Hallett Family

Generation 1

Andrew Hallett was born c1607 in England and departed from Weymouth for New England 20 March 1635/6 aged 28 as a servant of Richard Wade, a cooper of Simstuly.  He married Mary.  They had the following children:
  1. Joseph Hallett
  2. Bathsheba Hallett
  3. Andrew Hallett
  4. Samuel Hallett
  5. John Hallett
  6. Hannah Hallett
  7. Josiah Hallett

Generation 2

Joseph Hallett was born 1630 in England and died between 30 June 1715 and 20 June 1721 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA.  He was a shoemaker.  He married Elizabeth Gorham before 5 March 1666/7 at Sandwich or Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA) when they were fined 10 pounds by the Plymouth Court "for committing carnal copulation before marriage or contract".  At that time pregnancy was believed to last exactly nine months in all cases.  As the medical facts of premature birth were unknown, a baby born a week or in some cases two weeks before the 9 month wedding anniversary might be overlooked but not one born any sooner.  Therefore Joseph Hallett and Elizabeth Gorham's  first child may have been born prematurely.  Elizabeth Gorham was born 2 April 1648 at Marshfield, Plymouth Colony (now Plymouth Co., MA) or Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA) and died before 5 March 1683/4 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  For information on her ancestry see the Gorham Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Mary Hallett
  2. Lois Hallett
  3. Elizabeth Hallett

Generation 3

Lois Hallett was born c1672 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA) and died after 21 November 1726 at Stonington, New London Co., CT.  She married Henry Cobb 10 April 1690 at Barnstable, Barnstable Co., MA.  He was born 3 September 1665 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA) and died 24 September 1725 at Stonington, New London Co., CT.  For further information see the Cobb Family.  They had the following children:
  1. Gideon Cobb
  2. Eunice Cobb
  3. Lois Cobb
  4. Nathan Cobb
  5. Elkanah Cobb
  6. Ebenezer Cobb
  7. Mary Cobb
  8. Henry Cobb
  9. Hallett Cobb

Sources

Cemetery visitation by Susan Frost Bennett, Gallup Cemetery, Ledyard, CT 11 June 1996

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Gallup Genealogy by Darwin C. Gallup and Josephine Middleton Peck, Gallup Family Association, 1966

History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, with a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families by Richard Anson Wheeler, Lawrence Verry Inc., Mystic, CT 1966

Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 by John Camden Hotten,  Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1980

The Family of John Howland Mayflower Passenger Five Generations by Mrs. Curtis W. (Mardenna J.) Hunter,  Indianapolis, IN 1970

Families of the Pilgrims:  John Howland by Hubert Kinney Shaw,  Massachusetts Society of Maylfower Descendants, Boston 1955

John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1:  The First Five Generations Through his first child Desire Howland and her husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White, Picton Press, Camden, ME 1990

Mayflower Increasings For Three Generations by Susan E. Roser, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1989

A Brief Genealogical and Biographical History of Arthur, Henry, and John Howland by Franklyn Howland, New Bedford, MA 1885

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6 November 1997