Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 77

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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Ichabod, 1680; married Hannah 8. George, 1682; married, July 12, 1710, Deb- orah Briggs. 9. Anne, 1684; married, Janu- ary 29, 1712, Gershom Stetson.

(III) John, son of Deacon Thomas (2) King, was born in Scituate in 1677; died in 1721. He lived in Marshfield. His will was dated May 5, 1721. In 1730 guardians were appointed for Elisha, Anne and Thomas King, children of John King, late of Marshfield. He married Rebecca - -, who married (sec- ond) December 9, 1727, Stephen Stodder, of Hingham. Children, born in Marshfield: I. John, August II, 1704; mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, July 25, 1706 ; married, December 4, 1727, David Lapham. 3. Joseph, December 17, 1707; married Thankful 4. Benja- min, February 27, 1709 ; married (first) Mary -; (second) Sarah Fearing. 5. Jerusha, June, 1711 ; married John Hall. 6. Thomas, July 25, 1713 ; guardian appointed in 1732. 7. Anne, guardian appointed in 1732. 8. Elisha, August 19, 1717 ; died September 23, 1737. 9. Elizabeth, May 7, 1720; died November 8, I735.

(IV) John (2), son of John (1) King, was born in Marshfield, August II, 1704. He bought on December 16, 1740, the tenth pew in the Marshfield church. He was a farmer

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and had a share in the division of his father's lands in 1747, and the same year sold his home- stead there and removed to Norwich, Connecti- cut, where he bought a farm of sixty-two acres with buildings. In 1766 he sold his Norwich property and removed to Dutchess county, New York, where he died. He married, Jan- uary 30, 1730, Mary Clift, born in Marshfield, 1710, daughter of William and Lydia (Wills) Clift. Children, born in Marshfield: 1. John, February 10, 1731. 2. Thomas, April 17, 1736. 3. Lydia, 1738. 4. William, April 5, 1740; mentioned below. 5. Mary.

(V) William, son of John (2) King, was born in Marshfield, April 5, 1740; died No- vember 29, 1815. He was a farmer and cooper. He removed with his father to Norwich, at the age of seven, and there learned his trade. He married there October 28, 1765, Hannah Lamphear, born January 30, 1743, died May 28, 1825, daughter of Solomon and Mary ( Pal- mer) Lamphear. He settled first in Norwich, where his first child was born. Soon after- wards they went on horseback to Monson, Massachusetts, and located in the south part of the town, near the line of Stafford, Con- necticut, in 1769. A year later they moved to what was known as the Munn district, nearer the centre of the town, and this farm has since been known as the King place. This land was given him by his father. In 1793 he removed to Palmer and bought the Quintin Hotel, and soon built the hotel now or lately occupied by Mr. Trumble as a private dwelling. He also bought the Deacon Quintin farm, north of the old centre. In 1801 he gave the hotel prop- erty to his son, John, and the farm to his son, Wills. He was part owner of a saw mill on Wigwam brook. He was a minute-man in the revolution and served also in Captain Reuben Munn's company, Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, in 1777, and marched to reinforce the Army of the North. He had a good busi- ness. During the winter season he made casks for holding potash and in the spring he col- lected ashes from the farmers and manu- factured the potash, carrying it to Norwich, about forty miles, where there was a ready market for it. Here he would purchase sup- plies of sugar, molasses, tea, codfish, rum, etc., and trade it at home for more ashes, etc His will was dated October 7, 1814. His old account book is now or was lately owned by Henry A. King. Children: I. Wills, born August 20, 1766, in Norwich. 2. Walter, born in Stafford, Connecticut, November II, 1769. Born in Monson : 3. Amasa, July 27, 1773;

mentioned below. 4. Polly, March 9, 1775; died March 18, 1814. 5. John, November 28, 1776; died August 26, 1856. 6. Sally, March II, 1778; died October 12, 1820. 7. Roswell, March 14, 1781 ; died April 11, 1869. 8. Lucy, December 27, 1782 ; died September 18, 1859.

(VI) Amasa, son of William King, was born in Monson, July 27, 1773; died there March 20, 1848. He married, in 1799, in Monson, Azuba Lewis, born in Brimfield, Feb- ruary 6, 1779, died October 10, 1857, daughter of Samuel and Mary ( Nichols) Lewis. Chil- dren, born in Monson : I. Lewis, March 26, 1800; died February 23, 1880. 2. John, April 2, 1802; died January 1, 1856. 3. Hiram, March 8, 1804; died August 16, 1872. 4. Orrin, March 16, 1806; died September 30, 1837. 5. Amasa, February 26, 1808; men- tioned below. 6. Dwight, January 19, 1810; died July 28, 1888. 7. Austin, May 13, 1812; died June 24, 1889. 8. Mary, May 29, 1814; died March 15, 1849. 9. William, September 8, 1816. 10. Azuba, December 18, 1819; died October 30, 1872.

(VII) Amasa (2), son of Amasa (1) King, was born in Monson, February 26, 1808; died there October 9, 1881. He was a prominent business man of Monson, a dealer in horses and cattle. He married Adaline Munn, born March II, 1811, died August 31, 1894, daugh- ter of Rice and Lavinia (Shaw) Munn, and sister of O. D. Munn, editor of the Scientific American. Children, born in Monson, except the first: I. George Munn, born in Hampden ; died September 15, 1893. 2. Adeliza P., Au- gust 5, 1837; died September 12, 1838. 3. Sophronia, February 4, 1839 ; married Charles Fuller. 4. Frank H., May 9, 1841 ; mentioned below. 5. Maria Louisa, October 23, 1844; married Edward Gallup.

(VIII) Frank H., son of Amasa (2) King, was born in Monson, May 9, 1841 ; died sud- denly, November 19, 1907, in his summer home in Brimfield. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, supplemented by a course in Monson Academy, and began his business life in carrying on the business of his father, that of buying and killing cattle for beef. He enlisted in Company G, Forty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, at the opening of the civil war, going to Newbern, North Carolina, in 1862, in the quartermaster's department. He was there through the Penin- sular campaign. On his return to Monson he resumed his old business for a time, and sub- sequently engaged in the grocery business. He was appointed deputy sheriff under A. M.

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Bradley, and went to Springfield as turnkey at the old jail, remaining eighteen months. The ensuing six years he continued as a grocer at Monson, but sold his store, and accepted the position of jailer, which he held three years, until November 27, 1883. On May I, 1887, he assumed charge of the Hampden County Truant School at Springfield, which he conducted for nine and one-half years, and afterwards devoted his time to the care of his property and investments. He resided in Springfield, with a summer home at Brim- field, the ancestral home of the Hayward fam- ily, which he had restored and improved. He and his wife were attendants of the First Con- gregational Church at Springfield. He was a member of the Winthrop Club, of Day Spring Lodge of Free Masons, and about four months before his death he became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He mar- ried in Monson, December 10, 1872, Mary A. Hayward, daughter of Hiram and Seraph (Brown) Hayward. Mr. King was a man of quiet tastes, but unusually social nature, with a large circle of friends.

HALL Following is some account of the descendants of John Hall, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Hart- ford, Middletown and Guilford, Connecticut. The Halls were numerous among the early set- tlers of New England, and John Hall was a name of very frequent occurrence, making the tracing of genealogical lines difficult in places where the members of the family were numerous, but in the case of this family the descent has been correctly traced. Lower de- fines hall "a manor house"; and states that in medieval documents there are found the ex- pressions, "Atte Halle, Del Hall, De Aula, &c." The principal apartment in all old man- sions was the hall, and in feudal times it was a petty court of justice as well as the scene of entertainment. The chief servitor when the lord was resident, or the tenant when he was non-resident, would naturally acquire such a surname ; and hence its frequency.

(1) "Mr. John Hall, Esq.," the immigrant ancestor of the Middletown family and part of the Guilford branch of the name of Hall, was born in 1584, and came from the county of Kent, England, in the summer of 1633, set- tling first in Cambridge, afterward in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, where his name is men- tioned on Mr. Eliot's church record, with the prefix "Mr." of respect. Mr. John Hall and Mr. John Oldham, with two others, had the

honor of being the pioneers in the discovery of Connecticut, and of projecting the planta- tion of the river towns, Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield. Governor Winthrop men- tions the expedition of Oldham under date of September 4, 1633. Drake says they were at Connecticut river in October, 1633, and re- turned to the Bay towns on January 20, fol- lowing, when they reported concerning the rich bottom lands of Connecticut, which led to the emigrations from Dorchester to Wethers- field and Windsor, and from Cambridge to Hartford in 1635-36. Mr. Hall was made freeman at Boston, May 6, 1635, and was soon after one of those who joined the company of Hooker and Stone in the great emigration of 1635-36. Mr. Hall drew the home lot No. 77, of six acres, on "Lord's Hill," at Hartford, subsequently owned by Mr. Spencer's family, and later still by Mrs. Sigourney, and now by Governor Catlin. He also bought lands the same year of William Hooker and William Bloomfield. Mr. Hall was by trade a car- penter and held a very respectable position among his associates. He did not remove his family to Connecticut until 1639. In 1650 he sold his home lot and land to the family of William Spencer, and with his three sons, his daughter and her husband, Thomas Wetmore, removed to Middletown, or Mattabesit, as it was then called, which had just been purchased of the great sachem, or seguim, Sowheag. Mr. Hall was then sixty-six years old, and was probably the patriarch of the new settlement. His home lot at Middletown was located on the northwest corner of Main and Washing- ton streets, and contained five acres running to the "Great River," and adjoined the home lot of his son-in-law, Thomas Wetmore, on the north. At a grand court of Connecticut held at Hartford, March 19, 1659, John Hall "was appoynted for entry and recording such goods as are subject to the custome for Mid- dletowne." Before and afterward he filled divers other places of honor and trust. "Mr. John Hall died at Middletown, May 26, 1673, in the eighty-ninth year of his age." He states in his will dated May 14, 1673, a few days be- fore his death, that he is nearly eighty-nine years old, and that it was the fortieth year of his being in New England. He was born, therefore, in 1584, in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth. He had a wife Esther who died long be- fore he did, and four children born in England. The children were: John, Richard, Sarah, and Samuel, next mentioned.

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Esther Hall, was born in England in 1626, and came to New England with his father's fam- ily in 1633, at the age of seven years. He be- came a freeman at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1654. His home lot was five acres, located on the east side of Main street, and extended to the Connecticut river. The mansion house block, so called, occupies the front of his lot on Main street. He was a farmer and a large landholder. He also learned his father's trade. He was one of the signers of the plantation covenant of June 1, 1639. He was admitted to the church at Middletown, October 19, 1668, and died in 1690, aged sixty-five years. By his will, dated February 13, 1690, he gave most of his estate, inventoried at £324, to his three sons, Samuel to have the house and barn ; John the lot in town; and Thomas two acres of the house lot ; and Samuel and John to have the carpenters tools. Samuel Hall married, in 1662, Elizabeth Cooke, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke, of Guilford. Thomas Cooke went to Guilford with Rev. Henry Whitfield, and was one of the signers of the plantation covenant of June 1, 1639, made on the passage from the county of Kent, England, to Guilford. His name precedes that of Rev. Henry Whitfield on the list, and is the fourth after that of William Hall, son of Gilbert Hall, of Rolvenden, in the county of Kent. Thomas Cooke was a little more than twenty when he settled in Guilford, and Elizabeth Cooke was his eldest child. She was admit- ted to the church October 29, 1676. After the death of her husband she returned to Guil- ford and lived with her son, Deacon Thomas Hall. Children : Samuel, John, and Thomas, next mentioned.

(III) Deacon Thomas, youngest son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cooke) Hall, was born at Middletown, August 29, 1671, and died Feb- ruary 1, 1753. He removed while young with his mother to Guilford, where he spent the re- mainder of his life, a prominent and much re- spected inhabitant. In 1727 he was chosen deacon of the first church of Guilford, which office he held until his decease. He was cap- tain of a militia company, moderator of town and society meetings, selectman, and so on. Thomas Hall married (first) February I, 1692, Mary Highland or Hiland, born May 12, 1672; third daughter of George and Mary Cruttenden Highland, the latter being a daughter of Abraham Cruttenden. George Hiland first appears at Guilford, Sep-

tember 4, 1651, when he took the oath of fidelity. He was

then a very

young man. He married Mary Cruttenden in 1665. Mary (Hiland) Hall died in April, 1738, and Thomas Hall married (second) Rachel Spinning, widow of John Spinning, and daughter of John Savage, of Middletown. She died January 16, 1752. Very late in life Thomas married (third) Widow Abigail Seward. The children of Deacon Thomas Hall, all by first wife, Mary Hiland, and born in Guilford, were: Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hiland and John.

of (IV) Hiland, second son Deacon Thomas and Mary (Hiland) Hall, was born at Guilford, September 30, 1703, and always lived in the town of his nativity. He was not an eminent, but a very respectable member of society, and Deacon John Burgis, who kept a record of the morality in Guilford, places the honorable prefix "Mr." before his name. He died June 16, 1781. He married, March 17, 1725, Rachel Bishop, sixth daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hall) Bishop, of Guilford. Mary Hall was a daughter of John Hall, of Guilford, and Elizabeth (Smyth) Hall, daughter of George and Sarah Smyth, of New Haven, and granddaughter of William and Hester Hall, immigrants in 1639 from Rolvenden, Kent county, England, to Guilford, with Rev. Henry Whitfield. The children of Hiland Hall by his wife Mary were, therefore, descendants (through the female line) of William Hall, one of the first settlers of Guilford, 1639, as well as of John Hall (in the male line), one of the early immigrants to Massachusetts, and a pioneer thence to Connecticut. Children, all born in Guilford: Thomas, Hiland, Rachel, Abraham, Gilbert, Thankful, Stephen and Eben.

(V) Thomas (2), eldest son of Hiland and Rachel (Bishop) Hall, was born in Guilford, February II, 1726. In April, 1759, he re- moved to Woodbury, Roxbury parish, and be- came the owner of about one hundred acres of land on "Good Hill." In November, 1778, he sold his farm on Good Hill to Truman Hinman, of Woodbury, for "£2600 Lawful Money," and bought a lot of land in Williams- town, Massachusetts, a right of three hundred and fifty acres in Cornwall, Vermont, and the farm at North Bennington, where his son Na- thaniel afterward lived and died. He removed to Bennington in the spring of 1779 and died there, December 23, 1802. He married, April IO, 1751, Phebe Beachley, second daughter of David Beachley, of East Guilford, and his wife, Abigail (Hand) Beachley, of East Hampton, Long Island. She was born Octo-

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ber 10, 1720, and died July 29, 1801. Phebe's immigrant ancestor was Thomas Blatchley, of Boston, 1674. His son Moses, born March 29, 1650, died in Guilford, 1693. His son David, born June, 1689, died October, 1751, married Abigail Hand, May 14, 1717. Chil- dren : Rachel, Phebe, Thomas, and Nathaniel, the subject of the next paragraph.

(VI) Nathaniel, youngest child of Thomas and Phebe ( Beachley ) Hall, was born at Rox- bury, Connecticut, March 4, 1763, and in 1779 went with his father to Bennington, Vermont, where he died March 4, 1849. He and his wife became members of the Baptist church about the year 1800, and continued such until their deaths, he being deacon of the church for the last thirty years of his life. He was married October 12, 1794, by Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, at Norfolk, Connecticut, to Abigail Hubbard (see Hubbard), who was born at Middletown, Connecticut, October 18, 1767, died at Bennington, March 24, 1846. Their children were: Hiland, Phebe, Abigail, Na- thaniel, Anna (died young), Anna, Laura and Polly.

(VII) Governor Hiland (2), eldest son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Hubbard) Hall, was born at Bennington, Vermont, July 20, 1795, and died in Springfield, Massachusetts, De- cember 18, 1885. At about the age of twenty he commenced the study of law in the office of David Robinson, of Bennington, and was ad- mitted to practice at the Bennington county bar in 1819. In 1827 he represented the town in the legislature, and in 1829 was elected state's attorney of Bennington county. In 1832 he was elected representative in congress to fill the unexpired term of Jonathan Hunt, of Brattleboro, who died before serving out his full term. To this position Mr. Hall was returned by five consecutive re-elections, mak- ing his term in congress nearly eleven years. Subsequently he served as bank commissioner for the state of Vermont. In 1846 he was elected supreme judge. In 1850 President Fillmore appointed him second.comptroller of the United States treasury, which office he held until the admission of California into the Union, when he was appointed land commis- sioner in that state with General James Wil- son, of New Hampshire, and Judge Harry I. Thornton, of Alabama, as associates, Mr. Hall being made chairman of the commission. His duties in this position were the settlement of contested land claims between the United States and the Spaniards, and brought into full use the fitting qualifications which his life had

developed. Among the many important cases brought before the commission was the fa- mous Mariposa claim of General John C. Fre- mont, explorer, and afterward candidate for the presidency of the United States, involving millions of dollars, and in the adjustment and settlement of which the points of law involved included, almost without exception, all points that would be liable to arise in the adjudica- tion of similar claims. The opinion of the tribunal in this case was written by Judge Hall, and the points were so fully and clearly elucidated, that many eminent jurists wrote Judge Hall expressing their admiration of the opinion. In 1854 he returned from Califor- nia and took up the vocation of farmer at Bennington, with the expectation that his pub- lic life was completed, but he was chosen governor of Vermont on the Whig ticket, and before the close of the first was elected to a second term in that office. After that time he lived practically a retired life, devoting him- self to pursuits consistent with his taste. He spent his winters in New York and Spring- field, Massachusetts. He retained his mental faculties to the last, took a lively interest in politics and possessed a great store of political reminiscences. From 1884 he was the oldest living ex-congressman. He was married at Rockingham, Vermont, October 27, 1818, by David Campbell, Esq., the Rev. Lathrop at- tending, to Dolly Tuttle Davis (see Tuttle VI), who was born in Rockingham, March 2, 1792, and died in North Bennington, Janu- ary 8, 1879. On the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. Governor and Mrs. Hall cele- brated the event at the home of their son-in- law, Hon. T. W. Park, at North Bennington, nearly three hundred guests being assembled, none of whom were under fifty years of age. "Gov. Hall read to his guests from a paper on the genealogy of his family-significantly remarking that respectable ancestors will not avail much to our own respectability if we are not respectable ourselves. It appears that he was the fourth in successive generations in his family who has been permitted by a kind prov- idence to celebrate the 'golden wedding,' as follows: Hiland Hall and Dolly Tuttle Davis, married October 27, 1818; his father and mother, Deacon Nathaniel Hall and Abigail Hubbard, who lived together fifty-one years and five months: his grandparents, Thomas Hall and Phebe Beachley, who lived together fifty years and three months, and his great- grandparents, Hiland Hall and Rachel Bishop, who lived together fifty-six years and three

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months. Mrs. Hall's parents, Henry Davis and Mary Tuttle, lived together sixty years lacking three days." At this time Governor Hall resided with his son-in-law upon the estate which was settled upon in 1779 by his grandfather, Thomas Hall, and had ever since been in possession of the family. Governor Hall was president of the Vermont Historical Society for some years, and resigned that po- sition in 1862. In 1868 he issued his "Early History of Vermont," pronounced by Rev. Pliny H. White the ablest contribution to the history of the state thus far made. The six- tieth anniversary of the wedding of Governor and Mrs. Hall occurred on Sunday, the 27th of October, 1878, when he was eighty-three and she eighty-six years of age. At that time their children, grandchildren and great-grand- children numbered over thirty. Mrs. Hall died at North Bennington, Vermont, January 8. 1879, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was remarkable for strength of character. Her perception of truth was deep and clear, and her purpose to love, obey and illustrate it was inflexible. Therefore, her children loved and obeyed her, her husband trusted her, and all felt that she was a strong true friend, whose counsel was wise, and conduct good. For more than half a century she was a worthy member of the Congregational church. She was ever ready to respond to calls for tender- ness and care. During the rebellion she was abundant in labor for the soldiers in the field and hospital, and for the needy at home. No worthy appeal ever reached her in vain. The children of this union were: Marshall Carter, Eliza Davis, Henry Davis, Hiland Hubbard, Nathaniel Blatchley, Laura Vanderspiegel, John Vanderspiegel, and Charles, whose sketch follows.

(VIII) Charles, youngest child of Gov- ernor Hiland and Dolly (Davis) Hall, was born in Bennington, Vermont, November 18, 1832, died in Springfield, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 18, 1907. He had what schooling the district school of his native town afforded, and went one year to the academy in North Ben- nington. His early life was uneventful, and he did not leave home until he was nineteen years of age. When his father went to Cali- fornia as a member of the United States land commission, Charles accompanied him as clerk. He remained in California three years, and then returned to Bennington, Vermont, and studied law with his brother, Nathaniel B. Hall. Later he took a year in the law school at Albany, New York, where he received a

diploma in the spring of 1855. Almost im- mediately he went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he opened a law office. But he did not remain in the law long enough to establish a practice for he suddenly decided to abandon a professional career. He had always had a taste for a commercial life and he determined to gratify it, which he did by purchasing a store in the town of Oshkosh, where for eleven years he traded with the lumbermen and farm- ers of the region. Events in Oshkosh were not altogether smooth, for shortly after he took the store nearly the whole town was de- stroyed by fire, and the buildings owned by Mr. Hall were burned to the ground. The store, however, he speedily rebuilt. When Lincoln was president Mr. Hall was appointed postmaster of Oshkosh, a position which he held until Johnson changed the policy of the administration. He left Oshkosh in 1867, re- turning to Vermont to take the position of president of the North Bennington Boot and Shoe Company, which had been newly formed. After the new enterprise was thoroughly launched, it was the wish of the stockholders and directors that Mr. Hall should go to Chicago and open wholesale warerooms. He accepted the proposal and the new establish- ment was located at the corner of Wabash avenue and Lake street. It was in 1871 that the Chicago store was started. The following October the great fire occurred, and the build- ing containing the warerooms was leveled to the ground. Mr. Hall resided on Michigan avenue, a part of the city which escaped the conflagration. During the terrible days that followed the fire, he joined others in the work of giving relief to the people whom the fire had rendered destitute. With Professor Swing, the noted Preacher, Pullman, of parlor car fame, and David Gage, who conducted a large hotel in Chicago, he was instrumental in form- ing the organization for the relief of young men, known as the Young Men's Christian Union, and was its vice-president and a di- rector. These men were among those who disinterestedly gave their time and money to help the people whom the fire left homeless. Mr. Hall remained in Chicago until 1873. when he retired from the Vermont company and went to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he purchased a china and glassware store at 395 Main street. From this beginning evolved the business now continued under his name at 411-413 Main street. His business career in Springfield was successful. He was a staunch Republican in politics. In 1893 he served one

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 77

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008