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Biographical Sketch of Edward Hall
Edward Hall 1757-1838, Revolutionary War Soldier
Excerpt from the book “Edward Hall & His Descendants”

Submitted by Sue VonderBrink

On Christmas Day in 1757, Edward Hall was born in Prince William
County, Virginia. The French and Indian War ended in 1763 when Edward was six
years old.

In the Spring of 1779, the Hall brothers traveled to what is now present day Kentucky. There were two main routes from Virginia to Kentucky. From (Limestone) Maysville, Kentucky which is located on the Ohio River and Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Road. Cumberland Gap is the entry into Kentucky by way of the Wilderness Road.

Edward Hall was age twenty-two and grew up during the bloody Indian border wars which prepared him for the journey to Kentucky. The lure of abundance of game and fertile land may have called Edward and his brothers.

All free males aged 16 to 50 were enrolled into the militia by Virginia law with few exceptions. Each private had to furnish himself with a rifle and a half-pound of powder and a pound of lead. The early militia were recruited from the most western lands of Virginia for the defense of Kentucky.

Edward Hall would have been living in the western part of Virginia and which is now Fauquier County. This is based on following the Prince William county-line and the date of Edward’s birth. Fauquier County was formed from Prince William County, Virginia in 1759. After 1760 the boundaries of Prince William County, Virginia are about the same as today.

In 1779, the most western parts of Virginia was considered back country. The common people of this area were from England, France (Huguenots), Germany, and northern Ireland (Scotch-Irish). Many of the Germans and Scotch-Irish lived in Pennsylvania before they moved on to the western parts of Virginia. From here Edward Hall lived and family folk lore, the Hall family are British or Scotch-Irish. Scotch-Irish are from northern Ireland, but are English or Scottish. The Scotch-Irish were removed to northern Ireland from the borders of England and Scotland.

Edward Hall states in his Revolutionary War pension statement that “he came to Kentucky in April of 1779.” Brother Thomas Hall’s pension statement says that it was “late March or early Spring of 1779.”

Ralph Morgan and others (Halls not mentioned) made their journey from Virginia and arrived at Fort Boonesborough in early April of 1779. During the same time period, Capt. Starnes and party left Boonesborough and all were killed by Indians except Jacob Starnes.

From the pension statements of Edward and Thomas Hall, they took the oath of office from Col. Richard Calloway in the Spring of 1779. The brothers served as privates, scouts, and guards under John Holder, Benjamin Logan, and George Rogers Clark. William Hall died (1782 or 1783) at Fort Boonesborough.

On April 15, 1779, the Association of Settlers of Boonesborough signed a compact for the making of a Crop of Corn. Some of the names included on the compact were William, Edward, and Thomas Hall. Directors were elected and some tended the corn crop while others guarded the workers.

Edward Hall claimed land in the summer of 1779 and received a furlough to bring his father’s family to Kentucky in the Fall of 1779. Mathis Horn (husband of Susannah Hall Horn) and Joseph Proctor made statements that “Edward Hall received a furlough in the Fall of 1779 to bring his father’s family to Kentucky which he did and continued to do garrison duty at Boonesborough, Strode’s Station, and Bryan Station. When at Strode’s Station, he was was under Capt. Constant. While doing duty at the different forts and stations, the said Hall was on frequent scouting parties until peace was made. They think that Edward Hall served about four years.”

The Hard Winter of 1779-1780 brought heavy snow, ice, and frozen streams. People and animals died from lack of food. After the Hard Winter was endured troubles began with Ruddle’s Station destroyed by British and Indians. On June 24, 1780 Martin’s Station was surrendered to the British and Indians.

Edward Hall was on the payroll of Capt. David Goss’s Company under the
Command of Col. John Bowman from September 6 until October 21, 1780.
[GRC excerpt of pages 74-75]

Strode’s Station attacked by Indians in mid-March 1782. Col. Benjamin Logan placed Captain James Estill and his company on active duty.

Estill’s Station was attached by Wyandots Indians when most of the men were out on a campaign. Captain James Estill’s and company were attacked at Little Mountain (Mt. Sterling, Kentucky). The battle was known as Estill’s defeat. Joseph Proctor shot the Indian that killed James Estill.

Joseph Proctor married Polly Horn. Polly was a sister of Mathis Horn who married Susannah Hall. Susannah Hall Horn was a sister of Edward Hall. Proctor and Horn made Revolutionary War pension statements for Edward Hall. These pensions statements seem to indicate that Susannah Hall was Edward Hall’s sister.

Thomas Hall, brother of Edward, was on the payroll of Capt. Nathaniel Hart on a tour of duty to build a fort at the falls of the Ohio, under the command of Col. Benjamin Logan from June 27, 1782 to July 15, 1782. Fort Nelson was located in present day Louisville, Kentucky. [GRC excerpt of pages 131-132 with notes of referenced fort by SV]

July 18, 1782 - August 31, 1782, Edward Hall is on the payroll of Elisha Clary’s company guarding Ashton’s Station ( same as Estill’s Station) 1/4 pay, certified by Benjamin Logan. [GRC excerpt of pages 135-136 with notes by SV to explain the location of the fort]

Col. John Holder’s Defeat occurred on August 2, 1782 and the Siege of Bryan’s Station August 15-17, 1782. These battles led up to the Battle of Blue Licks on August 19, 1782.

William Hall served with Capt. John Boyle from August 18-August 27, 1782. An invasion of the enemy is mentioned and Blue Licks. William Hall is serving Capt. John Boyle and commanded by Benjamin Logan. Benjamin Logan and Company arrived when the Battle of Blue Licks was in retreat. This is our William Hall who was a brother to Edward Hall. (Dates of service, Harding 147)

William Hall is on the payroll of Capt. John Boyle from October 8-15, 1782. They are defending the stations and escorted families to new settlements.
(Dates of service, Harding 159)

William Hall is on the payroll of Capt. John Boyle from October 22-November 24, 1782 on an expedition against the Indians which was commanded by Gen. George Rogers Clark. (Dates of service, Harding 174)

Thomas Hall, brother of Edward mentions a battle on the “upper Blue Licks where we had a pretty severe engagement with the Indians from there we were marched back to Boonesborough, where we were stationed principally until the termination of the War. Engaged during the whole period in occasional and frequent scouting along the frontier settlements. In fact, our whole service partook as good deal of the nature of a frontier guard.” Thomas Hall was in the Battle of Blue Licks. Edward Hall makes no mention of a Battle at Blue Licks, he may have been with Benjamin Logan’s army that arrived after the battle. Brother William Hall was with Benjamin Logan’s troops.

October 11, 1782 - November 11, 1782, Edward Hall was on the payroll
of Lieutenant John South guarding the frontier of Fayette County. Others
included on the payroll were Mathis Horn (husband of Susan Hall) and Garrett Townsend who married Edward’s sister. [GRC excerpt page 160 with family notes by SV]

Serving John South would have been during the campaign of George Rogers Clark against the Shawnee villages along the Miami River. Clark’s army destroyed Chillicothe, Piqua, and Wills Town. Captain William McCracken was said to be looking for his horse when he was shot. Captain McCracken died and was buried where the army first assembled near the Ohio River (present day Cincinnati, Ohio). Clark’s army disbanded after Captain McCracken was buried. Edward Hall mentioned the death of Captain McCracken in his Revolutionary war pension statement.

In the affidavit of Frances F. Jackson September 25,1843, states that “she is acquainted with Milly Hall, that she knows when Milly married; that she was living in the house of Col. Holder in the year of 1783 or 1789 and was married the year that we moved into the house. I know it was one of the above named years. I am certain it was before 1794. I have been acquainted with her since her marriage and she resides part of the time with her daughter in Clark County and the balance of her time in Estill County.” Col. John Holder lived at Holder’s Station in
Clark County, Kentucky during the time referenced. Frances F. Jackson was of
the Jackson Ferry on the Kentucky River. Milly Hall lived with her daughter Elizabeth Hall Welch in Clark County and with her son Bryant Hall in Estill County, Kentucky.

Parson Andrew Tribble, a Baptist minister, married Edward Hall and Milly (unknown) on June 9, 1786. The marriage records are lost because the early Fayette County, Kentucky courthouse burned.

“In Clark County, Kentucky on June 28, 1843, personally appeared, Milly Hall widow of said Edward Hall, age 75 years on the 16th Oct. 1843. She states he was from Va. She does not know the county. She states she was married to Edward Hall, June 9, 1786 in Fayette Co., Ky.; that her husband, the aforesaid Edward Hall died on the 13th July 1838 in Estill County, Ky.; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the services, but that she has had 9 children. The oldest living is 52; that her oldest child is dead and that she was married 17 months when her first child was born. Garret Hall, her oldest, is living in Indiana. She was married by Parson Andrew Tribble and that the office is burned where the license were issued when they married.”

Garrett Hall, son of Edward and Milly Hall, was born in 1792 and died in 1880. Garrett Hall is buried in the Providence Cemetery, Orange County, Indiana. Garrett Hall served in the War of 1812 and received a land
bounty for his service.

2-1 GARRETT HALL, Son of Edward Hall
Garrett Hall married Elizabeth Taylor and Mary Newkirk. Mary Newkirk
was the daughter of Cornelis and Betsy Powell Newkirk of Estill County,
Kentucky. Garrett Hall was a soldier in the War of 1812, Farmer, and a Primitive Baptist preacher, and so was Andrew Tribble. William Bush was a founder and leader of a religious colony. Col. John Holder, Tribble, Bush and the Halls all lived in the same general area of Clark County, Kentucky.

WILL OF EDWARD HALL
I, Dora N. Henry, Clerk of County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing will is a true and correct copy of the Original Will which appears of record in my said office in Will Book D, Page 172. This copy was taken from the original will on file.
Dora N. Henry, Clerk Estill Co. Court

By: Carolyn C. Baber D.C.
This 18 day of August, 1975

In the name of God Amen I Edward Hall of the County of Clark and the State of Kentucky being in sound mind and memory calling to mind the mortality of this body and certain of death when it shall please God to call me home do make ordain and deliver this to be my last will and Testiment and none other revoking and disallowing all other will or wills and this only to be taken for my last Will in the first place my will is that all just debts be paid and secondly that my body shall be decently enterred my will is that my beloved wife shall have a decent maintanace out of my estate such as to have one third if she thinks proper to take it the balance of my estate I will to my son Bryant Hall both real and personal to have the same at my death my will is that the balance of my six children shall have nothing (to wit) Thomas Hall, Garret Hall Jefse Hall, Martin Hall, James Hall, and Elizabeth Welshe late Elizabeth Hall shall hold the amount they have severlly rec and no more of my estate at my death and lastly I constitute and appoint my trusty friend and son Bryant Hall executor of this my last will and testiment in testimony where - of -- I have unto sit my hand and seal this 23rd day of January 1835.

Attest his
James Bybee Edward (X) Hall (seal)
John M. Barber mark

The Hall Family in Prince William County, Virginia to Kentucky.
1-1 William Hall
1-2 Edward Hall married Milly (unknown)
1-3 Thomas Hall
1-4 Susannah Hall married Mathias/Mathew Horn
1-5 Elizabeth Hall married Garrett Townsend
1-6   Micajah Hall married Milly Powell

William Hall, Edward Hall, and Thomas Hall were Revolutionary War soldiers.
Edward and Thomas Hall were frontier Scouts and Guards. Edward and Thomas Hall are known to have been in present day Kentucky in late March or early April of 1779. All free men aged 16-50 served in the Virginia militia. Virginia drafted the recruits, to be sent to Kentucky, from the most western parts of the state.

Micajah Hall did not serve in the Revolutionary War, so he was too young to serve in the Virginia militia (under age 16). Micajah Hall is over 21 in 1792 on the Clark County tax list. The 1820 Estill County Census gives his age as 45 and over, but is closer to born in 1771.

“Garrett [Garnett/Gerret] Townsend who married his sister and were soldiers in sd [said] company ... “ Reference: Edward Hall’s Revolutionary War pension statement.

Elizabeth Hall Townsend was born after Susannah and before Micajah Hall. Susannah Hall Horn’s age is taken from a Revolutionary War pension statement.

1-1 William b. 1755 d. late 1782 or 1783 at Fort Boonesborough
1-2 Edward b. December 25, 1757 d. July 13, 1838 m. Milly [Unknown]
1-3 Thomas b. March 1759
1-4 Susannah b. 1762 m. Mathias/Mathew Horn
1-5 Elizabeth b. 1764 m. Garrett Townsend
1-6 Micajah b. 177 1 m. Milly Powell

1-2 Beginnings of the Edward Hall Family in Kentucky Contains information about Edward Hall who married Milly (unknown).
1-2 Edward Hall married Milly (unknown), June 9, 1786.
Parson Andrew Trimble married Edward and Milly Hall. Andrew Tribble headed a Separate Baptist Church at Tate’s Creek (Madison Co., Ky.) from 1786 until his death in 1822.

Milly was living in the home of Col. John Holder at John Holder’s Station in Clark County, Kentucky. After their marriage, Edward and Milly lived at Fort Boonesborough in Madison County, Kentucky. Later the Hall’s lived north of the Kentucky River in Clark and Estill counties.

The early stations in Kentucky were small compared to the forts. The only exception is Bryan Station which was the size of a fort. The stations were one or more cabins and those that lived there were usually families related by marriage, blood, or friendship. Milly (unknown) Hall was from Virginia. John Holder was from Virginia and married to Fanny Callaway. Edward Hall served under John Holder.

From the deposition of Aquilla White who came to Kentucky and settled at
Boonesborough in April 1779: “About 30 families lived at Boonesborough,
nearly as many at Stode’s and about 20 families at Boones’s Station, eight families at Holder’s.” Fayette Circuit Court Records, Book D, page 225. Editor’s note: Holder’s is Col. John Holder’s Station.

Edward Hall’s Will is a key stone because it includes all of Edward’s children. The names of the children match the ages of children in the 1810 Clark County Census.
Garret Hall is mentioned in Milly (Unknown) Hall’s, wife of Edward Hall,
Revolutionary War pension statement.

Milly (Unknown) Hall gave birth to nine children. The first child was born seventeen months after their marriage (November 1787) and had died before the 1810 census. One of the nine children is thought to have been an infant and had died young.

Issue:
2-1 Garrett Hall b. 1792 m. Elizabeth Taylor, 2nd m. Mary Newkirk
2-2 Thomas Hall b.1793 m. Nancy Baber
2-3 Jesse Hall b. 1794 m. Julia Robinson, 2nd m. Permillia Crews
2-4 Elizabeth Hall b. 1796 m James Welch
2-5 Martin Hall b. 1798 m. Elizabeth Brock
2-6 Bryan Hall b. 1802 m. Elizabeth Walters
2-7 James Hall b. 1804 m. Mary (Polly) White

Census Records 1810, Clark County, Kentucky
Edward Hall
Male 1 (45 & up) Edward Hall
Female 1 (45 & up) Milly (Unknown) Hall
Male 2 (16-26):
Garrett Hall   b. 1792 [1794-1784]
Thomas Hall b. 1793 [1794-1784]
Male 2 (10-16):
Jesse Hall b. 1794 [1794-1800]
Martin Hall b. 1798 [1794-1800]
Female 1 (10-16)
Elizabeth Hall Welch b. 1796 [1794-1800]
Male 2 (under 10)
Bryan Hall b. 1802
James Hall b. 1804

2-1 GARRETT HALL, Son of Edward Hall
Garrett Hall married Elizabeth Taylor and Mary Newkirk. Mary Newkirk was the daughter of Cornelis and Betsy Powell Newkirk of Estill County, Kentucky. Garrett Hall was a soldier in the War of 1812, Farmer, and a Primitive Baptist preacher.

Garrett Hall and Mary Newkirk Hall are buried in the Providence Cemetery located in Orange County, Indiana.

In 1850 Garrett Hall secured eighty acres of land through a law to give veterans of the War of 1812 land bounty. During this time period he lived in Orange County, Indiana. In 1855, when Garrett Hall was 63 years old, he was given an additional 80 acres in Crawford County, Indiana and were he lived until he became too old to farm. Bounty #18604, September 1850.

1850 Indiana Census
Garrett Hall, Sterling Township, Crawford County
Garrett Hall - 58 - male - Farmer - b. Kentucky owned $150 real estate
Mary - 55 - female b. Kentucky
James - 23 - male - b. Crawford County, Indiana
Jane - 19 - female - b. Crawford County, Indiana
Mary - 17 - female - b. Crawford County, Indiana
Margaret - 14 - female b. Jan. 1836, Crawford County, Indiana
Roda - 12 - female - b. Crawford County, Indiana
Isaac - 10 - male - b. Crawford County, Indiana
(Note: Martin Hall, son of Garrett & Mary Hall, is age 29 & living in Marion Co., Iowa.)
Garrett Hall (1792-1880) and Mary Newkirk Hall (1797-1876):

Issue: (? = 3-1, 3-3, 3-4, & 3-6 may have died as infants.)
3-1 ?
3-2 Martin b. Nov. 16, 1821 d. May 15, 1859 m. Susannah Key/Kee (Iowa)
3-3 ?
3-4 ?
3-5 James b. 1827 d.   m. Cynthia Jones & Sledge
3-6 ?
3-7 Jane b. 1831
3-8 Mary b. 1833
3-9 Margaret b. Jan. 1836 d. m. Newkirk
3-10 Rhoda b. March 15 1838 d. m. David Finley Tate
3-11 Isaac b. 1840 d. April 22, 1862
Isaac Hall Union Private in Company F, 49 Regiment or the Indiana Infantry. He
died on April 22, 1862 at the Post Hospital, Barbourville, Kentucky during the Civil War.

2-2 THOMAS HALL, Son of Edward Hall
Thomas Hall married (January 2, 1813) Nancy Baber, daughter of Stanley Baber of Clark County, Kentucky. They lived on Four Mile Creek and probably in Clark County, Kentucky.

Issue:
3-1 Achilles b. Oct. 29, 1813 d. m. Malinda Brookshire & Ada Brown
3-2 Ambrose b. d. m. Elizabeth Chism
3-3 James b. d. m. Martha _______
3-4 Amelia b. d.
3-5 Lucy b. d. m. Ransom O. Curtis
3-6 Nancy b. d.

2-3 JESSE HALL, Son of Edward Hall
Jesse Hall married Julia Robinson, daughter of Jesse Robinson. Jesse Hall’s second wife was Permillia Crews.

Issue:
3-1 Hall, Martin B. Hall/M.B. Hall b. 1836 d. 1890 m. Sarah Walters
3-2 Hall, Martha b. 1840
3-3 Hall, Bryant b. 1843
3-4 Hall, Mary/Milly b. 1846 m. John Pitcher
3-5 Hall, Jesse b. 1847
3-6 Hall, James b. 1850

2-4 ELIZABETH HALL WELCH , Daughter of Edward Hall. Elizabeth Hall married James Welch and lived in Clark County, Kentucky. The marriage bond was on July 2, 1817. Elizabeth was twenty-one years old which would make her date of birth about 1796.

3-1 William H. Welch
3-2 James (twin)
3-3 Elizabeth (twin)
> >>> 3-4 Jesse
3-5 John
3-6 Henry

Based on the 1810 Clark County Census, the estimated birth of Elizabeth
Hall Welch was between 1794 and 1800 (one daughter is listed). The 1810
Clark County, Kentucky Census matches the Will of Edward Hall (one daughter and six sons).

The 1843 statement of Frances F. Jackson for Milly Hall (wife of Edward
Hall) Milly lived part of her time in Clark County with her daughter. Frances F. Jackson was of the Jackson Ferry on the Kentucky River.

The Estill County Court records for September 2, 1847 The deposition of William H. Welch in a suit of law pending in Estill Circuit Court States that I delivered to the Plaintiff, Milly Hall, my grandmother $206. Jefferson Hall was defendant   .... plaintiff sent to my mother twenty dollars and to my brother one dollar ... I expect to start to the state of Missouri in a few days and shall not return.

The deposition proves the following:
Milly Hall was the grandmother of William H. Welch. William H. Welch’s mother lived in Clark County, Kentucky. James Hall was William H. Welch’s Uncle.
William H. Welch planned to move to Missouri in the Fall of 1847.

2-5 MARTIN HALL, Son of Edward Hall
Martin Hall married Elizabeth Brock, daughter of John T. and Frances Brock of the Bull Run section of Clark County, Kentucky. The Brock family lived near the mouth of the Red River.

The Hall Cemetery is on the north-side of the Kentucky River which is located near Lock #11. The Hall Cemetery is known by several names Fox Creek, Hall, and Winburn.

The road from the ferry near the lock to Noland Creek was known as the Fox Creek Road. The Hall family built log cabins on both sides of the creek.

Issue:
3-1 John B. Hall m. Mary Lackey
3-2 Elvaline Hall m. William Warner
3-3 Thomas F. Hall m. Nancy Jane Moberly
3-4 Martin V. Hall m. Mary Frances Tipton
3-5 [Frances]Louisa died at age 18 on April 24, 1854
3-6 William Hall m. Elizabeth Sams
3-7 James E. Hall m. Melvina Tipton
(Mary Frances Tipton and Melvina Tipton were sisters & daughters of Joseph ipton, son of William H. Tipton, son of Major Jonathan Tipton.)

2-6 BRYAN HALL, SON OF EDWARD HALL
Bryan Hall married Elizabeth Walters on June 8, 1843, she was the daughter of James Walters of Noland Creek and the Kentucky River/

Issue:
3-1 America m. William W. Hall (married 1st cousin from the Thomas Hall family)
3-2 Milly
3-3 Emarine m. William Combs
3-4 William H.
3-5 Eliza
3-6 Jackson
3-7 Mary
2-8 Ann
2-9 Rowland
2-10 Luvica
2-11 Christopher

JAMES HALL
2-7 JAMES HALL, SON OF EDWARD HALL
James Hall married Mary (Polly) White in Clark County, Kentucky on April 3, 1828.

Issue:
3-1 Arzela b. d. John Berryman
3-2 Garrett b d. m. Martha C. Wilson, Nancy Stone, Ann E. Stone
3-3 Elizabeth b. d. m. Richard P. Walters
3-4 Emily b. d. m. William Burgess
3-5 Mary H. b. d. m.
3-6 Sally b. d. m. Jackson Stone
3-7 Anniela