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Adams/McCutchen - Bair/Mehrer Genealogy as presented by Michelle Adams |
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William and Sarah Hall, Pioneers William and Sarah Hall are people for whom I would like to have had a conversation. He is a man that stands out on my list of ancestors. I have to give credit to his wife Sarah also. I can't say if she wanted to move into Indian territory or if she was sticking by her man no matter what he did. What I can say is that she was a brave woman for taking her children to Kentucky and then to Indiana. William Hall was born 22 December 1754 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. He in listed with Daughter's of the American Revolution. He enlisted in Pennsylvania around April 1778 and served as a private in a Pennsylvania Regiment. He was discharged after eighteen months. Read more about his military service on the Bair War List. He married his wife Sarah (unknown last name) in 1781 in Pennsylvania. The DAR has 12 children listed for them. It is my opinion that only 10 of them where their children. I believe the last two listed (William and Sary) are their grandchildren. In the pension file of William Hall that Sarah Hall filed, there are ten children listed on one page. There are two other children listed on a separate page which is difficult to read. These two children, William Stanaford (b August 180? or 1812) and Sary Hall (8 July 1811) can not be the children of William and Sarah. Sarah's oldest daughter Elender married Aquilla Standaford and had a son named William (b 25 October 1812). First, all the other child have the last name of Hall written on the list and this William does not. Second, it looks like she wrote 1812 as his birth date and then scribbled it out. The next date is not totally legible. It is not clear who Sary Hall belongs to. I don't think William and Sarah would have named one of their daughters Sarah and another one Sary. Although, Sarah's daughter Sarah had a daughter named Sary Phillips born around 1825. This is probably not the one listed in the pension file because of the name being written Sary Hall. So she is probably the daughter of one of the Hall sons.
William and Sarah Hall moved to Kentucky in the 1780. I am not sure of the actually time or location of that move. Nor am I sure of the place of birth of their children. The family then moved to Jefferson County, Indiana in 1808. Some reports say that this date could be 1806-7. It is said that "William Hall squatted upon the ground, whereon the city water-works engine-house now stands, in the spring of this year. He cleared a few acres of land and built a cabin in the spring of this year. He sold out his claim in the next year to Mr. Jonathan Lyon. This was the first settlement on the bottom; all previous to this had located on the hill-tops." (from a book by John M. Gresham called Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington Indiana written in 1889) William Hall is counted as the first white man to settle in the Madison, Indiana area. Although he apparently had decided to make his home on land owned by several people who had bought it sometime previously from the government. These men decided to claim their land back from William Hall. He sold his log cabin to one of them for a dollar. Some reports have John Hall listed with William Hall as being first to settle in Madison. This John could have been his son who would have been around 27 years old at the time. William and Sarah Hall and their daughter Nancy Hall are listed in the Pioneer Ancestors of Members of the Society of Indiana Pioneers published in 1983. It says they settle in Jefferson County, Indiana 1808 with previous residence Kentucky. I do know that William, Sarah and their daughter Nancy (my 4th great grandmother, married to Christian Bear) all lived out their lives in Jefferson County, Indiana. And that is where I was born and most of my extended family lives today. |
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