Thomas Hale Sr
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Thomas Hale Sr (abt. 1610 - bef. 1679)

Thomas "of Norwalk" Hale Sr
Born about in Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of and
Husband of — married Feb 1640 in Roxbury, Massachusettsmap
Husband of — married 14 Dec 1659 in Charlestown, Massachusettsmap
Descendants descendants
Father of and
Died before before about age 68 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colonymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Thomas Hale Sr migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 838)
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Please Note: Not to be confused with Thomas Hale of Newbury, MA

Contents

Biography

Possible parents and baptism

TAG 38:237-39 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.

  • 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.

Recorded among the Roxbury church records at the end of 1633: "Thomas Hale a single man, he lived but a short time wh buts u he removed to Hartford on Conecticott where God blessed him wh a good measure of increase of grace, he afterwards returned & maryed Jane Lord on of or members aboute the 12th month 1639 & the next spring returned to Conecticot."[1] Donald Lines Jacobus in "Hale, House ..." speculated that Thomas, Samuel and his sister Martha, probably arrived together.[2] He removed to Hartford, Connecticut, 1636; Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1639; Hartford again in 1640; Norwalk, Connecticut; Charlestown, Massachusetts by 1659; and Norwalk again by 1674.[3]

He was made freeman 14 May 1634.[4] Based on this date, Thomas was born before 1613.

Thomas Hale served in the Pequot War, and was awarded a plot of land in the 'Soldier's Field' by the state of Connecticut,[5] an award his brother Samuel also earned.[6]

The Hartford land inventory included seven parcels of land owned by "Thomas Healles", a couple which he bought from Samuel.[7]

He married (1) in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Feb 1639/40 Jane Lord;[1] she died by 1659, when he married again.

He married (2) in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 14 Dec 1659 Mary Nash, dau of William and Mary (____) Nash.[8]

Thomas Hale was admitted to the Charlestown church 14 Aug 1670, with a letter of dismission from the Church of Christ in Norwalk.[9]

Recorded 29 May 1673 "Thomas Hale of Charles Towne sold unto my brother Samuell Hale of Norwalk, one homelot in Norwalk and adjoining house of Richard Olmsted"[10]

He died in Norwalk, Connecticut, by 19 February 1678/9, date of his inventory, valued at £48.8.10 including a homelot and also some of his estate in the hands of the "relict at Charelstowne"[11]

Children[3]

  1. (by first wife) Thomas, bp Hartford 19 January 1650/1; m1 18 Nov 1675 Priscilla Markham; m2 in Enfield 17 December 1713 Sarah (Patch) Osborn.
  2. (by second wife) John, b Charlestown 21 Apr 1665 (as "Thomas"); bp Charlestown 23 April 1665; living 20 Apr 1674
  3. Mary, b by 1674; m. in Charlestown 24 March 1697/8 Elias Brigden.

Research Notes

Anderson recommends Jacobus's treatments of Thomas and Samuel Hale in the 1930 compilation of Fairfield, CT families, and the 1952 volume largely devoted to Thomas' brother Samuel Hale, citing FOOF 1:248-49; Hale-House 232-34.

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boston Records Commissioners Reports (Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, 1875) Vol. 6. Roxbury Land and Church Records pp 79/80
  2. ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus & Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1878).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anderson, Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1995) Vol 1 p. 838 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
  4. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) Vol. 1 1628-1641 p. 368
  5. ↑ The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut]] (Hartford, Brown & Parsons, 1852) Vol. 2, 1665-1678 p. 262
  6. ↑ Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot War of 1637 by James Shepard, page 17
  7. ↑ Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928) Vol. 14 Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 pp 383, 384
  8. ↑ Anderson citing [Charlestown Vital Records 1:21]
  9. ↑ "The First Record-Book of the First Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 435 link at Google.
  10. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978.) citing Norwalk Deeds 2:50.
  11. ↑ Anderson citing Fairfield PR 3:88

See also:

  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH4Z-L59 : 27 April 2016), Thomas Hale and Mary Nash, 14 Oct 1659; citing Marriage, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 740,995.
  • Barbour, Lucius Barnes, 1982, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc., Glastonbury, Connecticut pp.289
  • Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1926) Vol. 2, Page 253.




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