Keziah Hall

1705 - 1808  (103 years)

• Name	Keziah Hall  [1, 2]
  Birth	1705	Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1808  [4]
  Burial	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)
  Marriage	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)
  Family ID	F16026	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Feb 2020

  
  

• 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.