Mrs. Hale had four immediate relatives who were
graduates of Yale college. Three of the sons of
Deacon Richard Hale and Elizabeth Strong Hale
graduated from Yale,--Enoch, the fourth son,
Nathan, the sixth child, and David, the eighth
son. Three of the sons were officers in the Revolutionary
army, and the husband of a daughter was
a surgeon there. John was a major; Joseph, who
died as the result of the privations endured there,
was a lieutenant; and Nathan was a captain.
Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph, married Rev. Abiel
Abbot, for many years minister in Coventry.
Three of their sons were college graduates--two
of Yale and one of Dartmouth. Rebekah, another
daughter of Joseph, married Ezra Abbot of Wilton,
N.H. Three sons were graduates of Bowdoin.
One son, the Rev. Abiel Abbot, was settled in East
Wilton.

Two daughters also married clergymen. Another
daughter of Joseph, Mary, married the Rev.
Levi Nelson. For a man who died at the age of
thirty-four, Lieutenant Joseph Hale appears to
have been well represented by his descendants.

Surgeon Rose of the Revolutionary army, and
Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Deacon Richard Hale,
were the grandparents of the distinguished lawyer
and statesman, Washington Hunt, and of Lieuten-

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