Joshua HALE

Joshua married Hannah WOODMAN on 21 Sep 1726 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Archelaus WOODMAN and Hannah SWETT) was born in May 1702 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Excerpt from "Descendants of Thomas Hale": He spent most of his life in Newbury, but shortly before his death removed to Rowley and died there. He was a man of immense size, said by tradition to have wieghted over 500 pounds, and his belt as worn measured five feet. He had a voice of immense power. He was a prominent and leading man in church and town affairs both in Newbury and Rowley, was captain of Militia and justice of the peace, and was familiarly known as Captain Hale and Justice Hale. He is said to have m. 1st, Sarah Pickard, but I have been unable to find satisfactory evidence of such marriage. If so she died young.....

Excerpt from "McCall-Tidwell and Allies Families": Thomas was a man of immense size, said by tradition to have weighed over 500 pounds, and his belt as worn measured five feet. A representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, 1713-1714, and was a prominent and leading man in church and town affairs both in Newbury and Rowley. Selectman 1695-1698; Captain of Militia, 1692. Justice of the peace and was familiarly known as Captain Hale and Justice Hale. He bought land in Rowley near the meeting house, built a house on it, to which he removed from Newbury in 1727 and where he died, April 11, 1730. His gravestone in Rowley bears the inscription-- "Here lies ye body of ye Honourabel Thomas Hale, Esq., who died April 11, 1730, in ye 72 years of his age.: His wife's has the following--"Here lies ye body of Mrs. Sarah Hale, ye virtuous wife of Thomas Hale, Esq., who died April ye 26, 1732, age 70 years."

Thomas married Sarah NORTHEND on 16 May 1682. Sarah (daughter of Ezekiel NORTHEND and Edna HALSTEAD) was born on 03 Dec 1661 in Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died on 26 Apr 1732 in Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 11 Apr 17630