Capt. Isaac Hall
He is described as a son of Andrew and Abigail [Walker] Hall, born in Medford, January 24, 1739. Now Capt. Isaac Hall married on October 8, 1761, Abigail Cutter, and had a number of children. The second was Eleanor, born July 23, 1764, and the fourth was James, born December 25, 1768. Eleanor was married by Peter Thacher on April 24, 1791, to Charles Stimpson the son of Recompense Wadsworth Stimpson, a merchant of Boston, Mass., and the writer of this communication is a grandson of this couple. The article above cited gives Capt. Isaac's death, (p. 102) (November 24, 1789). This I believe to be a mistake, and that it should be November 13, 1805. The Boston Directory for 1796 and ‘98 gives the name of Isaac Hall and locates him as a distiller, Distill House square, House No. 12, Franklin Place. The same name appears in the directories which follow, with his residence on Franklin Place, till 1803, when its occupation is given a boarding house, 12 Franklin Square.1 In 1806 the name changes to Abigail Hall, boarding house, 12 Franklin Square,2 and so continues for several years. The Suffolk Co. Deed Records show that one Abigail Howard sold a house at No. 12 Franklin Place to Isaac Hall, distiller, on June 21, 1796. At the time Charles Stimpson (his son-in-law) was twenty-one he began to keep a diary of some of the important events of his life. He was a trader, and from 1789 to 1801 did business at Petersburgh, Virginia, making frequent trips to and from Boston. Among the events so recorded is that of his wedding to Eleanor Hall, on April 24, 1791, and of a visit Isaac Hall made him in Portland from August 1, to September i, 1801. On November 24, 1805, the record is ‘Mr. Isaac Hall died at Boston Aged 66’ One other event he records: October 14, 1814, Abigail Hall broke up her housekeeping at Franklin place. By reference to a Bible Record kept by my Uncle William Cutter
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[p. 61] twice indirectly.
The accuracy of this remained unquestioned for several years, till early in 1911 a communication from Kansas, addressed to the Historical Society, came into our hands, which we now present:—
On page 100, Vol VIII, of the Historical Register, appears an article by Mr. Hall Gleason on
Medford, MA. 1912.
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