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Facts and Events
Research notes
- Birth date = 14 July 1714. Source: original post. Proof needed.
- Note: This Thomas Hall does not appear to be listed in the DAR Patriot Index at this time (Mar 2017).
Land records
Bef 1762 - Colonel Thomas Hall purchased 475 acres of Tangier Island from Charles Scarburgh (wife Mary Ann). This was was confirmed in Charles Scarburgh's will of 1762.
1762 - named in a deed 2
1763 - Colonel Thomas Hall and his wife Elizabeth (Scarburgh) sold the 475 acres to William Andrews who had married Colonel Hall's daughter Anna Maria Hall.
1778 - William Andrews sold the land from his father in law, Thomas Hall, as 450 acres to Joseph Crockett. It has been said that the Island was first settled in 1686 by a John Crockett and his eight sons, who had come over from the Western Shore, but that does not seem to be substantiated by the records. The Crockett family is known to have been on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland at an early date. If they had possibly come to the island at the date indicated, they would have come as cattle-tenders or other tenants of the Scarburgh-West owners. There is no record of a Crockett owning land in Accomack County before this 1778 purchase, and not a Crockett will is recorded there, down to 1800.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edmund Scarburgh vs Isaac Dunton, in Gail M. Walczyk, Northampton Co, VA, Chancery Causes, 1721-1816
3 (1773-1793): 5-24.
[On 7 Sep 1772 when Col Thomas Hall, aged 62, gave a deposition in the chancery suit of his nephew Edmund Scarburgh vs Isaac Duton, he gave his relation to the complaint as having married the complaint's Aunt of the half blood.]
- ↑ Whitelaw, Ralph T. Virginia's Eastern Shore : a history of Northampton and Accomack counties. (Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1968).
[Thomas Hall was named in a deed in in 1762 at Accomack Co, VA.]
- ↑ Accomack Co, VA, Wills & c., 1772-77
363.
- ↑ .
Compiled for the Bicentennial by Susie Wilkins Walker and Nora Miller Turman, Accomack Co, VA, Soldiers and Sailors in America's War for Independence, April 1775 to December 1783.
- ↑ Barnes, Alton Brooks Parker. Pungoteague to Petersburg. (Virginia?: Lee Howard Book, c1988, 1994)
Vol I, Eastern Shore Militiamen, Before The Civil War, 1776-1858.
[Thomas served in the Revolutionary War in 1775 at Accomack Co, VA. He was shown as Thomas Hall, a Lieutenant in the Militia. Thomas Hall was the first recorded County Lieutenant in Accomack County. At the time of Hall's appointment, Colonel Covington Corbin was listed as Commanding Officer of the Accomack County Militia, and Lt. Colonel Thomas Bayly as second in command. Lt. Col. Bayly received his commission on 25 Apr 1775 and Col. Corbin received his on 27 Jun 1775. After Thomas Hall's death in 1775, George Corbin replaced him as County Lieutenant.
In the first days after the Declaration of Independence the county militias were technically under the command of a County Lieutenant, with a Colonel, Lt. Col., and Major working with him. For a number of years the County Lieutenant was effectively the Commander of the Militia, with the rank of Colonel, even though each Militia unit had its own Colonel, Lt. Col., and Major as field officers.]
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