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- From Halls of New England - Halls of Medford (Part Seventh), p. 384.
(Family 235.) ASA SWINNERTON5, (Benjamin Swinnerton) Elizabeth Hall4, Stephen3, Percival2, John1: m., Jan. 10, 1807, Chloe, dai. of Samuel R. Hall; residence Cornish, N. H. They only had one child, Hannah Hall, b. Oct. 5, 1807; m., Oct. 25, 1841, Rev. Charles Pulsifer, of Plymouth, N. H., and had no children.
In the spring of 1842 they were sent out as teachers to the Cherokee Indians, among whom they laborer for six years; they spent one year in New England to regain health and Strength, after which they were sent out by the A. B. C. F. M. as teachers, to labor among the Ojibway Indians on Lake Superior; they arrived at La Point, Madaline Island, Nov. 10, 1849. In 1853 Rev. C. Pulsifer, Rev. Sherman Hall and Rev. Henry Blatchford left La Point to establish a mission at the moutn of the Crow Wing, west of the Mississippi river, where part of the Ojibway tribe had been removed; but before the mission could become established, war broke out between the Ojibways and the Sioux, and the Missionaries returned to La Point, except Rev. S. Hall, who withdrew. In 1855 Mr. Pulsifer's eyes failing him, he removed to Illinois, where he died, May 6, 1861.
Mrs. Pulsifer m., 2d, March 25, 1866, Abram W. Rice, and removed to Granby, Vt.; she was his 2nd wife; Mr. Rice died Jan. 15, 1868, and she was living in Granby in Jan., 1882. She has very kindly furnished the record of the posterity of her grandmother Elizabeth Hall Swinnerton, and Thompson, and of Rev. Samuel Read Hall, of Rumford, Me., with the co-operation of her uncle, Rev. Dr. Samuel R. Hall, of Brownington, Vt. And additions have been made by Alonzo Allen, Esq., town clerk of Croydon, N. H.
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1776 - Bef 1807 (30 years)
