Person:David Hall (37)

"David Hall, an old pioneer, remembered those thrilling tales forty years after, when Kentucky had been won for the white man and there was only land to quarrel over: "A man by name of John Finley came to that country and informed the deponent, Daniel Boone and several others that he had been a prisoner [actually a trader, but perhaps a little of both] among the Indians and had been on the waters of the Kentucky River where there was a great advantage of profit to be made by hunting and trapping and directed us how to find said Kentucky River."" (quoted from Daniel Boone by John Bakeless p.45).

Actual text of the deposition of DAVID HALL (taken in Frankfort on September 1, 1810): "Deponent resided in state of North Carolina about forty years ago and that a man by name of JOHN FINLEY came to that country and informed the deponent, DANIEL BOONE and several others, that he had been a prisoner among the Indians and had been on the waters of the Kentucky river where there was a great advantage or profit to be made by hunting and trapping and directed us how to find said Kentucky River, Big Bone creek and sundry other rivers and this deponent, Daniel Boone, SQUIRE BOONE, EZEKIEL SMITH and ten others, started to make a hunt on the aforesaid waters, and came in the last of May, which was two years or better before Boonesborough was settled. They fell in with a number of Indian canoes at the [blank] and took them up the Kentucky River to the mouth of Marble creek and left them until the next summer when we again returned to the Big Bone creek and four of us remained there about a week. I was at the Lick when it was named - we called it Big Bone Lick."

The above David Hall was living in Yadkin Co., North Carolina near Daniel Boone about 1768. Our David Hall purchased 827 acres in Madison Co., KY from Green Clay in 1792. And purchased a 75 acre tract of land in Henry County, KY from Squire Boone & Jane Boone in 1802. Recorded in deed book No.1 Folio 264. According to "A Pioneer's Estate" by Harry Middleton Hyatt, NY 1930. Green Clay was a "prominent Kentuckian" & Squire Boone was Daniel Boone's brother.

From Henry County Kentucky, 1798-1995 A History of our Heritage; pp. G-II 153-4:

"According to family sources, David Hall came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone. In support of this, in Draper's "Life of Daniel Boone" on pp. 239 and 240 we find: "David Hall, in March 1771, mentions hunting with Boone about this time with the 'Long Hunters,' returned to N.C. in August 1771." The Long Hunters were so named because of their custom of leaving their homes in Virginia and North Carolina for long periods of time to hunt and fish in the frontier of Kentucky. Hall was from the Yadkin Valley of N.C. He was b. c1749 and d. 1807 in Henry County, KY.

Children by David's first wife were: Squire Hall (1769-1835); David Hall, Jr. (-1805), Charles Hall [1790-1826]; Mary (Polly) Hall Clark. Samuel Hall was by his second wife and Adam was born to his third wife, Mary Bird."

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Is this our David????:

This is from: GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS OF DUPLIN COUNTY WILLS, NORTH CAROLINA 1730 - 1860.

220 HALL, THOMAS (CR.035.801.5/A-193) 5 Jul 1764 - no probate wife RACHOL my plantation whearon I now Dwel untill my Son DAVID Shall arrive to the fyll age of 21 with all Houshold Good & tools for Labour apartaioning; all my Stock, money & Debts to Be Equaly Divided amongst my Dear Children ELIZABETH, ELINOR, MARY, JEMIMA, NANSAY, SIVAL, DAVID & LUCRESA extrs: wife RACHEL, brother-in-law JOHN GOUFF wit: HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH, ELIZABETH mark (x) GOUFF signed: Thoms Hall

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Searching Draper's handwritten manuscript, I have found footnotes referring to, "the venerable Gen. William Hall, a meritorious pioneer of the Cumberland country, subsequently a brigadier-general in the Creek War, a member of Congress, and an acting Governor of Tennessee, distinctly remembers to have heard Col. Isaac Bledsoe, in his life-time speak of himself and his fellow Long Hunters Meeting Boone somewhere on their route."

And, "This narrative of Neely's getting lost in Powell's Valley has been derived from the lips of the late Hugh H. Bell, who was a brother-in-law of Neely's; Gen. Wm. Hall, who had the facts from Neely himself, and from the venerable Isiah Boone, a surving son of Squire Boone."

And, "Ms. notes of conversations with H.F. Bell; Ms. statements of Gen Wm. Hall, Hon Robert Wickliffe, John B. Dysart, and E. M. Leavell. Haywood's Tennessee, '79." The particular copy of the original manuscript that I reviewed had these quoted footnotes in Chapter VII; on pages originally numbered 240, 243, and 245. These page numbers had been lined thru, and the pages renumbered 64, 67, and 69.

Perhaps this Hall is some relation to our David Hall.

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from Abmagary@@snet.net:

I. DAVID HALL was born circa 1749 at from, Yadkin Valley, NC (Henry Co. KY, 1798-1995  ; p. 153, info submitted by Nancy W. Steverson of Pleasureville.). He married (1ST WIFE) (--?--) circa 1768.

He moved to NC "David Hall, in March 1771, mentions hunting with Boone about this time with the 'Long Hunters', returned to N. C. in Aug 1771 (Ibid., p. 153, info submitted by Nancy W. Steverson of Pleasureville, quoting Draper's "Life of Daniel Boone", p. 239.). He and SQUIRE BOONE were storied as being together some 100 miles west of the Greenbrier River in Virginia, when they came upon two indians whom they suspected had been among an band who had just roobed their party. They killed the indians and had silver cups made of their ornaments circa 1772. He married (2ND WIFE) (--?--). He and SQUIRE BOONE was the grantor on 16 Aug 1802 at Henry, KY (Ibid., p. 87, cit. Henry Deeds 1:265.) (Deed, n.d., Henry KY 1:264.). He married MARY (WID.) BIRD on 6 Dec 1802 at Henry, KY (Fisk, Otis to Jennie C. Morton, KYHS , 14 Jun 1906, 14 Jun 1906, states year only, This letter, and its precursor dated 12 Jun 1906, are an assertion by Otis Fisk that he and his Aunt Sarah Emmal who married John B. Allen, are descendants of a Hall family, asking for information on all Halls. He describes a family of a Squire Hall (of which there were several). (Kentucky Historical Society.) (Henry Co. (KY) Marriages 1798-1851; 23, identifies bride as a widow.) (Henry Co. KY, 1798-1995, p. 153, info submitted by Nancy W. Severson of Pleasureville.); Bondsman Charles Kephart, probably Mary's brother. He died after in 1807 when DAVID HALL made a will on that date (Fisk, Otis to KYHS, 14 Jun 1906.) (Henry Co. KY, 1798-1995, p. 153, info submitted by Nancy W. Steverson of Pleasureville.); attested by Samuel and Charles, sons.

From Daniel Boone, by John Bakeless (Morrow, 1939, p. 45):

David Hall, an old pioneer, remembered those thrilling tales [of going down the Ohio in 1767] forty years after, when Kentucky had been won over for the white man and there was only land to quarrel over: "A man by name of John Finley came to that country and informed the deponent, Daniel Boone and several others that he had... been on the waters of the Kentucky... and directed us how to find said Kentucky River" in 1807.

He and CHARLES HALL were parties to a deed in 1808 at Henry, KY (Ibid., p. 87, cit. Henry Deeds 3:606., not seen).