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Facts and Events
| Name |
Aquila Hall |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
1727 |
Baltimore (county), Maryland, United States |
| Other? |
4 Jan 1728 |
Baltimore County, Marylandnamed in Will of John Hall, grandfather |
| Other[3] |
23 Dec 1746 |
Baltimore County, Marylandnamed in Will of Mary Marshall, his son John's mother in law |
| Marriage |
14 Feb 1750 |
Maryland, United States[cousins]
to Sophia White |
| Death[1] |
Bef 10 Apr 1779 |
Baltimore (now Harford) County, Maryland |
| Probate[1] |
10 Apr 1779 |
Harford, Maryland, United States |
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 Harford County, Maryland Home of Aquila Hall References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Family Recorded, in Papenfuse, Edward C; Alan F Day; David W Jordan; and Gregory A Stiverson. A Biographical dictionary of the Maryland legislature, 1635-1789. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1979-1985)
426:380.
HALL, AQUILA (ACQUILA) (1727-1779)
BORN: in 1727 in Baltimore County; younger surviving son.
NATIVE: fourth generation.
RESIDED: in Baltimore County (later became part of Harford County).
FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Aquila Hall (1699-1728), of "Cranberry Hall," Baltimore County; son of John Hall (ca. 1658-1737).
GUARDIAN AND UNCLE: John Hall (1701-1774).
MOTHER: Johanna Kemp (?-1735), widow of James Phillips (?-1720).
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MARRIED in 1750 his cousin Sophia (?-1780), daughter of Col. Thomas White (1705-1774), of Philadelphia, and wife Sophia Hall (1709/10-?);
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PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican,St. George's Parish, Harford County.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., 1773; Esq., 1779.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant, in partnership with Michael Gilbert in Bushtown, Harford County, 1771-1776; planter; mill owner.
PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Baltimore County, 1770 (elected to the 3rd session to fill vacancy; Accounts 3), 1773, (resigned during or after the 2nd session to become a representative from Harford County); Lower House, Harford County, 1774 (elected to the 3rd session to represent the newly formed county); Conventions, Harford County, 1st, 1774 (appointed, but did not attend), 2nd-3rd, 1774, 6th-8th, 1775-1776;
Lower House, Harford County, 1777-1778 (Manufactories 2).
LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Baltimore County, 1757-1762, 1769-1773 (quorum, 1769-1773), Harford County, 1774-1779 (quorum, 1774-1779); sheriff, Baltimore County, 1762-1763 (resigned); Committee of Observation, Harford County, elected 1774; county lieutenant, Harford County, appointed 1777.
MILITARY SERVICE: organized a militia company and was elected captain, 1775; colonel, 1776.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: signed the Bush Declaration on March 22, 1775.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: The firm of Hall & Gilbert was indebted to Christopher Court, a London merchant, for £480.3.10 by 1776. Hall was personally indebted to Court for £1,282.5.9 by 1776, but the amount was contested by Hall's heirs and remained unpaid until at least 1807.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 882 acres in Baltimore County.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH, purchased 356.5 acres in Baltimore County by 1770; his wife inherited a life estate to more than 3,200 acres in Harford County from her father in 1774, but the land was entailed to her children.
WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on April 10, 1779, in Harford County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: mentioned 32 slaves in his will.
LAND: 1,233.75 acres in Baltimore and Harford counties, plus land in Frederick County.
- Family Recorded, in Preston, Walter Wilkes. History of Harford County, Maryland: from 1608 (the year of Smith's expedition) to the close of the War of 1812. (Baltimore, Maryland: Press of Sun Book Office, 1901)
221.
AQUILA HALL was born in Harford, then Baltimore county, Jan. 10, 1727. He was a son of Aquila, who was the youngest son of John Hall, of Cranberry, and was one of the most prominent of all the men of Harford in the early days. In 1763 he was elected to the House of Delegates to represent Baltimore county, his colleagues being Charles Ridgely, Thomas C. Deye and Walter Tolley. In 1762 he was sheriff of Baltimore county. Aquila Hall is the second in the list of commissioners named by the Act of Assembly for the formation of Harford county. By virtue of the Dedimus indorsed on the commission for forming the new county, he administered the oaths to his fellow-justices on the first day of the organization of the county government, Mar. 22, 1774, his colleagues on the bench being Thomas Bond, Jeremiah Sheredine, Benedict Edward Hall, William Webb and Aquila Paca.
The first court for the county was held in a house at Harford Town, or Bush, owned by him and occupied by Thomas Miller, who was named as sheriff of the county.
In the famous Bush declaration of March, 1775, the name of Aquila Hall is the first on the list. He was zealous in the cause of his country in the Revolution, and on Sept. 9, 1775, organized a military company, of which he was elected captain, with Samuel Griffith, first lieutenant; Jacob Forwood, second lieutenant, and John Chancey, ensign.
On June 11, 1774, he presided over a meeting at Bush, at which resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with Boston in her tax troubles, and at which a committee was appointed to meet the committees of other counties in this province to consult and agree on the most effectual means to preserve our constitutional rights and liberties, etc.
By the State Convention, which convened December 7, 1775, resolutions were passed Jan. 1, 1776, looking to the formation of a proper military force for the State, and for the Upper Battalion of Harford, Aquila Hall was named as colonel, with John Love as lieutenant- colonel; Josias Carvil Hall, first major; Dr. John Archer, second major, and Richard Dallam, quartermaster. The General Assembly on June 29, 1777, selected lieutenants for the various counties, and Aquila Hall was named for Harford.
The last record of Aquila Hall in public life is to be found in the meeting of the court at Bush, Mar. 23, 1779, at which time he was present as one of the Lords Justices. He died in April, 1779, leaving the following children, viz.: Thomas Hall, James White Hall, William Hall, John Hall, Edward Hall, Charlotte Hall, Mary Hall, Sophia Hall and Martha Hall.
His wife was his first cousin, Sophia, daughter of Col. Thomas White, whom he married Feb. 14, 1750, and who died in 1785, aged fifty-four years.
Aquila Hall built the large brick house at "Sophia's Diary" in 1768.
- ↑ Will Abstract of Mary Marshall, in Gibb, Carson. Abstracts of Wills
MSA S538, Liber 25, 1746-1748 [1].
Liber 25, folio 555
23 Dec. 1746
MARSHALL, MARY, Baltimore Co., widdow.
To grddau. Susannah Hall, d. o. my son-in-law John Hall, all my lands, but if she d. s. p., to son-in-law John Hall.
To son-in-law John Hall, negro slaves Santee, Abel, Young Sarah & her 2 chldn. Nedd & Emanuel, & Margaret, & a best bed.
To George Goldsmith Presbury, s. o. nephew Geo. Presbury, negro girl Nann, d. o. negro woman Sarah, & a mare.
To Aquilla Hall, s. o. Aquilla Hall dec , a good bed.
To Martha Garretson, wife of George Garretson, my wearing appl.
To grddau. Susanna Hall, at age 16 or mar., the residue of my p. e., but if she d. s. p., to s John Hall, his bro. Aquilla Hall, Geo. Presbury, & s Martha Garretson, equ. div.
Extr: son-in-law John Hall.
Witn: Joseph Baley, William Craig, Elizth. Cook, John Kem
8 April 1749, sworn to by Bailey, Craig, & Kemp.
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