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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Jordan Hall |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
15 Jun 1760 |
Kent, Delaware, United States |
| Residence[2] |
Abt 1781 |
Monongalia, Virginiaage 21 - came to Monongalia with other family members |
| Marriage |
1 Sep 1785 |
Monongalia, Virginia (later West Virginia), United Statesto Nancy Neal |
| Property[3] |
2 Jan 1787 |
Monongalia, Virginiaage 27 - Land grant - 335 acres on Monongalia River opposite the mouth of Booths Creek for 35 shillings |
| Death[1] |
2 Jun 1835 |
Fairmont, Monongalia, Virginia (later Marion, West Virginia), United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Miller, Richard S. The Hall records: genealogical and biographical. (Newburgh, WV: Printed by the Author, 1886)
13, 16, 73.
[p 13 - Letter from grandson Hon. E. B. Hall, SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 26, 1878.]
... Jordan, the eldest, married a Miss Neal, and settled on the farm near Palatine, Marion county, on which he lived till his death; the same farm on which Isaac Courtney lived just prior to his decease. ...
[p 16 - Letter from James Hall (son of Jordan Hall). Browntown, Harrison Co., W. VA., Aug., 20, 1884.]
... Jordan died June 2, 1835 ...
[p 73 - ]
The Family of Jordan and Nancy (Neal) Hall
JORDAN HALL was the third child of Thomas and Rebecca (Story) Hall, born June 15, 1760, in the State of Delaware. The account sent me by his only living child, James Hall, is so complete, I insert it. I must say I have been disappointed in not being able to present more, as I have made special effort to add to this. Some have promised me full records, but did not send them. The likeness of James Hall, the oldest living descendant of this family, is a most excellent picture. He has my thanks for his help. Of his family he writes as follows:
My father sold his land in Delaware, which his father had given him, part paid down and part on trust. With the down pay he bought land on the West side of the Monongahela river, near Morgantown, and which he kept for some time, and sold a part of it to his brother Allen. With his last pay from the sale of his land in Delaware, he bought 400 acres of land of Thomas Davis, for what was then called 20 shillings per acre (6 shillings making a dollar). This tract lay on the Valley river, near what is now Fairmont. He moved upon it in 1788. After moving to it, he sold the rest of his Morgantown farm to Dudley Evans. The price gotten I do not know, but it was not much. With this money he bought more land adjoining his farm, and must have had in all, about 900 acres, which he gave to his children before his death. The farm is now owned by Hugh R. Linn. It is the same farm owned by Isaac Courtney, prior to his decease. None of the descendants own any part of the original farm. The 400 acre tract on which he lived and died was paid for by giving a black woman and two boys, one of whom was 12 and the other 14 years old. They were slaves which had been given as the last payment on his Delaware property.
My mother's people came from Louden county, Virginia. She was a widow, and came to Monongalia county, Virginia, in 1784. She had four daughters and two sons. My father got acquainted with Nancy Neal, one of the daughters, on Cheat river, and married her September 1, 1785. She was was born June 1, 1764. The following is the inscription on the tombstones of himself and wife. They were buried on the farm, about two miles from Palatine:
JORDAN HALL,
Died June 2d, 1835, aged 74 years, 11 months, 17 days.
Born in Kent county, Delaware, June 15, 1760.
Settled in Monongalia Co., Virginia, Oct. 1780.
Moved to this farm in 1788.
NANCY, wife of Jordan Hall,
Died September 8, 1836, aged 72 years, 3 months, 7 days.
Born in Louden county, Virginia, June 1, 1761.
Came to Monongalia Co, Virginia, in 1784.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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).
[Vol 2, p 457 - ]
HALL - The remotest ancestor of this family, of whom anything definite is known, is Thomas Hall, who was descended from Scotch-Irish ancestors. There is a tradition in the family that this branch was started from a marriage between a Hall and a Spencer, one of whom was Scotch, the other Irish. Thomas Hall was born September 24, 1724, and he had two brothers, Moses, whose son Jesse was a soldier in the revolution, and David, an old sea captain. Early representatives of the Hall family settled at Snow Hill, Maryland, and in Delaware. Thomas Hall died at or near Duck Creek Cross Roads, Delaware, May 29, 1772. He married Rebecca Story, a woman of English birth, who long survived her honored husband, her death having occurred December 15, 1812.
After the death of Thomas Hall, in 1772, his widow remained with her children in Delaware until the close of the revolutionary war. In 1781, Isaac Mason, who had married the eldest child, and Jordan Hall, the third child, emigrated westward, and in the following year, 1782, the family followed to the forks of Cheat river, a few miles below Morgantown, West Virginia. Those who left Delaware, were Rebecca Hall, Asa Hall, with his wife and the latter's mother, Mrs. Margaret White, Nathan, Jordan, Rynear, Allen, and Rebecca. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall : Parthena : Asa, mentioned below : Jordan, Rynear, Nathan, Allen, Rebecca.
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[Identifies Jordan as a son of Thomas Hall and Rebecca Story.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hall, Jordan. Land grant 2 Jan 1787, in Virginia, United States. Virginia Land Grants: Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys.
[Last accessed 20130707. Includes digital image.]
1787 02 Jan - Jordan Hall, a/o Henry Stevens. For 35 shillings, 335 acres on Monongalia River opposite the mouth of Booths Creek and including his [Henry Stevens', I think] settlement made in 1774. [CRS. Land survey 7 Oct 1785.]
Source: Land Office Grants No. 7, 1786-1787, p. 418 (Reel 73).
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