Transcript:Miller, Richard S. Hall Records/p015

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Aunt Rebecca married John Courtney, and raised three sons and six daughters. She lived and died on Scott's run, Monongalia county. She had one son-in-law a Methodist preacher. She died September 22d, 1854.

Grandmother Hall came with the family to Monongalia county, and died at her daughter, Rebecca Courtney's, December 15, 1812, after being blind for twelve or fifteen years.

You have the record of the families of Asa and Jordan Hall. Jordan Hall has three grandsons and one great grandson preachers--two Methodist and two Baptist. I suppose there are but few of the grandchildren living. Jordan Hall has two yet living; Nathan has one daughter living; Rebecca Courtney two daughters living.

I have done the best I could, and you can use it as you think best.

Yours, JAMES HALL.

P. S.-I forgot to name that Asa Hall had one grandson a lawyer and one or two doctors. Jordan Hall has three grandsons, lawyers.

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Browntown, Harrison Co., W. VA., Aug., 20, 1884. DEAR Sir: This is to let you know all I know of the old Delaware set of Halls. Thomas Hall and Rebecca, his wife, lived in Kent county, Delaware, near Duck creek Cross Roads; Dover was their county seat as well as sent of government for the State. They had a family of five sons and three daughters, one of whom must have died young, for I never heard anything about the one called Nancy. The rest lived to be grown; all raised families but one, Grandfather died where they had lived, near Duck creek Cross Roads, in the year 1772, and on the 29th of May. The children were all single yet while they stayed in Delaware. In about ten years Parthena married Isaac Mason and Asa married Sophia White.

In the year 1781, Uncle Isaac (Mason) and Jordan (my father) came out to look at this country, and the next year (1782) they all moved to Monongalia county, now West Virginia, near Morgantown. In this section of the country they all married. Jordan married Nancy Neal, Rynear Nelly Haymond, Nathan a widow by the name of Elizabeth Robison (maiden name George), Allen married Nancy Thrapp, and Rebecca married John Courtney. All raised large families except Rynear, who died without children.

They all left the Morgantown neighborhood and moved higher up the Monongahela, except Parthena,who moved to Tennessee