DESCENDANT LINE:
Nathaniel HALL (1601 - 1634) & Mary WILCOX (1605 - 1662)
John HALL (1627 - 1701) & Elizabeth GREEN (1639 - 1713)
Jonathan HALL (1677 - 1754) & Lydia CUTTER (1682 - 1754)
Lydia HALL (1705 - 1753) & James TUFTS III (1702 - 1767)
Elizabeth TUFTS (1732 - 1754) & Samuel TEEL (1725 - 1773)
Jonathan TEEL (1754 - 1828) & Lydia CUTTER (1757 - 1831)
Thomas TEEL (1799 - 1873) & Susan FROST (1801 - 1866)
Abner Gardner TEELE Sr. (1837 - <1870) & Ellen SMITH (~1847 - )
Gardner Abner TEELE Jr.* (1868 - ) & Emma A (1868 - <1920)
Louis Gardner TEELE Sr. (1889 - 1982) & Grace BOULTON (1890 - 1943)
Louis Gardner TEELE Jr. (1913 - 2004) & Margaret Catherine SLINE (1943 - )


SOURCE: History of the town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: ...” By Charles Brooks, William Henry Whitmore, Published 1855

THE NEW MEETING HOUSE: JONATHAN GETS A PEW:
Aug. 24, 1727: "Voted to meet in the new meeting-house sabbath-day after next." Accordingly, on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1727, the inhabitants of Medford met for the first time in their new house; and Rev. Mr. Turell preached an appropriate sermon from Psalm lxxxiv. 1: "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!" Any special dedicatory services would have been distasteful to a people who had not forgotten the superstitions of Popery, or the persecutions of the English church.
Here was a new fortress for keeping the truth, and also for assailing the "ten idols:" 1. The surplice and Popish wardrobe. 2. The sign of the cross in baptism. 3. Kneeling at the Lord's Supper. 4. Setting the communion-table altar-wise. 5. Bowing at the name of Jesus. 6. Popish holidays. 7. Consecrating churches. 8. Organs and cathedral-music. 9. The Book of Common Prayer. 10. A church government by bishops.
Our Puritan forefathers having procured their second house for public worship of a size commensurate with their numbers, and at a cost proportionate to their wealth, their first care was for their pastor's family; and they passed the following vote: "That the town will build a ministerial pew in the meeting-house, in the place where the Rev. Mr. Turell shall choose."
As no pews were built, the people were to sit on long, uncushioned seats, wherever the "seating committee" should designate. This custom became less and less agreeable; and, by degrees, the just, pacific, and convenient fashion of separated pews crept in. Various expedients were devised, and many of them abandoned; but, Oct. 23, 1727, it was voted "that certain lots for pews should be sold, but that each person must build his pew at his own cost; and if he moved out of town, his pew became the town's, the town paying therefor." Subsequently it was voted to build twenty-seven pews, and then let the committee determine who should have a right to build. The requisites were age, dignity, parentage, usefulness, and the charges which persons had paid to the town and to the meeting-house. Here was a wide door open for jealousy and discontent. The next year, 1728, the committee determine "to build twenty-eight pews," to be placed next the wall, all round the house. Each pew had its price assessed by the committee, and, when paid for, was guaranteed to its owner as regular real estate. Some had no doors, and therefore must be entered through a contiguous pew! The right of choice was now given to twenty-five . gentlemen; and here follows the eventful catalogue in the order fixed according to the supposed social rank of each: —
"Mr. John Francis, sen., Mr. John Bradshaw, Captain Ehenezer Brooks, Captain Samuel Brooks, Lieutenant Stephen Hall, Mr. Peter Seceombe, Thomas Tufts, Esq., Captain Samuel Wade, Francis Whitmore, John Willis, Mr. John Whitmore, Mr. John Richardson, William Willis, Mr. Jonathan Hall, Mr. Peter Tufts, Deacon Thomas Hall, Mr. Benjamin Willis, Mr. Benjamin Porter, Mr. Thomas Oaks, Dr. Simon Tufts, Mr. John Alhree, Mr. Joseph Tufts, Mr. William Patten, Mr. John Bradshaw, jun., and Mr. John Hall."
We know not the exact position of any pew occupied by either of the twenty-five gentlemen, save one; and that is the pew, number one, which was the first on the east side of the broad aisle, nearest the front door, taken by Captain Samuel Brooks. His son Thomas chose the same place in the third new house. The price of these pews varied from twelve to eight pounds.

Burial: Salem Street Burial Ground JAN 1754 Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA