Little Francis Graves was later left five pounds in an English kinsman\'s will, and John Hall wrote again to Massachusetts to find out what had happened to him. Hall and Graves were distantly connected, young Francis being the nephew of Samuel Hall who was John Hall\'s friend and adopted cousin. John and Samuel Hall had both previously resided in New England, and used their transatlantic connections to facilitate the informal servant traffic. [quote] (1)
(1) David Cressy, Coming Over: Migration and Communication Between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 59-60, citing A.A.S. MSS. Letters of John Hall, 26 September 1674; H.F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England, 2 vols. (Boston, 1901), 780-781; Abraham Hammatt, The Hammatt Papers: The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1633-1700 (Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1899), 360.