Transcript:Miller, Richard S. Hall Records/p010

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Records.

HISTORY OF THE WORK.

In 1879 I began to print the HALL FAMILY RECORDS, but finding, after a short time, that my work contained only a record of one of a family of seven children, I abandoned the work of printing what I had collected until I made an effort to collect a record of each of the seven children, which has proved to be a difficult task. However, after being able to present so full a history of our family, I am not sorry to have waited, and have it appear in this enlarged form.

My introduction at that time was as follows: "A love for our ancestry has prompted us to gather together its history and line-age for a period extending from 1724, to the present - one hundred and sixty-one years. It has been no little trouble for us to get the date of births, deaths, marriages, and so forth, from relatives, some of whom were hundreds of miles away, and did not realize that upon them, and not upon us, rested the getting up of this record. To all who have aided us in its preparation, we return our sincere thanks, and we hope the record will be of use to them. By a careful perusal of this work, we believe all our friends will find a great deal of information of which they were not before aware. The dates are almost all from near relatives, and may be regarded as near correct as can procured.

I was always eager to hear all that could he told of my ancestors, and on this account, more than any other, have I clung to the hope of finally getting it all together, which would be the means of keeping our family history for future generations. I have met with many discouragements, and now lack much that I hoped to present. There were many emigrants of which little is known, and I could not trace further back than THOMAS HALL, but may yet trace back further, which can be sent out as a supplement. Whether I shall be able to do so, I cannot say, but I am willing to receive information and will hold it ready for any who may.

ORDER OF CONSTRUCTION.

I have adopted the plan of numbering the families, which is the most convenient. The generations, after the second, are