Person:Nathan Hall (20)

Research Notes

• Founder of Charity Baptist Church in Patrick County, Virginia.

1815 Will of Nathan Hall

February 19th Day 1816.
In the name of God Amen. I, Nathan Hall, senr., of Patrick County being sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be to God for the same noing it is appointed once for all men to die do make this my last will & testament. In the first place I commit my soul in the hands of Almighty God that gave it & my body to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors & as for what worldly estate it has pleased God to bless me in this life with I dispose of in this manner.

Item. it is my desire that all my just debts be paid.

Item. It is my desire that John Hall should have part of my land I live on beginning on the white oak creek whear my Loin crosses the same running a strate loin to Jno. Halls shop thence down the branch to the mouth thence a strate line to my branch line whear Jno. Halls corner poplar in the land the said Jno. purchased of Benj. Hubbard.

Item. itis my desire that the ballance of my land shuld be sold & the money equally divided among all my sons & daughters.

Item. It is my desire that all my negroes, Daniel, Charles, Ezebel, Mal, Eady, Jim, Price, Sindy, Lucy and Ruth be sold for the best price that can be got & equally divided amonst all my sons a& daughters also all my stock & household furniture to be sold as above and equally divided among all my sons & daughters that is to say, Jno, Randal, Thomas, Jonathan, Molly, Salley, Nancy, Jeremiah and Frankey also it is my desire that all the cash I have in hand should be equally divided as above also it is my desire that Jno. Hall and Thomas R. Hall should be my executors of this, my last will. It is also my desire that if any of my children should be dead before the assignment of this will their heirs should have 50 cents apiece.
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Nathan X Hall
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Signed in the presents of: Russel Hall, Delia Hall, Ann Hall

Patrick March Court 1815
This will was proven in open court to be the act & deed of the within named Nathan Hall, decd & orderd to be recorded. Teste A. Staples D. C.

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16} Kathy, 2000 , in Rootsweb.

   Rev. Nathan Hall, only child of John and Sarah Hall, was born in Gloucester
   County, Virginia, July 30, 1738, and died in Patrick County just after it
   had been formed from Henry County, Virginia, in 1815. ...
   
   Rev. Nathan Hall could write, and had signed his name to all deeds and other
   documents, so it is evident that he was too ill to sign his will. The
   inventory of his estate amounted to $2,233.34.
   
   He was an Episcopal minister or "reader" and lived in various counties
   according to records. He was married in 1755, and three children were born
   in Gloucester County, as appears from church records. September 25, 1763, he
   bought 250 acres of land on Avints Creek, Brunswick County, and January 26,
   1767, conveyed to his mother, Sarah Hall, all the slaves, stock and crops on
   the Avints Creek property. April 27, 1767, he sold two acres of land to
   Silas Stockes. Two more children, Randolph and Jonathan, were born here.
   While living in Pittsylvania County in 1773 and 1774, he gave a deed for
   successive debts on loans of money, July 5, 1774, Lord John Dunmore, then
   Governor of Virginia, confirmed a patent of land to Nathan Hall for a tract
   of 277 acres of land on Marrowbone Creek, Pittsylvania County
   http://198.17.62.51/cgi-bin/drawer/disk19/CC150/0402/H0685?31
   , and October
   3, 1774, Nathan Hall was "clerk of Horsepasture Chappell," and received "250
   lbs. of Tobacco for three months service as reader."
   
   Henry County, Virginia, was formed from Pittsylvania County in 1776, and in
   that year Nathan, John Randolph, Thomas, and Merry Hall took the oath of
   allegiance in Henry County. It appears that in 1781 Nathan Hall and his son
   Randolph Hall joined the local military forces that marched to the aid of
   Washington, and were present at the surrender of Cornwallis. October 25,
   1779, Nathan Hall of Pittsylvania County, sold his acreage on Avints Creek to
   Sylvanus Shelton. In 1782 Nathan Hall was paid "250 lbs for 235 lbs. of beef
   to the commissary of provisions." In the meantime, in August, 1777, Nathan
   Hall bought 400 acres of land on Irwins River, Henry County, and an
   additional tract of 234 acres adjoining, in May, 1784. Governor Benjamin
   Harrison of Virginia, January 23, 1784, confirmed the patent of a survey
   dated May 8, 1780, for 460 acres of land on Smith River, Henry County, to
   Nathan Hall, who bought two adjoining tracts on Smith River from James
   Poteet, in 1784 and 1786, respectively.
   
   His mother, Sarah Hall, in her will, named only the first four children of
   Rev. Nathan Hall, and this leads to the conclusion that the first wife of
   Rev. Nathan Hall died shortly after Jonathan Hall was born. After Sarah Hall
   died in 1790, it is evident that Rev. Nathan Hall married a second time and
   left at his death five more children, all minors, judging from their "pet
   names" used in his will, and with no reference to any marriage.
   
   Rev. Nathan Hall married (first), in 1755, Ann, whose surname has not been.
   He probably married (second), after 1790, a lady, name not known, who
   apparently was the mother of the younger children named in his will. She did
   not survive her husband.
   
   Hall, Bird and Allied Families, A Genealogical Study With Biographical
   Notes, compiled and privately printed by Josephine Bird Hall, The American
   Historical Company, Inc., New York, 1943.[Potts.FBC.GED]
   
   Rev. Nathan Hall (b. ca. July 30,1738, Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Va.; d. Feb., 1815, Patrick County, Va.) and Ann (Rowe) Hall (ca. 1739-ca. 1763). Rev. Nathan Hall was a "reader" or "clerk" (a type of lay minister) in the Established Church (Church of England) of colonial Virginia; he also taught school, and is said to have been with his son Randolph with the American forces at Yorktown in October, 1781, when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington. In late 1781 or early 1782, abandoning the Established Church, as many cithers did at the time, he became a Baptist minister in Henry County, Virginia, where the records indicate that he officiated at the marriages of many Revolutionary veterans in 1782 and afterwards. He was also licensed to preach in the Pigg River and Blackwater Baptist Churches, Franklin County, Va.
   
   Rev. Nathan Hall was the only child of John Hall
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   Found many marriages performed by Nathan Hall in Henry Co., VA in 1783.

2.   .

   The 1782 Henry County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List
   
   Name Tithes Negroes Horses Cattle
   Hall, Nathan 1 8 5 28
   Hall, Randolph 1 - 1 -
   Hall, John 1 - 2 2
   Hall, John 1 - 2 6
   Hall, Lamford 1 - 2 4
   Hall, William 1 - 1 5
   Hall, Isham 1 - 3 6
   Hall, John 1 - 1 2

3. ↑ Will of Nathan Hall, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. Will Book 1
   p 129.

   Transcription by Shelby Puckett]

4. ↑ Land Grant 5 Jul 1774, in Virginia State Land Office.

   Author Hall, Nathan. grantee.
   Title Land grant 5 July 1774.
   Summary Location: Pittsylvania County.
   Description: 277 acres on Marrowbone Creek, adjoining land of Blivens, Randolph, Ray &c.
   Source: Land Office Patents No. 42, 1773-1774, p. 668 (Reel 41).
   Part of the index to the recorded copies of patents for land issued by the Secretary of the Colony serving as the colonial Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.

5. ↑ Land Grant 23 Jan 1784, in Virginia State Land Office.

   Author Hall, Nathan. grantee.
   Title Land grant 23 January 1784.
   Summary Location: Henry County.
   Description: 465 acres on the waters of Smiths River, adjoining his own land.
   Source: Land Office Grants K, 1783-1784, p. 169 (Reel 51).
   Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
   Other Format Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels 369-.

6.   Nathan Hall, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. Deed Book 1, 1791-1801.

   Compiled by Charles Leon Harris from Abstracts of Virginia Deed Book No. 1, 1791-1801 published by T.L.C. Genealogy <tlc-gen.com>.
   
   The name of the place is followed by either the USGS 7.5 X 7.5 minute topo map in which the feature is still named or the location as indicated in the deed; the page numbers in the deed book; names of owners and neighbors of the deeded property. Alternative spellings of the same name are separated by a slash.
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   Black Falls on Smith River 194
   James ELKINS; Nathan HALL; William THARP
   
   Shooting Creek USGS Charity 201, 499, 514, 625
   George HAIRSTON; Nathan HALL; Jacob HICKMAN; Matthew LINSEY;
   James NOWLING; James PEMBERTON/PEMBLETON; Charles RAKES; Jno WARD
   
   Smith River USGS Woolwine, Charity & Philpott Lake 22, 30, 71, 72, 117, 157,
   161, 193, 194, 244, 246, 255, 269, 277, 293, 375, 382, 397, 423, 435, 503,
   516, 539, 571, 572, 607, 619, 654, 655, 661, 685, 686, 688, 712, 723
   John AKERS; Garland AKIN; Martin, Wm AMOS/AMOSS; BAKER; William BELLAMY;
   Thomas BLACKBORNE; John BRAMER; John BREDEN; Josiah BRYANT/BRIANT;
   John, Obadiah, William BURNETT; Benjamin BUTTERWORTH; John CALLOWAY;
   David CHADWELL; James COX; James DENNEY; John DILLIN/DILLION;
   James ELKINS; Mark FESTOR; Thomas FLOWERS; GRIFFIE; Wm GARDNER;
   Nathan HALL; William HARRIS; John HELTON; John, Thomas HENDERSON;
   Harrison, John HEUBARD/HOBARD; Saml HILTON; John, Stanwix/Standwix HORD;
   Denel/Dinel HOUL; Thomas HUFF; Blackmore HUGHES; Thomas HUNARSON;
   Moses HURT; James INGRUM; Sampson JONES;
   John KENDRICK/KINDRICK/KENDRAKE; John LACKEY; Edward LEWIS;
   Richard Tucker, Stephen MANOR/MAYNOR; George MAYBERRY; Joseph MILLER;
   Elisha, William PACKWOOD; Abel PEREGO/PEREGOY; Samuel PERRY;
   Richard, William PILSON; Thomas PLASTER; Benjamin POSEY; POTEET;
   George REAVES; John REDD; James, Joseph REYNOLDS; John ROWLAND; RYAN;
   Peter SAUNDERS; Ignatious SIMMS; Richard STONE; Jacob STOVER;
   Anthony STREET; Henry SUMPTER; Charles Moil, Williston TABBOT;
   William THARP/THORP; Francis, James, John TURNER; Fanny VIA;
   Joseph, William WALDEN; Aaron WALDON; Henry, John WARD