George Haile (1601 - 1671)

Born 16 Jul 1601 in England

Descendants

Died 8 Nov 1671 at age 70 in Reedville, Northumberland County, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Possible Related Land Transactions

These land transactions belong to a George Hall/Hull and his wife Elizabeth who were in Elizabeth City County from about 1635 to after 1648. They may, or may not, belong to this George Hale/Hall.

• 1635 - Georg Hull, 450 acs., 12 Oct. 1635, p. 292. 200 acs. neare the head of the old Poquoson river, E. upon same, W. into the woods, N. upon a plantation os Thomas Saywells, W. upon the widdowe Thompsons plantation; 250 acs. S. upon sd. river, N. into the woods, E. upon Warwick Cr. & W. into the woods. (This name was first written Hall.)^[1] Probably located in Elizabeth City County, one of the original shires/counties formed in 1634.
• 1636 - Edward Drew, 300 acs. Accomack Co., 9 Sept. 1636, p. 376. ... Trans. of 6 pers: John Ripley, Peter Higgison, Richard Wanes, Georg Hall, Thomas Stidwell, William Carter.^[2] This transport was probably recorded several years after the actual event, if it applies to the same Georg Hull/Hall who recorded land in 1635.
• 1648 - Thomas Broughton, 1050 acs., Apr. 19, 1648, Page 120. About 5 mi. up Pamunkey Riv. about the mouth of Matapony River, ... 850 aces. by virtue of the rights of a patent granted unto Eliza. Hall (or Hull), assigned unto sd. Broughton which patent is surrenderedm & 200 acs. for trans. of 4 pers. (The following names appear) George Hall (or Hull), Eliza his wife, Edm. his son, David his son, ....^[1]
• 1648 - John Hewitt (Howitt) of Eliz. City, Carpenter 204 acs. in sd. county, June 1, 1648, Page 138. On the S. side of the ould poquoson river, adj. land lage of George Hall (Hull). ....^[1]

Research Notes

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George Hale is reputed to be the son of William Hale, Esq., of King's Walden, and wife Rose Bond, was born July 13, 1601 in Hertfordshire, England. ^[3]

Many believe that he was the original Hale or Hale emigrant to Virginia, however those who dispute this point out that this George was the son of a well-to-do landowner from Hertfordshire and the emigrant was an indentured servant. Also, George the emigrant is believed to be from Kent, not from Hertfordshire.

Perhaps 25 "plantations," or settlements survived along the James River until the first Jamestown census. They were commonly called hundreds after the old Roman fashion, but contained scarcely more than a score or so men, and maybe no women at all. Beyond mere survival, their task was to produce profitable exports for England. Land by royal grant or headright (about 50 acres per head) was available to anyone paying for passage across the Atlantic. Labor, the main cost of a plantation, was commonly obtained by indenture in return for passage.

Both George Hale/Hall and Thomas Haile, the early emigrants, were indentured servants. George Hale/Hayle left Bristol, England, on the Supply in September 1620.^[4] At the Muster of Sir Francis Wyatt as of 24 January 1624/25 we find "Georg Hall, aged 13 (b c 1612) in the Suply 1620."^[5] He is said to have accompanied William Tracy to Berkeley Hundred.^[2]

Thomas Haile came over on the George in 1623,^[6] which also brought Governor Wyatt's wife (it is the boat suspected of bringing the plague to Jamestown). This Thomas Hale/Haile was sentenced to be executed on 4 June 1627 by the General Court at Jamestown for the rape of four young girls in Shirley Hundred.^[2]

It does not appear as if either of these two early emigrants could be this George Hale.

A Thomas Haile also appears in 1689 as signatory to a Somerset, Maryland allegiance to the new monarchs William and Mary. By that date, the Jamestown Thomas would have been eighty-five. A connection is conceivable between one of these Jamestown fellows from the 1620s and the continuous line of Hailes which Crowe does carefully trace after mid-century from Virginia and Maryland down to our Tennessee forebears at Flynn's Lick. Absent evidence for such a connection, however, we cannot even count those two servant boys among Jamestown's lucky survivors, much less imagine them to be direct progenitors of the family name when it appears some thirty years later, north of the Rappahannock River.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Nugent, Nell Marion, Abstracted and Indexed by. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. In Five Volumes. Richmond, VA.: Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1935. Pages 32, 46, 172, 175
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} McCartney, Martha W. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers; 1607-1638: A Biographical Dictionary. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Second Printing, 2007. Pages 153-154.
3. ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LT1G-V7H/captain-george-william-haile-%2F-hale-1602-1660
4. ↑ Supply, 1620
5. ↑ Hotten, John Camden, Editor. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants' Religious Exiles; … and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. John Camden Hotten: London, 1874. Reprinted Empire State Book Co., New York. Pages 221-222
6. ↑ Voyages of the George

See also:

• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 35 (available as Google e-book).
• Source: S-168578015 Repository: #R-796352450 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Page: Ancestry Family Tree Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=49681302&pid=2474
• Repository: R-796352450 Name: Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

• Haile-206 was created by Jason Panick through the import of Panick Family Tree 2.ged on Dec 2, 2014.