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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butcher, Bernard Lee, and James Morton Callahan. Genealogical and personal history of the upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912).
[Vol 2, p 457 - ]
HALL - The remotest ancestor of this family, of whom anything definite is known, is Thomas Hall, who was descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors. There is a tradition in the family that this branch was started from a marriage between a Hall and a Spencer, one of whom was Scotch, the other Irish. Thomas Hall was born September 24, 1724, and he had two brothers, Moses, whose son Jesse was a soldier in the revolution, and David, an old sea captain. Early representatives of the Hall family settled at Snow Hill, Maryland, and in Delaware. Thomas Hall died at or near Duck Creek Cross Roads, Delaware, May 29, 1772. He married Rebecca Story, a woman of English birth, who long survived her honored husband, her death having occurred December 15, 1812.
After the death of Thomas Hall, in 1772, his widow remained with her children in Delaware until the close of the revolutionary war. In 1781, Isaac Mason, who had married the eldest child, and Jordan Hall, the third child, emigrated westward, and in the following year, 1782, the family followed to the forks of Cheat river, a few miles below Morgantown, West Virginia. Those who left Delaware, were Rebecca Hall, Asa Hall, with his wife and the latter's mother, Mrs. Margaret White, Nathan, Jordan, Rynear, Allen, and Rebecca. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall : Parthena : Asa, mentioned below : Jordan, Rynear, Nathan, Allen, Rebecca.
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[Identifies Nathan as a son of Thomas Hall and Rebecca Story.]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
13, 14, 81.
[p 13 - Letter from Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
... Nathan, fourth son, married and settled in what was called the Swamp settlement, in what is now Taylor county. ...
[p 14 - Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec. 31, 1878]
... Nathan, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Robison, a widow, by whom he had three sons and six daughters. All, with the exception of one son, were married and lived around him when he died on June 23d, 1827. His second daughter is the mother of A. G. Hall's wife. Uncle Nathan has two grandsons, Methodist preachers; Ashford Hall, Presiding Elder, one of them. He died in the Swamp settlement, now Taylor county, West Virginia. ...
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The Family of Nathan and Elizabeth (Robinson) Hall.
NATHAN HALL was born May 1, 1765, and married Elizabeth Robinson (nee George). The record of this family is very meagre. He went to the Swamp Settlement, Taylor county, and lived for a number of years, and died there. He had several children. We only have the record of two families. One of the daughters married a Williamson. A. G. Hall's first wife was a daughter of that lady. Mary, another daughter, married William Warder, and died at Webster, Taylor county, not many years ago. Several of the descendants have gone West, and those I did hear from were not supplied with any data.
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