Emigrant ancestor means the one who came over from Europe.
On the 8th day of the 8th month in 1638, the name of William Hall was one of a list of 59 persons admitted inhabitants of an island on the coast of Rhode Island now called Aqueedunk. You can see that William spelled his name Haule in this document in which they set themselves up. To learn more about the name Hall and its different spellings, you can click here . And on the 27th day of the 5th month, in 1644, a parcel of land in Portsmouth, R.I, was granted to William Hall by the town. His name was on the list of freemen of Portsmouth in 1655.