Anne (Mitford) Hall (1620 - bef. 1687)

Born 1620 in Bristol, England

Died before 11 Apr 1687 before age 67 in New York, New York

Biography

Anna Mitfort aka Anna Medford, aka Anna Cuyck/Quick

Thomas Hall of Gloucester, England, m. Anne Mitfort of Bristol, wid. of Wm Cuyck of N. A., where he resided, and who was probably this Thomas. In 1643 he was one of the eight men representing the people who memorialized the States-General on the subject of their defenceless and forlorn condition. On Lady Mody attempting to form a settlement in Gd in 1643, he followed her there. Jan. 5, 1655, he bought a parcel of land in said town of Richard Cloughs, as per town rec. In 1664 he took the oath of allegiance to the English in N. Y. Signed his name "Thomas Hall" ^[1]

Thomas Hall/Halen (Van Clocester or Gloucester?, Eng) married [Banns] 17 Nov 1641 to Anna Mitfort/Medford (Van Bristol], Wed'e Van Willem Cuyck (or Quick?) as recorded in the New Amsterdam Church [page 11].

Thomas Hall appears frequently in the Records of New Amsterdam (see the index of RNA), and as a sponsor at numerous baptisms in the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church, but never as a parent. Thomas Hall died before 9 Oct 1669 [RNA 6:203], when his widow, Anna, first appeared in the courts to settle his accounts and debts. I do not know if he had any children, and David Riker does not list any in his Directory [page 669].

Thomas Hall came to the South River (Delaware) in 1635, in the employ of an Englishman, named Mr. Homs, being the same who intended to take Fort Nassau at that time and rob us of the South River. This Thomas Hall ran away from his master, came to the Manhatans and hired himself as a farmer's man to Jacob van Curlur. Becoming a freeman he has made a tobacco plantation upon the land of Wouter van Twyler, and he has been also a farm-superintendent; and this W. van Twyler knows the fellow. Thomas Hall dwells at present upon a small bowery belonging to the Honorable Company^[2]

Thomas hall was one of the signers of a bold memorial to the States General was prepared, and was signed on July 26, 1649, "in the name and on the behalf of the commonalty of New Netherland," by Van der Donck and ten others, present or former members of the board of Nine Men. In this memorial, which is printed in 'Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York_, I. 259-261', the representatives request the Dutch government to enact measures for the encouragement of emigration to the province, to grant "suitable municipal [or civil] government, ...somewhat resembling the laudable government of the Fatherland,"

Marriage

Anna Mitfort/Medford married:

1) Willem Cuyck William had died before Nov 17, 1741.

2) Thomas Hall, as Thomas Halen, married Anna Mitfort (Medford), widow of Willem Cuyck/Quick; Banns were read on 17 Nov 1641 at the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, Page 11^[3]. Thomas Hall died before 9 Oct 1669 [RNA 6:203]

Children

They apparently had no children.

Other Church Events

• NARDC Bapt. Record: 1642 Jan 01; Jeurgie Hans; Jeurgie; Richart Black-roshen, Anna Mitfort .

Residences

Anna Mitfort was living in greater New York City, New York on jan 1, 1642.

Death

Anna Medford died after 1674, and before 11 April 1687. Her husband Thomas Hall died before 1669.

Will of Anna Medford^[4]

In the Name of God, Amen, know all men that on the 31st day of August, 1669, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Anna Medford, widow of Thomas Hall, did appeare before me, Nicholas Bayard, Esq., Secretary of the Worshipfull Mayor's Court, being sickly and weak in body." She leaves all her estate to the two cousins of her deceased husband Unfree Underhill and Mary Underhill, wife of Richard Hicks. She makes free her negro man named Frans, on account of his true services, and the desire of her late husband, and gives him "a small parcel of ground lying about the Great Kill, on the Island of Manhattan."

Makes Cornelius Steenwyck, Johanes Van Brugh, and John Lawrence "Old Aldermen of the City," executors.

Witnesses, Lambert Huyberts Moll, Abm Ver Planck, Warner Wessels. Thomas Dongan, Lieutenant - General and Governor.

To all, etc. Know ye that at a Court of Record, held in New York, on Tuesday, April 5th, the will of Anna Medford was proved, and Humphrey Underhill, being next of kin, was made administrator. April 11, 1687 (or 1 April 1687?).

Sources

1. ↑ Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N Y., From Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700
2. ↑ http://www.fullbooks.com/Narrative-of-New-Netherland3.html Narrative of New Netherland, by J. F. Jameson, Editor, Part 3 out of 4
3. ↑ NARDC Marriage Record, page 11: 1641 17 Nov; Thomas Halen, jm van Clocester; Anna Mitfort van Bristol, wid Willem Cuyck
4. ↑ Pelletreau, William S., Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, pub. as Collections of the New York Historical Society (Vol. I, 1665-1707, pub. 1892), p. 41 (will of Anna Medford);

• New York Church Records: Samuel S. Purple's 'Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York, Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801.'; The beginning records show the date the Banns were registered, NOT the date of marriage. Starting on 9/20/1673 marriage dates are given.

• Source: bergen County Geneological Files Early Bergen County Families, compiled by Pat Wardell,---Hall]

• Source: 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=15257289&pid=281
• Repository: R-1262369650 Name: Ancestry.com

• Source: Narratives of New Netherland: 1606-1664 edited by J. Franklin Jameson [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909] 359-377;

• Source: Pelletreau, William S., Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York, pub. as Collections of the New York Historical Society (Vol. I, 1665-1707, pub. 1892), p. 41 (will of Anna Medford);

• Source: 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=15257289&pid=280
• Repository: R-1262369650 Name: Ancestry.com

Acknowledgements

• Mitford-34 was created by Gyda Arber through the import of Gyda Family Tree (3).ged on Nov 13, 2014.