Transcript:Miller, Richard S. Hall Records/p016

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in the year 1796, where she died and left numerous offspring. Allen went to Licking county, Ohio, near Newark, and died there, leaving a large family. Aunt Rebecca lived on Scott's run, below Morgantown, and died there in the year 1754. Asa died January 9, 1815; Jordan died June 2, 1835, and Rynear April 1, 1818. These three lived and died within two or three miles of Fairmont. Nathan died in the Swamps, a part of Taylor county, West Virginia, June 1827. So you may see that none but Parthena and Allen ever left this country. You can see grandfather never came to this country; grandmother did and died December 15, 1812.

Father used to say that two families, one of Halls and one of Spencers, came from Ireland and settled at Snow Hill, Maryland, from whom the Halls descended. According to that we are Irish and not Dutch as you have it. I give you the marriages and deaths on another page of father's family.

And now if you can make it out it is the best I can do. I am all of the family now living.

This from JAMES HALL.

P. S.--The four oldest brothers and youngest sister all died in what was then Monongalia county, Virginia, the three oldest of them near Fairmont, now Marion county, West Virginia. Asa and Rynear died on the river below the mouth of Buffalo creek, the river only between them. J. H.

Letter from Thomas Shourds. Author of the History of "Fenwick's Colony."

Salem, New Jersey, 26th of the first mo., 1885. RESPECTED FRIEND: Thy letter dated 19th was received. Agreeable to thy letter, I think thy ancestor, Thomas Hall, was more than probably the grandson of Judge 'Wm. Hall, of Salem. The reason that makes me think so is this: Clement Hall, son of Judge Hall, left Salem and removed to the State of Delaware about 1725, there married, and had several children. About the beginning of this century, Sarah Hall, a young woman, came from the State of Delaware and married Samuel Acton. They had children. Her brother, Samuel Hall, came soon afterward, and settled in Salem county. He always went under the name of Delaware Samuel Hall. There was two or three of that name already in this. county, but they claimed of having descended from Judge 'William Hall.

Thine truly, THOMAS SHOURDS.