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Thomas Hall
b.24 Sep 1724
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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)
2:457, 3:1098.
[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 Thomas as brother of Moses and husband of Rebecca Story.]
- ↑ Historic Smyrna, Delaware.
http://www.downtownsmyrna.org/Smyrna%20History.htm (Ball named his settlement Duck Creek Crossroads, to distinguish it from nearby Duck Creek Village and within several years, the community reaped the financial benefits of trade and commerce, as evidenced by the establishment of several dwellings and stores on and near the crossroads. Today, this vital intersection is known as Smyrna's "Four Comers.")
- ↑ Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
12, 14, 16.
p 12 - [Letter from Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
... Thomas Hall and Rebecca, his wife, who lived in Delaware. Thomas Hall died in Delaware, leaving his widow, Rebecca, with five children, to-wit, Jordan, Asa, Rynear, Nathan and Rebecca Hall. ...
p 14 - [Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec. 31, 1878]
... Grandfather, I think, died on the 29th of May, 1772 ...
p 16 - [Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browntown, Harrison Co., W. VA., Aug., 20, 1884.]
... Father used to say that two families, one of Halls and one of Spencers, came from Ireland and settled at Snow Hill, Maryland, from whom the Halls descended. According to that we are Irish and not Dutch as you have it. ...
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