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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Hale, Robert Safford, and George Rogers, Editor Howell. Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale of Watton, England, and of Newbury, Mass. (Albany, N. Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1889)
p. 199.
Nathan Hale, s/o Moses Hale and Elizabeth Wheeler, b. Hampstead, NH 23 Sep 1743, d. prisoner of war at New Utrecht, Long Island 23 Sep 1780, m. Rindge, NH, 28 Jan 1766 Abigail Grout.
[Note: cousin of the Nathan Hale who was hanged.]
- ↑ Find A Grave: Old Chelsea Cemetery, Chelsea, VT, in Find A Grave
Nathan Hale.
CoL. NATHAN HALE,
died on Long Island
N. York, Sept. 23
1 7 8 0,
aged 37 years.
[Note: apparently also named on Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument. Actual burial location not clear.]
- ↑ Vermont, United States. Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954: Database with images. (FamilySearch. Citing Secretary of State. State Capitol Building, Montpelier.)
[1].
Full Name of Deceased: Hale, Col. Nathan
Age: 37
Name of Spouse: Abigail Hale
Date of Death: Sept. 23 1780
Name of Cemetery: Old
Clerk of: Chelsea, Vt.
- ↑ Apparently the information about the birthdate and parents come from the Hale Genealogy. This and Morse's Grout Genealogy both discuss interviews with people that knew the principles and multiple court cases, so presumably somewhere in that mass of material is a basis for this. However, no birth record has been found and there are some curiosities about it. First, Moses and Elizabeth already had a son Nathan for whom no explicit death record is known. No birth record for the 1743 date is found to confirm either location or parents.
The parentage issue seems pretty much solved by a New Hampshire deed, Vol. 4, p. 200, where Nathan Hale of Rowley Canada (Rindge) joins other heirs of Moses Hale (Enoch, Moses, Nathan, Elizabeth with husband Jacob Gould, and Eunice with husband James Philbrick) in selling land of "our s'd Hon'd Father Moses Hale, Deceased" to Henry Coffin [presumably sister Lucy's husband, Lucy being the only known child not named] in 1765.
The birth location remains open. The is a baptism in Newbury VRs (the Byfield church) for Nathan, s. Moses Jr., in Sept. 1743, the same month the birth is said to occur. One would think this Moses Jr. is the Moses who married 1742 Abigail Huse (see also a list of the various Moses in the Hale Genealogy p. 160), so probably a different family, but it does raise great potential for confusion. The author of the Hale Genealogy plainly admits his confusion, but that said, his coverage of Moses Jr. and Abigail's family has no Nathan attributed to it based on a will the author says belongs to Moses Jr. Further, according to the Hale Genealogy, Moses and his wife Elizabeth, were not dismissed to Hampstead until 1752, so a baptism in the Byfield church could well be them, and not Moses Jr. as recorded.
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