Person:Richard Hall (75)

HALL, RICHARD (?-1688).
IMMIGRATED, ca. 1658 as a free adult with his wife, perhaps from Virginia.
RESIDED: in Calvert County.

MARRIED Elizabeth.

CHILDREN.
SONS:
- Elisha Hall (1663-ca.1716/17), who married in 1688 Sarah, widow of Jonas Wingfield and daughter of Richard Hooper;
- Joseph (1665-1705), who married Ann;
- Benjamin Hall (1667-1721), who married Mary (1678-1742), widow of James Bowling (?-1693) and daughter of Thomas Brooke (1632-1676); and
- Aaron (1669-1704).
DAUGHTERS:
- Rachel (1671-1730), who married Walter Smith (?-1711);
- Elizabeth (1673-1743), who married first, Richard Evans, and second, Dr. James Kingsbury;
- Lucia (1675-?), who married John Smith (?-1738); and
- Sarah (1677-?), who married Robert Bradley (?-1724).

PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Quaker.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: claimed rights in 1663 for transporting thirteen people (himself, his wife, and eleven others); he served five terms in the Assembly, one of the longest legislative records in seventeenth-century Maryland; his two sons and three sons-in-law also served in the Assembly.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: carpenter; planter.

PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1666, 1669, 1674-1674/75 (elected to the 3rd session; Laws 4), 1676-1682 (Accounts 1, 3), 1682-1684 (Accounts 2; Laws 2).

WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 2,500 acres in 1666; over 3,700 acres by 1676.

WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on August 28, 1688.
LAND: ca. 5,100 acres.

... Richard Hall, or Halls as the name appears in the Testimony, was the fourth signer. He was a son of John Hall who came into Maryland in 1640⁴⁴ and later settled at Herring Creek. John Hall was granted "Marshs Seat" which had originally been surveyed in 1650⁴⁵ for Thomas Marsh, a Puritan leadear. He was the founder of the first Hall family in that part of Maryland. In 1759 "Marshs Seat" was the birthplace of the Reverend Mason Locke ("Parson") Weems, the first biographer of George Washington. The family of John Hall should not be confused with the later family founded by Reverend Henry Hall, identified with St. James Protestant Episcopal Church of Herring Creek. At his death in 1688, Richard Hall left approximately 2,500 acres of land to his wife and eight children.<sup>46

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"He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends and his name frequently appears on their records; he was one of the Commissioners of the Cliffs Monthly Meeting of Friends in Western Calvert Co., in 1684 (See Minutes of this meeting p 13.) He was a man of means and large land holdings one of the very important Quakers in that county. (See Hist of Calvert Co. by Stein p. 267, also see Hall family in Md Hist Soc Mag of 1913 vol 8 p 291.)"

Vol 2, p 32 -
HALL, Richard, Calvert Co. Sept. 17, 1687 - Aug. 28, 1688
Eldest son: Elisha
Sons: Joseph, Benjamin and Aaron
Dau: Rachel, wife of Walter SMITH
Daus: ELIZA and Sarah
Dau: Lueta, wife of John SMITH
Wife: ELIZA
To: The Quaker Church, personalty
Sons to be of age at 18
Mentions: "Hall's Hills"; "Hogsdowne" "Michum"; "Additional Sprittle";
"Aldermason"; "The Hope" (in Cecil Co); "Hall's Choice" and "The Spittle."

... Richard Hall ... patented a large tract of land called "Mount Welcome" on the east side of the Susquehanna river, about a mile above the mouth of the Octoraro in 1640. He is believed to have been a son of Bishop Joseph Hall, of England. ...