Thomas Hale was baptized in Watton-at Stone, Herford, England on 15 June 1606
and died in Newbury, Massachusetts on 21 December 1682, age 76. He married
in London at St. Helen's Bishopsgate, on 11 December 1632. Thomasine Doucette
d/o Gabriel and Mercy Doucettt. She was born about 1610, and died in Newbury 30
January 1682/3. He was called a glover in the marriage record.
Thoms Hale came to New England in the HECTOR, apparently in the summer of 1637.
He soon went to Newbury and appointed one of the Haywards September 7,
1638. About 1645 he moved to Haverhill where he became one of the
selectmen and a commissioner for the trial of small causes. He was
appointed in 1648 to keep the ferry across the river and elected constable
in 1649. He was made sergeant of the military company of Newbury and later
captain.
Submitted by Gladys Harris who
adapted it from Threfall's Fifty Great Migration Colonists to America.
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