Transcript:Miller, Richard S. Hall Records/p018

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The Sarah Hall that married Samuel Acton was a great aunt of his and also an aunt of my father's.

There is now some litigation about a piece of property over in Delaware in which the Halls, Actons and Morris', &C., are engaged, or rather interested.

You will probably think I am somewhat muddled in my replies, and I expect I am, as I have most of my information from the Louis Hall whom I mentioned.

Extract from letter of February 9, 1885: I can give you no further information just at present about either Thomas or David Hall, though I have had cousin Louis write to his aunt, Mrs. Lydia Woodnut, for information. He expects an answer in a week or ten days, when I will answer your questions more fully.

Extract from letter of May 20, 1885: Cousin Louis has not been able as yet to get a reply from his relative in the East concerning questions asked. If he should do so I will write yon further.

Any information I may be able to obtain, you are heartily welcome to.

You have my best wishes for the success of your book and for your own welfare.

I have been anxious to trace our genealogy further back than any dates we have, but could get no clue to do so on account of not having the old patents, etc., which have not been accessible to me. The letters which follow show how kind persons of the name Hall have been in giving the knowledge they had of their ancestors, all of whom are entitled to thanks. None of them seem connected with our line directly, although the line of William Hall, who emigrated to the Fenwick Colony in 1677, comes nearer it than any of the others.

Extract from letter of Henry D. Hall, Esq.

SALEM, N. J., Dec. 4, 1884.

I can give you but very little information about the descendants of William Hall. He settled in Salem, Salem county, and many of his descendants still live here, and in this neighbor hood, and own property purchased by him; and some of it has remained in the family ever since. I think Mr. Shourds can give you more information about the Hall family than perhaps any one in this county, and I have no doubt would take pleasure in doing so.