William Hallock

- 1684

• Name	William Hallock  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	28 Sep 1684  [2]
  Death	29 Sep 1684	Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, New York   [3, 4]
  Burial	First Presbyterian Church Old Burying Ground, Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York   [3]
  Person ID	I22586	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2021

  
  

  Family	Margaret   d. 9 May 1707, Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, New York
  Children	+ 1. Abigail Hallock
  Family ID	F13593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Mather (citation details below) follows longstanding Hallock family tradition in identifying this William Hallock as the only son of a Peter Hallock, of whom he says: "Peter I bought land of the Shinnecock Indians, in 1626. The tract was in the present Town of Southold, L. I. He held it for two years, and then returned to England. In 1640, he came to New Haven with the Eaton and Davenport Pilgrims. He selected 13 settlers for Southold, with Rev. John Youngs as their Pastor. They landed at Hallock's Point, already so named in the previous trip of Peter I, in 1626. It is said that he was the first of the 13 to step on shore, in 1640. That part of Southold is still called 'Hallock's Neck,' and the beach extending from it, 'Hallock's Beach,' which is now a public park. He returned to England for his wife, who, when he married her, was a Wid., with a son by her former husband, Mr. Howell. He promised that, if she accompanied him, her son should share with his son in his property." We know of no evidence for this Peter Hallock's existence, let alone whether he was William's father, but the family tradition has been persistent for generations.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2763] Southold Connections: Historical and Biographical Sketches of Northeastern Long Island by Judy Jacobson. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009. [S5878] The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut by Frederic Gregory Mather. Albany, New York, 1913. [S2814] Find a Grave page for William Hallock. [S5879] Valerie Liles, "Identifying the Southold Families of Israel and Zebulon Hallock as 1776 Refugees from Long Island to Connecticut." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 152:185, July 2021., date only.