MP of Elizabeth Hall (Learned) dau of William:
Elizabeth Hall
Currently married to both John Hall of Yarmouth and John Hall of Charlestown & Dover. She should be married only to John Hall of Charlestown who d.s.p. by 1648. And hopefully we can lock her to him.
She never married John Hall of Yarmouth. She did marry John Hall of Charlestown. This per The Great Migration Begins for Learned. And this needs to be cleared up because several men named John Hall were conflated in older genealogies and they cannot be trusted. But Jacobus comes to the rescue in Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd p 142-143 where he discusses the two men and proves beyond a doubt who is who. John Hall of Charlestown marries Elizabeth Learned before 1645 and has three children born there John b 21 SEP 1645, Elizabeth b 4 Sep 1647 and Elizabeth again 21 Nov 1648. There is no further record for anyone in this family that can be conclusively proven. (But see Deacon John Hall of Dover below – possibly the same person but possibly not. I’d prefer to keep them separate). But Jacobus and Anderson are the only two authors to get these families sorted correctly. Jacobus:
https://archive.org/details/ancestryofthomas00unse/page/142
John Hall of Yarmouth had only one wife Bethia (Unknonw). See Great Migration Begins 2:840 - 844 which lists his spouse and children b 1635-1655: Samuel, John, Shebar, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Gershom, William, Benjamin, Elisha.
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-...
Note the parents for both of these men named John Hall are unknown and The Great Migration finds no support for the theory they were from Coventry. They should have NN parents bolted on.
As an aside there was a Deacon John Hall of Dover who appeared there in 1648 (taxed). His brother was Ralph Hall of Exeter (deposition) they were probably from Ecclesfield, London (see below) and brother to Thomas Hall of London. Ralph appears in 1649 in Malden and then follows his brother to Dover and ends up in Exeter. John Hall of Dover was born 1617 (deposed age 59 in Jun 1676) died after Jan 1690 and before 4 May 1692. John Hall of Dover had a wife Elizabeth (Unknown) and proven children of John, Nathaniel, Ralph and possibly Grace. The disappearance of John Hall of Cambridge in 1648 and the appearance of John Hall of Dover in 1648 has led some to conclude they were identical. Supporting this theory is that they both had a wife Elizabeth and a son John. But there is no evidence linking the two men. Arguing against this theory is the John son of John of Cambridge was born 1645 (VR). John son of John of Dover was Constable Dover 1671-2, ‘aged 36.’ If that record is correct he was born 1635 and can’t be the John of Cambridge born 1645! It is John son of John of Dover who married Abigail Roberts. I think lacking critical evidence and indeed having at least one record that would make it impossible that John of Dover and John of Cambridge are the same person were should keep them separated. I guess it is possible the record is in error. John and Ralph of Dover are treated in the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Keep in mind there were three Ralphs and Five John Hall’s living in Maine and NH at this time.
There is a possible English origin for John and Ralph Hall of Dover. Thomas Hall, turner, of London, will dated 7 Oct. 1662 proved 9 May 1663, names his brothers John and Ralph Hall and favored brother John Hall in “New England.” This is probably the correct English origin for John and Ralph Hall of Dover. His will is found in NEHGR 47:506 under Genealogical Gleaning in England. It is claimed they were bp, in Ecclesfield, John 7 July 1618 and Ralph 4 Apr. 1621, close to the age of our emigrants but I have not been able to verify these bps – they do not appear on FamilySearch or AmericanAncestors. Perhaps they are on FindMyPast or perhaps they are fiction. But the will is real.
