Bethia
Hall
formerly [surname unknown] aka Farmer, Learned
Born about [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Hall
— married
before 1636 in Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel Hall, John Hall II, Shebar Hall, Joseph Hall, Benjamin Hall, Nathaniel Hall, Gersham Hall, William Hall, Benjamin Hall and Elisha Hall I
Died
at about age 72
in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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Disputed Origins
Some say she was daughter of John Farmer and Isabella Barbage. What is the evidence for this? Anderson[1] does not provide a maiden name or origins.
- New England Marriages pre 1700, Volume 2, p 681:
- TEXT:HALL, John (-1696) & Bethia [?FARMER] (-1683); [by 1636]; Charlestown/Barnstable {Brainerd Anc. 141; Swift (1955) 26; Granberry 839; Barnstable Co. Prob. 1:23; Paine (,11) 65; Cape Cod Lib. 67:1; Charlestown 454; Hall (,5) 212-213, (,3) 1; Foster Anc. 74;
Children
- Samuel, b abt 1636; m Elizabeth Folland[2] No issue; his will names his brothers and wife.[3]
- John, bpt in Charlestown, Mass., 13 May 1638;[4] m by 1661 Priscilla _____ who might have been daughter of Augustine Bearse, but Anderson was not convinced.
- Shebar (son), bpt Charlestown, 9 Jan 1639/40; no further record
- Joseph, bpt Barnstable 3 Jul 1643;[5] m Mary Joyce, daughter of John Joyce
- Benjamin, b/d July 1644
- Nathaniel, bpt Barnstable * Feb 1645/6; m by 1675 Ann Thornton
- Gershom, bpt 5 Mar 1647/8; m1 Bethiah Bangs; m2 Martha Bramhall
- William, bpt 8 Jun 1651; m by 1683 Esther _____
- Benjamin, bp. Barnstable, Mass., 29 May 1653;[6] m. in Yarmouth 7 Feb 1677/8 Mehitable Mathews.[7]
- Elisha, b abt 1655; m by abt 1680 Lydia ____[8]
Sources
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begin, p 842
- ↑ Anderson, p 842, citing Mayflower Descendant 3:176, citing Barnstable Probate records 1:5
- ↑ Barnstable Probate records 1:91
- ↑ Anderson, p 842, citing Charlestown Church Records p 47
- ↑ Anderson, p 842, citing NEHGR 9:282
- ↑ Anderson, p 843, citing NEHGR 9:284
- ↑ Anderson, p 843, citing Yarmouth VR 322
- ↑ Anderson, p 843, citing Yarmouth VR, p 10, and Mayflower Descendant 5:27
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Boston Evening Transcript: Genealogy Pages, 1911-1940. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1655/i/37637/Feb-co2/0 (4th column, near top)
And https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC&dat=19090706&printsec=frontpage&hl=en (page 13, 4th column #571) - states "Decaon John (2) Hall was son of John (1) Hall, whose first wife was Bethia (Farmer)(found in a small paper genealogy book at Boston Public Library)."
There are several other AGBI references found here which also give her last name as Farmer: (not sure where else the index can be found) https://www.godfrey.org/scholar/viewer.php?group=American+Genealogical-Biographical+Index&bookName=AGBI+Vol.+70%2C+Hale%2C+Hannah%2C+S+thru+Halzel
Note: According to that AGBI index, there is a reference to the 29 Apr 1907: 898 edition of the Boston Evening Transcript, which I'm assuming is an answer to the request for a source of the previous 21 Jan 1907 #898 stating her last name was Farmer. That edition, 29 Apr 1907 is not available on Google Newspaper or American Ancestors. Perhaps it could be found someplace locally in the Boston area (or Salt Lake City)?
Have these sources been rule out as incorrect? That Farmer wasn't her maiden name?
edited by Gary Theisen
Clearly, the author of the Boston Evening Transcript article conflated two different John Halls and invented this relationship. We can dispense with this theory as not just unproven, but actually disproved.
The first part of the statement clearly states the names: "John Hall came from Coventry, Eng., about 1630, and his wife, Bethea Farmer ..."
And then, at the bottom of the column, goes on to state: "The eigth child married John Hall of Warwickshire, Eng. (References: New England Register, vol. i., page 4).
So it makes the connection by name (John Hall and Bethea Farmer), but as you stated, the dates don't work out for the given parents of John Farmer and Isabella Barbage.
It would be interesting to get a hold of that first issue of NEHGR as well as the "small paper genealogy book at Boston Public Library" (probably impossible to identify) given by the other person in the 06 Jul 1909 paper.
As given in the profile here, according to New England Marriages pre 1700, Volume 2, p 681 Bethia's maiden name is given as FARMER, but with a question mark. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/151984:3824?_phsrc=aBZ273&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Bethia&ml_rpos=1&queryId=e0a4716464730bd4bab53f469ac0da68 Perhaps the author of that work has seen the original record, but questions it based on the (incorrect) theory that John Farmer and Isabella Barbage were her parents.
Perhaps his wife's maiden name really was Farmer, but from a different father and mother?
edited by Gary Theisen
Here is John Farmer and Isabel Barbage in WikiTree.
HALL, John (-1693) & Elizabeth [LEARNED?] (1621-); by 1645; Charlestown/Dover, NH {Charlestown 455; Hingham 283; Leonard 22; Dover NH Mar. 81; Hall (,5) 212-3; Hall (,5) 132; Foster Anc. 74; Cram 46; Warner-Harrington 396; Swift (1955) 12, 68}
Source #1. Crane, Historic Homes... vol. 4, p 107 "Bethia Larned" without any source.
Sources #2-8 are horribly derivative and not at all useful.
Source # 9 is New England Marriages pre 1700, no page # is listed; I looked it up on AmericanAncestors.org: it's in volume 2, p 681 and says this: HALL, John (-1696) & Bethia [?FARMER] (-1683); [by 1636]; Charlestown/Barnstable {Brainerd Anc. 141; Swift (1955) 26; Granberry 839; Barnstable Co. Prob. 1:23; Paine (,11) 65; Cape Cod Lib. 67:1; Charlestown 454; Hall (,5) 212-213, (,3) 1; Foster Anc. 74;
Would anyone else agree with this?
Father: John Farmer Mother: Isabella Barbage 1. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. 2. Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. 3. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.