Person:Elihu Hall (5)

Research Notes

• "brother in law" of Peregrine Ward (?) - see Will Abstract of Peregrine Ward³. More research needed.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Papenfuse, Edward C; Alan F Day; David W Jordan; and Gregory A Stiverson. A Biographical dictionary of the Maryland legislature, 1635-1789. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1979-1985)
   426:382.

   HALL, ELIHU (1724-ca. 1791).
   BORN: in 1724 in Cecil County; second son.
   NATIVE: fourth generation.
   RESIDED: in North Susquehanna and Octarara hundreds, Cecil County.
   
   FAMILY BACKGROUND.
   FATHER: Elihu Hall (1692-1753), of Calvert, Anne Arundel, and Cecil counties; son of Elisha Hall (1663-ca. 1716/17).
   MOTHER: Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Harrison (?-1716/17), of Calvert County.
   BROTHER:
   - Elisha Hall (1723-1757), who married in 1746 Ruth, daughter of Jacob Hall.
   SISTERS.
   - Elizabeth;
   - Sarah, who married Andrew Bay, of South Carolina.
   OTHER KINSHIP:
   - his father married first, in 1730 Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Coale.
   - his great-grandfather was Richard Hall (?-1688);
   - his great-uncle was Benjamin Hall (1667-1721);
   - his great-aunts were Rachel Hall (1671-1730), who married Walter Smith (?-1711); Lucia Hall (1675-?), who married John Smith (?-1738); and Sarah Hall (1677-?), who married Robert Bradley (?-1724).
   
   MARRIED on June 16, 1757, Catharine (1736-?), daughter of John Orrick (?-1749) and wife Susannah.
   Her brothers were John; Nicholas; and Charles.
   Her sisters were Rachel; Rebecca; Sarah; and Susanna.
   CHILDREN.
   SONS:
   - Elihu (1758-ca.1793), who married Charity;
   - John (1760-1826);
   - James (1762-1793);
   - Elisha John (1764-1835);
   - Charles (1767-1821);
   - Samuel Chew (1769-?), who never married;
   - George Whitefield (1770-?), who never married;
   - Henry (1773-1808), a physician, who married Hester, daughter of the Hon. William Maclay, the first U.S. senator from Pennsylvania; and Washington (1776-?). DAUGHTERS:
   - Susan (1766-1852), who married Robert Lyon (1754-1842), of Baltimore County; - Elizabeth Harrison (1772-?), who married first, (first name unknown) Ogle, and second, (first name unknown) Gordon;
   - Catharine Orrick (1775-?), who married (first name unknown) Churchman; and
   - Julia Reed (1778-?), who never married.
   
   PRIVATE CAREER.
   EDUCATION: literate.
   RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: he came from a Quaker family; his son Elihu was an elder of the Presbyterian Church, West Nottingham, Cecil County, 1792.
   SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., 1779; Esq., 1790.
   OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: probably a planter.
   
   PUBLIC CAREER.
   LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Cecil County, 1779-1780 (resigned on April 29, 1780).
   LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Cecil County, 1756-1771 (quorum, 1758-1771), probably 1772-1776 (probably quorum; records missing), 1777 (quorum); justice, Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, Cecil County, commissioned 1762; justice, Orphans' Court, Cecil County, commissioned 1777.
   
   MILITARY SERVICE: 2nd major, Susquehanna Battalion, Maryland Militia, appointed 1766.
   ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: His son, Elihu, served in the First Maryland Regiment and was taken prisoner at Staten Island in August 1777, where he remained until exchanged in October 1780. He resigned in May 1781, but later served in the Maryland Militia.
   
   WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
   PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value £627.0.0, including 12 slaves and 8 oz. plate, 1783.
   LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,353 acres in Cecil County (inherited 1,746 acres from his father in 1754, but sold 393 acres of it by 1764).
   SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: he was charged with 610 acres in Cecil County, 1783.
   
   WEALTH AT DEATH.
   DIED: between December 17, 1790, and February 16, 1791.
   LAND: 270 acres in Cecil County mentioned in his will, plus several other tracts with unspecified acreage; may have had as much as 600 acres.

2. ↑ Will Abstract of Elihu Hall, in Gibb, Carson. Abstracts of Wills
   MSA S538, Liber 28, 1751-1754 [1].

   Liber 28, folio 548
   13 Dec. 1752
   HALL, ELIHU, Cecil Co., Gent.
   - To dau. Sarah Bay, wife of Andrew Bay, a negro 10 yrs. old at the discretion of Elish Hall & Elihu Hall.
   - To dau. Eliza. Hall, 8 negroes boy Pompey, girls Sue & Beck, boys Peter, Geffery, & Beley, girl Lidia, & boy Cezar s. o. Will - the bed in her room, pewter plates & dishes, & a young horse I bought of my son Elisha, & if she d. before mar., to 2 sons Elisha & Elihu Hall.
   - To son Elihu Hall, negro man Robin Boy, negro woman Cash with child Jerrey at her breast, negro boy Jack s. o. Will, hhold furn. & livestock.
   - To 2 sons Elisha & Elihu Hall, a grist mill & a saw mill with 20a on the S side Octararah Crk. & on Beason Run.
   - To son Elihu Hall, my lands adj. Halls Lott on the E side Susquehanna R. & Baldwin Disaptch (bought of John Baldwin) & on the main road to John Hammond Dorsey , Andrew Porter , & Wm. Husband & near Elihu Hall mill & land said to be Chew .
   - To son Elisha Hall, my lands on the N side the s main road to s mills by Robins Spring Br. to Kerseys Spring Br.
   - The residue of my p. e. to be equ. div. betw. my 2 sons & extrs., Elisha Hall & Elihu Hall.
   Witn: E[dward] Andrews, Joseph Hopkins, N[athan] Rigbie, Chas. Worthington.
   13 June 1753, sworn to by Hopkins, Rigbie, & Worthington, in presence of Elishu [sic] Hall, heir at law.

3.   Will Abstract of Peregrine Ward, in Gibb, Carson. Abstracts of Wills
   MSA S538, Liber 30, 1755-1760 [2].

   Liber 30, folio 800
   4 July 1759
   WARD, PEREGRINE, Cecil Co.
   To son John Ward, the L 497 willed him by my decd. father, Col. John Ward, my dw. plntn. & adj. lands: Wards Knowledge, Wards Addition & part of Pains Lott 100a, & part of Collection.
   To my wife, Mary Ward, 1/3 the residue of my p. e.
   To son Peregrine Ward, the pt.of Collection outside my dw. plntn., the part of Greefield that remains unconveyed to my nephew James Chettam Ward, & if I
   purchase it from Nathaniel Sapington, who lives on it, Daileys Desire 100a.
   If both my sons, John & Peregrine, d. s. p., sd. part of Greenfield to my dau. Ann Chew Lloyd, wife of Mr. Thomas Lloyd, & if she d. s. p., to my dau. Mary
   Ward.
   For want of heirs, my lands are to fall to my bro. Henry Ward & to my cousin John Ward, s. o. my bro. John Ward.
   To son John Ward, my riding horse, saddle, & bridle, & my gun or fowling piece.
   To my son Peregrine Ward, my riding horse Rainbow & his bridle & saddle.
   To dau. Ann Chew Lloyd, the negroes she has: Lymus, Becke, & Lib.
   The residue is to be div. betw. my son Peregrine Ward & my dau. Mary Ward.
   Extrs: wife, Mary Ward, & bro-in-law Mr. Elihu Hall.
   Witn: Thomas Hynson, Nathll. Buchanan, Wm. Pearce.
   1 Oct. 1759, sworn to by all 3 witn. in presence of John Ward, heir at law.