Samuel HALL

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• Fact: Son of John Hall and Jane Woolen

Samuel married Hannah WALKER in May 1668 in New Haven, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of John WALKER and Grace ?) was christened on 28 Sep 1646 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 20 Dec 1728 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt John HALL was born on 22 Dec 1670 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 29 Apr 1730.
2. Hannah HALL was born on 11 Mar 1673/4 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 27 Jul 1758.
3. Sarah HALL was born on 20 Jun 1677 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 18 Mar 1712 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
4. Samuel HALL was born on 10 Dec 1680 in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died on 15 Jun 1770.

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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.

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.

John married Jeanne WOOLEN. Jeanne died in 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The connection of the John halls of Boston and New Haven with the Wilkes family makes the identification more complete. In 1633, probably on the "Griffin", Mr. William Wilkes came over with his wife and several relatives and settled in Boston, where he was living, August, 1636, as the records show an order of that date requiring him "to set his fence in line so as to provide for a street." February 9, 1634, his wife, Joan, joined the church in Boston. In the fall of 1637, he went with Governor Eaton to New Haven, his family probably following him the next year with Davenport. He remained there until 1644, when he returned to England, dying there two or three years later. His wife embarked for London in January, 1646, in Lamberton's Ill-fated ship and was lost at sea. In Mr. Wilkes' family was a young English girl, perhaps half through her teens, Joan Wollen, or Jeanne, as she was more commonly called, supposed to have been a niece or cousin of Mrs. Wilkes whose name she bore. This young girl could hardly have escaped the sharp eyes of a young fellow of twenty-seven or eight, like John Hall, in so small a town as Boston then was, and it was impossible that he should not have made her acquaintance during the five years both were living there, if he had not already done so on the voyage over. In 138, Jeanne goes with Mrs. Wilkes to New Haven. The next year John Hall, presumable the freeman of 1634, and the Pequot soldier of 1637, also appears there and makes a settlement, and not long after marries this same young English girl, Jeanne Wollen.