Person:Nathaniel Hall (2)

Origins

Tradition hints that he and his wife (possibly Mary Wilcox) came over together, but that he died shortly thereafter. There was a Nathaniel Hall who came on the same ship as his brother John to Charlestown in 1630.

Halls of New England, 294-295:
It is not known who her husband was, but tradition asserts that he came with his family in the same ship with his brother John, to Charlestown, Mass., in 1630, descendants of the two families, settled in Sutton, Mass, and in Granville, NY, have claimed a relationship to each other. There is no name of Hall, on any of the early records of Massachusetts which gives any probability of being his, except that of "Mr. Nathaniel Hall" to whom the town of Dorchester assigned Sept. 1, 1634, a lot of three acres which had been previously assigned to Capt. Lovell. This is the only time that the name of "Mr. Nathaniel Hall" is mentioned any of the records. The honorable prefix of Mr. (which was accorded to only a very few) shows that he held a very respectable rank in society.

Supporting the possibility that Mary's husband was Nathaniel is the fact that one of her sons, John, names one of his children "Nathaniel." But son Stephen names no children by this name.

Life in New England

Possibly this same Nathaniel Hall was assigned 3 acres of land on 1 September 1634-- the last time Nathaniel is mentioned in any record.

Legacy

There is no record of a will or probate.

Additional Sources

[Incorporate into Sources]

1. Mabel E. Preston Wiggins, BEGATS, A chronicle of the McMillan, Preston, Wiggins and Binford Families. Ellsworth American Publishing Company Ellsworth, Maine; 1979; pp. 248-251

2. Halls of New England