Re: Nathaniel Green Hall born 1812
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Re: Nathaniel Green Hall born 1812
Debbie McDougald 9/07/10
His father was named Nathaniel Hall also. Nathaniel was born abt 1768 in proabably St. Matthew's Parish Ga in coastal Georgia. Information on thisfamily is hard to come by, but there are some records. John Hall was a planter who came from ?? an unknown location to St Mathew's Parish by 1761, buying land on the Ogeechee River. His wife is said to have been named Sarah Lester (or possibly Lister). Early census documents of the area show him with a family of 6-7 children, but the others haven't been identifieed for certain. Nathaniel's name appears on several land documents involving his father. Nathaniel's wife is said to have been Sarah Hollingsworth, daughter of Zebulon Hollingsworth and Vear Lanier. Nathaniel removed to Spanish Florida for some 25 years, where he and Sarah's uncle, Timothy Hollingsworth, served as millitia captains for the Spanish government. After an uprising in 1812 (against the Spanish, organized by the Georgia govt and men like Nathaniel and Timothy, they were forced to leave Florida. Nathaniel Green Hall was born before this move. Timothy Hollingsworth moved to Camden Co, but Nathaniel Hall moved to the Emanuel/Bulloch area, where he left a will in Emanuel dated 1817.His family remained in the Bulloch area.John Hall, his father, seems to have faded after the Revolutionary War - having been labeled a Loyalist, he tried to redeem himself. He appears to have sold his St Mathew's Parish/Effingham land by 1786. But it's hard to tell exactly where he went, or where his other children went or even who they were, from records available.
I have been looking at him as a possible ancestor of my 3great-grandfather, Juniper Hall, b 1769, died 1828 in Emanuel Co Ga. Juniper had a son named Lyman Hall, and there have been unsubstantuated rumors of such kinship to
Dr. Lyman Hall. All we know for sure is that Juniper has DNA matches to three Hall menborn in Maryland in the 1774-1804 time period. Juniper probably also had ties to Pittsylvania Va, where two of the men lived, and to families in the Duplin and in the Edgecombe/Pitt areas of N.C. Thus far I have nothing definitely linking Juniper to John Hall, but I can say that he was the father of Nathaniel and the grandfather of Nathaniel Green Hall and his two sisters, Mary and Ann.