Person:Instant Hall (1)

Research Notes

• cos1776 Note: notice in Parish records below that toward the end of Instant Hall's life, he was at odds with his wife Mary over her refusal to take care of a woman named Judith Nance. Who is Judith Nance?

Working Timeline

Note: records from Prince George County, Virginia's Bristol Parish Vestry Book³ unless otherwise specified.

28 Oct 1697 - Charles City County - Instant Hall acquires 215 ac in Bristol Parish.⁵

1704 - Charles City County - Instant Hall holds 614 ac in Bristol Parish. ⁵

10 Oct 1712 - Instant Hall and wife Mary convey 50 ac to John Kemp.¹

3 Dec 1712 - Instant Hall witness to Deed for William Mayes and wife Mary (Mattox). ⁴

13 Jun 1720 - buys 200 ac in Bristol Parish from John West ⁶

10 Aug 1721 - buys 160 ac on Puddledock Creek from Drury Bolling ⁶

1722 - Prince George County - patents 286 ac on north side of White Oak Swamp ⁷

[Instant Hall recorded as present at the following vestries: 30 Oct 1720, 17 Feb 1720, 17 Sep 1722, 23 Nov 1721, Nov 1723, 21 Jun 1724, 29 Jun 1724, 5 Jul 1724, 29 Jun 1726, 4 Jul 1727, 15 Oct 1728, 15 Jun 1728, 8 Jun 1729, 14 Jun 1729, 3 Aug 1729, 15 Oct 1729, 26 Dec 1729, 21 Oct 1731]

[?date?] To Mr. Inst. Hall for A horse block.

29 Jun 1724 - All below the std Roads to the Extent of the Prish & south side of Nottoway River the lower precinct, Instance Hall and John Mays are appointed Counters for the same.

18 Jun 1725 - All below ye std roads to yr Extent of ye Prish & South-side Nottoway river being ye lower precinct Instance Hall & John Mayes are appointed counters for the same.

29 Jun 1726 - Jno Mayes and Instance Hall Are Appoynted Counters for the lower precinct.

9 Dec 1726 - Instant Hall and wife Mary sell 100 ac to John Kemp. ²

18 Feb 1727 - Peter plantine being Much Burnt by an acsident and he being poor and aged Not able to pay for his Cure Mary hall is ord'red to Take Care of the Sd plantine and to Do her Endeavour to Cure him and She to bring in her ac"* att the laying The Next parrish leavy. Test John Mayes Clerk Vestry. [Note: Mary Hall is the wife of Instant Hall.]

24 Jul 1727 - By Vertue of an order of Prince George County Court Dated July nth 1727 for processioning Every Perticuler persons land in their parrish in obedience to the S"* order the S** parrish is Devided into precincts for Processioning and Returns made as followeth ... The Bounds of Daniel Sturdifant and Instance hall Processioned ...

15 Oct 1728 - To Mary Hall for peter Plantine, [?amt]

1731 - Returns of Processioning for the year 1731. ... Jno Mayes & Will Parsons Processioned all the Lands save a Line between Buller Herbert dec'd & Inst Hall the Admr of Herbert Refuseing.

27 Mar 1735 - Ordered ... that Mary Hall have 100' Tobo [100 lbs tobacco] p Month for Keeping Wm. West from the 20th of Febry Last to ye 30th Apr then dy'd;

15 Sep 1735 - Ordered ... That John Bugg be bound to Instant*e Hall jr as the law directs.

10 Nov 1735 - To Mary Hall for Keeping Wm. West and Burial, 425 [pounds]

23 Nov 1739 - To Mary Hall for Keeping an Orphan Child, 250.

10 Dec 1739 - Ordered ... That Instance Hall & John Sturdivant Procession all the Land Between the Nottoway Road Puddle Dock Run Mrs. Boilings Road to the Extent of the Parish.

1739 - Returns of Processioning for the Year 1739. ... Instance Hall and John Sturdivant [Processioned all the Lands in their Precinct.]

22 Oct 1740 - To D[itto] for Mary Halls Keeping Fra Lee, 800.

14 Oct 1742 - To Mary Hall for keeping Richard Sentall 10 Weeks before the Division of the Parish, 400.

13 Oct 1743 - To Francis Lee for mary Hall, 600. ... To Mary Hall Richard for Sintale, 350. ... To Samuel Jordan and Instant Hall (pattroler), 50.

12 Oct 1744 - To Mary hall for Francess Lee, 600. ... To D[itto] for Richard Sintale, 1,000. ... To Instance Hall for Olive Poxen, 1,000.

11 Oct 1745 - To Mary hall for olive poxen, 800.

29 Sep 1746 - To Mary Hall for Richd Sental, 900. ... To Samuel Lee for two Coffins for Hudsons wife and son, 140. ... To Saml Lee Junr for takeing Hudsons son Robert, 200. ... To Mary Hall for keeping Hudsons Girl Ann, . . 400.

29 Feb 1747 - William Eppes and Theoderick Bland Church - wardens of this parish put Instance Hall (son of John Hall Deceased) an Apprentice to William Sturdivant to serve as the Law directs, to learn the trade of Shoemaking.

10 Nov 1748 - To Mary Hall for Cureing Poxen, Cloths &c., 2.0.0.

29 Sep 1746 - To Mary Hall for Richrd Sental, 900.

19 Nov 1756 - To Stephen Dewey for Judith Nance, 1,200. ... Ordered ... That Stephen Dewey Commence process against Mary Hall for not Complying with her Husbands Will in keeping Judith Nance.

15 Nov 1757 - To Abraham Alley Keepg Judith Nance, 800. ... Ordered ... That the Churchwardens employ some person to Comence process against Mary Hall for not complying wth her Husbands Will in keepg Judith Nance

5 Jan 1760 - Ordered ... That Charles Gee and James Hall with the freeholders of their precincts Possesion below Jones hole Road between the County and Parish lines & Warwick swamp.

10 Jul 1766 - To pd Geo. Williams Sexlon of D[itto - Jones hole Church] to Jno Hall by d[itto - Geo. Smith Jr], 400. [... more records for John Hall follow...]

1. ↑ Prince George County, Virginia Wills and Deeds Book
   1710-1713:182.

   Deed 10 Oct 1712. Recorded 11 Dec 1712.
   Instant HALL of Prince George Co, and Mary his wife, to John KEMP of same, for better conveying of title in fee and putting in quiet possession by virtue of these presents, grant to farm and let, to said John KEMP, 50 acres, bounded by Mr. Samuel WOODARD, Mr. John MAYSE, Richard HUDSON, the swamp, City Creek, Haffords Branch, the Queens Road; with all houses, etc., for 3 years for £10.
   Instance HALL, Mary HALL.
   Wit: Thomas WYNNE, John WOODLEIF, William MAYES.

2. ↑ Prince George County, Virginia Records Book
   1713-1728:938.

   Dec 9, 1726. Recorded Dec 13, 1726.
   Instance HALL of Bristol Parish, Pr Geo Co to John LEWIS of same, for £10, 100 acres in same, bounded by GILLAM (GILLIAM).
   Signed: Instance HALL, Mary HALL
   Wit: James THWEATT, John JOHNSTON, Thomas POYTHRESS.

3.   Parish Records , in Chamberlayne, C. G. The vestry book and register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977).
4.   Property Record, in Weisiger, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Boisseau). Prince George County, Virginia, miscellany 1711-1814. (Richmond, Virginia: B.B. Weisiger, c1986)
   208.

   [Prince George]“Deed, 3 Dec 1712, William Mayse & Mary his wife of Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., to Josh. Hollycross of same, for £ 34, lease to farm land on Balys in same parish, 120 acres, part of a greater tract descended to said Mayse and his wife from Josh. Mattox, late of this county, bounded by William Griggs, on edge of pasture by house where Thomas Sanns now lives, and by Mr. Henry Batt.
   Wm Mayse, Mary Mayse
   Wit: Jno. Kemp, Wm Mattox, Instant Hall
   Recorded 10 Feb 1712[/3]”
   [Source: “P. 208” – Weisiger, Benjamin B., III, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills & Deeds, 1710-1713, pp. 26-27.]

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Property Record.

   [Patent Book 9, p. 87; English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records (des Cognets), p. 225]

6.   Property Record.

   [Prince George Co. Wills & Deeds 1713-1728, pp. 476, 477]

7.   Property Record.

   [Patent Book 11, p. 133; Prince George Co. Wills & Deeds 1713-1728, p. 754; Prince George Co. Surveyors' Bk. 1711-1724, p. 924]