Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 453
1791, aged 91. Children bora in Yarmouth: 1, Hannah, 10th
Sept. 1721, died young; 2, Joseph, 7th June, 1723, married Zippera
Young ; 3, Edward, 22d Jan. 1725, died April 20, 1765 ; 4,
Hannah, 18th Dec. 1726, married Nathaniel Bassett ; 5, Rebecca,
16th Jan. 1731, married James Howland ; 6, Nathaniel, 6th Jan.
1733; 7, Stephen, 9th Jan. 1736, married Mary Freeman; 8,
Betty, 16th May, 1738, married Prince Sears ; 9, Nathaniel, 1st
June, 1740, married Mehetable Howes ; 10, Barnabas, 20th April,
1742, married Mary Crocker ; 11, Priscilla, 24th July, 1744, married
Jeremiah Howes ; 12, Daniel.
(1-3). Dea Joseph Hall, son of John, Sen., was an early
settler in Mansfield, Conn. He. was Town Clerk, and a prominent
man. He died in Yarmouth May 31, 1736, aged 73 years,
probably while on a voyage to his native town. He left no issue.
His widow Mary died in Mansfield Feb. 3, 1717-18.* (Manuscript
letter of Wm. S. Weaver, Esq.)
(1-5). Capt. Nathaniel Hall was, if we except Joseph, the
most distinguished of the sons of John Hall, Sen. Richard
Henchman, the school-master of Yarmouth, in a letter to Dr. Increase
Mathew, dated Yarmouth, Feb. 1686-7, says : "There is in
this town one Mr. Nathaniel Hall, a man descended of eminently
religious parents ; who were very happy in all their children,
being nine sons, men whom this Nathaniel is reckoned to excel,
who in the late wars received a wound (the bullet remaining in his
body) that has taken away, in a great measure, the use of one of
his arms " &c. Capt. Hall was a corporal, in the first expedi-
tion, in 1675, under Capt. John Gorham ; a sargeant in the second,
in 1676, in which expedition it is probable he received the
wound for which he claimed and received a pension. The earliest
record I find is dated July 7, 1681, when the Court allowed him
£15 and all fines imposed on persons in Yarmouth, who were convicted
of selling spirituous liquors. There had evidently been
some previous action, for June 9, 1683, £8 was allowed him for
his continued lameness, and it is stated in the record June 5,
1684, that $40 had been paid to him in money and a license
granted to him to keep an ordinary, and all the fines imposed on
parties in Yarmouth who should sell drink contrary to law. In
final settlement of his claim, an annual pension of five pounds
per annum for life, was offered him, which he accepted June 2,
1685.
Being unable to attend to any business that required physical
*Mr. Savage blesses Dea. Joseph, Sen., with a family. He did not follow my manuscript,
yet I think I am right. Our Probate Records say he had no children at the time of
his death. The Yarmouth records are silent on the subject. So are the Mansfield, of
which town he was the Clerk, and he would probably have recorded the births of his own
children if he had any. Mr. Weaver, who has carefully examined the records, writes to me
that "he probably had no descendants." Mr. Savage confounds the two Dea. Joseph
Halls. It is very curious if both should have had children of the same names and bom on
the same days.