Hall ancestry : a series of sketches of the lineal ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley of Binghamton, N.Y. : with some account of nearly one hundred of the early Puritan families of New England ; also tables showing the royal descents of Mary Lyman and Sarah Chauncy and their descendants

Preface

The following Sketches were prepared for the purpose of bringing together and putting in convenient form for the use of the writer’s family, the names, and facts as to the personal history, of their lineal ancestors, which are now only to be found scattered here and there through numerous books, pamphlets, manuscripts and records, many of them difficult of access. Of the 254 ancestors of the seven generations from the writer up to and including that of the Puritan immigration to New England, it has been possible to give some account of each of the 30 grandparents in the first four generations ; of 30 of the 32 in the fifth ; of 54 of the 64 in the sixth; and of 72 of the 128 in the seventh, that is, of all but 68 of the 254. In addition, the names hav^e been ascertained and some account given of 168 ancestors belonging to the generations preceding that of the Puritan immigration, making a total of 354 whose names appear in these Sketches. This is exclusive of those mentioned in the tables of royal descents, who number about 400, making the whole number of known ancestors between seven and eight hundred. In collecting facts care has been taken to admit nothing except from responsible sources, but it has been

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PREFACE, impracticable to verify every fact, and in some cases the errors of others may have been repeated here. Considerable new material has also been gotten together. Many facts and incidents have been recorded solely on account of their interest to the family, for which no apology should be needed as the book is intended principally for the family’s use and information. The pedigrees of two progenitors in the female lines, one representing the paternal and the other the maternal side, have been successfully traced to a very early date, and tables have been prepared showing their descent through many illustrious houses in England and on the Continent. Tables are also given showing the descent from each ancestor mentioned in the Sketches. The plan of this book is the reverse of that usually adopted in genealogical works, in that, instead of tracing all the descendants of a given ancestor, it traces all the ancestors of a given descendant. This presents the subject from a different point of view, and makes more apparent the infinite number of lines which concentrate in each person, and the endless variety of bloods which each has in his veins, and corrects in a measure the current conceit that any man is descended from a single line.

The genealogical facts contained in these Sketches have been taken principally from Theodore P. Hall’s Genealogical Notes on the Hall Family^ and his Family Records ; Judge Nathan K. Hall’s Notes on the Halls ; Rev. David B. Hall’s Halls of New England; DNiss History of TValling/ord ; Chan-

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cellor Walworth’s Genealogy of the Hyde Family ; Chapman’s Gejiealogy of the Bulkeley Family ; Horace E. Mather’s Genealogy of the Mather Family ; Professor and Mrs. Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury’s Genealogies of the Griswold^ Wolcott^ Leey and DeWolf Families ; Darling’s Chauncy Memorial ; Mather’s Magnalia ; Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary ; Hinman’s Early Settlers of New England; Barber’s Historical Collections ; Munsell’s America^i Ancestry ; Hough’s History of Lewis County ; Hildreth’s Early Settlers of Ohio, and the New England Historical and Genealogical Register,

C. S. H.

Binghamton, December i, 1896.

Contents

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Introductory Notes ........ i

Sketches of Lineal Ancestors :