resided at Cumberland, Rhode Island, and Belchertown, Massachusetts. He married at Cumberland, Lucina (or Louisa) Gaskill, daughter of William Gaskill. Children: I. Susanna, born at Cumberland, February 26, 1790. 2. Levi Barton, mentioned below.

(VII) Levi Barton Hall, son of Lemuel Hall (6), was born in Cumberland. He was educated there in the common schools and learned the trade of stone mason. He was also a farmer. He removed from Cumberland to Belchertown, Massachusetts. He married — Draper. Children, born at Belchertown Caroline; Ellen; Susan; Lucy; Elizabeth; Mary; Seth Barton Hall, mentioned below.

(VIII) Seth Barton Hall, son of Levi Barton Hall (7), was born January 1, 1830, at Belchertown. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and worked during boyhood on his father's farm in that town. He was apprenticed at an early age to learn the trade of butcher with a provision dealer, and after a few years engaged in business on his own account at Blackstone, Massachusetts, dealing in meats and provisions. In 1869 he sold out his business in Blackstone and bought the business of Daniel Gage in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the same line, and conducted a flourishing trade in meats and provisions. At that time each dealer was a butcher in fact as well as name. He bought cattle on the hoof and slaughtered them as business required in his own plant. Mr. Hall had one of the largest abattoirs in the county. In 1882 he disposed of his business, and since then he has been retired. For the past twenty years he has been interested in Florida, where he spends his winters and where he has a large orange grove. In politics Mr. Hall is a Republican, but he has never sought public office. He is an active member and liberal supporter of the Baptist church, and has been a deacon for twenty-five years. He is a director of the Wamesit National Bank of Lowell, and a trustee of the Savings Bank. A man of the strictest integrity and unblemished character, he commands the esteem and confidence of his townsmen. He holds a high place in the business and financial circles of Lowell. He married first, Caroline Barrows, and they had one child who died young. He married second, January 10, 1854, Rexville Galloupe, who was born in Guilford, Vermont, August 14, 1831, and died October 22, 1899. Children of Seth Barton and Rexville Hall: 1. Mary, born October 23, 1859; died February 4, 1862. Carrie, born September 26, 1862. 3. Charles,

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born August 10, 1865. 4. Albert, born February 15, 1872. 5. Frank D. 6. Levi L. Mr. Hall married (third) Melissa Richards, widow of James Richards; no children.

Simon Stone, immigrant ancesSTONE tor of this branch of the Stone family in America, was born in Great Bromley, Essex county, England, where he was baptized February 9, 1585-86. He was a son of David and Ursula Stone, and grandson of Simon and Agnes Stone, also of Great Bromley. Simon Stone married, August 5, 1616, Joan or Joana Clark, daughter of William Clark, and their two eldest children were baptized in Bromley. Prior to 1624 they removed to Boxted, a few miles distant, and from Boxted he with his family is believed to have emigrated to America.

April 15, 1636, the father, aged fifty; mother, aged thirty-eight; and five children, embarked from London in the ship "Increase," Robert Lee, master, for New England, the English government having previously granted them leave to remove to the colonies. Mr. Stone settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, securing forty acres of land along the banks of the Charles river and south of the present Mount Auburn cemetery, although it is believed that a portion of Simon Stone's early homestead is covered by the cemetery. He was admitted a freeman May 25, 1636, with his brother Gregory, who emigrated at the same time, and a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere in this work. He was selectman from 1637 to 1656, and was a deaIcon of the church many years. One of the pear trees planted by him is said to have borne fruit for two hundred and fifty years, and was still vigorous in 1889. Mr. Stone became a prominent real estate owner, and according to tradition built a large old fashioned house, colonial in style, which served as a home for his descendants for six generations, but was finally destroyed by fire. After the death of his first wife he married (second), about 1654, Sarah Lumpkin, widow of Richard Lumpkin, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She also came from Boxted, Essex county, England, and left a well dated March 25, 1663. (See N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register. Vol. 8, page 71.) Simon Stone died in Watertown, September 22, 1665. Children of the first wife: 1. Frances, baptized January 20, 1618-19, married Rev. Henry Green, of Reading. 2. Mary, baptized October 1, 1621, died young. 3. Ann, born