Person:Martha Hall (59)

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Martha Hall
b.2 May 1728
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Name Martha Hall
Married Name _____ Waller
Gender Female
Birth[1] 2 May 1728
Marriage 2 Jan 1746 Spotsylvania County, Virginiato Benjamin Waller
Death[1] 4 Aug 1780 Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Colonial Dames of America. Chapter 1, Baltimore. Ancestral records and portraits: a compilation from the archives of Chapter I, the Colonial Dames of America. (New York: Grafton Press, 1910)
    2:797.

    BENJAMIN WALLER married, January 2, 1746, Martha, the daughter of Robert Hall, of North Carolina, who was Burgess in 1714; she was born May 2, 1728. In the Waller Family Bible is this entry:
    "My blessed wife and best of woman entered into the immortality on Friday, August 4, 1780, a few minutes after six in the morning."
    They had thirteen children, of whom the following survived:
    - Martha, married William Taylor.
    - Mary, married John Taylor Corbin.
    - John, married Judith Page.
    - Dorothy Elizabeth, married Henry Tazewell, whose son was Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell.
    - Anne, married John Boush.
    - Benjamin Carter, married Catherine Page.
    - Clara, married Edward Travis.
    - William, married Elizabeth Mason.
    Robert Hall married Nancy Camm. ...

  2.   Family Recorded, in Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1981)
    1:487.

    ... his grandfather [Robert Hall] was one of the first colonists of Flowerdieu Hundred, a settlement on James River. He married a Quakeress, Martha Pleasants. His son, William Hall, father of Dr. Robert Hall, married Susanna Poythress, and a daughter Patsy (or Martha) married Benjamin Waller of Williamsburg. ...