Transcript:Miller, Richard S. Hall Records/p022

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At that time, what is now West Virginia, was an almost unbroken forest. They remained there about two years, and then moved further up the Monongahela river. It is a fact, worthy of notice, that nearly all who settled in this vicinity,-the Morgans, Ices, Pricketts, Halls, Barns', Straits, Flemings, Hartleys, and others,-and who have had such numerous following, came from Delaware. Several were of Scotch-Irish descent. They crossed the mountains by a route known as "Braddock's Trail, and usually settled near Cheat river. Then, as danger of attack from the Indians became less frequent, they moved further up the Monongahela river.

Of Thomas Hall's widow, who came to the West with her children, we have some information. Her maiden name was Story an English name, and we have the information from our fore-parents, that she was an English lady. She was of a dark complexion, slender, and some of her descendants are said to favor her a great deal. When her family emigrated to the West, she was 52 years old, and made the entire trip on horseback, in company with Mrs. Margaret White, Asa Hall's wife's mother. She made her home with her daughter Rebecca, where she died, December 15, 1812, after being blind for 12 or 15 years. She must have lived a part of the time with her son Asa, for she was remembered very distinctly by my grandfather. She was a very proud woman.

Their children were as follows:

PARTHENA, embraced in: Part One;

ASA, Part Two;

JORDAN, Part Three;

RYNEAR, Part Four;

NATHAN, Part Five;

ALLEN, Part Six;

REBECCA, Part Seven

The party who emigrated consisted of the following persons: Rebecca Hall, Asa and wife, and his wife's mother, Jordan, Rynear, Nathan, Allen, and Rebecca, Jr. If there were others we have no knowledge of it. Jordan received three negroes in part payment for his property in Delaware, but he may not have brought them at this time. We will have more about this further on.

None of our ancestors lost their lives at the hands of the Indians. One stockade was built about a mile below where Fairmont now stands, and another in the forks of the river, about two miles above, to which all the people went, when an alarm was raised that the Indians were coming to the settlement.