Person:Shubael Hall (1)

NOTE: . 1799 from Ashford, CT. From "History of Onondaga County" by WW Clayton, pub. 1878, between p .278 & 279 a feature article on George Hall: .....son of Shubael and Sarah Hall....who were natives from near Hartford, CT and were married Dec 13, 1795. Shubael was born Sept. 24, 1771 and Sarah Feb. 9, 1773. They emigrated to the county of Onondaga in Feb. 1800, being 18 days on the road, coming on an ox-sled. They settled on the farm....some 1/2 mile south of what was formerly known as "Halls Corners", now as Navarino. They owned some 250 acres of good land, which they gave to their children. .........Shubael died Feb 27, 1826 and Mrs. Shubael, March 27, 1841. Mrs. Hall was a member of the Baptist church, Mr. Hall was a life long Democrat. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF ONONDAGA Submitted by Kathy Crowell Source: Dwight H. Bruce, Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co. , 1896, Vol. I, pp. 836-866.

The site of Navarino was settled in 1799 by Shubael and Sarah Hall, who built their log house about one-half mile south of the corners. T hey owned 250 acres of land, upon which their sons, Shubael, jr., and George, afterward lived. Here the old State road and the road from Marcellus to Amber intersected, and the cross-roads hamlet early to ok the name of Hall's Corners. In 1835 it contained these business enterprises: Freeman North, tavern; Andrew Cummings, merchant; Morri s Wells, tailor; Jehiel Hall & Son, foundry; Clark Bentley, shoemaker ; William Weed, gunsmith; George Andrews, blacksmith; George Enney, harnessmaker; Bradley Curtis, broom factory; Dr. A. B. Edwards, physician; Oren Hall, postmaster. William Briggs was long a prominent citi zen here, and "Uncle" Joshua Chafee labored assiduously to secure a p assable road over the "Hogback" hill, so earnestly in fact that it wa s popularly termed his "hobby." The broom factory has been operate d many years, and more recently there were three or four shops, an M . E. church, a saw and cider mill and the stores of Mark H. Fellows a nd Martin L. Gardner. Lee A. Cummings succeeded Byron C. Grinnell a s postmaster. Before these Theophilus Hall held the office.

1. ↑ Dimock, Susan W. (Susan Whitney). Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850. (New York: The Baker and Taylor Co., 1898)
   p. 96.

   Children of Josiah and Hannah (Abbe) Hall...
   Shubael, b. September 24, 1771.