Keziah Hall

1705 - 1808  (103 years)

• Name	Keziah Hall  [1, 2]
  Born	1705	Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Died	1808  [4]
  Buried	Hope Cemetery, Kennebunk, York, Maine   [4]
  Person ID	I26827	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	John Hall,   b. 1679, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 1738, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Esther Chesley,   b. 1682, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. Aft 1736, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire  (Age > 55 years)
  Married	9 Aug 1705	Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire   [1, 2, 5]
  Notes	Torrey gives a date of 3 Jul 1699 for this marriage. So do Noyes, Libby, and Davis, but in their errata this is corrected to 9 Aug 1705, the date also given by The Wentworth Genealogy.
  Family ID	F16027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Evans,   b. 29 Oct 1704, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 20 Nov 1767  (Age 63 years)
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Evans,   b. 1750, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire ,   d. 2 Apr 1844, Kennebunk, York, Maine  (Age 94 years)
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2020
  Family ID	F16026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Called "Keziah Wentworth Hall" in many online databases, but we have seen no evidence that she had any middle name at all. The Chesleys did marry into the Wentworths -- Philip1's grandson James Chesley married the immigrant William1 Wentworth's granddaughter Tamsen Wentworth, a year before Keziah's birth. And because the Wentworths were a family on the rise by 1705, it's possible that Keziah was given Wentworth as a middle name in order to underscore the connection. But generally the smart bet is to assume that eighteenth-century middle names were invented by bad genealogists in later years.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1953] The Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical by David Brainerd Hall. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons, 1883. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939. [S3668] Find a Grave page for Keziah Wentworth Hall Evans., year only. [S3668] Find a Grave page for Keziah Wentworth Hall Evans. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878.