Author : George William Hill
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ISBN 13 : 9781331667483
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (674 download)
Book Synopsis Biographical Memoir of Asaph Hall, 1829-1907 (Classic Reprint) by : George William Hill
Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Asaph Hall, 1829-1907 (Classic Reprint) written by George William Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Asaph Hall, 1829-1907 In commencing the story of a remarkable man of science, it is necessary to say something of his lineage, in spite of the generally held opinion that the details of genealogy make dry reading. Asaph Hall undoubtedly descended from John Hall, called of New Haven and Wallingford to distinguish him from the other numerous John Halls of early New England (Savage makes no less than seven before 1660), and who arrived at New Haven shortly after June 4, 1639, as he is one of the after-signers of the New Haven Planters' Covenant. His movements before his arrival are in some obscurity. From his son Thomas of Wallingford receiving a grant of fifty acres of land from the General Court of the Colony at the session of October, 1698, "In consideration of his father's services in the Pequot war," it is inferred that he was a dweller in the colony in 1637. At this date there were only four settlements in Connecticut, and it is supposed that the John Hall of New Haven is identical with a John Hall who appears as the holder of lots in Hartford about 1635. The genealogists are in dispute in the matter. Mr. Shepard sums up thus: John Hall came with the advance Hooker party, in 1632, or perhaps on the Griffin or the Bird (two vessels whose arrival at Massachusetts Bay is mentioned by Winthrop), September 4, 1633. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
