This is another double descent family. I have previously discussed the various John Halls of New England here.
1. John Hall was born about 1611 and died 23 July 1696 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married before 1636, Bethia (---) who died at Barnstable, Massachusetts on 1 February 1683/4. John and Bethia had ten children, all sons: Samuel, John, Shebar, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Gershom, William, Benjamin and Elisha.
2a. John Hall (Jr.) baptized 13 May 1638 at Charlestown, Massachusetts, he died 14 October 1710 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married about 1661, Priscilla (---) who died at Yarmouth 30 March 1712. She is generally identified as Priscilla Bearse, but proof is lacking. See further discussion here. John left a will at Barnstable Probate III:89-91. John and Priscilla had nine children: Joseph, John, a girl, Priscilla, Esther, Mary, Martha, Nathaniel and Experience.
2b. Gershom Hall was baptized 5 March 1647/8 at Barnstable, Massachusetts and died 31 October 1732 at Harwich, Massachusetts. He married before 1669, Bethia Bangs, born 28 May 1650 at Eastham, Massachusetts and died 15 October 1696 at Harwich, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (---) Bangs. Gershom married secondly 9 December 1698 at Hingham, Massachusetts, Martha (Beard) Bramhall who died at Harwich on 2 July 1733, widow of George Bramhall and daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (---) Beard. Gershom and Bethia had five children: Bethia, Samuel, Mercy, Edward, and Jonathan.
3a. Esther Hall, daughter of John and Priscilla (---) Hall, was born April 1672 at Yarmouth and died there before July 1721. She married about 1691, John Rider (Jr.), born about 1667 and died 9 January 1718/9 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, son of John Rider. Esther or Hester had eleven children: John, a girl, Samuel, Bethia, Esther, Hannah, Mercy, Zerviah, Nathaniel, Thankful, and Martha.
3b. Bethia Hall, daughter of Gershom and Bethia (Bangs) Hall, was born about 1668 and died 9 September 1745 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She married 5 January 1689/90 at Harwich, Massachusetts, Kenelm Winslow (III), born 9 August 1668 at Scituate, Massachusetts and died 20 March 1728/9 Harwich, Massachusetts, son of Kenelm and Mercy (Worden) Winslow. Kenelm was a clothier and legislator from Harwich in 1720. Bethia and Kenelm had nine children: Bethia, Mercy, Rebecca, Thankful, Kenelm, Thomas, Mary, Hannah, and Seth.
4. Samuel Rider, son of John and Esther (Hall) Rider married his second cousin Rebecca Winslow, daughter of Kenelm and Bethia (Hall) Winslow on 24 March 1719/20 at Harwich, Massachusetts.
Sources:
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (NEHGS, Boston, 1995), II:840-44.
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd by Thomas C. Brainerd, ed. by Donald Lines Jacobus (Montreal, 1948), p. 141-43.
Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy compiled by Leonard H. Smith, Jr. (Genealogical Publishing Co: Baltimore: 1992, 2 vols.) 2:1064-5.
Genealogical Notes on Barnstable Families by C.F. Swift (vol.1, 1888, reprint, 1979).
The John Riders of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, by Martin E. Hollick, The American Genealogist 80 (2005):128-39.
Winslow Memorial: Family Records of the Winslows and Their Descendants in America Volume I: Kenelm Winslow by David Parsons Holton (New York, 1877).
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