John HALL

Abt 1605 - 1676  (71 years)

• Name	John HALL  [1, 3]
  	John Hall; b. about 1605; d. in the early part of 1676, age 71 years; he made an oral will; m. Jean or Jane Woolen. She had lived with William Wilkes in Boston, and probably came over with him as he paid her fare and gave her L3 a year for her services in his family for five years, also promised her L10 as a gift when she should marry; but this he did not do, and Mr. hall obtained it from his estate by litigation, an account of which is found on the records of New Haven, in which she is called good wife Hall. Mr. Wilkes was in Boston in 1633, and removed with his family to New Haven with the first settlers in 1639. John Hall may also have come from Boston. Hs autograph signature is found on the Colonial Records of new Haven (page 4) in 1639. His name appears often on those records, mostly in reference to several pieces of land. He was freed from training in 1665, being then in his 60th year of age. Three or four of his sons joined a company and settled Wallingford in 1670. And the father went with them at that time or soon after. He was selectman in 1675. Few families have been more respectable than the descendants of John and Jean (Woolen) Hall. Her connections in England have a coat of arms. [1] Having made a permanent settlement in New Haven, John Hall marries there the young English girl, Jeanne Wollen, who for more than thirty years made him a true and faithful wife. She was well educated and of good descent, her family being entitled to bear the crest, "a demi-lion, between its paws a cushion tasselled." The precise date of the marriage is uncertain. It was before July 3, 1644, for the records of the court of that date show "that John hall demanded three pounds due him from Roger Knap in the right of his wife, which he did acknowledge, whereupon it was ordered that the should pay three pounds only abating fourteen shillings which he hath done in work for John Wollen, brother to said John Hall's wife." The John Wollen, who probable came over with Wilkes, was an Indian trader and interpreter in the employ of Capt. George Lamberton, with whom he was imprisoned by the Swedes on one of his voyages to Delaware Bay, where the New Haven Colony had considerable trade. John Hall's first child, Richard, was born in July, 1645, and his next two were baptized in August, 1646. The fact that at a meeting of the town in 1641 for "casting lots for the east meadows and the meadows on Mill river, John Hall drew a lot on the bank side by the West Creek," would be in point if married men only could hold land, but this was not the case. If he had been married in 1643, his name with the number in his family should have appeared on the list of planters for that year, but the list is not entirely complete. When Jeanne came out with the Wilkes, they not only paid her passage, but promised her an allowance each year and a marriage portion in case she would stay with them for five years, which she agreed to do and had done when they all removed to New Haven. This portion was to have been paid down immediately upon her marriage, and the fact that it was not in some evidence that she was not married util after Mr. Wilkes had gone to England, which Mr. Savage supposes was "about 1644, as is known by will of his wife, 12 January, 1646, "called to go to him but not knowing whether he is living or not." Upon the settlement of the Wilkes' estate in 1647, Mr. Hall presented a claim in favor of his wife for the amount of this portion, which, after hearing proof, was allowed by the court. Payne testified that the first time he had heard Mr. Wilkes mention this matter was in Boston' and Bridget Wilkes, his niece, who probably came out with the family, said that she had heard her uncle, mr. Wilkes, promise this portion to Jeanne. Mr. Marsh testified that Mr. Wilkes, 'a little before he went to England, declared to him that he had promised Jeanne a portion," and it appears from his further testimony that at the time he referred to by "a little before," Jeanne was still unmarried. These facts seem to point to some time in 1643 or early in 1644 as the time of the marriage, but it may have been earlier. [2]
  Birth	Abt 1605  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1676	Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I101339	Main Tree
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2020

  
  

  Family	Jeanne WOOLEN   d. 1678
  Children	1. Richard HALL,   b. 11 Jul 1645, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 1726, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut (Age 80 years)  [Birth] + 2. John HALL,   c. 9 Aug 1646   d. 2 Sep 1721 (Age ~ 75 years)  [Birth]   3. Sarah HALL,   c. 9 Aug 1646  [Birth]   4. Daniel HALL,   b. 1647   d. 1675, Barbadoes, West Indies (Age 28 years)  [Birth] + 5. Samuel HALL,   b. 21 May 1648, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 5 Mar 1725 (Age 76 years)  [Birth]   6. Sgt Thomas HALL,   b. 25 Mar 1649, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 17 Sep 1731 (Age 82 years)  [Birth]   7. Jonathan HALL,   b. 5 Apr 1651, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut  [Birth]   8. David HALL,   b. 18 Mar 1652, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut d. 7 Jul 1727 (Age 75 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F42149	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S00089] Rev. David B. Hall, A.M., of Duanesburgh, NY, "The Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical", (Name: Name: Albany, NY: Printed for the Author by Joel Munsell's Sons, 82 State Street, 1883;;). [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley. [S02260] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Families of Ancient New Haven" VoI. I - III.