Samuel Hall (1650) / Elizabeth (Cooke) Hall

Name: Samuel Hall

Birth: About 1626, Kent, England (The Halls of New England/Hall, 1883)

Emigration: To Boston/Roxbury before 1635; to Hartford 1636; to Middletown in 1652.(FFS)

Death: March 14, 1690, Middletown, Conn.(MVR, BCVR)

Occupation & Public Service: "He was a farmer, and a large land-holder. He also had learned his father's trade." (The Halls of New England/Hall, 1883) "He was chosen fence viewer, surveyor of highways, grand levy man, and townsman."(FFS)

Marriage: m. Elizabeth Cooke, February 3, 1663, Middletown, Conn. (b. about 1626, Guilford, Conn.; d. about 1693, Guilford, Conn.). She was the daughter of Thomas Cooke & Elizabeth (unknown surname) Cooke of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, and Guilford, Conn. (The Halls of New England/Hall, 1883)

Children: 3 children between 1663-1671.(MVR, BCVR) (See in-depth profile in Member Area for details.)

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The First Meeting House, Middletown, Conn. The engraving below by W.C. Butler was a fanciful illustration for David Field's Centennial Address published in 1853. In 1939 the image was used on the title page of The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff. Surrounding the engraving are signatures of some of the first settlers as found on wills and deeds by Charles C. Adams in preparation of Middletown Upper Houses (1908).