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THE HALL FAMILY.

The ancestor of the Halls, from whom we trace our family line, is Thomas Hall, who was born September, 24th, 1724, and his wife, Rebecca Story who was born June 10th, 1730. The only authentic information which we have is, that Thomas Hall died at, or near Duck creek Cross Roads, Delaware, May 29th, 1772, leaving his widow with seven children-five boys and two girls. We have been unable to get any further information. It has been handed down to us, as if by tradition, that he, or his ancestors, at one time lived at Snow Hill, Maryland; after repeated efforts to trace back further than the family we trace from in Delaware, I shall have to be content with what I have been able to collect.

Before proceeding further, I will give some items of interest which I have not been able to trace to any authentic source, but which, I have no doubt, are true.

We learn that our branch of the family started from a marriage between a Hall and a Spencer, one of whom was Scotch, and the other Irish; but which was Irish or which Scotch we cannot tell. At the time of the revolutionary war, Jesse Hall was a soldier in defense of the colonies. He was the son of Moses Hall, who was one of the brothers of our ancestor. My grandfather always had a desire to seek his uncle, who was a sea-captain, and it is quite likely he had, at some time, visited the West. His name was David Hall. These three brothers are the only ones who are remembered, although all the older living members of the family remember of their parents telling them that the following was numerous at Snow Hill, Maryland, and in Delaware. It is a great misfortune that no authentic records of our ancestors have been kept.

After the death of Thomas Hall, in 1772, his widow remained in Delaware until the close of the revolutionary war. In 1781, Isaac Mason, who had married the eldest child, and Jordan Hall, the third child, came to the western country to locate, and in the following year, 1782, the family emigrated to the forks of Cheat river, a few miles below Morgantown, West Virginia.