[named in father's will - his older brother Hugh brought him to Boston to be educated and live with their grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Colman]
... Richard Hall, Esq., ... married and settled as a merchant in Barbados. His letters from Barbados to his [half] brother Hugh in Boston, from May 22, 1732, to the year 1737, are preserved. He was the acting executor of his father at one time, and some of the correspondence relates to the payment of legacies to his sisters Sarah and Mary. He was the compiler, and his son Richard the publisher, after the father's death, of the volume, "The Laws of Barbados, 1768."
