Nathaniel
Hall
Born about in Coventry, Warwickshire, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Mary (Wilcox) Hall
— married
about 1626 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
John Hall and Stephen Hall
Died after
after about age 33
in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
This profile is part of the Hall Name Study.
Anderson's Great Migration:
Nathaniel Hall, of unknown origins, migrated about 1634, settling in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Except the three acre 1634 land record, there is no further record for this immigrant in New England.[1]
The Record:
1 Sept 1634. Dorchester, Massachusetts. "It is ordered that Mr. Nathaniell Hall, shall have 3 acres which was formerly graunted to Mr. Captin Lovell."[2] The History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts lists Nathaniel as a grantee of Dorchester land
before 1636.[3]
The Tradition from The Halls of New England[4]
Speaking of the Widow Mary Hall: "It is not known who her husband was, but tradition asserts that he came with his family in the same ship with his brother John, to Charlestown, Mass., in 1630, descendants of the two families, settled in Sutton, Mass, and in Granville, NY, have claimed a relationship to each other. There is no name of Hall, on any of the early records of Massachusetts which gives any probability of being his, except that of "Mr. Nathaniel Hall" to whom the town of Dorchester assigned Sept. 1, 1634, a lot of three acres which had been previously assigned to Capt. Lovell. This is the only time that the name of "Mr. Nathaniel Hall" is mentioned any of the records. The honorable prefix of Mr. (which was accorded to only a very few) shows that he held a very respectable rank in society."[5]
Alleged brothers
John Hall of unknown origins arrived 1630 settled first in Boston, then went to Charlestown, Barnstable, and Yarmouth.[6]
The above John has been conflated, by several sources, to include a John Hall who became a freeman 6 May 1635 (perhaps Dorchester), implying his arrival before 1634. A Mr. John Hall was admitted as inhabitant of Salem in 1637 and after that there is no record. The Great Migration Series considers them to be two separate men. [7] Neither of them give any indication of being related to Nathaniel.
Conclusion:[8] There is no reason to believe that Nathaniel was the husband of Widow Mary Hall. Only a 200 year old tradition says that she arrived with her husband. There are no records for her or her children until the 1650's, fifteen to twenty years after the arrival of Nathaniel.
Sources
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Link at AmericanAncestors ($) p. 194. Sketch of Nathaniel Hall.
- ↑ "Dorchester Town Records" City of Boston. Fourth Report of the Record Commisioners. (1880) p. 7 Also examined original. Vol 1 p. 11.
- ↑ "History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts by Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society (Dorchester, Mass.); Clapp, Ebenezer, 1801-1861 (https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofd00dorch/page/38/) pp 39, 56. "What became of him cannot be ascertained, but probably he remained in the town but a short time."
- ↑ Hall, Rev. David B. The Halls of New England. (Albany, NY: Joe; Munsell's Sons, 1883.) pp. 294, 295
- ↑ Halls of New England, 294-295
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640. A Concise Compendium. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) p. 147
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. pp 193, 194 Sketch of John Hall.
- ↑ Anne B 23 Oct 2020.
Other Sources used/listed at one time.
- Family Card for Nathaniel Hall at Coffey Family Tree
- Mabel E. Preston Wiggins, BEGATS, A chronicle of the McMillan, Preston, Wiggins and Binford Families, Ellsworth American Publishing Company Ellsworth, Maine; 1979; pp. 248-251
- Calnek, William Arthur. History of the County of Annapolis, Including Old Port Royal and Acadia (W. Briggs, Toronto, 1897) p. 518 John Hall claiming descent from Nathaniel.
- Pedigree Resource File CD 49. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Intellectual Reserve, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 2002) database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3HYX-VZY : accessed 2016-04-20), entry for Nathaniel /Hall/. Notes: Removed.
- Boston, MA: Old Cemeteries of Boston, 1649-1920, page 246 . One stone for Joseph and Nathaniel Hall, unlikely to be this Nathaniel.
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In 1631, the first meeting house in Massachusetts Bay was built in Dorchester. Settlers in Roxbury united themselves with the Dorchester Church. Mr. Warham held a lecture there every fourth day of the week. It was the storehouse for military equipment & during crises with the indigenous peoples was pallisaded & guarded at night.<ref name="HoD"/>
In 1633, William Holmes erected a trading house on the river at Windsor, Connecticut (just north of what is now Hartford). Nearly half the population of Dorchester emigrated to the rich bottom lands of Connecticut as recommended by Nathaniel Hall & Oldham. The fields in Dorchester were rocky & many Dorchester residents engaged in the fur trade. The Connecticut patentees (Lord Brooke, Sir R Saltonstall, John Hampden & others) were preparing to take possession of their patent at the lower part of the river. By November 1635, as many as 60 Dorchester settlers had removed to Windsor. That the first winter, there was much suffering and loss of cattle. In spring 1636, Mr Warham proceeded to Windsor; his colleague, Mr. Maverick, had died in Boston the preceding winter.<ref name="HoD"/>
In 1633, Israel Stoughton built a water mill and by January 1634, the mill and a bridge over Neponset were completed and a burying ground was chosen. Israel Stoughton had an altercation with Governor Winthrop & was "explused from the house". Dorchester people tried in vain for a remission of his sentence. Roger Ludlow, a staunch defender of Dorchester, vocally protested Mr. Stoughton's reversal and campaigned to be Governor of Massachusetts Colony against the choice of Governor Haynes. By 1635, Roger renounced his public campaign against the current administration & was once again actively engaged in politics.<ref name="HoD"/>
In May 1634, the first General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony held by 24 delegates from 8 towns met & assessments were made:
In 1636, large grants of land were proffered to the Dorchester plantation to placate the disgruntled settlers. The 1636 Unquety Grant contained 6,000 acres. The New grant extended almost to the Rhode Island line. The mass exodus ceased in 1637.<ref name="HoD">History of Dorchester: pp. 33-38</ref>
edited by Richard Schamp
Can we mark spouses uncertain? I don't think we can. We could certainly mark the children's relationships to him uncertain.
We know that there was a widow Mary Hall, meaning she was married to a Hall.
We know that the only other male Hall anywhere near where she was, was Nathaniel Hall.
So he's a *candidate* for being her husband and father of her children.
As long as that remains in the text, with a link to him (and also on his narrative), I guess I'm okay with detaching him.
(My husband is a Hall descendant.)
edited by Jillaine Smith