Thomas HALE

- Bef 1679

• Name	Thomas HALE
  Birth	England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 19 Feb 1679	Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT
  Notes	(1) Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Vol. 1-3, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, pp. 838-840: THOMAS HALE ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury REMOVES: Hartford 1636, Roxbury 1639, Hartford 1640, Norwalk, Charlestown by 1659, Norwalk by 1674 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Among the last of those admitted to Roxbury church in 1633 was "Thomas Hale a single man, he lived but a short time with us but he removed to Hartford on Conecticott where God blessed him with a good measure of increase of grace, he afterwards returned & married Jane Lord one of our members about the 12th month 1639 & the next spring returned to Conecticot" [RChR 79-80]. Thomas Hale was admitted to Charlestown church on 14 August 1670 "by a letter of dismission from the church of Christ in Norwalk" [NEHGR 23:435]. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:368]. OFFICES: Served in the Pequot War [CCCR 2:162]. ESTATE: The Hartford land inventory includes seven parcels "belonging to Thomas Healles": two acres with dwelling house, outhouses, yards and gardens; two acres in the West Field; ten acres in the Cowpasture "part whereof he bought of Samiwell Healles" (with marginal annotation that this parcel was sold to Zachary Field); one acre in the North Meadow; two acres of meadow on the east side of the Great River, part bought of John Pratt and another part bought of Nicholas Clark; four acres of swamp on the east side of the Great River "which he bought of Samiwell Healles"; and four acres of swamp on the east side of the Great River [HaBOP 383-84]. On 12 October 1671 "Thomas Hale is allowed fifty acres, for his service in the Pequot War" [CCCR 2:162]. On or before 29 May 1673 "Thomas Hale of Charles Towne sold unto my brother Samuell Hale of Norwalk, one homelot in Norwalk and adjoining house of Richard Olmsted" [Hale, House 233, citing Norwalk LR 2:50]. The inventory of the estate of Thomas Hale was taken on 19 February 1678[/9] and totalled ??48 8s. 10d., including "one homelot" valued at ??31; there was also "an estate belonging to the said Thomas Hale's deceased in the custody of the relict at Charelstowne" consisting of moveables [Fairfield PR 3:88]. BIRTH: By 1613 based on date of freemanship. DEATH: Norwalk by 19 February 1678[/9] (date of inventory). MARRIAGE: (1) Roxbury February 1639/40 Jane Lord [RChR 79-80]; she died by 1659. (2) Charlestown 14 December 1659 Mary Nash [ChVR 1:21], daughter of William and Mary (_____) Nash. (Wyman says that she was "relieved a widow, 1679, was admitted church 20 (9) 1687, and was living 1696" [Wyman 454], but Jacobus notes that the Mary admitted to Charlestown church in 1687 could as well be the daughter of Thomas Hale as the second wife [Hale, House 233].) CHILDREN: With first wife i THOMAS, bp. Hartford 19 January 1650/1 [HaVR 582]; m. (1) 18 November 1675 Priscilla Markham (recorded Enfield, but probably took place at Hadley [Enfield Hist 765, citing Enfield VR 1:1:90]); m. (2) Enfield 17 December 1713 Sarah (Patch) Osborn [Enfield Hist 1767, citing Enfield VR 1:1:94]. With second wife ii JOHN, b. Charlestown 21 April 1665 (incorrectly given as "Thomas") [ChVR 1:52]; bp. Charlestown 23 April 1665 [NEHGR 25:344]; living on 20 April 1674 (when Mary Nash, widow of William Nash and mother of the second wife of Thomas Hale, made her will and included bequests to "my daughter Hale wife of Thomas Hale" and to grandchildren John and Mary Hale [MPR 4:64]). iii MARY, b. by 1674; m. Charlestown 24 March 1697/8 Elias Brigden [ChVR 1:191]. ASSOCIATIONS: Brother of Samuel Hale of Wethersfield and of Martha (Hale) Peck, wife of Paul Peck of Hartford [Hale, House 256]. S. Allyn Peck has found baptisms of Thomas, Samuel and Martha, children of John and Martha Hale, at Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, at a likely date, and suggests that these may be the immigrants to Connecticut [TAG 38:237-39]. COMMENTS: "Thomas Hales" was defendant in a suit for debt on 2 June 1659 [RPCC 200]. In 1674 Thomas Hale "that was formerly an inhabitant accepted on his returning" to Norwalk [FOOF 1:249, citing original Norwalk records]. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: The best treatments of Thomas Hale have both been published by Jacobus, first in 1930 in his compilation of Fairfield families, and then in 1952 in the volume largely devoted to Samuel Hale, brother of Thomas [FOOF 1:248-49; Hale, House 232-34].
  Person ID	I32732	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 1	Jane LORD   d. Bef 14 Dec 1659
  Marriage	Feb 1640	Roxbury, Essex County, MA
  Family ID	F14200	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Mary NASH
  Marriage	14 Dec 1659	Charlestown, Suffolk County, MA
  Family ID	F14201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024