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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Reuben Hall

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of James Taylor — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 182 
  • Father:
  • David Hall 
  • Mother:
  • Tamsen Sears   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Apr 1747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Apr 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hill Cemetery, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Howes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1775 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Desire Hall (Ahnentafel No:91 )

  Thomas Hall

  • Notes: 

  • Reuben Hall's birth date is often published as 05 APR 1747 or 16 APR 1747. In 1752, the change in calendar eliminated 11 days, so the earlier date is old style and the latter new style.

• Sources for Reuben Hall

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/23/2018).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 53, Birth record for daughter Desire Hall.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 55, Birth record for Reuben Howes.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ashfield, Vol. 1, p. 244, Death record for Reuben Hall.
  • ⁵ Western Massachusetts Families in 1790, Reuben Hall, pp. 1-9.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 371, 532.