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Hallett Family

Dorsetshire, England

New England

New Netherland

Hallet’s Cove, New York

New Brunswick

Aroostook County, Maine, USA

Hallett Family History

Introduction pages 1-4

Chapter Contents

1. England pages 5-19

2. New World pages 20-34

3. Hallet’s Cove pages 35-50

4. Mount Olivet pages 51-60

5. Patriots & Loyalists pages 61-68

6. New Brunswick pages 69-82

7. Aroostook pages 83-100

8. Grandmothers pages 101-116

9. Coat of Arms pages 117-128

10. Plimoth pages 129-140

Notes and References pages 141-150

Introduction:

When I began research into my branch of the Hallett Family Tree we could go back no further than my Great-Grandparents, George and Amelia (Gray) Hallett. George and Amelia are pretty easy to find. They are buried in Kings Grove Cemetery in Mars Hill, Maine, where they brought our family from Upper Brighton in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada sometime between 1875 and 1880. My Grandfather, John Henry Hallett, was less than 10 years old at the time. John Henry and Emma Pearl (DeLong) Hallett are also buried at Kings Grove along with many relatives and descendants. If Grandfather John Henry knew who his Grandfather was or any family history beyond that, he apparently did not pass this information on to his wife or children in the next generation. Grandmother Hallett did not seem to know anyone beyond George and Amelia. She lived with my family quite a lot during my childhood and gave me the names of my Great-Grandparents and the fact they came from Canada, as did she.

As far back as I can remember, we would take a trip up to Aroostook County during potato picking season and my father would help Uncle Burrill harvest potatoes on his farm in Presque Isle. The Canadian border is nearby, but I do not remember ever going over to see our Hallett ancestral land at Upper Brighton. It would have been easy enough to find, as the Hallett Loyalist Cemetery is just above Hartland, New Brunswick close to the Trans-Canada Highway on Hallett ancestral land. Most of the hired potato pickers in those days were French Canadian and I wondered if our ancestors were also French Canadian and spoke this romantic unintelligible language. My first visit to the Hallett Loyalist Cemetery came in 1992 after retirement from the Army, but I still didn’t know which, if any, of the people interred there might be related to us.

After my retirement to Titusville, Florida at the end of 2002 I needed a hobby to fill my spare time, when I wasn’t on the golf course or driving a ferryboat at the Magic Kingdom. Armed with family history information provided by my grandmother and parents, I set out to discover what I could find about our ancestors. Florida is a good place to live if one is interested in family history and genealogy. Since there are lots of retired people here with time to research, the libraries have excellent genealogy sections. I started spending time at my local Titusville Library, the Brevard County Library in Cocoa and the LDS Family History Center in Rockledge. All are well organized, have computer terminals and provide helpful assistance.

I came across some evidence the surname Hallett could be of French origin, but not of French Canadian ancestry. After the Norman French Conquest of England in 1066, most Knights took on names of villages they came from in France. Most people did not have surnames until the middle ages. William the Conqueror did not have one in 1066. He was alternatively called the Duke of Normandy or William the bastard (not in his presence). By the end of the 14th century, even common folk had surnames and most began using anglicized Norman French names.

In his 1901 “Origin of English Surnames”, C.W. Bardsley lists Hallett as literally, little Hal (Henry, Harry), the diminutive termination ett being added. This comes from King Henry (I- VIII), (Norman French pronunciation Onree) called Harry by the English and sometimes shortened to Hal. Most English surnames come from bynames used in the middle-ages based on parent’s names, town names, occupations, etc. English spelling was not standardized, i.e. Hollit, Hellet, Hallat, Hallatt, Halet, Hallet, Hallett, etc. Some Halletts in America used Hallet, but most later standardized to Hallett, as they currently do in England.

An alternative root of the Hallett surname is listed in a “Dictionary of English Surnames”, published by Routledge in 1991, by P.H Reaney and R.M. Wilson. It states that the root is the same for: Adlard, Allard, Allarde, Allart, Allars, Aylard, Ellard, Ellert, Hallard and Hallett. The root is Ailardus in Latin, AElard in Old English, c. 1066 and the name Halardus de Weres is noted, c. 1150. John de la Hale, Knight, donated to the building of St. Michaels’s Chapel in Bridport in 1362. Halleyate and Halleatte are listed in deBanco Plea Rolls in Somerset in 1372.

All genealogy references put the various spellings of Hallett together as one surname originating at the same place and time. Dr. Henry Brougham Guppy conducted a surname study in 1890 and concluded that Hallett was a Dorset County name originating in the Bridport and Beaminster area and subsequently diffusing into the south and east of Devon and along the Somerset boundaries. Given available evidence, I would have to agree with Dr. Guppy. Bridport and Beaminster are ancient market towns that have many Hallett names in their earliest records. We can be reasonably sure the Hallett surname came from a town or village within a circle around these West Dorset County Towns.

So we know our name is Hallett and that George and Amelia Hallett came to Aroostook County, Maine from New Brunswick, Canada. We can do the surname research and determine the origins are likely to be Dorset County, England. Who are the ancestors of George and Amelia Hallett and when and how did they arrive in New Brunswick, Canada?

This is where we must thank George H. Hayward of Fredericton, New Brunswick for his extensively researched book titled “William and Elizabeth (Fones) Hallett and Some of Their Descendants 1616-1994”. I was fortunate enough to stumble across his self-published book early in my research. George traces the Hallett Family of New Brunswick back to our first ancestors in America, William Hallett, of Dorset County, England and Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett of Suffolk County, England. George’s paternal grandmother was a great granddaughter of Robert Hallett and Mary Lomax, who brought our branch of the Hallett Family to New Brunswick from Long Island, New York after the War for American Independence in 1783. I have used his book as a guide to fill in much of the early generation genealogy information contained here, while adding additional background and detail. George

3 used primary sources and took advantage of work accomplished earlier, such as James Riker, Jr.’s “The Annals of Newtown in Queens County, New York”. George did not research our ancestors in England, so that gave me an opportunity to see what I could find in the Old Country.

Here is a preview of my branch of the Hallett Family, beginning with the earliest generation we can positively trace in England through the generations that brought us back into the USA in Aroostook County, Maine. We will go into some background on this branch and touch on many others in the broader Hallett Family as we go through the following chapters.

England

William Hallett and Elizabeth Phippen married at Whitchurch Cononicorum on 4 June 1578

Richard Hallett and Agnes Alford married at South Perrott on 10 April 1610

Massachusetts Bay Colony and New Netherland

William Hallett and Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop) Feake married in New Netherland in 1647

New York Colony

William Hallett, Jr. and Sarah Woolsey married at Hallett’s Cove on 1 December 1669

Joseph Hallett and Lydia Blackwell married at Hallett’s Cove on 23 December 1702

Thomas Hallett and Ann Moore married at Newtown before 1738

United States of America and British North America

Robert Hallett and Mary Lomax married at Savannah, Georgia on 28 February 1782

British North America

Marsden Hallett and Charity Watson married at Woodstock, NB on 16 February 1820

British North America and the United States of America

George Hallett and Harriet Amelia Gray married at Simonds, NB in 1867

John Henry Hallett and Emma Pearl DeLong married at Tracey Mills, NB on 1 January 1902

United States of America

The last two generations brought us back to the USA in Mars Hill, Aroostook County, Maine. The story continues down to the current generations in Maine, the USA and around the World.

There are three terms routinely used to refer to our mother country: England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. England refers to the historical lands settled by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes by the end of the 9th century, not including Wales, Scotland or Ireland. Great Britain refers to England, Wales and Scotland after 1707. The United Kingdom refers to Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1927, when it became Great Britain and Northern Ireland after independence of the Republic of Ireland.

I want to acknowledge the research accomplished by Anya Seton in preparation for her book titled “The Winthrop Woman”, published in 1958. Although the book is a historical novel, most of her research has proven to be quite accurate. She travelled to England and did her research before the days of jet travel and the vast genealogy industry we have today. I used her timeline of people, places and dates to focus my research for source materials. She did an amazing job with her narrative of the Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett story that I think is not far from the available facts supporting the life of Elizabeth and William Hallett.

I also want to acknowledge the research accomplished by Missy Wolfe in preparation for her book titled “Insubordinate Spirit”, published in 2012. Her book is a documented history of early New Netherland and the area around Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lives. Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett is the main focus surrounded by all the people in her life, including our ancestor, William Hallett. I want to thank Missy for graciously exchanging her research and ideas with me.

In addition to on-line, archive and library research, I have visited and conducted on-site research at every location my direct line ancestors lived. It has been an adventure and a great learning experience for me. I hope you will find this information interesting enough to pass on to the next generations. I also want to thank William C. Hallett of Sea Cliff, New York for doing his part to pass on Hallett Family History on his website, williamhallett.com.

William C. Hallett 2014 3185 Ellen Drive Titusville, FL 32796 [email protected]

Chapter 1 England

After five years researching our family in New England, New York and New Brunswick, I made my first trip to Old England in 2008. My son, William, Jr., went to work in London for his company, which gave me an excellent opportunity to visit him and do some research there. I visited all the major research sites in London, including the National Archives, the British Library, the Society of Genealogists and the Guildhall Library. I gathered a briefcase full of research materials, including every Hallett will recorded at the Priory Court of Canterbury.

I spent four days in beautiful Dorset County. The Dorset History Centre in Dorchester contains copies of all the parish registers and other historical documents in the county. Their archives contain many original documents written in Latin or Old English on parchment. Quite an amazing collection and fortunately many of the older parchment documents have been translated into modern English. I hand copied every Hallett birth/christening, marriage and death/burial recorded in the transcribed parish registers. After researching for three days, I rented a car and drove to several towns our ancestors and relatives lived. This was an exciting journey into our past and the first time I drove on the wrong side of the road. I also visited the Bridport Local History Centre to see if they had anything I had not already seen at the county archives. When I visited England again in 2011 and 2013 I had the opportunity to conduct more research and clarify/confirm my original work done in 2008.

Johannes Halet is listed in the oldest surviving Dorset Lay Subsidy of 1327 for Netherbury and Reginald de Remmesbury granted a tenement and lands in Mappowder to John Hallet of Mangerton in 1350. These are the first clear modern Hallett spellings I have seen and Mangerton is a small hamlet less than 2 miles north of Bridport. John Hallett of Symondsbury, adjacent 6

Bridport, names his property at Mangerton in his will of 1655. It is not too much of a stretch to suggest he is descended from the 1350 John Hallet of Mangerton, but we cannot verify this due to a lack of parish records before 1538.

The earliest traceable Hallett name I could find is a 1508 deed recorded in Bridport for a tenement at Brodwoke in Symondysburgh, granted to Roger Hallet for life at 10 shillings per year. The next deed recorded is in 1551 for Robert Hallette, tanner, for a 3x6 foot stall in the Bridport market next to St. Andrews Chapel for 2 shillings per year for life.

It is important to note that while evidence suggests the Hallett surname originated in the Bridport and Beaminster area of West Dorset County, many generations would have passed before we are able to positively trace the correct branch of our ancestors. Most people began using surnames by the end of the 14th century, but civil parish registers were not required until 1538 under Henry VIII. By that time there were many Halletts in West Dorset and neighboring Counties. Our Hallett name appeared in 62 parishes in the 1851 Census of Dorset, England.

We shall begin this Hallett ancestral story with the earliest we have been able to trace my direct ancestral line, although there are strong indicators linking us to the Symondsbury Halletts and, therefor, John Hallet of Mangerton in 1350, and possibly the Netherbury Halletts and Johannes Halet in 1327. The early Hallett deeds I have seen were actually leases granted for life by men of Norman descent, suggesting the Halletts were of Saxon, Celtic or earlier descent. These deeds/leases were traditionally passed to the next generation, but could be discontinued.

Our ancestor, William Hallett, born abt. 1553, married Elizabeth Phippen on 4 June 1578 at St. Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Cononicorum, Marshwood Vale. (His name is recorded as William Hallat). He was buried at Marshwood on 21 January 1638. Marshwood and Whitchurch Cononicorum were Royal Lands, farmed by tenants and sub-tenants. William was probably one of the many free tenant farmers, known as husbandmen at that time, and apparently did well enough for his oldest son to become a yeoman property owner. The Saxon King, Alfred the Great, mentions Whitchurch Cononicorum in his will of 880. I visited this beautiful area in West Dorset in 2008, which is still mostly rolling green farmland where thousands of sheep and other livestock graze.

(William Hallett and Elizabeth Phippen married here 4 June 1578)

(Marshwood Vale as it looks today) 8

Children of William Hallett and Elizabeth Phippen:

William, ch. 1584, Marshwood, bur. 1 Sep 1654, Marshwood; m. Dorothy, bur. Marshwood 6 Dec 1668; child, Joseph, d. 1689. William Hallett, Yeoman, named his wife, son Joseph, brothers and sister in will 30 Nov 1652 (PCC). He also noted his property at Broadwindsor, strongly suggesting a link with the Halletts of Beaminster and Netherbury.

Robert, ch. 1586. Marshwood.

Richard, ch. 9 June 1588, Bridport (father of our William, b. abt. 1616).

Christian, (F) ch. 30 Mar 1591, Marshwood.

We think our William Hallett was born in 1616 at Bridport in Dorset County. His father was Richard Hallett, born at Bridport on 9 June 1588, and mother was Agnes Alford. Their marriage is recorded in the South Perrott Parish Register on 10 April 1610. The Halletts of Misterton had a farm, called Chapel Court, beside the Chapel in South Perrott. This indicates a link between the Bridport and Misterton/Crewkerne Halletts. It was common practice for the oldest son to inherit any land and carry on the farming tradition at the time. Since Richard was the third son, he had to find another path to make his living and became a carpenter. Richard Hallett, Carpenter, was noted as a householder on East St. in Bridport, along with his son, William, in Bridport Corporation Miscellaneous Records on 2 Oct 1637. He was also named as administrator of his brother William’s estate in 1656. Richard was noted in his daughter, Alice’s will in 1671. James Savage lists Richard Hallett of Boston, father of Alice, in his “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England”. He was probably living in Boston after 1656 and before 1671. I could not find the birth/baptism of our William in the Bridport Parish Register, which has some gaps and badly faded pages. There is a chance that the birth/baptism of William Hallett recorded in Symondsbury in 1614 is our William. His sisters, Alice and Susannah, are also not listed in the Bridport Parish Register.

The Bridport Parish Register lists Richard Hallett as the father of 13 children between 1611 and 1629, two in the same year in three years. A Bridport Town Record note states that one Richard Hallett in Bridport at the time had no children. So there must have been three Richard Halletts in Bridport at the time, the record was wrong, or our Richard Hallett and Agnes Alford were prolific, uncommon for that period. I have chosen to list only those children referenced by Alice in her will, William in his will and those mentioned in other source documents.

Children of Richard Hallett and Agnes Alford:

Samuel, b. abt. 1612, Bridport or Marshwood; d. 1669 buried at Marshwood. This is a possible son of Richard, due to the location and time etc. Also name of our Wm’s second son.

Alice, b. abt. 1614 Bridport, d. 25 Jul 1671 Boston, MA, m. 1652, Mordecai Nichols, b. 1610, England, child, John; m2. 20 Jan 1664 Boston, MA, Thomas Clarke, b. 31 Mar 1605, Westhorpe, 9

Suffolk, England. He came to Plymouth in 1623 and fought in Pequot War in 1637. Became Town Officer. Thomas met Alice while living in Boston where they continued to live. She mentions her father and siblings, Hannah, Elizabeth, Susanna and William in her will of 5 May 1671, probated 17 April 1671 in Boston, Suffolk County, MA. (Suffolk County Court Records)

William, b. abt. 1616, Bridport; d. 1706 at Hallett’s Cove NY; m. Elizabeth 1647, etc. We will cover our first American ancestors in following chapters.

Elizabeth, ch. 1621, Bridport; m. Mr. Welch, b. 1614.

Susannah, b. abt. 1622, Bridport; m. at Bridport 9 Mar 1658 Walter Hide, b. 1618 Septon.

James, ch. 1623, Bridport. Listed on Bridport Christening Register as son of Richard. James is noted as a servant in Windsor, Connecticut in 1643. He appears on Dutch West India Co. Council Minutes at New Amsterdam on 3 March and 18 April 1648 with reference to Greenwich, CT. No later references in the New World.

Hannah, ch. 1626, Bridport; m. Mr. Bird, b. 1616; named in our William’s Will in 1706.

(East Street in Bridport. Richard Hallett and family lived here.) 10

(Symondsbury & Countryside)

The other Halletts who came to the New World in the same early period as our William, came from the nearby town of Symondsbury and were probably closely related. Documentation is very good on this branch of the Hallett Family in the form of Parish Registers and Wills. Their earliest traceable ancestor was William Hallett, born abt. 1520/21, Husbandman, died in 1572. His wife was Mary, died 1558. Both buried in the churchyard at Symondsbury. His will was recorded in 1572. He had a brother, Robert, who had a wife, Joan and family at the same time. Many in Robert’s family died young. This William is the ancestor of Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachussetts. Named children and grandchildren in his will.

Children of William Hallett and Mary were:

Androe, ch. 1546, Symondsbury

William, Jr., ch. 1547, Symondsbury; had sons, William and Andrew, Sr. c. 1572

Richard, ch. 1551, Symondsbury

Roberte, ch. 1553, Symondsbury; had son John

John, ch. 1549, Symondsbury 11

Andrew Hallett, Sr., ch. 17 Feb 1572, Symondsbury; son of William, Jr. above; d. abt. 1647 Symondsbury; m. 18 Dec 1598 at Symondsbury, Beatrix Knote, b. abt. 1577, Symondsbury.

Children of Andrew Sr. and Beatrix Knote were:

Chaterin, ch. 9 Mar 1601

Andrew, Jr., ch. 19 May 1607, Symondsbury; d. Yarmouth, Massachusetts. About 1628 he married Mary Reeve, b. abt. 1607, Symondsbury. Their children born at Symondsbury were Andrew III, b. abt. 1626; Samuel, ch. 1627; Hannah, ch. 1630; Josiah, ch. 1634. This is the Andrew Hallett who sailed from Weymouth on the Marygould on 20 March 1635 at the age of 28 as a servant of Richard Wade, and landed at Dorchester, MA. He went to Sandwich in 1639 then Yarmouth by 1643 where many Hallett generations in MA.followed. His family joined him in Yarmouth.

John, b. abt. 1610. This is probably the John Hallett of Scituate, MA

Bathsheba, b. abt. 1615

Here is some background on the Hallett area of origin in West Dorset County. (Dorsetshire then)

When the Romans defeated the Celtic Tribes and occupied Briton, they encountered some very impressive defensive fortifications in the southwest that had been built by tribes in the area going back to the stone and iron-age periods. The Durotriges were the dominant tribal group in our ancestral area at the time. I visited Maumbury Rings on the south side of Dorchester and Maiden Castle to the west of town. The Romans built an impressive fortified town on the site they called Durnovaria, the Latinized name of the Brythonic word, in the 1st century AD. Dorchester, evolved from the Saxons by the 8th century, had a massive wall complex and Roman Town Houses, which can still be seen near the library.

The southwest of England was known as Wessex (West Saxons) in the pre-Norman, Anglo- Saxon period, between the end of Roman Briton (43 – 410) and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Angles, Saxons and Jutes, Germanic tribes from across the English Channel, had gradually taken over leadership of large areas of England after the Romans withdrew early in the 5th century. In the southwest, the Saxons gradually took control of earlier Roman settlements at Dorchester, Bridport, Exeter and various smaller settlements and set up their own kingdom called Wessex. They set up areas of administration called Shires (i.e. Dorsetshire) and appointed Shire Reefs (Sheriff) to represent them.

This occupation did not go unresisted, however, and gave rise to the legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the famous Round Table of Knights who fought to preserve what was left of Roman Briton. These battles took place in the southwest part of the country where our ancestors come from. The Saxons eventually consolidated their territories in Wessex, Sussex and Essex. The country became known as AEngland (England) by the end of the 9th century, after the Angle 12

Tribes who settled Northumberland and the Midlands. As an aside, this is also when the northwest coastal area of France, previously known as Armorica, became Brittany, as Celtic Britons fled Southwest Briton and rejoined their Celtic cousins on the continent. The Breton language is in the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken historically in southwest England and currently by the Welsh. If you want to hear what our ancestors might have sounded like before the development of English, you only need to take a two hour train ride west from London to Wales. All signs and government announcements are in Welsh and English.

In the late 9th century, the Saxon King, Alfred the Great, created a series of fortified towns, called burhs. Bridport was one of these and by the 10th century had a mint. Bridport became known as the primary rope-making town of southwest England. King John issued an edict in 1213 that the people of Bridport work night and day to make rope for his Navy. King Henry III issued a special charter for Bridport in 1253, recognizing certain rights. King Henry VIII ordered all hemp within 5 miles of Bridport be used only for rope-making. Queen Elizabeth I issued a Charter for Bridport granting markets and fairs. King James I incorporated the Borough of Bridport in 1619. This established Bridport as one of the first incorporated towns in England. At the time of the first recorded official visit in 1623, officials of the Borough of Bridport included Water (Walter) Halett, Burgess, and Roger Halet, Deputy Towne Clarke. Note: This form of government was similar to the early Incorporated Towns in New England.

Bridport was named as a trading port on the River Brit, which was navigable in Medieval times. Palmers Brewery sits on the site of a historic brewery once powered by a waterwheel. 13

The first substantial effort at record-keeping in England came with the infamous Domesday Book (pronounced doomsday by the Britons). This was an effort to record all the land and property of value across the country, undertaken by William the Conqueror of Normandy (1066 – 1087). The Royal assessment was completed in 1086. This turned out to be a very thorough and well organized inventory of property and land-holders and is considered the starting point for modern genealogy, as it contains the names of all pre and post conquest land-holders. Translated copies of the Domesday Book can be found in any good size library genealogy section. I have had access to this impressive collection and seen the original book at the National Archives.

At the time of the Domesday Book, about half the cultivated land was in the hands of 170 Tenants in Capite, the Knights and others who fought with William the Conqueror in 1066 and got their land grants directly from him. Only 2 of these were English Barons. The King held about one fifth as Royal Demesne. Religious institutions remained in control of about one third of the land in England after the Norman Conquest and managed their land similarly to the great barons. Institutions in the southwest would include Cerne Abbey, founded by St. Augustine, and started in 987 by the first Abbott named Aelfric. The manor of Symondsbury was included as part of their holding land at the conquest and they still had it in 1535. They received temporalities within the deaneries of Bridport, Dorchester and Whitchurch. Abbotsbury Abbey was an ancient Abbey given by King Canute to Sir Ore along with the Manors of Portsham and Helton. This Abbey was invaded by Spaniards, Normans and Bretons and destroyed during the English Civil War. Sherborne Abbey was established as early as the death of Cenwalch, King of the West Saxons, in 672. Many West Saxon Kings were buried there. Manors included Netherbury, Stoke Abbot, Corscombe, Halstock and Beer in Devon. The Abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey in 1290 was Joan de Bridport.

The other major area of interest encompasses Beaminster, Netherbury and their surrounding farm areas. One of the major families in this area of West Dorset was the Strode Family, who traces their ancestry back to Warimus de Strode during the Norman Conquest of 1066. Warimus de Strode, Knight, fought alongside his kin, the Duc de Bretagne, and gained a large amount of land in the area then known as Wessex. His descendants later built, bought or married into several villages and towns. They built a massive manor house, called Parnham House, on the River Brit just South of Beaminster, in about 1400. Sir Richard Strode (1584-1670) of Charlmington served as a Member of Parliament representing the Bridport Area. In 1662 Sir John Strode sponsored George and Lancelot Hallett of Axnoller to receive 40 shillings pension annually for their loyal service with Dorset Royalist Forces during the English Civil War 1642-1651.

The Strodes married into another great manor house called Slape Manor in Netherbury. At least one Hallett married into the Netherbury Strode family. In 1682 Joan Hallett is noted in her mother’s will, Mary Strode of Slape Manor in Netherbury. In 1719 George Strode notes his sister Joan Hallett’s children, William and Elizabeth, and also cousin George Hallett in his will at Slape Manor. George Strode inherited Parnham Manor, just south of the market town of Beaminster and Slape Manor in the farming community of Netherbury in the late 17th century. 14

Beaminster was included in the larger Parish of Netherbury until 1849. Strodes and Halletts are buried alongside in the churchyards of both towns. SGT F.E. Hallett is listed on the WWI Memorial Wall at St. Mary’s Church in Beaminster. The earliest Hallett noted is Thomas, who paid a subsidy to Beaminster in 1520. Descendants of Thomas Hallett can be traced through parish registers and wills.

It is important to note that these large estates came with an enormous amount of land that had to be farmed. After the Black Death (plague of 1348-1350) killed a third to half the population there was a tremendous shortage of labor and an availability of land not seen since the Conquest of 1066. Land was granted in exchange for labor and many people moved up the economic ladder.

It is interesting to note the following six Baptism’s recorded in the Netherbury Parish Register within a brief period to see at least three Hallett branches, contemporary with our William.

26 March 1643, John, son of John Hallett 3 May 1643, John, son of William Hallett 14 May 1643, John, son of John Hallett of Melplash 15 March 1644, John, son of Robert Hallett 11 May 1647, John, son of Andrew Hallett 8 August 1649, John, son of Henry Hallett of Mangerton

( Netherbury St. Mary’s, Tower and Chancel 15th century, Font 12th century)

Other Hallett relatives originating in Dorset County:

I call all these Halletts relatives after reviewing and analyzing the evidence found in many wills, deeds and parish registers, combined with the proximity of locations and history of the time. The evidence indicates that all Halletts come from the same tree in West Dorset County, England.

The original record of the Visitation of Bridport, Dorsetshire made in the year 1623 lists Water (Walter) Halett, Burgess, and Roger Halet, Deputy Towne Clarke. Both these Hallett men were likely descendants of Roger Hallett, who was recorded in 1508 with a tenement in Symondsbury. William Hallett of Symondsbury recorded his will in 1542 and his suspected brother, Robert Hallett, tanner, got a market stall in Bridport in 1551. These men were either sons or nephews of Roger Hallett (1508). Their sons or nephews, Roger and Walter, married and had descendants in the area. There were 8 other Hallett families growing up with Roger’s and Walter’s families in Bridport early in the 17th century. Three John’s, two Richard’s, William, Andrew and Stephen rounded out the list of Hallett families. Five Halletts are listed on the Bridport World War I Memorial in front of St. Mary’s church. They are Edgar John, Albert William, Harry Samuel, Charles George and Alfred George.

William Hallett, Schoolmaster of Bridport, names his son, William, and the Reverend Timothy Hallett of Lyme Regis in his will of 1655. The Lyme Regis Halletts also link to Netherbury.

The Reverend Joseph Hallett of Bridport attained distinction as a scholar and minister to the dissenters. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Sarum and admitted to the ministry in the parish church of Hinton St. George, Somerset, on 8 October 1652. He lived and preached in Bridport from 1662 to 1672 and refused to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity. After 1672 he ministered at Exeter and was twice imprisoned for his views at Southgate Prison. He was succeeded in the ministry by his celebrated son and grandson.

Symondsbury is an ancient farming community adjacent the ancient market town of Bridport on the west. Roger is the first recorded Hallett name in Symondsbury in 1508. William, Robert, Thomas and John were probably in the next two generations, for they all had families during the same period in the second half of the 16th century. Joane is a common name among Hallett women of the period. William Hallett (1520-1572) was the ancestor of the Andrew Hallett I mentioned earlier who came to Yarmouth, Massachusetts. John Hallett of Symondsbury names his property in Mangerton in his will of 1655, linking him to the John Hallet of Mangerton noted in a 1350 deed.

In his will of 1565, John Hallett lists his wife, Joane, brother, Thomas and sister, Agnes. He had another brother, Robert. These were sons of Thomas Hallett of Beaminster. John, son of Thomas Hallett of Netherbury, was baptized in 1543. Lancelot, son of John Hallett of Beaminster in Netherbury, was baptized in 1566 and married Joane Clare in 1591. Joane Clare 16 came from a large land-holding family. Lancelot had 8 Hallett brothers and first cousins with families at that time, two John’s, Erasmus, Thomas, Richard, Giles, Andrew and William.

Lancelot’s son, John, established the Hallett family of Lyme Regis in the first half of the 17th century and died in 1652. He was married to Christian Alford, of a prominent Lyme Regis family. Their son, John Hallett, became an officer in the British Service and established the Hallett family of Barbados before his death in 1698. The 1680 list of Barbados inhabitants includes John Hallett, Esq. & wife, Mary, with 5 children, 3 servants, 14 slaves; he is also listed as a landowner with 220 acres and 84 negroes. His brother, Gregory, was buried there in 1679 and his other brother, Richard, is also listed among the landowners. Three Hallett men, William, Joseph and Thomas, were sent to Barbados as political prisoners, convicted for “high treason”, a practice not uncommon in the 17th century to provide English labor for plantations in Virginia, as well as the Carribean. The term “transportation” was used to define sentencing.

The Town of Hallett and Hallett Cove, near Adelaide, in South Australia are named after two Hallett brothers with Netherbury roots. John was part owner of the ship “Africaine” which he sailed into Hallett Cove in 1836 and Alfred arrived in 1838 to head up mining operations. They claimed 160 square miles of South Australia. Although born in London, their father, Richard, was born in Netherbury with roots as far back as one can go.

In 1691 Richard Hallett purchased the Manor of Axmouth, which included most of the parish land in the area. These lands were once owned by the great Saxon King Alfred the Great at the end of the ninth century. Richard was a son of John Hallett of Lyme Regis and brother of John Hallett of Barbados. He became a wealthy merchant in his lifetime, with properties in London, Lyme Regis and Axmouth in Devon. Richard was apparently a bachelor, for he does not mention a wife or children in his will of 1694. He mentions his brother, nephews, nieces and cousins, the Reverend Timothy Hallett of Lyme Regis and leaves his Axmouth estate to Richard Hallett, son of his brother, John of Barbados. In 1712, Richard, son of Richard Hallett, Esq. was baptized and Richard Hallett, Esq. was listed as a church warden. In 1850 the property was owned by John H. Hallett, Esq. and included the mansions Stedcombe House, built in 1697, and Haven Cliff. Axmouth Church contains a Hallett monument with a coat of arms erected in 1749. We shall address the Hallett Coat of Arms in another chapter.

In 1673 Mary Hallett and daughter Johanna (12) are noted in the settlement of her husband John Hallett’s will for the Manor Killigarth in Cornwall. John Hallett of Netherbury, yeoman, and Mary Osborne, merchant, were married in 1652 at Stepney, Middlesex. This John Hallett, from the same Netherbury family discussed above, acquired enough wealth in his lifetime to purchase a large country estate in Cornwall. In his will of 1666, he names his wife, Mary, daughters, Mary and Joane, nephew, John and niece, Elizabeth. Part of this estate is now the Killigarth Manor Holiday Park.

In 1540 the will of John Hallatt, Priest, Wilmington, Kent is recorded at Canterbury. 17

In 1612 William Hallet and Alice Hallet are noted at a Kentish Town session, Middlesex, St. Sepulchre’s Church. (Elizabeth Fones married Henry Winthrop here in 1629. Remember her?) (Is it possible that our William was a nephew or cousin who stayed with these people before his departure on the Lyon in 1631?)

In 1647 Thomas Hallett, clerk, was inducted into the rectory of Cheddington, Dorset.

A history of the county of Sussex (Vol. 6, Part 1, 1980), New Shoreham. Thomas Hallett, vicar in 1651, became a non-conformist minister after the Restoration in 1660.

In 1683 Robert Hallett was listed as the Rector of the Parish of Radipole, Dorset.

College of Arms records have Halletts of Misterton with arms and monuments in Misterton Church in 1789 and 1790, still there in 1880. These are probably the same family recorded in nearby Crewkerne in 1722 with a patent of arms to Sir James Hallett (below), whose descendants settled Little Dunmow Priory in Essex and are the Kent progenitors of Hughes-Hallett. One Hallett of Misterton can be found at the South Perrott Parish Church in a stone table-tomb with the inscription “Here lieth ye Body of Barnaby Hallett of Misterton, Gent. Who departed this life July ye 8th and was interred July 14th, 1724, Aetatis suae 75… (age 75).

A history of the county of Middlesex (Vol. 5, 1976) refers to the elder William Hallett (1707- 1781), cabinetmaker from Somerset, purchase of the Manor Canons. He also claimed the advowson of St. Albans Church from Henry, duke of Chandos (circa 1742-1749), which included Little Stanmore Churchwarden, St. Bartholomews and Great Stanmore. His father was William of Crewkerne, brother of London Goldsmith, Sir James Hallett. James Hallett was one of the commissioners for the Lieutenancy of London at Windsor Castle. He was Knighted 16 Jul 1707 by Queen Anne and is the only Hallett recorded (KU707, II.275). William’s grandfather was Stephan Hallett of Crewkerne, who died in London in 1685, son of John Hallett, possibly of Beaminster in Netherbury Parish. Successful goldsmiths were bankers of the kingdom in those days and very influential.

William Hallett of Crewkerne, Somerset (1707-1781) married his cousin, Lettice, grand-daughter of Sir James Hallett, as his second wife and moved to London. He became the most well connected and prosperous English cabinet maker of his time. He was a self-made man who made, and married into, enough money to build himself a country house called Cannons. He was probably the only English cabinetmaker to have a portrait painted of his family, done by Francis Hayman RA (1708-1776). He was the grandfather of the William Hallett (1764-1844) painted by Thomas Gainsborough RA, RSA (1727-1788) in 1785 with wife, Elizabeth, called “The Morning Walk” hanging in the National Gallery in London. Grandson William still owned Canons during his life and was a supporter of Arts at St. Martins Lane Academy, now the Royal Academy in London. Canons became the North London Collegiate School and can be visited today in the North London district of Edgeware. 18

Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) attained an MD at Cambridge in 1909 and was Knighted for his research work in 1932. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1936. Henry married his first cousin, Ellen Harriet Hallett, daughter of Frederick W. Hallett, brother of Henry’s mother, Frances Ann Hallett. Henry and Ellen’s Grandfather, Frederick Hallett, born in Teignmouth, Devon County in 1811, came to London as a Fire Screen Maker about 1845. Henry and Ellen lived in Islington, (W.C. Hallett, Jr. 2008) as did the Dale and Hallett Family’s. A portrait of Sir Henry Hallett Dale is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Thomas Hallet Hodges, esq. purchased Hemsted Manor in 1780 and was the High Sheriff of Kent in 1786. He assumed the additional name of Hallet from his mother, a daughter of Colonel Hallett of Barbados (Netherbury roots). His grandfather, Thomas Hodges of Bredy, Dorset, had been Governor of Bombay, India.

Charles Hughes-Hallett (1778-1846) became a clergyman at Little Dunmow Priory and later Vicar of Patrixbourne, Kent for 35 years. He was educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford (M.A.). He had a large family and became the patriarch of the Hughes-Hallett family in Kent with many notable descendants to this day. His son, Charles Madras Hughes-Hallett (1809- ?) entered Colonial Service in India, starting a line of Hughes-Halletts in military service.

Colonel Wyndham Hughes-Hallett (1843-?) became the Judge Advocate for the Indian Staff Corps. He had two sons, Sir Cecil Charles Hughes-Hallett (1898-1985) and John Hughes-Hallett (1901-1972), who became Royal Navy Vice Admirals, serving with distinction in WWII. Andrew Hughes-Hallett received his PhD from Oxford in 1976 and served the British Government for several years. He became the Professor of Economics & Public Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Hallettsville, Texas is about halfway between Houston and San Antonio at the junction of US 77 and US 90 just south of I10. It is named for John Hallett, an English born merchant seaman. He married Margaret Leatherby, of a prominent Virginia family, in 1808 at Baltimore, Maryland. They relocated to Matamoros, Mexico to avoid the British Navy and her family, who did not support the marriage. The British lost many seamen to America during this time-frame and attempted to regain them on the high seas, leading up to the War of 1812. The Mexicans confiscated their trading post at Matamoros and they moved to Goliad, Texas, where they set up another trading post. John took a league of land in the Stephen F. Austin Colony on the east bank of the Lavaca River. He died in 1833, five years before Margaret founded the Town of Hallettsville in 1838. They had two sons born in Mexico (1813, 1815) and another son (1818) and one daughter (1822) born in Texas. Probable origins are Dorset County, England. 19

Cape Hallett is located on the south coast of Antarctica along the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea. Hallett Station was established in 1957 as a joint US/NZ Research Station. The Hallett name comes from Thomas R. Hallett, who was the purser on the HMS Erebus during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843 led by Sir James Clark Ross. Several Antarctic names come from this expedition of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Great Britain claimed all areas explored and later put them under New Zealand administration. Thomas R. Hallett was born about 1803 in Dorset County, England and lived in London during his career.

George Hallett went down with the Titanic on April 15, 1912 and was never recovered. He was listed as a single 22 year old Fireman/Stoker assigned to the Engine Crew. George Hallett listed his address as 101 Church Street, Southampton, Hampshire County, England when he signed on as a crewmember at Southampton for the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic. He could have walked to the docklands from his address. George tracks to Ryde, Isle of Wight, where he was born to Edward James and Alison Hallett on 26 November 1889. He was Christened Percy Lionel George Hallett at Holy Trinity on 2 February 1890. Edward was brought up by his widowed mother, Mary, and was a bricklayer at the 1881 census. This family probably came from Dorset County, not far from the Isle of Wight and Southampton.

Most of the genealogy information in this chapter comes from on-site research of Parish Registers, Wills and other original source documents located at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester, Dorset, England and The National Archives in Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England.

Chapter 2 New World

Our first American ancestor, William Hallett of Bridport, Dorsetshire, England, was born about 1616 to Richard Hallett and Agnes Alford. William set out from Bridport, along the Southwest coast of England, aboard one of the many ships bringing settlers to America during the “Great Migration” 1630 - 1642. We think he landed along the New England coast and joined the settlement of Greenwich, Connecticut sometime between 1640 and 1643. We think he met his wife to be, Elizabeth, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony sometime before 1640 and later married her in New Netherland. The Compendium of American Genealogy lists William Hallett as married to Elizabeth (Fones) Feake, the divorced wife of Robert Feake, in 1647.

We have no documentation to verify his birth or place him on a specific ship on a specific date to the “New World”. His older sister, Alice, lived in Boston before 1652, when she married Mordecai Nichols. Note: After the death of Mordecai, Alice reserved her Nichols estate for her son and family prior to her marriage to Thomas Clarke in 1664. The document reads like a modern day pre-nuptual agreement. Circumstantial evidence suggests William knew Elizabeth in Watertown. That means he would have been in Watertown before 1640, when Elizabeth relocated to become one of the first founders and landholders in Greenwich. There are indications he became a leader of the Dutch Greenwich Manor after the death of Captain Daniel Patrick in 1643, which suggests he was there before that. In his “Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England” James Savage lists William Hallett as an original settler of Greenwich and resident of New London in 1648. His probable brother, James, is noted in Windsor, Connecticut in 1643.

When, where and how did William Hallett arrive in the “New World”?

Some possibilities:

1. 1630 on the “Mary and John”:

One Hallett cousin from Long Island, currently living in Bridport, Dorset County, England believes William Hallett sailed with followers of the Reverend John White of Dorchester, the county town of Dorset County, England. This vessel was filled with 140 people from Dorset, Devon and Somerset Counties. They sailed the same year as John Winthrop’s fleet, but sailed separately from Weymouth and Plymouth, England and settled on land they named Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many of these people founded a new town, they also named Dorchester, on the Connecticut River in 1635. This town was renamed Windsor in 1637.

The passenger list has never been found. The Mary & John Clearing House put together reconstructed lists of probable and possible passengers based on earlier lists compiled by Charles Banks and others, followed by extensive research. They later expanded their research to include 21 all West Country immigrants to New England. William Hallett is included as a Planter from Dorsetshire, based on his land at Hell Gate. He is not included on any of the reconstructed passenger lists. Mary Kay Cresswell probably confused the information she got from the Bridport Local History Centre concerning the research compiled by the Mary & John Clearing House and assumed all the people listed from the West Country sailed on the Mary & John.

References:

1.“Dorset Pilgrims” by Frank Thistlewaite 2.”Maryandjohn1630.com” 3.“Bridport News” July 21, 2006

2. 1631 on the “Lyon”:

Anya Seton in her Historical Novel “The Winthrop Woman” says he travelled on the “Lyon”, departing from the London area and arriving at Boston in 1631, with Elizabeth (Fones) Winthrop. Elizabeth married Robert Feake and settled at Watertown in 1632. William Hallett is not on the passenger list.

Anya Seton also has William Hallett returning to England to support his supposed childhood friend, George Digby, at Sherborne Castle during the English Civil War. William Hallett may have been in Greenwich as early as 1643, after the death of Captain Daniel Patrick. George Digby graduated from Oxford in 1636 and continued his study and travels through at least 1639, before joining the House of Commons in 1640 from Dorset. He became a Royalist supporter in the House of Lords in 1641 and later served in several official capacities. While Sherborne Castle became a focus of battle in 1642 and 1645, an extensive review of available source documents does not reveal any connection between William Hallett and George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, of Sherborne Castle.

References:

1.“The Winthrop Woman” by Anya Seton 2.“Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich” by Spencer Percival Mead 3.“Greenwich Old & New” by Lydia Holland and Margaret Leaf 4.“Elizabeth Winthrop – All the Days of Her Life” History companion by Miram Renwick Buckland and John Alexander Buckland 5. “Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset” printed by C.J. Creed

3. 1635 on the “Marygould”:

Andrew Hallett travelled to the “New World” from Weymouth to Dorchester aboard the “Marygould” in 1635 as a servant to Richard Wade. As Andrew was a probable cousin of 22

William, there is a possibility that William travelled with him under another name or was unaccounted for. The passenger list for this voyage is well documented, however, and he is not on it. The clerk at Weymouth seems to have done his job properly. Andrew returned to England in 1641/42, presumably to bring the remainder of his family back to the “New World” in 1643. This Hallett Family put down roots on Cape Cod, where their descendants may still be found. The information surrounding Andrew’s second voyage is not available.

References:

1.“Passengers to America” Lists from NEHGR Edited by Michael Tepper 2. “Aspinwall Notarial Records” William Aspinwall, Suffolk County Court Recorder

4. 1637 or 1639 with Osmond Douch or his family:

Probably the best evidence we have concerning the date of arrival of young William Hallett in the Massachusetts Bay Colony is connected with the Osmond Douch family of Bridport. Osmond travelled to the New World from Weymouth in 1637/38, leaving his family and property in the trust of John Bishop and Richard Hallet, Carpenter of Bridport, William’s father. Osmond wrote Richard in 1639 to sell his property and send his family to him in Massachusetts Bay. Osmond Douch is later recorded as a Mariner of Gloucester. William Hallett could have travelled with Osmond Douch in 1637/38 or escorted the Douch family from Bridport to the “New World” in 1639/40. Note: A letter from Osmond Douch to his wife, Mary, states “If you cannot come by Weymouth, then come by Bristol with one Mr. Hazzard to whom I have already spoken.” This letter also provides insight into what detailed preparations were necessary for travel to the “New World” (Lechford’s Notebook, pg. 109-113) These voyages are undocumented.

Weymouth was the port town for Dorchester, the county town of Dorset, 15 miles East of Bridport. Fishing boats from Weymouth and other West Country ports had fished the waters off New England and the Canadian Maritimes for 100 years before the first settlements were attempted in the New World.

Four ships departed for the New World from Weymouth in 1635. The Hopewell and Unity are recorded, as well as the Marygould that Andrew Hallett sailed on. One ship is unknown.

Two unknown ships departed for the New World from Weymouth in 1637, one of them carrying Osmond Douch, and perhaps, William Hallett?

There is also the possibility that William sailed to the New World on a Dutch ship bound for New Amsterdam in New Netherland. William’s probable younger brother, James, is noted in the Dutch West India Company records in 1648. William himself is noted in the Dutch records of 1652 as a mariner who sails the coastal waters. 23

Many ships and passengers went undocumented to the New World and many documents were probably lost at the time or later. Some documents were found at later dates and added to the archives. We will probably never know, with certainty, when and on which vessel William Hallett sailed to the New World.

Some historians indicate that William knew the Feake Family in Watertown before 1640. The first indication of William in Greenwich is after the death of Captain Daniel Patrick in 1643. It makes sense that he was in Greenwich before that. It also makes sense that he knew the Feake Family in Watertown before becoming so closely associated with them in Greenwich. All the documented early English settlers of Connecticut came from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. About 20,000 English settlers arrived in the New World from 1620 – 1640. Migration from England slowed considerably during the English Civil War 1642 – 1651.

References: Above plus:

1.“The Winthrop Papers” Massachusetts Historical Society 2.“Lechford’s Notebook” by Thomas Lechford, Esq. 3.“History of Stamford, Connecticut” by Elijah Baldwin Huntington 4.“The Great Migration” series by Robert Charles Anderson

Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop) Feake (1610-1669)

Elizabeth was a twice married woman, seven years older with 5 children, when William Hallett married her. Her first husband, Henry Winthrop, drowned on the day of his arrival in the “New World” in 1630. Henry was the second son of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop. He was also her first cousin, as his father and Elizabeth’s mother were siblings. Elizabeth sailed with her infant daughter, Martha Joanna (by Henry), and Margaret Winthrop (John’s 3rd wife) aboard the Lyon to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, arriving 2 Nov 1631. She married Robert Feake before 27 Jan1632. Robert Feake was an apprentice goldsmith with his father in London and had a substantial inheritance. After marriage to Elizabeth, he was appointed Lieutenant in Captain Daniel Patrick’s Company of Watertown, Massachusetts (1632- 1636) and member of the First General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1635-1636).

Captain Daniel Patrick, along with Robert and Elizabeth Feake, became the first settlers of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1640. The point of land in Old Greenwich that juts out into Long Island Sound, now called Greenwich Point, was originally called Elizabeth’s Neck. There is a plaque on the high ground overlooking the beach which commemorates the establishment of Greenwich in 1640. Elizabeth became one of the first women in America to own her own land. The Town of Greenwich, Connecticut considers Elizabeth to be “The Foremother” of the town and a video about her was produced in 2000.

I walked Elizabeth’s Neck and visited the Finch Archives, located at the 1738 Bush-Holley House in the Cos Cob village section of Greenwich during my research. The Greenwich Historical Society maintains this museum and archives which are well worth a visit.

The families began to carve out small farms in the wilderness among the local Indians and between two feuding world powers, the English and the Dutch. Captain Daniel Patrick and Elizabeth Feake, representing her sick husband, asked for Dutch protection in 1642 and Greenwich came under Dutch rule, supporting the earlier Dutch claim to the territory.

In 1647, at the settlement of Greenwich, William Hallett agreed to take responsibility for Elizabeth and her children, as her husband, Robert Feake, abandoned them and returned to England. He had a history of mental instability and the murder of his friend, Captain Daniel Patrick, probably pushed him over the edge. William Hallett took a leadership role after the death of Captain Patrick in 1643. Elizabeth’s cousin and former brother-in-law, John Winthrop, Jr., expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which William carried out his responsibilities. Although the Dutch Governor, Willem Kieft, granted Elizabeth a divorce from Robert Feake in 1647, before she married William Hallett, the new Dutch Governor, Petrus Stuyvesant, did not recognize the marriage and banished William in March of 1648, probably based on information provided by Elizabeth’s disgruntled son-in-law, Thomas Lyon.

Note: The baptism of Elizabeth’s daughter, Sarah Feake, was recorded at New Amsterdam April 14, 1647, possibly the same day as Elizabeth’s divorce and marriage to William. The Calendar of New York Historical Minutes and the Dutch Minutes indicate that Elizabeth Feake had been legally divorced and she married William Hallett.

I visited a replica of the original gristmill built by John Winthrop, Jr. on this site in New London. I also visited the 1756 Captain Nathaniel Shaw Mansion Museum maintained by the New London County Historical Society. This house passed through five generations of the Shaw Family and can be seen today as it was in the 18th century.

William and Elizabeth found themselves fleeing to the protection of John Winthrop, Jr., who established a new colony at New London, Connecticut in 1648, where William Hallett, Jr. was born. William Hallett’s land and William Jr’s birth in New London are indicated in a book written by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, titled “History of New London”, published in 1895 by H.D. Utley. William Hallett sold his house and land to John Winthrop, Jr. on May 8, 1649.

After being summoned to appear in the New Haven Colony for violations of their strict religious rules, John Winthrop, Jr. and the townspeople of Greenwich convinced the Dutch Governor, Petrus Stuyvesant, to allow the Hallett family to return to their property at Greenwich in January 1649. The extraordinary situation faced by William and Elizabeth Hallett from 1647 to 1651 can be illustrated by letters contained in the John Winthrop, Jr. Papers, written by William, Elizabeth, John Winthrop, Jr., Theophilus Eaton and Thomas Lyon. Supporting evidence can also be found in a book written by Spencer Percival Mead, titled “Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich”, published in 1911 by The Knickerbocker Press, N.Y.

Marriage of William Hallett and Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake). Some possibilities:

1. 1647 at New Amsterdam in the Church on the Fort by a Dutch Pastor:

A church was built by the Dutch in 1642, described as built of stone with oak shingles, a tower and a peaked roof with a weather cock. It would have been an impressive building for the time. Everardus Bogardus was the Dutch Reformed Church Minister during the entire administration of Governor Willem Kieft. The next, and last, Governor, Petrus Stuyvesant, brought Johannes Backerus with him from Curacao on May 11, 1647.

Willem Kieft was known to be tolerant of other religions and welcomed many into New Netherlands, including the famous Non-conformist, Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, massacred by Indians in August 1643. Petrus Stuyvesant was a strict Calvinist follower of the Dutch Reformed Church and was intolerant of other religious views, as William Hallett discovered when he was banished from Greenwich for adultery in 1648 and banished from Flushing in 1656 for allowing a Baptist Minister to conduct services. Both banishments were later rescinded by the Dutch Council at New Amsterdam.

If William and Elizabeth were married in 1647 by a Dutch Pastor it would have been Everardus Bogardus. The Dutch records indicate that Willem Kieft and Everardus Bogardus did not get along. He was known to follow his own mind in all matters. 27

References:

1.“Dutch Manuscripts 1630-64”, by New York State Secretary’s Office. 2.“Documents Relative to the History of New York, the Early Colonial Settlements, Principally on Long Island”, edited by John Romeyn Brodhead.

2. 1647 at New Amsterdam by the Dutch Governor, Willem Kieft:

While a reference to Elizabeth’s divorce prior to the administration of Petrus Stuyvesant, on May 11, 1647, is contained in the Dutch West India Company Council Minutes of March 9, 1648, no record of her marriage to William Hallett has been found to date.

Willem Kieft and Everardus Bogardus departed New Amsterdam together on August 16, 1647 and died together in the “Princess” shipwreck in Bristol Channel on their way home to the Netherlands. We will never know what additional knowledge they may have had regarding William and Elizabeth Hallett.

By the way, why did Petrus Stuyvesant wait until March 9, 1648 to intervene in the affairs of William and Elizabeth Hallett? Thomas Lyon, Elizabeth’s Son-in-law, can be found at the source of Dutch involvement. He wrote letters to John Winthrop, Sr. and Jr. and authorities in the New Haven and Hartford Colonies. Without a doubt, he made sure the Dutch authorities were informed of his version of events.

References:

1.“Dutch Manuscripts 1630-64”, by New York State Secretary’s Office. 2.“New Netherlands Project”, State of New York Library. They are still translating Dutch documents from the colonial period in New Netherlands.

3. 1647 at Greenwich by William Hallett:

The Dutch administration of Willem Kieft appointed officials in all their plantations and manors to take care of routine government affairs, as they most likely did William Hallett after the death of Daniel Patrick in 1643. Marriage, power of attorney, small claims and even criminal cases not involving capital punishment were included in their powers.

Not only could they have been married by “Common Law”, William Hallett could have made it official in 1647. Greenwich was under Dutch Law in 1647.

References:

1.“Dutch Manuscripts 1630-64”, by New York State Secretary’s Office. 28

2. “History of Stamford, Connecticut”, by Elijah Baldwin Huntington. This book contains a discussion about the lack of a church at Greenwich and unauthorized marriages. 3.“Hendrik van Loon private translation of Dutch document related to the marriage of Elizabeth Hallett”. This source is listed by Anya Seton, but apparently does not indicate she was married in New Amsterdam in 1647, for Anya Seton has her divorced by Willem Kieft and married by common law at Greenwich. Common law marriage was recognized in England until passage of the Marriage Act in 1753, requiring the presence of an Anglican Priest. Even then, the marriage act did not apply to Protestants, Quakers or English in the colonies. English Colonial Authorities, however, followed strict Puritan religious practice at the time and did not recognize any authority other than theirs.

4. 1648 at New London by John Winthrop, Jr.:

Noted Historian and Genealogist, Donald Lines Jacobus offers a thorough analysis based on his research and information provided by John Ross Delafield. He concludes that John Winthrop, Jr. married Elizabeth and William Hallett at New London before they returned to Greenwich in 1649.

References:

1.“That Winthrop Woman Again!”, Donald Lines Jacobus Paper, New Haven Museum. 2.“John Winthrop, Jr. Papers”, Massachusetts Historical Society. Contains letters written by Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett who signed her letter to John Winthrop, Jr. as Elizabeth Hallett in January 1649. Letter from daughter Martha indicates that Elizabeth was living in New London by March 1648. Letter from Thomas Lyon to John Winthrop in August 1647 indicates that William and Elizabeth are living together in Greenwich. Letter from Thomas Lyon to John Winthrop in April 1648 indicates Elizabeth claims to be married and with child.

5. 1649 at New Amsterdam in the Church on the Fort by Reverend Johannes Backerus or by Governor Petrus Stuyvesant:

Due to the intervention of John Winthrop, Jr. and support of Greenwich Settlers, William and Elizabeth Hallett returned to their property at Greenwich in 1649, while it was still under Dutch control. Perhaps they wished to cover all bases with an “official” marriage in New Netherlands. Perhaps John Winthrop, Jr. convinced Governor Petrus Stuyvesant to make their marriage “official”. We have no documentation, but the circumstances show that William and Elizabeth were accepted back into Dutch society in 1649 and into English society by 1664, when, ironically enough, William was a delegate to the General Court of Connecticut and appointed Justice of the Peace for Flushing by them. 29

General References:

1.The Compendium of American Genealogy lists William Hallett as married to Elizabeth (Fones) Feake, the divorced wife of Robert Feake, in 1647. 2.“Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, May 1890 Meeting. 3. “Delafield, the Family History”, BG John Ross Delafield (1875-1964) Harvard Law, Family Historian and descendant of John Delafield and Ann Hallett, daughter of Joseph (1731-1799). 4. “Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York”, edited by John Romeyn Brodhead. 5.“Narratives of New Netherland”, edited by Dr. J. Franklin Jameson. 6.“Greenwich Old & New”, by Lydia Holland and Margaret Leaf. 7.“History of New London”, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins. 8.“The Island at the Center of the World”, by Russell Shorto. 9.“The Winthrop Woman”, by Anya Seton.

You can read the letters below written by William and Elizabeth Hallett in their own hands and several others associated with their early lives together. They support the chronology of events I have listed below the letters.

Several letters were discovered and transcribed by Mr. R.C. Winthrop, Jr., direct descendant of John Winthrop, Jr., late in the 19th century and added to the Winthrop Papers collection maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Some of these letters were written by Elizabeth and William Hallett. Some were written by Martha Johana (Winthrop) Lyon, daughter of Elizabeth by her first husband, Henry Winthrop. Martha’s husband, Thomas Lyon, also wrote letters to John Winthrop, Jr. in addition to those he sent to John Winthrop, Sr. An April 14, 1648 letter from Thomas Lyon to John Winthrop states that Elizabeth claimed to be married and with child. A letter from Robert Feake to John Winthrop, Jr. before he relocated from Watertown to Greenwich in 1640 may indicate that William Hallett worked for him in Watertown and continued in Greenwich. Robert states that he sent “his man” to Greenwich to make preparations for the Feake Family to relocate there in the spring. We know that William Hallett worked with the Feake Family in Greenwich. Was he also the man referenced by Robert Feake in 1639?

Notes and footnotes below are from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Martha Lyon wrote a letter to John Winthrop, Jr. on March 23, 1648 seeking his assistance with her claim to part of the Feake estate at Greenwich. She was evidently under the impression that her mother was in New London, where she had gone to reside and where Hallett had secured a house-lot. Elizabeth’s inability to satisfy the Connecticut authorities of the legality of her marriage continued to make trouble for them, and early in 1649 Hallett was warned that an attempt was being made to procure a warrant of arrest against him on the charge of living with another man's wife. A summons to both parties to attend at Hartford and answer this accusation 30 was actually issued, May 17, 1649; but by the intervention of John Winthrop, Jr., they had several months before quietly returning within the jurisdiction of New Netherlands, where Winthrop's influence with Governor Stuyvesant secured them a kind reception. The following letters were written at this period:

ELIZABETH HALLETT TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR. aboard the vessel. Prob. Jan 1649

Sir, My cosin being put back by weather desireth us to goe with him now, for if the winde be faire as he comcth back, he shall be loath to put in. Allso I am willing to see that place, being moved thereto by sumthing which I heard from a woman in this towne. I intreat you to pardon me that I have not come to you to manifest my thankefullnes and tender my service to yourself and my sister. The speedy going of my cosen prevented me therein, yet I shall ever remaine.

Yours in all unfained love and service, ELIZABETH HALLET.

I pray you remember my best respects to Mrs. Lake. We have left your table bord and frame and bellowes-bords uppon the cowhouse, and the racke in the yard.

ELIZABETH HALLETT TO JOHN WINTHROP, Jr.

To hir very loving freind, John Winthrop, Esquier, at his house at

Pequit, d. GREN: this 12 of Feb., 1649, new stile.

LOVING BROTHER, — I acknowledg my self excedingly obliged unto you and therfore shall take this and all other opertunities to manifest my thankefullnes. I wrot 2 letters to you before, one by Richard Smith, — the other by my cosen Feke, that miscarried with his bote. Through the marcy of God we are in health and peace at Greenewich. We have made a quiet end about the estate with Mr. Feke; we have bought all his land and right in Greenwich. Ye Dutch Governour hath purchased all yc land along the cost, yet I understand ye person you spake to us to buy land for may have land inough of him on better termes than any other hath had. He would gladly see you. My husband and my self desire to tender our harty love and best respects to your self and my sister. Our love to Mrs. Lake, my cosens, and the neybours, and shall ever rest.

Your unfained loving sister, ELIZABETH HALLET.

Indorsed: "Cosen Hallett."

1. Hallctt's bill of sale to Winthrop, of his house and land at New London, for £10, is dated May 8, 1649, and was evidently forwarded from Greenwich.

2.Probably the "Toby Feakes " alluded to in one of Governor Eaton's letters and the " Tobias Feake" who was sometime Sheriff of Flushing, Long Island, and who is stated to have married Capt. Daniel Patrick's daughter by his Dutch wife.

ELIZABETH HALLETT TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR.

GRENWICH, this 6 of Agust, 1649.

DEARE BROTHER, — All the love and servis and thankefullnes I am able to express is, next unto God, dew unto your selfe as the instrument of my present well being. Hitherto we wanted an opertunitie to send to you. Now we can only saye we are thankefull, and that very breifly, becaus my letter is waited for. The Dutch Governour comends his love to you and wished my husband to send you word he would gladly see you and ye he hath a chamber at your servise. Mr Bagster tould my husband if you pleased to come to live ther you should have what land you pleas, and the conditions to your mind. The Dutch have bought all the land along the coast. The Governour hath showed us as much kindnes as we could desire. I intreat you present my best respects with all thankes to my sister and Mrs. Lake, and all my cosens. My love to Kathrin and the neybours, and I remaine.

Your for ever obliged, ELIZABETH HALLET. Indorsed: "Mrs. Hallett."

WILLIAM HALLETT TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR.

GRENWICH, this of October, 1650.

WORSHIPFULL SIR, — I received a letter from you by Goodman Gallopc, wherein I find a further manifest of your love and care of us in inquiring after our condition. Through the mercy of God we are yet in health and peace. We hear that New Haven have propounded to our Governour to have Greenwich under them. We know not what is done as yet. I have sould my hous and land and intend in the Spring to remove nearer to Manhattaes. I received allso the things you writ of for the sale of our house, which I did not desire, that and much more being dew to you from us. I shall take it as a token of your love a free gift, and acknowlcdg my self further obliged to you, and doe hartilie desire it may lie in my power to expres my love to you againe by doing service to you or yours. I am sorry you spake not with our Governour because he doth so much desire to see you. My wife and my self desire to remember our love to your self, as allso to Mrs. Winthrop, Mrs. Lake, and your chilldren, and remaine.

Yours to my uttmost abillitie, WILLIAM HALLETT.

1.George Baxter, one of the leaders of the English settlement on Long Island and sometime English Secretary to the Dutch Governor and Council. In Winthrop Papers, Part III. (5 Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. i. pp. 368, 369), is a letter from him, dated "Manhataes Island, July 15, 1649," strongly urging John Winthrop, Jr., to settle on Long Island. To this letter William Hallett added a postscript to the same effect.

WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH HALLETT TO JOHN WINTHROP, JR.

HELLGATT, this 10 of Januarie 1652, new stile.

WORTHY SIR, —I received a letter from you by the Smith, of whos coming we were very glad, that we might more fully enquire of your health and prosperity, which we are forever bound to pray for and to promote to the utmost of our abillitie. We returned a letter back to you in September. The vessell did not stay nor putt in any wheir by the way, wherby our letter was not delivered, but returned to us againe. Our habitation is by the whirlpools which the Duchmen call the Hellgatt, where we have purchased a very good farme through the Governour’s menes, that had foine housing and 12 acres of ploughed land fenced in, and good meadow and other land sufitient for our use. The Lord hath bin very bountifull to us, beyond our thoughts, so that we live very comfortably according to our ranke. In the Spring the Indians killed 4 Duchmen near to our hous, which made us thinke to have removed to sum towne for refuge, and through God's mercy every plantation was willing to receive us, which they expressed by wrighting us to dwell with them. Yet now the Indians are quiett and we think not yet to remove. We make bould, both in one letter, to present our love and servis to your self, Mrs. Winthrop, and your chilldren, and remain.

Your truly loving cosens, WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH HALLET.

The foregoing is the last of the Hallett letters. William Hallett became a person of some influence on Long Island, was deputy from Flushing in 1664, and is known to have been living at Newtown, near Hell Gate, as late as 1686, when he is believed to have had two sons, William and Samuel. When his wife died has not been ascertained.

Below are additional letters and comments from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society regarding Robert Feake, William and Elizabeth Hallett and John Winthrop, Jr.

" I think it proper to add what follows, as regards myself individually, for said Mr. Feake living in my family, I could better see his moderation, or want of temper and divorce (?) by which I foresaw that his journey to Greenwich might perhaps tend to his prejudice. I advised him to the contrary, and he was willing to take my advice, but slipped in haste without my knowledge to Greenwich, and there did as appears. I and my wife were angry because he went away so far from his property; but he answered and seemed to be well satisfied by himself, giving out that his wife took the children, and therefore needed the property more than he, from which I concluded,—although what is drawn up in the agreement does not accord with what is reasonable,—he, nevertheless hath had regard to his children and their advantage, in leaving the property to their mother, in which regard as aforesaid may perhaps be observed in a more divine sense that the children possess! a natural and innate right to the property which belonged to their father, although it be that the father, through bad management suffers want. In short through the management or agreement, he became melancholy, and about fourteen days after was seriously ill, headstrong and crazy.

Witness John Bishop" prob. 1649 33

The succeeding years of the life of Mr. Feake were to him a blank. The darkness which first overshadowed his mental faculties at Greenwich never passed 'till death came to his relief. He found an asylum in the house of Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, Mass., where he died in February, 1662. An Inventory of his personal effects, taken on the 18th of that month, may be seen in Vol. i of Wills in the Probate Office at East Cambridge. His interest in the lands and property at Greenwich had been entrusted by him, prior to his voyage to England in 1647-48, to his wife and to William Hallett. They appear to have sold and conveyed parcels of these lands to new settlers ; but this region still continued to be the debatable ground between the two rival governments of New Haven and New Netherlands, and the fact that Hallett was found managing the estate in conjunction with Mrs. Feake was made the pretext and occasion of scandalous proceedings against them by the authorities of both powers — the Dutch seizing and attempting to confiscate the property as within their jurisdiction, and the magistrates of New Haven pursuing them with the like rigorous orders and enactments, until they were compelled to abandon the settlement, whence they repaired with the children to Nameag (New London), under the protection of her brother-in-law and cousin, John Winthrop, Junior. Of the interest taken by the latter in the welfare of the family thus thrown upon his charge we have the evidence in the following correspondence with Governor Stuyvesant for the recovery of the property out of the hands of the Dutch authorities:

Letters below written by John Winthrop, Jr. to Governor Petrus Stuyvesant in 1648-1649.

" Noble Sir.—I have requested this bearer Mr. Alcott to waite upon you to understand your pleasure concerning the Estate of Mrs. Feakes, who being come hither with hir children to inhabit, in respect of their neare relation to me, I am constraned to take such care of them as I can, but being in want of all necessaries, they cannot possibly here have supplies ; & therefore I am bold to request your favor that there may be such present supplies sent unto them out of the Estate as may prevent those inevitable wants which will otherwise necessarily fall upon them. How you will please to order the estate for the future, as they may have a comfortable living out of it, I request your speedy determination : If considering their residence here you plese to remitt the estate over hither I will take the best care I can that it shall be justly disposed of by the direction of my father & the English magistrates according to the English lawes in that behalf; and because the land whereon they lived at Greenwich might add much to their comfortable supplies, if it were improved to the best & for some other necessary considerations, I earnestly request your favor for William Hallet that you will be pleased to grant him liberty to plant there according to an agreement made by Mr. Feakes with him, and to pass and inhabit within your jurisdiction, as he may have occasion which, if it may be obtained, 1 desire he may have it sent unto him by this bearer Mr. Alcott, by whom also you may please to cause the estate to be conveyed hither if that be your pleasure. And what you shall be pleased to determine, in case Mr. Alcott should be hindered by the weather or other accidents from going as he intendeth & only these lines be some other way conveyed, 1 beseech you to certify your pleasure herein by some other opportunity. And if therein or any other way I may be serviceable to you be pleased to command,

Your Humble Servant 34

JOHN WINTHROP."

" Noble Sir.—I wrote to you in the winter by one Mr. Olcott, who promised me the delivery with his own hands. I desired him to repair to 'you to know your pleasure concerning the estate of Mrs. Feakes, but, this week, I understand that he .went not onward of his intended voyage, but, altering his design my letters were not sent. I am bold therefore again to request your favour concerning hir and the estate that whereas (here was an agreement made with William Hallet for the managing of hir estate (which Mr. Feakes, before his going into England told me at Boston that he fully consented to, knowing him to be industrious and careful, which I find since her being here to be very true,) that you will be pleased to let the estate be again returned into her hands, not knowing any other way how it can be improved to the comfortable maintenance of hir and the children, who for present for want of it are in a necessitous condition; and also that you will be pleased to grant him liberty to return again within your jurisdiction that he may gather up the scattered estate & improve the land at Greenwich, which may add much to their comfortable subsistence ; which lisense under your hand I beseech you to send by this bearer William Cooly, who intendeth shortly to return to me."

Summary Chronology of Key William and Elizabeth Hallett events:

1647: Marriage of William and Elizabeth after the departure of Robert Feake in 1647 and before birth of William Hallett, Jr. in 1648.

1648: March 9 Order in Dutch Council banishing William Hallet.

1648: By March, Relocated from Dutch Greenwich to English New London (Pequot).

1648: Birth of William Hallett, Jr. at Pequot (New London).

1649: Return to Greenwich.

1650: Change of boundary dividing Greenwich between Dutch and English.

1651: By Spring, Relocated to Hell Gate on Long Island and birth of Samuel Hallett.

1652: Dutch land deed signed by Petrus Stuyvesant to William Hallett.

References:

“Winthrop Papers” Massachusetts Historical Society “Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, May 1890” “Dutch Manuscripts 1630-64 Vol. IV pg. 116” New York State Library

Chapter 3 Hallet’s Cove

Another change in the land boundary between the Dutch and English in 1650 forced William and Elizabeth to sell their land in Greenwich to Jeffery Ferris in December of 1650 and relocate to an abandoned farm at Hellegat on Long Island in the spring of 1651, where their second son, Samuel, was born. Note: The Indenture Deed signed by William and Elizabeth Hallett on 5 December 1650 makes it clear that William Hallett had his own land on Myanos Neck, separate from Elizabeth’s land on Elizabeth’s Neck and Old Greenwich. While sailing the East River and the coast of Connecticut in 1614, Dutch Explorer Adrien Block named Hellegat after a branch of the River Scheldt in East Flanders. The English translation of Hell Gate was an appropriate description for the rock laden narrow and turbulent channel connecting Long Island Sound and the East River. Many ships were sunk at Hellegat in the early days. William obtained a Dutch land grant in 1652 for the 160 acre farm previously owned by a member of the Dutch West India Company, Jacques Bentyn. The Hallett Family settlement became known as Hallet’s Cove.

You might imagine all this Hallett land was forested wilderness with some natural clearings, some hills and a few streams and ponds. When William, Elizabeth and family first occupied the land in the spring of 1651 there would have been an abandoned log cabin and a small amount of cleared land. They would have survived by hunting, fishing and gathering edible berries, etc., while planting their first crops. They also would have gone over to New Amsterdam (NYC) for supplies and trading with the local settlers and Indians. In addition to establishing a farm, William Hallett is noted in the Dutch Council Minutes of 1652 as a person who sails the coast. From 1652 to 1655 they built a better farm house and cultivated some land, before the Indian raids of 1655 burned their farm and rampaged across Manhattan and the shores of New Jersey and Long Island, burning buildings and destroying crops.

New Amsterdam (NYC) had been erected on the tip of Manhattan after Peter Minuit, Director of the Dutch West India Company, purchased the Island Manhattes from the Wilden (Indians) for the value of 60 guilders in 1626. It was meant to be the center of a large Dutch trading enterprise, stretching from Maryland to New York. The central concern for the Dutch was making money, not colonizing. Holland was already a wealthy country that practiced an early version of free enterprise trade economics and religious freedom for its citizens. While the large investors and leadership were Dutch, New Amsterdam and Beverwyck (Albany) were settled by people from other nations who were worse off than the Dutch. The early settlers were Germans, Norwegians, Italians, Jews, Africans (slave and free), Walloons, Bohemians, Mohawks and many others. Does this sound familiar for New York City? I recommend the book by Russell Shorto, titled “The Island at the Center of the World” published in 2004 by Doubleday.

Some disatisfied Massachusetts Bay Colonists learned what was developing in the Dutch Colony and sought to become part of it. The Dutch needed more people to settle the land and opened up 36

Long Island for English settlers. The first recorded settlement was called Newtown, founded in 1642 by the Reverend Francis Doughty and associates. The territory covered much of the land north of Forest Park and west of Flushing Meadow, except Long Island City. The town spot for the colony was begun at Mespat (Maspeth). The first attempt at settlement failed, followed by a second group of Englishmen in 1652 who formed their settlement at Middleburg (Elmhurst) and the area was called the New Towne (Newtown).

By 1655 Flushing and Jamaica villages were forming and The Dutch Governor, Petrus Stuyvesant, issued an order for all his settlers to gather together in these villages for their mutual protection. The Dutch West India Company did not have enough forces to protect them. After the Indians burned down their first house at Hell Gate in 1655, Elizabeth bought a house in Vlissingen (Flushing) from Edward Griffin and they moved to that village. William was selected as Schout (Sheriff) of Flushing and Queens County in March 1656. In November 1656 he was removed from office for harboring a Baptist Minister and later relocated to Jamaica (Long Island), where he built a house fronting the commons on Beaver Pond. William was appointed Magistrate of Flushing in 1664 after the English took control of the previously Dutch New Netherland.

William Hallett further expanded his lands through negotiations with the local Shawkopshee Indians in 1664, adding another 2,200 acres. This Indian land deed is on file at the New York State Archives in Albany. The total population of New Netherlands (New York) was only 2,000 people at that time and 1,500 of them lived in New Amsterdam (New York City). British officials later recognized his lands as legal and proper when they took over New Netherland from the Dutch in 1664, re-naming it New York. His lands then totaled more than 2,360 acres along the East River covering all of modern Astoria and Steinway in the borough of Queens. On the Indian Land Purchase document, dated 1 August 1664, he is referred to as William Hallett of Flushing. William is listed as Mr. Hallet of Jamaica on a Grand Jury list dated 2 Oct 1665 and is not included on the 1666 Freemen of Newtown list. The family returned to their land at Hallet’s Cove sometime after 1666, possibly after the death of Elizabeth before 1669.

After returning to their land at Hell Gate after 1666, William and his two sons began the serious effort of clearing the land and cultivating crops. The first Hallett farmhouse was built at the head of Hallet’s Cove very close to the water. William and his two sons improved the farm and by 1678 had 48 cultivated acres. Typical crops were corn, wheat, peas, rye and tobacco for sale/barter. They owned two yoke of oxen, 7 horses, 23 cattle and 34 sheep. By 1683 they had gained two more yoke of oxen and had 50 head of cattle. They were also added to the growing community of Newtowne, which William never agreed to.

William continued to buy adjoining property through the remainder of his long life and transferred all of it to his sons and grandsons before his death. Upon his death in 1706, William left the majority of his lands equally divided between his two sons. William (1648 - 1729) got the southern part of the property and Samuel (1651 - 1724) got the northern part of the property. 37

The dividing line was approximately from the water along Main Avenue to Astoria Blvd. at 21st Street, then following Newtown Avenue to the southeast.

After the death of Elizabeth, William married Susanna (Booth) Thorne, widow of William Thorne, by 1669 and their separation was confirmed on January 22, 1675. The Third Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, published in 1898, contains many interesting entries concerning William Hallett and his wife, Susannah, during the period of their marriage. It appears William married a very independent woman and he was determined not to succumb, as separation proceedings began not long after their marriage. The legal battle went on for at least 6 years and William outlasted Susannah, who died in 1675. He married Katherine before April 9, 1684, when she died. He married Rebecca (Bradley) Baylies, widow of John Baylies, before November 30, 1686, and they remained married for the rest of his life. It was common practice for widows of that time to remarry.

The Hallett Family Cemetery was located near the property boundary, where some of the early generations were buried. This cemetery was dug up by 1905 to allow for the further development of Astoria and the remains were re-interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, where they can be visited today. There are two large 7th generation Hallett monuments and several older headstones and markers that go back at least to the third generation at Hallet’s Cove. See the Mount Olivet chapter.

Hallet’s Cove at Hell Gate on the East River would become part of the larger settlement of Newtown for many years before becoming Astoria in 1835, when Astoria Boulevard was built by the “Hallett’s Cove and Flushing Turnpike Company” as a direct route to Flushing. Steven Halsey gets credit as the “Father of Astoria”, naming his new village after John Jacob Astor. Thus began the large scale development of the area we see today as just another part of New York City. Some of the mid 19th century village still survives in a small area west of 21st St. and north of Astoria Blvd, now referred to as Old Astoria Village.

Hell Gate, Hallet’s Point and Hallet’s Cove can still be found on local maps of the area just south of the Triborough Bridge. A New York City public housing complex now stands on the most prominent peninsula known as Hallet’s Point. A sign designates one of the playgrounds as Hallet’s Cove and another as Hallet’s Point. PS 76, an elementary school at 36-36 10th St. in Long Island City is named for William Hallet to recognize the Hallett donation of land for the first school in the area. Hallett was usually spelled Hallet at that time and could also be spelled in other phonetic versions. There is ample evidence that all the lands were legally transferred through the early generations, including female members of the family, so that by the middle of the nineteenth century most of the land was gone. The last parcel that had been passed down through the Samuel Hallett side was sold in the 1960’s. 38

1652 Dutch Land Grant prepared in English by an English Assistant to Petrus Stuyvesant. 39

Early Hallett generations at Hallet’s Cove:

As we go from the second to the fourth generation, I will include the children of our ancestors so you can get a sense of the families in the area at that time.

William Hallett, Jr. was born at the newly established colony of New London, Connecticut in 1648, while the family was under the protection of John Winthrop, Jr. He met his wife, Sarah Woolsey, during the period when the family lived at Jamaica, Long Island. William, Jr. and Sarah Hallett’s first house was built on the shoreline south of the present day Astoria Boulevard, where all ten children were born. He served as a Justice of the Peace and became a Captain in the militia. Like his father, Captain Hallett continued to acquire land. He is noted in a land purchase of 1050 acres above the falls of the Delaware River in New Jersey in 1697. (N.J. Archives) He died 18 Aug 1729 at age 82.

Children of William, Jr. (1648-1729) and Sarah (Woosley) (1648-?) Hallett:

1. William (1670-1708) married Ruth ? 2. Sarah (1673-?) married Reverend George Phillips 3. Rebecca (1675-?) married James Jackson 4. * Joseph (1678-1750) married Lydia Blackwell, 2nd Mary Lawrence 5. Moses (1681-1708) married daughter of Samuel Fitch 6. George (1683-?) married Priscilla Allen 7. Charity (1685-?) married Samuel Moore 8. Mary (1687-?) married Jacob Blackwell 9. Elizabeth (1689-?) married John Fish 10. Richard (1691-1769) married Amy Bowne, 2nd Ann Miller

* Joseph Hallett (1678-1750) is my direct line ancestor.

By 1700 he had begun clearing some of his more remote land for his oldest son, William. This farm was built in the area now west of the intersection of 31st Avenue and Newtown Road near 44th Street.

It is at this site where the first major Hallett tragedy in America took place on the night of January 24, 1708. William Hallett, his wife Ruth and their five children were brutally axe murdered by their servants. Two were immediately caught and brought to the Queens County Court at Jamaica where they were tried and executed on 2 February 1708. “Indian Sam” was hung and a female negro was burned. Two other negro accomplices were later tried and hanged. This is the first recorded capital crime in Queens County.

The inventory of property is in the State of New York Archives and gives a detailed description of all the family possessions of this early 18th century farm. This William Hallett farm was deeded by William, Jr. to his son, Moses on 7 June 1708. Moses, who died later the same year, 40 left it to his young son, William Moses Hallett (1708-1759). This land was owned by a Mr. Marks by 1852.

William Hallett, Jr.’s farm, which had been extended from Hallett’s Cove to the area of 33rd Avenue and 33rd Street before 1738, went to his oldest living son, Joseph Hallett, our ancestor. Joseph passed most of his farm to his fourth son, Robert Hallett (? – 1792), who died there after the American Revolution. Just west of the farm house were clay pits and a lime yard where the Halletts manufactured bricks during the 18th century. This property went to Edmund Penfold, son-in-law of Robert Hallett. Robert Hallett’s only son, James, reportedly served as a Major in the British Service during the Revolution and removed to Nova Scotia in 1783, probably returning later.

Joseph Hallett (4 Mar 1678 – 23 Nov 1750) married Lydia Blackwell, of one of the more prominent families in the area at that time. Many other Hallett’s and Blackwell’s intermarried over the early years. The large island crossed by the Queensborough Bridge between Queens and Upper Manhattan, now called Roosevelt Island, was then called Blackwell’s Island. During his life, Joseph was a respected magistrate. His grandson, Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), became a successful merchant in NYC and was a prominent patriot during the American Revolution. See the Patriot and Loyalist Chapter.

Children of Joseph (1678-1750) and Lydia (Blackwell) Hallett:

1. Joseph (1704-1731) married Lydia Alsop; died of smallpox; Son: Joseph (1731-1799) 2. Moses (1706-1731) married Mary Blackwell; died of smallpox 3. * Thomas (1714-1779) married Ann Moore 4. Robert (?-1792) married Phebe Hallett (3rd Cousin),2nd Lydia Pidgeon,3rd Ruth Leverich Note: Robert and Phebe tied both branches of the Hallett family together Note: Robert is listed as a carpenter on a 1771 letter of administration 5. Jacob married Mercy Betts; Noted as a tailor on a 1771 letter of administration 6. Samuel (?-1798) married Jemima Betts, 2nd Elizabeth Lamb 7. William married Jemima Hallett, ch.: Phebe (1763-1826) m. Samuel Hallett (1761-1817) 8. Mary 9. Sarah 10. James (?-1781) married Lydia Moore; started first coach-making business in NYC announced in the 22 Jan1749 issue of The New York Weekly Post Boy; James loaned money to nephew Joseph, s/o Thomas, to start business in St. Croix.

Children of Joseph (1678-1750) and Mary (Lawrence) (?-?) Hallett:

1. Richard married Elizabeth Titus 2. Nathaniel (?-1750) never married

* Thomas Hallett (1714-1779) is my direct line ancestor. 41

Why did Joseph pass the farm to his fourth son? His two oldest sons, Joseph and Moses, died of smallpox at a young age in December of 1731. The next in line was our direct line ancestor, Thomas Hallett (1714-1779). We have no indication why Thomas did not get the farm. He was a Lieutenant in Captain Jacob Blackwell’s Company of Militia and lost his wife to smallpox in 1763, later moving to Flushing, where he died in 1779. Thomas is noted as a Merchant of Queens County in a 1775 Power of Attorney to his brother, Robert.

Below is a 27 February 1764 advertisement for sale of the Thomas Hallett Farm at Hallet’s Cove. His wife died in 1763.

Below is the 13 November 1775 public notice of bankruptcy of Thomas Hallett.

Children of Thomas (10 May 1714 – 12 Aug 1779) and Ann (Moore) (?-1763) Hallett:

1. Lydia (1738-?) married Joseph Burroughs 2. Joseph (1740-1775) moved to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (then Danish West India Company (Santa Cruz) 1733-1917) after the French War ended (1763) with cousin William Hallett (s/o?) and several other young men of Newtown to start a carpentry business. William was killed when his house collapsed in 1772. Joseph was killed in 1775 while working at a wind-mill. “Joseph was much respected in the islands for his modesty and diligence in business.” (Riker, 1852) Uncle Robert Hallett was given a power of attorney by Father Thomas Hallett to settle the estate of Joseph in St. Croix and was to receive L220, a considerable fee at that time. Joseph Hallett and Gilbert Woodward were business partners with ownership of 4 town lots and a blacksmith shop. As Joseph had no wife or children, by Danish law, his estate passed to his father, 43

Thomas. This intestate settlement ended up in the NY Chancery Court. Another suit was later brought by Thomas and John Hallett, sons and executors of Thomas Hallett’s estate, on 16 Nov 1784, in an attempt to recover more proceeds from Uncle Robert Hallett. Ref. The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: documents and comments. 3. Benjamin (1743-?) 4. Thomas (1745-1798) married Elizabeth Willett 5. Mary (1751-?) 6. Hannah (1754-1779) married William Waters 7. John (1757-?) 8. * Robert (1759-1838) married Mary Lomax. Joined Loyalists sometime between 1776 and 1779. (Not noted in Father’s will, possibly because he was a Loyalist)

* Robert Hallett (1759-1838) is my direct line ancestor. Relocated to New Brunswick, Canada after the American War for Independence. See New Brunswick Chapter.

This brings us up to the time of the War for American Independence and our Loyalist ancestor, Robert. We will cover this important period in the Patriot and Loyalist Chapter.

Now, let’s take a look at the other half of the Hallett family in Astoria.

Samuel Hallett was born in 1651 at Hallet’s Cove (Hell Gate) after his parents relocated from Greenwich, Connecticut. As stated above, after the family returned to their land after 1666, William and his two sons began to improve the farm. When William, Jr. married and started to establish his own farm, Samuel remained with his father to develop the northern half of the property, which he would later inherit. He died 27 Dec 1724 at age 73.

Children of Samuel (1651-1724) and Mrs. Hallett:

1. Samuel, b.c.1678, d. 7 Mar 1756, married Bridgett Blackwell 2. Elizabeth married Colonel John Jackson by 31 Aug 1698 3. Sarah, d.1719 married Thomas Cornell by 31 Aug 1698 4. Hannah married John Washburn on 14 Oct 1704 5. Margaret, d.bef. 1727 married Nathaniel Hazard 6. Grace married Lewis Hewlett at Jamaica on 18 Jan 1710 7. Martha married James Hazard at Hallet’s Cove on 17 Nov 1716 8. Mercy married Richard Cornell before 1712

His only son, Samuel, inherited the entire estate. We shall follow the line of Samuel to track the land transfers, as this branch of the family lived on original Hallett land the longest and still has descendants living in the area. The last parcel of original Hallett land was sold in the 1960’s. 44

Samuel Hallett was born at home at Hallet’s Cove about 1678 and died 7 Mar 1756. He became a Major in the Militia of Queens County and married Bridget Blackwell, d. 19 Feb 1749. Children of Samuel (1678-1756) and Bridget (Blackwell) (?-1749) Hallett:

1. Samuel, d. 7 Apr 1750, married Elizabeth 2. John, bapt. Jun1729, d. 3 Dec 1759, married Sarah Blackwell 3. James, d. 1781, married Lydia Blackwell 4. Jacob, m. Susannah Betts 5. Mary married Mr. Pettit 6. Sarah married Cornelius Berrien on 29 Dec1719 7. Elizabeth, m. 26 May 1727 William Lawrence, m2. John McDonough 8. Bridget, bapt. 19 Apr 1727, married Joseph Wright 9. Lydia, bapt. Jun 1729, married Josiah Milliken 10. Martha, bapt. Jun 1729, married Mr. Welling 11. Phebe married Robert Hallett (3rd Cousin); they tied both branches of the family together. 12. Jemima married John Greenoak 13. Nathaniel, d. 28 Mar 1750

All his land, except a farm of 130 acres, was passed to John, James and Jacob, after his oldest son, Samuel, died. The above mentioned farm was conveyed to his grandson Samuel (1726 - ?) in 1752. From here we will track the land inheritance trail of these Samuel Hallett Descendants.

John Hallett (1729-1759) named his sons John, Samuel and Jacob in his will in 1759. We have no further record of these Hallett’s. A portion of the land containing John Hallett’s farm of 100 acres was sold to William Lawrence in 1760. The farm house had been at 30th Ave. and Steinway St. The remaining acreage was sold off by 1800.

James Hallett, Sr. (abt. 1731-1781) transferred his farm to his son Stephen, who subsequently passed it to his children. James older son, James, established the first coach-making business in NYC. None of Stephen and Rebecca Hallett’s 7 children married. This farm had been in the area between 23rd and 27th St. on the north side of Newtown Ave. When Stephen died in 1822 the farm contained 100 acres. His youngest child, Charity, died in 1861. The entire family was buried together at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth.

Jacob Hallett (abt.1719-bef.1800) had a stone farm house that became the H.F. Blackwell store by 1852. Jacob passed his land to his daughter, Phebe Penfold, who passed it on to her nephews James, Samuel, John and Edmund in 1831. These were the sons of her younger brother, Samuel, who died in 1817. This Samuel Hallett (1761-1817) was married to a cousin Phebe Hallett (1763-1826), representing both major branches of the Hallett family in Astoria. The stone farm house at 33rd St. and 30th Ave. facing Newtown Ave. was still standing in 1920.

At the 1840 Census, James, Samuel and Edmund still had Jacob’s property. Note: This James is the Mr. James Hallett (1798-1852), son of Samuel Hallett (1761-1817), who was in possession of 45 the original will of William Hallett (1616-1706) and a Hallett Coat of Arms, when James Riker, Jr. was working on his History of the Newtown area, published in 1852. Stephen still had his father, Stephen’s property. Gideon Hallett had property at Maspeth that had been purchased by his Quaker Grandfather, Richard Hallett (1691-1769), on the William, Jr. side of the family. This was not original William Hallett land, but is significant because it became part of the land used later to establish Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth.

At the 1850 Census there were two remaining Hallett Farms listed in Newtown. The Nathaniel Hallett Farm had a value of $10,000. Nathaniel 50, Charity 46, Rebecca 40, Eliza 38, and some laborers are listed. The Thomas Hallett Farm had a value of $7,000. Thomas 53, his Irish wife and a German laborer is listed.

I will pick up the Samuel Hallett genealogy again to follow the Hallett branch which remained on original William Hallett land and continues to live on Long Island today.

Jacob Hallett (1719-bef.1800), s/o Samuel (1678-1756) married Susannah Betts, d/o CPT Daniel Betts on 22 Apr 1744. Jacob was a farmer at Hallet’s Cove. Two of their children married into the William Hallett, Jr. branch of the family, tying both major branches together again at the 5th generation. Marriage across branches of the Hallett Family occurred many times in the first 5 generations. Their children were:

1. Robert, b. 22 Aug 1749 2. Mary, m. James Hallett 13 Aug 1770. James father, Robert, married Phebe Hallett d/o Samuel, which also tied the family together at the 4th generation. 3. Phebe, m. Edmund Penfold 4. Samuel, b. 16 Mar 1761, d. 1 Sep 1817, m. Phebe Hallett, b. 5 Mar 1763, d. 6 Feb 1826.

Samuel Hallett (1761-1817) s/o Jacob, married Phebe Hallett (1763-1826) d/o William, gd/o Joseph (1678-1750) on 2 Oct 1782 ensuring the continuation of both major branches of the Hallett Family on Hallett land. Their children were:

1. Jemima, b. 2 Nov 1783, d. 19 Mar 1802 2. Susannah, b. 16 Sep 1785, d. 27 Sep 1796 3. Jacob, b. 22 May 1788, d. 8 Jul 1806 4. Mary, b. 1 Sep 1790, d. 18 Feb 1842 5. Samuel, b. 3 Dec 1792, d. 3 Aug 1832 6. William, b. 9 Sep 1795, d. 11 Apr 1833 7. James, b. 13 Feb 1798, d. 6 May 1852 8. John Penfold, b. 10 Sep 1800, d. 17 Nov 1862 9. Edmund Penfold, b. 29 Nov 1804, d. 4 Nov 1862 46

William Hallett (1795-1833) married Wilhelmina Sophia Fredericks on 24 May 1817. She was born 2 Dec 1794 in Germany and died 1 Aug 1832 in Astoria, NY. Their children were:

1. Maria Catherine, b. 21 Feb 1818, d. 16 Mar 1893 2. William, b. 3 Oct 1819, d. 13 Jul 1836 3. Phebe Amanda, b. 6 Feb 1822, d. 7 Feb 1825 4. Samuel James, b. 16 Apr 1824, d. 6 Feb 1895 5. Baker Peter, b. 15 Dec 1828, d. 18 Oct 1831 6. Charles Wesley, b. 16 Jul 1831, d. 2 Jan 1914

Charles Wesley Hallett (1831-1914) married Christina Crawford Ellison on 19 Mar 1857. She was born 7 Feb 1837 and died 19 Sep 1913. He served as a Private with Company K, 137th Regiment, New York Infantry during the Civil War and was awarded a pension in 1902. Children of Charles and Christina were:

1. Charles Wesley, Jr., b. 17 Feb 1858, d. 6 Feb 1920 2. Alletta Maria, b. 19 Nov 1861, d. Jan 1916 3. Frederick Thomas, b. 19 Nov 1863, d. 26 Nov 1911 4. Walter Ellison, b. 19 Aug 1864, d. 14 May 1934 5. May Evelyn, b. 4 Jul 1875, d. 23 Jul 1883 6. Christina Crawford, b. 4 Dec 1882, d. 9 Jul 1909

Charles Wesley Hallett (1831-1914) lived with his brother, Samuel James, at the 1850 census and probably worked for his furniture business in Flushing. In 1854 he started a successful undertaking business at 127 Fulton Avenue in Astoria and later became an Alderman. He was also a Trustee of the Long Island City Savings Bank for many years. The funeral business grew and expanded under his son, Frederick Thomas Hallett (1863-1911), and later his grandson, Howard Leslie Hallett (1889-1949). In 1923 Howard merged the company with cousin Elbert Hallett of Flushing, son of Samuel James Hallett. Note: Mr. Walter E. Hallett (1864-1934), son of Charles Wesley Hallett, was in possession of the original will of William Hallett (1616-1706) when John Ross Delafield was working on his Delafield Family Book, published in 1927. Walter was also in possession of the last piece of original William Hallett land on Main Street in Astoria at his death in 1934. He left this vacant lot, valued at $1,000 in 1932, to his Nephew, Charles Wesley Hallett III to be passed in perpetuity to Hallett descendants. Both men were Executives of The Bank for Savings in NYC. Walter lived at 56 Summit Ave. in Bronxville and Charles W. III lived at 178 Fifth Ave. in NYC. Walter’s estate was estimated at $40,000 at his death in 1934. The last Hallett property in Astoria was sold in the 1960’s before the death of Charles Wesley Hallett III.

Frederick Thomas Hallett (1863-1911) married Adelaide Sadtler on 18 Oct 1887. She was born Sep 1859 in Maryland. At the 1900 census they lived in Astoria with 4 children, servant and 47 cook from Nova Scotia and 7 boarders, of which 5 were from England, Scotland and Ireland. Their children, all born in Astoria, were:

1. Stanley Sadtler, b. 17 Apr 1890 2. Albro Stead, b. 17 Oct 1891, d. South Dakota 3. Miriam, b. 21 Feb 1895 4. Ethel, b. 24 Aug 1899

Note: Stanley and Albro Hallett registered for the WWI Draft along with cousin Howard and about a dozen other Hallett men living in the NYC area at the time.

Charles Wesley Hallett, Jr. (1858-1920) married Ida Bowen Crowninshield. She was born in 1862 and died in 1905. Their children were:

1. Florence May, b. 1884, d. 1972 2. Frederick Christy, b. 1885, d. 1892 3. Alfred Kenneth 4. Edith Mabel, b. 1887 5. Howard Leslie, b. 14 Mar 1889, d. 1949 6. Charles Wesley III, b. 1894, d. 1977 7. Gertrude, b. 29 Jan 1893, d.bur. 19 Dec 1893 8. Gladys, b. 1896, d.bur. 15 Jul 1898

Charles Wesley Hallett, Jr. married second Elizabeth Turner Renfrew. Bessie was born in Scotland in 1883 and died in 1935. At the 1910 census they lived in Manhattan with his son Charles W. III, age 15, born in MA. Charles W., Jr. and Bessie had one child together:

1. Christina Allison, b. 1912

Howard Leslie Hallett (1889-1949) married Mary E. Wingert. She was born 2 Jun 1887. At the 1930 census they lived in Astoria with 3 children, Mary’s Mother, Elsie Wingert and a maid from South Carolina. At the 1940 census Mary is listed as the head of household with her mother and son, Donald. Their children were:

1. Howard Leslie, Jr., b. 22 Sep 1911, m. Catherine V., d. 1 Oct 1980 Nassau, NY 2. Dorothy, b. 26 Dec 1916, m. William F. Schwabe, d. 20 Nov 2005 3. Donald, Sr., b. 10 Mar 1924, d. 5 Aug 2009 Bayside, NY, Ch. 3 sons

Howard Leslie Hallett, Sr. (1889-1949), son of Charles Wesley Hallett, Jr. (1858-1920), lived in Astoria and worked for his Uncle Frederick, later taking over the Hallett Family Funeral business. His son, Howard Leslie Hallett, Jr. (1911-1980) had a funeral business in Flushing, which his brother, Donald Hallett, Sr. (1924 - 2009), continued. Note: There is a Hallett Funeral Home operated by Andrew Hallett descendants in South Yarmouth, MA on Cape Cod. 48

For more information on this branch of the Hallett Family go to williamhallett.com created by William C. Hallett, son of Donald Hallett (1924-2009), who still lives on Long Island and is in possession of the original will of William Hallett (1616-1706) and many other historical Hallett documents passed down through his branch of the Hallett Family.

Other Hallett Descendants of Interest:

Samuel Hallett was born in Canisteo, Steuben County, New York in 1827 into a Hallett family with roots back to Hallet’s Cove, NYC. He was an ambitious young man who built the largest mansion in Wayne, New York at the age of 27. He established the Hallett & Co. Bank in NYC and in 1863, with J.C. Fremont, bought the controlling interest in the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad, which later connected to Hallett, Oklahoma. He was shot dead in Wyandotte, Kansas on 27 July 1864 by his chief engineer, who had been roughed up by Samuel’s brother, Thomas, after refusing to write a favorable railroad progress report for congress. Samuel left a wife, Ann Elizabeth McDowell, two sons, Robert Leslie and Samuel Irving, and two daughters. Samuel’s brother, John, built a railroad in Oregon. Samuel’s son, Robert, remained in New York and son, Samuel, made a fortune in the Colorado mining business. Samuel’s Grandfather, Nathan, was born 3 Jun 1750 and served as a Private from New York during the Revolution. He died 21 Jul 1820 at Hallettsville, Canisteo and was buried at Stephens Cemetery (SAR100838).

William Hallett Greene became the first black person to graduate from City College of New York, in 1884 at age 19, and the first black member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Both of these extraordinary accomplishments were difficult, but with enlightened help, he overcame the road-blocks. Stereotypical job expectations of the time proved too much to overcome and he ended up as a janitor in Hartford, Connecticut for the remainder of his adult life. William Hallett Greene was born to Hallett Green and Susan Green of West 31st Street in New York City in 1865. At the 1880 Census, Hallett was a 46 year old Coachman and listed their race as Mulatto. Another Hallet Green is listed as a 75 year old Porter and Mulatto race with both parents born in Africa. He must be the father of Hallett Green.

The 1870 Census lists Hallett Green age 36 Coachman with his wife Susan 34, daughter Cornelia 8 and son, William 5. Their race is Mulatto and they have a real estate value of $1,000 on Long Island. Interestingly, Hallett and Susan are also listed by their employers. Hallet Green is listed as, male, 37, Chinese, Coachman, born in New York. Susan is listed as Hallet Green, female, 34, White, born in Fairfield, CT, Domestic Servant to Corn Merchant Robert R. Willets.

The 1850 Census lists Hallett Green age 14 or 16 living and working on Willets Farm in North Hempstead, Queens, New York. His color is listed as Black. The choices were White, Black or Mulatto. Hallat Green is a 42 year old Mulatto Porter working in NYC. Neither he nor his wife, Jane 35, can read nor write. There are two children at home, Caroline 14, and Sarah, 9, Mulatto. 49

The first use of the name Hallet Green appears at the 1830 census of Bennington, in Upstate New York. They list themselves as “Free White” farmers. There are two H. Green listings in Upstate New York at the 1810 census. We have a George H. Green Upstate and a Charles H. Green in NYC at the 1820 census. At the 1840 NYC census, Hallet Green lists himself as “Free Colored”. At the 1850 census there is a Hallet Green, age 52, farmer, still in Upstate New York.

Slaves were employed by many who could afford them, including the first five generations of Halletts. It is likely that the older Hallet Green got his name from one of these early Hallets. At the first U.S. Census in 1790, nine Hallets held slaves. Joseph (1731-1799) had a substantial shipping business in NYC and held 7 slaves. James (1742-1805) had a successful coach-making business in NYC and held 8 slaves. Stephen was still farming at Newtown and held 8 slaves. Most slaves in New York became “Free Colored” between 1800 and 1810. The older Hallet Green was born sometime between 1805 and 1808. Perhaps his father wanted to recognize James, who died in 1805, as a good man and fair master? We also don’t know how they came to recognize themselves as Mulatto, especially since the older Hallet Green lists his parents as both born in Africa. There could be an English Hallett “Slave Trader” connection. A lot of Barbados, Australian and Axmouth, England Hallett money came from this trade.

William Hallett Green

The genealogy information in this chapter comes largely from “William and Elizabeth (Fones) Hallett and Some of Their Descendants 1616-1994”, self published by George H. Hayward, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1994. George is a descendant of Loyalist Robert Hallett and Mary Lomax, who went to New Brunswick after the American Revolution in 1783. He became a genealogist after retirement and published many genealogical books in Canada. He 50 drew on all available sources for his books. His Hallett Family research splits off with the Loyalists who relocated to New Brunswick, Canada after the American War of Independence.

The genealogy information concerning the Hallett Family branch which remains on Long Island comes from work done by William C. Hallett of Nassau County, New York, supplemented by census reports and sources such as burial records at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, New York. See his website at williamhallett.com.

Chapter 4 Mount Olivet

In 2007 I stumbled onto information that some of our early Hallett ancestors were buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York, established in 1850 on land previously owned by the Hallett family of Maspeth. Charles Wesley Hallett (1831-1914) purchased lots and made sure that remains recovered from the original Hallett family burying ground at Hallet’s Cove were moved there by 1905 and subsequently re-interred. One historical account states that a total of 50 bodies were recovered and 35 of them identified as members of the Hallett family dating from 1724 to 1861.

The burial practice of farmers in those days was to be buried on their own land, and no doubt that is where William Hallett,Sr. (1616-1706) was buried. Markers of the burial site could be rocks, wooden crosses, or whatever was available and thought to be appropriate at the time. His oldest son, William Hallett,Jr. (1648-1729) was also thought to be buried on his own land. The historian, James Riker,Jr., in 1852, states that his grave “still remains on the Stevens property.” The Woolsey Family has him and his wife buried at the Newtown Friends Cemetery. Mr. Riker states that William,Sr.’s other son, Samuel Hallett (1651-1724), “was interred on his own premises, where his grave and those of many of his descendants may still be seen.”

This latter site was a burial ground beside the Methodist Episcopal Church in Astoria in 1852. This is the most likely site of the “Hallett family burying ground” that was located between Main Avenue and the end of Astoria Boulevard before it was completely dug up in 1905. This family burial ground was established no later than 1724, as that was the earliest identified marker of Samuel Hallett (1651-1724), but no doubt was established earlier, containing the remains of William Hallett,Sr. and some of his descendants. His grandson William’s (1670-1708) entire family was reputedly buried there after their slaughter in 1708. The children of Stephan Hallett (1749-1822) conveyed this legacy Hallett land to the Trustees of The Methodist Church in 1841. At that time there were only a handful of markers remaining and several were illegible.

As for the burial ground on the William,Jr. property that was owned by a Mr. Stevens in 1852, it is likely that it was also dug up sometime between 1852 and 1905, as that entire area was developed as part of the new Village of Astoria from the middle to late 19th century. There is some possibility that these remains were also re-interred at Mount Olivet, as there are several unidentified Hallett remains there. Another possibility is the Newtown Friends Cemetery or the Friends Meeting House Cemetery in Flushing.

David Gigler, Superintendant at Mount Olivet Cemetery, was involved in local historical associations, so in addition to his helpful information about the Hallett burial plots, he also provided me some Hallett family historical background information. Between the information he had and the research already accomplished by me, we were able to further identify many of those interred in the burial plots. 52

Here is a little genealogy to explain the series of markers, headstones and monuments at Mount Olivet Cemetery:

1st Generation: William (1616-1706) & Elizabeth (1610-1669) Hallett had two Hallett sons.

2nd Generation: William (1648-1729) & Sarah (1648-?) Hallett had five sons.

3rd Generation: William (1670-1708), Joseph (1678-1750), Moses (1681-1708), George (1683- ?), Richard (1691-1769).

Note: None of the 2nd Gen William’s descendants have been positively identified at Mount Olivet Cemetery, however, William 3rd Gen and family should be here and William 2nd Gen and some family members may be here. William 1st Gen may also be here. Samuel 5th Gen, below, was married to Phebe Hallett 5th Gen (William 4th, Joseph 3rd, William 2nd, William), his cousin (3rdor4th, removed, etc.?), which tied both major branches of the family together. Phebe could have been interred with her husband. Elizabeth and her Feake family are in another chapter.

2ndGeneration: Samuel (1651-1724) & (wife unknown) Hallett had one son.

3rd Generation: Samuel (1678-1756), had five sons.

4th Generation: Samuel (?-1750), John (1729-1759), James (?-1781), Jacob (? m.1744), Nathaniel (?-1750).

5th Generation: Samuel (1761-1817), son of Jacob 4thGen.

5th Generation: Stephen (1749-1822), wife and all 7 children’s 6thGen headstones are here, behind the Samuel James Hallett monument. He was son of James 4th Gen.

6th Generation: William (1795-1833), son of Samuel 5thGen, father of Samuel and Charles.

7th Generation: Samuel James (1824-1895), son of William 6thGen, monument in center of lot 407.

7th Generation: Charles Wesley (1831-1914), son of William 6thGen, monument in center of lot 230. (Beside lot 407)

Charles Wesley Hallett (1831-1914) lived with his brother, Samuel James Hallett (1824-1895) at the 1850 census and probably worked for his furniture business. In 1854 he started an undertaking business at 127 Fulton Avenue in Astoria and became a respected businessman and Alderman. Their father, William Hallett (1795-1833), was a 6th generation brother of Jacob, Samuel, James, John Provost and Edmund Penfold Hallett, who inherited legacy Hallett land. 53

As Charles Wesley and Samuel James Hallett’s grandmother was Phebe Hallett 5th (1763-1826) (William 4th, Joseph 3rd, William 2nd, William) and grandfather was Samuel Hallett 5th (1761- 1817) (Jacob 4th, Samuel 3rd, Samuel 2nd, William) they represent both major branches of the Hallett family in Astoria.

Charles Wesley Hallett’s son, Frederick Thomas Hallett (1863-1911) (8th Gen) continued to build the funeral business. Howard Leslie Hallett, Sr. (1889-?) (9th Gen), son of Charles Wesley Hallett, Jr. (1858-1920) (8th Gen), lived at 129 Fulton Avenue in Astoria and worked for his Uncle Frederick, later taking over the business. His son, Howard Leslie Hallett, Jr. (1911-1980) (10th Gen) had a funeral business in Flushing, which his brother, Donald Hallett, Sr. (1924 - 2009) (10th Gen), continued. Descendants of these 10th gen. Halletts still live on Long Island.

Note: 129 Fulton Avenue does not exist today. It was the first street running east – west on the peninsula at Hallett’s Cove next to the cove. The very first Hallett houses were built in that area. This would have been prime real estate in the 18th and 19th centuries. This area is now occupied by a public housing project. Photos and an old map can be seen at (forgotten-ny.com). Look at the old streets and neighborhoods of Astoria from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Note: To see the genealogy of Samuel James Hallett and Charles Wesley Hallett, go to the free site at (rootsweb.com) World Connect Project and enter their names on the search family trees page. I have checked some of the info against census and cemetery records and it looks good. Also visit williamhallett.com created by William C. Hallett, son of Donald, Sr.

Maspeth History:

The town spot for the first recorded settlement on Long Island was begun at Mespat (Maspeth), named for the Mespeatches Indians, in 1642. The first attempt at settlement failed, followed by a second group of Englishmen in 1652 who formed their settlement at Middleburg (Elmhurst) and the surrounding area was called the New Towne (Newtown)(13,000 acres), including the area of present day Maspeth.

Hallett Land Connection to Mount Olivet Cemetery:

William Hallett, Jr.’s youngest son, Richard Hallett (1691-1769), purchased the farm owned by the descendants of John Denman at English Kills (high ground in Maspeth) in 1717. Richard then married Amy Bowne, daughter of the historic Quaker of Flushing Remonstrance fame, John Bowne. Richard became a Quaker and according to James Riker, Jr. in 1852 “his descendants yet profess.” There was a Quaker Meeting House adjacent to the property.

Richard passed his land to his son Thomas Hallett (1740-1780) who passed it to his son, Gideon Hallett (1773- ?) who passed it to his son, Thomas Hallett who sold some of the land used later to establish Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth. The 360 foot frontage at the entrance on Grand Avenue, totaling 16 acres, previously belonged to Thomas Hallett, who still lived on the corner 54 of 64th St. and Maspeth Avenue in 1850. Charles Wesley Hallett (1831-1914) lived at 95 Remsen Street, directly across from the entrance to Mount Olivet Cemetery, at the end of his life. Thomas Hallett’s ancestors previously owned all the high ground in that area, which is where the Hallett cemetery lots are located. You can see Manhattan from these lots, located high on Central Avenue in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Listing of markers noted in the Methodist Graveyard before removal:

Mrs. Tiny, wife of William Stratton, died Apr 21, 1823 S.H. AGd. 78 H.H.(or R.H.) 1749 D.H. 1760 S.H. 1763 S.H. 1732 J. Wayte age 4 16 March 1836 Abraham Ludlam, John Ludlam Dec 19, 1829

Listing of those interred at Lot # 407 Section B owned by Samuel James Hallett (7th Gen):

Grave # Name

1 Rebecca Moore Hallett, (1763-1802), wife of Stephan 1 Bones of Hallett family, (interred 4/9/1925) (Halletts Gen 1-4?) 2 Stephan Hallett, (1749-1822); Note: 3–10 their children; never married; the entire family of Stephan and Rebecca Hallett were removed from the Astoria Family Cemetery and re-interred at Mount Olivet on 1 Jun 1892. 3 Mary B. Hallett, (1792-1804) 4 James Hallett, (1785-1838) 5 Stephan Hallett, (1790-1813) 6 Lydia Hallett, (1790-1845) 7 Rebecca Hallett, (1790- ?) 8 Nathaniel Moore Hallett, (1790-1858) 9 Eliza Hallett, (1794-1860) 10 Charity Moore Hallett, (1799-1861) 11 Remains of 6 persons, (interred 11/26/1886) (Halletts Gen 1-4?) 12 L. M. Denton, (interred 3/30/1897), prob. Grandchild of Samuel James 12 G. H. Denton, (interred 3/30/1897), prob. Grandchild of Samuel James 29 Catherine Carpenter Hallett, (1824-1855), wife 1 30 Samuel James Hallett, (1824-1895) 31 Emeline DeVeau Hallett, (1835-1894), wife 2 32 Children, (interred 6/13/1892, same as wife 1) of Samuel James 37 Harriett DeVeau Hallett, (interred 7/11/1938), d/o Samuel James Not Located Box of Remains from Astoria interred 12 Jun 1892 (Halletts Gen. 1-4?) 55

Not Located L. F. Hallett Note: All below interred on 4/13/1905 Not Located John Hallett, possibly (b. 1800) another son of 5th Gen, Samuel (1761-1817) Not Located B. Hallett Not Located Tiny Stratton Not Located S. Hallett, (Samuel Hallett 1678-1756) marker at grave #20 Not Located S. Hallett, (Samuel Hallett 1761-1817) headstone leaning behind monument Not Located John Pott Not Located Mary Trafford Not Located John Ludlam Not Located Infant Denton, (interred 10/1/1904), prob. Grandchild of Samuel James Note: At least 5 out of the 7 adult children of Samuel James Hallett moved to Deadwood, South Dakota, including his two oldest sons, Samuel and James. His sons, William and Theodore may have stayed in the area. William died in 1895, the same year as his father.

Note: Samuel James Hallett and his second wife, Emeline DeVeau, lost 6 of their 11 children in infancy, 4 of 6 less than one year.

Listing of those interred at Lot # 230 Section B owned by Charles Wesley Hallett (7th Gen):

Grave # Name 1 William Hallett, (1819-interred 6/13/1892) brother of Charles Wesley,Sr. 1 Mary Hallett, (1790-1842) 6th Gen daughter of 5th Gen, Samuel 1 Samuel Hallett, (1792-1832) 6th Gen son of 5th Gen, Samuel 1 Phebe Hallett, (1822-interred 6/13/1892) sister of Charles Wesley,Sr. 2 James Hallett, (1798-1852) 6th Gen son of 5th Gen, Samuel 3 Charles Wesley Hallett,Jr., (1858-1920) 5 Maria Catherine (Hallett) Davies, (1818-1893) sister of Charles Wesley,Sr. 7 Barbara Jean Oulmann, (11/11/1947-5/21/1948) child of 7 Charles Wesley Hallett, III, ashes, (1894-1977) 7 Helen Kathrine (Karges) Hallett, ashes, (interred 6/24/1987) wife of C.W.IV 7 Charles W. Hallett,IV, ashes, (1922-1993) 8 May Evelyn Hallett, (1875-1883) child of Charles Wesley,Sr. 9 Frederick Christy Hallett, (1885-1892) child of Charles Wesley,Jr. 9 Gertrude Hallett, (1/29/1893-12/19/1893) child of Charles Wesley,Jr. 10 Gladys Hallett, (interred 7/15/1898) child of Charles Wesley,Jr. 10 Ida Bowen (Crowninshield) Hallett, (1862-1905) wife of Charles Wesley,Jr. 11 Charles Wesley Hallett,Sr., (1831-1914) 12 Christina Crawford (Ellison) Hallett, (1837-1913), wife of Charles Wesley,Sr. 13 Christina Crawford (Hallett) Reidy, (1882-1909), d/o Charles Wesley,Sr.

Samuel James Hallett(1824-1895)(Left);Charles Wesley Hallett(1831-1914)(Right)

Samuel Hallett(1678-1756) 3rd Generation. Oldest Hallett marker found to date.

Will of Samuel Hallett (1651-1724) (2nd Generation):

In the name of God, Amen. I, SAMUEL HALLETT, of Newtown, in Queens County, being sickly and weak. I leave to my daughters, Elizabeth Jackson, Grace Hewlett, Mercy Cornell, and Martha Hazzard, 2 horses, 2 cows, six yearlings, and œ210 which is due to me by the bond of John French, of New York, and œ24 due me from said John French and his son-in-law, Edward Earle, and also the produce of a certain horse now in the hands of Edmond Haynes, and all my household goods except a cedar chest and œ 4 in the hands of my son, Samuel Hallett. All to be divided equally between them. I leave to my son Samuel, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, and he is to pay all debts. And he is to pay œ6 to my granddaughters, Mary Cornell, Hannah Washburn, and Sarah Hazzard. I make my son Samuel, and my son-in-law, James Hazzard, executors. Dated October 7, 1716. Witnesses, Joseph Hallett, Thomas Jones, Peter Berrian. Proved, May 16, 1727.

Transcribed Will of William Hallett (1616-1706):

The Last Will and Testament of William Hallett, of Newtown, Queens County, New York, made 17th day of April 1706. In the Name of God, Amen. William Hallett Sen’r of Newtown in Queens County on Long Island in the Province of New York. Yeoman, being infirm in body but God be praised of perfect mind and memory & not knowing the certainty of death nor how or when it will please God to call me out of this honorable world and being willing to settle all things here as far as is ______to the end that no _____ or controversies might after my decease arise Doth make these presents to ordaine my Last Will & Testament in manner and form following (that is to say) First I bequeath my sole to God that gave it & my body to the earth from where it came to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned trusting through the words of my blessed Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ that I shall enjoy everlasting [life] in his heavenly kingdom. And as touching the worldly estate which it hath pleased the almighty to bestow on me after my just debts and funeral charges are payd & satisfyed I give and bequeath as followeth: Item I give and bequeath unto my son Wm Hallett & Joseph Hallett his son & to their heirs for ever all that piece of land containing twenty five morgan having to the west the land of Adran Derckson extending in breadth north west and east south east fifty ______& 302 _____ into the woods in length on east syde three hundred rods a by a ______from under ______word plainely appear _____ there being _____. Item I give and bequeath unto my sayd son William Hallet twenty shillings & the cause is why I _____ gave him ______because of his undutyfullness towards me. Item I give and bequeath unto William Hallet son of William Hallet aforesaid twenty shillimgs. Item I give and bequeath unto Sarah Phillips fourty shillings. Item I give and bequeath ubto Rebecca Jackson twenty shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto Moses Hallet one puter dish two plates two _____ & one puter tankard. Item I give and bequeath unto Charity Moore twenty shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto Joseph Hallet one iron pot and four sheep. Item I give and bequeath unto George Hallet one cow one horse & four sheep. Item I give and bequeath unto Richard Hallet one cow one horse & four sheep. 58

Item I give and bequeath unto Mary Hallet one three year old hoifer & four sheep. Item I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Hallet one three year old hoifer & four sheep. Item I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel & to his heirs for ever all the land whereon I now live as [_____ of my wife relation thereunto being that may more plainly & as large appears.?] Item I give and bequeath unto Samuel Hallet son to [tho?] and Samuel Hallet the great copper, ankor, kettle, one bed and furniture, two cows, five sheep, the crop of wheat which [will?] be on the land at my decease on [ ------?------] all my wearing apparril Isaac ___ing same. Item I give and bequeath unto Eliz. Jackson one pewter dish & pewter candle stick & [–] mony [______] and ows me. I give and bequeath unto Hannah Washburne twenty shillings. I give and bequeath unto Margaret Hallet one puter dish two plates & two porringers. I give and bequeath unto Grace Hallet one bed with furniture two peuter dishes two plates two porringers one cow four sheep. I give and bequeath unto Martha Hallet one cow four sheep and one small brass kittle. I give and bequeath unto Marsee Hallet one puter dish one puter [_____] pann one bason one bead pann & one [Cooking??] I give and bequeath unto my sister Hannah [Bird] twenty pounds to be payd her yearly three pounds within twelve months after my decease & so yearly until the full [sumine] of twenty pounds is satisfied provided the times but in case the [times] before & any payment remains behind hand & unpayd the to cease & fall to my son Samuel Hallet and its further my will that none of the legacy is or shall be payd untill the expiration of one full [year] next before my decease & not beforeand lastly [bestow] and bequeath unto my said son Samuel Hallet all the remainder of my estate both real & personal not disposed be it negros mony plate household stuffe or [_____]; And I constitute & approve my said son Samuel Hallet & Samuel Hallet his son my whole & sole Executors of this my last will and testament revoking all others by me heretofore made & this alone to stand in forward no other. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto sett my hand after first to my soale to this my will [_____] in two sheets of writing paper this seventeenth day of April in the fifth year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lady Queen Anne by the Grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland defender of the faith &c, Anno Domini 1706 Signed sealed proclaimed and declared by the said William Hallett, Senr. to be his Last Will & Testament (signed) William Hallett in the presence of us; Thomas Cardale Samuel [_____]

Copy of Actual Will of William Hallett (1616-1706)

Chapter 5 Patriots & Loyalists

There are plenty of books available on the War for American Independence (1775-1783), so I will limit my background to the role our ancestors played. The best recent book focusing on the topic most relevant to our Hallett ancestors of Queens, New York is titled “Divided Loyalties” by Richard M. Ketchum, published by Henry Holt and Company, 2002. Another good book is David McCullough’s “1776”, published by Simon and Schuster, 2005. The best local history book that covers a detailed history of the part of Long Island where the Hallett family lived and includes several members of the Hallett family was written by James Riker, Jr. in 1852, titled “The Annals of Newtown”, and is now freely available on-line.

One way to understand the complexity of this war for Colonial Americans might be to point out over 75,000 citizens evacuated their homes and fled to Canada and other places in the British Empire at the end of the war. About 50,000 went to Nova Scotia in 1783, creating such an overwhelming problem that the Province of New Brunswick was split off from Nova Scotia in 1784 to focus on re-settlement of Loyalists, including our ancestor, Robert Hallett.

You may remember learning about the Boston Tea Party, the battle of Bunker Hill and the early success the Patriots had against the British in Boston. You may not remember the British took New York in 1776 and held it throughout the war. They clearly understood the strategic importance of New York City and attempted to split the Colonies East and West of the Hudson River. About 20,000 British troops camped along the East River among the towns and farms of present day Brooklyn and Queens. A large contingent made Hallet’s Point their headquarters, due to its strategic location at Hell Gate.

Many citizens sympathized with the “Mother Country” before the war and wanted to remain in the British Empire for various reasons. In New York the division was generally between urban Anglican Tories, who had done well under British rule, and Presbyterian Whigs of middle and lower socio-economic status, but it was not a well defined line, as there were any number of reasons for people to choose sides. Politically speaking, the division was quite similar to a modern day election. One third wanted to remain with Britain (DeLancey Party), one third wanted to create a new nation (Livingston Party), and one third wanted the benefits of both or simply to be left alone.

Eight Hallett men signed allegiance to the crown in October 1776 under British Supervision. Those listed included David, James, Richard, George, Thomas, Jacob, Jr., who died in 1779 as a soldier and two who signed W. Hallett. Others apparently joined this list later and several served as volunteers in the Loyalist American Forces recruited locally to serve with the British.

Our Ancestor, Robert Hallett (1759-1838), was probably recruited for the Loyalist Forces by his Uncle Samuel Hallett (abt.1730-1796). Samuel was the 6th son of Joseph and Lydia (Blackwell) 62

Hallett (1678-1750) and the only known 4th generation active Hallett Loyalist. The other known Hallett Loyalists were 5th generation descendants of Joseph (3rd gen), but the best known Hallett Patriot, Joseph Hallett (1731-1799) was also a 5th generation grandson of Joseph (3rd gen) (1678-1750), clearly illustrating the division within families.

We can only speculate about the motives of Samuel Hallett, but his actions are clear. He sought out the British General Sir William Howe upon the arrival of the British Fleet in New York Harbor and the British Army on Staten Island. He offered his service to General Howe, who employed his local knowledge of the area to land troops at Long Island and Manhattan. He recruited 55 men for the New York Volunteers and later raised 200 men for DeLancey’s Brigade. He was commissioned as a Captain in General Oliver DeLancey’s Brigade on 8 September 1776.

Our direct line ancestor, Robert Hallett, who had lost his Mother at age 4, decided to follow his Uncle Samuel Hallett, Sr., along with some other cousins. He joined the Loyalist New York Volunteers between 1776-1779 and found himself in Savannah, Georgia by August of 1779. It should also be noted that his probable Father, Thomas, died in August of 1779.

Note: Oliver DeLancey (1718-1785) was a wealthy merchant and very well connected among the ruling class in New York. His brother, James DeLancey, Sr., had been chief justice of the court and Lieutenant Governor and head of the “DeLancey Party”, which was largely Anglican and Tory. At the outbreak of war, Oliver DeLancey joined the British General Howe and raised three loyalist battalions, which comprised the DeLancey Brigade. He served as commanding officer on Long Island and after the war fled to England in 1783, where he died two years later. Two of his loyalist battalions served in the southern campaign during the war.

The DeLancey Brigade was raised in September 1776, comprised of three 500 man Battalions. Their mission for the first two years was defense of Long Island and the greater New York City area. The 1st and 2nd Battalions deployed to Savannah, Georgia with LTC Archibald Campbell’s 71st Regiment invasion fleet in October 1778. The 1st Battalion participated in various operations in Georgia and throughout the South as needed. The 2nd Battalion spent most of its time on garrison duty in Savannah.

The New York Volunteers were formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in January 1776 by Captain Archibald Campbell and participated in the occupation of Long Island. Oliver DeLancey and his officers, including Captain Samuel Hallett, assisted in raising troops for this unit after its arrival on Long Island. In December 1778 they deployed to St. Augustine, Florida and participated in the sieges of Savannah in 1779 and Charleston in 1780.

There are no existing muster rolls for these units prior to November 1779, when they were in the Southern Campaign, so it is difficult to determine exactly when Robert Hallett enlisted. The first date we have of him is the 29 November 1779 Savannah muster roll, which includes him among those paid for service in Captain Allan Cameron’s Company of New York Volunteers between 25 August and 24 October 1779. The next mention of him is on the 24 February 1781 Savannah 63 muster roll of Captain Samuel Hallett’s company in the 2nd Battalion DeLancey’s. Sometime between these dates he was transferred to his Uncle Samuel’s unit where he stayed until he was promoted to Corporal.

Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.(Book by Murtie June Clark, Genealogical Publishing Co.,1981.):

Page 190. Muster Roll – Captain Allan Cameron’s Co., NY Volunteers, Commanded by LTC George Turnbull, Savannah, GA

29 Nov 1779 Private Hallett, Robert

Page 51. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

29 Nov 1779 Captain Hallett, Samuel (on leave)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel

Sgt. Hallett, Jacob (died 19 Nov 1779)

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY)

Page 52. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

24 Feb 1781 – 24 Apr 1781 Private Hallett, Robert

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel (recruiting NY)

Page 54. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

25 Oct 1781 – 24 Dec 1781 Private Hallett, Robert

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel (NY)

Page 41. Muster Roll – Maj. Thomas Bowden’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah, GA. 64

25 Apr 1782 – 24 Jun 1782 Corporal Hallett, Robert

Page 5. Muster Roll – Maj Joseph Green’s Co., First Bn., BG Oliver Delancey’s Bde. (In N.Y.)

25 Dec 1782 – 24 Jan 1783 Corporal Hallett, Robert

Note: Sergeant Nathaniel Hallett and Sergeant Jacob Hallett were not sons of Captain Samuel Hallett. They were probably nephews of Samuel and grandsons of Joseph (1678-1750).

CPL Robert Hallett and his young wife, Mary (Lomax) Hallett, evacuated from Savannah to Long Island, N.Y. with the 2nd Battalion DeLancey’s on 23 July 1782. The 2nd Bn was combined with the 1st Bn on Long Island. CPL Robert Hallett and wife, Mary, evacuated with this unit to New Brunswick, Canada, along with his Uncle Samuel’s family, (Joseph, Daniel, Samuel, Jr.) and cousin Moses Hallett, arriving on 27 September 1783. Robert Hallett is the Canadian ancestor of all the current descendants of John Henry Hallett, of Mars Hill, Maine.

We have no knowledge of how Mary Lomax came to be in Savannah and how she and Robert developed a relationship. Her brother, James Lomax, later became a General Officer in the British Army and retired in Bristol, England, where he died in 1848. The Lomax name is most prevalent in southeastern Lancashire, especially around Bolton and Bury. Birth records have many James and Mary Lomaxes during their time. British Army Officers and Non- Commissioned Officers (NCO) had family members with them. It is my guess that Mary was one of these family members, and, most likely, the daughter of an NCO. There are Lomax NCO’s in the British Army at that time. CPL Robert Hallett was an NCO at the time of their marriage in 1782. Her brother, James, was only 9 or 10 years old in 1782. According to the family bible, Mary was born 12 January 1769, was 13 at her marriage to Robert and died in 1847, one year before James. There is no indication that this Lomax family was among the early settlers of Savannah.

Other known Hallett men who served with the British are:

Major James Hallett, grandson of Joseph (1678-1750) and only son of Robert (abt.1720-1792). He stood to inherit Robert’s estate at Hallett’s Cove, instead going to his sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Edmund Penfold. James reportedly went to Nova Scotia after the war, but there is no documentation to support this story.

Thomas Hallett, probable grandson of Joseph (1678-1750) and nephew of Samuel.

Another Hell Gate Hallett went to New Brunswick soon after 1790 to join his father-in-law’s family on their land grant at Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. His name was David Hallett, who married Elizabeth Gidney in Jamaica, Long Island on 19 June 1783. She was the daughter of Joshua Gidney and Margaret Dean. David Hallett was also a probable 65 grandson of Joseph Hallett. His grandson, David William Hallett, came to Bridgewater, Maine about 1854 and owned a house at Blaine in 1884. David William’s brother, Joshua Gidney Hallett, joined him at Bridgewater about 1860, where he and some of his descendants are buried at Smith Cemetery. We shall cover the Halletts of Aroostook County, Maine in another chapter.

Now, let’s turn our attention to the Patriot Halletts, the most prominent being Joseph Hallett.

Joseph Hallett (1731 – 1799)

Joseph Hallett was a very successful shipping merchant in New York City prior to the American Revolution. He made most of his money shipping tobacco to England and linseed to Ireland. He had a home on Pearl Street, near Wall Street, in the city. His business real estate included stores at 103, 104, 105 and 106 Front Street extending to the East River and a wharf on Water Street. His business associates included his cousin and brother in-law, Jacob Blackwell and his father in-law, Nathaniel Hazard. He had land investments in New York, Virginia and Vermont. He also maintained a home at Hallet’s Point, where he inherited an estate from his Grandfather, Joseph (1678-1750). His father, also named Joseph (1704-1731), died of smallpox at age 27 when Joseph was an infant.

Joseph Hallett was a strong patriot who was a member of the committees of safety of the first three provincial congresses of the State of New York (1774 – 1776). His name is associated with the most zealous patriots in support of the War for Independence. His wife and daughters were held by the British for a brief period in 1776. His business supplied the Patriot Army as much as feasible, which must have been interesting, since the British Navy controlled the harbor and the British Army occupied New York City and Long Island for the duration of the war. 66

Below is a 26 October 1778 notice of burglary on the property of Joseph Hallett near Newtown. The British occupied this area from 1776-1783.

Below is an 8 June 1772 Hallett and Hazard sales advertisement.

Joseph continued his business after the war and continued to be an active member of the community. He was a long-time trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, located on Wall Street in his time. Upon his death on August 9, 1799, he was interred in the family vault in the church along with many other Halletts. His wife, Elizabeth (Hazard) Hallett(1740-1814), joined him on November 9, 1814. Note: Nathaniel Hazard gave his daughter, Elizabeth, 500 pounds sterling prior to her marriage in 1761. This was a huge amount of money at the time, about $125,000 today. The First Presbyterian Church of NYC was relocated to Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in 1844 and the vault, number 15, was placed in the middle of the North Lawn of the present site (right side of main front church entrance off 5th Ave. Info from church historian). There is a plaque commemorating this relocation of remains from the original church located on a wall on the South Lawn.

Joseph had no surviving son and his estate was divided among his six daughters and passed from the Hallett name. The most well known son-in-law was John Delafield, who came from London to New York City in 1783, bearing the news of peace. He had been a successful businessman in London and continued to prosper in his adopted new country. John Delafield married Ann Hallett in 1784. Seven Delafield sons lived into adulthood and it appears many of their descendants have done well. John Ross Delafield published an extensive family history and 68 genealogy book in 1927 which includes the early Hallett family. This Delafield book is now freely available on-line. The Delafield Family Association also maintains a web site.

Joseph Hallett’s Father, Joseph, and Robert Hallett’s Father, Thomas, were brothers, making them first cousins. Their Grandfather, Joseph, was the oldest surviving son of William Hallett Jr, one of the two sons of our first American ancestor, William Hallett.

Other Patriot Halletts recorded in the Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army(Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982):

Hallett, James (NJ) 2LT 4th NJ Regt. 28 Nov 1776; 1LT 17 Feb 1777; resigned 1 Oct 1777 then served in NJ Militia. Ancestry was (James 4th Gen, Samuel 3rdGen, Samuel 2ndGen, William)

Hallett, Jonah (NY) Ensign NY Militia Regt. 18 Jun 1776; 2LT Malcomb’s Continental Regt. 26 Jul 1777; resigned 23 Apr 1779; LT 4th Continental Dragoons 2 Oct 1779 – Nov 1782. Ancestry was (Richard 4thGen, Richard 3rdGen, William 2ndGen, William)

Hallett, Jonathan (NY) 2LT 3rd NY Jul 1775; 1LT and Adjutant Mar 1776; Captain 2nd NY 21 Nov 1776 – 3 Jun 1783. Ancestry uncertain, but certainly Hallett’s Cove descendant.

Chapter 6 New Brunswick

Robert Hallett (1759-1838) joined the Loyalist New York Volunteers as a Private, before November of 1779 and served as a Corporal in General Oliver DeLancey’s Brigade at the end of the American War for Independence. He married Mary Lomax on 28 February 1782 while stationed in Savannah, Georgia with the 2nd Bn. DeLancey’s. They evacuated Savannah with all British Forces on 23 July 1782 to Long Island, N.Y. CPL Robert Hallett and wife, Mary, evacuated with the reconstituted 1st Bn. DeLancey’s to New Brunswick, Canada, along with his Uncle Samuel’s family, (Joseph, Daniel, Samuel, Jr.) and cousin Moses Hallett. They arrived at Parrtown (St. John), New Brunswick, Canada, aboard the “Sovereign”, 27 September 1783. Robert Hallett and Mary Lomax are the Canadian ancestors of all descendants of John Henry Hallett and Emma Pearl DeLong, of Mars Hill, Maine and many other Halletts in New Brunswick and Maine today.

After surviving a brutal first winter they were among the 110 brave families who first settled the DeLancey Land Grant at Woodstock, New Brunswick where they lived and had their family from 1784 - 1806. The leader of the Woodstock settlement, Captain Jacob Smith, noted in his records of 1785 that Robert “was an industrious good man with a wife, Mary, eight months pregnant with their first child.” Although they initially had some government support, the first settlers faced the prospect of clearing heavily forested land by hand before they could begin farming. Robert sold his 250 acre share of Lot 30 at Woodstock to Peter Clark, due to land disputes or lack of suitable agricultural soil. When I visited this land it did not look suitable for agriculture to me, in fact part of it became a gravel pit. Reverand William O. Raymond notes that “Peter Clark was a rough and ready old soldier not known as an agreeable neighbor”. He was found guilty of assault in 1802. He bought out his co-owners and sold his property in 1814.

Robert Hallett was granted Lots 49 and 50, totaling 385 acres, in the Parish of Upper Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick in 1807. When the Hallett Family first moved onto their land at Upper Brighton there were no roads, no mills, no churches, no schools and the nearest civilization was down-river in Fredericton. Settlers had to become self sufficient in a hurry. What they lacked in infrastructure, however, was made up by the abundance of natural resources. The soil was excellent, the rivers and streams contained vast quantities of fish, and the forest contained a good variety of trees and wildlife. Over the next 20 years the settlers gradually developed their land and built a community infrastructure. At the Census of 1851 there were 227 families on 10,000 acres of cleared land producing large quantities of wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn, potatoes and turnips. Livestock included beef cattle, milking cows, horses, sheep and hogs. Nearly half the adult male population was involved in the lumber business during the winter months. 70

Descendants of Robert and Mary Hallett still farm this land, just above the town of Hartland, known today for the longest covered bridge in the world. We met a descendant, Grace (Hallett) Palmer, who lived on the land before building a home in Hartland. You can google map Hartland and see the bridge and also the Hallett land between Becaguimac Stream on the south and Hallett Hill Road (104) on the north. Potatoes still comprise one of the largest cash crops in this part of New Brunswick as they do in Aroostook County, Maine.

Canada was known as British North America after the Treaty of Paris recognized American independence in 1783. Approximately 50,000 United Empire Loyalists went to British North America after the war, doubling the population of Nova Scotia and giving rise to the separate Province of New Brunswick in 1784. Large scale immigration came again after the War of 1812, between Britain and the U.S., when Britain controlled the coastline and all of Eastern Maine over to the Penobscot River as far as Bangor. British were stationed at Castine, Machias and Eastport, where many British Soldiers are buried. High unemployment after the British defeat of Napolian at Waterloo in 1815 contributed many new settlers to the frontiers of Canada. Several Halletts married people who can be traced to this period of direct immigration from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The U.S.–Canadian border was not settled until the “bloodless” Aroostook War of 1842. The constitution of 1867 created the Confederation of Canada, but Canadian independence was not recognized by Britain until the 1931 Statute of Westminster.

Hartland gives credit to William Orser as the first settler in 1784. He was given a large land grant at the mouth of the Becaguimac Stream down to the present north half of Hartland. Their story is similar to the Halletts, in that they came to New Brunswick with the British Empire Loyalists. The Orser family traces its roots back to the early Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam (NYC). Blake Orser, direct descendent, married my Aunt Virgie Hallett at Mars Hill in 1929 and lived across the road from my Grandparents, John and Emma Hallett, on the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill, Maine.

Robert Hallett was likely born on 4 April 1759 in Newtown, Queens, New York to Thomas and Ann (Moore) Hallett. His mother died of smallpox in 1763 and his father died in August 1779. Mary (Lomax) Hallett was born 12 January 1769. Her brother, James Lomax, was born about 1773 and later became an officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General. Robert died in May 1838 and was buried in the Hallett burying ground on his property. Mary died on 25 August 1847 at her home and was buried beside Robert. No headstone or marker has been found for them at the Hallett Loyalist Cemetery. The cemetery is at the junction of Canada Highway 130 and local road 105, just above Hartland on the East Bank of the St. John River. Hallett ancestors may be visited there today, including Samuel Hallett (1839-1914) and Peter Hallett (1827-1912), brothers of George Hallett (1843-1908).

Grace(Hallett)Palmer, Phyllis(Hallett)Nightingale, Herman E. Hallett, Beverly(Brooks)Hallett

Robert and Mary had 9 children at Woodstock and 2 more at Upper Brighton in New Brunswick. Several Hallett descendants made their way back to the USA through Aroostook County, Maine.

Children of Robert (1759–1858) and Mary (Lomax) Hallett born in the Parish of Woodstock, New Brunswick:

1. Ann, b. 9 Oct 1785, d. 21 Oct 1860, m. Joseph McConnell 4 May 1801 in Fredericton, NB. He b. 17 Mar 1774 Long Island, NY, d. 27 May 1844 NB. 2. Lydia, b. 27 Aug 1788, d. 25 Nov 1847, m. Bartlett Hallett (son of Moses) abt. 1809 at Bear Island. He was b. 1787 at Bear Island, Parish of Queensbury, d. 1857 bur. Upper Hainesville. He farmed the inherited land granted to his father, Moses, at Bear Island on the east bank of the St. John River in York County. Children: a.Ann, b. c.1810, m. William Parent 24 Jun 1841 b.Moses, b. c.1811, d. 7 Jun 1882, m. Jane Kearney, m2. Emma Clark c.Robert, b. c.1812, d. 1861, m. Christianna MacLean 30 Jun 1836. Robert was a School Teacher. Son Bartlett, b. c.1841 d.George, b. 14 Oct 1814, d. 18 May 1882, m. Janet Oliver, b. Scotland. Son Bartlett, b. 3 Mar 1841. Daughter Margaret b. c.1846. Grandson Merle Hallett (James, George, Bartlett, Moses) b. 20 Jun 1891, relocated to Portland, Maine. Grandson George W. Hallett (Josiah, George, Bartlett, Moses) b. 10 Apr 1884, relocated to Caribou, Maine in 1920 where he was a potato farmer with son Sheldon, later of Conner. Grandson Greely Bud Hallett (Josiah, George, Bartlett, Moses) b. 7 Jul 1893, relocated to Presque Isle, Maine after serving in WWI with his brother, Arden. e.Elizabeth, b. c.1816, m. Samuel Bishop 30 Oct 1838 f.James, b. c.1818, d. 22 Nov 1888, m. Elizabeth Lawrence, m2. Mary Clark g.Joseph, b. c.1819, m. Julia Hawkins. Joseph was a School Teacher. h.William, b. c.1823, m. Elaine Hawkins 1 Jul 1852 i.Mary, b. c.1823, m. James Bishop 24 Jun 1841 j.Josiah, b. 26 Jun 1824, d. 2 Jul 1905, m. Elizabeth Heustis, m2. Sarah Heustis. Josiah had a good lumber business in NB and Boston. k.Lydia, b. c.1826, m. Joseph Parent 27 Jun 1867 l.Caroline, b. 15 Dec 1827 not married m.Jane, b. c.1830, m. John Heustis 14 Jun 1849 n. Bartlett, Lawrence, b. 18 Sep 1832 York County, NB, d. 18 Feb 1911 Houlton, m. Relocated to Ashland, Maine and married Augusta M. Mosher from Farmington, Maine in 1856. He is listed as a free farmer with land in Township 12 Range 6 with wife Augusta, son John and daughter Florence at the 1860 Ashland census. He is listed with wife Augusta, daughter Hannah and son Eugene at the 1871 Census of New Brunswick, living in Douglas, Fredericton, York County. He is listed as a carpenter with wife Augusta at the 1900 Houlton census. Daughter Hannah E., b. 1869 at Douglas, NB, married Hanford Knox from Upper Hainesville, NB on 30 Sep 1896 at Houlton. Hanford Knox’s mother was Margaret Hallett (George, Bartlett, Moses). Bartlett lived with daughter Gertrude L. Turner at the 1910 census. Children: 1. John Alton., b. 10 Aug 1857 Ashland, ME, d. 29 Jan 1934, m. Jane Anderson in 1880 in NB, lived in Houlton, ME by 1900 census, m2. Alice R. on 5 Jul 1928 at Houlton. Children with Jane: 73

a. Harry Wilford, b. 27 Jul 1883 Fredericton, NB, d. Dec 1984, m. Sadie G., m2. Sarah E. Gray. Lived in Houlton, ME. b. Loren F., b. 14 Jul 1887 Fredericton, NB, d. 22 Jan 1952 Houlton, m. Amy M. Page 12 Sep 1907. Son Lisle F., b. 27 Dec 1908, d. 14 May 1999, m. Rena A., lived in Houlton, ME. 2. Florence, b. c.1860 Ashland, ME. 3. Hannah E., b. c.1869 Douglas, NB, m. Hanford Knox 30 Sep 1896 Houlton 4. Eugene B., b. c.1871 5. Willie K., b. c.1873 6. Gertrude L., b. c.1876 NB, Immigrated about 1891, m. John Turner and lived in Houlton at the 1910 census. o. Hannah, b.c. 1835, m. Jesse Parent 3. James, b. 17 May 1791, m. Elizabeth ?, b. abt. 1802 4. William, b. 31 Mar 1793, m. Maria Craig 1 Nov 1813. She b. abt.1796 NB. William purchased farmland in the Parish of Perth which he and his nephews farmed. 5. *Marsden, b. 6 Aug 1795, m. Charity Watson 16 Feb 1820. See below. 6. Jacob, b. 16 Mar 1798, m. Ann Stockford 30 July 1822. Children: a.Rachel, b. c.1824, m. Allen Adams b.Jacob, b. c.1828 c.Elizabeth, b. c.1830, m. John Derrah d.Abraham, b. c.1834, d. 6 May 1888, m. Isabella Derrah, m2. Mary McGraves e.Mary Jane, b. c.1838, m. William Melvin 28 Jun 1860 f.Hester Ellen, b. c.1841, m. Marsden Hallett (cousin) 20 Aug 1859. He b. c.1826 g.Elmira, b. c.1842, m. James Derrah 7. Joseph, b. 20 Jul 1800, d. 20 Feb 1869 Upper Brighton, m. Elizabeth A. Smith 28 Jan 1832. She b. 3 Nov 1814, d. after 1891. Children: a.Ephraim, b. 12 Apr 1834, d. 8 Feb 1908, m. Hester Ann Campbell b.Nathaniel, b. 28 Jan 1837, d. 14 May 1854 c.Jarvis N., b. 26 Jul 1839, d. 29 Mar 1880, m. Harriet Bond 21 Aug 1871 d.Moses S., b. 16 Jan 1841, d. 5 Nov 1908, m. Frances Day. Son, Beverly S. Hallett relocated to Rumford, Maine by 1903 and Augusta by 1906. Son, Frederick relocated to Aroostook County, Maine about 1900. His son, Frederick Ruel Hallett settled in the Howland area. His son, Frederick, Jr. started a door and window business in1969. e.Hannah E., b. 10 Apr 1844, d. 7 Jul 1870, m. William Green 17 Oct 1865 f.Thomas C., b. 26 Jul 1846, d. 25 Jan 1923, m. Adelia Dickinson 1 Aug 1874. Son, Douglas Lynwood Hallett, b. 31 May 1891, relocated to Caribou, Maine. g.Jane E., b. 13 Nov 1849, d. 10 Jun 1922, m. Alexander Rideout, m2. Robert Blackie h.Charles A., b. 9 Apr 1852, d. 12 Jan 1924, m. Sarah Jacobs, m2. Imogene Crawford. Relocated to Wisconsin then Colorado. He was a mining company supt. and owner. 8. Isabella, b. 19 Sep 1802, m. Charles McLaughlin 19 Sep 1802 Woodstock 9. Elizabeth, b. 11 Jan 1805, m. James Bishop 4 Mar 1822

Born at Upper Brighton:

10. Sarah, b. 14 Jul 1807, m. James Melvin 4 Aug 1828. Children: a.James, b. 1829 74

b.William, b. 1833, m. Mary Jane Hallett (cousin) 11. Mary Jane, b. 14 Apr 1809, d. 16 Feb 1866, m. Daniel Rideout 10 Feb 1827 Simonds

* Marsden (1795-?) is my direct line ancestor.

Mary and James Lomax:

Mary Lomax was born 12 January 1769. We have not yet determined her birthplace, parents or how she came to be in Savannah, Georgia, where she married Robert Hallett on 28 Feb 1782 during the waning days of the American War of Independence. Her brother, James Lomax, later became a General Officer in the British Army and retired in Bristol, England, where he died in 1848. We have the will and military record of James Lomax. We also have an 1841 Bristol, England census which indicates he was born 1776 in Scotland. The death record indicates he was age 75 at his death in 1848, making his birth in 1773. None of James military records gives his place of birth or parents.

James does not mention Mary or her family in his will, but the names of his children parallel her’s. Mary named her first daughter Ann and first son James. She also had sons William and Marsden. James first son was named James and only daughter named Ann. He had a son named Marsden William. The name Marsden does not appear in early Hallett families. Marsden is a village in West Yorkshire close to Lancashire. The Lomax name is most prevalent in southeastern Lancashire, especially around Bolton and Bury, England.

British Army Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO’s) sometimes had family members with them and children born on foreign lands. It is my guess that Mary was one of these family members, and most likely, the daughter of an NCO. There are Lomax NCO’s in the British Army at that time. CPL Robert Hallett was an NCO at the time of their marriage in 1782. According to the family bible, Mary was born 12 January 1769. She would have been 13 at her marriage to Robert and died in 1847, one year before James. There is no indication that this Lomax family was among the early English or American settlers of Savannah.

During my visit to the National Archives in England, I discovered James original British Half- Pay Officer Record, which summarizes his entire record of service to that point. Neither his place of birth nor his parents are listed on that document. All his children are listed with dates and place of birth. His marriage date and place is listed, but not his wife. There are no surviving British Army records, such as muster rolls or baptismal certificates, during the American Revolution concerning the units their father may have been in that participated in the Southern Campaign around Savannah, Georgia.

I visited several Regimental Museums in England and Scotland on the chance they may have some documents not available in the National Archives. They were all helpful, but did not have any documents from this time period. They did turn up some relevant history of the 60th 75

Regiment, where James Lomax spent the majority of his career. While visiting the “Royal Fusiliers” Museum in Winchester, two pieces of correspondence written by LTC Lomax and an inspection report of his Battalion, while he was in command, were copied on my behalf. I also read a very detailed account of the 71st Regiment during the American Revolution from a self- published book in the Scottish National Library. This is the most likely unit that Mary and James father would have served in. It was raised by Simon Fraser in the Inverness area and gathered at Stirling Castle before final preparations at Glasgow.

The New York Volunteers and the 1st Battalion Delancey’s travelled with the 71st Regiment (Fraser’s Highlanders) and were part of this same command as they took Savannah and held it for the remainder of the war. This could be the connection we are looking for, as Robert Hallett is first found on a Muster Roll of the New York Volunteers and then Delancey’s 2nd Bn. in Savannah, where he was present from at least November 1779 until July 1782. It is quite possible that Mary and James Lomax were among the children of 71st Regt. Soldiers in the Savannah Garrison. Their father may have been killed during the Southern Campaign of 1778- 1782. Other Savannah Garrison units were elements of the 16th and 60th Regiments. There are no Lomax Officers listed in available records of the 71st Regt.

It is also interesting to note the deployment history of the 60th Regiment during the American Revolution, when they were called the Royal American Regiment. The 3rd and 4th Battalions were raised in England in 1775 and deployed to the West Indies in 1776, then the Florida’s in 1778. Part of the 4th Battalion was with the expedition to Georgia under MG Prevost and participated in the siege of Savannah from 16 Sep to 18 Oct 1779. They were at the siege and capture of Ft. Sunbury with the 3rd Battalion under COL Archibald Campbell. In 1780 the 4th Battalion went to New York. The 3rd and 4th Battalions departed New York for Halifax, Nova Scotia in September 1783 and disbanded there on 10 Oct 1783. General Prevost became Governor of Nova Scotia and later all of Upper Canada. James Lomax would later serve most of his career with the 60th Regiment.

It is extremely unlikely that we will ever find any additional source materials regarding the birthplace and parents of Mary and James Lomax. Given the available circumstantial evidence gathered previously, combined with the most recent indicators found in James Lomax’s military record, I would offer the following theory. Young Mary and James Lomax boarded a transport ship along with their family at Greenock, Scotland in the summer of 1776 bound for the colonies with the 71st and 42nd Scottish Highland Regiments. In 1778 – 1779 they relocated to Savannah, Georgia until the surrender of Savannah in 1782. During this period, one or both of their parents were either killed or died of disease. Robert Hallett agreed to take care of Mary Lomax and married her at the age of 13 in Savannah in 1782 so that she may be transported with him to New York and later to his British Loyalist land grant in New Brunswick in 1783. James Lomax, age 9, was adopted or taken in, formally or informally, by a British Officer or NCO family who relocated to Jamaica after the war in 1782 – 1783, where he later joined the British Colonial Army at age 16. 76

James Lomax was appointed an Acting Ensign in the British Jamaica Colonial Forces 19th Regiment at age 16 on 1 September 1789 and served in that capacity until 1796. By recommendation of the Earl of Baliaum to Sir Thomas Maitland in Jamaica, James Lomax was made a Lieutenant in the 62nd Regiment on 2 July 1796. He was transferred to the 83rd Regiment on 12 January 1797. James was promoted to Captain in the 6th West India Regiment on 15 June 1797 for recruiting 20 men. He transferred to the 60th Regiment on 6 October 1799, where he served the remainder of his long career, starting with the 4th Battalion of the 60th Regiment. James purchased his promotion to Major in the 3rd Battalion on 20 April 1803 and transferred back to the 4th Battalion in December 1805. On 16 November 1809 he was promoted by seniority to Lieutenant Colonel in the 4th Battalion. On 25 December 1818 he took half pay at his own request in consequence of ill health from long service in the West Indies. On 12 August 1819 he was promoted to Brevet Colonel. James Lomax signed his Half-Pay Officer service record on 12 Dec 1820 as a Brevet Colonel residing at 9 Park St. in Bristol. In 1830 he was promoted to Major General and 1841 to Lieutenant General.

A history of the 60th Kings Royal Rifles Regiment includes James Lomax among officers listed. Hart’s Annual Army List has LTG James Lomax receiving a Distinguished Service Reward in 1846. LTC James Lomax was commander of the 4th Battalion of the 60th Regiment from 1811 to 1815. CPT James Lomax, of the 60th Regt., is listed as Assistant Engineer on the staff of Jamaica Forces in Kingston in 1802. On August 24, 1814, two Co’s of the 7th Battalion of the 60th Regiment participated in an expedition to the Penobscot River in Maine under Gen. Sherbrooke.

During his career with the 60th Regiment, they participated in the seizure and occupation of all French Islands in the West Indies from 1803 – 1810 and the seizure of Guyana from the Dutch in 1803. The 60th also participated in the “Peninsular War” in support of Portugal against the French from 1808 – 1814, where Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, led the British Forces against Napolian.

His military record lists his marriage on 9 May 1801 by the Reverend Thomas Rees, the Rector of Kingston, Jamaica. His marriage is recorded on the Church of England register of marriages for the Parish of Kingston as James Lomax, Esquire, of St. Catherine Parish and Elizabeth Lowry of Kingston Parish. His children are listed by name, date and place of birth as follows:

James, 16 Nov 1803, Jamaica

Joseph, 4 Jun 1805, Bristol

Marsden William, 8 Feb 1808, Cape of Good Hope

John L., 6 Oct 1809, Bristol

Henry H., 3 Nov 1811, Isle of Wight 77

Anne G., 24 Jan 1813, Barbados

Church of England records for the Parish of St. Catherine lists two Lomax children born to a free Mulatto woman named Ann Mitchell. James, born 30 Sep 1798, bapt. 25 Oct 1798 and Ann Maria, born 7 Sep 1800, bapt. 9 Mar 1801. The St. Catherine records also lists Eliza, born 30 Mar 1801, bapt. 9 May 1802, daughter of James and Elizabeth Lomax. Another interesting record is that of Mary Lowry, born 16 Mar 1772, bapt. 29 Jul 1772, a Mulatto Child born out of wedlock. Rebecca Lowrey, a free negro woman aged about 25, is on the baptismal records of Kingston on 20 May 1784. It was common in Jamaica in the 17th – 19th centuries for African Women, slave, free and mulatto, to have children fathered by British men. It was also common practice for many slaves to be freed in the wills of their British Masters. People of African descent outnumbered the British by 20 to 1 in 1800 and slavery was abolished in 1834.

The marriage of James Lomax and Elizabeth Lowry, niece of Joseph Lowry, is recorded in Kingston, Jamaica on May 9, 1801. Her death is recorded at Park St. in Bristol on 12 November 1814, aged 31. Records in Bristol, England indicate that James Lomax married Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Lowry, at Bristol on 15 Jan 1817. She died at age 84 on 31 March 1835. Joseph Lowry lived in Jamaica for many years and probably knew James Lomax there. He died at age 51 on 27 Jan 1806 at 24 Park St. in Bristol and was buried 3 Feb 1806. James appears to have married Ann as his third wife, for she appears on the 1841 Bristol Census at age 65, the same age as him. Others listed are Ann Windey 30 Ind., Emma Windey 20 Ind., Elizabeth Edwards 40 F/S, Mary Bason 25 F/S, Janet Robjohn 15 F/S. James Lomax was listed in the 1844 Bristol Directory at 24 Park St. The Bristol Cathedral register lists LTG James Lomax buried 22 November 1848 aged 75.

I visited Bristol Cathedral in 2013 and saw the Monumental Inscription on the south transept wall for Joseph Lowrey, which includes information for James Lomax and both his wives named Elizabeth. Monumental Inscription in Bristol Cathedral: “Joseph Lowrey Esq. died 27 Jan 1806 aged 51. Many years inhabitant of Jamaica died Park Street. Elizabeth Lomax died 31 March 1835 aged 84, wife of Lt. Gen. James Lomax who died 14 Nov 1848 of St. Augustine’s; Elizabeth, niece, died 12 Nov 1814 aged 31 wife of Col. James Lomax (4th Bn. 60th Regt.)” 78

Marsden Hallett was the fifth child and third son of Robert and Mary Hallett. He was born on 6 August 1795 in the Parish of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. He died after 1861 in the Parish of Upper Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick and was probably buried in the Hallett burying ground (Hallett Loyalist Cemetery), although no marker has been found. Marsden purchased a 200 acre lot in the back of river lots 57 to 64 in 1831. This land does not adjoin the Hallett land grant and was probably used as a wood-lot.

He married Charity Watson 16 February 1820 at Woodstock, New Brunswick. She was born about 1806, probably at Woodstock, New Brunswick. Note: Watson is Scots ancestry.

Children of Marsden and Charity (Watson) Hallett born in the Parish of Brighton: (I attempted to identify any children or their Hallett descendants who relocated to Maine) 79

1. William, b. 28 Jan 1821, d. 5 Jan 1903 Perth, m. Miriam Rideout 22 Jul 1849. Children: a.Charles C., b. 11 Aug 1850, d. 29 Nov 1907, bur. Hallett Loyalist Cemetery, m. Clara J. Kimball. Children: 1. Elverson, b. 6 Feb 1877, d. 6 Mar 1942, bur. Hallett Cem. 2. William David, b. 26 Nov 1879, d. 19 Jan 1963, bur. Hallett Cem. b.Emily Louisa, b. c.1853, d. 6 Feb 1881, m. John W. Hallett (George, Bartlett, Moses). Children: 1.Henry Albert, b. 6 Mar 1876, d. 21 May 1923 Keswick, York Co. 2.Wellington W., b. 20 Oct 1877, d. 19 Dec 1908 2. Marsden, b. c.1826, m. Hester Ellen Hallett (cousin) 20 Aug 1859. Children: a.Albion Guy, b. 9 May 1878, d. 16 Mar 1963 Nortondale, York Co. Children: 1. Eldon G., b. 1908, d. 1975 Fredericton. Sons John and Paul 2. Earl Norman Frederick., b. 11 Feb 1918, d. 23 Nov 1984 York Co. Son Alton 3.Harry 3. Peter, b. 30 Sep 1827, d. 11 Jun 1912, bur. Hallett Loyalist Cemetery, m. Emmeline Adams 26 Jul 1862. Children: a.Cyrus W., b. 27 May 1863, d. 18 Aug 1940 Conway, NH. Children: 1. Spurge Cyrus, b. 1 Dec 1920, d. 2 Aug 1988 Center Ossipee, NH b.Obed Edom, b. 22 Jun 1866, d. 11 Mar 1934 Conway, NH. Children: 1. James Harrison, b. 1890 Albany, NH, d. 1976 Amsterdam, NY 2. John, b. 16 Apr 1894 Conway, NH, d. 19 Oct 1918 Conway, NH 3. Crosby Coleman, b. 1897 Conway, NH, d. 1983 Conway, NH 4. Peter O., b. 31 Mar 1900, d. 4 Aug 1948 Clinton, MA. Sons Allen P & John W. c.Scott Earl, b. 19 Mar 1875, d. 29 Jan 1963 Upper Brighton. Children: 1. Arnold Scott, b. 15 May 1900, d. 20 Mar 1987 Woodstock. Sons Scott L., Herbert A., John A. all had sons and remained in Canada 2. Kenneth George, b. 17 Jun 1902, d. 8 Jun 1980 3. Earl Scott, b. 31 Aug 1907 4. Donald, b. 10 Jan 1910 5. Deane Nevers, b. 28 Oct 1911, d. 27 Jul 1989 6. Wendell Eugene, b. 6 Sep 1922 7. Dalton Paul, b. 29 Sep 1924 8. Owen Ralph, b. 4 May 1929, d. 17 Jun 1992 d.Enoch Franklin, b. 6 Dec 1880, d. 13 Feb 1956 Exeter, NH, bur. Clinton, MA 1. Kenneth C., 16 Dec 1924 Clinton, MA 4. Robert, b. 1827, m. Elizabeth Bishop, lived Perth. Children: a.Asa W., b. c.1867 b.Harvey H., b. c.1869 c.Kenneth D., b. c.1877 d.Charles H., b. c.1882 5. Daniel, b. 1829, d. 1880 Perth, m. Barbara Inman. Children: a.William, b. c.1860 b.George E., b. c.1866 c.Daniel S., b. c.1868 d.John Lyman S., b. 4 Aug 1870, d. 1950 Perth, m. Alberta A. Kinney. Children: 80

1. Arnold Clarence, b. 9 Sep 1907 Perth, Victoria Co., d. 30 Jan 1990 Alexandria, VA, m. Myrtle W. of Montana. Lived in Caribou, ME at the 1940 census. e.Emory A., b. 12 Jul 1873, d. 1937 Perth. Children: 1. Cecil D.R., b. 19 Apr 1900, d. 19 Dec 1952 Woodstock f.Odbar Colby, b. 9 Jan 1876 (Twin) Kilborn, Perth g.Orrin, b. 9 Jan 1876 (Twin) Kilborn, Perth. Children: 1. Cash W., b. 3 Nov 1899, d. 1973 Perth 6. Cyrus, b. 1833 7. Elijah, b. 16 Feb 1834, m. Lucy Ann Inman, m2. Margaret J. Donnolly. See Aroostook chapter. 8. Samuel, b. 12 Apr 1839, d. 3 Dec 1914, bur. Hallett Cem., m. Elizabeth Jane Rideout. 9. Nancy Ann, b. 1840, d. 5 Jun 1896, m. George Bubar 10. * George, b. Feb 1843, d. 26 Nov 1908, m. Harriet Amelia Gray. See Aroostook chapter.

* George Hallett (1843-1908) is my direct line ancestor.

George Hallett was the tenth child and ninth son of Marsden and Charity Hallett. He married Harriet Amelia Gray (1842 - 1902) in 1867 and had seven children with her. Harriet Amelia was the 8th child of John H. Gray and Hannah Shaw. George and Amelia will be covered in the Aroostook Chapter.

At the 1851 census of Simonds Parish, the Gray family was listed as follows:

John H. Grey, 52, Native, Farmer and Miller Hannah (Shaw) Gray, 46, Native Sarah J., 23 Eliza A., 21 Francis K, 19 (F) James R., 17 Daniel B., 15 Susannah C., 13 John C., 10 Harriet A., 8 Margaret A., 5

Notes: John Gray got 200 acres in Andover on Feb 17, 1837

Grain Bounty List: Marsden Hallet, 1821 Reder Gray, 1820 William Gray, 1819 81

At the 1861 Census for Brighton, George Hallett and Samuel Hallett were living with their older brother, William Hallett.

At the 1861 Census for Perth, Elijah Hallett and Daniel Hallett were living with their Uncle William Hallett.

At the 1871 Census for Brighton, the George Hallett family was listed separately: George Hallett, 28, FCBapt, Eng, Farmer Harriet Hallett, 28, Advent, Irish Victoria, 2, FCBapt, Eng John H.D., 8/12, FCBapt, Eng

Other Halletts who came to New Brunswick after the American Revolution.

Our Ancestor, Robert Hallett (1759-1838), was probably recruited for the Loyalist Forces by his Uncle Samuel Hallett (abt.1730-1796). Samuel was the 6th son of Joseph and Lydia (Blackwell) Hallett (1678-1750) and the only known 4th generation active Hallett Loyalist. Samuel brought his entire family with him to New Brunswick in November 1783 with the losing Loyalist forces and settled in St. John. According to a Hallett researcher who is a descendant of Samuel’s son, Daniel, none of that family came to Aroostook County during the migration period of 1842- 1900. Samuel had five children with his first wife and five more with his second wife, Elizabeth Lamb. Children:

1. Joseph 2. Daniel, b. c. 1751, d. 1828, m. Martha (Moore?) 3. Samuel, b. c. 1767, d. 1826, m. Sarah Cougle 4. Susanna, m. 27 May 1773 Isaac Bragaw 5. Jemima, m. 27 May 1780 David Moore 6. Elizabeth, m. Mr. Seaman, m2. James Moore 7. Lydia, m. 31 Aug 1783 Capt. William Dawson 8. Jane, m. William Whitlock 9. Sarah, m. 13 Sep 1792 Timothy Roach 10. Catherine, m. John Sinnott

Moses Hallett, first cousin of Robert, also brought his family to New Brunswick at that time and settled at Bear Island, just upriver from Frederickton. One of Moses’s sons married one of Robert’s daughters. His grandson, Bartlett L. Hallett, came over to Aroostook County in 1860 and got land at Ashland, later relocating to Houlton. Moses had four children with his wife, Elizabeth McConnell. Children: 82

1. Bartlett, b. c. 1787, d. 1857, m. Lydia Hallett 2. Nancy Ann, bapt. 8 Nov 1790, never married 3. Josiah, b.c. 1792, m. Jane Atherton 4. Mary, m. 3 Feb 1806 Andrew Kearney

Another Hell Gate Hallett went to New Brunswick soon after 1790 to join his father-in-law’s family on their land grant at Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. His name was David Hallett of Hell Gate, who married Elizabeth Gedney of Newtown in Jamaica, Long Island on 19 June 1783. She was the daughter of Joshua Gedney and Margaret Dean. David Hallett was a probable grandson of Joseph Hallett (1678-1750) and son of Richard, William or James. His grandson, David William Hallett, came to Bridgewater, Maine about 1854 and owned a house at Blaine in 1884. David William’s brother, Joshua Gedney Hallett, joined him at Bridgewater about 1860, where he and some of his descendants are buried at Smith Cemetery.

At the 1851 Canadian Census there were 113 Halletts listed in New Brunswick, including children.

Note: Reverend William O. Raymond wrote several columns concerning The Loyalists for the Woodstock Dispatch in 1894-1896.

Chapter 7 Aroostook

George and Harriet Amelia Hallett left New Brunswick and, according to the 1880 census, immigrated into the United States in 1880 after George Shepherd was born. However, they must have settled in Mars Hill by 1879 before Manzer was born. Shep was still living in Mars Hill where he is listed as a resident alien on the 1940 census. Manzer was a native born citizen of the United States of America. Neither George nor Amelia or any of their children born in Canada ever became naturalized U.S. citizens.

Amelia’s brother, John C. Gray with wife Easter (Esther), immigrated during the same time frame. Several of George’s older brother Elijah’s eleven children also settled in Mars Hill, Bridgewater and Ashland. Elijah got a land grant farm in Perth, Victoria County, NB in 1870 and remained in New Brunswick, where he lived until his last years. He came to live with one of his sons in Mars Hill at the end of his life, but was buried at Andover, NB beside his second wife.

Several other relatives and neighbors from the area of New Brunswick adjacent to Aroostook County immigrated to the United States of America during that time-frame to take advantage of land opportunities beginning in 1842 and ending before 1900. Early land records do not indicate that George Hallett received a land grant or purchased any land in Aroostook County. The land records do show, however, that their sons, Frank and Shep, purchased a farm in Mars Hill from Vinal B. Wilson on a bond dated 1900. The 1900 census record lists George and Amelia were living with them at the end of their lives. There were lots of Halletts in Aroostook County from the time of immigration through the next three generations.

George Hallett was born in February 1843 in the Parish of Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. He died 26 November 1908 at his home in Mars Hill, Maine and was buried at Kings Grove Cemetery. According to available documents, he married Harriet Amelia Gray before 1868. She was born in February 1842 in the Parish of Simonds, Carleton County, New Brunswick of Irish descent and died 12 November 1902 at her home in Mars Hill, Maine. She was buried alongside George in the Kings Grove Cemetery.

Children of George (1843-1908) and Harriet Amelia (1842-1902) (Gray) Hallett born in New Brunswick:

1. Victoria, b. 11 Aug 1868, d. 5 Apr 1939, m. John A. McPherson. Both lived and died in Mars Hill. Their six children were: a. Delbert, b. 24 Apr 1892 Benezette, PA, d. 17 Dec 1953 Pittsfield, ME b. Viola B., b. 26 Jul 1894, d. 27 Oct 1910 c. Hilda, b. 29 Feb 1896 Blaine, d. 17 Jul 1935 Houlton, m. Mr. Miller d. Frieda, b. 20 Jun 1898 Bridgewater, m. Mr. Noble e. Lottie, b. 28 Mar 1901 Mars Hill, m. Mr. Banks f. Robert, b. 16 Feb 1903 Mars Hill

2. * John Henry, b. 30 Jul 1870, d. 30 Aug 1944, m. Emma Pearl DeLong. See below.

3. Frank Scott, b. 22 Oct 1873, d. 5 Aug 1938, m. Bertha B. Larrabee. Both lived and died in Mars Hill. All, except the last, of their children were born in Mars Hill. a. Alice Amelia, b. 2 May 1906, d. Feb 1974 at Westfield, m. 10 Dec 1926 Murray W. Lawrence b. Amy May, b. 6 Jul 1907, d. 27 Feb 1996, Kings Grove, m. Henry P. Shaw in 1926 c. George William (Bun), b. 17 Mar 1909, bur. Mars hill, Kings Grove d. Grace Mildred, b. 19 Jul 1911, d. 15 Jun 1993 P.I., bur. Easton, m. Elmer (Fish) Collins in 1935. Fish Collins worked for Hallie Nightingale on his potato farm on the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill. Grandson Terry Connolly has put together an extensive family history project available on Ancestry. e. Araminta Augusta, b. 24 Aug 1913, bur. Kings Grove, m. Lawrence Blanchard f. Faye Alena, b. 9 Sep 1915, d. 19 Oct 1999 Mars Hill, Kings Gr., m. Gerald Jones g. Anita (Neta) Jennie, b. 16 May 1919, m. Philip R. Flannery in 1938; Mars Hill h. Frank Scott (Bud), Jr., b. 31 July 1921, Monticello, WWII Veteran, TEC5 US Army, d. 11 April 1998, bur. Kings Grove; m. Martha E., b. 15 Apr 1921. Son Frank graduated CAHS 1967, married Pam, both educators in Presque Isle. Note: Earl B. Hallett, b. Feb. 1895 is listed as a Nephew of George on the 1900 census. This is probable son of Frank with Hilda Everett, m. d. bef.1900.

4. George Shepherd, b. 6 Apr 1875, d. 27 Jan 1944, m. Margaret Ann Corey (1885- 1939); both buried Kings Grove. They lived and died in Mars Hill, where all their children were born. At the 1940 census Shep is listed as a resident alien and worked in a potato house living with daughter Mildred along with his 3 youngest sons. a. George Amos,b. 3 May 1903, d. 4 Aug 1959, m. May ? b. Martha (Mattie) Amelia, b. 27 Jul 1905, m. Frank Meszancella c. Esther Pearl, b. 8 Jun 1907, m. Kilburn Kinney in 1927 d. Suzanne, b. 4 Feb 1908, d. 6 Jul 1918 of meningitis e. Violet May, b. 5 Jun 1910, m. Mr. McCarron, m2. Mr. Fillbrick f. Mildred Opal, b. 3 Feb 1915, d. 22 Mar 1998 Mars Hill, m. Harold M. Irvine g. Marguerite, b. 27 Sep 1917, d. 29 Mar 1919 h. William, b. 28 Mar 1918 i. Lawrence Earl, b. 3 May 1921, d. 7 Mar 1999 Rhode Island j. Robert Ralph, b. 12 Jul 1927

Children of George and Amelia (Gray) Hallett born in Maine:

5. Manzer, b. 27 Jul 1879, d. Jan 1952 Longview, WA, bur. Castle Rock, m. Catherine Ione (Homan) Lindsay at Chehalis, Washington in 1914. She was a widow with one daughter named Alice Ruth Lindsey, b. 9 May 1909, m. Preston Elroy Mael of Raymond, WA. Manzer ventured west after his sister, Esther.

6. Esther May, b. 11 Feb 1881, d. 6 Nov 1952 Tenino, WA, bur. Mt. View, Centralia, WA, m. Amos Elmer Stitham at St. John, New Brunswick in 1899. He was from Machias, Maine. They relocated to Seattle, Washington in 1903. Their children were: 85

a. Gladys Beatrice Stitham, b. 14 Nov 1899 Mars Hill, d. 7 Jan 1991, bur. Mt. View Cemetery, Centralia, WA, m. 3 Jul 1918 Oliver Floyd Miller, Olympia, WA b. Agnes Amelia Stitham, b. 7 Jan 1903 Littleton, Maine, d. 19 Aug 1989 m. Clifford W. Schincke, Olympia, WA c. George Edward Stitham, b. 19 Aug 1905 WA, d. 11 Jun 1981, bur. Mt. View Cemetery, Cenralia, WA, m. 11 Jun 1927 Mary Lillian Petersen, Olympia, WA

7. William H., b. 31 Jul 1883, d. 18 Nov 1963, m. Inez Corey in Carleton County, New Brunswick in 1908. At the 1940 census he worked in a potato house. They lived and died in Mars Hill. Their children were: a. Infant daughter, d. 23 Mar 1910 in Mars Hill b. Pauline, b. 16 Apr 1916, m. Roland Provincher, Rumford, ME, 8 Children

* John Henry Hallett (1870-1944) is my direct line ancestor.

Several of George’s older brother, Elijah’s, eleven children settled in Mars Hill, Bridgewater and Ashland. Elijah Hallett got a 98 acre farm land grant in 1870 at Perth, Victoria County, New Brunswick, after living with his older brother, Daniel, there. It appears that Elijah continued to live there until his last years, coming to live with one of his sons in Mars Hill at the end of his life. Elijah had six children with his first wife, Lucy Inman and five more with his second wife, Margaret Donnolly, who he was buried beside in Perth, N.B. Children:

1. (Stephen) Whitfield B., b. Jul 1865, m. Edwina McQuarrie, lived in Ashland. Children: a. Milton B.,b. 1894, WWI Veteran b. Raymond G.,b. 1899, WWI Veteran 2. Richard I., b.c. 1867 3. Benjamin, b. 1872; lived with Whitfield in Ashland at the 1910 census. 4. Harold, b. 9 Apr 1873, d. 30 Sep 1901 Bridgewater, m. Emma Ross. Children: a.Beatrice E. b. 1895 b.Henry W.. b. 1884. Henry lived in Houlton and had two sons, Hollis S. b. 1924 WWII Veteran, and Alton F. b. 1926. Hollis is probable father of Earl Hallett of Bangor. 5. Hallett daughter, d. age 13 6. Elijah, b.c. 1874, m. Margaret Lovely 7. George David, b. 4 Dec 1877, d. 25 Feb 1957 8. William Henry F., b. 20 May 1879, d. 29 Oct 1941, m. Lillian A. McCrum at Mars Hill. William became a naturalized citizen. Children: a.Clarence E., b. 1916 b.Ellen O., b. 1918 9. James Hanford, b. 30 Jan 1882, m. Lillian Johanna Schmidt. Children: a.Harold Leland in Wisconsin 10. Percy Murphy., b. 2 Apr 1884, d. 10 Mar 1926 Mars Hill, m. Maybelle MacPherson (1885-1959). At the 1940 census son Lawrence, Jr. with wife Frances N. and children Marilyn J. and Richard P. were living with Maybelle. Children: 86

a.Ida, twins b.Lester, b. 5 Sep 1907 (twin) d. 12 May 1991, m. Doris c.Lawrence, b. 5 Sep 1907 (twin) m. Frances N. Lester and Lawrence both had farms on the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill. Richard Percy Hallett of Mars Hill is son of Lawrence (Red) Hallett. He married Carolyn A. Crichton on 20 July 1956. 11. Samuel Roy, b. 12 Nov 1893, lived in Mars Hill area

John Henry Hallett was born 30 July 1870 in the Parish of Upper Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, the second child and oldest son of George and Amelia Hallett. He immigrated into the United States at Mars Hill, Maine with his Father, George, Mother, Amelia and family by 1879. He grew up working on farms and later became a farmer himself. John Henry married Emma Pearl Delong on 1 January 1902 at Tracy Mills, New Brunswick. Neither John nor Emma became U.S. citizens. They are listed as resident aliens on the 1940 census.

Emma Pearl shared a similar family history with that of the Halletts, except that her roots can be traced to her Dutch ancestors rather than English. Her ancestors were among the first to settle up-state New York (New Netherland) in the vicinity of Albany, then known as Beverwyck, and later re-located to New Brunswick, Canada after the American Revolution in 1783.

Emma Pearl Delong was born 19 May 1886, the 12th of 14 children to John Strange DeLong and Rebecca Jane Tibbets at Lansdowne, Parish of Peel, Carleton County, New Brunswick and came to Bridgewater, Maine with her family in 1894. Her mother, Rebecca and grandmother, Cornelia Burton (MacDonald) DeLong, were both of Scottish descent. After her mother’s death in 1898, she and her two younger brothers moved in with her older brother John Hanford DeLong and his family on the Bootfoot Road in Bridgewater. The surviving farmhouse and 18 acres were purchased by the Micmac Indians in 2003. Her father relocated to work in a Madison mill with his two oldest sons, later returning to Island Falls, where he died in 1913. He may have known my Maternal Grandfather, William Elmer Brooks, who worked at the Hollingsworth & Whitney Mill in Madison then. 87

John Henry and Emma Pearl spent their early years together on the Snow Settlement Road in Bridgewater, where all thirteen children were born. Two infant children died and were probably buried in a John DeLong plot at the Smith Cemetery. John Henry farmed and Emma Pearl took care of the house and family. Bridgewater got its name from the Bridgewater Academy Grant established in 1803 to support education in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Land was sold to settlers starting in 1827 with the first settler, Nathaniel Bradstreet, building a mill on the Prestile Stream in 1829. There were only ten households at the 1837 Maine Census before settlement began to increase after the 1842 border agreement between the US and Canada. Bridgewater became an incorporated town in 1858 with a population of 605 at the 1870 census. It reached a high of about 1300 in the 1950’s and was back down to 612 at the 2000 census.

In 1930 John Henry was bequeathed a house in Mars Hill belonging to his Aunt Esther Gray on his Mother’s side of the family. He and Emma took care of Aunt Eas at the end of her life. This Hallett family house can still be seen on the East Ridge Road in the area called Kings Grove. It is directly across the road from the Orser family house now owned by Barbara Howlett, great- granddaughter of John Henry and Emma Pearl Hallett.

The Hallett family home did not have plumbing or electricity at the time they lived there. Water was fetched from a nearby well and the outhouse was out beside the barn. Food came from a large garden tended by John Henry and the occasional pigs and chickens that were butchered by him. Vegetables were kept through the winter in a root cellar under the house. Large family gatherings were common for Sunday dinner at the Hallett or DeLong Homestead. John Henry died at home on 30 August 1944 and was buried at Kings Grove Cemetery, where both his parents (George and Amelia Hallett) were buried alongside Esther and John Gray. 88

Emma Pearl refused to set foot in the family home after John Henry died and sold it soon after. She kept house for Bob and Herman’s family when they first came to Bangor and spent the remainder of her life living with her children. Her grandchildren benefited from her excellent cooking, baking and nursing skills. She was the perfect example of a strong woman with impeccable values, who read the bible every day and did not drink, smoke nor swear. She died singing a hymn 22 December 1972 in Bangor and was buried alongside John Henry at Kings Grove Cemetery in Mars Hill, where many Hallett family members have been laid to rest.

Hallett Family House, 56 East Ridge Road, Mars Hill, Maine. The East Ridge Road continues east to the Canadian Border, just beyond Mars Hill Mountain.

Children of John Henry and Emma Pearl (DeLong) Hallett born at Bridgewater, Maine:

1. Sadie Amber Hallett, b. 29 Nov 1902, d. 25 Aug 1989, m. Perley Cuthbert Goodall, Oakfield, 22 Jul 1931. Perley d. 3 Jan 1969. Both buried Oakfield. Sadie graduated from Aroostook State Teachers College, now UMPI, and taught for several years before her marriage. She was the most educated sibling in her family and helped her Mother a great deal. Perley worked for the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. They lived their entire married lives in their house in Oakfield. Children:

A. Floyd Perley Goodall, b. 28 Feb 1932, USAF Vet., m. Dianna Burpa Baker, Las Vegas, NV. Children: 1. Joyce Baker 2. Loma Grace Goodall

B. Carroll Avon Goodall, b. 30 Apr 1933, d. 22 Aug 1998, USAF Ret., m. Betsy Ann Jeffery, b. 11 Dec 1933 in England, in 1953, Las Vegas, NV. Children: 1. Dianne Rosemary Goodall 2. Steven Jeffery Goodall 3. George Perley Goodall 4. Alan Glen Goodall 5. Michael James Goodall

C. Merrill Faye Goodall, b. 28 Jul 1934, d. 4 Jun 1995, USAF Ret., bur. Oakfield Cemetery, m. Mildred Louise Murray, b. 8 Mar 1939. Millie m2. Clayton Gagnon. Children: 1. Merrill Daniel Goodall 2. Brian Douglas Goodall 3. Tammy Denise Goodall 4. Keith Wayne Goodall

D. Elaine Iris Goodall, aka Teresa Bella Dawn, b. 19 Jul 1938, m. Arthur Leigh Carver, Jr. 1967, Divorced, No children. Oakfield.

E. Ardeen Pearl Goodall, b. 11 Apr 1940, m. John Edward Folsom, Houlton, b. 3 Mar 1945. Adopted Children: 1. Gregory David Folsom 2. Timothy Patrick Folsom

2. Burrell Cecil Hallett, b. 18 May 1905, d. 20 Oct 1969, m. Dorothy M. Shaw at Presque Isle, b. 10 Jul 1910, d. 22 Mar 2003, both buried Kings Grove. Burrell and Dorothy owned and operated a potato farm on the Reach Road in Presque Isle until his death. Children:

A. Cecil Merle Hallett, b. 31 Aug 1928, d. 5 Nov 1993, Korean War Vet., SSGT USAF, m. Carolyn A. (Henderson, Long) at Presque Isle, b. 14 May 1937, d. 20 Mar 2001. Both buried at Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle. Children: 1. Terry Long 2. Chris Long 3. Bruce Hallett

B. John K. Hallett, b. 6 April 1930, m. Juanita Crandall 26 Jul 1952 at Presque Isle, Divorced. Live Portland, ME. Children: 1. Michael Hallett 2. Jeffrey Hallett 3. Lisa Hallett 90

C. Patty Hallett, b. 1932, d. 1934

D. Paul Hallett, b. 30 Jan 1947 at Presque Isle; m. Charlotte Splan at Island Falls, Live Gorham, ME. Child: 1. Stacy Leigh Hallett

3. Garfield Hallett, b. 20 Aug 1906, d. 28 Oct 1906, buried Smith Cemetery Lot 155 in Bridgewater.

4. Ralph William Hallett, b. 18 Feb 1908, d. 20 Jan 1989, m. Florence Catherine Adams at Presque Isle 31 Mar 1927, b. 18 Mar 1910 d. 5 Aug 1992, both buried Kings Grove, Mars Hill. Ralph and Florence operated potato farms most of their early years. Ralph later worked at the State Prison Farm in Warren, where he retired. Ralph and Florence lived in Bangor at the end of their lives. Children:

A. Avis Pauline Hallett, b. 4 Oct 1927 Bridgewater, d. 30 Jul 1997, m. Guy Garfield Miller, b. 29 Jan 1927 Mars Hill, d. 14 Nov 1996, Both buried Forest Hill Cemetery, Dresden, ME. Children: 1. Trudy Miller 2. Kathy L. Miller 3. Cindy M. Miller 4. Gary J. Miller 5. Vicki L. Miller 6. Nancy L. Miller

B. Ralph William Hallett, Jr., b. 20 Dec 1928 Blaine, d. 2 May 2001 S. Portland, WWII Vet., m. Rita T. Letourneau 28 Jun 1952, b. 20 Jan 1930, d. 4 Aug 2004 S. Portland. Both buried at Brooklawn Memorial Park. Children: 1. Lynn Hallett 2. Ralph William,III Hallett

C. Richard Carroll Hallett, b. 3 Jan 1931 Presque Isle, d. 30 Jul 1973, bur. Woodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, NH, m. Joan Betty Howells 26 Aug 1955 at Bangor, b. 8 Oct 1932, d. Oct 1966 at Nashua, bur. Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor, ME; m2. Doris (Lafleur) (Hallett) Dumais at Nashua 14 Sep 1968. Children: 1. Cheryl Susan Hallett 2. Laurel Ann Hallett 3. Steven Ralph Hallett 4. Tracey Lee Hallett, w/Doris Lafluer 91

D. Donald Robert Hallett, b. 12 May 1934 Presque Isle. Live Portland, ME.

E. Terry Gaylor Hallett, b. 26 Jul 1939 Presque Isle, d. 27 Jul 2014 Scarborough, bur. Kings Grove Cemetery, Mars Hill, m. Minnie Helen Maria Weaver (Tiny) at Presque Isle 15 Aug 1959, b. 11 Jan 1944, d. 2 Oct 1989, buried Fairmount Cemetery Presque Isle; m2. Cynthia Bruns. Children: 1. Ronda Lynn Hallett 2. Rene Leigh Hallett

5. Virgie Amelia Hallett, b. 15 Feb 1910, d. 6 Nov 1988, m. Blake William Orser, Mars Hill on 24 Dec 1929, b. 9 Jan 1905, d. 6 Nov 1994. Both buried Kings Grove. Virgie and Blake lived their entire life together across the street from the John Henry & Emma Pearl Hallett House, the same neighborhood they grew up in, on the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill. Child:

A. Betty Jane Orser, b. 18 May 1930, d. 17 May 2001 at Mars Hill, m. Harold Wendell Howlett at Mars Hill, b. 16 Jun 1930, d. 14 Dec 2010. Both buried Kings Grove. They lived next door to Mom & Dad. Children: 1. Peter Howlett 2. Muriel Diana Howlett 3. Bonnie Howlett 4. Paul David Howlett 5. Deborah Jean Howlett 6. Barbara Susan Howlett

6. Dorothy Pearl Hallett, b. 11 Aug 1911, d. 17 Jan 1967, Sun Valley, California, m. Albert William Spurgeon Smith of Prince Edward Island, Canada; m2. John Stanley Dyer, b. 9 Jul 1914, on 8 Jun 1941. Dorothy and Stanley lived their early years together in New Hampshire before moving to California. Child:

A. Merline Jessie (Hallett) Dyer, b. 21 Jan 1931(birth father Patrick Cody) at Presque Isle, Adopted by Stanley Dyer, m. 11 Jun 1951 Wallace Everton “Red” Brill at San Antonio, Texas. Live Northridge, CA. Children: 1. Michael W. Brill 2. Mark Kevin Brill 3. Dena Lee Brill 4. Mitchell Glenn Brill

7. Robert Lester Hallett, b. 5 Mar 1913, d. 20 Nov 1997 at Brewer, m. Minnie M. Sabine of Hudson, Maine on 7 June 1940, b. 18 Feb 1923. At the 1940 census Bob was living with his 92 sister Phyllis Nightingale and Minnie Sabine is listed as a maid in the Nightingale household. They divorced in 1950. Bob was the State of Maine and International Potato Picking Champion in 1937 and 1938. He and some of his brothers took jobs as carpenters with Bath Iron Works during WWII. After the war, he continued his carpentry career in Brewer. Bob and Betty lived next to brother John and Villa in Bradley at the end of their lives. Children:

A. Adrian Leroy Hallett, b. 21 May 1942, d. 22 Apr 2006 at Winterport, m. Paulette M. Emerson in Sep 1961 at Bangor; m2. Celeste Ames in 1968; r3. Elizabeth “Betty” Muenster; m3. Dianne Thorn. Children: 1. Randolph Gary Hallett 2. Karen Jean Hallett 3. Michelle Hallett 4. Gary Daniel Hallett, w/Celeste Ames 5. Maya Jade Hallett, w/Betty Muenster 6. Walter Hallett, adopted w/Dianne Thorn 7. Daniel Hallett, w/Dianne Thorn

B. Gary Robert Hallett, b. 27 June 1944, m. Lorraine DeGrass in 1964 at Brewer.,m2. Susan in 1972; m3. Christine Cochron in 1975. Live Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Children: 1. Janie Elizabeth Hallett 2. Judith Louise Hallett 3. Mandy Lynn Hallett, w/Susan 4. Jennifer Michele Hallett, w/Christine Cochron 5. Jace Eugene Hallett, w/Christine Cochron

C. Judy Pearl Hallett, b. 17 Apr 1947, m. ? Browning; m2. Mr. Adams. Child:

1. Thomas Jay Browning m2. Elizabeth (Graves) Robertson on 30 June 1956 in Brewer, Maine, b. 7 Apr 1914, d. 24 Apr 2003 at Brewer. Robert adopted her Children:

D. Ellen Mae Hallett, b. 13 Sep 1947, m. Robert Bowley on 29 Sep 1967 at Brewer.

1. Dawn Louise Bowley

E. Ronald Wayne Hallett, b. 13 Feb 1949, m. Kathy Gray at Plymouth in 1974.

m2. Deborah Singer at Lynn, MA on 1 Jul 1990.

1. Jessica Hallett

8. Elmer Merle Hallett, b. 16 Jun 1915, d. 7 Nov 1987 at Parsons, KS, bur. East Bethany Cemetery, m. Ida R. Hawksley at Mars Hill 24 Mar 1934. Ida moved to Parsons, Kansas and was buried at the East Bethany Cemetery. Elmer and Ida lived most of their early years together in Mars Hill. He married second Lillian E. Boulier, b. 29 Jan 1911, d. 26 Jan 1984, bur. Kings Grove. Elmer overcame childhood learning disabilities and worked as a heating technician. He lived with his children in Kansas at the end of his life. Children all born at Mars Hill:

A. Duane R. Hallett, b. 7 Jan 1935, m. Hazel Fogg, m2. Martha J.; St. Paul, KS. Children: 1. Jean 2. Nancy 3. Teresa 4. Vicki

B. Lois M. Hallett, b. 15 Jun 1936, m. David J. Cook; m2. William Copeland, 20 Oct 1996, Parsons, KS; Children: 1. David J. Cook, Jr. 2. Kathy 3. Pamela 4. Cheryl 5. Kimberly 6. Scott

C. Dale A. Hallett, b. 22 Nov 1937, m.Vera A. Hardaway, 6 Jul 1964, Goodlettsville,TN. Children adopted from Vera’s first marriage: 1. Evelyn 2. Belinda

9. Phyllis Madeline Hallett, b. 26 Dec 1916, d. 15 Aug 2009 Vero Beach, m. Wallie P. Wilson in 1935 at Mars Hill, m2. Harold S. Nightingale on 29 Apr 1939 at Bridgewater, b. 9 Mar 1902, d. 6 Dec 1982 at St. Petersburg, Florida. Phyllis and Hallie operated farms for the Nightingale family business early in their life together. They moved to St. Petersburg, Florida at Hallie’s retirement. Both interred at Kings Grove in Mars Hill. Phyllis owned and operated a beauty parlor for several years in St. Petersburg. Children:

A. Hallie Ronald Nightingale, b. 2 Aug 1939 Mars Hill, m. Nancy Ellen Koker 16 September 1961 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Live Vero Beach, FL. Children: 1. Ronald Scott Nightingale 2. Cynthia Rene Nightingale 3. Jason Todd Nightingale

B. Jay Evan Nightingale, b. 6 Aug 1951 Concord, N.H., m. Elizabeth Mendoza Dela Cruz of the Phillipines on 4 Sep 1995 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

m3. Ottie Andrews, m.17 Jul 1983; m4. Wallie P. Wilson, b. 24 Jul 1910, d. 26 Dec 2003 Mars Hill, m. 19 Oct 1991.

10. John Louis Hallett, b. 30 Jun 1919, d. 10 Feb 1999 at Bradley, buried Birch Grove Cemetery in Glenburn, m. Ella Ethel Francis Souther, later m2. Stickney, of Mars Hill, b. 30 Mar 1921, d. 4 Mar 1977. John was a career carpenter and worked for the University of Maine when he retired. John and Villa lived next to brother Bob and Betty in Bradley at the end of their lives. Children:

A. Laurel Ann Hallett, b. 22 Jul 1939, m. George Edward Hardgrove, Sr. at Mars Hill;

m2. Howard Alva Treadwell, Sr. at Brewer, b. 28 Aug 1936, d. 11 Oct 2003, Bangor. Live Old Town, ME. Children: 1. George Edward Hardgrove, Jr. 2. John Howard Treadwell 3. Patti Lynn Treadwell 4. Lori Ann Treadwell 5. Howard Alva Treadwell, Jr. 6. Ann Marie Treadwell

B. Joan Marie Hallett, b. 8 Sep 1940, m. James Henry White, b. 3 Oct 1934 at Brewer on 3 Sep 1960. Live Eddington, ME. Children: 1. Stephen John White 2. Roger Wayne White 3. Lynn Marie White, twin 4. Lisa Marie White, twin

C. Larry Wayne Hallett, b. 8 Oct 1942, d. 3 Nov 2008, m. Elaine E. Emerson, b. 23 May 1943 of Bangor on 16 June 1962; buried Birch Grove Cemetery, Glenburn, ME. Children: 1. Larry Wayne Hallett, Jr. 2. Debby Lee Hallett 3. Rodney Kevin Hallett

D. Roger Lewis Hallett, b. 28 Mar 1944, m. Janice Lee Boyd, b. 27 Apr 1942 Waterbury, CT, m. 6 Feb 1965 at Mars Hill. Live Murrell Inlet, SC. Child: 1. Catherine Ann Hallett

m2. Villa Martin, b. 10 Jan 1915 Glassville, NB, Canada, d. 8 July 2009, bur. NB.

11. Perley Arnold Hallett, b. 9 Oct 1922, d. 23 Jul 1946, bur. Kings Grove, Mars Hill, m. Hilda Josephine Hay at Mars Hill 26 Apr 1943, b. 1915 Bath, d. 3 Oct 1962 Presque Isle. Perley worked on farms and died of a heart attack at a young age. Child:

A. Perlee Dianne Hallett, b. 20 Jul 1946, m. Charles J. Geier, Croydon, PA.

12. Herman Ellery Hallett, b. 23 May 1925, WWII Vet., m. Beverly Louise Brooks of Mars Hill on 16 Jun 1951, b. 17 Feb 1929. Herman served as a Navy Armed Guard on merchant ships in the Atlantic and Pacific during WWII. After the war he followed his brothers, Bob and John in the carpentry trade. He worked for Owen Gray & Sons, known for custom cabinetry and finish carpentry, in Brewer from 1953 and worked with the 4th generation of this company at his final retirement at age 84. Herman and Bev still live in their first house purchased in Hermon in 1964. Children:

A. William Cecil Hallett, b. 25 Sep 1949 at Brookline, MA, Vietnam Vet., Retired US Army 1991, Retired International Paper 2001, m. Kathryn Ann Poremba 27 Jan 1973 Orono, ME; m2. Jean Susan Thomas 9 Jan 2000 Hermon, ME. Live Titusville, FL. Children: 1. Cristin Danielle Robinson, w/r1. Donna Lynn Smith 2. William Cecil Hallett, Jr. 3. Lauren Brooks Hallett

B. Kimberly Louise Hallett, b. 22 Mar 1962 at Bangor, m. Dennis E. Demmons, Jr., Hermon on 18 Dec 1982. Live Bangor, ME. Children: 1. Kasey Louise Demmons 2. Jody Lorraine Demmons

13.Paul Franklin Hallett, b. 10 Mar 1927, d. 10 Mar 1927, buried Smith Cemetery Lot 155 in Bridgewater. Lot 155 is about 10 rows from the front on the right (south) side. Same row of William H. McBurnie Monument close to treeline.

Kings Grove Cemetery off the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill, Maine.

Other Halletts in Aroostook County:

Frederick Ruel Hallett (Frederick, Moses, Joseph, Robert) born 3 September 1891, married Sophia Clark on 27 May 1917 at the Township of Perham. He was a descendant of our Robert Hallett of Upper Brighton, New Brunswick and probably came over to Aroostook County with his father about 1900. He later settled in the Howland area where his son, Frederick Ruel Hallett, Jr. was born on 28 April 1928. Frederick, Jr., the youngest of 11 children, never knew his father, who died on 15 September 1927. Frederick, Jr’s mother, Sophie, then married Joseph James Michaud and the two families were joined. Fred, Jr. joined the Army on 30 January 1946 and served in Germany. Frederick, Jr. married Georgia Burgoyne on 28 January 1950 at Howland and went on to become known as the door and window man in Central Maine after starting the “Fred Hallett Doors & Windows” business in 1969. Fred died on 12 May 2010 at his home in Penobscot and was buried at St. Matthews Cemetery in West Enfield. I had the pleasure to meet Fred on the golf course while playing in the Paul Bunyan Tournament at Rockland Golf Club in 1995.

Bartlett Lawrence Hallett was born on land at Bear Island, New Brunswick granted to his grandfather Moses (1731-1823) who came to New Brunswick along with the other Long Island Halletts descended from Joseph Hallett (1678-1750). His father, Bartlett, Sr., married Lydia Hallett in 1809. She was the second daughter of Robert and Mary Hallett. Their children then represented both branches of these two Hallett families. Bartlett L. Hallett was the 14th of 15 children. He went to Ashland, Maine to work and married Augusta M. Mosher from Farmington in 1856. At the 1860 Ashland census he is listed with wife Augusta, son John and daughter Florence. Bartlett got land in Ashland in 1863. He is listed with wife Augusta, daughter Hannah and son Eugene at the 1871 Census of New Brunswick, living in Douglas, Fredericton, York County. He is listed as a carpenter with wife Augusta at the 1900 Houlton census. Daughter Hannah E., b. 1869 at Douglas, NB, married Hanford Knox from Upper Hainesville, NB on 30 Sep 1896 at Houlton. Hanford Knox’s mother was Margaret Hallett (George, Bartlett, Moses). Bartlett lived with daughter Gertrude L. Turner at the 1910 census. Children:

1. John Alton, b. 10 Aug 1857 Ashland, ME, d. 29 Jan 1934, m. Jane in 1880 in NB, lived in Houlton, ME by 1900 census, m2. Alice R. on 5 Jul 1928 at Houlton. Children with Jane: a. Harry Wilford, b. 27 Jul 1883 Fredericton, NB, d. Dec 1984, m. Sadie G., m2. Sarah E. Gray. Lived in Houlton, ME. b. Loren F., b. 14 Jul 1888 Fredericton, NB, d. 22 Jan 1952 Houlton, m. Amy M. Page 12 Sep 1907. Son Lisle F., b. 27 Dec 1908, d. 14 May 1999, m. Rena A., lived in Houlton, ME. 2. Florence, b. c.1860 Ashland, ME. 3. Hannah E., b. c.1869 Douglas, NB, m. Hanford Knox 30 Sep 1896 Houlton 4. Eugene B., b. c.1871 5. Willie K., b. c.1873 6. Gertrude L., b. c.1876 NB, Immigrated about 1891, m. John Turner and lived in 99

Houlton at the 1910 census.

Greely (Budd) Hallett (Josiah, George, Bartlett, Moses) came to Presque Isle after WWI. He was also descended from Moses Hallett (1731-1823) of Bear Island, Queensbury Parish, York County, New Brunswick. Budd was born July 7, 1893 at Millville, son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Jones) Hallett. Budd enlisted with his brother Arden in 1914 and went overseas with the Canadian Forces during WWI. After coming to Maine, he worked for the Aroostook Valley Railway and was the General Manager when he retired. He died in 1962 in Presque Isle, Maine. He had four children with his wife, Stella Anderson of Benton, Carleton County, NB. Children: Constance, b. 1920; William, b. 1921, m. R. Stefanee, had two children: William and Barbara; Carleton, b. 1923; Jean, b. 1925. All children were living in the U.S. in 1974.

David Hallett (1808 - ) got a Williams College Grant at Blaine before 1850. His son David William Hallett got a grant at #8 R5 before 1850 and owned a house in Blaine in 1884. David William’s brother, Joshua Gedney Hallett, joined him in the adjoining Town of Bridgewater about 1860, where he and some of his descendants are buried at Smith Cemetery. These Halletts were grandsons of David Hallett and Elizabeth Gedney who came to New Brunswick from Long Island, New York about 1790 to settle with her Father, Joshua, on Colonel William Spray’s Grant at Waterborough, Queens County, New Brunswick. David Hallett was a probable grandson of Joseph Hallett (1678-1750), as were all the other Halletts who came to New Brunswick after the War for American Independence.

David William Hallett (1820 – 1906) had two sons, William G. Hallett (1857 - ) and Dudley W. Hallett, b. 22 Oct 1860, d. 4 Jun 1935, bur. Sanborn Cemetery in Blaine. Dudley W. Hallett lived in Blaine and had two sons, Charles W. Hallett, b. 30 May 1914, d. Dec 1979 and Earl Elbridge Hallett (12 Nov 1916 - 14 Jul 2008)(GM2 Navy). Joshua Gedney Hallett (1831-1907) had two sons, Whitfield (aka Whitford) Elisha Hallett (1866-1927) and Charles G. Hallett (1872 - ), both lived in Bridgewater. Whitford had two sons, John G. Hallett, b. 6 May 1895 and Charles W. Hallett, b. 8 Jul 1897, d. 18 Dec 1963. Both were WWI Veterans. It is of interest to note that Charles W. Hallett married Arvilla DeLong, b. 26 Apr 1901, d. 6 Apr 1954, daughter of John H. DeLong and Isie MacDonald, on 8 June 1921. They had two sons, Ashley E. Hallett (1925-1990) and Charles W. Jr. (1927 - ). Both were WWII Veterans. Note: Charles W. Hallett, Jr. is the grandfather of Jessica Lynn Hallett, b. 4 Aug 1981, d/o Kevin Charles Hallett, b. 31 Dec 1960. Jessica Hallett and my daughter, Lauren, both graduated from the University of Maine in 2004.

Anal C. Hallett of Augusta got land in Township A, Region 2 in 1871. This looks like an investment. Probable descendant of Andrew of Cape Cod.

Henry L. Hallett, Boston Lawyer, got land in Houlton and Township 12, Region 13 in 1853. This also looks like an investment. His father was Benjamin F. Hallett, who was also a Boston 100

Lawyer, but lists his father as born in New York, so it is possible they are descendants of our William.

Other Halletts in Maine:

Descendants of Andrew Hallett were some of the early settlers in Southern Maine and Downeast Coastal Maine. Remember Andrew? He is the probable cousin of our William who came from Symondsbury, Dorset, England and settled in Yarmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod during the same time frame our William settled at Hallett’s Cove on Long Island, New York.

At the first U.S. Census taken in 1790, Elisha Hallett and Solomon Hallett were living in Winslow, then Lincoln County. At the 1810 U.S. Census, Jonathan Hallett was living in North Yarmouth, Cumberland County and Abner Hallett was living on Deer Isle in Hancock County. Joseph H. Hallett was the Quartermaster for the 1st Regt. 2nd Bde. 8th Division, living in Waterville during the War of 1812. By the 1830 U.S. Census there were multiple Halletts living in Kennebec County, Lincoln County and Hancock County. In 1834, Watson F. Hallett, trader, sold half of a church pew to William A. Brooks in Augusta for $37.50. By the mid 1800’s Halletts are noted in Lubec and Eastport, where there is a Hallett Street.

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Chapter 8 Grandmothers

This chapter will provide more information about the families of our Hallett Grandmothers, beginning with our first American Grandmother in the New World and ending with our Canadian-American Grandmother of Aroostook County, Maine. The focus is on our maternal ancestors. The first four generations came from first generation English Puritan Families who came to America during the Great Migration. The next four generations came from Loyalist Families who relocated to New Brunswick, Canada after the War for American Independence. The first five Grandmothers have English roots, the Watsons were Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland, the Grays were Irish and the DeLongs were Dutch who came to New Netherland with the Dutch West India Company and settled Beverwyck, (Albany) New York before it came under English control.

Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett (1610–1669):

We know more about our first grandmother in America than any others up to our living memory. She was a remarkable woman. Her independent spirit, tenacity and intelligence are well documented in the journals kept by Uncle John Winthrop and correspondence with cousin John Winthrop, Jr. History will remember her as “The Winthrop Woman,” title of a historical novel written by Anya Seton in 1958, still available in paperback. She will also be remembered as the niece and daughter-in-law of John Winthrop, Governor of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony and the first cousin and sister-in-law of John Winthrop, Jr., founder of New London and Governor of Connecticut. If William Hallett had not married into this well known and well documented family, we would have had a much more difficult time tracing our early Hallett ancestors in America and England. “Insubordinate Spirit”, published in 2012 by Missy Wolfe, documents the history of early New Netherland and New England in and around Greenwich, Connecticut and Hallet’s Cove. It covers Elizabeth and family very well.

Elizabeth was born January 24, 1610 at Groton Manor, in Suffolk County, England, the daughter of Thomas Fones (1585-1629), London Apothecary, and Anne Winthrop (1585-1618), sister of John Winthrop. She married Henry Winthrop at St. Sepulchre Without Newgate in London 29 April 1629. I visited this historic, still standing, parish church in 2011, which is also the burial site of Captain John Smith, an early leader of the Jamestown Settlement 1607-1609. Henry Winthrop was the second son of Governor John Winthrop. He was also her first cousin, as his father and Elizabeth’s mother were siblings. He drowned on the day of his arrival in the “New World” in 1630. Elizabeth sailed with her infant daughter, Martha Joanna (by Henry), and Margaret Winthrop (John’s 3rd wife) aboard the Lyon to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631.

She married Robert Feake in early 1632. Robert Feake had been an apprentice goldsmith with his father in London and was the beneficiary of inheritance prior to his travel to the New World. After marriage to Elizabeth, he was appointed Lieutenant in Captain Daniel Patrick’s Company of Watertown, Massachusetts (1632 – 1636) and member of the First General Court in the 102

Massachusetts Bay Colony (1635 – 1636). Daniel Patrick, Robert Feake and Elizabeth were the founders of Greenwich, Connecticut in 1640.

The point of land in Old Greenwich that juts out into Long Island Sound, now called Greenwich Point (19th Century, Todd’s Point), was originally called Elizabeth’s Neck, as it was specifically designated for her on the Siwanoy Indian deed. There is a plaque on the high ground overlooking the beach which commemorates the establishment of Greenwich in 1640. The Town of Greenwich, Connecticut considers Elizabeth to be “The Foremother” of the town.

Elizabeth was a twice married woman, seven years older with 5 children, when she married William Hallett, after her insane husband abandoned her and went back to England in 1647. Elizabeth had two children with William Hallett. William Hallett, Jr. was born in 1648 while the family was with John Winthrop, Jr. in New London, Connecticut, then known as Pequot. Samuel Hallett was born after the family had relocated to Hellegat, on Long Island, in 1651, where William would get a Dutch Land Grant in 1652 and a Shawkopshee Indian deed in 1664.

Elizabeth’s Winthrop and Feake Children:

Martha Johanna Winthrop, born 9 May 1630 at Groton Manor, Suffolk, England; married a Scottish immigrant of Fairfield settlement, Thomas Lyon, in 1647 at Stamford, Connecticut. Martha was known to have health issues from an early age and she succumbed in 1653 at Greenwich, Connecticut at the young age of 24, leaving one daughter, Mary Lyon. Mary Lyon first married Joseph Stedwell of Rye, then married John Wilson of Bedford, later Rye. They appealed to Governor Fitz-John Winthrop in 1698, claiming inheritance of her grandmothers original land deed of 1640, without success. She accepted 50 pounds sterling damages in consideration of settlement of the claim.

Elizabeth Feake, born 1633 at Watertown, Massachusetts; married the famous Indian fighter, Captain John Underhill (1609-1672), as his second wife at Flushing in 1659. He had been a Magistrate at Flushing in 1651. He was an Oyster Bay representative to the Hempstead Convention in 1665. In 1667 he got 150 acres at Oyster Bay, adjacent to Beaver Lake, in the area now called Locust Valley. He is buried under a large statue of himself on his land, that he called Killingworth, named after his father’s birthplace in England. She died at Killingworth, Oyster Bay on 4 November 1675. The Underhill Society maintains a web site.

Hannah Feake, born June 1637 at Watertown, Massachusetts; married the famous Quaker, John Bowne, at Flushing on 7 May 1656. He was responsible for the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, proclaiming religious freedom for all settlers within Dutch territory. This later became one of our national foundation documents, establishing religious freedom and separation of church and state. The Bowne House was built at Flushing in 1661 and stands today as a Quaker Historical site and museum. Hannah died in England in 1678, while performing missionary work for the Quakers. John Bowne married twice more and had several children. Richard Hallett (1691- 1769), youngest son of William, Jr., married Amy Bowne (1694-1733), 15th child of John 103

Bowne. Their Hallett descendants became the Hallett Quakers of Maspeth, referred to in the Mount Olivet Cemetery Chapter.

John Feake, born 1639 at Watertown, Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Prior at Killingworth, Oyster Bay, on 15 September 1673. He died in May 1724 at Matinecock, Oyster Bay.

Robert Feake, born 1642 at Greenwich, Connecticut; baptized 17 July 1642 by the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam (NYC); married Sarah ? abt. 1662; Sarah Feake took administration of his estate on 19 June 1669. (When he presumably died?) (At Matinecock, Oyster Bay)

Sarah Feake, born and died in April 1647; baptized 14 April 1647 by the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam (NYC).

Other Relatives:

Tobias Feake, born abt. 1620 in England; married the Dutch widow of Captain Daniel Patrick, Anneke Van Beyern, abt. 1657 at Flushing. Tobias was the second Sherriff of Flushing in 1657 after William Hallett. He was a Nephew of Robert Feake and Elizabeth referred to him as Cousin. He was instrumental in helping Elizabeth and William with their relocation ordeals from 1648-1650, as he owned a boat capable of sailing along the New England coast. History will remember him as the first signer of the Flushing Remonstrance on 27 December 1657.

Henry Feake, born abt. 1590 in England, second cousin of Robert Feake, was one of the 10 men of Saugus in 1637 granted the land that became Sandwich, Massachusetts, of the Plymouth Colony. He came to Newtown, Long Island by 1656. His daughter, Elizabeth Feake, born abt. 1633, married John Dillingham in 1650 at Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts and later died there. This Elizabeth Feake can be confused with our Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake, Hallett).

Another Elizabeth who can be confused with ours was the second wife of John Winthrop, Jr., whose name was Elizabeth Winthrop, another “Winthrop Woman”. Elizabeth referred to her as Sister. They also had a daughter named Elizabeth Winthrop, born in 1636 at Boston, another “Winthrop Woman”. John Winthrop, Jr.’s first wife was Martha Fones (1611-1634), younger sister of Elizabeth, and his first cousin. Elizabeth named her first child after her younger sister, Martha. This created some confusion among early historians as Martha Winthrop and her daughter, Martha both died in 1634. Three Martha Winthrops were in the Boston area at that time.

You see how easy it is to get the wrong person when looking for ancestors!

I think this explains the confusion over where and when Elizabeth died and was buried. One earlier family researcher claimed she died about 1669 at Newtown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The present day Newton, Massachusetts was part of the 1630 settlement of 104

Newetowne. It was renamed Cambridge in 1638 and incorporated as a separate town called Cambridge Village in 1688. It was renamed Newtown in 1691 and finally Newton in 1766.

Hallett’s Cove at Hell Gate was considered to be part of Newtown, Queens County, New York, at her death about 1669. There was an Elizabeth Winthrop and an Elizabeth Feake in Massachusetts during her time. There was an Elizabeth (Widow) Winthrop who married a John Richards on 3 March 1654, recorded at Boston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. There was another Elizabeth Winthrop who married a Reverend Antipas Newman on 10 November 1658, recorded at Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts.

If Elizabeth was not buried at Hallett’s Cove, the other logical places would be with her children at Oyster Bay, on the John Underhill property, now called Locust Valley, or at the Quaker cemetery in Flushing, where her daughter, Hannah, lived. None of her children went to Watertown, Massachusetts to be with their father, who died in 1660/61. Most researchers have her death in 1669 at Newtown, New York, probably buried in the Hallett Family Cemetery.

Will of Thomas Fones (1585-1629), father of Elizabeth (Fones, Winthrop, Feake) Hallett:

THOMAS FONES, citizen and apothecary of London, 14 April 1629, proved 29 April 1629, Have disposed, by Acts executed in my life time, the greater part of my personal estate to and among my children and to the use and benefit of my wife. I commit the tuition &c. of my son Samuel, during his minority, unto his uncle John Wynthropp of Groton, Suffolk, Esq., John White of the Middle Temple, London, Esq., and James Thurlby citizen and grocer of London. The tuition of my daughter Elizabeth and Martha I do commit unto my said loving brother John Wynthropp until they shall marry or attain their full age of one and twenty years. The tuition of my youngest daughter Mary Fones I commit unto my loving wife her mother. And I do make my said wife Priscilla Fones (2nd wife) and my said brother John Wynthropp the executors.

Sarah (Woolsey) Hallett (1650 – 1727):

Sarah Woolsey was born 3 Aug 1650 in New Amsterdam (NYC) the oldest of 7 children to George Joris Woolsey and Rebecca Cornell. George Woolsey was born in Yarmouth, England in 1610 and came to New Amsterdam in the early days of settlement from Rotterdam, Holland. His father, Reverend Benjamin Woolsey, was a minister in Rotterdam. George purchased a plantation and house in Flushing in 1647 and land at Jamaica in 1664 where he became the town clerk in 1673. He died in 1698. Sarah met her future husband, William Hallett, Jr., while the families lived in Jamaica, Long Island in the early 1660’s. They were married 1 Dec 1669 at Hallett’s Cove, where their first house was built on the shoreline south of the present day Astoria Boulevard, and all ten of their children were born. In addition to running a large estate, William, Jr. was a Justice of the Peace and a Captain in the Militia. Sarah died at Hallett’s Cove on 18 Aug 1727 and, according to the Woolsey Family, was buried with her husband at the Friends 105

Cemetery in Newtown. The Woolsey family continued to own property in Queens through the 19th century.

Children of William, Jr. (1648-1729) and Sarah (Woolsey) Hallett:

11. William (1670-1708) married Ruth? 12. Sarah (1673-?) married Reverend George Phillips 13. Rebecca (1675-?) married James Jackson 14. Joseph (1678-1750) married Lydia Blackwell, 2nd Mary Lawrence 15. Moses (1681-1708) married daughter of Samuel Fitch 16. George (1683-?) married Priscilla Allen 17. Charity (1685-?) married Samuel Moore 18. Mary (1687-?) married Jacob Blackwell 19. Elizabeth (1689-?) married John Fish 20. Richard (1691-1769) married Amy Bowne, 2nd Ann Miller

Lydia (Blackwell) Hallett (1685 – 1728):

Lydia Blackwell was the daughter of Robert Blackwell and Mary Manningham. Robert was a first generation English Merchant living at Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1676. He was a widower with children when he arranged to marry the daughter of Captain John Manning. Capt. Manning owned the Island and 100 acres opposite in Newtown that would become the Blackwell estate. The Blackwell’s became a prominent family in the area at that time. Jacob Blackwell, grandson of Robert, married Lydia, daughter of Joseph Hallett, and was a Patriot Colonel during the Revolution. The British Army seized his farm at Ravenswood for the duration of the war and his heirs sold it to Joseph Hallett in 1787, who conveyed the property to son-in-law John Delafield. Blackwell’s Island was sold to New York City in the early 1800’s.

Lydia Blackwell married Joseph Hallett on 23 Dec 1702. Her sister, Bridget, married Samuel Hallett and many other Halletts and Blackwells intermarried during the early years. Lydia and Joseph had 10 children together. The large island crossed by the Queensborough Bridge between Queens and Upper Manhattan, now called Roosevelt Island, was then called Blackwell’s Island. During his life, Joseph Hallett was a respected magistrate. His grandson, Joseph Hallett (1731-1799), became a successful New York City merchant and was a prominent patriot during the American Revolution. Joseph Hallett and Jacob Blackwell were business partners in a grist mill on Sunswick creek in Newtown. Members of the Blackwell family played prominent roles during the Revolution. Lydia died at Hallett’s Cove on 22 Aug 1728.

Children of Joseph (1678-1750) and Lydia (Blackwell) Hallett:

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12. Moses (1706-1731) married Mary Blackwell 13. Thomas (1714-1779) married Ann Moore 14. Robert (?-1792) married Phebe Hallett (3rd Cousin),2nd Lydia Pidgeon,3rd Ruth Leverich Note: Robert and Phebe tied both branches of the Hallett family together Note: Robert is listed as a carpenter on a 1771 letter of administration 15. Jacob married Mercy Betts; Noted as a tailor on a 1771 letter of administration 16. Samuel (?-1798) married Jemima Betts, 2nd Elizabeth Lamb 17. William married Jemima Hallett, ch.: Phebe (1763-1826) m. Samuel Hallett (1761-1817) 18. Mary 19. Sarah 20. James (?-1781) married Lydia Moore; started coach-making business in NYC; loaned money to nephew Joseph, s/o Thomas, to start business in St. Croix.

Anna (Moore) Hallett (1715 – 1763):

Anna Moore was born on 5 Nov 1715 at Newtown, Long Island to Benjamin Moore and Anna Sackett, daughter of Joseph Sackett, progenitor of the Newtown Sackett family. The Sackett family was among the earliest New England Puritans. Anna’s father was a grandson of the first Minister of Newtown, Reverend John Moore, from whom he inherited his estate near Newtown Village. Reverend Moore was known as an Independent Preacher, who could not administer sacraments. Captain Samuel Moore, Anna’s grandfather, bought a farm from William Hallett, Sr. in 1684. The Moore family traces its lineage back to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Anna married Thomas Hallett before 1738 and they had 8 children before she succumbed to smallpox in 1763.

Children of Thomas (1714 - 1779) and Ann (Moore) Hallett:

9. Lydia (1738-?) married Joseph Burroughs 10. Joseph (1740-1775) moved to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (then Danish West India Company (Santa Cruz) 1733-1917) after the French War ended (1763) with cousin, William Hallett (s/o?) and several other young men of Newtown to start a carpentry business. William was killed when his house collapsed in 1772. Joseph was killed in 1775 while working at a wind-mill. “Joseph was much respected in the islands for his modesty and diligence in business.” (Riker, 1852) Uncle Robert Hallett was given a power of attorney by Father Thomas Hallett to settle the estate of Joseph in St. Croix and was to receive L220, a considerable fee at that time. Joseph Hallett and Gilbert Woodward were business partners with ownership of 4 town lots and a blacksmith shop. As Joseph had no wife or children, by Danish law, his estate passed to his father, Thomas. This intestate settlement ended up in the NY Chancery Court. Another suit was later brought by Thomas and John Hallett, sons and executors of Thomas Hallett’s estate, 107

on 16 Nov 1784, in an attempt to recover more proceeds from Uncle Robert Hallett. Ref. The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: documents and comments. 11. Benjamin (1743-?) 12. Thomas (1745-1798) married Elizabeth Willett 13. Mary (1751-?) 14. Hannah (1754-1779) married William Waters 15. John (1757-?) 16. Robert (1759-1838) married Mary Lomax. Joined Loyalists sometime between 1776 and 1779. (Not noted in will, possibly because he was a Loyalist)

Mary (Lomax) Hallett (1769 – 1847):

Mary Lomax was born 12 January 1769. We have not yet determined her birthplace, parents or how she came to be in Savannah, Georgia, where she married Robert Hallett on 28 Feb 1782 during the waning days of the American War of Independence. Her brother, James Lomax, born about 1773, later became a General Officer in the British Army and retired in Bristol, England, where he died in 1848. We have the will and military record of James Lomax. We also have an 1841 Bristol, England census which indicates he was born 1776 in Scotland. The death record indicates he was age 75 at his death on 14 November 1848, making his birth in 1773. None of James military records gives his place of birth or parents.

British Army Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO’s) sometimes had family members with them and children born on foreign lands. It is my guess that Mary was one of these family members, and most likely, the daughter of an NCO. There are Lomax NCO’s in the British Army at that time. CPL Robert Hallett was an NCO at the time of their marriage in 1782. According to the family bible, Mary was born 12 January 1769. She was 13 at her marriage to Robert and died in 1847, one year before James.

Georgia until the surrender of Savannah in 1782. During this period, one or both their parents were either killed or died of disease. Robert Hallett agreed to take care of Mary Lomax and married her at the age of 13 in Savannah in 1782 so she may be transported with him to New York and later to his British Loyalist land grant in New Brunswick in 1783. James Lomax, age 9, was adopted or taken in, formally or informally, by a British Officer or NCO family who relocated to Jamaica after the war in 1782 – 1783, where he later joined the British Colonial Army at age 16.

Robert and Mary Hallett are the Canadian ancestors of all the descendants of George and Amelia Hallett and their son John Henry and Emma Pearl Hallett, of Mars Hill, Maine.

Robert and Mary had 9 children at Woodstock and 2 more at Upper Brighton in New Brunswick.

Children of Robert (1759 – 1858) and Mary (Lomax) Hallett born in the Parish of Woodstock, New Brunswick:

12. Ann, b. 9 Oct 1785, d. 21 Oct 1860, m. Joseph McConnell 13. Lydia, b. 27 Aug 1788, m. Bartlett Hallett (son of Moses) 14. James, b. 17 May 1791, m. Elizabeth ? 15. William, b. 31 Mar 1793, m. Maria Craig 16. Marsden, b. 6 Aug 1795, m. Charity Watson 17. Jacob, b. 16 Mar 1798, m. Ann Stockford 18. Joseph, b. 20 Jul 1800, d. 20 Feb 1869, m. Elizabeth A. Smith 19. Isabella, b. 19 Sep 1802, m. Charles McLaughlin 20. Eliza, b. 11 Jan 1805, m. James Bishop

Born at Upper Brighton:

21. Sarah, b. 14 Jul 1807, m. James Melvin 22. Mary, b. 14 Apr 1809, d. 16 Feb 1866, m. Daniel Rideout

Mary died on 25 August 1847 at her home and was buried beside Robert. No headstone or marker has been found for them at the Hallett Loyalist Cemetery. The cemetery is at the junction of the Trans Canada Highway and local road 105, just above Hartland on the East Bank of the St. John River. Hallett ancestors may be visited there today, including Samuel Hallett (1839 - 1914), brother of our George Hallett (1843 - 1908).

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Charity (Watson) Hallett (1806 – 1843):

Charity Watson was born about 1806, probably at Woodstock, New Brunswick. She married Marsden Hallett on 16 February 1820 at her brother Peter’s house in Woodstock. Their father, Peter Watson, Sr., received a land grant in 1785 at Washademoak, New Brunswick along the St. John River. Peter Watson, Sr. was born about 1759, possibly in Sussex County, Delaware, and died at Woodstock, New Brunswick. Peter, Sr. and wife Louisa had at least 13 children. A Peter Watson is noted in Sussex County Committee testimony in July 1775. A Peter Watson is listed on a land record in Somerset County, Maryland 18 May 1680 with 250 acres in the Peterson Tract. This Peter Watson transported himself, his wife Jane and children Peter, John and Mary to Somerset County in 1679. Many Scots-Irish Presbyterians from Northern Ireland settled in Maryland and Delaware during this difficult political/religious time in Ulster. Possible relative, Luke Watson, is noted as a member of the Assembly representing Sussex County, Delaware at Philadelphia on 10 March 1683 after Delaware was split off from Maryland in 1682 and given to William Penn. Sussex County, Delaware was created from part of Somerset County, Maryland. Peter Watson, Jr. was born in New Brunswick in 1789 and died at Woodstock in 1879. Sussex County, Delaware had a large active Loyalist population during the American Revolution. Several Watsons served with the British and received land grants in New Brunswick after the War for American Independence. Watson is a common Scottish name, but is also found in Northern Ireland and the English border counties. Another Peter Watson of Selkirk (S. of Edinburgh) came to Staten Island, N.Y. from Leith, Midlothian (Edinburgh) as an indentured servant of David Barclay on the ship “Exchange of Stockton” in December 1685 under Captain James Peacock. He settled at Magnolia Farm in Freehold, N.J. Father of Peter, William, Richard, Gavin and David. M.(2) Agnes, d. 1729 Ref. History of Monmouth, N.J.; Scottish Colonial Schemes, Glasgow.

Marsden Hallett was the fifth child and third son of Robert and Mary Hallett. He was born on 6 August 1795 in the Parish of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. He died after 1861 in the Parish of Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick and was probably buried in the Hallett burying ground, although no marker has been found. Marsden purchased a 200 acre lot in the back of river lots 57 to 64 in 1831. This land does not adjoin the Hallett land grant and was probably used as a wood-lot.

Children of Marsden (1795 - ) and Charity (Watson) Hallett born in the Parish of Brighton:

11. William, b. 20 Jan 1821, m. Miriam Rideout 12. Marsden, b. 1825, m. Hester Ellen Hallett 13. Peter, b. 30 Sep 1827, d. 11 Jun 1912, m. Emmeline Adams 14. Robert, b. 1827, m. Elizabeth Bishop 15. Daniel, b. 1829, m. Barbara Inman 16. Cyrus, b. 1833 17. Elijah, b. 16 Feb 1834, m. Lucy Ann Inman, m. Margaret J. Donnolly 18. Samuel, b. 12 Apr 1839, d. 3 Dec 1914, m. Elizabeth Jane Rideout 110

19. Nancy Ann, b. 1840, d. 5 Jun 1896, m. George Bubar 20. George, b. Feb 1843, d. 26 Nov 1908, m. Harriet Amelia Gray

Harriet Amelia (Gray) Hallett (1842 - 1902):

Harriet Amelia Gray was born in February 1842 in the Parish of Simonds, Carleton County, New Brunswick to John H. Gray and Hannah Shaw. She married George Hallett in 1867 and had 7 children with him. At the 1851 census of Simonds Parish, the Gray family was listed as follows:

At the 1861 Census for Brighton, George Hallett and Samuel Hallett were living with their older brother, William Hallett. At the 1861 Census for Perth, Elijah Hallett and Daniel Hallett were living with their Uncle William Hallett.

At the 1871 Census for Brighton, the George Hallett family was listed separately:

George Hallett, 28, FCBapt, Eng, Farmer Harriet Hallett, 28, Advent, Irish Victoria, 2, FCBapt, Eng John H.D., 8/12, FCBapt, Eng

George and Harriet Amelia left New Brunswick and, according to the 1880 census records, immigrated into the United States in 1880. It is more likely they came over sometime after 1875, when George Shepherd was born, and by 1879, when Manzer was born. They settled in Mars Hill, where their last three children were born.

Amelia’s brother, John C. Gray with wife Easter (Esther), immigrated during the same time frame. Several of George’s older brother Elijah’s eleven children also settled in Mars Hill, Bridgewater and Ashland. Elijah got a land grant farm in Perth, Victoria County in 1870 and remained in New Brunswick, where he lived until his last years. He came to live with one of his 111 sons in Mars Hill at the end of his life, but was buried at Andover, New Brunswick beside his second wife.

Harriet Amelia died 12 November 1902 at her home in Mars Hill, Maine and was buried at Kings Grove Cemetery. George Hallett was born in February 1843 in the Parish of Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. He died 26 November 1908 at his home in Mars Hill, Maine and was buried alongside Amelia. George and Amelia brought our line of the Hallett family back to the United States of America. There is no record that George or Amelia ever became naturalized citizens.

Children of George (1843 - 1908) and Amelia (Gray) Hallett born in New Brunswick:

1. Victoria, b. 11 Aug 1868, d. 5 Apr 1939, m. John A. McPherson 2. John Henry D., b. 30 Jul 1870, d. 30 Aug 1944, m. Emma Pearl DeLong 3. Frank Scott, b. 22 Oct 1872, d. 5 Aug 1938, m. Bertha B. Larrabee 4. George Shepherd, b. 6 Apr 1875, d. 27 Jan 1944, m. Margaret Ann Corey

Children of George and Amelia (Gray) Hallett born in Maine:

5. Manzer, b. 27 Jul 1879, d. Jan 1952, m. Catherine Ione (Homan) Lindsay 6. Esther May, b. 11 Feb 1881, d. 6 Nov 1952, m. Amos Elmer Stitham 7. William H., b. 31 Jul 1883, d. 18 Nov 1963, m. Inez Corey

The house that John Henry Hallett would later come to own on the East Ridge Road in Mars Hill, was owned by John C. Gray, son of John H. Gray and brother to Harriet Amelia Gray. John Henry Hallett got the house on the condition that he care for John C. Gray’s wife, Esther or Easter (aka Aunt Eas), at the end of her life. It is interesting to note that the John C. Gray and George Hallett families are buried next to each other at Kings Grove Cemetery. They must have been close friends.

One of John H. Gray’s sons, Daniel B. Gray, carried some of the family given names forward. He and his wife, Jane Orser, named their children James Havelock H. Gray, Annie E., John R., Julia, Hildred O., Sarah Jane, and Justus.

The father of John H. Gray was James Gray and mother was Sarah Reeder. Brothers William and Reder Gray were listed on the Grain Bounty surplus list in 1819-1821 along with Marsden Hallett, father of George Hallett, John’s eventual son-in-law. John Gray got a 200 acre land 112 grant in Carleton County in 1831 followed by 58 more in 1838. He got another 200 acre land grant in Andover in 1837.

James Gray, b. abt. 1762 in Westchester County, N.Y., d. abt. 1815, m. Sarah Reeder abt. 1789 in N.Y., she b. abt. 1771 in N.Y. Children:

1. Jacob Reeder Gray, b. abt. 1790 N.Y. 2. William Gray, b. abt. 1792 N.Y. 3. Justus Gray, b. abt. 1794 N.Y. 4. Charity Gray, b. abt. 1796 New Brunswick, Canada 5. Mary Gray, b. abt. 1798 New Brunswick, Canada 6. John H. Gray, b. abt. 1799 New Brunswick, Canada 7. Frances Milo Gray, b. abt. 1806 New Brunswick, Canada

Apparently James Gray stayed in New York for about 12 years after the Loyalist evacuation to New Brunswick, before joining his parents and siblings about 1795. It was not unusual for one of the older sons to stay behind and take care of family property and business issues before leaving for Canada.

William Gray was the father of James Gray and Janet Sherwood was his mother. William Gray was born in Ireland and came to New York as a Merchant. William joined the Loyalist New York Volunteers in 1776, commanded by LTC George Turnbull, during the American Revolution. He served as a Lieutenant with LTC Turnbull in Savannah in November 1779 at the same time Robert Hallett was serving with CPT Allan Cameron’s Company of the NY Volunteers. He served as a Captain with his own Company in the NY Volunteers from 1781 to 1783. The CPT William Gray Company returned to New York and served at Fosters Meadows from 25 Dec 1782 to 23 Jul 1783. Sir Guy Carleton listed him among the officers who served with the British Forces for 7 years on half pay. He relocated with the Loyalist Forces to New Brunswick arriving at St. John (then Parr Town) on 14 Aug 1783 with 130 Loyalists on the ship “Fishburn”. He initially received lands in Parr Town along with Moses, Daniel and Joseph Hallett. He and his sons James and Justus, each were granted 200 acres in Belleisle Bay, Kings County in 1786. William later became a magistrate for the provincial government and died at the ripe old age of 96.

William Gray, b. abt. 1728 in Ireland, d. 2 Aug 1824 in Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. He married Janet Sherwood about 1761. Children:

1. James Gray, b. abt. 1762 N.Y. 2. Henry Gray, b. abt. 1763 N.Y. 3. Eunice Gray, b. abt. 1764 N.Y. 4. Justus Gray, b. 20 May 1766 Westchester County, N.Y., d. 22 Feb 1843 Springfield, Kings County, N.B., bur. Kiersteadville Cemetery 5. Elizabeth Gray, b. 17 Feb 1769 Westchester County, N.Y., d. abt. 1848 113

6. Abraham Talhoe Gray, b. 12 Sep 1771 Long Island City, Queens, N.Y., d. 30 Sep 1853 Studholm Parish, Kings County, N.B. 7. Gilbert L. Gray, b. Nov 1772

William Gray married second, Lavinia Purdy 17 Jul 1781 at Long Island, N.Y. She was born about 1744 in N.Y. and was a widow at their marriage. Their children:

1. Charlotte A., b. abt. 1783 New Brunswick, Canada 2. Lydia, b. abt. 1787 N.B. 3. Ann Susan, b. abt. 1788 N.B. 4. Lavinia, b. abt. 1790 N.B. 5. Sarah, b. abt. 1792 N.B. 6. Charles, b. 4 Oct 1793 N.B.

Emma Pearl (DeLong) Hallett (1886 – 1972):

Emma Pearl DeLong married John Henry Hallett on 1 Jan 1902 at Tracey Mills, New Brunswick. They spent their early years together on the Snow Settlement Road in Bridgewater, where all thirteen children were born. Two infant children died and were buried in a John DeLong plot at the Smith Cemetery in Bridgewater. John Henry farmed and Emma Pearl took care of the house and family.

In 1930 John Henry was bequeathed a house in Mars Hill belonging to his Aunt Esther Gray on his Mother’s side of the family. He and Emma took care of Aunt Eas at the end of her life. This Hallett family house can still be seen on the East Ridge Road in the area called Kings Grove. It is directly across the street from the Orser family house now owned by Barbara Howlett, great- granddaughter of John Henry and Emma Pearl.

The Hallett family home did not have plumbing or electricity at the time they lived there. Water was fetched from a nearby well and the outhouse was out beside the barn. Food came from a large garden tended by John Henry and the occasional pigs and chickens that were butchered by him. Vegetables were kept through the winter in a root cellar under the house. Large family gatherings were common for Sunday dinner at the Hallett or DeLong Homestead. John Henry 114 died at home on 30 August 1944 and was buried at Kings Grove Cemetery, where both his parents (George and Amelia Hallett) were buried alongside Esther and John Gray.

Emma Pearl refused to set foot in the family home after John Henry’s death and sold it soon after. She kept house for Bob and Herman’s family when they first came to Bangor and spent the remainder of her life living with her children. Her grandchildren benefited from her excellent cooking, baking and nursing skills. She was the perfect example of a strong woman with impeccable values, who read the bible every day and did not drink, smoke nor swear. She died singing a hymn on 22 December 1972 in Bangor and was buried alongside John Henry at the Kings Grove Cemetery in Mars Hill, where many Hallett family members have been laid to rest.

Emma Pearl DeLong shared a similar family history with the Halletts, except her roots can be traced to Dutch ancestors, rather than English. Her ancestors were among the first to settle upstate New York (New Netherlands) in the vicinity of Albany, then known as Beverwyck, and later re-located to New Brunswick, Canada after the American Revolution in 1783.

Arie Fransen DeLong and his wife, Rachel Jansen Pier, came to America from Amsterdam, the Netherlands and settled in upstate New York before 1690. Their son, Jan Johannes Langet DeLong, married Anna Magdelana Weiser and they had a son, Conrad DeLong, born about 1723. Her father, Johann Conrad Weiser (1696-1760), came from Gross Anspach, Wurttemberg, Germany to Schoharie, New York in 1710. He became an influential Indian agent among the Iroquois. Johann and his wife Anna Uebelin had 15 children.

The DeLong family came to New Brunswick after the American Revolution. Aaron B. DeLong, son of Conrad and wife Catherine Froelich, came from Albany, New York and married Mary Keirstead in 1788 at Kings County, New Brunswick. She was born in Jamaica, New York. Their son, Charles Gaitor DeLong, was born at Little River, New Brunswick and married Cornelia Burton MacDonald in 1817 at the Town of Burton in Sunbury County, New Brunswick. They are the parents of John Strange DeLong, who came to Bridgewater, Maine in 1894. The McDonald clan is the largest of Scotland and there is some evidence that Cornelia’s Grandfather, George, came from Glasgow and arrived at St. John in 1816.

John Strange DeLong was born on 21 December 1835 at Little River, St. John County, New Brunswick, Canada. He married Rebecca Jane Tibbetts on 13 October 1859. She was born on 2 February 1843 at Little Falls, Madawaska County. John Tibbets received a land grant in 1799 in York County. At the 1861 census they were living in Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County. At the 1871, 1881 and 1891 census they were living in Peel Parish, Carleton County. John is listed as a Free Baptist Farmer of Dutch descent and Rebecca is listed as Scottish descent. They had 14 children together in New Brunswick, Canada.

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Children of John Strange DeLong and Rebecca Jane Tibbetts:

1. Sopronia E., b. 1 Nov 1859 at Peel, Carleton County 2. Catherine A., b. 26 Aug 1861 at Ripples, Sunbury County 3. Charles G., b. 11 Nov 1863 at Ripples, Sunbury County 4. Blanche S., b. 26 Feb 1866 at Ripples, Sunbury County 5. Joshua T., b. 17 Apr 1868 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 6. John Hanford, b. 26 Jan 1873 at Lansdowne, Carleton County 7. Jannie M., b. 26 Aug 1875 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 8. Alice Mae, b. 26 May 1877 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 9. Angeline Alberta, b. 2 Jul 1877 at Peel, Carleton County 10. David Wilmot, b. 3 Dec 1879 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 11. Minnie M., b. 8 Jun 1881 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 12. Emma Pearl, b. 19 May 1886 at Lansdowne, Carleton County 13. William H., b. 6 Nov 1888 at Lewiston, Sunbury County 14. Stanley, b. 1 Jun 1890 at Lewiston, Sunbury County

Rebecca died on 11 March 1898 at Bridgewater, Maine and was buried there. The family was split up at that time. John and his two oldest sons relocated to work in a pulp mill at Madison, Maine. John later returned to marry Sophia Wood at Bridgewater on 23 December 1906 and died at Island Falls on 2 June 1913. He may have known my maternal grandfather, William Elmer Brooks, who worked at the Hollingsworth & Whitney Mill in Madison then.

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Hallett Family at Mars Hill (circa 1939). From left: Burrell, Dorothy, Bob, Sadie, John, Herman, Perley, Elmer, Virgie, Ralph, Phyllis. Emma Pearl and John Henry in front.

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Chapter 9 Coat of Arms

Let me start this chapter by stating it is not my intent to stop any Hallett descendant from honoring our English heritage by displaying a Hallett Coat of Arms. As stated in the England chapter, I agree with English Historians that the Hallett surname originated in West Dorset County and my research in England indicates we are all related to those first Halletts. For the College of Arms it becomes a matter of how closely we are related to those Halletts who obtained a legitimate Coat of Arms and what documentary proof we have. The intent of this chapter is to explain the history and strict use of Arms prescribed by the College of Arms and the history of prior Hallett Family Members application and use of arms. In the process, we can learn more interesting information about our Hallett Family History.

The first recorded Hallett grant of arms was to one Hallatt of Dorset in the 16th century. Sir James Hallett of Crewkerne, Somerset (London Goldsmith), was denied the hereditary right to these arms after his Knighting in 1707. Sir James Hallett was unable to prove, with documentary evidence, that he was a descendant of Hallatt of Dorset. The Heralds responsible for the proper use of arms in England denied his claim, as they had his earlier relative, Hallet of Merefield, Misterton, Somerset on a visit in 1672. Sir James Hallett was granted his own new arms in 1722, which used the same basic design and elements of the earlier Hallett Arms.

There are many vendors ready to sell coats of arms and other heraldic items to us, but the only legitimate issuing authority for English Coats of Arms is the College of Arms in London. They hold in their archives all the existing grants of arms and have the authority to issue new arms, for a very considerable fee, after performing the necessary research. The earliest Rolls of Arms are on strips of parchment and date to 1240-45.

The first recorded coat of arms was from Henry I to his son-in-law, Geoffrey of Anjou, in 1127. The use of arms and their inheritance spread widely by the end of the 12th century, but was not standardized until the 15th century. Richard III founded the College of Arms in 1484 and delegated his heraldic authority to professional Heralds. Many Heralds’ visitations were made to English counties from the early 16th to the late 17th centuries to record pedigrees and regulate the use of arms. Henry VIII also instituted civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in 1538 concurrent with dissolution of the Catholic Church. For a more detailed history and explanation of coats of arms, please visit collegeofarms.gov.uk.

Individual arms are private property and only passed to legitimate descendants of the owner, or the senior female descendant, to be quartered on her children’s arms, in the case of no surviving male descendant. All descendants in the legitimate male line may bear arms upon proof of descent. Requests for a new grant of arms are made through an application process and granted by “letters patent” signed by a King of Arms, upon receipt of hefty fees. The Earl Marshal is a hereditary office held by the Duke of Norfolk who oversees the College of Arms. 118

While researching our English Hallett Arms, I came across some interesting information regarding our “Loyalist” tree. Remember that our “Loyalist” ancestor, Robert Hallett, went to New Brunswick, Canada after the American Revolution in 1783. Canada honors all descendants of “United Empire Loyalists” with the entitlement to use a Loyalist Military Coronet (crown) of the Loyalist Regiment of our ancestor on our coat of arms, if we have one. All Canadian citizens are authorized to apply for a coat of arms.

John Ross Delafield (1874-1964) conducted an extensive research project into his family history and genealogy, culminating in his Delafield Family book, first published in 1927 and volume two published in 1945. The Hallett connection to this family occurred at the end of the American Revolution in 1783 when John Delafield came from England and married Ann Hallett, a daughter of our most famous patriot, Joseph Hallett, in 1784. You may remember that our Robert Hallett was a first cousin of Joseph Hallett? Anyway, JR Delafield included the early history of the Hallett family in his work, which is now freely available on-line. He was obsessed with the heraldry of every Delafield family connection, including ours, and sought to include them in his own coat of arms. He is credited with one of the first, if not the first, honorary grants of arms by the College of Arms for the use of Americans of English descent. In addition to his own Delafield Arms, he secured a grant of arms to quarter seven other family arms on his arms, including the Hallett Arms created to join the Delafield Arms signifying the marriage of John Delafield and Ann Hallett in 1784. He included some of his research details in his book that I will include here.

THE ARMS OF HALLETT

On the old silver purchased by John Delafield, about 1792, when he furnished his new home, Sunswick, on Long Island, appear the impaled arms shown in the illustration. This silver, of which a number of pieces still remain in the possession of the family, was made by Henry Chawner in London in 1791-92. The arms shown for Hallett may be blazoned as follows:

“Argent two bars wavy azure between three eagles rising proper.” And these arms were subsequently granted by the College of Arms to the Delafields as a quartering for Hallett. The crest was an eagle's head erased proper, as engraved on an old silver sugar bowl which belonged to Joseph Hallett, 1731 to 1799, and Elizabeth Hazard his wife, as appears from their initials engraved thereon.

Another reference to the arms for Hallett is in a letter from Mrs. Maria C. Davies, dated 21 November 1873, and addressed to Maturin Livingston Delafield. She wrote in part: "Mr. James Hallett (great-uncle of Mrs. Blossom and uncle of my grandmother) was an officer in the British Army; he said that the coat of arms which was in the possession of our family was not the right one, and in 1833, when after the death of our parents we children came to reside with our father's brother and only sister, my aunt had the arms in her possession but did not value it as she did not think it correct; when my youngest brother became old enough to cut papers she gave it to him and of course it was destroyed."

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This statement is corroborated by James Riker, Jr., who, in a letter written on 31 March 1873, stated: "In regard to the Hallett Arms, given in my book, I obtained them from an old gentleman, Mr. James Hallett, living at Hallett's Cove at the time. The history he gave of them I do not recall.” The quote is from James Riker, Jr. The remaining notes are from John Ross Delafield. The book referred to the Annals of Newtown by James Riker, Jr., published in 1852. The arms there given are evidently intended to be the same as those of the Halletts of Crewkerne, Somerset, but have peculiarities not known to heraldry. These arms seem to have had their origin in a grant made in the sixteenth century to Hallatt of Dorset (Christian name not given).

The blazon (description) reads, "Or a chief engrailed gules, over all a bend engrailed sable charged with three bezants: Crest, a demi-lion rampt. arg. gorged with a collar sable charged with three plates and holding between the paws a bezant."

Then in 1722 there was a patent of arms to Sir James Hallett, which recites the use of the arms as above in previous generations and the failure to show descent from the original grantee and confirms them, as follows:

"Or a chief engrailed sable surmounted by a bend engrailed gules thereon three bezants and for his crest out of a Ducal Coronet on a demi-lion argent holding between his paws a bezant."

Evidently Sir James had not established his descent from the grantee of the sixteenth century. The descendants of this Sir James, who was a London goldsmith, settled at Dunmow Priory in Essex, and also in Kent, and were the progenitors of the family Hughes-Hallett. This branch of the Hallett family came from Crewkerne, Somerset, and were, without doubt, a branch of the Halletts of Misterton. The last mentioned family renounced late in the seventeenth century, yet there were in 1880 monuments in Misterton Church sacred to the memory of members of the family who had died in 1789 and 1790, and upon which were arms as follows:

"Arg. a chief engr. gu. over all on a bend engr. or three bezants, Crest, a lion rampant or holding in the paws a bezant."

As heretofore shown, the Halletts of New York can be followed back to the sixteenth century without any indication of relationship with any of the foregoing families whose arms were, therefore, not theirs and were, in fact, not used by them. For how many generations they had used the arms as subsequently granted to Delafield as a quartering is not now known.

The heraldry notes above are taken from the Delafield Family History.

The differences between the above quoted armorial descriptions are ones of color, not of basic design. Succeeding family generations commonly made changes in the color scheme or some of the items placed on the shield. Mottos were also routinely changed. All of the descriptions above would easily fit in the same armorial. The coat of arms used for Hallett by most of the current vendors uses the basic design of the earliest recorded arms for Hallatt of Dorset, but with 120 the colors of the 1722 grant to Sir James Hallett. The key difference is the use of a helmet, rather than a crown (ducal coronet), atop the shield.

SILVER BOWL MADE BY E. DODGE. AND WHICH BELONGED TO JOSEPH HALLETT. BORN 1731 DIED 1799. IT IS MARKED ON THE OTHER SIDE WITH HIS INITIALS AND THOSE OF HIS WIFE. ELIZABETH HAZARD

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Silver Salver made by Henry Chawner of London in 1791 for Joseph Hallett (1731-1791). Bought by John Delafield of New York (1747-1824). Joseph Hallett and John Delafield arms engraved on the tray. 122

The Coat of Arms of John Ross Delafield, which incorporates seven other families, including the arms used on the silver tray above. Arms signifying the joining of the Delafield and Hallett Families from the tray above are on the upper left quarter of the shield.

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The page above is taken from a book written by James Riker, Jr. in 1852 titled “The Annals of Newtown”. The arms of Hallett are those referred to earlier by James Hallett, who stated that they were not correct. I note that the basic design elements are the same as those recorded by the College of Arms for Hallatt of Dorset. The lion on top is facing in the opposite direction, but is still holding a byzantine gold coin between its paws. The three byzantine coins on the shield are not on the sash across the shield as in the original design, but this may be due to the fact that it is black and white to be used on stationary and they would not otherwise be seen. We can determine the colors by the use of lines and dots. The motto “COMME JE TROUVE” is French and means literally “As I Find”. The English Heraldry translation might be “I take things as I find them” or “Conquer one thing at a time”.

Above are the arms of Hallett, Lords of the Manor of Axmouth and Stedcombe House, on the wall of Axmouth Church. (c.1749) These Halletts are descendants of the Netherbury Parish Halletts who established themselves in Lyme Regis. In the next generation John Hallett went to 125

Barbados and established a plantation. His brother, Richard Hallett, prospered as a merchant in Lyme Regis and London. Richard purchased the Manor of Axmouth in 1691 and left it to his brother John’s son, Richard Hallett in 1694. It is interesting to note that Richard names the Reverend Timothy Hallett of Lyme Regis in his will of 1694, as did William Hallett, Schoolmaster of Bridport in 1655, indicating a close connection with these Hallett families. The arms on the left are identical to those of Sir James Hallett. Those on the right are of Jane Southcott, sole heiress of Thomas Southcott of Dulcis, Esq. Essex, wife of John Hallett, son and heir of Richard Hallett (c. 1677-1746) above, who was married to Meliora, daughter of John Hothersall of Giddy Hall, Esq. Essex. The Reverend Richard Hothersall Hallett inherited the estate next, followed by John Hothersall Hallett and William Trelawny Hallett at the publication of “The Book of The Axe” by George P.R. Pulman in 1875.

William Hallett (1764-1844) of the Gainsborough Painting “The Morning Walk” 1785, hanging in the National Gallery, got his arms certified by the College of Arms in 1799. They were the same used by his grandfather, with a crescent added for cadency. His grandfather, William Hallett (1707-1781) of Canons in London, the famous cabinet-maker from Crewkerne, Somerset, married a granddaughter of his Uncle, Sir James Hallett, and apparently used his arms. Sir James Father was Stephan Hallett of Crewkerne, who died a London Goldsmith in 1685, son of John Hallett, possibly of Beaminster in Netherbury Parish. Goldsmiths were known as bankers and could accumulate wealth during their lifetime.

Charles Hughes assumed the additional name and arms of Hallett by Royal licence in 1823. His father was William Hughes (1750-1786) and mother was Mary Hallett (1750-1780). Mary was a daughter of John Hallett (1716-1765) of Little Dunmow, Essex, who was a descendant of Sir James Hallett of Crewkerne, Somerset. Charles Hughes-Hallett (1778-1846) became a clergyman at Little Dunmow Priory and later Higham and Vicar of Patrixbourne, Kent for 35 years. He was educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford (M.A.). He had a large family and became the patriarch of the Hughes-Hallett family in Kent, with many notable descendants to this day.

To recap:

The oldest recorded arms of Hallett were recorded for Hallatt of Dorset in the 16th century. The top of the shield (chief) has a red (gules) background. The bottom of the shield (field) has a gold (or) background. The sash (bend) across the shield has a black (sable) background with three gold (or) coins (bezants).

The arms recorded for Hallet of Merefield, Misterton in 1672 are on the wall of Misterton Church. The top of the shield has a red background. The bottom of the shield has a silver background. The sash across the shield has a gold background with three silver coins.

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The arms recorded for Sir James Hallett of Crewkerne in 1722 are used by heraldry vendors. The top of the shield has a black background. The bottom of the shield has a gold background. The sash across the shield has a red background with three gold coins. Heraldry vendors tend to use a helmet above the shield in addition to the crown of Sir James.

The arms used by Richard Hallett of Axmouth in 1749 are on the wall of Axmouth Church and the left half is identical to the arms of Sir James Hallett.

The arms shown by James Riker, Jr. in his book, “The Annals of Newtown”, in 1852, for Hallett are identical in basic design elements and colors to the arms of Sir James Hallett, to be used on black and white applications.

The exception to the use of hereditary armorial elements, are those used on the silver tray crafted to signify the marriage of John Delafield and Ann Hallett in 1784. The Hallett half of the arms depicting three eagles is indeed recorded at the College of Arms. This was a unique American Coat of Arms. Before the Revolution Joseph Hallett had the wealth and connections in England to get a hereditary coat of arms, similar to the others discussed here. Why didn’t he? He was still a British subject. Was it because he could not prove descent? Why didn’t he use the same arms used by English Halletts, if they were used by the family at that time?

J.R. Delafield met with a lineal descendant of William Hallett (1616-1706), Walter E. Hallett of New York, during his extensive Hallett Family research prior to 1919. Mr. Walter E. Hallett (1864-1934) was in possession of the original will of William Hallett (1616-1706) and probably the other existing historical Hallett documents. He apparently did not have any Hallett Coat of Arms in his possession, or J.R. Delafield would have noted them. Walter was a son of Charles Wesley Hallett, Sr.

The College of Arms conducted extensive research on behalf of John Ross Delafield in the early 1900’s. During my 2013 visit to England I met with a College of Arms Herald in London and saw the above referenced arms recorded in a beautifully ornamented book complete with calligraphy and multi-color art work. After discussions with the Herald it became clear to me that no connection could be made with the earlier English Hallett Arms. It appears that the Delafield/Hallett arms on the silver tray were created and approved by the College of Arms to signify the joining of these two families at the marriage of John Delafield and Ann Hallett in 1784.

In my earlier research I discovered the difficulty of finding original source documentary evidence to prove family links before the 16th century. Civil records were not required prior to 1538 and not routinely kept until much later. The pedigree of Sir James Hallett only goes back to his grandfather, John. We do know that John Hallett of Crewkerne was married to the heir of Hodges and had two children, James in 1624 and Stephan. Circumstantial evidence of dates, names and locations, point to a John Hallett of Beaminster in Netherbury Parish, as John or his father. 127

Most of the Halletts, referred to in my earlier work as relatives, can trace their roots back to Netherbury Parish. Is this the origin of our oldest known Coat of Arms for Hallatt of Dorset and also the connection to the Hallett branches discussed? Crewkerne is about 7 miles northwest of Netherbury and Bridport about 5 miles south.

While in England in 2008, I visited the Society of Genealogists in London and obtained a copy of an original handwritten Pedigree for the Beaminster/Netherbury Hallett family. It fits very nicely with our discussion above and is the oldest available Pedigree for Hallett in Dorset County on file with the most reputable Genealogy office in England, other than the College of Arms.

Generation 1: Thomas Hallett, of Beaminster in Netherbury, County Dorset AD 1520. He paid the considerable sum of L6 to the subsidy. 12 Henry 8 (1520).

Generation 2: Thomas Hallett, of Netherbury, father of John c.1543. Will 1577.

Generation 3: John Hallett, of Netherbury, husbandman, son of Thomas, was born c.1543 and died aged 75. Chancery file 13 April 16 James 1 (1614). He had his copyhold 50 years ago by nomination of his father, Thomas.

Generation 4: Lancelot Hallett, of Beaminster in Netherbury, born c.1566, son of John Hallett, of Beaminster in Netherbury, married Joane Clare 18 Dec 1591 at Beaminster. Aged 60 in 2 Charles 1 (1626). Chancery file 19 March 2 Charles 1 (1626). Son, John, established the Lyme Regis Hallett family and continued to hold the customary estate in Beaminster. John passed his customary estate to his son, Richard Hallett of Axmouth, discussed above.

Notes:

The estate inheritance chain tracks with the use of Hallett arms in this family. Unfortunately, the record at the College of Arms can only be read “Hallatt of Dorset”, so we cannot prove which of the above generations in the 16th century was granted a coat of arms, if any.

Beaminster registers start in 1585 and Netherbury in 1592, which is probably after the connection was most likely with the Crewkerne/Misterton Hallett family discussed above and the Bridport/Symondsbury Hallett family below.

All English Halletts of record who achieved wealth and notoriety in the 17th and 18th centuries have roots in Crewkerne/Misterton and/or Beaminster/Netherbury Parish.

During my 2013 visit to the National Archives I discovered a Johannes Halet listed in the 1327 Dorset Lay Subsidy for Netherbury, the oldest surviving Dorset Subsidy listing. This proves that members of the Hallett Family had enough land and property to be taxed early in the 14th century.

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Other candidates:

Roger Hallet with a tenement in Symondsbury, recorded in Bridport in 1508. Probable descendants are Walter Hallett, Burgess of Bridport and Roger Hallett, Deputy Town Clerk at the Visitation of Bridport in 1623. They would be of the Yeoman class and unlikely to have a Coat of Arms.

William Hallett (1520-1572), of Symondsbury, Husbandman. He is the ancestor of Andrew Hallett, who came from Weymouth, Dorsetshire to Dorchester, Massachusetts on the Marygould in 1635. It is very unlikely that a Husbandman would have a legitimate Coat of Arms. Some American descendants of Andrew Hallett use a coat of arms completely different from any of the Hallett Coats of Arms discussed above.

The record of birth and passenger list exists for Andrew Hallett. * No record of birth or ships manifest exists in Dorset County, England for our William Hallett of Dorsetshire.

According to the College of Arms in London, heraldry vendors have existed from earliest times. College of Arms Heralds made visits throughout England in the 16th and 17th centuries to enforce the proper use of hereditary arms. American colonists were British Citizens until after the American War for Independence ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, hence, could submit hereditary evidence for the use of Arms or apply for new Arms. After American participation in WWI with Great Britain and France in 1918, it became vogue for Americans to claim hereditary arms of English Ancestors. Again, after WWII ended in 1945, heraldry vendors were anxious to provide Coats of Arms to their American Allies.

The most common design used by heraldry vendors today to represent the surname Hallett is that granted to Sir James Hallett in 1722. Our first American ancestor, William Hallett, arrived in the New World by 1643 and died in 1706. Although William was sometimes referred to as Mr. Hallett, he referred to himself as Yeoman in his will of 1706. There is no evidence he or any of his descendants, down to the American War for Independence, used these Arms or any Arms similar to those used by earlier Halletts in England.

The text used by heraldry vendors to describe the origins and history of the Hallett surname is a generic narrative similar to that used on all surnames in England. Our Hallett family origins are southwest England in the current counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon. The heraldry vendors use the well known conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 to place many surname origins in the county of Kent in southeast England. Halletts are not found in Kent until the 16th century and their origins were Dorset County.

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Chapter 10 Plimoth

There were two major branches of the Hallett Family in America from the time of the first settlers until after the American Revolution. This chapter concerns the branch that settled on Cape Cod within the territory of early Plimoth Colony. Many Hallett references in America come from descendants of this Cape Cod, Massachusetts family and I have referred to them often.

We have more evidence concerning the birth and voyage of our Plymouth Colony cousin than we do our first ancestor in America, William Hallett, pro-genitor of our Long Island line. We cannot prove that Andrew Hallett was a cousin of William Hallett, with documentary evidence, but there is little doubt that his branch and ours were closely related. While in England in 2008 I researched Andrew and William in Dorset County and the National Archives.

Andrew’s baptism was recorded 19 May 1607 at Symondsbury. Symondsbury is a farming community adjacent the market town of Bridport in Dorset County, England, where our William Hallett came from. Andrew Hallett sailed from the Dorset County Port of Weymouth, England on 20 March 1635 aboard the ship “Marygould”, arriving in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Andrew Hallett’s earliest traceable ancestor was his Great- Grandfather, William Hallett, born abt. 1520/21, Husbandman, who died in 1572. His wife, Mary, died in 1558. Both were buried in the churchyard at Symondsbury. William’s will was recorded in 1572. He named his children and grandchildren in his will.

His Children were:

Androe, b. 1546, Symondsbury

William, Jr., b. 1547, Symondsbury; had sons, William and Andrew, Sr. c. 1572

Richard, b. 1551, Symondsbury

Roberte, b. 1553, Symondsbury; had son John

John, b. 1549, Symondsbury

Andrew Hallett’s Grandfather was William Hallett, Jr. b. 1547 Symondsbury, Dorsetshire

Andrew Hallett’s Father was Andrew Hallett, Sr., b. ch. 17 Feb 1572, Symondsbury; son of William, Jr. above; d. abt. 1647 Symondsbury; m. 18 Dec 1598 at Symondsbury, Beatrix Knote, b.abt. 1577, Symondsbury. 130

Andrew Hallett, Sr. and Beatrix Knote children were:

Chaterin, c. 9 Mar 1601

Andrew, Jr., c. 19 May 1607, Symondsbury; d. abt. 1647 Yarmouth, Massachusetts

John, b.abt. 1610, d. 1675, m.abt.1630, Ann, b. abt.1613 Symondsbury; Child: Ann, b. 1631 Symondsbury. John Hallett was listed as a Planter of Scituate, MA in 1643. Daughter Ann married Richard Curtis in 1649.

Bathsheba, b. abt. 1615; possibly went to Plymouth Colony and married Richard Bourne

Andrew Hallett, Jr. is the Andrew Hallett who sailed to the New World in 1635. He was born and Christened at Symondsbury on 19 May 1607. About 1628 he married Mary Reeve, who was born about 1607 at Symondsbury. He probably died in late 1647 or early 1648.

Children of Andrew Hallett, Jr. and Mary Reeve born at Symondsbury:

Andrew, b. 1626, m. Anne Besse abt. 1645 Yarmouth, d. 1684

Samuel, b. 1627, came to Yarmouth with first settlers in 1638/39, drowned at Nocett Bay, Plymouth Colony on 22 April 1650, unmarried

Hannah, b. 1630, 1 Jul 1656 John Hathaway

Josiah, b. 1634, had land at Yarmouth

Joseph, b. abt. 1635, m. 1666 Elizabeth, had land at Yarmouth

Four ships departed Weymouth for the New World in 1635, the Marygould, Hopewell, Unity and one unknown. Two unknown ships departed in 1637. It is interesting to note that fishing boats from Weymouth and other West Country ports had fished the waters off New England and the Canadian Maritimes for over 100 years and had an entire fleet by 1574.

Andrew Hallett, Jr. of Symondsbury, Dorsetshire, England sailed to the New World aboard the Marygould in 1635 at the age of 28 as a servant of Richard Wade. Mr. Wade, age 60, was travelling with his wife, daughter, another servant and two husbandmen. This voyage was recorded by the Weymouth Town Clerk on 20 March 1635. The Marygould carried 106 Passengers with Andrew listed as #102. Weymouth was the port town for Dorchester, the county town for Dorset. His first residence was Dorchester, Massachusetts. 131

Mr. Andrew Hallett is recorded in March 1638-9 with a house and 7 acres on the “New Street” in Plymouth. He sold this property to Thomas Cushman and received a 200 acre share of land along the Yarmouth-Barnstable line in 1639, but did not live there until 1640. He was one of the first settlers of Sandwich and at the division of common meadows, April 16, 1640, he received a share. He sold his farm at Sandwich, July 28, 1640, to Daniel Wing. He then settled in Yarmouth. In 1642 he bought the dwelling house of Gyles Hopkins, the first built in Yarmouth.

Andrew mortgaged some of his land and sailed back to England, reportedly to pay some debts. He is the “Mr. Hallett” recorded in the “Aspinwall Notarial Records” by the Suffolk County Court Recorder in Boston for debts owed in 1642. He returned to Yarmouth, probably with the rest of his family, by 1643 and probably died in 1647. Andrew Hallett, Sr., and sons Andrew, Jr. and Samuel are noted on the Yarmouth List of Freemen in 1643. Known as Andrew, Jr. in England, he became Andrew, Sr. in Plymouth Colony to distinguish him from his son, who became Andrew, Jr.

I will refer to the son as Andrew, Jr. for the remainder of this article. Later historians and genealogists were confused by these two Andrews when researching the early records. Amos Otis, a local Yarmouth Historian, did an excellent job working through the early Colony records and published his work in 1861. Known as the “Amos Otis Papers” they were republished as “Genealogical notes of Barnstable Families, Vol. I & Vol. II” and can be freely read online using google books. Amos Otis noted that he did not have access to the Dorset County, England records at the time of his research.

Andrew Hallett, Sr. engaged in several lawsuits and was known as a strong willed man, a character trait apparently passed down through the first five generations, according to Amos Otis. Andrew’s widow, Mary Hallett, lived in Barnstable in 1654 and probably died there in 1659. Sons, Josias and Joseph were on the Barnstable List of Freemen in 1657.

When Andrew became one of the first settlers, Plymouth (spelled Plimoth then) Colony had existed since 1620. The Pilgrims struggled in the early years. They gradually learned local soil agricultural methods from Native Americans and developed fur trading along the coast, from Penobscot, Maine to New Amsterdam (NYC). By 1627 they introduced animal husbandry with cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. By 1635 the population had grown to about one thousand and New Plimoth was a stable community. By 1640 the population had doubled as a result of the “Great Migration” occurring in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which went from initial settlement of the Puritans in 1630 to over 20,000 by 1640. A survey delineated “The Old Colony Line” in 1639 and was accepted by both colonies in 1644.

What is the difference between Pilgrim and Puritan? Here is a very basic overview. The Pilgrims were religious separatists who landed at Plymouth in 1620 to practice their religion as Calvinist Saints. The Puritans were religious reformers who landed in the Boston area in 1630 to practice their Calvinist version of the Anglican Church. Both core groups initially formed rigid 132 political/religious societies in the New World. Both these groups would eventually be overwhelmed by the vast majority of people who came seeking freedom from political and religious tyranny, land and a better way of life for themselves and their descendants.

Plymouth Colony was divided into counties in 1685. Barnstable was settled in 1639 and became the County Seat for Barnstable County. Nearby Yarmouth was incorporated in 1639. It is easy to confuse historical references between Barnstable Town and Barnstable County. Andrew Hallett had land in Sandwich, Yarmouth and Barnstable, all within Barnstable County. Many “Great Migration” settlers would continue to increase the population of Massachusetts until Plymouth Colony was annexed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.

There were very few slaves in Plymouth Colony. The first introduction of slave-holding was recorded on a tax list in 1674. Captain Thomas Willet of Marshfield held 8 Negroes with a value of L200. Note: The Willet name appears on Long Island with Hallet Green working for the Willets in New York. Jonathan Hallett, Sr. paid 20 pounds for a 29 year old negro slave called “Harry” in 1686. Slaves were extremely valuable and important to early landholders.

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From here on we will discuss Andrew Hallett, Jr. and his descendants on Cape Cod.

In 1655 Andrew Hallett, Jr. bought the farm of Robert Dennis. By various purchases he added to his inherited land until he became the largest landowner in Yarmouth, with about 300 acres of land and meadows. The westerly part of the county road in Yarmouth was named Hallett Street. He also owned lands in Barnstable, 1,000 acres in Windham, Connecticut, and rights of commonage in Yarmouth equal to 500 acres. He was appointed constable in 1651 and 1659. In 1660, 1667 and 1675 he was a grand juror, and on October 30, 1667, he was appointed to the land committee of Yarmouth.

Andrew Hallett, Jr. was born in 1626 at Symondsbury, Dorset County, England. He died in1684 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married Anne Besse abt. 1645 in Yarmouth. She was born abt. 1631 at Lynn, Massachusetts and died in1694 at Yarmouth. Their children were:

1. Ruhama, b. bapt. 1 Jun 1646 at Sandwich, m. 14 Dec 1664 Job Bourne, d. aft. 1714 2. Dorcas, b. bapt. 1 Jun 1646 at Sandwich, d. bef. 1684 3. Jonathan,Sr. b. 20 Nov 1647 at Yarmouth, m. 30 Jan 1683 Abigail Dexter, d. 12 Jan 1716; Constable of Sandwich in 1684 4. John, Sr. b. 11 Dec 1648 at Yarmouth, m. 16 Feb 1681 Mary Howes, d. 10 Jun 1726; Corporal in John Gorham’s Company during King Phillips Indian War; Constable of Yarmouth in 1682 5. Abigail, b. 1652 at Yarmouth, m. 10 Dec 1672 Captain Jonathan Alden, d. 17 Aug 1723 Duxbury with large estate 6. Mehitabel, b. 1657, m. 10 Nov 1682 John Dexter

Andrew passed all his land to his sons, Jonathan and John, who became the wealthiest men in Yarmouth. Jonathan was known as a disagreeable man who loved money more than anything else. He loaned money for interest and argued with his brother, John, over their land. It is notable that Jonathan did not name any of his children after his ancestors, as John did. His son, Jonathan, Jr., however, continued his name to the next generation and many more to follow. Two of Jonathan’s great-grandsons, Solomon and Elisha, sons of Jonathan III, would become settlers of Kennebec, Maine after the War for American Independence. Solomon Hallett served on the Brig “Active” under Captain John Allen Hallett in 1779. The “Active” was lost during an expedition up the Penobscot River. Captain Hallett was later given command of another ship under construction in Boston.

Jonathan, Sr. was born 20 Nov 1647 and died 12 Jan 1716 at Yarmouth. He and his wife are buried with monuments at the “Old Burying Ground” in Yarmouth. Their children were:

1. Mehitabel, m. 25 Nov 1703 Edward Sturgis 2. Ebenezer, d. 1760, m. 14 Aug 1712 Rebecca Howes 3. Thomas, b. 1691, d. 1772, m. 9 Apr 1719 Sarah Hawes 4. Jonathan, Jr., b. 1694, d. 1783, m. 17 Feb 1719 Desire Howes 134

5. David, m. 19 Aug 1719 Mary Annable 6. Abigail, m. 18 Jan 1719 Hatsuld Freeman 7. Elizabeth, m. 21 Oct 1714 Paul Crowell 8. Timothy, d. 1771, m. 18 Feb 1719 Thankful Sturgis

Mr. John Hallett was born 11 Dec 1648 and died 10 Jun 1726 at Yarmouth. He and his wife, Mary Howes, are buried with monuments at the “Old Burying Ground” in Yarmouth. John was a veteran of King Philip’s War. Their children were:

1. Thankful, m. 3 Dec 1719 Joseph Basset 2. Andrew, b. 1684, d. 1751, m. 23 Jul 1713 Mehitabel Annable 3. John, b. 1688, d. 1765, m. 24 Aug 1716 Thankful Thatcher 4. Joseph 5. Samuel, d. abt. 1757, m. 15 Jun 1727 Susannah Clark 6. Seth, b. 1699, d. 1757, m. 8 May 1729 Mary Taylor 7. Hannah, m. 27 Jun 1728 her cousin Ebenezer Hallett, died in childbirth 20 Apr 1729 8. Mary, d. 1751 unmarried 9. Mercy, d. 1747 10. Hope, b. 1705, d. 1784, m. 24 Jul 1729 Joseph Griffith

We have now listed the first four generations of Halletts in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. For those who wish to dig deeper into the Cape Cod Halletts, I recommend the afore-mentioned work of Amos Otis. Some descendants still spell their name Hallet, but most Halletts spell it the same way we do. Many Halletts who remained on Cape Cod followed in the footsteps of their forebears as sailors, fishermen, farmers and carpenters. Several were lost at sea. In one recorded tragedy, six Halletts went down with their ship off Nantucket. Some set off to pursue business in Boston. By the mid 1800’s we can find Cape Cod and Long Island Halletts all across America.

Captain Bangs Hallet was a 7th generation descendant of Andrew Hallet. Captain Hallet was a well known Yarmouth Sea Captain who captained many sailing vessels through the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during a 30 year career. He and wife, Anna, swapped their house at 95 Hallet Street with Captain Allen Knowles in 1863 for this house on Strawberry Lane, where they retired. This house was built in 1840 on the site of a 1740 house and is now a museum and home to the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth. The name Bangs comes from his Great- Grandmother, Elizabeth Bangs, and was passed to his Father, Edward Bangs Hallett.

Hallet’s Store has been the Yarmouth Port meeting spot since it was built in 1889. It is currently operated by the Great-Grandson of the builder, druggist T. T. Hallet. A Hallet and community museum is on the second floor.

Yarmouth became divided into three villages. The village of Yarmouth Port is where the oldest part of Yarmouth began and was known as “Hallet Country”, with a current population of about 135

5,500. South Yarmouth is the most populous at 12,000 and West Yarmouth has about 6,500 people. Dennis was originally part of Yarmouth and became a separate town in 1793. We golfers are quite familiar with this area as a place to play golf in the spring before it is possible to play in Maine.

Below is the Inventory of the Estate of Andrew Hallett, Jr. (1626-1684). It provides a good picture of this 17th century Plymouth Colony household. The numbers at the end of each line item list the value in Pounds Sterling, Shillings and Pence. 12d (Pence) = 1s (Shilling) and 20s = L1 (Pound).

A true Inventory of ye estate of goods Chattells & Creditts of Andrew Hallett of yarmouth in ye gouerment of New Plimouth yeoman deceased aprised by Iohn miller & Iohn Thather this 19th may 1684 as followeth

Imprimis his purse & aparrell 90 10 06

Itt Bookes 13s 6d in ye parlour a Caubhard 3li 10s ye bed furniture all 14 08 06

Itt the great Table forme & stooles 1li 14s a Chest & chaires 20s 02 14 00

Itt ye Trundle bed & furniture 3li 10s pewter 2li 15s 9d 06 05 00

Itt Brass morter box iron scumer dripping pan tin pans all 00 15 02

Itt a Tunnill spoones Candle sticks a warming pan all 00 10 10

Itt An houre glass a bruch fier slice & tongs a brass skillett 00 06 06

Itt Trammells beer barrells Iron skillett Trayes all 00 17 00

Itt spoones trenchers rowling pill looking glass bottles & Iugs 00 08 01

Itt A Runlett 2s-in ye chamber a bed & furniture all 07 00 00

Itt 22 yards of wooll Cloth a suit of Curtanis & vallens 2 Couerlids 06 06 00

Itt A Couerlid a blankett wool cloth fuld Cloth hops a chest all 03 10 00

Itt A Chest & box 6 pair sheets a table cloth pillow case all 05 08 06

Itt A Table cloth napking hunney bees & hiues flax all 04 15 00

Itt sadles pillion & cloth & bridles Indian Corne Rye all 03 05 00

Itt 4 [word crossed out] Cushens linnen & wooll wheeles bacon & beefe scales & waits 01 19 06 136

Itt siften Trough meale & corne siues bed steed & lumber in ye chamber 00 15 00

Itt Winnowing sheet & baggs horse geers Iron potts & kettles 03 08 00

Itt frying pan bellowes pott hookes milke pailes & straining dish 00 07 00

Itt In ye leantoo brass & Iron & hathell a tubb & Churne 05 14 00

Itt earthen ware milke vessells & lumber in ye leantoo 00 19 00

Itt A table 10s-2 barrells a Cowle a bagg 2 pillow cases 01 02 06

Itt Tallow hoggs fatt malt linnen yarne wool & yarne & flax 02 17 00

Itt Armes & Amunition 03 02 08

Itt Cart & wheels with plough & ox tackling howes & shouells 05 06 00

Itt pitch forkes wythes 3 Augers & other tooles horse ffetters 01 04 00

Itt Horses mares sheep & swine 21 02 00

Itt 2 oxen 15 Cowes & 23 young Cattell all 64 [1]5 00

Itt eighteen Iags of Hay a grind stone a l[im] a peck 04 15 00

Itt Bords & bolts 10s-a drawing knife spitt & other smale things 01 02 00

Itt In houseing lands & meadows 909 00 00

Itt debts due to ye estate 02 10 00

It To a bed & beding therto belongs in ye Kitchin 06 18 00

Itt 3 yards of Cloth 15s-a sundiall & knife 2s 00 17 00

Totall sum is 1180 13 09

Ann Hallett ye Relict of Andrew Hallett made oath to the truth of this Inventory 31 May 84 before me. Iohn Thatcher assist.

Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. IV, Part II, folio 135. WILL OF ANDREW HALLETT (1626- 1684) [From Plymouth Red. P. 194; as transcribed in Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, being a reprint of the Amos Otis Papers originally published in the Barnstable Patriot, Library of Congress Catalog No. F74.B1408, at p. 505]:

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To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come: Know yee that I, Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, in ye Colony of New Plymouth, being weake in body by reason of sore pains and aches, yet blessed by God at this time present I have my reason and understanding fresh and timely, I doe make this my last will and testament as followeth: First, I doe bequeath my soule to God that gave it unto me, and my body to ye dust from whence it was formed by a desent and comely Buriall, and for that portion of Temporall blessings that God hath been pleased to posess me of, I do will and bequeath as followeth: First, I doe will and bequeath to my loving wife one- third part of all my whole estate of moveables both within my house and also one-third part of all my cattell that I have not disposed of for ye comfort of her life and at her dispose to whom she shall see cause to give it unto, also my will is that my said wife shall have and Injoy ye easter end of my said house I now live in during her naturall life, and ye thirds of all ye profits or Improvements of all my lands, both upland and meadow, during her naturall life, and then to returne as followeth in this my will. And to my son Jonathan Hallett I will and bequeath little calves pasture, so called, which is from my old field fence and bounds that is betwixt me and ye said Andrew Hallett and John Gorham with ye broken marsh belonging to ye said pasture butting against ye old mill pond. Also, I doe give unto my said son, Jonathan Hallett, my great table and my great bedstead and ye drawne cushings and ye cubbord and ye stands in ye Ester end of my now dwelling-house after my decease and ye decease of my wife. And also I do give unto my said son Jonathan Hallett twenty pounds of my estate, and then my will is that my son Jonathan Hallett and my son John Hallett shall equally make a division of all my lands and meadows whatsoever both within fence and without with all housings whatsoever shall be standing upon my lands considering the quantity and quality and so to make a division of you may agree yourselves, but in case you cannot agree to divide ye said and housings then to chose indifferent men between you to make a division of ye said Housing and lands and meadows and when equally divided then my son Jonathan to have ye one halfe and my son John to have ye other halfe, only my son Jonathan to have ye first choyce of ye lands and housing after devition, and my son John Hallett to have ye other halfe of ye housing and lands and meadows, only ye said John Hallett my son to pay to his brother Jonathan Hallett ye just sum of ten pounds, also what I have already given to my son John Hallett I doe now confirme to him as his owne proper right and for ye farme I bought of John Fenny, Senr. of Barnstable, I doe confirme to my two sons Jonathan Hallett and to my son John Hallett, to them and their heirs forever to be equally divided between them two, but concerning my other lands before mentioned in this my will, that in case either of my sons Jonathan Hallett or John Hallett shall dye without I shew of their bodies lawfully begotten, then I doe give liberty to either of them to will their part of their lands and housings to whom they please, provided it be to any of their owne kindred of ye Halletts, but in case any of my said sons doe die without any issue and – without any will then my will is that my son that doth survive shall have ye one halfe of his said brothers lands that is deceased, and ye other halfe of his said lands to his three sisters and their heirs forever, but in case that both my said sons shall dye without any Issue and without will as above said then all my said lands and housing to fall to my three daughters, that is to say to Ruhamath and Abigall and Mehettabell and theirs heirs forever, to be equally divided between them three. And to my daughter Ruhamath Bourn I doe confirme to her what she hath already; and doe will to her ye just sum of twenty pounds more of my estate, and to my Grandchildren viz Timothy Bourne I do will five pounds; and to Hannah Bourne I doe will five pounds, and to Elezer Bourne I do will five pounds, and Hezekiah Bourne I doe will five pounds of my estate. And to my daughter Abigall Aldin I doe confirme to her what I have already given her and do will unto her my said daughter Abigall 138 twenty pouinds in money that I lent unto her husband Jonathan Alldin. And my will is that my daughter Abigall Aldin shall have six pounds paid more to her by my Executor, and to my daughter Abigail's children I give twenty pounds, that is five pounds to each of them, to be paid by my Executor unto all my children above expressed either at ye day of their marriage or when they shall come to ye age of one and twenty years or sooner if my Executor shall see cause, and to my daughter Mehettabell I do will and bequeath unto her ye just sum of sixty pounds with what she hath already of my estate, and to my grandchild John Bourne he shall have pounds when he shall come of age of one and twenty years, to be paid by me Executor out of their estates according to proportion of what they have of mine estate. Bee it futhers knowne by these presents that I doe make and appoint my loveing wife Ann, and my sons Jonathan Hallett and John Hallett joynt Executors to this my last will and testament as witness my hand and seal this fourteenth day of March Ano Domi one thousand six hundred eighth one eighty and two. The make of A. A. Andrew Hallett, and a (seal) Signed and sealed in presence of us, Thomas Thornton, Sen. John Miller This will proved at ye Court held at Plymouth ye 4 June 1684.

At p. 508: "Goodman Andrew Hallett, after providing in his will for the comfortable support of his widow, making liberal bequests to his daughters, and giving to his son Jonathan his little Calbes Pasture, as a token of his right of primogeniture, gave all the remainder of his estate to his two sons, enjoining on them to make a peaceful division thereof by mutual agreement. They quarrelled about the boundries of the little Calves Pasture, the birthright of Jonathan, and they spent two years and a half in vain attempts to divide peaceably and by mutual concession and agreement, when they put themselves under bonds of £800, each to the other, to abide by the award of Mr. Nathanial Bacon, of Barnstable, an Col. William Bassett, of Sandwich. Jonathan had the western portion of the farm, John the eastern. The present road to the wharf is the division line on the north side of the County road. That there was some unpleasant feeling between them and their familys, is indicated by the fact that Jonathan's descendants called John's, "other side Halletts."

Other Andrew Hallett Descendants of Interest:

Hallett, Oklahoma is west of Tulsa on SR 99 north of US 412. It was founded at the junction of two railroad lines in 1904 and became the trade and support center for farmers and oil and gas exploration. It is named for LT Charles H. Hallett, a Cavalry Officer in Company K, 19th Kansas Regiment.

Many people went west after the Civil War to take advantage of land opportunities. When they arrived in the plains they found themselves in the middle of another war, this time with Native American tribes. The situation was deteriorating in 1868, calling for more action by the U.S. Government. Kansas Governor Samuel J. Crawford resigned his office and assumed command 139 of Kansas volunteer forces that were quickly recruited to supplement regular army forces in the effort to put down various Indian attacks and force them onto reservations further west. The 19th Kansas Regiment helped with the Indian relocation and escorted settlers while serving from October 1868 to April 1869. General George Custer’s 7th Cavalry and other regular forces did most of the actual fighting.

At the 1870 Census, Charles H. Hallet is listed as a Deputy Sheriff at Fort Scott, Kansas, 23 years old, born in Ohio and currently living in a boarding house. At the 1880 Census he is married to Chloe and is a detective in Fort Scott, Kansas. Charles lists his parents as both born in Ohio, but the 1850 Ohio Census lists his probable father, Isaiah, as age 40 and born in Maine (1810). Isaiah bought 40 acres of Ohio land in 1820 and apparently died before the 1860 Ohio Census, as only Charles and his mother, Margaret are listed. Kansas conducted a state census in 1875, listing Charles and Margaret living at Fort Scott. As Maine did not become a state until 1820, Isaiah was actually born in the Massachusetts territory of Maine.

The data for Isaiah H. Hallet and Charles H. Hallet seem to track well enough to say they were descended from Andrew Hallett, progenitor of the Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, branch of the Hallett Family. Charles grandfather, Isaiah Hallet, served with Massachusetts units in the War of 1812 and his great-grandfather, Isaiah Hallet served with Massachusetts units in the American War of Independence. Note: The Ohio Land Deed for Isaiah H. Hallet is signed on behalf of President Andrew Jackson when it was recorded May 13, 1835. Note: I was assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma twice during my Army career. Fort Sill was established in 1869 as one of many frontier posts to help with security for frontier settlers. Fort Sill and some of the other frontier forts have historical sites which may be visited today.

Hallett Motor Racing is the most prominent reference to Hallett, OK today, although it is not within the bounds of Hallett.

Hallett Peak (12,713 feet ASL) is located in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. It is named for William L. Hallett, who took his bride over this peak on their honeymoon in 1879. Hallett Glacier was also named for him in 1883. At the 1900 US Census he was listed as an Ore Buyer for a Smelter in Denver, Colorado, age 44, born in Massachusetts in August 1855. He was married to Elvena A. Hallett, also born in Massachusetts, and they had 6 children.

Hallett Nature Sanctuary is located in the west end of Central Park in New York City. It is named for George Hervey Hallett, Jr. of Manhattan, New York City, New York. George was born 23 May 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died 2 July 1985 in New York City. Dr. George Hallett attained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1918. He became politically active early in life and was listed as Assistant Secretary of the Political Reform League on the 1920 Census. By 1930 he would become the Secretary of this organization for the remainder of his life. He was also listed as a Monitor of New York City Government and Executive Secretary and Legal Representative of the Citizens Union at his 140 death in 1985. On the 1900 Census of Philadelphia, George Hervey Hallett (Sr.) is listed as a Professor of Mathematics born in Maine in December 1870 with his father born in Massachusetts. He attended the Plummer Farm School for boys in Salem, Massachusetts. George (Sr.) father was also named George H. Hallett and was living with his father-in-law in Mansfield, Massachusetts at the 1880 Census. All available information indicates ancestral roots with the Cape Cod Halletts.

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References & Notes

Many of the below listed references may be found within the chapters. Some references may only be found within the chapters.

Primary References:

1. Dorset County, England Parish Registers, Wills and Legal Documents. 2. Priory Court of Canterbury (PCC) Wills. 3. William and Elizabeth (Fones) Hallett and Some of Their Descendants 1616-1994, George H. Hayward, 1994. 4. The Annals of Newtown in Queens County, New York, James Riker, Jr., 1852. 5. Delafield, The Family History, John Ross Delafield, Vol. 1 1927, Vol. 2 1945. 6. United States of America Census Reports.

Brevard County Library References, Titusville, Florida:

1. The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1633 Volumes I – III, Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston 1995. Note: this work cross checks and summarizes all work previously done. Excellent single source for those Immigrants who were recorded and the records were available for research by early historians and genealogists. The plan is to continue this series up to 1640 or 1642 at the end of the Great Migration. 2. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage, Boston 1860; Little, Brown and Company. 3. Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1650. Charles Edward Banks, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1963; originally published in Philadelphia 1937. 4. Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620 – 1700, Frank R. Holmes, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1984; originally published in New York 1923. 5. Passengers to America, Michael Tepper, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1977. 6. The Island at the Center of the World, Russell Shorto, Doubleday, 2004. 7. Divided Loyalties, Richard M. Ketchum, Henry Holt and Company, 2002. 8. Origin of English Surnames, C.W. Bardsley, 1901.

Brevard County Central Library References, Cocoa, Florida:

1. Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlewaite, Heart of the Lakes Publishing, Interlaken, New York 1993; originally published in London by Barrie and Jenkins. 2. Lists of Emigrants to America 1600 – 1700, John Camden Hotten, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1968. 142

3. The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607 – 1660, Peter Wilson Coldham, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1988. 4. Ye Historie of ye Town of Greenwich, Spencer P. Mead, Picton Press, Camden, Maine 1992. 5. The Register of New Netherland 1626 – 1674, E. B. O’Callaghan, L.L.D., Clearfield County; Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1995; originally published at Albany, New York 1865. 6. Genealogical & Family History of New York, William S. Pelletreau, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore 1998; originally N.Y. 1907. 7. Dictionary of English Surnames, P.H Reaney and R.M. Wilson, Routledge, 1991. 8. Domesday Book, Extracts and translations. 9. The Winthrop Fleet, Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, Boston, 2012. 10. Lechford’s Manuscript Notebook 1638-1641, Picton Press, Camden, Maine 1988.

Additional References:

1. The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton (Historical Novel used for research leads). 2. Greenwich Old & New by Lydia Holland and Margaret Leaf. 3. Elizabeth Winthrop – All the Days of Her Life History companion by Miram Renwick Buckland and John Alexander Buckland. 4. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset printed by C.J. Creed. 5. Aspinwall Notarial Records, William Aspinwall, Suffolk County Court Recorder. 6. The Winthrop Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. 7. Somerset and Dorset Notes & Queries Vol.18-19, Dorset Royalist Roll of Honour. 8. History of Stamford, Connecticut, Elijah Baldwin Huntington. 9. History of New London, Frances Manwaring Caulkins, H.D. Utley, 1895. 10. Dutch Manuscripts 1630-64, New York State Secretary’s Office. 11. Documents Relative to the History of New York, the Early Colonial Settlements, Principally on Long Island”, edited by John Romeyn Brodhead. 12. That Winthrop Woman Again, Donald Lines Jacobus Paper, New Haven Museum. 13. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, May 1890 Meeting. 14. Delafield, the Family History, BG John Ross Delafield (1875-1964) Harvard Law, Family Historian and descendant of John Delafield and Ann Hallett, daughter of Joseph (1731-1799). 15. Narratives of New Netherland, edited by Dr. J. Franklin Jameson. 16. Genealogical notes of Barnstable Families, (Amos Otis Papers) Amos Otis, 1888. 17. The Book of The Axe, George P.R. Pulman, 1875. 18. The Thomas Book, Lawrence Buckley Thomas, 1896, Henry T. Thomas Co., NYC. 19. History of Dorset, John Hutchins, J.B. Nichols & Sons, Winchester, 1861-74. 20. The Victoria History of the County of Dorset, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. 1908. 21. The History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset, George Roberts, 1823. 143

22. The Hallett History of Percy William Hallett and his ancestors, Philip Hallett, 1994, National Library of Australia. 23. Reverend John Moore of Newtown, Long Island and some of his descendants, 1903. 24. Annals of our Colonial Ancestors and their descendants, A.M. Shotwell, 1895. 25. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Volumes 11-13, 1880. Genealogical Fragments by J.J. Latting, Feake. 26. John Winthrop, Jr. Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. 27. The Visitation of the County of Dorset 1623, Harleian Society, London 1885. Listed as #1166 in the Harleian Collection in the British Museum. Original record of the Visitation of Dorsetshire made in the year 1623. The Borough of Bridport included Water (Walter) Halett, Burgess, and Roger Halet, Deputy Towne Clarke. Corporacon to consist of 15 Burgesses and 2 Baileiffes, chosen yearly among the Burgesses. Ratified by King James. Note: This form of government was similar to present day Incorporated Towns and Cities. 28. Colonial Families of the United States 1607 – 1775; Society of Genealogists of London, England; Genealogical Publishing Co. Balt. 1995: William Hallett of Dorsetshire, England who settled on Long Island prior to 1655 as the Grantee of the patent of Hallett’s Point and at one time Sheriff of Queens County, New York. This Hallett family in America was derived from English ancestry, it’s members having been long settled in Dorsetshire. Ann Hallett, b. 24 Feb 1766, d. 6 Mar 1839, daughter and co-heiress of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hazard) Hallett. M. 11 Dec 1784 John Delafield. John Delafield of London taking passage to NY 5 Apr 1783, bringing news of peace. Made citizen of US and freeman of NYC in 1784. Summer of 1791 he purchased the Blackwell farm of 140 acres on the east bank of the East River, opposite Blackwell’s Island, where he built a large country residence. Colonel Jacob Blackwell was married to Ann Hallett’s aunt, Lydia Hallett, only sibling of Joseph Hallett. 29. Families of Ancient New Haven; Genealogical Publishing Co. 1997: Hallett, William; Judge (Flushing Town) May 1664; Connecticut Colony I. 428. 30. The Compendium of American Genealogy lists William Hallett: Hallett, William (1616 – 1706) Dorsetshire, England to Greenwich, Connecticut before 1647. Home and plantation at Hellgate. Hallett’s Cove destroyed by Indians in 1655. Sheriff at Flushing in 1656. Delegate to the General Court of Connecticut. Commissioner for Flushing. Returned to Hellgate. Married Elizabeth (Fones) Feake in 1647, she the divorced wife of Robert Feake. She died in 1673. 31. Genealogical Gleanings in England, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, NEHGS, Boston, 1901. 32. Genealogies of the State of New York, Long Island Edition, Lewis Historical Pub.Co.1915. 33. Picturing New York, Gloria Gilda Deak, Columbia University Press, 2000. 34. Loyalists in The Southern Campaign, Murtie June Clark, GPC, 1981. 35. The American Loyalists, Lorenzo Sabine, Boston, 1847. 36. Early Loyalist Saint John, David Bell, Fredericton, NB, 1983. 37. The Loyalists of New Brunswick, Esther Clark Wright, Fredericton, NB, 1955. 38. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Rev. World, Maya Jasanoff, 2011. 39. Third Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, 1897, pub. 1898. 144

40. Muskets and Mansions: The Greenwich Story, Daniel Knapp, 1966

Notes:

Russell Shorto’s book, “The Island at the Center of the World”, published by Doubleday in 2004, covers the Dutch Colony of New Netherlands very well. His work uses the effort being accomplished by Dr. Charles Gehring, Director of the New Netherlands Project at the New York State Library, to translate and transcribe all the available records of the colony(12,000 pages). The Dutch Government sold for scrap paper their remaining records of that time in 1821(80,000lbs).

Excerpts from the Register of New Netherland:

1647, May 11 Petrus Stuyvesant takes over from Willem Kieft as Director General of the Dutch West India Company at New Amsterdam. New Netherlands total population est. 2000. Church finished. Houses built of wood and thatched with straw. Influenza prevails throughout the country.

1648 Fire Department and an Annual Fair established.

1652 Settlement begun at Newtown. Bibles imported. Slaves to be imported directly from Africa. Population of New Amsterdam est. 800.

1656 Baptist Minister of Flushing banished and Sheriff Hallett degraded for harboring him.

1663 Smallpox commits great ravage. Religious persecution ceases for all Non-Dutch Churches.

1664 New Netherland granted to the Duke of York after English defeat Dutch. English Towns on Long Island elect Captain John Scott as their President. Population of New York est. 10,000.

1673 – 1674 Briefly recaptured by the Dutch.

1674 January 22 Order of Dutch Council regarding separation of William Hallett and wife Susannah

Sheriff’s of Flushing (incl. Jamaica and Hempstead)

1656 March 25 William Hallett selected. Removed November 8th for permitting a Baptist Minister to officiate in his house and for having received the last supper at his hands.

1657 Tobias Feake selected. Dismissed January 1658 for sympathizing with Quakers. 145

Magistrates of Flushing (Planted in 1645):

1651 John Underhill

1662 William Hallett

1664 May 12 Appointed by Connecticut: William Hallett

Notes from early census/tax surveys:

1675 September. Newtowne. William Hallett, Sr. (Hallit) has value of 25 land and meadow, 4 Horses, 2 Oxen, 5 Cows, 14 Sheep, 3 Pigs. William, Jr. has value of 13 land and meadow, 1 Horse, 2 Oxen, 3 Cows, 3 Sheep, 2 Pigs.

1683 Newtown. William Hallett, Sr. same as 1675. William, Jr. has value of 20 land and meadow, etc. Samuel has value of 15 land and meadow, etc.

New York Council Minutes 1668 – 1783:

1669 June 9 Court of Sessions agreement between William Hallett and wife Susannah

1675 January 22 William Hallett and wife Susannah separation confirmed.

1675 June 8 Order of Sessions Court regarding separation of William Hallett and wife Susannah. William Hallett brought suit against Joseph Thorne, who was still trying to get compensation for his mother, Susannah (Booth, Thorne) Hallett. Appears that William Hallett successfully brought evidence that an agreement had already been satisfied in an earlier Dutch Court.

1697 April Judgement in regard to William Hallett versus Simon Valentine van der Wilden.

1699 April 11 Survey of land ordered for William Hallett.

1703 February 4 William Hallett among Newtown Trustees.

1706 March 1 George Hallett versus William Lawrence. March 11 William Lawrence suspended from council.

1767 January 28 Township of New Fane (NH) granted to Jacob Hallett and others.

1767 February 12 Township of Barnet (NH) granted to Jacob Hallett and others. 146

In 1776 window lead was taken from the homes of most citizens to be used for lead ball. NYC collected 100 tons. Donations were made by James Hallett and Joseph Hallett.

On May 20, 1776 On contract of Joseph Hallett, L100 to Moses Ogden for cannon ball and grapeshot. Note that Joseph Hallett had many contracts with the State of New York and the Provincial Congress during the Revolutionary War. He was a Provincial Congress Deputy for the first three congresses. Jacob Blackwell and John DeLancey also served.

Joseph Hallett was a member of the Committee of Resistance, Provisional War Committee, May 1, 1775 for the city and county of New York.

William Hallett is listed as an Assignor of land bounty rights at the end of the Revolutionary War. Also listed under class rights.

First Census of the United States 1790:

Heads of Families in New York

20 Hallett Heads (spelled Hallet)

George, Jacob, James, John, Jonah, Jonathan, Joseph (x3), Moses, Nathan, Nathaniel Sr., Nathaniel Jr., Samuel, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., Solomon, Stephan, Susanna, Thomas

Parish Register for St. Michaels, Barbados includes:

Oct 7, 1678: Baptism of Christopher, son of Major John Hallet & Mary his wife

Oct16, 1678: Burial of Christopher Hallet

May15, 1679: Burial of Mr. Gregory Hallet

1680 List of inhabitants:

Richard Hallett, w/1 servant, w/4 slaves

John Hallett, Esq. & wife, w/5 children, w/3 servants, w/14 slaves; he is also listed as a landowner w/220 acres and 84 negroes

Other notes concerning Barbados:

In March 1656 on the ship John, 80 (political prisoners) were embarked at Plymouth, England to be transported to Barbados. One name was William Hallett.

List of rebels convicted for high treason (political prisoners) to be sent to Barbados in 1685 from the Dorchester, England jail included Joseph Hallett and Thomas Hallett. 147

On 29 Jan 1685 Captain John Hallett is listed as the master of 2 rebel servants to be sent to Barbados.

In December of 1685 the Honorable Colonel John Hallett is listed as the master of 4 servants to be sent to Barbados.

New York Colonial Muster Rolls 1664 – 1775:

List of Captain Nathaniel Hazard’s Company, Queens County, New York 1715

Samuel Hallet, George Hallet, Joseph Hallet, Richard Hallet

Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. Book by Murtie June Clark, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1981:

Note: Oliver DeLancey (1718-1785) was a wealthy merchant and very well connected among the ruling class in New York. His brother, James DeLancey, Sr., had been chief justice of the court and lieutenant governor and head of the “DeLancey party”, which was largely Anglican and Torie. At the outbreak of war, Oliver DeLancey joined the British General Howe and raised three loyalist battalions, which comprised the DeLancey Brigade. He served as commanding officer on Long Island and after the war fled to England in 1783, where he died two years later. His loyalist battalions served in the southern campaign during the war.

Page 5. Muster Roll – Maj Joseph Green’s Co., First Bn., BG Oliver Delancey’s Bde.

25 Dec 1782 – 24 Jan 1783 Corporal Hallett, Robert

Page 41. Muster Roll – Maj. Thomas Bowden’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah, GA.

25 Apr 1782 – 24 Jun 1782 Corporal Hallett, Robert

Page 51. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

29 Nov 1779 Captain Hallett, Samuel (on leave)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel

Sgt. Hallett, Jacob (died 19 Nov 1779)

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY) 148

Page 52. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

24 Feb 1781 – 24 Apr 1781 Private Hallett, Robert

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel (recruiting NY)

Page 54. Muster Roll – Captain Samuel Hallett’s Co., Second Bn., BG Delancey’s Bde., Savannah

25 Oct 1781 – 24 Dec 1781 Private Hallett, Robert

Sgt. Hallett, Nathaniel (sick NY)

Lt. Hallett, Daniel (NY)

Page 190. Muster Roll – Captain Allan Cameron’s Co., NY Volunteers, Commanded by LTC George Turnbull, Savannah, GA

29 Nov 1779 Private Hallett, Robert

Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1982:

Hallett, James (NJ) 2LT 4th NJ Regt. 28 Nov 1776; 1LT 17 Feb 1777; resigned 1 Oct 1777 then served in NJ Militia. Ancestry was (James 4, Samuel 3, Samuel 2, William)

Hallett, Jonathan (NY) 2LT 3rd NY Jul 1775; 1LT and Adjutant Mar 1776; Captain 2nd NY 21 Nov 1776 – 3 Jun 1783. Ancestry uncertain, but certainly Hallett’s Cove descendant.

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Genealogy Abbreviations: aft. after b. born bapt. baptized bef. before bur. buried c. circa (approximately the year) ch. christened (used extensively in English parish registers) d. died div. divorced d/o daughter of gd/o granddaughter of gs/o grandson of h/o husband of m. married m2. second marriage, etc. poss. possibly prob. probably r. relationship r2. second relationship, etc. s/o son of w/o wife of

Other Abbreviations:

Co. county CT Connecticut FL Florida GBR Great Britain (includes Wales and Scotland) MA Massachusetts MHS Massachusetts Historical Society ME Maine NB New Brunswick, Canada NEHGS New England Historical Genealogical Society NYGBS New York Genealogical Biographical Society NY New York PCC Priory Court of Canterbury SOG Society of Genealogists UK United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 150