Brief Life History of Joel
Joel Hall Sr. was born on 5 April 1753, in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. He married Hannah Ranney on 29 May 1774, in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 24 March 1818, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery, Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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- ... Hall, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Joel Hall, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Joel Hall, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1785
DLESEX COUNTY was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed at the May session, 1785, and at that time consisted of six towns. Of these, Mifldletown, Chatham, Haddam, and East Haddam were taken from the county of Hartford, and Saybrook and Killingworth from New London coun
1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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"ALFRED HALL, for many years president of the Shaler & Hall Quarry Company, which was several years ago incorporated into the Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry Company, ably sustained in his generation t …
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