Samuel Hall II (1664 - 1740)

Born 24 Feb 1664 in East Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Hinsdale) Hall — married 8 Jan 1691 (to before 1722) in East Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut

Husband of Elizabeth (Hurlbut) Hall — married 16 May 1722 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1740 at age 76 in East Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Birth: 24 FEB 1664, Middletown, Connecticut, #S16

Birth: 3 FEB 1664, Middletown, Connecticut

Record ID Number: MH:IF1932

Death: 6 MAR 1740, East Middletown, Connecticut

Source: #S16 ^[1]

Record ID Number: MH:IF1933

Marriage to Sarah Hinsdale

8 JAN 1690/1^[1], Middletown, Connecticut, #S16

Marriage

Second marriage, (widower by 1722) 16 MAY 1722, Middletown, Connecticut #S16

Note

At the time of Deacon Samuel Hall, the location was known as Connecticut Colony. Middletown, established along the Connecticut River in 1650, was in either Hartford, New London, or New Haven county - all original counties established 10 May 1666 and on 2 May 1785 became parts of Middlesex county.

Deacon Samuel Hall House

from: Portland History & Architecture: Deacon Samuel Hall House – 478 Main Street (A75)

This 3 bay, 2 ½ story central chimney Colonial period house faces east onto Main Street slightly south of its intersection with Bartlet Street. It was built ca. 1708 with post-and-beam framing set on a cut brownstone foundation. The house displays a double hewn overhang and a steep, ridge-to-street, asphalt shingled roof. Its three to four foot long clapboards are probably original. Gable-to-street ells are attached to both the north and south sides of the building; its well maintained lawn slopes down toward the Connecticut River, located less than a mile to the west. The foundation remains of an old outbuilding can still be seen slightly south of the house. An extremely well preserved example of early architecture, this building’s interior retains most of its original paneling. The original interior ―Indian shutters‖ for the 12/12 windows are presently being stored in the attic by the owners who plan to replace them in the grooves along the top edge of the chair railings from which they came. In the attic of the north ell a brick chamber cut into the large chimney forms a smoke oven. The Floor plan of this house is very unusual (see Kelly 1863:Ch. 11); the front stairway does not run diagonally across the front of the central chimney, but runs straight back from the front doorway and up the southern face of the chimney stack, a configuration found in mirror image in only one other local house (see 119 High Street).

Samuel Hall, elected Deacon in Cromwell in 1716 and in East Middletown (now Portland) in 1721, probably acquired the land where this house stands in 1708, although a similar parcel went to him from his father Samuel’s estate in 1698. He had certainly erected this house by 1710, as he served in that year as the clerk for the meetings of the group which later formed the town’s first Congregational Church. (Often the fact that he was elected Deacon in Cromwell in 1716 is interpreted to mean that he lived in Cromwell until that time, but it must be remembered that Portland and Cromwell were both part of Middletown and Hall was not considered to be a resident of a different town.) Hall willed the property to his son Captain Samuel Hall, who in turn deeded it to his son David. David’s daughter Sarah (Hall) Churchill acquired the property, passing it to her son and her grandson. The house was then sold back to David Augustus Hall, the great-great-grandson of the house’s builder, who held the property until his death in 1923. At this time it was purchased by Sarah Hall Churchill’s granddaughter Ayala Churchill. Following her death the house was bought by her first cousin (once removed) and is therefore still in the family, being owned by Deacon Hall’s great-great-grandson’s grand nephew. Family tradition maintains that the north ell was a small vacant house near the quarries, given to an early Hall in payment for a debt. According to the same sources the structure was divided south of the stairwell in the 1880’s to form a two family house.

Originally a more agriculturally oriented area, this neighborhood retains only two other 18th century houses (see 492, 497 Main Street) and few 19th century houses. Early-to-mid 20th century styles, most with Colonial Revival style detailing or design, have filled in the area as farming activity declined in the 20th century. Carefully preserved by members of the same family for over 270 years, the Deacon Samuel Hall House is one of Portland’s most remarkable houses.

Burial

Inscription: Deacon, in his 77th year.

Note: Original burial in Old Quarry Yard Cemetery, but later removed to the Episcopal Church Yard Cemetery on Main Street. This section was first known as East Middletown, and after 1767 as Chatham.(From The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research)

Burial: Trinity Church Cemetery Portland Middlesex County Connecticut, USA

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hinsdale genealogy - descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Dedham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield, database, Internet Archive, entry for Robert Hinsdale; extracted from Sanford C. Hinsdale, Herbert Cornelius Andrews, book of the same name (Lombard Illinois: A. H. Andrews, 1906), page 70.

• Source S16 International Genealogical Index - Individual Record - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Hinsdale genealogy - descendants of Robert Hinsdale of Dedham, Medfield, Hadley and Deerfield, database, Internet Archive, entry for Robert Hinsdale; extracted from Sanford C. Hinsdale, Herbert Cornelius Andrews, book of the same name (Lombard Illinois: A. H. Andrews, 1906), page 70.
• Source: S4 Record ID Number: MH:S4 Ancestry Family Trees, Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Repository: #R1 Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=22373421&pid=1274075599
• Repository: R1 Record ID Number: MH:R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com
• Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County Connecticut pg. 663
• Record ID Number: MH:I932
• Find A Grave: Memorial #9040494
• 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. 154. https://archive.org/stream/middletownupperh00adam#page/154/mode/1up see at archive.org