Martha (Jones) Hall (1750 - abt. 1835)

Born 19 Jun 1750 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Ebenezer Hall — married 12 Apr 1770 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 22 Dec 1835 at about age 85 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Martha was born June 19, 1750 in Concord, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay daughter of Ephraim Jones and Mary Hayward. ^[1]

She married Ebenezer Hall at Medford, Massachusetts on April 12, 1770. Ebenezer was born in Medford on May 31, 1748, son of Andrew Hall and Abigail Walker. ^{[2] [3]}

Martha Hall and her husband Ebenezer were two of the grantors in a 1793 quitclaim who identified themselves as the "heirs of our father and grandfather Ephraim Jones late of Concord" and who conveyed property "which was assigned to our mother and grandmother Mary Ayres then Mary Woolcott the late relict and widow of said Ephraim Jone[s] deceased as her dower or third." ^[4]

Ebenezer died at Medford on March 31, 1835. ^[2]

Widow Martha died there in December 1835 ^[3] and was buried on December 23. ^[2]

Children

1. Ebenezer born on May 11, 1771. ^{[2] [3]}
2. Richard born February 24, 1774; died October 19, 1798 in a shipwreck in Maine. ^{[2] [3]}
3. Ephraim born February 17, 1776; married Jane T. Reynolds on February 2, 1819. ^{[2] [3]}
4. Martha born June 24, 1778. died June 13, 1780. ^{[2] [3]}
5. Lucy born November 28, 1782; married Josiah Bradlee of Boston on November 26, 1802. ^{[2] [3]}
6. Isaac born on March 12, 1783; married Susan Mitchell of Nantucket on September 11, 1806. ^{[2] [3]}
7. # Andrew born on October 21, 1788; married first Ann Gray on December 20, 1815; married second Ann Giles Moore on September 22, 1819, in Baltimore. ^{[2] [3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Tolman, George compiler, Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850, Printed by the Town, T. Todd Printer, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891, p. 178
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Vital records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1907, p. 71-5 ; 232-; 384-6
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Whittemore, W. H. compiler, Register of Families Settled at the Town of Medford, Mass., John Wilson & Son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1855, p. 24; 26
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9Z7-XD4S?cc=2106411&wc=MC1M-LZ9%3A361613501%2C364606101 : 22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1798-1799 vol 131-132 > image 16 of 554; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.