Deacon William Hale

1724 - 1807  (83 years)

• Name	William Hale
  Prefix	Deacon
  Born	5 May 1724	Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  1800 Census	1800
  	Tyringham, Berkshire Co., MA, p. 115, as William Hale, 00001-00001-0
  Died	31 Aug 1807	Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I23730	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017

  
  

  Father	William Hale,   b. 18 Feb 1686/87, Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts ,   d. Bef 1759, Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Mary Coult,   b. 17 Jan 1695/96, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut ,   d. 19 Aug 1734, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut  (Age 38 years)
  Married	Aft 1723	Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F767	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Brewer,   b. 4 Apr 1729,   d. 10 Nov 1817, Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts  (Age 88 years)
  Married	Bef 1748
  Children	1. John Hale, Sr.,   b. 10 Jan 1751/52, Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Nov 1803, Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F8965	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 5 May 1724 - Enfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Died - 31 Aug 1807 - Tyringham, Berkshire County, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  "Hale, House and Related Families", by Donald Lines Jacobus & Edgar Francis Waterman, 1952, republished 1978 by Genealogical Publishing House, page 237: "On 12 Dec. 1733, David Hills, guardian to Ebenezer Keney (aged 15), son of Ebenezer Keney, deceased, asked to be released, and the said minor chose his father-in-law, William Haile of Glastonbury (alias Hall) for guardian. On 14 June 1731, Abraham Coult, Sr., of Glastonbury, conveyed 27 acres for love and affection to "my son and daughter," William Hale and his wife Mary, mentioning his grandson Ebenezer Keeney and the heirs of his son Abram. Coult, deceased. William Hale Jr. of Enfield sold about 28 acres to Nehemiah Strickland of Glastonbury, 8 Feb. 1745/6. (Manwaring's "Digest", 3:75; Glastonbury Deeds, 4:77; 5:438) On 26 Apr. 1759, WILLM. Hale, Hannah Hale, and Mary Hale, of Enfield, and Abraham Hale, of Derby, Conn., conveyed to Jonathan Hale of Enfield.(Enfield Deeds, 3:236) Children of William and Mary (Colt) (Keeney) Hale, the first three recorded at Enfield, the last two at Glastonbury: i. WILLIAM-4, b. 5 May 1724; d. at Tyringham, Mass., 31 Aug. 1807; m. Hannah Brewer, b. 4 Apr. 1729, d. 10 Nov. 1817. WILLIAM Hale settled in Tyringham as early as 1747; assisted in the building of Fort Massachusetts in Adams, and had been stationed in Stockbridge. He was back in Enfield, 1756-58, but returned to Tyringham, and was made deacon of the church there in 1764. On 5 Jan. 1760, WILLIAM Hale and wife Hannah, John Chadwick and wife Abigail, Isaac Gearfield and wife Mary, Jonas Brewer and David Brewer, all of township No. 1 adjacent to Sheffield, Mass., sold to Jacob Brown. On 9 Feb. 1780, WILLIAM Hale of Tyringham sold land in New Marlboro, Mass., to Nathaniel Hale; witnesses, William Hale, Jr., Josiah Hale. (Berkshire County Deeds, Pittsfield, 2:71; 19:308.) Distribution of the estate of Deacon WILLIAM Hale of Tyringham was made, 13 June 1808, to the widow Hannah; daus. Abigail Hale, Sally wife of John Joslin, Hannah wife of Zebadiah Joslin, and Polly wife of James Sweet; sons William, Josiah, Nathaniel, Gideon and Salathiel Hale; and the children of John Hale (Anna DeWolf, Abigail Abbott, and John, William, Polly, Hannah, Eli, Candace and Lucinda Hale).(Berkshire County Probate, File 2516.) Children, recorded at Tyringham."