Person:Elisha Hall (13)

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Elisha Hall
b.1663 Calvert County, Maryland
d.Bef 08 Feb 1716/17 Calvert County, Maryland
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1658
  1. Elisha Hall
  2. Joseph Hall
  3. Benjamin Henry Hall, of Hall's Creek, Calvert, MD
  4. Aaron Hall
  5. Rachel Hall
  6. Elizabeth Hall
  7. Lucia Hall
  8. Sarah Hall
Spouse and Children
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m. 1688
  1. Sarah Hall
  2. Richard Hall
  3. Elizabeth Hall
  4. Elihu Hall
  5. Mary Hall
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Elisha Hall
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1663 Calvert County, Marylandfirst son
Marriage 1688 Maryland, United States[she is the widow Wingfield]
to Sarah Hooper
Death[1] Bef 08 Feb 1716/17 Calvert County, Maryland[probate]
Probate[1] 8 Feb 1716/17 Calvert County, Maryland
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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)
    426:383, 389, 475.

    HALL, ELISHA (1663-ca. 1716/17).
    BORN: in 1663 in Calvert County; first son.
    NATIVE: second generation.
    RESIDED: in Calvert County.

    FAMILY BACKGROUND.
    FATHER: Richard Hall (?-1688).
    MOTHER: Elizabeth.
    ...
    MARRIED in 1688 Sarah, widow of Jonas Wingfield; daughter of Richard Hooper.
    ...
    PRIVATE CAREER.
    EDUCATION: literate.
    RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: raised as a Quaker; a nominal Anglican (at least during his period of officeholding, 1696-1704) who had pew in All Saints' Church, Calvert
    County, 1703/4; a practicing Quaker by the spring Of 1704.
    SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: second generation burgess.
    OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter.

    PUBLIC CAREER.
    LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1697/98-1700 (Aggrievances 2, 3; Elections and Privileges 3, 4, probably chairman 4), 1701-1704 (Elections and Privileges 1, 3; dismissed from the 5th session for failure to subscribe to the required oaths).
    LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Calvert County, 1696-1698, by 1700-?.
    STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: Opposed the revolution of 1689; Jacobite activity brought his dismissal from his justiceship, 1698.

    WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
    LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1,500 acres (inherited from his father in 1688).
    WEALTH AT DEATH.
    DIED: will probated on February 8, 1716/17.
    PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £1,465.0.11 (including 31 slaves); FB, £1,415.7.3.
    LAND ca. 1,500 acres.

  2. ↑ Family mentioned, in 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)
    3:1307.
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