History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

Family Records 167
Their children
I. Anne 1724 Sept. 1
Married
Daniel Salisbury 1742 Apr. 16
Died
1770 May 25
II. John 1726 Aug. 19 Bethiah Bosworth 1747 Nov. 26 1810 Jan. 9
III. Eli8ha 1728 Jan. 11
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IV. Job 1748
His widow married Noah Wood 1733 Jan. 4.
(III) Barnard Haile (1709-38) inherited sixty-eight acres in the division
of his father's estate including two ten acre lots. This comprised the home
Elace of Mrs. Julia W. Sherman, on the west side of the road ; where evidently
e built the house which stood on the Taunton road twenty-four rods north
from the corner where Mrs. Sherman's house stands. He owned more than
a hundred acres adjoining in Reboboth. This his children sold in 1759, all
of whom removed from the town soon afterwards. He married Hannah,
daughter of Samuel and Experience Wheaton born 1719 Sept. 12.
I. Freelove 1728 Feb. 11 Nathaniel Bourne 1748 Mar. 2
II. Hannah 1732 June 16 Samson Mason 1751 Aug. 5 1805 Nov. 5
III. Comer 1734 Nov. 5 Margaret Ingraham 1757 Nov. 13 1782 Oct.
IV. Amos 1736 Ruth Easterbrooks 1758 May 18 1818 Aug. 25
His widow Hannah married John Wood, Jr.
Amos was the great-grandfather of George Hail the donor of the
"George Hail Free Library" to the town of Warren, R. I.
(IV) John Hale (1726-10) received but about twenty acres and one half
the buildings as his double share portion when his father's estate was divided
in 1743, by industry and thrift he gradually bought out the other heirs,
and before his death owned one hundred twenty acres of the original farm.
He apparently cared less for office than others of the family, for with the
exception of highway surveyor, and overseer of the poor, he held no town
offices. He was ordained deacon of the First Christian Church, Wednesday,
Dec. 11, 1777 and was usually spoken of as Deacon John. He and his
family were the first to drop the i and spell the name Hale. He married
Bethiah daughter of Ichabod and Mary (Bowen) Bosworth, born 1724 Nov.
6, died Sept. 7 1813. Both are buried in the family cemetery on the Hale
farm.
Their children
I. Job
II. John
HI. Mary
1749 Feb. 26
1750 May 25
1753 Feb. 7
Married
Mary Mason 1774 Apr. 10
Laurana Mason
Benajah Mason 1770 Mar. 8
Died
1834 May 25
1790 Feb. 27
1784 Oct. 25
IV. Ehzabeth 1756 July 2
V.Daniel 1758 July 30
Benjamin Kelton 1778 Feb 12 1839 Dec. 25
Cynthia Buffington 1780 May 7 1830 Sept. 5
VI. Tamar 1760 Dec. 16 \ f^^^^? ^^^'"'i^J^V'^l l^
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VII. Anne
} James Luther 1799 Nov. 10
1762 Aug. 24 Pardon Mason 1785 1823 Oct. 23
(V) Job Hale (1749-34) finally settled in Plainfield, Conn, in middle
life, after owning several places in the Mason neighborhood.
(V) John Hale saw several months service in the revolution principally
as coast guard, like all the young men of the town of that period. He was
afterwards Lieut, of one of the Swansea Companies of Militia. He was
usually spoken of as Lieut. John Hale. He was a blacksmith by trade.
John, Job and their brother-in-law Edward Mason owned the sloop
"Dolphin" which was engaged in the Carolina trade. Later he kept a
store. He bought in 1779, the farm that his heirs sold the town of Swansea