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(III) Nicholas Doe, son of Samson Doe (2), was baptized at Durham, New Hamp- shire, June 7, 1719, by Rev. Hugh Adams. He was called a "minor son." He resided at Dur- ham, New Hampshire. Children : I. Nathaniel, settled in Newfield, Maine; soldier in the Rev- olution ; children : i. Dearborn, of Parson- field, Maine; ii. Henry,, of Augusta, Maine ; iii. Simon, of Fairfield, Maine ; iv. Nathaniel, of Waterville, Maine; v. John W., of Tam- worth, New Hampshire. 2. Joseph, set- tled in Newmarket, New Hampshire; sons : i. Walter, of Albany; ii. Joseph, of Somers- worth, New Hampshire; iii. Bartlett, of Sara- toga, New York; iv. Nicholas Churchill, drowned in Newmarket, New Hampshire. 3. Gideon, born 1740, settled in Wolfboro; re- moved to Parsonfield; married Abigail Con- ner. 4. John, born September 9, 1748, men- tioned below.
(IV) Deacon John Doe, son of Nicholas Doe, was born September 9, 1748, and died at Parsonfield, Maine, February 21, 1819. He was a corporal in the Revolution, in Captain Nathaniel Fales' company from August I to August 15, 1779, in the expedition to Major- bagaduce, which was ordered by General Lovel.
John Doe and his brother Gideon were among the first settlers of Parsonfield, Maine, coming from Wolfboro, New Hampshire, to Province Lake. They selected a beautiful spot on the slope of a hill, near a lake, and cleared the land for their homes. Camps were made and huts covered with bark, and the work was pushed vigorously, so that their wives and children joined them before the winter of 1775. A part of these lands were bought in later years by a descendant, William K. Doe, in 1875, and remodelled and rebuilt. He was selectman in 1785-91, and town clerk in 1785-86.
He married, December 27, 1773, Elizabeth
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Ames,, of Newmarket, New Hampshire. Children: I. Anne, born September 15, 1774, married Josiah Hannaford. 2. Bartlett, born June 22, 1776, died young. 3. John, Jr., born August 31, 1778, married, in 1800, Abigail Giddings; died January 24, 1821; ten chil- dren : Deborah, Betsey, John, Martha, Mary, Bartlett, Ira, Rufus, Maria, William K., who resided at Parsonfield. 4. Mary, born June 23, 1781, married Morris Leavitt, and had four children. 5. Betsey, born September 13, 1783, married David Crockett, and had eight children. 6. Bartlett, born July 30, 1785, mentioned below. 7. Sally, born July 29, 1787, married James Marston. 8. Comfort, born August II, 1790, married, 1809, Gideon Colcord; died 1833; children : Rufus, Eliz- abeth, Climena, Josiah, Clara, Mercy.
(V) Colonel Bartlett Doe, son of Deacon John Doe (4), was born on the homestead in Parsonfield, Maine, on the west slope of Doe Mountain, July 30, 1785, died there Feb- ruary II, 1872. The spot is most picturesque ; to the west lie the Green Mountains, and the beautiful plain below is dotted with lakes. Province Lake lies at the foot of the hill. On all sides in the distance are towering moun- tains, the rugged crest of Chocurua and even the summit of Mount Washington being vis- ible. He was a well-to-do farmer, of high moral character, a true gentleman of the old school. His courteous manner and generous nature endeared him to all. His tall com- manding presence and fine physique, together with his handsome features and deep, clear voice, made him easily a leader among men. He rose in the militia to colonel of the Second Regiment. Three of his sons, Bartlett, John S. and Charles F., went to San Francisco, California, and became prominent financiers.
He married (first), November 29, 1810, Mary Sanborn, born June 20, 1791, died May 22, 1863, daughter of John and Hannah ( Batchelder ) Sanborn, of Parsonfield. Her father was a farmer, born at Newmarket, New Hampshire, March 20, 1763, and removed to Parsonfield in 1787. He married (second), November 29, 1864, Mrs. Lydia (Lord) Moulton, widow of Cutting Moulton, of Par- sonfield, and daughter of Colonel Wentworth Lord. Children, all by the first wife: I. Martha A., (twin), born August 15, 18II, died September 9, 1869; married, April, 1833, Ira Moore, of Parsonfield. 2. Mary S. (twin), born August 15, 1811, died June 22, 1885; married, August 13, 1837, Jonathan Wedgwood, of Effingham, New Hampshire ;
she married (second) Oliver Jones, of Ray- mond, New Hampshire. 3. Alvah, born Aug- ust 28, 1813, mentioned below. 4. Amzi, born September 23, 1815, lost his life by accident, July 18, 1867; married, 1843, Lorania E. Wade, who died March 22, 1866; children: i. Arthur F., born December 16, 1844; mar- ried, January 12, 1882, Estelle E. Lombard ; ii. Calvin W., born December 3, 1846, married, October 16, 1868, Edna E. Hughes, (children : Edith L., born December 17, 1869, married Homer E. Sly, December 18, 1895; child, Helen M. Sly, born December 30, 1902; Earl O., born October 2, 1871, died October II, 1882), wife died December 12, 1878; children of Calvin W. and second wife, Jennie L. (Campbell) (married, April 30, 1881) Doe: Edna A., born January 18, 1883, married, September 29, 1905, Ralph J. Binney (chil- dren: Lawrence D. Binney, born August 15, 1906; Louise J. Binney, born November 26, 1907) ; Bartlett C., born February 9, 1889. 5. Hannah S., born March 9, 1818, died No- vember 2, 1902 ; married, May 17, 1859, Dan- iel Field, of Auburn, Maine. 6. Bartlett, born July 13, 1820, died April 18, 1906. 7. John S., born September 26, 1822, died January 23, 1894 ; married, February, 1890, Eleanor Guest, of Michigan. 8. Elizabeth A., born December 27, 1824, died January 27, 1891 ; married, No- vember 29, 1891, David Moulton, of Newfield, Maine, and have one child, Ella Frances. 9. Calvin, born April 6, 1827, died June 7, 1829. IO. Calvin, born February 20, 1829, died Aug- ust 17, 1846. II. Nancy H., born May 6, 1831, married, December 4, 1853, Samuel F. Kezar, of Parsonfield. 12. Charles F., born August 13, 1833, died January 16, 1904.
(VI) Hon. Alvah Doe, son of Colonel Bartlett Doe (5), was born at Parsonfield, Maine, August 28, 1813, died July 4, 1885. He was educated in the public schools and in Effingham Academy. When he was a young man of twenty he went to Boston as clerk in a grocery store, but owing to ill health he soon went back to the farm. During the winter months he taught school in Saco, Maine, and in other Maine and New Hampshire towns. For many years he was a popular and success- ful teacher. He was a prominent Democrat, a leader in his party. He was selectman in 1841-42-43-59-66 and 67; a member of the school committee in 1849-62-63 and 64; town clerk in 1854-56-57-58. At the early age of thirty-two he was elected to the state legisla- ture, and in 1863 was state senator. He was a charter member of Charter Oak Lodge, No.
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58, of Free Masons, at Effingham, New Hampshire, and was its worshipful master four years. He was captain of Company D, Second Regiment, Maine Infantry, and later adjutant of his regiment. Mr. Doe was a natural mechanic and gifted with inventive genius. He had a keen and discriminating judgment in business affairs, and his advice was constantly sought by friends and freely given. In public life his foresight and knowl- edge of human nature made him particularly strong with all classes of citizens. He was easy and agreeable in manner and attracted and retained friends readily. His character was exemplary in every respect and he car- ried the same standards into public life that he held in private life.
He married (first), June II, 1837, Martha Jane Leavitt, born June, 1814, died March, 1870, daughter of Jeremiah and Martha (Chadbourn) Leavitt, of Effingham, New Hampshire. Her father was a carpenter. He married (second), August II, 1872, Susan Elizabeth Moulton, daughter of Cutting and Lydia (Lord) Moulton, of Parsonfield. She was the daughter of Alvah Doe's stepmother. Children, all by the first wife: I. Edward Augustus, born February 6, 1838, died No- vember, 1860. 2. George Irving, born Febru- ary 6, 1841, mentioned below. 3. Amzi San- born, born March 5, 1843, died of yellow fever at Galveston, Texas, September 6, 1867. 4. Augustus Leavitt, born July, 1845, died 1846. 5. Mellen Leavitt, born September 4, 1847. 6. Frank Pierce, born July 24, 1851, married, November 23, 1876, Mayella Rob- erts, of Dover, New Hampshire; no issue. 7. Charles Webster, born April 25, 1855, married, January 13, 1885, Laura Frances Mitchell, of San Francisco, California; chil- dren: i. Alvah Bartlett, born December 15, 1885 ; ii. Laura Mitchell, born December II, 1887; iii. Aileen, born September 13, 1892; iv. George Irving, born May 29, 1895, died April 22, 1896; v. Marion Elizabeth, born February 22, 1897; vi. Charles Webster, born September 4, 1898.
(VII) George Irving Doe, son of Hon. Al- vah Doe (6), was born at Parsonfield, Maine, February 6, 1841. He was educated in the public schools at Parsonfield, supplemented by two terms at the Parsonfield Seminary. In January, 1861, he went to Boston and entered the employ of his uncle, Bartlett Doe, as clerk. The firm dealt in building supplies, and the young man stayed with them nine years. They shipped a great amount of goods to California
at that time. In company with his cousin, Charles H. Moore, of Galveston, Texas, he formed a partnership to continue the business of Bartlett Doe &' Company, which they bought out. Mr. Moore remained in Galves- ton and Mr. Doe in Boston, and the shipping was done to the south, instead of to Califor- nia. In 1872 Mr. Doe sold his interest in the firm to his partner, and removed to New York City, where he became financially interested in the Atlantic Giant Powder Company, with Thomas Varney as a partner. They manu- factured dynamite, with factories at Drakes- ville, New Jersey, and offices at Park Place, New York City. Mr. Doe was the selling agent, and the goods were shipped to all parts of the country, largely for railroad tunnels and mining operations. This company fur- nished the greater portion of the dynamite for the blowing up of Hell Gate, in the East river, New York harbor. After nine years, owing to impaired health, Mr. Doe retired to Wilton, New Hampshire, where he bought a fifty-five acre farm of his father-in-law. He carried on the farm for eight years, raising garden produce and cattle, until 1889, when he removed to Arlington, Massachusetts, where he built his present spacious residence at No. 44 Jason street. With the exception of his interest in real estate, he has retired from active business. He and his wife attend the Orthodox Congregational church at Arlington. In politics he is an independent Democrat, and has served his party at various state and other nominating conventions. He was asses- sor of Arlington for ten years, from 1892 to 1902, and selectman from 1896 to 1905. He was a member of the New Hampshire legis- lature in 1888-89 and was on the committee on manufactures. He is a trustee of the Parson- field Academy at Parsonfield, Maine.,
He married, January 21, 1864, Clara Aurilla Clifford, daughter of Robert C. and Martha (Perkins) Clifford, of Edgecomb, Maine. Her father was a farmer. They have no chil- dren.
WEEKS The Weeks family is of ancient English origin. The name was variously spelled Week, Weeks, Wick, Wyke, Wickse, Weekse. The family settled early in the counties of Somerset, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Devon. The fol- lowing English pedigree of the American emi- grant is founded on a Visitation of Essex county, in 1634; Harl. So. Edit., part I, p.
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535, and parish registers of Chew Magna and Compton Martin, both of Somerset.
(I) Henry Wyke, of Stanton Wyke (in Stanton Drew, Somersetshire), a younger brother's son, of Henry Wyke, of Hanham Wyke, Gloucestershire, married one of the twenty daughters of Thomas Willett, of Bat- comb near Urington, Somersetshire, sister of Mr. Willett, of Lincoln's Inn.
(II) John Wyke, eldest son of Henry Wyke (I), married Bridget West, daughter of Edmund West, of Harptree, Somersetshire. Children: I. Peter, married (first) Blanche Nightingale, sister of Sir Geoffrey Nightin- gale, of Newport pond, Essex ; married ( sec- ond) Frances Elsington, daughter of William Elsington, of Hormead, Hertfordshire. 2. Leonard, of Compton Martin, 1599, appears by name in visitation but was not then living there ; buried as of Moreton in Compton Mar- tin, February 27, 1625-26. 3. John, mention- ed below.
(III) John Wyke, son of John Wyke (2), was born at Chew Magna according to the visitation then made in 1634. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, baptized June 12, 1599. 3. Elizabeth, baptized June 12, 1603. 4. Leonard, baptized at Compton, July 29, 1605, buried December 23, 1618. 5. Henry, baptized December 13, 1607, died Oc- tober, 1618. 6. Francis, baptized May 17, 1612.
(IV) John Wyke, son of John Wyke (3), was baptized at Compton, June 24, 1598. He resided at Compton when his servant Chris- tian Hardin was buried in 1639; resided also at Chew Magna. Children: I. Roger, born 1633. 2. Martin, born 1634-35. 3. William, born 1637. 4. Leonard, mentioned below.
(V) Leonard Weeks, or Wyke, son of John Wyke (4), was baptized at Compton Martin, August 7, 1639. He came to America and his name first appears in public records as witness to a bond in York county, Maine, December 6, 1655, and next in the Portsmouth town rec- ords, June 29, 1656, when he received a grant of five acres of land, and next in the Ports . mouth records, June 29, 1656, when he re- ceive a grant of eight acres. It is said that when he first went to that part of Portsmouth now called Greenland, he lived one year on a farm owned by Captain Champernoon. In February, 1660-61, he had settled at Winnicut River, now in Greenland, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1707. He was a selectman of Portsmouth in 1661, and after- wards constable and for several years sheriff.
In 1669 he was on a committee to lay out the highway between Greenland and Bloody Point. He was fined ten shillings according to the court record June 26, 1660, for swearing by God and admonished for calling John Hall, of Greenland, "ould dog & ould slave & that he would knock him in the head." He divided his lands among his sons before his death by deeds dated April 23, 1706, retaining posses- sion during his life. He died before March, 1707-08. Much of the land he owned in Greenland has remained in the possession of his descendants to the present time.
He married in 1667 or before Mary Haines, daughter of Deacon Samuel Haines, of Ports- mouth, his neighbor. Children: I. John, born June 14, 1668. 2. Captain Samuel, men- tioned below. 3. Joseph, born March II, 1672. 4. Captain Joshua, born June 30, 1674, mar- ried Comfort Hubbard, November, 1699. 5. Mary, born July 19, 1676, married Lieutenant Joshua Brackett. 6. Jonathan, born about . 1677, married Elizabeth Cate. 7. Margaret, born June 4, 1679, married Tobias Lear. 8. Sarah, married Tobias Langdon. The last two children were by his second wife Elizabeth.
(VI) Captain Samuel Weeks, son of Leon- ard Weeks (5), was born in Greenland, New Hampshire, December 14, 1670. He was a farmer on the homestead left him by his father; was a man of intelligence, energy, wealth and influence in town and church. About 1710 he is said to have built the brick house from which his descendants came to be known as the Brick House Family as dis- tinguished from the Bay Side Family of Weeks, descended from his brother Joshua. The brick house is now or lately was owned and occupied by a descendant, Robert B. Weeks. The old house stands a little west of the Parade in Greenland, about twenty-two by thirty-six feet. The earthquake in 1755 caused a great rent in the walls at each end, but the bricks have since been coated with cement. It is built of heavy oak timbers and is still a very substantial building. In his will proved April 30, 1746, Captain Samuel left his house to his son Walter. He was captain of the military company. He married Elinor Haines, daughter of Samuel Haines, Jr., of Greenland. She was born August 23, 1675, and died November 19, 1736. He died March 26, 1746. Children: I. Lieutenant Samuel, baptized, 1712, tanner by trade; married Me- hitable Pickering, of Portsmouth. 2. John, baptized, 1712, cordwainer in Greenland; was also of Epping. 3. Walter, baptized 1712,
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farmer on the homestead and lived in the brick house; married Comfort Weeks. 4. Matthias, mentioned below. 5. Mary, bap- tized 1712, married Paul Chapman, of Green- land. 6. Elinor, baptized 1714, unmarried. 7. William, baptized 1717, and probably died young.
(VII) Matthias Weeks, son of Captain Samuel Weeks (6), was born in 1708. He married about 1735 Sarah Ford, widow, daughter of John Sanborn, of North Hamp- ton. In 1766 he sold his land that he inherited from his father on the Great Bay, and in 1773 followed his sons to Gilmanton, where he died before October, 1777. His widow Sarah died there December 7, 1799, aged eighty-six years. Children : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Olive, baptized 1738, married, August 26, 1755, John Haines, of Greenland. 3. Mat- thias, Jr., born June 5, 1740, married in Ex- eter, November 21, 1760, Judith Leavitt, . daughter of Dudley Leavitt. 4. Elinor, bap- tized 1742. 5. Mary, baptized 1744. 6. Rev. Samuel, born November 21, 1746, married (first) Mercy Randlett, of Stratham ; removed to Gilmanton in 1773 ; first pastor of the Free- will Baptist Church of Parsonfield, Maine ; married (second) Sarah (Barnes) Guptail, widow of S. Guptail. 7. Joanna, baptized July 14, 1751. 8. Benjamin, born February 28, 1749, removed to Gilmanton in 1772. 9. Deacon Noah, born July 12, 1754, married, February 28, 1782, Betsey Meed. 10. Josiah, born about 1756; shipwright; married, Octo- ber 31, 1776, Abigail James, daughter of Dud- ley James.
(VIII) John Weeks, son of Matthias Weeks (7), was born in 1736 and married Dorothy - He removed in 1773 to Gil- manton and settled in district No. 2, near his brother, Benjamin Weeks, and Orlando Weed. In 1787 he was paid six pounds for killing two wolves. He died February, 1815, in Gilford, New Hampshire, aged eighty-four years, and his widow Dorothy administered the estate. Children: I. Nathaniel, mentioned below. 2. John Lang, born in Greenland, August 3, 1763, settled in Tamworth: married in Burton, March 4, 1800, Judith Plummer. 3. Noah, born 1771, married in Gilmanton, March 12, 1793, Sarah Morrill.
(IX) Nathaniel Weeks, son of John Weeks (8), was born about 1758 in Greenland, and was a shoemaker and tanner by trade. In 1773 he removed to Gilmanton. He married Huldah Pottle. He married (second), May 6, 1787, in Exeter, Polly Pottle, of Exeter.
Between September, 1788, and April, ยท1789, he removed to Stratham, New Hampshire, but returned to Gilmanton and died there before July 21, 1815. His widow Polly afterwards lived with her children in Exeter. He died in 1815. Children of Nathaniel and Huldah (Pottle) Weeks : I. Samuel P., born 1784, married Huldah Knight, of Falmouth, Maine. Children of Nathaniel and Polly ( Pottle) Weeks. 2. Jane (twin of Nicholas). 3. Nicholas (twin of Jane). 4. Mary (Polly), married Clark of Allenstown. 5. Nich- olas, died young. 6. Joseph, changed name to George, and settled in New York state. 7. Major Nathaniel, born in Gilmanton in 1796, married at Exeter, Harriet Byram Gilman ; he was a well-known merchant. 8. Timothy, mentioned below. 9. Joshua, born 1806, mar- ried Dorcas Neally, of Exeter.
(X) Timothy Weeks, son of Nathaniel Weeks (8), was born in Bridgewater, New Hampshire, November 13, 1801, married, Oc- tober 6, 1825, Elizabeth Barnard Whitney, born in Westminster, Massachusetts, May 27, 1804, and died April 17, 1887, in Everett, Massachusetts, at the home of her son-in-law, N. W. Frye, aged eighty-three years. Timo- thy died in Lowell, July 1, 1854, aged fifty- two years. Children: I. Adaline Elizabeth, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 2, 1826; married as his second wife N. W. Frye and resided in Everett ; she died March, 1887, leaving one son Nathan Wyman. 2. Mary Abigail, born in Granby, Connecticut, July 28, 1828, married, February, 1849, Henry Augustus Fielding, and resided in Bozeman, Montana ; child: Fred Augustus Fielding. 3. Harriet Gilman, born in Sutton, Massachu- setts, September 25, 1830, married, July I, 1849, Jeremiah S. Hall, who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; child: Al- bert Henry Hall, resides in New York City and has two children: Harriet A., born March 12, 1884, and Harry M., April 2, 1885. 4. Augustus Whitney, mentioned below. 5. Cynthia Jones, born March 25, 1836, at Cav- endish, Vermont, died at Perkinsville, Ver- mont, May 15, 1842. 6. Ellen W., born in Windsor county, town of Perkinsville, Ver- mont, October 2, 1838, married in Groton, Massachusetts, December 8, 1862, Rev. Ed- ward P. Tenney, born in West Concord, New Hampshire, September 29, 1835, and resided in Manchester, Massachusetts; children: i. Emma Wilson, born in Lowell, June 6, 1873; ii. Elizabeth Hale, born in Ashland, April ?, 1876. 7. Emeline Dorcas, born May 13, 1841,
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married, March 2. 1869, General Lester S. Wilson, resided in Bozeman, Montana, with two children living.
(XI) Augustus Whitney Weeks, son of Timothy (10) and Elizabeth B. Weeks, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 5, 1833. He attended school at Tilton, New Hampshire, and later entered Wesleyan Uni- versity at Middletown, Connecticut. He in- tended studying for the ministry, but aband- oned this in order to serve his country in her hour of need, enlisting from Middletown in Company G, Sixth Regiment, and serving nine months. Upon his return from the war he served as head clerk at the Freedman's Bureau in Virginia under General Armstrong, retaining this position for a period of three years. He then came to Lowell, Massachu- setts, and accepted a position as manager of the Kittredge Coal Company of Lowell, re- maining until his death, February 21, 1892. He was a prominent member of St. Paul's Church of Lowell and a local elder for many years ; was a Republican in politics ; a prom- inent Mason, also served two years as com- mander of local post of Grand Army of the Republic ; and was much loved and respected by all who knew him. He married, March 25, 1867, Lauraetta Frye, born in Lowell, 1838, daughter of Ira Frye, who was born in Danville, Vermont, June 7, 1803 ; he was one of the original proprietors of the old Ameri- can House at Lowell, was a well known tav- ern keeper in his day, a prominent citizen, and popular among his townsmen. He mar- ried Laura Butterfield. Mrs. Weeks has one sister living, Miss Civil M. Frye. Before her marriage Mrs. Weeks was for a number of years engaged in teaching in the Colburn school of Lowell. Their only child, Laura E. Weeks, died in infancy.
John Hall, the immigrant ancestor, HALL was, according to his own deposi- tion, born in 1617. He first ap- pears in New England in Charlestown, where he was made a freeman May 6, 1635. He re- moved to Dover, New Hampshire, where his name appears on the tax list from 1648-49 until 1677, and often in land records. In 1652 he lived at Dover Neck, next to the meeting house, the lot on the southwesterly side which reached to the river and embraced a spring which is still flowing and is called Hall's spring. He was first deacon of the First Church of Dover as early as 1655. He
was lot-layer as early as 1657 and as late as 1674. In 1658-59 he was one of three to lay out the town bounds between Lamprey and Newichawannock rivers, and to run the north boundary. In 1663 he was on a committee to lay out the highway from Lamprey river to the waterside. He was selectman in 1660, and was occasionally "commissioner to end small causes ;" grand juror in 1663-66 and 68; "clerk of ye writs" for the court in 1663-68 and 69; town clerk in 1670-75-79 and other years. In 1677 Deacon Hall received a lot of twenty acres on the west side of Back river, which had been laid out to George Webb in 1642. He gave to his son Ralph by deed Feb- ruary 1, 1685-86, one-half the house and land, and the other half at his death, this deed was proved as his will May 4, 1692, and recorded February,' 1694-95. He married Elizabeth Children: I. Sheba, baptized Jan- uary 9, 1639-40. 2. John, born in Charles- town, September 21, 1645, representative to the New Hampshire legislature, 1694-95-96; died 1697. 3. Elizabeth, born September 4, 1647, died young. 4. Elizabeth, born Novem- ber 2, 1648, died young. 5. Nathaniel, taxed in 1680. 6. Ralph, mentioned below. 7. Grace (?), born May 16, 1663-64.
(II) Ralph Hall, son of John Hall (I), was heir to his father's homestead at Dover's Neck. July II, 1694, he lost twenty acres of land at Fresh creek in a lawsuit with Richard Waldron. Richard and Elizabeth Pinkham gave him a quitclaim deed to land in consider- ation of the sum of ten pounds. He was aud- itor in 1702 and constable in 1705. He died November 13, 1706. He married (second), May 26. 1701, Mary Chesley, daughter of Philip Chesley. In 1713 she, with her sister Esther, wife of John Hall, quitclaimed their father's plantation at Oyster river. She mar- ried (second), February 26, 1717-18, John Fox, and quitclaimed her share in the estate of her first husband, to John Hall, son of the first wife. Ralph, John and James Hall were administrators of the estate of their father Ralph, March 4, 1706-07. The estate was div- ided between seven sons, the eldest getting a double portion, and fifteen pounds to Jona- than who was "weak and sick." Children of the first wife: I. John, born about 1685, set- tled in Somersworth, New Hampshire, mar- ried, August 9, 1705, Esther Chesley, sister of his stepmother. 2. James, died before 1735. 3. Jonathan. 4. Isaac, removed to Massachusetts. Children of the second wife: 5. Benjamin, born June, 1702. 6. Ralph, born
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