Person:Mary Unknown (7237)

Research Notes

• Some claim she is a dau of James Wilson of Rockbridge County. More research needed.

• 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 Bristol Parish Vestry Book³ unless otherwise specified.

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

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.]

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

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.

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

1.   Property Record, in 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.   Property Record, in 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.   Family Recorded, in Chamberlayne, C. G. The vestry book and register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977).