When Ebenezer Hale was born on 15 August 1738, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Hale, was 32 and his mother, Mary Smith, was 34. He married Susanna Roberts on 28 April 1758, in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1776. He died on 3 January 1774, in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, at the age of 35.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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