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ID: I1836

Name: Elisha Hall

Given Name: Elisha

Surname: Hall ¹ ²

Sex: M

_UID: A0DA64F3C05DBD419E27A53312AEFB206485

Birth: 8 JUL 1663 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland

Occupation: Served in Provisional Assembly BET 1698 AND 1704 , , Maryland, USA

Residence: Elisha Hall's Resurvey ABT 1700 St. Leonard's Creek, Calvert, Maryland, USA

Death: 6 FEB 1716/17 in , Calvert, Maryland

Religion: Quaker

Ancestral File #: PDBK-S2

Father: Richard Hall b: ABT 1635 in Lamborne, Berkshire, England
Mother: Elizabeth Wingfield b: ABT 1641 in , Cecil, Maryland

Marriage 1 Sarah Hooper b: ABT 1665 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland

Married: 28 SEP 1688

Children

Richard Hall b: 8 JUL 1690 in , Calvert, Maryland
Colonel Elihu Hall b: 28 FEB 1692 in Mount Welcome, Octoraco Creek, Cecil, Maryland
Elizabeth Hall b: 8 DEC 1692
Sarah Hall b: 28 JUL 1694

Sources:

Title: History of Cecil County, Maryland
Note:

According to George Johnston's HISTORY OF CECIL COUNTY , MD p.480:

The early history of the Hall family, like that of many others, is involv ed in
obscurity. There is reason, however, to believe that Richard Hall, from w hom the
distinguished family of that name in this county have descended, patente d a
large tract of land called "Mount Welcome" on the east side o f the Susquehanna
River, about a mile above the mouth of the Octoraro in 1640. He is believ ed to
have been the son of Bishop Joseph Hall of England. The earliest authenti c
record extant shows that Elisha Hall and Sarah Wingfield were married 1 6 Sep
1688. This Elisha Hall was the son of Richard (above) and Sarah Wingfiel d is
believed to be a grand-daughter or niece of the Mr. Wingfield who was Pre sident
of the Council of Virginia very early in the history of that colony.

Elisha Hall was born o n 8 Jul 1663. He died on 6 Feb
1716/17. Data from carbon
copies of a series of typed biographies on Hopkins ancestors left by Mary
Cecelia Hopkins Linthicum to her daughters Catherine Linthicum O'Neil and
Mary Hyde Linthicum Shaw. Possibly done by Marion Byrd Hopkins in the pre-
1970's time frame.

He was married to Sarah Ho oper, a daughter of Colonel
Henry Hooper, on 28
Sep 1688. Elisha Hall and Sarah Hooper had the following children:

i. Richard Hall.
ii. Elizabeth Hall.

iii. Elihu Hall was born o n 28 Feb 1692/93. He died in
1753. Data from carbon
copies of a series of typed biographies on Hopkins ancestors left by Mary
Cecelia Hopkins Linthicum to her daughters Catherine Linthicum O'Neil and
Mary Hyde Linthicum Shaw. Possibly done by Marion Byrd Hopkins in the pre-
1970's time frame.

iv. Sarah Hall.
Elisha Hall Patented a tra ct of land near the head of
St. Leonard's Creek, which
he called Elisha Hall's Resurvey, located midway between Parran's Park an d
Morgan's Fresh. Elisha Hall devised Hall's Hills to his son Richard Hal l II, 1690-
1739, who married a daughter of Aquilla Johns.

Elisha lived on a large tr act of land called "Mounty
Welcome" on the east side of
the Susquehanna River, about a mile above the mouth of the Octoraro, pate nted
by Richard Hall in 1640. The tract of land called "Mount Welcome&quo t; probably
extended from the Susquehanna to the Octoraro; for at the time of the
Revolutionary War the plantation was in possession of Colonel Elihu Hall , who
entertained General Lafayette at his mansion, which then occupied the sit e of
the one now standing. Part of the original dwelling-house was built of br ick
brought from England and landed from scows at the mouth of Octoraro. The
famous mansion was of such importance as to be located on a map of
Pennsylvania, made a few years after the location of Mason and Dixons lin e,
though it is more than three miles south of it.

From: "History of Cec il County" by George Johnston
Title: GenCircles: Current Connections 9 22 02
Author: Pat Chadwick