Sargeant John Hall, Deacon
Son of John Hall "the Elder"
Husband of Jeanne Wollen (married aprox. 35 years)
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Biography
"· Came to Boston in 1633, soon after its settlement, and signed the Order Creating a Board of Selectmen of Charlestown in 1634. · Fought in the Pequot War, one of the first English-native American conflicts in American History. · Received land in Hartford soon after its settlement due to his service in the Peqout War. · One of the earliest settlers of New Haven, signing the Planters Document around 1639. · One of the founding settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut, the major suburb of the city of New Haven today. · His great-great grandson, Lyman Hall, originally of Wallingford, and who later became the governor of Georgia, is one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence."
excerpt from A Slice of History: A Story of a Hall Family of America Compiled by Roderick A. Hall January, 2001
(copied from WikiTree)
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Charles S. Hall, Hall Ancestry. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1896) p. 82. (In 1637 John Hall was a soldier in the Pequot War for in 1698 a record granting fifty acres of land to his son Thomas, "in consideration of his fathers services in the Pequot War in 1637.")
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(BELOW: copied from www.familysearch.org)
History of John Hall, Sr. (ca. 1605 - 1676)
· 7 October 2014 · 0 Comments
by Garry Bryant
John Hall
Soldier, Deacon,
Freeman, Selectman
(c. 1605 - 1676)
John Hall was born in England about 1605, and possibly lived near Meriden or Coventry in Warwickshire, or Cheshire. It is believed that he immigrated first to Boston, where he was made a 'Freeman' in 1634, and a veteran of the 1637 Pequot War.1 He then settled at New Haven by 1639, although he wasn't at the meeting on 4 June 1639, for his signature is missing on the fundametal agreement of the free planters, his signature does appear on the agreeent of submission to the agreeent dated 1639.2 John lived at New Haven and removed to Wallingford, Connecticut, where he died on 3 May 1676 at the age of sevety-one.3
Jeanne Woolen was the niece or cousin of Mrs. Jeanne Wilkes, wife of William Wilkes, with whom she lived with. The Wilkes immigrated on the 'Griffin' in 1633 and settled in Boston for several years before joining the company of Governor Eaton in the fall of 1637, journeying to New Haven.4 Wilkes returned to England in 1644 and sent for his wife to rejoin him. She sailed on the ill-fated ship that left New Haven for England was lost at sea. Tradition of the time an apparition of this ship, being blown in pieces, was seen in the sky the following June and is still spoken of as the Phantom Ship.5
He married Jane (aka Jeanne) Woolen,6 before 3 July 1644, at which time he demanded "three pounds due him from Roger Knap in right of his wife . . ." 7 Upon her husband's death Jeanne married John Cooper.8
Jane and John are listed as a members of Rev. John Davenport's church at New Haven in the year 1646.9
"he refused ye office of Constable when chosen thereunto," according to the New Haven Court records, and in 1665 freed from training in the milita due to his age of 60.10
In 1670 John and three of his sons, Thomas, Sanuel, & John, removed to Wallingford, Conneticut. Here John, senior, was appointed town Selectman and made a deacon in the church.11
Will of John Hall
"The testimony of Samuel Street,
Samuel Hall, and Mary Hall sayeth, that
about the time he fell sick, they heard him
say, and he said to them, that he, doubtful
not of his wife's love and care of his child-
ren, and therefore would leave and dispose
of, his whole estate to his wife, not quest-
ioning but his children would be satisfied
therewith." (Executed 3 May 1676, Coe,
p. 4.)
John and Jane (Woolen) Hall had seven children, all born at New Haven, Connecticut.12
CHILDREN
1. John Hall - Born about 1644 and baptized 9 August 1646. Married on 6 December 1666, to Mary Parker. He was a Deacon in the church and died 2 September 1721.
2. Sarah Hall - Baptized 9 August 1646. Married
in December 1664, to William Johnson. (Please see Johnson family his story.)
3. Samuel Hall - Baptized 21 May 1648. Married in May
1668, to Hannah Walker. He was a Captain in the
militia and died 5 March 725, at Wallingford.
4. Thomas Hall - Baptized 26 March 1649. Marrie about
5 June 1673, to Grace Watson. He was a sergeant in
the militia and died 17 September 1711.
5. Jonathan Hall - Born 5 April 1651. Married Hannah ???.
6. David Hall - Born 18 March 1652. Married on
24 December 1676, to Sarah Rockwell, at Wallingford, Connecticut. He died 7July 1727.
7. Mary Hall - Born about 1654. Married on September 1678, to Henry Cook, at Salem, Massa-
chusetts. Died 31 May 1718.
(ABOVE copied from www.familysearch.org)
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Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of the Achievement of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2
p. 747-748
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Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the ..., Volume 4
edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams
pg. 2689-2690
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John Hall of Wallingford, Conn
By James Shepard
pg. 30
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John Hall, Hartford Founder‹ Back to The Founders
Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist
JOHN1 HALL, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born bef. 1605 in England, and died bef. 03 May 1676 in Wallingford, CT (inventory). He married JANE WOOLEN bef. 03 Jul 1644 in New Haven, CT. She was born in England, and died bef. 14 Nov 1690 in New Haven, CT (agreement between her heirs).
The ancestry and origin of Hartford founder John Hall is unknown, as is when and to where he emigrated to the American colonies. There were two John Halls in Hartford: one was a founder, the other was not. In "The Original Proprietors" section of the "Memorial history of Hartford County" Miss Talcott stated that the founder was born in Kent, England in 1584, and removed from Hartford to Middletown. In "John Hall of Wallingford, Connecticut", James Sheppard presents an extensive 24 page analysis concluding that the Hartford founder John Hall was a younger man (born about 1605) than the John Hall of Middletown, who removed to New Haven about 1639 to 1641. This analysis is comprehensive, and will not be repeated here but some of the more cogent points will be reviewed.
The John Hall who was the Hartford founder served in the Pequot War of 1637, as shown in the NEHGR article "Dr. Thomas Starr, Surgeon in the Pequot War, and His Family Connections" which shows a listing of men who served in that war in which John Hall is said to have served from Wallingford or Saybrook. Since there is no record of a John Hall in Saybrook, but there was a John Hall from Wallingford, it is logical to conclude that this was the man who served in the Pequot War. That he is said to have been from Wallingford may be seen as peculiar, as Wallingford did not become a town until 1670, having been derived from New Haven. But since New Haven was not established until 1638, the reference to having served from Wallingford must refer to a John Hall from elsewhere, and since the younger John Hall of Hartford was one of the autograph signers of the Fundamental Agreement which was written on 4 June 1639, clearly that John Hall who served in the Pequot War was not that John Hall who removed to Middletown. It is also of note that no John Hall of Hartford is named in the article on Dr. Thomas Starr, and that John Hall Sr. would have been fifty-eight years of age at the time of that war, maing him an unlikely fighter of that war. Finally, and most definitively, the pre-eminent Donald Lines Jacobus in "Families of Ancient Haven" (Vol. I, pg. 238) states that the John Hall who served in the Pequot War and enlisted from Hartford, was of New Haven in 1640 and of Wallingford in 1670.
It is stated in "The River Towns of Connecticut" by Charles M. Andrews that John Hall was among a party of exploration led by John Oldham starting in September 1633. That this was the John Hall of Hartford cannot be absolutely established. However, the John Hall who removed to Middletown is stated in his death record to have been in the colonies since 1633. It is unlikely that he would have been among Oldham's party almost immediately after arrival.
Hartford founder John Hall is listed among "The Names of Such Inhabitants as were Granted lotts to haue onely at The Townes Courtesie". His holdings are not listed in the land inventory of February 1639/40, as this was compiled years after he had left, but the parcel on which his dwelling house stood was (as discussed in "The Colonial History of Hartford") was the two house lot mentioned in the land inventory for William Spencer in which Spencer bought of John Halles dated 1640: two acres on which his dwelling house stood with other outhouses, yards and gardens abutted the north side of the Little River and on the road from the Mill to the Country. He also originally held four acres on the east side of the Great River, which he also sold to William Spencer.
The two rood lot of the other John Hall, located on the road from the Mill to George Steele's was purchased by him from William Bloomfield who had acquired it from William Gibbons, who had acquired it from John Friend, thus clearly not one of the original lots by the time John Hall Sr. acquired it. Properties of this John Hall, always referred to as John Hall Sr., are listed in a later inventory, not that of February 1639/40. (Sr. was a designation of an older man in colonial times, not the indicator of a father.)
Founder John Hall removed to the New Haven Colony where he was one of the autograph signers of the Fundamental Agreement which was written on 4 June 1639. There is considerable argument as to precisely when the "autograph signers" signed the fundamental agreement, but John Hall had married before 3 July 1644 to Jane Woolen, 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 he should pay three pounds, only abating fourteen shillings which he hath done in work for John Woolen, brother to the same said John Hall's wife".
On 1 July 1644 he took the Oath of Allegiance at the General Court, and in 1665 "being then in his 60th year, he was freed from training". He was a viewer of fences in 1664 and 1665. James Sheppard proposes that John Hall was engaged in trade, perhaps with the Indians for first. It is said that he removed to Wallingford in 1670, where he was one of the original proprietors, entering into a written covenant on 30 November 1669. It is possible that he had not, in fact, removed at all, but rather that the section in which he had been living was simply renamed as Wallingford in 1670.
The inventory of his estate was taken 3 May 1676.
Recommended genealogies:
"John Hall of Wallingford, Conn.", James Shepard, New Britain, CT 1904
"Families of Ancient New Haven", Vol. III, Donald Lines Jacobus, Rome, NY, 1926 (Hall family)
Founders of Hartford, Connecticut, Monument placed within the Ancient Burial Ground in Hartford. North Face (memorial photo on left)