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     Benjamin Hale was born on 2 March 1720/21.¹ He was the son of Capt. Joseph Hale and Joanna Low.¹

He died in 1723.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 24 March 1699 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of John Hale and Sarah Jacques.¹

He married Judith Swett on 18 December 1728.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 9 October 1730.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Hale and Judith Swett.¹

He died on 26 January 1735/36 at age 5, possibly due to a terrible "pestilential distemper" of which, Rev. John Brown, minister then in the place, wrote, "over 200 children under ten vears of age died, in Haverhill alone, between Jan. 1, 1736, and Dec. 31, 1737."^1,2

     Benjamin Hale was born on 30 April 1735 in what was then known as Haverhill, Mass but on the running of the State line in 1740 was found to be in New Hampshire; this part then known as Haverhill District, N. H till 1749, when it was incorporated as Plaistow. In 1769 the easterly portion, including the homestead of Benjamin Hale, was set off as Atkinson.² He was the son of Thomas Hale and Mary Smith.¹

On the death of his father in 1759 he succeeded to the charge of his mother and younger sisters.²

He married Lydia White on 9 December 1762.²

Before the Revolutionary war he was first lieutenant of a troop of horse in the New Hampshire militia. On the alarm at Lexington he literally left his plow in the furrow and started for the scene of action, and was in active service at Bunker Hill though not regularly enrolled. At the breaking out of the war he was the father of six children, ranging from a little more than ten to less than one year old. Of course with such a family he could not enlist in the regular service, but more than half the whole term of the war down to his death he was, in one form or another, connected with the army and in the service of his country. He was present and took part as a volunteer in the battle of Saratoga in 1777, and assisted in the conducting of the prisoners to their permanent quarters.³

In June 1780, he and his wife joined the Congregational Church in Plaistow, and in November of the same year he was chosen deacon, his pastor being the Rev. Stephen Peabody.⁴ In the summer of 1781 his health began to fail and he died 4 Dec 1781, of a scrofulous disease of the throat.

His will was executed 23 Nov 1781, and proved in the Rockingham Probate Court 8 Jan 1782. It provides for his wife Lydia, whom he makes sole executrix, and gives the residue of the property to the two eldest sons, Joshua and Nicholas, they paying all debts and paying sums provided to each of the other children. At the outbreak of the war he was possessed of a handsome estate, and he evidently supposed at the execution of his will that he left his family well provided for; but the losses by the war, by his long absence from home and subsequent protracted illness, by the depression of business and the depreciation of the currency, and as his family always charged and believed, the bad faith and dishonesty of a prominent neighbor, the chief adviser of the wife and children, the estate, though showing an inventory of over £1,000, turned out insolvent. He owned a negro slave Cato, but his mistress, after her husband's death, refused to have him sold and gave him his freedom. Included in his estate was 1,000 acres of land in Corinth, Vt which sold at auction in 1784 for £170.⁵

     Benjamin Hale was born on 11 February 1765 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Richard Hale and Sarah Gage.¹

He married Mariana Foxwell Lovell, as his first wife.¹

He married Anne Tilton, as his second wife, and her second husband.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 17 January 1780 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Simeon Hale and Sarah Lunt.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 4 November 1779 in Plaistow or Atkinson, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Hale and Lydia White.¹

He died on 7 September 1782 at age 2.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 19 September 1790.¹ He was the son of Moses Hale and Sibyl Adams , daughter of Oliver Adams of Chelmsford.¹

He married Miriam Pierce.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 15 April 1842.¹ He was the son of James Hale and Mary Ann Risteen.¹

He died in infancy.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 23 November 1797.¹ He was the son of Thomas Hale and Alice Little.¹ He was graduated in 1818 from Bowdoin College ; taught a year at the Saco Academy; entered Andover Theological Seminary, and was licensed to preach in Jan 1822, by the York, Me., association. He became tutor at Bowdoin in 1820, and in 1823 principal of the Gardiner Lyceum. While there he published a work entitled "Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry." In 1827 he became professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Dartmouth College, where he remained until the office was abolished by the trustees in 1835. While there he laid the foundation for the college's valuable geological and mineralogical cabinets, and published his "Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy." In 1828 he received orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1836 he was elected to the presidency of Geneva (now Hobart) College, Geneva, N. Y., where he remained until compelled to resign by the state of his health in 1858.¹

He married Mary Caroline King on 9 April 1823.¹

He died on 15 July 1863 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 65.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 31 October 1827.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Hale and Mary Caroline King.¹ He was graduated in 1848 from Hobart College ; studied law at Newburyport, and was mayor of that city for the year 1882.¹

He married Lucy Balch Hale, daughter of Col. Ebenezer Hale and Lucy Balch, on 29 October 1855.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born on 6 May 1873.¹ He was the son of Cyrus King Hale and Alice Little Hale.¹

     Benjamin Hale was born in 1778 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Jacob Hale and Mercy Brown.¹

He married Ann Goodhue.¹