Lydia (Freeborn) Hall (abt. 1769 - abt. 1794)

Born about 1769 in New York [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Crandall Hall — married before 1781 in Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died about 1794 at about age 25 in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Lydia Freeborn was the first wife of Jesse Hall. She was born about 1769, either in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, or in Dutchess County, New York.

Her mother and father are not known for certain, but she is probably the daughter of Jonathan Freeborn Jr. (1744 - ?) and his wife Martha (Brownell) Freeborn (1742 - 1838), who married on 3 Nov 1768 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. They had a daughter named Hannah, born at Portsmouth in 1769, who is a very close match for Lydia, if not identical to Lydia.

The Freeborns of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, were Quaker descendants of William Freeborn (1594 - Aft. 1657) and his wife Mary (Hall) Freeborn (1605 - ?), who came from Essex, England, crossed the Atlantic on the ship Francis, and settled at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.

Expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in November 1637 during the Antinomian Controversy, William Freeborn and his friends sailed to Rhode Island in order to join Roger Williams' "New Netherland" colony, but Williams suggested they might be happier on land of their own.

In May of 1638 William Freeborn became one of the 19 original founders of the colony at Portsmouth, Rhode Island and a signer of the Portsmouth Compact, "the first document in American history that severed both political and religious ties with England." See the Wikipedia article Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for more details.

The original colony was small, and this line of Freeborns intermarried with the Hall family several times over. For example, Jonathan Freeborn Jr.'s brother, Benjamin Freeborn (1757 - 1838) married to Ruth Hall (1761 - 1785) in 1785.

There is some speculation that Lydia Freeborn may have been a daughter of Jonathan Freeborn Sr., and a sister of Jonathan Freeborn Jr., not Junior's daughter.

A great deal depends on Lydia's birth date, which is uncertain. She may have been born as early at 1759, a year before her husband Jesse Hall.

Lydia and Jesse Hall were married before 1781, when their son Freeborn Hall was born in New York. Freeborn's birth is sometimes mistaken for that of a cousin listed in the Vital Records of Rhode Island in Volume 4, which provides a list of births for Portsmouth in Newport County.

Their son John was born in New York, in 1790.^[1]

In or near 1789, Jesse Hall removed to Montgomery County, Virginia, with several other men from the area of Pawling, Dutchess County. Two more children of Jesse and Lydia Hall were born in Virginia before Lydia died in about 1794.

Her grave and death records for Virginia have not been located.

A gravestone, which may refer to Lydia (Freeborn) Hall, has been found at the Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. See the Find-A-Grave memorial cited below.

The Lydia Hall buried at Sandwich died on 16 May 1790, at the age of 31, which means she was born 1759.

On 23 December 1794 Jesse married Phebe Wilbur as his second wife.^[1]

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003). Vol. 6, pages 73-74.

Sources

• Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narrangansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891) Vol. 4, p 78 birth
• Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912). Vol. 4: Newport County: Births, Marriages, Deaths. See p. 23 Portsmouth Marriages for marriage of Jonathan Freeborn and Martha Brownell.
• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narrangansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891) Vol. 5 Washington County - Town of Westerly Index. See Hall Family Births and Deaths for Westerly, and also Hall Family Marriages in Westerly. Jesse and Lydia are not listed.
• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narrangansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891) Vol. 5 Washington County - Charlestown Index.
• Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Providence, R.I., Narrangansett Historical Pub. Co., 1891) Vol. 7 Friends and Ministers
• Montgomery County, Virginia Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki

• "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island" (J. H. Beers & Co., 1908) p. 1215

• William Freeborn, Settler - Wikipedia Article

Find A Grave Memorial

No Find A Grave record has yet been found for Lydia Hall.

Disambiguation: Lydia Hall was born ca. 1769 and died in Montgomery County, Virginia ca. 1794, at the age of 25. She is therefore not identical to the Lydia Hall below (born 1759) who died in Barnstable, Massachusetts at the age of 31.

Lydia Hall in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current

• Name: Lydia Hall
• Death Date: 16 May 1790
• Cemetery: Old Town Cemetery
• Burial or Cremation Place: Sandwich, Barnstable County, *Massachusetts, United States of America
• Has Bio?: Y

Go to website: Find A Grave Memorial No. 72173023

Source Information

Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

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Pension Record Disambiguation

Lydia Hall's records must be carefully separated from those of Lydia (Dinsmore) Hall, a resident of Bartlett, Coos County, New Hampshire, who appears on the 1840 and 1850 U.S. Census for New Hampshire.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Freeborn-33 created through the import of My Family Tree.ged on Nov 30, 2011 by Carrie French. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Carrie and others.