Person:John Hall (385)

HALL, JOHN (ca. 1658-1737).
BORN: ca. 1658 in Anne Arundel County; only son.
NATIVE: second generation.
RESIDED: in Anne Arundel County; Baltimore County after 1682.

FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: John Hall (?-by 1660), who immigrated in 1640.
MOTHER: Mary (1632-1699), daughter of William Parker (?-1673/74). She subsequently married by 1661 Robert Paca (?-1681).
HALF BROTHER: Aquila Paca (early 1670s-1721).
MARRIED first, Sarah (?-1693), widow of both George Hooper and John Collier. Her brother was Abraham Homan.
MARRIED second, in 1693 Martha, widow of George Goldsmith (?-1692); daughter of Edward Beadle and wife Susannah.

CHILDREN.
SONS:
- John (1694/95-1701);
- Edward (1697-1738), a justice of Baltimore County from 1721 to 1732, who married in 1717 Avarilla, daughter of John Carvile (ca. 1670-1709);
- Acquila (1699-1728), who married Johanna, widow of James Phillips (?-1720);
- John Hall (1701-1774), who married in 1734 Hannah Johns; and
- Parker (1707-1756), a justice of Baltimore County from 1736/37 to 1751, who married Blanche, daughter of John Carvile (ca. 1670-1709).
DAUGHTER:
- Sophia (1709/10-?), who married Col. Thomas White.
STEPDAUGHTERS: Isabella Hooper; Ann Collier.

PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: became a leading figure in Baltimore County and one of the largest landowners in that county in the 1690s.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter, by 1683.

PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Baltimore County, 1696-1697 (elected to the 6th session), 1697/98-1700 (Accounts 1, 2; Aggrievances 4), 1701-1704 (Accounts 1-3), 1707 (elected to the 5th session); Upper House, 1709-1711 (appointed before the 2nd session), 1712-1714, 1715, 1716-1718, 1719-1721/22, 1722-1724, 1725-1727, 1728-1731, 1732-1734, 1734/35-1737 (president, 1, Cv, 2; did not attend the 3rd session; died during the 4th session).
OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES,
justice, Provincial Court, 1700-1707 (quorum, 1704-1707);
Council, 1709-1737 (president, 1733/34-1737).
LOCAL OFFICES:
sheriff, Baltimore County, 1691-1693/94;
justice, Baltimore County, 1694-1701;
deputy commissary, Baltimore County, 1698/99.
MILITARY SERVICE: captain, 1695.

WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: headed a household of 5 taxables with 1 slave, 1692; 6 taxables including 1 slave, 1695.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: over 2,000 acres.

WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on August 27, 1737.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £1,547.11.6 (including 26 slaves and books); FB, £41.5.6.
LAND: over 6,738 acres.

... Sophia, daughter of Capt. John Hall, of Cranberry. The latter was born in 1658 and in the year 1694 purchased certain tracts of land from Michael Judd, Edward Boothby and others, making a tract of 1,539 acres, which he that year had laid out and surveyed and which be called "Cranberry," being mainly on Bush River.

Capt. John Hall's wife was Martha Gouldsmith, nee Beadle, whom he married July 18, 1693, and who died in 1730. They had seven children. Captain Hall died in August, 1737, and by his will he devised to his children large tracts of land, among which were six hundred acres on Deer Creek ; Taylor's Good Hope, four hundred acres ; Timber Nest, four hundred and seventy acres ; Cranberry, lying west of Mill run, and Jericho, one thousand acres ; Harman's Swantown, two hundred acres ; The Enlargement and Old Quarter, seven hundred acres ; New Quarter, six hundred acres.

To his daughter Sophia, wife of Col. Thomas White, he devised a tract of land called Sophia's Dairy, which is what is now known as the Dairy Farm; part of Hall's Plains and Simmon's Neglect. ...

Hall, John, m. by c1695, Martha, etx. of George Gouldsmith of BA Co. (INAC 10:454). She was dau. and coheir of Edward Beedle (BALR IS#IK:241, 245). She was widow of George Goldsmith of BA Co., and dau. of Edward Beadle of BA Co. (INAC 15:182, 184; INAC 19:171).

Hall, John, Esquire, Baltimore Co., 4th Jan., 1728; 27th Aug., 1737.
- To son Edward and hrs., dwelling plantation Cranbury Hall, on e. branch of Bush R., except the land in the fork of Mill run, 600 A. Hall's Rich Neck, on Deer Ck.
- To grandson John son of Aquila, and hrs., 200 A. Harmon Swantown, Woodpecker's Hall, bou. of Mary Wells, being pt. of The Enlargement, all the remaining part of Aquilla's inheritance, 600 A.
- To grandson Aquilla, bro. to afsd. John, and hrs., 600 A., the residue of Aquila's Inheritance. Shd. either of sd. grandsons die during minority or without issue, survivor to inherit portion of dec'd.
- To son John and hrs., lands on Spesuty and Musqueto Cks., bou. of the two Kembals, now called Hall's Purchase, 50 A. Maskall's Humour, and land taken in by special warrant for a resurvey of that and pt. of Bever's Neck, 400 A. Taylor's Good Hap, on branch of Deer Ck., 470 A. Timber Neck; and personalty.
- To son Parker and hrs., pt. of Cranbury Hall in fork of Mill run, 1,000 A. Jericho, bou. of hrs. of Jacob Requier, the pt. of Sophia's Dairy, where Henry Moore lives adj. to Stepney; sd. son dying without issue the pt. in fork of Mill run to son Edward and hrs. and 500 A. of Jericho to granddau. Martha, dau. of Aquilla, and hrs.; and personalty.
- To dau. Sophia and hrs., Sophia's Dairy, 200 A. Hall's Plains, 114 A. Symon's Neglect; and personalty.
- Testator directs that what is charged on books against sons Edward, Aquilla and John be deemed pt. of their share of personal estate and counted as such with their other bro. and sister. Portion of son Aquilla, dec'd, to be divided among his three child.
- To dau.-in-law Mrs. Mary Marshall, personalty.
Exs.: Sons Edward, John and Parker, who are to have charge of portion bequeathed child. of son Aquilla until they are of age.
Test: Thomas White , Bennett Garrett, Henry Garrett, Joseph Allen , Richard Fawcett. 21. 792.

... ch. of John [Hall] and Mary [Parker];
John, b. c 1658; d. 1737