In the article, "Samuel Hall (1664-1733) of Taunton and Middleborough, Massachusetts, and Connecticut", by Jane Belcher, (New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol 161, Page 37-46), the author details the ancestors of Mercy Hall, the daughter of Samuel Hall and Sarah Risng, who was born in Suffield, Connecticut on January 3, 1712. Suffield was then a part of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, but since 1749 it has been part of Hartford County, Connecticut. No husband is listed. The full text of the article can be found at https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/27L2-KDY .

In "Genealogy of Halls of Tauton, Mass, Suffield, Stafford and Somers, Conn.", by James Allen Kibbe, 1908/1929, http://www.hallsofbristolcounty.com/?p=7, we find listed among the children of Samuel Hall and Sarah Rising,

"Marcy b. Suffield June 3, 1712. From Suffield records she seemed to have lived there with her half sister Mary (Hall) Roe."

and among the children of Samuel Hall and his first wife Elizabeth Bourne,

"Mary b. Taunton Oct. 3, 1692 m. in Suffield Nov. 29, 1716 Samuel Roe. He d. 1732."

This would imply that this Mercy Hall never married. None of the sources I reviewed so far list a husband for this Mercy Hall. Reliable evidence would need to be discovered before arbitrarily assigning her as the wife of John Pixley of Great Barrington.

Jane Belcher, "Samuel Hall (1664-1733) of Taunton and Middleborough, Massachusetts, and Connecticut", New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol 161, Page 37-45, FamilySearch.org, abstract, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/27L2-KDY

New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol 161, Page 37-45
Samuel Hall (1664-1733) of Taunton and Middleborough, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
Jane Belcher

After the 1689 death of Samuel Hall of Taunton, Massachusetts, son of George and Mary (_) Hall, there were two adult Samuel Halls living in Taunton. One was Samuel Hall, son of Edward and Esther (__) Hall, born at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 24 October 1656. Calling himself Samuel Hall, Sr., of Taunton and signing his mark “H,” this Samuel executed deeds at Taunton from 7 February 1686/7 until 3 August 1715. He died there testate on 30 August 1716, and the next month an inventory of his estate, mentioning real estate in Taunton and Bridgewater, was presented to the court by his widow Abigail and his eldest son Jonathan. This Samuel Hall used the designation “Sr.” as he was older than the other Samuel Hall, and perhaps in his later years because he and his wife, Abigail Pratt, had a son, Samuel Hall, who probably was of age before his father’s death.

The other adult Samuel Hall in 1689 was Samuel Hall, son of Samuel (George) and Elizabeth (White) Hall, born at Taunton 11 December 1664, and shown with the wife and children of Samuel, son of Edward in the stand Hall genealogy by David B. Hall. A 1993 article corrected these errors, and a more recent work confirmed the corrections. Both end their account of Samul Hall with the birth of his son Enoch at Taunton on 13 April 1699. The present article reconstructs Samuel Hall’s life after 1699, showing that it was he who moved to Middleborough, Massachusetts, not the son of Edward, as previously claimed.

Taunton, 1664-1702
Samuel Hall (Samuel, George) married first at Taunton 7 April 1686, ELIZABETH BOURNE, and the births of their seven children were recorded at Taunton between 1687 and 1699. Samuel Hall did not execute any deeds at Taunton until after the death of his father in 1689. Like the other Samuel Hall, he consistently signed deeds with his mark “H,” but he called himself “Jr.” to differentiate himself from the older man.

One deed reveals the beginning of a pattern on the part of Samuel Hall of mortgaging and then selling the property where he was living. On 17 January 1692/3, Samuel mortgage his home and other lands to Thomas Leonard, Sr. Apparently unable to repay the mortgage, on 24 January 1695, Samuel sold his home and the other lands, which included “half a purchase right to all commonage and to all future divisions of all sorts,” to Nicholas Morey. As we shall see, Samuel later sold mortgaged lands on which he was living in Suffield, Connecticut (then in Massachusetts).

On 30 July 1696, Samuel Hall and his wife Elizabeth with his brother John and John’s wife Hester sold the fifth lot in the Taunton south purchase to Nicholas Morey for L12. Four other deeds which confirm Samuel’s identity were not included in “A Maze of Halls” (cited in note 7):

(1) 10 July 1689 Samuel Hall, “eldest son,” and his wife Elizabeth sold to Thomas Leonard three acres of swamp land that had been granted by the town of Taunton in the right of his father Samuel, deceased.
(2) 5 March 1696/7 Samuel Hall, Jr., sold for L20 to Nicholas Morey half a purchase right in the Taunton North Purchase. This right had been allotted to Samuel Hall deceased.
(3) 30 December 1697 Samuel Hall, Jr., of Taunton and his brother John Hall sold to Nicholas Morey an undivided lot in the Taunton south Purchase. This deed was acknowledge by John Hall 6 July 1720 but never by Samuel (who had left Taunton almost two decades earlier).
(4) 16 February 1698/9 Samuel, Jr., sold to Nicholas Morey the other half of a full share of the sixth lot in the Taunton North Purchase with his brother Ebenezer quitclaiming any right he might have a his father’s son in the share.

Samuel executed other deeds while a resident of Taunton included one which confirms he was still living there on 3 December 1702 when, still calling himself Samuel Hall, Jr., of Taunton, he sold to Benjamin Leonard, Jr., “the eighth part of a purchase right of all future divisions that shall be upon the eighth part of the said purchase.

Middleborough, 1702-1706
Although he misidentified Samuel’s wife and children, David B. Hall was correct in saying that Samuel Hall, Jr., removed to Middleborough. On 21 August 1702, Samuel Hall, Jr., of Taunton purchased from James Ball of Middleborough fifty-two acres, part of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase in Middleborough. On 7 March 1704/5, Samuel Hall of Middleborough purchased a whole purchase right in the undivided lands of Middleborough from Nicholas Southworth of Plymouth. He sold a part of this purchase right to Nicholas Morey of Freetown on 27 March 1705. On 7 June 1705, Samuel Hall of Middleborough sold to Benjamin Leonard, Sr., of Taunton seven and one half acres in the sixty-acre division in Taunton and a one-eighth part of all future division of lands and commons in Taunton. On 1 September 1705, Samuel Hall sold the fifty-two acres that he was dwelling upon in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase in Middleborough, to Thomas Palmer. On 21 February 1705/6 Samuel Hall sold two lots of forty-five acres each in the Sixteen Shilling Purchase to John King. Samuel stated that these lots were purchased of Thomas Palmer but the purchase was not recorded.

In the General Session of Plymouth Court in June 1705, Samuel Hall brought suit against James Bell for “Feloniously taking away several bolts and several bundles of clapboards in the cedar swamp at Middleboro.” Bell pleaded not guilty and the jury acquitted him. At the Court of Common Please held on 18 June 1706, Lt. Nathaniel Southworth of Plymouth brought suit against Samuel Hall of Middleborough for debt, on a bond of L8. Lt. Southworth did “not sufficiently Sett forth how it became due,” and the case was marked “abated.” Nicholas Southworth must have supplied additional information because at the next court, held on 17 September 1706, the jury verdict was for the plaintiff. This is the last record of Samuel Hall in Middleborough.

On 22 July 1707, Samuel and his siblings settled their interest in Taunton’s old iron works, inherited from their mother, Elizabeth (White) Hall) Pratt. Samuel acknowledged the deed on the same date. There is no indication in this deed of where Samuel or any of his siblings were living. Suffield, 1708-1715

Sometime between 17 September 1706 and 25 October 1708, Samuel Hall and his children moved to Suffield (then a part of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, but since 1749 in Connecticut). Although no record of her death has been found, Samuel’s wife Elizabeth must have died sometime between the birth of Enoch in 1699 and Samuel’s move to Suffield. She did not join in any of the Middleborough deeds. Samuel Hall married second, probably at Suffield and probably in 1708, SARAH RISING, born there 15 November 1685, daughter of John and Sarah (Hale) Rising. On 25 October 1708 Samuel “now a resident of Suffield” bought land in Suffield from Nathaniel Gaylord, Sr., and Hezekiah Gaylord, both of Windsor. On 5 June 1710 Samuel Hall was granted twenty acres on the upper end of Rattlesnake Plain in exchange for twenty acres he had given the town of Suffield on 10 May 1710. Samuel Hall, “with the consent of my wife Sarah,” calling himself “collier” and signing with his H mark, sold these twenty acres on 27 June 1710. On 14 May 1711 at the Suffield town meeting, Samuel was appointed to a committee to lay out a highway to the lower end of Feather Street and also signed a petition, along with his future son-in-law Richard Woolery, that a “way most convenient for going to church or mill be laid out. On 2 April 1713 the Suffield town meeting granted Samuel Hall ten and a half acres. Next on the list of grantees was Richard Woolery who received seven and a half acres. On 11 May 1713 Samuel sold to John Eliot of Windsor “my lands that are lying & being within or near the bounds of Suffield aforesd or within or neare the bounds of Winsor aforesd which I bought and purchased of Nathaniel Gaylord were witnesses. Samuel and Sarah continued to live in Suffield where the birth of twins was recorded in 1715. On 2 April 1718, Sarah Hall was mentioned in the will of her father, John Rising, as having received L10, “her full portion.

Stafford, 1719-1729
Samuel and Sarah (Rising) Hall had probably moved to Stafford by 1719 where the birth of their son John was recorded there as born on 31 May 1719. Samuel must have purchased fifty-four acres there in an unrecorded deed or deeds because on 23 July 1722 Samuel Hall and his oldest son Nicholas obtained a ten year mortgage for L60 from Timothy Thrall of Windsor. Samuel was living on a part of the land used as collateral. Apparently realizing that he was nearing the end of his life, Samuel included a clause in this mortgage specifying that if the mortgage was repaid as agreed, “sd Tract or parcel of lands are to be & to remaine to the use of the within named Samll Hall Senir during the time of his natural life & his wives so long as she shall continue his widow if it happens he die before her & after that one half of sd lands to bee & remaine to the proper use benefit & behoof of his son Samll Hall & his heirs & assigns forever & the other half to the rest of the sons that the sd. Small Hall Senr hath by his present wife & in the case sd Samll Hall Jnr doth not live to come to the age of twenty one years then all the sd lands are to bee the abouve sd. Children. On 23 October 1726 the town of Stafford granted Samuel eleven and a half acres of land on the west side of his house. In March of 1728/9 Samuel and Sarah Hall of Stafford conveyed to Thomas Remington of Barrington (then in Massachusetts, later in Rhode Island), all of their right to the land of Sarah’s maternal uncle, John Hale, in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Enfield and Somers, 1733-1772
Samuel Hall was probably the Samuel Hall who died 7 May 1733 at Enfield (then a part of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, but since 1749 in Connecticut). In any event he was deceased by 29 August 1738 when Sarah Hall, “late wife of Samuel Hall” of Somers, was named in an agreement concerning the “long unsettled” estate of her grandfather, Timothy Hale. On 28 December 1742, Nicholas Hall of Enfield sold eighty-five acres in Stafford which likely included the land he and his father mortgaged 23 July 1722 as well as the land granted to his father 23 October 1725 and land of his own. Widow Sarah Hall died on 12 May 1772 at Somers.

Children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Bourne) Hall, born at Taunton, Massachusetts.
i. ELIZABETH HALL, b. 2 March 1687; d. before 16 March 1762…
ii. REMEMBER HALL, b. 15 Feb. 1689…
iii. NICHOLAS HALL, b. 23 Jan. 1690; d. before 10 Feb. 1777…
iv. MARY HALL, b. 31 Oct. 1692…
v. NATHANIEL HALL, b. 18 May 1695…
vi. MEHITABLE HALL, b. 1 Dec. 1697.
vii. ENOCH HALL, b. 13 April 1699…

Children of Samuel and Sarah (Rising) Hall, viii-xiii born at Suffield, xiv-xvi born at Stafford.
viii. SARAH HALL, b. 3 Oct 1709, bp. Suffield 17 Sept. 1710; d. probably Middletown, Conn., 30 March 1787…
ix. SAMUEL HALL, b. 2 Dec 1710; d. Somers 5 Nov. 1790, bur. North Cemetery…
x. MERCY HALL, b. 3 June 1712, bp. Suffield 7 July 1712.
xi. BETHIA HALL, b. 9 Sept. 1713, bp. Suffield 20 Sept. 1713; d. 10 April 1733, probably at Northfield, Mass….
xii. ABIGAIL HALL (twin, b. 28 April 1715, bp. Suffield 28 April 1717; d. after 11 April 1777; m. Somers 17 Nov. 1737 SAMUEL HAYDEN, b. Windsor. Conn., 7 Oct. 1707, son of Samuel and Anna (Holcomb) Hayden, d. Conway, Mass., 30 Aug. 1777, bur. In Howland Cemetery there.
xiii. EUNICE HALL (twin), b. 28 April 1715, bp. Suffield 28 April 1717…
xiv. JOHN HALL, b. 31 May 1719; d. Enfield 11 June 1770, bur. In the Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield…
xv. JOSIAH HALL, b. 16 March 1722; d. Andover, Vt., 22 June 1790 age 76, bur. North Cemetery in Somers with his wife…
xvi. CHARITY HALL, b. 18 Aug., 1723; d. after 6 March 1781…

Jane Belcher lives in Braintree, Vermont.

From the "Halls Of Bristol County", by Kathryn Hall, transcript, http://www.hallsofbristolcounty.com/?p=7

James Allen Kibbe
Warehouse Point, Conn.
1929

GENEALOGY of HALLS of TAUNTON, Mass, SUFFIELD, STAFFORD and SOMERS, CONN.
by Kibbe of Enfield, Ct.

HALL, GEORGE (1) and his wife Mary said to have emigrated from Co. Devon, Eng. 1636/7 to Duxbury, Mass. Richard Henry Hall of Taunton says he thinks they came from Gloucester, Eng. (May have been a brother of Edward Hall 1638 who was permitted to build in Duxbury 1637 10 acres at C.H. Path, 1638 sold his house to Wm. Witherell 1641. He appears in Taunton 1642 and 1645 Prop. Bridgewater. He was a son of Francis Hall of Henborough Co. Gloucester, Eng.)
[Editor’s note: there has been no known evidence found to date to indicate Edward and George were related, in spite of their residential proximity.]

George Hall had land assigned to him at Duxbury, Mass. In 1637 at C.H. Path – not occupied – and in 1637 or the next year settled in Taunton, Mass., where he died Oct. 30, 1669 [written in longhand: aged about 69 yrs.] He was one of the original Pprs. of the first purchase of lands for Taunton, Mass., and a founder of the town in 1639. When he died he was a man of large property and influence.

He was a large land owner in Taunton, was heavily engaged in Iron manufacture. The Iron Forge in which he had a large interest existed for more than 200 years. His descendants for three or four generations are known as the “Iron Halls”. ****Extract from 250th Anniversary of Taunton, page 41*** In 1656 (?) One of several of leading citizens to form a joint stock company with a capital of 600£ to build a dam across the two mile river on main road to Raynham to prepare for the manufacture of bar iron from bog ore. He was the 1st clerk and manager of the company for many years and the first “celectman” of Taunton, and was an influential man in town affairs until his death. In this book is a picture of the “Anchor Forge” called the original Iron Works. Memorial Tablets in Taunton to his memory as follows “Home of Geo. __ Hall 1637-1669 on the estate of his descendants 230 years”. [Next line is undecipherable.] In the list of the Taunton Company, William Pople [?], Capt., Plymouth Co., who were able to do Military Duty August 1643 between the ages of 16 and 60 years is the name of George Hall. [Handwritten here: Enrolled to bear arms in 1643, was Freeman in 1643.] (See Page 75 Peirce’s Colonial List. Also Pg. 88) Also on record is a will dated Oct. 26. Prob. 1 Mch 1669; wife Mary; sons John, SAMUEL, and Joseph; dtrs Charity and Sarah; 40 s to church (Bapt) of Taunton to buy cups; to William Evans (Reg. VII 180). In list of purchases of Taunton contains “George Halle 1£ 15 s 3 d Head 7 Acres 86?

His children were;

……..2JOHN b. 1640
……..2JOSEPH b. 1642
(2) 2SAMUEL b. 1644
……..2CHARITY
……..2SARAH
……..2MARY. See Taunton Records.

SAMUEL HALL (2) born in Taunton, now Raynham, Mass. Born 1644, died 1690. He was an Iron Bloomer. M. ELIZABETH WHITE dtr of NICHOLAS WHITE, who mentions her in his will. She is said to have married (2) Johnathan Pratt. Taunton Records.

His children born in Taunton, Mass.;

(3) SAMUEL (Called Son of Samuel) b. Dec. 11, 1664
……John b. Oct. 19, 1666
……Nicholas b. Jan. 23 1668
……Elizabeth b. Oct. 28 1670
……Mary b. Oct. 3, 1672
……Sarah b. 1674 d. 1677
……Sarah b. March 1679 m. John Austin
……George b. Jan 25, 1680/1
……Hannah b. 1682/3 m. William Witherell of Taunton.

Mr. Kibbe says, “The above is given in all the books; but what follows is mostly not given in any book. The small part of it that is published is very unreliable and incorrect. There being another Samuel Hall in Taunton who had a son Samuel and the wives and children have been given to each other. This Samuel’s son being called “Samuel son of Samuel” while the other was Samuel Sr. and Jr. The Jr. m. Abigal Prat of Plymouth Jan. 3, 1683, and not this line.”

SAMUEL HALL (3)

Called “son of Samuel” was b. Taunton, Mass. Dec. 11, 1664 d. in Enfield, Conn. May 7, 1733. He resided in Taunton, Windsor, Suffield, Stafford and Enfield.

Like his ancestors he was engaged in Iron manufacture. He married 1st Elizabeth Bourne April 7, 1686 at which time both were said to be of Taunton, Mass. See Prop. Record of Taunton. She bore him at least 7 children and probably more. When and where she died is not known. About 1708 Samuel 3 appears in Windsor and Suffield, being located just north of the present village of Windsor Locks. Here he m. Sarah Rising, who bore him 8 children. These two sets of known children are increased by three, which are probably his, it brings the total up to eighteen. The following is the list and a few important facts concerning each: Samuel Hall 3 removed from Suffield to Stafford about 1718 or 1719. So his known children were born in three different towns, Taunton Suffield and Stafford, while three, probably his, were born we know not where.

Elizabeth, b. Taunton March 20, 1687 m. in Suffield Sept. 15, 1714 Richard Woolworth. She joined Suffield Ch. By letter from Ch. In Taunton June 1716. See Suffield church records. This fact alone identifies the Suffield Halls as belonging to the Taunton Halls. She died in 1760. Her husband 1732. Had children.

Remember b. Taunton Febry 15, 1689 m. in Suffield Apr. 24, 1712 Benj. King who removed with his father-in-law to Stafford where he died and his widow Remember m. Nov. 7 1734 Benj. Thomas of Somers.

Nicholas b. Taunton Jan. 23 1690 went with his father from Suffield to Stafford and thence to Enfield near Somers line where he had an Iron Forge near what is now known as Forge Bridge. He and his son Joseph were admitted to the Somers church Jan. 3, 1742. He is mention in deeds in land records of Suffield, Stafford and Enfield. He m. twice and had several children but no descendants are now known. Most if not all his children died early. His death record is not found.

Mary b. Taunton Oct. 3, 1692 m. in Suffield Nov. 29, 1716 Samuel Roe. He d. 1732.

Nathaniel b. Taunton May 18, 1695 m. Mable Winchell in Suffield date not found, published Dec. 9, 1716. She d. June 8, 1768, had several ch. All recorded in Suffield. He was a “cordwainer”. Resided near Conn. River and near west end of present railroad bridge spanning that stream.

Mehitabel b. Taunton Dec. 1, 1697. No record further.

Enoch b. Taunton Apr. 13, 1699 lived in Enfield. M. Martha Wright of Northfield, Mass. where records show he lived several years. Afterwards removed. Had children.

Hannah b. no birth record, not known to be of this family, m. Joseph Rising, pub. Sept. 5, 1729 in Suffield and lived there.

Ichabod b. no birth record, may not belong to this family m. Enfield June 25, 1730 Lois Kibbe of Enfield, had a numerous family and many descendants. He moved to Vermont or New Hampshire in middle life.

[Note in margin says, “not in Taunton list with others”, beside Hannah and Ichabod.]

Sarah b. Suffield Oct. 3, 1709, first child of second marriage (Sarah Rising)

Samuel b. Suffield Dec. 2, 1710 m. Oct. 1, 1741 Hannah Parson, said to be of Somers. He was a prominent citizen of Somers and had children.

Marcy b. Suffield June 3, 1712. From Suffield records she seemed to have lived there with her half sister Mary (Hall) Roe.

Bethia b. Suffield Sept. 9, 1713 seems from Suffield records to have been cared for by half sisters Elizabeth Woolworth and Mary Rowe and half brother Nathaniel Hall. She m. May 25, 1736 Wm. Holten of Northfield, Mass., the home of her half brother Enoch Hall.

Abigal b. Suffield April 8, 1717. She m. in Somers Samuel Hayden of Windsor (Hayden Station) Nov. 17, 1737.

Eunice b. Suffield Apr. 8, 1717 (Twin with Abigal) m. in Somers Samuel Cravath of Middletown, Conn. Aug. 31, 1741.

John b. Stafford May 31, 1719 m. Hannah Guild of Somers, He was then of Enfield. Marriage record not. published in Enfield Feb. 25, 1741/1 pub. In Somers Feb. 28, 1741. They lived in Enfield and had children. He has been recorded among the probable children of Samuel and Sarah Hall but he was SURELY their child.

Josiah b. Stafford March 16, 1722 m. Sarah Bush of Somers.

Charity b. Stafford Aug. 18, 1723 admitted to Somers church Apr. 25, 1742.

NOTE: The above items are taken from the records indicated and are correct to the best of my knowledge and ability.

(Signed) JAMES ALLEN KIBBE,
Warehouse Point, Conn.
September 6th, 1908.

David Ball, The Halls of New England 1883 p 571, 696 mixed up the two Samuel Halls. This was corrected in 1993 by Marsha Hoffman Rising "A Maze of Halls in Taunton, Massachusetts" in National Genealogical Society Quarterly NGSQ 91: 19, images, http://www.hallsofbristolcounty.com/?p=14