Jonathan Hall (1759 - 1825)

Born 19 Jun 1759 in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Kimball) Hall — married 12 Oct 1780 in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 21 Aug 1825 at age 66 in Newfane, Vermont

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Note: This individual is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution database with an ancestor number of A049848. He is also a Sons of the American Revolution patriot as there is a listing for 2 applications which contain his name, one for Jonathan HALL, Jr. the subject of this profile and the other for his grandfather, Abner STOW. Both submissions were made in 1929 by George Horace BARBER (now deceased).

Biography

Jonathan was born on 19 June 1759 in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts,^[1][2] the son of Jonathan Hall and Mary Stow. He passed away on 21 August 1825 in Newfane, Windham County, Vermont.^{[citation needed]}

From descendant, Betty (Barber) Lusk, 11 Jan 2007, to Jillaine Smith:

Several years ago I went over the Newfane Property deeds, and found Jonathan and family doing quite a bit of buying and selling, which included selling his pew in the Newfane Church to Jonathan, Jr. I bring this up because I ran across an interesting Newfane Church note in a book I have: "The Most Beautiful Villages of New England", by Tom Shachtman, p. 186, in the section on Newfane:

"For a time in the mid-nineteenth century there was a "Union Church" in which several denominations held services-the Congregationalists on twenty and a half Sundays of the year, the Calvinists on thirteen, the Methodists on eleven, the Unitarians on seven and the Baptists on one and a half. When the Congregationalists became dissatisfied with this arrangement, they built their own church also near the common, and the Union Church became the Union Hall, used for community functions."

Centennial Proceedings and Other Historical Facts and Incidents Relating to Newfane, VT, p. 140:

The church has had a goodly array of deacons in its past history... Jonathan Hall...

(Same source) p. 247: Jonathan Hall listed as a "lister" for 1794 and 1810. His son, Jonathan Hall, Jr. (VI) was also a lister in 1818.

Might be buried in Newfane Hill Cemetery, with a death of 21 Aug 1825. [This would be supported by p. 718 of The Halls of New England, which makes reference to (we believe) this Jonathan "settled in Newfane, Vt."]

24 Sep 1825: State of Vermont, District of Westminster, ss? At a Probate Court, holden at Townshend, within and for said district, on the 31st day of August 1825-- Present, the Hon. Charles Phelps, Judge-- An Instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of JONATHAN HALL, late of Townshend in said district, deceased, being presented to the court here by Calvin Barber, the executor therein named, for probate; it is ordered by said court, that all persons concerned thereto, be notified to appear at a session of said court, to be holden at the Inn of Jonathan Melendy, in Townshend, in said district, on the last Tuesday of September next, and show cause, if any they may have, against the probate of said will, for which purpose it is further ordered, that a copy of the record of this order be published three weeks successively in the Brattleboro Messenger, printed at Brattleboro, as soon as may be. A true copy of record, Attest, Horace Baxter, Register.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F46T-BD9 : 13 July 2016), Jonathan Hall, 19 Jun 1759; citing Birth, Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 751,414.
2. ↑ Franklin P. Rice, “Vital Records of Grafton, MA to 1849” Worcester, MA (1906)