Hi, I found this in an old e-mail to the list. It is an excerpt from, "New England families, genealogical and memorial; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation" by William Richard Cutter. I am researching this line, and I wondered if anyone else is? The Asbury and Benjamin Franklin Hall I am looking for somehow descend from this line. Can anyone help? (The Hall Line). (I) Francis Hall, immigrant ancestor. was the son of Gilbert Hall, who lived in Kent, England. He came to America from Milford. county of Surrey, with his brother William, in the ship with Rev. Henry Whitefield and the latter's company. William Hall settled in Guilford, Connecticut, and Francis in New Haven, where he arrived in time to participate in a meeting of colonists held June 4, 1639. The following year he joined in the enterprise of planting a new settlement at the bead of a small inlet on Long Island Sound, which they named Fairfield. At this time Mr. Hall was thirty-two years old. In 1654 he purchased land in Fairfield, and in 1659 more land in Stratford, Connecticut, where he settled several years later. Here he was an attorney-at-law, and continued his practice almost to the time of his death. In 1669 he held the office of constable in Stratford, and May 11, 1676, was a deputy to the general court held in Hartford. He married (first) in England, Elizabeth (???), who with two sons, Isaac and Samuel, came with him from England. She died, it is supposed in Fairfield. July 6, 1665. He married (second), October 30, 1665, Dorothy, widow of John Blakeman, and daughter of Rev. Henry Smith. Francis Hall died March 5, 1689-90. His will was dated May 6, 1686, and proved March 14, 1689-90. Children: Isaac, born in England, mentioned below; Samuel, about 1635; Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca, died March 28, 1690; Hannah, married, July 14, 1675, Joseph Blakeman, of Stratford.