d. under 4 mos.; Samuel, 14 Jan. 1674, d. very soon; Mary, 13 June 1675; Samuel, again, 17 July 1677; and Ruth, again, 1 Dec. 1681. His w. d. 26 Dec. 1682, and he m. 1695, Mary, d. of the first Samuel Welles, and d. 18 Nov. 1711; and his wid. d. 18 Feb. 1715." "THOMAS, Weathersfield, s. prob. of Samuel of the same, m. 30 Oct. 1679, Naomi, d. of the first John Kilborne of the same, had Naomi, b. 20 Sept. 1680 Mary, 20 Nov. 1682; Thomas, 26 Jan. 1685; Ruth; Eunice; and Timothy, 1692."

• Chapin, Alonzo Bowen. Glastenbury For Two Hundred Years (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1853). Page 167. Archive.org: "The Hales are supp. to have come fm. Wales"
• Peck, S. Allyn. "Have We Found the Parents of Thomas, Samuel and Martha Hale of Connecticut?" The American Genealogist, v38 (1962) p 237-39. AmericanAncestors.org (by subscription)