Hall Source Information
THE FOLLOWING IS CONNECTING DOCUMENTATION FROM JOHN HALL OF NEWPORT, RI TO BROTHERS JESSE, ASA AND BENAJAH HALL, JR.
Generation
One - John Hall
- The "Colonial
Records of Rhode Island", by Bartlett, Vol. 1, 1636-1663 shows that John
Hall arrived in Newport, RI shortly after its formation on April 28, 1639 and
was at that time admitted as an inhabitant. At the following ULR you
can print out a copy of "Inhabitants admitted at the Towne of
Nieu-Port since the 20th of the 3d, 1638," page 92 - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dotspage/ri1638.html
David Brainard Hall names Henry Hall as the son of John Hall of Newport, RI in
"Halls of New England." HALL - John inhab. Newport, 1638; made free,
Newport; Sep 1679 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/westerly.htm
Generation
Two - Henry Hall - Austin, John
Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three
Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, shows Henry Hall's will and his
children are named. In "Halls of New England", by David Brainard
Hall, he names Henry Hall, son of John Hall of Newport, RI, and states Henry
Hall, Sr., weaver, took the oath of fidelity Sept. 17, 1679. Henry
Hall and four others, purchased, May 2, 1710, 3200 acres of land north of
Pawtucket River and west by Wood River. See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kelliesconnections/lookups.html.
Generation Three - James Hall
- Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising
Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, shows James Hall, spouse
Sarah Babcock, as son of Henry Hall. At the following website on
page 101, James Hall to son James Hall,...100A bounded by... James Hall son of
Henry Hall deceased, April 25, 1726. (Westerly Deeds Vol. 4 1725-1738) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/westerly1.html See
also Early Settlers of Westerly, RI, J.D. Champlin, Jr., NEHGR, Vol 14, January
1860, p. 23 HALL, James, m. Sarah, dau. of Job Babcock, & had Sarah, b. 25
Dec 1693; Jane, b. 29 Aug 1695; Honor, b. 14 Aug 1697; Elijah, b. 23 Aug 1699;
James, b. 17 Sep 1701; Joseph, b. 8 Jul 1703; Mary, b. 10 Nov 1705; Benjamin, b.
19 Nov 1707; Amie, b. 26 Sep 1709; Jonathan, b. 18 Nov 1711. From Westerly Deeds
Vol. 6, Pages 222-23 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/westerly.htm,
James Hall & Honor his wife to Andrew Brown of Westerly, Mariner, Feb. 13,
1750/1. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/westerly.html
BABCOCK, Job, son of James, Sen., m. Jane ____. Will dates 6 Mar 1715, mentions
son John, eldest son Job, youngest son Benjamin, dau. Jane BRAMAN, dau. Sarah
HALL (wife of James), daug Mary TANNERS, dau. Elizabeth BRAND, dau's. Hannah
& Marcy. Henry HALL, Sen., free inhab. Westerly; Mar 1680. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/westerly.htm
Generation
Four - Joseph Hall - From Rhode Island
Genealogical Register Vol. 12, Abstracts of Westerly Wills: Hall, Joseph of
Westerly, RI, yeoman. will dated 14 October 1755 proved on 27 December 1755.
pages 469-470, Mentions: wife Susannah Hall, sons: Ekekiel Hall, Joseph Hall,
Ebenezer Hall, Hekeziah Hall, and Benajah Hall, under 21. Daughter Susannah Hall
under 18. Witnessed: Ephraim Hall, Jonathan Hall and Daniel McCoon.
Children: Ezekial b. c1730; Joseph b. c1732 d. Jamestown, Newport Co., RI
m. Tamzon Wilcox on 12/18/1758; Ebenezer b. c1734 m. Elizabeth Warren on
4/21/1754 at Newport Trinity Church Newport, RI; Hezekiah, b. 1736 d. 8/22/1789
Stephentown Rensselaer Co., NY m. Dorcas Peckman on 10/11/1759; Benajah b.
c1738; Susannah b. c1740. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 50
East North Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 Ancestral File 5 January
1998. Copy can be obtained at website www.familysearch.org
Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising
Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690 shows Joseph as the son of
James Hall. Benjamin Shelley married Jane Wilcox, parents of
Susannah Shelley. The widow Jane (Wilcox) Shelley married secondly
Benjamin Burdick. His widow Jane, whose will was proven Nov 28, 1748, left
children by her first husband (Benjamin Shelly) and named, daughters, Sarah
Worden, Jane Tanner, Mary Warren, Susannah Hall, wife of Joseph, and she
mentions her deceased sons, Benjamin and Samuel. To see a snippet of
this go to www.books.google.com
and enter "Susannah Hall, wife of Joseph" in the search box. Westerly
Deeds Vol. 6 Pg. 179-80 - James Hall to son Joseph, 133 A land that was James
Hall jr Decd, Edward Hall jr, Sep 5, 1733. Wit: George Stillman, Peter Burdick.
Westerly RI Deeds Vol 7 Pg 329, Joseph Hall to son Ezekiel Hall, Oct 1, 1751.
From Westerly Deeds Vol. 6, Pages 76-7, Joseph Hall & wife Susanna to John
Brown, Taylor, May 26, 174. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ri/washingt/deeds/westerly/vol7/f940224.txt.
Supposedly a descendant of Joseph Hall has a bible or will in which
his children are named, to date I have not seen this document.
Generation
Five - Benajah Hall, Sr. - On
17 Jul 1819, Benajah Hall wills land to wife Sary, 147 acres of Land on Lot 7,
which would, upon her death, revert to their sons in the following manner: 1/4
Benajah, 1/4 to Jesse, 1/4 to Asa, and 1/4 to Isaac. Asa and Isaac sold their
land in 1826 indicating Sary may have died about 1825. Benajah Hall, Sr.
(c1738-1819), died at age 81 and Sarah "Sary" (c1738-c1825), died at
age 87. No date, Hall, cost $22. 7 acres, 78 rods, land adj. Sary Hall and
Silas Cogswell on north, Benajah Hall on east, Joel Mudger on south, and Highway
on west, upon her death land reverts 1/4 to Benager, 1/4 Jesse, 1/4 to Asa, and
1/4 to Isaac. This deed was not recorded but contained in the papers of Charles
H. Abbott born 1855, son of Chauncey Milton Abbott and Adeline Oakley. The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows him as the son of Joseph Hall
and Susannah Shelley- see website www.familysearch.org.
His son is named as Hall Benijah, Jr. in the following website: The
Levies-(Pawling) New York in the Revolution as Colony and State http://threerivershms.com/nyleviespawling.htm
All of his sons have documentation proving they were born in Rhode Island.
Both Benajah Hall, Jr. and Asa Hall join the NY Militia under Dyckman:
http://www.threerivershms.com/docnyhistalpha8.htm
Hall, Asa, private Graham Vail
Hall, Benajah, corporal Willet Fonda
Hall, Benajah, private Field Dyckman
Hall, Jesse, private Field Dyckman
Hall, Jesse, private Graham Vail
From Montgomery County 1606
-1888 Virginia and Virginians. Eminent Virginians. By Dr. R.A. Brock Secretary
of the Virginia Historical Society, we learn that Thomas B. Hall was a farmer
and stock-raiser of Auburn district, Montgomery county, was born in this county
April 5, 1825, a son of Asa and Martha (Crandall) Hall. Asa Hall was
son of Asa Hall and Sarah Adams. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vamontgo/history/montgomerybio.htm
It is of interest that the first marriage between our Hall's and Crandall's
occurred when Jane, daughter of John Crandall, married Job Babcock, and
their daughter Sarah, married James Hall, son of Henry.
Generation Six - Jesse Hall, Asa Hall and Benajah Hall, Jr. - http://www.fortklock.com/nyrevdut-3.pdf Dutchess County Militia— Third Regiment show Hall, Benaijah and Hall, Jesse. Jesse Hall is shown on Pension Application as being born in Rhode Island and enlisting under Capt. Nathan Pierce in Dutchess Co., NY, his brother Asa backs his testimony. Military records show Benajah Hall, Jr. as being born in Rhode Island as well. Benajah Hall's pension application was made by his children after his death and states he enlisted in Dutchess Co., NY. According to the following website, Benajah and Jesse both enlisted under Dyckman, and all three enlisted in Dutchess Co., NY. Land owned by Benajah (Jr.) and Sarah Hall and sons Benajah, Jr., Jesse and Asa, sold by Sheriff for $88 in unpaid taxes on 14 November 1811. Hall. Cost $22. 7 acres and 78 rods. Land boarded on North. Sary Hall and Silas Cogswell, E. Benajah Hall, S. Joel Mudger, W. Highway. 1/4 to Benager, 1/4 Jesse, 1/4 to Asa, and 1/4 to Isaac. Deed not recorded contained in papers of Charles H. Abbott. b 1855, son of Chauncey Milton Abbott and Adeline Oakley. Abbott Deed Book H, p. 233, 147 acres of Land on Lot #7 dated 17 July 1819 from Benajah and Sary. Upon her death land reverts to 1/4 Benajah, 1/4 to Jesse, 1/4 to Asa, and 1/4 to Isaac. Benajah Hall, Jr.'s military record is show here: Fifer in Field's company 3rd Regiment of Graham's Levies 25 July 1870 to 25 Oct 17 NY pension file 32.5421 US Revolutionary War Pension File S.22814 fifer in CPT Pond's company. Howie Moore located three records of Benajah's service in NY state militias: 1) Benajah Hall, fifer Muster Roll from 25 Jul 1780 to at least 25 Oct 1780. COL Graham's NY Levies, 3rd Regiment, CPT John Heermanse's Co. 2) a return and pay for Benaijah Hall, undated from 1780 Fields Dutchess County Regiment, NY Militia, CPT Joshua Dykman's Co (West Point 8 days) paid 16' 8" 3) Benijah Hall undated Muster Roll from 1780 Van Ness' Albany Co Regiment description of Benijah 17 years old (b. 1763) listed hometown Ridgeman Town RI. last residence New Concord in Albany County. 5' 9" light complexion, slim and straight build. Note: Ridgeman Town RI is actually a reference to Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island. Supposedly a letter exists, which is owned by a descendant of Benajah Hall, Jr., which mentions a trip Benajah made on foot to visit his brothers in Montgomery Co., VA.
PENSION
APPLICATION FOR JESSE HALL
Revolutionary War Pension Declaration - Source: Montgomery County, VA Court
Order Book 26 pp. 9-10 -
On this 7th day of January 1833
personally appeared before the justices of the county court of Montgomery County
in open court, Jesse Hall a resident of said county and state aged 72 years last
March, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by
the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the
United States in February 1776 for nine months under Capt.
Nathan Pierce in Dutchess
County state of New York and was attached to and served in the
regiment (no. forgotten) commanded by Colonel Richmore, which regiment belonged
to the brigade of General McDougal. He was in the battle of the White Plains, he
was discharged near Fort Montgomery in the state of New York sometime in the
month of December following his enlistment. Again in the month of March 1778
(having in the interval served about seven months in the militia) in the same
county and state, he enlisted again under a Capt. Johnston to serve another nine
months term in the regular army, and joined the regiment commanded by Colonel
Gonzie (don't know that the name is rightly spelled). He was stationed for the
greater part of his tour of service at Fort Plank or Blank on the Mohawk river;
there was no officer at he place above the grade of Colonel, at this latter
place he was discharged, his discharges are lost. He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares
that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to
and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jesse Hall
On this day and year above written Asa Hall a resident of the said county made
oath in open court that he was a soldier in the first tour spoken of in the
above declaration of Jesse Hall and in the same company and regiment and knows
that the time and also the services are correctly stated, and was actually
performed, he has resided near the applicant ever since the revolution and knows
him well, as also Charles Willis, a resident of said county who declares on oath
that the applicant is thought and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he concurs in that opinion,
and both declare that he applicant is a man of respectability and entitled to
credit. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Asa Hall
Charles Willis
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of
the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served
as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Asa
Hall and Charles Willis who signed the preceding certificate are residents in
the county aforesaid and are persons of respectability and that their statement
is entitled to credit.
State of Virginia, Montgomery County
On this 30th day of September 1833 personally appeared before the Judge of the
circuit superior court of law and chancery for the county aforesaid, the same
being a court of record Jesse Hall a resident of said county and state, age 73
years last March, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he enlisted in the army
of the United States in February 1776 for nine months, under Capt. Nathan Pierce
in Dutchess County State of N. York and was attached to and served in the
regiment commanded by Colonel Richmore which regiment belonged to the brigade of
General McDougal. He was in the battle of the White Plains, and was discharged
near Fort Montgomery in the State of New York sometime in the month of December
following his enlistment. Afterwards in the said county of Dutchess and State of
N. York on the 1st day of May 1777, being drafted, he again entered as a militia
man into the service of the U. States under Colonel Morehouse, in the company of
Capt. William Pierce. He was marched to a point about fifteen miles above the
city of N. York on the Hudson; at this time the British were in possession of
the city of N. York. At this station he remained three months in the regiment
commanded by the said Colonel Morehouse and company of Capt. William Pierce.
Afterwards, early in August (there being no interruption of his service) he was
connected to a division of the army under command of General Putnam, (Morehouse
being his Colonel and Pierce his Capt.) and marched near to Fort Montgomery with
a view to its relief but the forces to which he belonged was unable to give any
assistance and the Fort was taken. He then fell back to the place from which he
had started - the point fifteen miles above the city of N. York having been
absent one month according to his best recollection. He continued at this latter
point after his said return, in the service, three months until the first of
December or the early part of that month, where and when he was discharged. he
was at the time of his discharge in the regiment of Colonel Morehouse and
company of Capt. William Pierce. Afterwards, in the month of March 1778, in the
same state and county, he enlisted under a Capt. Johnston, as a regular, for the
term of nine months, and joined the regiment commanded by Colonel Gonsay (the
name is spelt to give the sound) this applicant was stationed for the greater
part of this term of service at Fort Plank or Blank on the Mohawk river. Colonel
Gonsay during this time had his station some twenty miles higher up the river at
Fort Stennock. There was but a Captain's command at Fort Plank, and that command
was part of Gonsey's regiment. The soldiers all at Fort Plank believed the name
of the Colonel to whose regiment they belonged to be Gonsay or Ganzie. The
applicant had no personal acquaintance with him. A part of this tour of service
was spent in an expedition to a place called Cherry Valley for the purpose of
suppressing some tories and indians who had done considerable mischief to that
neighborhood. While on this expedition he and his company were attached to a
militia regiment commanded by one Colonel Clock. He returned again to Fort Plank
and his nine month tour being expired he was discharged in December 1778.
Afterwards in the month of August 1779 in the same county and state he went as a
draft in the service of the U. States under the command of Colonel Burcham in
the company of Capt. Israel Veal and was stationed during the three months for
which he was drafted at West Point on the Hudson, where he was discharged in the
month of November 1779 having served three months from some period in the
preceding August. His discharge having long since been lost.
This applicant was born in the State of
Rhode Island on the 22nd of March 1760. He has a record of his
age at his own house where he resides. He came an infant from Rhode Island to
Dutchess County in the State of New York which latter place was his residence
where called into service. His residence for the last 44 years has been in the
county of Montgomery State of Virginia. He received discharges but whether he
received one at the end of each tour of service he cannot now recollect. He
cannot now recollect whether his discharges were signed by a Captain, Colonel or
officer of some other grade. He well remembers, however, to have received
several of them which he thought would be of no value in future and permitted
them to be lost or were cast away. He has no other evidence of his said service,
but that accompanying this declaration.
Applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity,
except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of
any agency in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above.
Jesse Hall (his mark)
PENSION
APPLICATION FOR ASA HALL
On the 30th day of September 1833 personally appeared in said court Asa Hall and
being first duly sworn saith that he was a soldier in the first tour of service
described in the foregoing declaration of Jesse Hall and in the same company and
regiment with him said Jesse and knows that his statement as to these services
is correct. He states farther that in the year 1779 he saw the applicant in the
militia service on the Hudson river, in the State of New York. Sworn to and
subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Asa Hall (his mark)
We Asa Hall and Bartlett Martin, a clergyman residing in the county of
Montgomery, State of Virginia, certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse
Hall who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration, that we believe him
to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that
we concur in that opinion. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Asa Hall (his mark)
Bartlett Martin
Notes: Fort Stennock mentioned in the latter declaration is probably a reference
to Fort Stanwix. "Colonel Clock" refers to Col. Jacob Klock.
Colonel Gonzie (various spellings) mentioned in both declarations is probably a
reference to Colonel Peter Gonsevoort (1749-1812). There was some dispute over
this part of Jesse's declaration because no one in the pension department had
ever heard of a Colonel "Gonzie" or any similar name. Colonel
Gonsevoort was commander of the 3rd NY reg't which was detached at various
locations along the Mohawk and Hudson rivers in 1778, which is where Jesse said
he was stationed.
Letter to the Hon. R. Craig, Christiansburg, from
J.L. Edwards, War Department Pension Office, 21 September 1833:
Sir,
In reply to yours respecting the claim of Jesse Hall, I have the honor to state,
that upon examination of his papers there is no objection to the 1st term of
nine months which is fully detailed and established by a witness. With respect
to the other term of nine months the name of the Col: must be a mistake. There
is no knowledge in this office of any New York Col: bearing the name of ''Gonzie''
or even resembling it. The militia service which is asserted in the affidavit,
and a part of it which he alleges he could prove by a witness whose testimony is
not produced, should be verified by a Court of Record. No claim or a part of a
claim can be admitted which has not been asserted before a Court of Record, or
in cases of disability only, before a Judge or Magistrate. It will therefore be
necessary to make his declaration de novo, embody the answers to the
interrogatories, and accompany it with the original papers herewith forwarded.
PENSION APPLICATION FOR BENAJAH
HALL, JR.
Extracts
from Pension Claim of Children of Benajah Hall, taken from a photostatic copy
furnished by the National Archives, Washington, D.C. from the Records of the
U.S. Veteran's Adminstration Revolutionary War S-22814 Benajah Hall:
Declaration - In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th
June 1832.
State of New York - County of Cayuga : SS
On the 23rd day of September 1846 personally appeared before the court then in
Session holden at Auburn in and for said County Chloe Powers of Spafford in the
County of Onondaga and State aforesaid aged fifty-two years, who being duly
sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. That this deponant is a daughter of the late Benajah
Hall late a fifer in the War of the Revolution and who resided at the time
of his performing the Service in Dutchess County, New York; that the said Benajah Hall
died on the 4th day of November (1840) eighteen hundred and forty leavng no
widow and that at his death he left the following children him surviving and
that each of them is of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, to wit: Isaac
B. Hall of Crawford County, Pa., Phebe Gurnee of Wayne County, New York, Chloe
Powers of Onondaga County, New York , and Nancy Williams of Cayuga County, New
York
This Declaration and application is made for the purpose of obtaining for the
surviving children of the said Benajah Hall the pension due to him at his decease
under the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and that the reason the said That
he had too much property to be allowed a Pension under the act of March 18th
1818 and that before the passage of Act of June 7th 1832 he became insane and
fancied himself very wealthy and still retained the impression that he was not
entitled to a Pension unless by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he
should be in need of assistance from his Country for support and that the said
Benajah Hall continued in that insane state of mind until he died and for that
reason he could not be prevailed upon by his friends to make application for a
pension.
Chloe Powers
Subscribed and sworn to before the Court of Common Pleas in open Court the day
and date last within written before
J.L Richardson
First Judge of Cayuga
The Court certify that the within named Chloe Powers is a respectable person and
her statement entitled to full credit.
J. L. Richardson
First Judge of Cayuga
The affidavit of William F. Cooper of Niles, Cayuga County, N.Y. aged 45 years,
sworn to October 8, 1846 allows that he was a practicing physician in 1840, and
that he attended Benajah Hall during his last illness, his last visit being made
November 3, 1840, and that said Benajah Hall died Nov. 4, 1840.
[note: according to the descendants of this Benajah Hall's son, Benajah Hall, he
was also a surviving child but not named in the pension claim. It is thought he
may have been estranged from the family and/or had no contact with his siblings]