Person:Rynear Hall (1)

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16 Oct 1802 - Robert BARTLETT and wife Susannah of Harrison Co to Reynear HALL of Monongalia Co ... 97 acres on Simpsons Creek adjacent to A. McINTIRE for $162. [Harrison County, VA DB 5:222]

1. ↑ ^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 Rynear as a son of Thomas Hall and Rebecca Story.]

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
   13, 77.

   [p 13 - Letter from Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
   ... Rynear, the third son, married and settled on what is known as the Guseman farm, near Houlttown, Marion county, and died there - leaving no children. ...
   
   p 14 -
   [Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec. 31, 1878]
   ... Rynear, the third son, married Eleanor Haymond and died April 1st, 1818, without children. ...
   
   [pp 77-80 -]
   Rynear and Eleanor (Haymond) Hall.
   
   Of the life of RYNEAR HALL, we know no more than of his brothers. He was born in Delaware, October 18, 1762, and came to Cheat river and from there to Monongalia county. He married Eleanor Haymond; quite likely while they still lived near Morgantown. The letter which follows was written by him in 1801, in an argument with Isaac Morris, who lived a few miles from Clarksburg. It was preserved among some old papers, and fell into the hands of a relative, James T. Morris, who gave it to me in 1879. It was written just as it appears ; I thought best to do this. It is as follows:
   
   Monongalia County, 22d Dec., 1801.
   Sir: I received yours of the 16th November, and am not a little surprised that a man that calls himself a rational being should be so devoid of reason. If you cannot read a plain letter without misconstruing it, is it any wonder if you do wrest the scriptures to your own destruction. I did not blame Mr. Shinn for his boldness, plainness, and consistency, but commended him for I love them; neither did I blame the Baptist preachers for not preaching their principles, for I do not think that any man ought to tell a lie in God's name, for if your doctrine be true, it is not worth while to preach at all; for there will be no judgment, for God will not make a mock judgment. Neither future rewards or punishments for a machine that is only acted upon, is incapable of either. But you, and your Methodist woman, concludes you find something that has the resemblance of election and reprobation; yes, absolute, you mean. I find election, but it is the election of grace, not of decrees, and in order to prove yours, (I will, and you shall) you have cited twenty-one places in the Scriptures, some of which has not the least reference to the matter and others you wrest by taking them separate from the context, in order to make them hold forth something like it and one you quote twice over for the want of more, and it, like the sword of Goliah, cuts off its master's head. The text is, for this cause, God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Why Paul? Because God had decreed it? No; because they would not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness or sin, and which the Baptists say they cannot do without, and certainly is as necessary as their daily bread. I do insinuate that your God and mine can hardly be the same, for I believe if the devil was possessed of creative and destructive power, he could not be worse employed than in creating myriads of immortal beings, capable of punishment, with a full determination to make them as miserable as hell's torments can make them, to all eternity. If this be the character of your God, I cannot adore nor fall down to him, even should I be cast into the furnace, seven times hotter than you or Mr. Shinn can heat it. You say that they do not, nor never will know that they are reprobated. That may keep them ignorant of their decreed destiny, but where is the justice and mercy of the Decreor, and where is the sincerity in inviting them to come where he has pre-determined they never should come? You say they are condemned for not doing that good which they have a natural ability to do. But we say, man has no ability by nature to do one good act, but it is all of grace in Christ. The devils believe, yes; but the elected Baptists will not go so far as to tremble for fear that they should merit salvation, for they cannot distinguish between purchasing and obtaining that which is already purchased. "Ye will not come," &c. was spoken to a people (not like the Methodists), but to a people that held, and believed that they were the elect, and all the rest reprobates. Now who were they most like, the Baptist or Methodist? It is better for you, I think, not to mention any scripture, for you are so unfortunate that your own weapons stab you; for, contrary to the assertion of that Jew who had not eaten anything common, but by a vision was convinced of his error of election and reprobation, you say that God is a respector of persons, and to prove it, you fetch in the case of Cain and Abel. You say He was a respecter of persons in their day, and He changes not. But I say He was not a respecter of persons, but of actions, in their day as well as in Peter's, and of the persons on account of their actions. Let God answer for himself: "And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt not thou be accepted, and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at thy door." I will put down the place, as you cannot find all that is in the Bible, for fear you have overlooked it. Genesis, iv. chapter, and the 6th verse and part of the 7th. I cannot find out when Mr. Morris found out the secret will of God. Was it when he was a Presbyterian, or a regular Baptist, or a separate, or a Seventh day, or a first day Baptist. But, if it is revealed to him at all, it is no longer a secret will, but a revealed ; and his secret will must be consonant with his revealed will. I am referred to that which follows for the answer and proof of the Methodists not understanding one word of the Bible. One of these is the absolute final perseverance of the Saints; and I conclude if sin does not make them fall from grace, they never will fall; and you say that sin they do, and sin they will. They can't live without it; and so it is sin, and grace, Christ, and Belial, have got such good friends that they can live together in one house. Now, if you will take all the ifs and ands, buts and whens, fors and becauses, &C., out of the Bible, You may make it prove your absohite final perseverance in grace, and sin, (your I will, and you shall). You say that God gave his son for mankind. You mean the elect. You say that Christ spake not as God, but as man, for a caution for all to make their calling and election sure, which He, as God, had made sure many thousands of years before, for some, and the rest, calls them only to mock them, having never shed one drop of blood for them. How can it be possible that the second text belongs to me. If I never had faith, how could I depart from it? Is this your reconciling? You say the Scripture doth not say when God shall cleanse his people from their sins, but you have found out that it is not to be in this life. How durst you to limit the holy one of Israel, or to say he will not save his people without death or the grave, for you say he will not do it until death and the resurrection. If this is not death, or grave purgatory, what is it? You say these are christian characters, though imperfect, while here. This is the capstone of your absurdities. Now who * * * To what length will not your principles carry you? You think the Methodists cannot stand the test of their own doctrine. For my part, I think it much better than a death purgatory. Now, sir, I have got to the end of your brief letter, and conclude you could not expect a very smooth answer, after the absurdities, ridicule, and contradictions of your letter. Having little time to write, I must conclude, for I am (though reprobated by you and Mr. Shinn) a lover of truth, but an enemy to erroneous principles, which tends to licentious practices, and clips the wings of virtuous actions.
   RYNEAR HALL.
   
   The letter is addressed, Mr. ISAAC Morris, Harrison county, Virginia.
   
   The following is a part of his will. It was furnished by Miss Arah J. Courtney, of Randall, Monongalia county. The remainder is lost:
   
   THE WILL.
   
   Item---I give and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife, Eleanor Hall, one horse and cow (choice), bed and furniture, cupboard and furniture, saddle and bridle.
   
   Item---I give and bequeath unto George Thomas, his heirs and assigns, my stock in the Monongalia Farmer's Company, of Virginia
   
   Item---I give and bequeath unto my nephew, Rynear H. Mason, his heirs and assigns, one hundred dollars.
   
   Item---I give and bequeath to Rynear Hall, his heirs and assigns 50 dollars.
   
   Item---I give unto William Hall, 25 dollars.
   
   Item---1 give Ann Evans 50 dollars to be paid to her if she lives with my wife till she is eighteen years of age.
   
   Item---I give black Peter 50 dollars.
   
   Item---I give Nathan Hall, Jr., 50 dollars.
   
   Item---I give and bequeath to Nathan Hall, my brother, 100 dollars.
   
   Item---I give my brother, Allen Hall, 100 dollars. I
   
   Item---I give and bequeath unto my said wife, Eleanor, the plantation I now live on, including the whole conveyed to me by Clerk Hollenback, during her remaining my widow; but in case she marries, then half of said land during her life; then after her death, I desire that the aforesaid tract of land shall be sold by my executor, and the money arising from such sale be equally divided between Nathan and Allen Hall, and George Thomas, their heirs and assigns.
   
   Item---I give Rebecca Courtney, my sister, 50 dollars.
   
   Item---I give Rynear Dosin 50 dollars; and after my debts and burial expenses and all other expenses attending to the premises are as well as the foregoing legacies are paid, I give the remainder of my estate that is personal unto my brothers Jordan, Nathan, and Allen, and my sister, Rebecca Courtney, or such of them as shall survive me.
   
   Item---I give and bequeath unto my said wife, Eleanor Hall, the other half of my personal estate, which shall remain as aforesaid.
   
   The will is superscribed on the back as follows:
   
   Due Hall estate on notes and book account, $1700.
   Bank stock, $125.
   Goods and chattels, $700.
   
   They never had any children. He died April 1, 1818, and is buried in the Haymond graveyard, near Palatine. He was much respected by all who knew him.