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The Hale Family^ Recent searches for the ancestry of Thomas Hale of Newbury have fortunately been successful. The record begins with Thomas Hale of Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England, who married Joan Kirby of Little Munden, Herts., and was buried at Watton 19 Oc- tober, 1630; she married secondly John Bydes of Little Munden. Children, born at Watton : i.Dionis, bapt. 13 August, 1602; m. 29 September, 1624, Henry Beane. ii.Thomas, bapt. 15 June, 1606. 2 iii.Mary, bapt. 8 October, 1600; ?m. Whale. iv.Dorothy, bapt. 28 March, 1613. v. Elizabeth, bapt. 31August, 1617. 2. 11. Thomas Hale, only son of Thomas, born at Watton-at- Stone in 1606; married Thomasine ; lived a few years at Watton; came to New England in 1637, and is found at Newbury in 1638 ; was Freeman of the Colony ofMassachusetts 7 September, 1638; moved in1645 to Haverhill, where he was one of the Com- missioners to end small causes, and lived till1652 ;then at Newbury till1657; then at Salem till1661, when he returned to Newbury; was a signer of the petition of1666, and died at Newbury 21Decem- ber, 1682; she died 30 January, 1683. Children: i. Thomas, bapt. at Watton 18 November, 1633; m. at Salem 26 May, 1657, Mary, daughter ofRichard Hutchinson of Salem, by whom he had several children ;d. at Newbury 22 October, 1688 ;she m. secondly at Boxford 5 February, 1695, WilliamWatson of Boxford; d. 8 December, 1715. ii.John, bapt. at Watton 19 April,1635. 3 iii.Samuel, b. at Newbury 2 February, 1640; ?m. 19 March, 1669, Lydia Musgrave, who d.soon, and he m- 21July, 1673, Sarah, daughter of WilliamIlsley of Newbury, by whom he had two daughters ;moved to Woodbridge, New Jersey ;d. there 5 Nov- ember, 1709; she d. 16 January, 1681. iv. Apphia, b. at Newbury in 1642; m. 3 November, 1659, Benjamin Rolfe of Newbury; d. 24 December, 1708; he d. 10 August, 1710. 3. IH. John Hale, second son of Thomas, born at Watton-at- Stone in 1635; married at Newbury 5 December, 1660, Rebecca, daughter of Richard Lowle; she died 1 June, 1662, and he married secondly 8 December, 1663, Sarah, daughter of Henry Somerby; she died 19 June, 1672, and he married thirdly, Saraht ;had the title of Serjeant; died 2 June, 1707; she died 19 January, 1700. Children, born at Newbury : i.John, b. 2 September, 1661. 4 • See Genealogy ofDescendants ofThomas Hale, Albany, 1889. t She is said to have been a widow Cottle, but her father has not yet been identified; perhaps her first husband was William Cottle.