Brief Life History of Nathaniel
When Nathaniel Hall was born on 16 November 1753, in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Benjamin Hall III, was 25 and his mother, Melitiah Pond, was 23. He married Prudence Chase on 11 March 1778, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 18 July 1808, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery, Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Nathanael Hall, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Nathaniel Hall, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Nathaniel Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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