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However near or remote from the truth
this tradition may be, it is a fact and mat-
ter of record that William Hallock, son
of Peter Hallock, resided at Southold,
and made a will, which is still preserved,
in which he expressed deep sorrow that
his son John had married into and joined
the then prescribed "Society of Friends."
This John Hallock died at Setauket, in
Brookhaven, 1737. His dwelling, covered
with cedar, still standing in Setauket,
was the place of the Friends' monthly
meeting for more than a century. His
son, John Hallock, was a preacher of that
sect, and was the father of Edward Hal-
lock, also a Friends' preacher, who set-
tled about 1762 in Milton, Ulster county,
New York. He was the father of Edward
Hallock, a preacher, who died in
April, 1820. His eldest son, Nicholas
Hallock, was the father of Samuel Titus
Hallock, who was a circuit judge in
Western Pennsylvania, Meadville Dis-
trict. He married Sarah Bailey, daughter
of Rev. Winthrop Bailey, of Deerfield,
Massachusetts. Her mother was one of
the Stanwood family, of Maine. Samuel
Titus Hallock was the father of Winthrop
Bailey Hallock, founder of Cromwell
Hall.
Winthrop Bailey Hallock was born
February 2, 1838, in Utica, New York,
and died in New York City, September
24, 1898. He was educated at Jamestown,
New York ; studied medicine at the Uni-
versity of New York and the Long Island
Hospital Medical College, and graduated
from the latter in 1864. From 1862 to
1865 he served as medical cadet and
assistant surgeon in the United States
army, having been stationed at hospitals
located at Central Park, New York
City; David's Island, New York; and
Fortress Monroe, Virginia. After the
war he returned to Jamestown, New
York, and later went to New York City,
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where he began practice with his uncle,
Dr. Robert T. Hallock. At the opening
of the Connecticut Hospital for Insane in
Middletown, in 1867, he accepted the posi-
tion of first assistant physician of the institution,
which he retained until 1877, when
he established the Sanatorium, Cromwell
Hall, in Cromwell, Connecticut.
He was a member of the American
Medico-psychological Society, the New
England Psychological Society, and the
Connecticut State Medical Society. He
was the author of several pamphlets upon
mental diseases and the care of the insane,
the one best known being a paper upon
"The Cottage System for the Insane,"
published in the "New York Medical
Journal," vols, xvii and xix. the "Annual
Report of the Kansas State Board of
Commissioners for 1874" and the "Trans-
actions of the Connecticut Medical So-
ciety for 1877." He married, January 20,
1858, Mary Kirkwood (Kent) Shew,
widow of Dr. Joel Shew, and daughter of
Colonel William Kent, of Concord, New
Hampshire.
Mrs. Winthrop B. Hallock was born in
Concord, New Hampshire, August 27,
1827. She was a descendant of John
Kent, a native of England, who came to
Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1645, an d
later removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts.
His eldest son became a man
of importance and was known in the records
as "John Kent, gentleman." Ebenezer
Kent, son of John Kent, was a prom-
inent merchant in Boston and Charles-
town, and suffered great loss in the burn-
ing of Charlestown by the British in
1775. His son, also named Ebenezer, was
a slave holder and evidently a seaman,
as he was called "Captain." He died in
1766, in London, England. William Aus-
tin Kent, son of Captain Ebenezer Kent,
settled in 1789 at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, where he held many civil offices,