"It is not known who [widow Mary Hall's] 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, N. Y., 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 in any of the records."
