Thomas Hale
Baptized: June 15, 1606 Watton-at-Stone, England
Married: December 11, 1632 St. Helen's,
Bishopgate, London, England
Died: December 21, 1682 Newbury, Massachusetts
Father: Thomas Hale, died 1630
Mother: Joan Kirby
Wife: Thomasine Dowsett Notes:
Children:
John Hale b. 1635
-of Watton-on-Stone, England, he was a glover, a worker with leather.
He was sent to New England with a letter from his uncle, who was a good
friend of John Winthrop, which helped his endeavors upon his arrival. He
immigrated in 1637, and took the Freeman's Oath in Salem in 1658. He
served on many town offices. During the King Phillip's War, he provided
the troops a saddle, a gun, a sword and belt, two pounds of gunpowder,
bullets, a pouch, oats, provisions, and a "snapsaicke", as well as
fifty-four pounds of poweder and bullets. He took Oath of Allegiance in
1678 "aged 74"
Sources
-"Early wills illustrating the ancestry of Harriot Coffin"
-"Descendents of Thomas Hale"
-New England Genealogical and Historical Register
-Parish Registers of Watton-on-Stone
-Newbury Vital Records