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Marriage: Children:
  1. Dority Heald: Birth: 9 MAR 1673/74 in Concord, Middlesex County, MA.

  2. John ( Heald) Hale: Birth: 24 MAR 1675/76 in Concord, Middlesex County, MA. Death: 4 APR 1761 in Springfield, MA

  3. Dorcas Heald: Birth: 14 FEB 1678/79 in Concord, Middlesex County, MA. Death: 28 JAN 1769 in Springfield, MA

  4. Ann(Heald) Hale: Birth: 5 NOV 1681 in Concord, Middlesex County, MA. Death: 13 MAR 1723/24 in West Haven, CT

  5. Gershom Hale: Birth: 5 FEB 1683/84 in Concord, Middlesex County, MA. Death: 1777 in Windham, CT

  6. Ruth Heald: Birth: 19 DEC 1687 in Stow, MA.

  7. Susannah Heald: Birth: ABT. 1693. Death: 21 FEB 1776 in West Haven, CT

  8. Samuel Hale: Birth: ABT. 1695 in Born either at Stow or Springfield, or some intermediate stopping place.S. Death: AFT. 2 FEB 1751/52 in Probably at West Haven, CT

  9. Benjamin Heald: Birth: 17 AUG 1698 in Springfield, MA. Death: 21 JUL 1769 in Suffield, CT


Sources
1. Title:   Line of Descent From John Heald, in Concord, MA , 1635, to Mary Elizabeth Heald, Who Died, Feb 1, 1871, At McHenry, ILl
Author:   Edwin Drury
2. Title:   A History Of The Town Of Concord, Middlesex County, MA, From It's Earliest Settlement to 1832; and of the Adjoining Towns Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, an
Page:   pg 374
Author:   Lemuel Shattuck
Publication:   Boston:Russell, Odiorne, and Company, Concord:John Stacy. 1835
3. Title:   Concord Massachusetts - Births, Marriages, and Deaths - 1635-1850
Page:   pg 5
Publication:   Beacon Press, Boston, Thomas Todd, Printer,7-A Beacon Street, Boston
4. Title:   Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, MA
Page:   Vol.III, pg122
Author:   Ellery Bicknell Crane
Publication:   The Lewis Publishing Co.; New York, Chicago; 1907
5. Title:   Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America
Page:   Vol. VII, pg 112
Author:   Edited by Frederick Varkus
Publication:   A. N. Marquis & Co, Chicago, 1925
6. Title:   Hale House and Related Families, Many of the Conn River Valley
Page:   pg 262
Author:   Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Frances Waterman
Publication:   The Connecticut Historical Society; Hartford , CT; 1952 , Printed in the USA, The Anthoesen Press, Portland , ME
7. Title:   A History Of The Town Of Concord, Middlesex County, MA, From It's Earliest Settlement to 1832; and of the Adjoining Towns Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, an
Page:   pg 44
Author:   Lemuel Shattuck
Publication:   Boston:Russell, Odiorne, and Company, Concord:John Stacy. 1835
8. Title:   John Heald of Concord, MA and Some of His Descendants
Page:   pg 8
Author:   Clarence Almon Torrey
Publication:   Boston, 1940
9. Title:   New England Marriages Prior to 1700
Page:   pg 361
Author:   Clarence Almon Torrey
Publication:   Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore,
10. Title:   NEHGR
Page:   Vol. 85, pg 109
Author:   Published Under The Direction of The New England Historic=Genealogical Society
Publication:   Albany: J. Munsell
11. Title:   Concord Massachusetts - Births, Marriages, and Deaths - 1635-1850
Page:   pg 17
Publication:   Beacon Press, Boston, Thomas Todd, Printer,7-A Beacon Street, Boston

Notes
a. Note:   It is uncertain when Gershom and Ann Hale left Concord, but was likely soon after the birth of Gershom, Jr., in 1684. Their daughter Ruth was born in Stow, December 19, 1687, where Gershom and brothers, Isreal and Isaac were taxed in 1688. A deed of transfer of land at Stow bears his signature as "Held". His brother, Deacon Thomas Hale of Hadley and Enfield, signed a deed in 1678 as "Haile", writing it frequently as "Heal" and "Hele". In 1698 a son was born to Gershom and Ann Hale at Springfield. Ann died. At a meeting of the town of Springfield, 3/11/1700/01, he moved to the town to grant him 29 acres of land on the South side of Agawam, upon the feeding hill below Isaac Frost's land. this was confirmed to him 3/10/1710, 3 years after land was granted to him and his sone, Gershom, at West Springfield/ In the latter record their names are spelled "Hail", so it seems a member of this family may have a wide choice. A document bearing the day the West Springfield grant was made, 8/7/1707, of every male person there is in the twenty first year of his age, contains the names of the two Gershoms and a John Hail. In a division of land same day, the name is recorded "Haill". A document bearing date of 4/19/1720, recording a meeting of the inhabitants, again includes Gershom, Sr and Gershom, Jr and John. Of the same day is a list of people who had more recently moved to West Springfield, which contains the name of Benjamin Hale. Another division of land in West Springfield, 1720, contains the name of Gershom Hale, Sr. An historian, speaking of the marriage of Ruth Haile to Nathaniel Bancroft, in 1708, says she was the daughter of "Gershom Haile, who on 11/2/1728, sold to Nathaniel Bancroft, of Springfield, 4 acres of land west of the Conn River and south of the Agawam River. Mention is made of these transfers, because of the fact that some writers state that Gershom Hale died in Springfield in 1717. Since the record of 1720 land division speaks of both Sr and Jr, it must have referred to this father and son, because the son himself, born 1684, was at that time but 36 , hardly old enough to have had a son sharing in the division of land in 1720. Gershom Sr was about 73 at the time. Taken from pg 294/295 from "ANCESTRY AND POSTERITY OF JOSEPH SMITH AND EMMA HALE" See also, pg 9 of CA Torrey's manuscript, JOHN HEALD AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.


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