A distant cousin shared this funny story with me recently. He also shared the picture of Richard “John” Hall. On Saturday the 6th day of January, 1838, near the same spot where a quarter of a century before the first settler in the Town of Ellington felled the trees and erected his rude log cabin …
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Hall Family
Richard John Hall was the father of Joseph Hall (Richard) who married Sarah Kimball. Their son was Benjamin Hall below. Third Generation Benjamin Hall (Joseph, Richard) was born April 27, 1712 in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, and died October 27, 1795 in Metheun, Essex, Massachusetts. Benjamin married Rebecca Farnham on October 9, 1735 in Massachusetts. She …
Pierce Family
Double Pierce Connection Below is a chart of how my maternal and paternal families share one ancestor. Related Families Sources: Pearce Genealogy Being the Record of the Posterity of Richard Pearce An Early Inhabitant of Portsmouth, In Rhode Island Who Came From England, and whose Genealogy is traced Back to 979, by Col. Frederick C. …