Joe, While I have no answer to your direct question, the Middletown HALLs of that period almost certainly were descended from John Hall the Immigrant (his daughter Sarah married my immigrant ancestor Thomas WHITMORE/WETMORE). IIRC he was from County Kent, ENG, a widower who brought his children to New England: my Sarah, John Jr. (confusingly referred to in Middletown records as John Sr., since he had a son named John [III]), Richard and Samuel. AFAIK the sons all left male issue. Interestingly, there are 20-odd HALL telephone subscribers today in Middletown, whereas the WETMOREs, STOWs and other of my kinfolk are long departed. http://tinyurl.com/43hvg HALL is a "locational" surname and so is not an uncommon one (there were many manor halls in England) -- most HALLs are no kin to us -- but you might post a query on the HALL message boards at http://genforum.genealogy.com/hall/ and/or at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.hall. There are HALL researchers following this line though I can't find my notes on them. Here's one researcher http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NYOSWEGO/2000-10/0972341912 who notes a Mary HALL d/o Jabez marrying Allen Gilbert, in a genealogy of the Gilbert family. I expect you've already looked at Middlesex church baptismal records for Mary. Jabez is a name that wasn't all that plentiful back then. But be advised that search engines also turn up a Capt. Jabez Hall of Lanesboro, MA who is probably no kin. FWIW, one false scent I can advise you against following (as I once followed) is the immigrant John HALL of New Haven Colony, who spawned a large, unrelated line of Connecticut HALLs that exists to this day. Alas, I came to the conclusion that I am not kin to Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence and grandson or great-grandson of New Haven John. http://www.rootsweb.com/~galiber3/hall.html :-) Best, Warren Wetmore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Klaudi" <jwklaudi@comcast.net> To: <CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:10 PM Subject: [CTMID] Motimer Cemetery Records | Hello Listers, | Does any one know if actual burial records exist for the Mortimer Cemetery in Middletown, and if so where they can be found? | My 'Brick Wall' is Jabez Hall, whose daughter, Mary, married Allen Gilbert in Middletown on 25 Jun 1782. I can find no other information on Jabez, but feel that he may be the Capt. Jabez Hall, d. July 4, 1797, age 59 yrs., buried in Mortimer Cemetery and his wife might be the the Hall listed as, Hall, (stone all crumbled & footstone). | Allen and Mary Gilbert later moved to Orwell, Oswego Co., NY where they both died in 1840. | I would appreciate any information that anyone could offer! | | Joe klaudi | | | ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== | Visit the Godfrey Memorial Library Website | http://www.godfrey.org | Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT | | ============================== | Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. | Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx | |