Brief Life History of Dorcas
When Dorcas Hall was born on 28 February 1740, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Hall, was 42 and her mother, Mary Miller, was 29. She married Deacon Jeremiah Richardson on 7 May 1761. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1741. She died in May 1832, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 92.
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Sources (24)
- Dorcus Hall, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Doreas Hall, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Doreas in entry for Mary Richardson, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Spouse and Children
1735–1816 Male
1740–1832 Female
Children (8)
1762–1832 Female
1764–1813 Male
1766– Female
1766–1837 Female
1769–1822 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1698–1794 Male
1710–1790 Female
Siblings (9)
1732–1792 Female
1734–1775 Female
1736–1798 Male
1738–1833 Male
1740–1832 Female
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World Events (6)
1776
Age 36
1776 · The Declaration to the King
Age 36
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
Age 47
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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