5. Dr. John Hall is said to have been the youngest son of Elisha and Ruth Hall. He married Eliza Ann Baynard, of Hilton Head, Va. [sic], who appears to have died before her husband. He seems to have been a man of considerable property and at one time practiced medicine in Virginia. During the Revolution he is said to have been a surgeon on Washington's staff. Tradition says that he was Washington's family physician. He died January 25, 1801, apparently in Philadelphia, Dr. Benjamin Rush being one of his executors under his will dated September 21, 1800. In this will he mentions the fact of 22,000 acres in South Carolina. Issue one son, Baynard Rush Hall said to have been born in 1798 and to have died in 1863. He is said to have been a Presbyterian clergyman in Brooklyn at one time. He is known to have kept a school called a Classical and Mathematical Institute at Rose Hill, Newburgh, N. Y., May 12, 1849.
