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• FamilySearch ID: LYS9-RKY
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 15158027
• Group: American Colonial Immigrants
• Group: Immigrant Ancestors

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George hubbard is my 9-ggrandfather. He married Elizabeth Watts in 1640 in England. He was an immigrant. George and Elizabeth had 8 children. He was a founder of Hartford, CT and his name is on the Founders Stone.

~George was the son of Edmund Hobart Sr. & Margaret Dewey. In 1640 in England, he married Elizabeth Watts. To this union, 8 children were born.

George Hubbard did not immigrate at the same time as his parents. He arrived two years later, in September of 1635 aboard the Dorst John Flower.

His name first appears in 1639 in a list of the early settlers of Hartford. These settlers came overland from the vicinity of Boston during the years 1635 and 1636, and located the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield, Ct., also Springfield, Mass. GEORGE HUBBARD was one of the number. He was given six acres of land "by courtesy of the town, with privilege of wood & keeping cows on the common," and resided on a lot adjacent to the land of James Ensign and George Graves on a road that ran parallel with the Connecticut River. This road ran from South Meadow to George Steel's land, and then turned and ran across the "ox pasture" towards Wethersfield, passing near to the Great Swamp. In 1640 he married Elizabeth Watts who was assigned a "home-lot" and land upon the east side of the "Great River." The colonial records show that "William Swanyne and George Hubbard were appointed Sep 4, 1640, appraisers of the estate of Edward Mason," and April 24, 1649, George Hubbard was "fined £10 for exchanging a gun with an Indian."

He appears to have disposed of his land and moved with about fifteen other families in March, 1650-51 to Mattabesett, so called until 1653, when it became Middletown. When he moved from Hartford, he carried with him a commission from the Colonial Government as "Indian Agent and Trader for the Mattabessett District." In 1654 he was made freeman, and settled with is son-in-law, Thomas Wetmore, upon opposite corners on the east side of Main Street. (Thomas Wetmore was the husband of George's daughter, Elizabeth Hubbard. The Wetmores and Hubbards will marry several additional times in succeeding generations) George owned large land tracts on the west side and on the east side of the river. These lands were recorded Sep 5, 1654. He, Thomas Wetmore and two other land owners on the west side of the street, gave land for the second meeting-house.. The records read: "It was agreed at a meeting of John Halls house to build a meeting house and to make it 20 foot square & 10 foot between sill and plat, the heygt of it." This structure was a one-story log house with a palisade around it. GEORGE HUBBARD, living adjacent, was naturally selected as its keeper. Dec 17, 1666, he was allowed "40 shillings for sweeping the meeting-house and keeping the glass [hour glass]. This also included the services of his eldest son, Joseph, who beat the drum to assemble the congregation and to give warning of the approach of Indians.
An appraisement of his property on March 22, 1670, showed George to be worth £90.10s.15d., and in 1673 £ 132.10s. At his death his inventory showed him worth £243.10s., and possessed of a dwelling-house and home lot worth £50, "2 1-3 acres of long meadow" worth £18.10s., 3 "acres of meadow on the east side the Great River" worth £9, a tract at Long Hill of 226 acres, another "parcel west from the towne" of 300 acres, one "parcel on the east side of the Great River" of 464 acres, and the "one-halfe Lott" of 30 acres , a total of over one thousand acres.
One record of him says that he was "highly respected, and of marked integrity and fairness." He appears at this distance of time to have been devout, industrious, and possessed of those sturdy, wholesome qualities of mind and body without which the composition of our country today would not possess He must have been a man of "marked integrity and fairness" to have been selected by the colony as its Indian Trader. Much judgment had to be used by this representative of the colony in these dealings. Promiscuous trading by any one was forbidden, as fire-arms and fire-water were frequently bartered by indiscreet persons, which produced direful results. This resulted in the selection of one man to do the trading for all. On his judgment and prudence much depended. He must have erred, however, at one time, for the Colonial Court fined him £10 for exchanging a gun with an Indian. In a spirit of charity, his descendants are privileged to conjecture that he might have regarded the gun as an old and harmless one and incapable of going off and hurting anyone. He is listed as one of the Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut.

George was one of the founders of Hartford, CT and his name is on the Founders Stone.

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Immigrants from the UK who came to United States or Canada before the Revolutionary War

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Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls

George married Elizabeth Watts in 1640 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. Elizabeth was born before 20 Dec 1616; was christened on 20 Dec 1616 in England; died on 6 Dec 1702 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried after 6 Dec 1702 in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 9010038

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Nathaniel Hubbard was born Dec 10, 1652 in Middletown, CT, the son of George & Elizabeth Watts Hubbard. He married Mary Earle, daughter of John & Mary Webb Earle, on May 29, 1682 in Middletown, CT. Among their children was a daughter Abigail (1686-1755) who married Jonathan Burr.

Nathaniel died May 20 1738 in Middletown, CT. His wife is also buried at Riverside Cemetery.

Source: Hubbard, Harlan Page, 1000 years of Hubbard history, 866 to 1895, G.W. Rogers & Co., NY, 1895 - Hubbard history p 276:

"Nathaniel contributed 15s, his brothers Joseph 15s, Daniel 10s and Richard 6s toward the first church bell used in Middletown, which supplanted the drum. Extract from Colonial Records -- Hartford, May 12, 1692: 'This Court doe for the present upon good consideration and till farther Order free Nath'l Hubbard from Training.' He lived at Long Hill on the cross roads,"   --- Added by Charlotte Hubbard Rehpohl on Oct 18, 2011

Bio by: L. Pappas Finley


Inscription

    Here lies the Body of Nathaniel Hubbard, who died May 20th, 1738, in th 86 year of his Age.


Gravesite Details

In cemetery listing his name is spelled Hubbert.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
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Nathaniel married Mary Earle on 29 May 1692 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary was born on 15 Oct 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 6 Apr 1732 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried after 6 Apr 1732 in Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married Thomas Wetmore on 20 Feb 1683/84 in Connecticut Colony, New England. Thomas (son of Deacon Thomas Wetmore and Sarah Hall) was born on 19 Oct 1652 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 1 Feb 1687/88 in Connecticut Colony, New England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 24675915

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Age 76 yrs.

He was the son of Nathaniel Hubbard and Mary Earl. He married Sarah Johnson 12 Apr 1716. Records state that he was an early settler of Long Hill, Middletown in 1715.

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Nathaniel married Sarah Johnson on 12 Apr 1716 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. Sarah was born on 16 Aug 1696 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 17 Sep 1776 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried after 17 Sep 1776 in Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: K4F6-4H7
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70864546
• Story: 24 Jul 2022, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; The Problem of two John Halls

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Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

HALL, John, 2nd, m. Esther HUBBARD, Sept. 21, 1749 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Esther, d. John & Esther, b. July 20, 1750 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, s. John & Esther, b. Apr. 27, 1752 (Vol. 2, p. 247)
---, Elizabeth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. May 15, 1754 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Hannah, d. Jno.. & Esther, b. Mar. 29, 1756 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, David, s. Jno. & Esther, b. Feb. 15, 1758 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Phebe, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Mar. 12 1760 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Jonathan, s. Jno & Esther, b. Mar. 12, 1762 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Ruth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Sept. 13, 1764 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, d. July 16, 1808 (Vol. 2, p. 257)

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Story:
The John Hall who married Esther Hubbard and the John Hall who married Mary Willis were two different people. This is easily demonstrated because they both have children being born at the same time. However, many esearchers conflate these two different John Halls.

My working assumption - and this is something that I am currently working on for the Hall Families of New England study I am involved with (https://www.albionseed.com) - is that the John Hall born to Daniel Hall and Phebe Ward in 1717 was the John Hall who married Esther Hubbard and died in 1808 and is buried with his wife in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery in Middletown.

The key records of that family from the Barbour collection are:

Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

HALL, John, s. Daniel & Phebe, b. May 26, 1717 (Vol. LR2, p. 26)

HALL, John, 2nd, m. Esther HUBBARD, Sept. 21, 1749 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Esther, d. John & Esther, b. July 20, 1750 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, s. John & Esther, b. Apr. 27, 1752 (Vol. 2, p. 247)
---, Elizabeth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. May 15, 1754 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Hannah, d. Jno.. & Esther, b. Mar. 29, 1756 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, David, s. Jno. & Esther, b. Feb. 15, 1758 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Phebe, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Mar. 12 1760 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Jonathan, s. Jno & Esther, b. Mar. 12, 1762 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Ruth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Sept. 13, 1764 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, d. July 16, 1808 (Vol. 2, p. 257)

That death date for John at aged 92 based on the headstone with the memorial for Esther also in same cemetery with death in 1797 seems like good evidence for this John being the son of Daniel Hall and Phebe Ward.

The records for the John Hall and Mary Willis family give fewer clues.

HALL, John, Carpenter, m. Mary WILLIS, Dec. 14, 1752 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, John, s. John & Mary, b. Jan. 22, 1753 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, Mary, d. John & Mary, b. Dec. 15, 1754 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, Thomas, s. John & Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1756 (Vol. 2, p. 244)
---, William, s. John & Mary, b. Nov. 6, 1758 (Vol. 2, p. 344)

A death record for a John Hall in Middletown of 25 December 1786 has been put up, but I cannot find the source for this so it is difficult to prove who it is for (eg, age at death).

The record below has been widely interpreted are being Mary's death record.

HALL, w. John, d. Oct. 1, 1762 (Vol. 1, p. 6)

This is definitely not Mary (Willis) Hall. FindaGrave morial for Mary Hall of Hartford died in 1825 where she is represented as widow of John Hall of Middletown and the sister of her daughter in law memorialized on the same memorial is more convincing:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146471549

At this point I do not know who the widow of John who died in 1762 was.

Esther married John Hall, II on 21 Sep 1749 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. John (son of Captain Daniel Hall and Phebe Ward) was born on 26 May 1717 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; was christened on 26 May 1717 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 12 Jul 1808 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; was buried on 16 Jul 1808 in Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]