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Mr. Hall was occupied in fanning. He was
for several years a member of the board of selectmen
and assessors of tlie town. His death
occurred in 1768. His children were John,
Judith and Philip.
(IV) John Hall (3) was twice married, the
name of his first wife ; being Mary his second
was Hannah Williams. He resided in that
part of Taunton which in 1731 became the
town of Eaynham, Mass. He was a large landowner
and occupied in farming. He held a
number of positions of trust, among them town
•offices. He and his family were members of
the First Congregational Churcli. He died in
1766. His children were: Freelove ; Brian,
born July 9, 1727 (both born 'to the first
wife) ; John, Jan. 26, 1729; Hannah, Nov. 11,
1730; Elkanah, Deoember, 1732; Elisha, Sept.
10, 1735; Joseph, March 18, 1738; and Noah,
cause ; was a lieutenant in Captain Hodges's
(VI) Silas Hall, born June 19, 1768, married
Nancy Stanley, and they were residents
of the town of Norton, Mass., where Mr. Hall
was occupied in agricultural pursuits. His
death occurred June 29, 1841. His wife Nancy
passed away March 26, 1833. Their children
were; Chandler, born Jan. 23, 1795; x\nna,
April 4, 1797 ; Silas, Jan. 29, 1800 ; Benjamin
S., Oct. 2, 1802; Dexter, April 30, 1805;
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Soranus L., Aug. 27, 1807; and Richard
Hutchens, May 23, 1810.
(VII) Richard Hutchens Hall, born May
23, 1810, in Norton, Mass., married Mary Ann
Bates, born Sept. 8, 1812, daughter of Horatio
and Mary (Monroe) Bates, of Providence, R.
I., and they lived in Norton, Mass. Mr. Hall
learned the business of copper manufacturing
and became superintendent of the works in
Norton, a position he held with credit to himself
and satisfaction to all concerned for the
long period of about twenty-five years. He
was a member of the First Congregational
Church at Norton. He was held in high esteem
by the community in which he lived. His
death occurred Feb. 11, 1877, his wife's Oct.
19, 1878. Their children were: Richard
Dec. 26, 1741.
(V) Brian Hall, born July 9, 1727, in what
is now Raynham, Mass., married in 1751
Abiah, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Crossman,
of the same town. She was born Aug.
28, 1726, and died Feb. 15, 1814, in the eightyeighth
year of her age. Perhaps a Henry,
year or more
after their marriage, and the death of their
first child, they removed to Boston, remaining
a few years. Mr. Hall having purchased a
farm in the town of Norton, Mass., the family
removed thither about 1755. He subsequently
became a large owner of and operator in real
estate. In the Revolutionary struggle he was
one of the first to act and to respond to the
born Nov. 7, 1830; Alfred, May 18,
1832; Horatio Hutchens, Sept. 6, 1833 (lives
at Weir); Mary Jane, Feb. 14, 1836; Julia
Ann, Oct. 29, 1838; Eliza Ann (twin to Julia
Ann), born Oct. 29, 1838; Silas Frederick,
Feb. 10, 1841; Harriet Augusta, March 14,
1845 (married Alfred W. Woodward) ; George
Edwin, Oct. 1, 1847 (lives in Norton) and
;
Velina Allin, Oct. 5, 1854.
(VIII) Richard Henry Hall, son of Richard
Hutchens and Mary Ann (Bates) Hall, born
Nov. 7, 1830, in Norton, Mass., married Jan.
3, 1859, Susan Jane, daughter of James Cobb
and Lydia T. (Packard) Drake, of that part
of North Bridgewater, Mass., which became
the town of Brockton ; and great-granddaughter
of Capt. Daniel Drake, an officer in the
Revolutionary war, and a kinsman of John
Drake, of Dorchester or Boston, who, s^'s Savage,
probably came in the fleet with Winthrop
in 1630, was an early settler of Taunton, and
was later at Windsor, Connecticut.
It seems from a little pamphlet entitled
company, serving in Rhode Island in 1776. He
was a member of the select Committee of Correspondence,
to take into consideration the
"Confederation of the Union of States," proposed
by Congress ; was also on the committee
to devise means for the formation of a State
constitution. He held other responsible positions
in the town. He and his wife were connected
with the First Congregational Society.
They had the following children "Genealogical
: Isaac, born
Aug. 16, 1753 (in Boston) ; Nancv, April 1,
1755; Prudence, Jan. 8, 1758; Jolin, Oct. 21,
1760; Brian, April 10, 1763; Abiah. Oct. 3,
1765; and Silas, June 19, 1768.
and Biographical Account of the
Family of Drake in America." published at
Boston by S. G. Drake, in 1845, that the family
of Drake, according to the old English genealogists,
"is one of great antiquity, several
families of the name residing within a small
compass in the south part of the County of
Devonshire as early as the Norman conquest,
and that the family was Saxon; that the English
family had a coat of arms; that the family
has been distingiiished in England from the
earliest ages, by a long array of noble men,"
etc. The Drake family, who held their seat
at Ashe, according to Stiles's Ancient Windsor,
were ever prominent, and from them it is supposed
that the Drakes of New England were
descended.
As stated, Capt. Daniel Drake, the great-