George Hale (1662 - 1698)

Born 1662 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1698 at about age 36 in Lancaster County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

George Hale is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

George Heale/Hale^[1]

George's father, Nicholas Hale/Haile/Heale immigrated in 1652 and was granted land in Gloucester county, Virginia. George married Ellen, who made her will on October 15, 1710 and who died before December 13, 1710. He was a sworn justice of Lancaster county court, in 1684. In 1685 and 1697 he served as a member of the House of Burgessses from Lancaster County.^[2] George made his Will December 30, 1697 and it was proved in Lancaster county, January 12, 1698. Date of birth is therefore after 1657 and date of death is prior to 1698. ^[3]

George Hale and his wife, Ellen, who died in 1710, left in addition to their son Nicholas who settled in Maryland, the following children: ^[4]

1. Hannah, who married Col. William Ball, the third generation of a distinguished name in Virginia;
2. Capt. George Hale, Justice and Sheriff of Lancaster, who married Catherine Chinn, daughter of John Chlnn, and among whose children were
   1. Ellen, who married David Ball; and
   2. Catherine who married John Cannaday of Maryland;
3. John, a Justice of Lancaster County;
4. Joseph, a Justice, whose daughter
   1. Anne married Moore Fauntleroy, son of William of Richmond County;
5. Ellen;
6. Elizabeth;
7. Sarah, who married Newman Brockenborough of Richmond County;
8. William, who married Priscilla Downman, daughter of William and Million (Travers) Downman, and granddaughter of Col. Rawleigh Travers.

Researchers Notes

George's Will was probated Jan 12, 1698 and lists all his children. His wife's will also lists the same children. George and John Hale laid out the town of Lancaster, Virginia in 1682. He and all his brothers and their families settled in the tidewater counties of Chesapeake Bay.

Descendants of William and Priscilla (Downman) Hale, through their son George who married Sarah Smith, spread to Goochland County and into West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. George Hale was a Burgess from Lancaster County in 1759, but later moved to Fauquier. His wife, Sarah (Smith) Hale, was the daughter of Phillip Smith, son of Capt. John Smith of Purton, Gloucester County, and Mary (Mathews) Smith, a great-granddaughter of Governor Samuel Mathews.

Sources

1. ↑ Heale, George - A3709; died 1698, Lancaster Co.: 1693, 1695-97 (Burgess). accessed 29 August 2021
2. ↑ Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia Register. Albany, N. Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers. 1902. Pages 89, 91
3. ↑ Abstracts of Lancaster County, Virginia Wills 1653-1800; {Ida J. Lee} HEALE, Geo. 30 Dec. 1697. Rec. 2 Feb. 1698. Sons: George, Joseph, John, Nicholas. Daus: Sarah, Elizabeth, Ellen. Exor: Geo. Heale. Overseers: Robt. Carter and my son-in-law William Ball. Wits: Joseph Ball, Jas. Innis,
4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/rootsinvirginiaa00hale/page/8/mode/1up (see image)

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