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Brummage; Mary, who married Abraham Barnes; Fanny, who married Daniel Holland. He had other children who died during their minority. I have written hastily; hope you can make it out, and that it may be of some aid in your work. Yours truly

E. B. HALL.

P. S. -In the copy of the old family record of 1816, enclosed 1 herewith, you see the record of the death of Margaret White. She was the mother of your great grandmother, Sophia, wife of Asa Hall.

Letter from James Hall.

Browns Mill, W.Va., Dec.31, 1878

Sir: In answer to yours, I will give you all the information I can, and I must be brief. I use this paper because on the other side is some information you can have.

My grandfather, Thomas Hall, and Rebecca, his wife, were citizens of Kent county, Delaware. They were the parents of Asa, Jordan, Rynear, Nathan and Allen, and two daughters, Parthena, the oldest child, and Rebecca, the youngest. You have Nancy, a name of which I never heard. Grandfather, I think, died on the 29th of May, 1772, and left his wife a widow and children orphans. Parthena was 16 years old and Rebecca one year old: The family continued in Delaware until the close of the revolutionary war, and then emigrated to what was Monongalia county, Virginia, I think, in the year 1782, after the marriage of Parthena to Isaac Mason, and Asa to Sophia White. With two exceptions, they all lived and died in what was then Monongalia county.

Rynear, the third son, married Eleanor Haymond and died April 1st, 1818, without children.

Parthena stayed some years here and then went to Tennessee and died there, and left a large body of descendants.

Nathan, the fourth son, married Elizabeth Robison, a widow, by whom he had three sons and six daughters. All, with the exception of one son, were married and lived around him when he died on June 23d, 1827. His second daughter is the mother of A. G. Hall's wife. Uncle Nathan has two grandsons, Methodist preachers; Ashford Hall, Presiding Elder, one of them. He died in the Swamp settlement, now Taylor county, West Virginia.

Uncle Allen, the fifth son, married Nancy Thrapp and moved to Licking county, Ohio, when it first became a State, and raised a large family. Among them, one son and one son-in-law, were Methodist preachers. Uncle Allen died in the year 1845.