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Descendants of Richard Hall

Generation No. 2

2. DAVID² HALL (RICHARD¹)^3,⁴ was born 1754, and died November 1837 in Giles Co. Va.. He married SARAH ROLLINS⁴ Abt. 1780, daughter of ANTHONY ROLLINS and MARY. She was born 1765, and died April 1838 in Giles Co. Va..

Notes for DAVID HALL:
Notes by Elke A. Hall

DAVID HALL was born ca. 1754 (according to his Revolutionary War Pension Application) and ca. 1745-50, probably by 1780 he married SARAH ROLLINS ( she died by May 1838 in Giles Co., daughter of Anthony Rollins and ... ) , as son Benjamin was born 5 May 1781. Benjamin was born in Dinwiddie County.
David Hall Sr. died by Nov. 1837 in Giles Co.
His will is in the Giles Co. Will Book B, page 182:
His estate was appraised at $148.75 on 2 December 1837. Appraisers were David Hall Jr., George Bolton, James Stewart , John Johnston was administrator. Benjamin Hall sold land to George Bolton, adj. James Stewart and Akers.

George Bolton probably sold the land to Peter Bish: Peter Bish left a will recorded in Pulaski Co. on 7 April 1842, Pulaski co WB 1, p. 33) he mentions debts he owes French and Pack. He devised all his land 417 a. to his son Isaac who was to maintain his mother and sister sally. He was to pay the other heir. Abraham, Samuel, Emanuel and David Bish, and Catherine Cain, certain cash sums. A deed was to be made to daughter Susan Gordon and her living children for the land purchased of Dimond in Giles Co. on Spruce Run, daughter Sally was to have the land he bought of George Bolton, being 115 a. in Giles Co. on a branch that empties into Walker's Creek and 50 a. bought of French and Pack which adjoined. Wife Phebe was to have $50.00. The remainder of the French and Pack land, 350 a. was to be sold. Henry Wysor, Jr. and Moses Hoge were executors.

Peter Bish's property in Giles Co. was listed separately and incl. the following: 1 cupboard , a falling leaf table, a bureau, a spinning wheel, 3 chairs , a still cap and worm, 7 tubs, 4 kegs, and a tract of
land by name of the Hall tract big survey, 380 a. valued at $.50 an acre (Pulaski Co. Will book 1, p. 38).

In the 1850 census, James Stewart, age 71, was born in Ireland, and lived with his son William Stuart, age 30, born in Ireland, in #490, next to Obediah Diamond #489. Lucinda Diamond (16) lived with William Stuart, whose father James appraised David Hall's estate. Jonathan Cunningham lived in #488, he witnessed Sarah Hall's will. Charles Hall, David Hall's other son, lived in #483.

They had been living in Big Rye Hollow by 1790, close to Henley Chapman ( Henley Chapman was the first Commonwealth Attorney in Giles Co. and owned the land around Mountain Lake in Giles Co., land that Christopher Gist visited before he went to Richard Hall's. )

In 1806, the First Giles Co. Court was held at the house of George Pearis on May 13, 1806. Henley Chapman, Gentleman, produced in court a license to practice law in the Superior and Inferior Courts of this Commonwealth. The Chapmans are said to have come from Charles Co., Maryland. Charles, son of DAVID HALL , Sr. , was born ca. 1784, married Jemima Chapman, daughter of John Chapman and Sally Abbott. John's sister Jemima, aunt of Jemima Chapman Hall, married Murdock McKenzie, she was killed by Indians in May 1778. John Chapman's father was Isaac Chapman, born in Charles Co., Maryland and married Sarah Cole in Culpeper Co.,
Virginia.
David and Sarah's children were:
1 Judith was born ca.1780/81, she married Jesse Diamond on July 3, 1802 in Montgomery Co. Va. (The printed entry says Judith "Hale", however, this should say Judith "Hall," her parents refer to Judith as Juda Diamond in their wills.) Surety for this marriage was Joseph Benjay, age of Judith was proven by Joseph Benjey, who was her uncle.

2 Benjamin was born 5 May 1781 in Dinevidia ( Dinwiddie County), Virginia. He married Margaret McKenzie on July 6, 1799 in Montgomery Co., VA. She was said to have been born ca. 1770. Margaret was the daughter of Murdock McKenzie. Benjamin Hall died 3 July 1859 (Mercer Co. Death Record Book 1, page 7). , 78years, 1 month, 28 days old. Mercer Co. records state that he was born in Denevidia ( Dinwiddie ) County.

3 Charles was born ca. 1784, he married Jemima Chapman, daughter of John and Sally (Abbott) Chapman.
4 JAMES was born ca. 1785, he married MARY "POLLY" HARLESS on 13 August 1819 in Giles Co. She was born ca. 1801.
5 David, Jr. was born ca. 1794 - 1800, he probably died by 1839, as he is not mentioned in his mother's will.

1779 David Hall joined the company commanded by Cpt. Epps of the regiment commanded by Col. Buford of Virginia and served for 18 months to 1781 in the Revolutionary War. In his book "Another such Victory" Thomas E. Baker states that " on.. bivouacked around Guilford Courthouse. For nearly two months these reels and Cornwallis' Redcoats had marched and countermarched. At long last, Greene was willing to risk and engagement. In one of the most bitterly contested battles of the American Revolution, Lord Cornwallis' Redcoats met and defeated Nathaniel Greene's rebels. But the cost of this victory was high. At day's end, 500 of the British troops lay dead or wounded in the fields and thickets surrounding Guilford Courthouse. Crippled by the loss of 1/4 of his army,Cornwallis abandoned both the pursuit of Greene and his plans for the conquest of North Carolina. Seven months later , the Redcoats had to surrender at Yorktown.
The rebels were called the "Over the Mountain Men", they were a hard lot, toughened by the daily struggle of life on the frontier, and not likely to be intimidated by mere threads of violence. They fought in South Carolina, Ninety Six, King's Mountain, North Carolina. On Oct. 14, 1780 General Washington offered the Command of the Southern Dept. to Maj. Gen Nathaniel Greene of Rhode Island. Greene assumed command at the Army's winter encampment near Charlotte, North Carolina, on Dec. 3, 1780. He found conditions worse than expected. The men were poorly fed, wretchedly closed, miserably equipped. the combination of a poor diet and inadequate winter clothing had led to epidemic outbreaks of diarrhea, dysentery and other ailments which incapacitated about half of the troops. Greene penned a note to Gov. Thomas Jefferson, protesting that "no man will think of himself bound to fight the battle of a state that leaves him to perish for want of covering." He ordered that all sheeting material and Osnaburg , a coarse linen cloth, that could be collected to be sewn into overalls. He directed hides be collected to be sown into shoes by Moravian craftsmen. 1790 David Hall was listed on the 1790 Montgomery Tax List between Back and Neck Cr., Sinking Run, head of Bear Springs, Walker's Cr. , White Glade on New River, same area as Thomas Copley.

1810 Census - Giles Co. - Charles and DAVID HALL are listed.
Charles had 2 males to 10 years old, he was 26-45, his wife was 26-45 and he had 1 daughter younger than 10 years. David Hall had 1 son 10-16, 1 son 16-26, he was 45 & up and his wife was
45 & up.

1815 Tax list - March 16 - Walker's Cr. & Rye Hollow, east side of New River & Sinking Cr. :
David Hall has one white male over 16, 3 horses and 10 cattle.
Giles Co. Deed Book E - DAVID HALL and Wm. Clyborn in Big Rye Hollow adj. Land of Henley Chapman, John Peck, part of survey granted to Thomas Farley by patent 13 Feb. 1793. Signed D. Hall Jr., April 1837.

1826 Revolutionary War Pension application for David Hall - S 37 989
Virginia, Giles County Court:
On this 30th day of May 1826 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County of Giles which proceeds according to the Course of the Common law with Jurisdiction with the point of amount of keeping a record of these proceedings.

David Hall, a resident of the County of Giles aforesaid, aged upward of seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 or the first day of May 1821, that he the said David Hall enlisted on the --- day --- in the year 1779 for the term of eighteen months in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia under Captain Epps in the company commanded by the said Cpt. Epps and was marched from the County of Bedford and the State of Virginia to Hillsborough in the State of North Carolina, attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Buford in the line of the State of Virginia on Continental establishment and that the said Regiment to which he belonged was attached to the Brigade of General Gates and that he continued to serve in the said Corps eighteen months, the full term of his enlistement when he was discharged at Salisbury in the State of North Carolina, which
discharge he has lost, his ocupation was a farmer, that he was ..... and that he has one son that lives with him named James , about 35 years of age, which son has a family of his own to support and that he has some small grandchildren to support, they being the children of an unfortunate dissipated son who is unable to support them and that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present application and that the following are the reason for not making earlier application for a
pension to wit:

That he was in indigent circumstances and being in possession of but little property either real or personal and he would have been entitled to a pension under the Act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March 1818 if he had made application for the same at that time yet he was not willing to become a burden to his county while he was able to support by his labor as a farmer which he was able to do and is not with reluctance that he has thus called on his county for support and in pursuance of this act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly sware (swear) that I was a resident, citizen of the United States, on the 18th of May 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intention to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled and get to provide a certain person in service in the State of Virginia of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person ............ for me any property or securities or debt due to me nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule below.

A schedule of this property of David Hall as follows , to wit:
about 20 acres of land worth about sixty dollars, one horse being worth about $30, six head of cattle worth about $26, two sows and pigs worth about $5, one water pail and piggin, two pots, one oven, one pewter dish, bason and six plates and 6 iron spoons worth about ten dollars and he the said David Hall further states on oath that no material changes have taken place on his personal property from the 18th day of March 1818 until the present unless one horse being dead, the other property somewhat the same.

And that he has sold and conveyed to Henley Chapman one hundred and fourteen acres of the poor broken high land for the sum of one hundred dollars which sum the said Chapman has paid me and which money has all been used for the necessary support of myself and family. Sworn and subscribed to in open court the 30th day of May 1826.

I, David French, Clerk of Giles County, do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said David Hall did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the
Common Enemy.

David Hall of Giles Co. in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company commanded by Cpt. Epps of the regiment commanded by Col. Buford in the Virginia line for the term of eighteen months from the year 1779 to the year 1781. Subscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 6th day of October 1826.

Certificate of pension issued the 21st day of October and sent to D. French, Esquire, Giles C.H. , Virginia. Arrears to 4th of March 1827, $ 39.73 semi annual allowance ending ... $39.73.
Revolutionary Claim
Acts. March 18, 1818
And May 1, 1820.

(In 1830, a James Hall was listed with other neighbors from Giles Co., Jesse and Forest Farley, John Clay etc. in the Harlan County, Kentucky,
Census. )
Summer's History of Southwest Virginia and Washington County, p. 325 mentioned Col. Buford, in the summer of 1780, he was in command of a body of Virginia troops, had been surprised and his command cut to pieces by Col. Tarleton at the Waxhaws in NC. Buford's men, when surrounded by
Tarleton's forces, begged for quarter which Tarleton declined to give and they were cut to pieces without mercy. The circumstances attending this slaughter were well known to all the mountain men engaged in the battle of King's Mountain and the word "Buford" had been adapted as the password
by the mountain men before engaging in this action,and when the British were driven into low ground and were offereing to surrender, numbers of the mountain men were heard to cry out: "Give them Buford's play," and after the surrender of the Americans continued to slaughter the British for some time, notwithstanding the efforts of the Whig officers to prevent the slaughter. (In 1774, Cpt. Thomas Buford from Bedford was in the Second Dividsion under Col. Fleming's command with Cpt. Love of
Botetourt, Cpt. Shelby and Cpt. Russell of Fincastle. Col. Buford was wounded at the battle of Point Pleasant. )
"The Burford Family" - College of W&M, notes Col. Abraham Buford, son of John and Judith Beauford , was born in Culpeper Co., VA 31 July 1749 and married Oct 4, 1788 Martha McDowell, daughter of Samuel and Mary McClung McDowell. In June and July 1775, relations between Lord Dunmore and the house of Burgesses were strained to the point of rupture. The committee appointed by the burgesses took measure to raise a militia and 300 men assembled at Culpeper Courthouse, one third of them were Culpeper men who adopted a flag bearing the device of a coiled rattlesnake and the motto " Don't tread on me". They were dressed in green hunting shirts, with "Liberty or Death" on their reasts, buck tails in heir hats, and tomahawks and scalping knives in their belts. Howe, in his history of Virginia, says Culpeper county furnished five companies, eighty four men each, and Cpt. Buford's company was among them. These volunteers, under Col. Stevens, marched to Williamsburg, where they joined Col. Woodford's forces. William Hall of Tazewell was in this group, and marched to Great Bridge on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. During the campaign of 1778-79, the Continental Army held its own in the North and finally wore out the British forces and compelled them to begin operation in the
south. The actual seat of the war was transferred to North and South Carolina. The Virginia troops had gradually decreased in number in four years, from six thousand to 2500. In early 1780, Col. Buford was in Virginia enlisting new men for the relief of Charleston. In May he left Petersburg with about 300 men and one field piece, and proceeded as far a Lanman's Ferry on the Santee, when he received intelligence of the surrender of Charleston. General Huger, senior officer in Carolina, was asked for instructions. He directed Col. Buford to retire to Hillsborough, by the way of Camden, taking with him or destroying the stores that had been collected there.and also to move from that place thirty or forty prisoners. Col. Buford was made Colonel of the Third Virginia on February 12, 1781 and served in that capacity until the close of the war. After the war, he moved westward, to Kentucky, where he
died on June 30, 1833.

1837 Feb. 13 - Giles Co. Deed book E - David Hall and Wm. Clyborn in Big Rye Hollow adj. land of Henley Chapman, John Peck, part of survey granted to Thomas Farley by patent 13 Feb. 1793. Signed D. Hall Jr., April 1837.

1837 9 December, David Hall's estate was inventoried and appraised at $148.75 by David Hall Jr, George Bolton, James Stewart, John Johnston (Administrator).

John Johnston had the estate recorded in Giles Co. May court of 1838. Sale bill of the Estate of David Hall, Sr. Deceased, the 9th Day of December 1837:
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Virginia Pension Roll of 1835
Report from the Secretary of War
In relation to the Pension Establishment Of the United States 1835

Copied and indexed by
William R. Navey
P. O. Box 251
Hollyridge, NC 28445-0251

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SURNAMES BEGINNING WITH �H�
DAVID HALL
GILES COUNTY
PRIVATE
VIRGINIA LINE
96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$711.73 AMOUNT RECEIVED
OCTOBER 21, 1826 PENSION STARTED
AGE 80

Notes for SARAH ROLLINS:
SARAH was born before 1765 as she was 45 & up in the 1810 Census. She died between April 24 and May 1838 in Giles Co. Her will is listed in Giles Co. Will book B, page 186:

In the name of God Amen, This 24th day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, I Sarah Hall living on Walker's Creek in the County of Giles, State of Virginia, being in sound mind and memory, do
make this my last Will and Testament.
First I give and bequeath to my daughter Juda Diamond the sum of one dollar, to my son Benjamin Hall the Sum of one Dollar, to my son Charles Hall the Sum of one Dollar, to my son James Hall the Sum of one dollar.
And lastly after all my just debts are pade (paid), I give and bequeath to my gran Daughter Susan Diamond one Cow and ten head of hogs and all house and kitchen furniture, the rest of my estate whether real or personal and everything I am possessed of whatover or whatever to my Gran Daughter Susan Diamond. I also do make this my last will and testament to whitch (which) I have here unto set my hand and seal this 24 of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty eight.
Sarah Hall
Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
James A. Cunningham
Jonathan Cunningham
Katherine Cunningham.
Virginia

At Giles May Court 1838
This last will and testament of Sarah Hall was proven in Court by the oaths of James A. Cunningham and Jonathan Cunningham the witnesses hereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded.
Teste
R. A. French, C.

On page 288 in Giles Co. Will book is the appraisal of Sarah Hall's
estate:
In obedience to an order of the County Court at Giles made at the June Court 1838 for said county, appointing the undersigned appraisers of the estate of Sarah Hall dec'd. We proceeded on the 23rd day of August 1838 to appraise the personal estate of the said deceased, which is as follows:

One set of cupboard ware 2.50
One table 1.20
One keg and ....stand . 87 1/2
Four chairs .33 1/2
One tub, two open trays and 1 dough tray .75
One blanket, 1 quilt, 2 sheets and 2 feather ticks 7.00
One pot and oven and lid 2.25
Ten hogs 15.00
One flax..... 2.00
One churn .37 1/2
One jar, 5 cups and saucers and four bowls .67 1/2
Two bed steads 3.00
Two blankets and one sheet 5.00
One cow 12.00
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53.20 3/4
Given under our hands the day and year above written.
O. B. Diamond
George Bolton
Henry (Hry.) Bonham
Virginia
In the County Court of Giles, February 1842, this Inventory of appraisement of the personal estate of Sarah Hall, dec'd, was presented in court and admitted to record.
Teste
R. A. French, C.

More About DAVID HALL and SARAH ROLLINS:
Marriage: Abt. 1780

Children of DAVID HALL and SARAH ROLLINS are:

JANE³ HALL⁵, m. MILES FRANCIS⁵, April 03, 1827.

More About MILES FRANCIS and JANE HALL:
Marriage: April 03, 1827

ii.

JUDITH HALL^5,⁶, b. 1780, Va.; d. Abt. 1844, Giles Co. Va.; m. JESSE DIAMOND⁶, July 03, 1802, Montgomery Co., Va.; b. Abt. 1780, Ireland; d. May 11, 1814.

More About JESSE DIAMOND and JUDITH HALL:
Marriage: July 03, 1802, Montgomery Co., Va.

iii.

BENJAMIN HALL^7,⁸, b. May 05, 1781, Dinwiddie, Va.; d. July 03, 1859, Mercer Co., W.Va.; m. MARGARET MCKENSEY^9,^10,¹¹, July 06, 1799, Montgomery Co., Va.; b. Abt. 1770, Va.; d. July 03, 1859, Princeton, Mercer Co., W.Va..

Notes for BENJAMIN HALL:
From "History of the Middle New River Settlements" by David E. Johnston, page 63 thru 67.

" Benjamin Hall married Margaret McKensey 6July 1799 after she had been held captive by Indians for 18 years. She and her sister Elizabeth had been transferred by the Shawnees to the Delaware tribe and adopted by Indian Chief Koothumpum, and her sister in the family of Petasue, commonally called "Snake". Margaret and Elizabeth McKensey's father was Moredock O. Mckensey who was from Culpepper Co., Va. They settled on Walder's Creek in 1771 near the David Hall's place on Sinking Creek".

More About BENJAMIN HALL and MARGARET MCKENSEY:
Marriage: July 06, 1799, Montgomery Co., Va.

	iv.	CHARLES HALL¹², b. 1784; d. Aft. May 1862, Giles Co. Va.; m. JEMIMA CHAPMAN¹².
3.	v.	JAMES HALL, b. 1785, Giles Co. Va.; d. Abt. June 13, 1853, Giles Co. Va..
	vi.	DAVID HALL, JR.^13,¹⁴, b. 1794, Va..

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