Lyman Hall (1724 - 1790)

Born 12 Apr 1724 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 19 Oct 1790 at age 66 in Augusta, Burke, Georgia, USA

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Preceded by 16th Governor John Martin

Lyman Hall 17th Governor of Georgia 1783—1784

Succeeded by 18th Governor John Houstoun

Lyman Hall participated in the American Revolution. Join: 1776 Project Discuss: 1776

Biography

Gov. Dr. Lyman Hall was a Founding Father in the American Revolution.

Lyman Hall is Notable.

Lyman Hall is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-173136
Rank: Signer, Declaration of Independence

Lyman Hall was a Georgia colonist.

Lyman Hall was born April 12, 1724 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, the son of John Hall and Mary Street Hall.^[1] He was the brother of Hannah Hall, Mary Hall, Kezia Hall and Giles Hall. ^[2]

Lyman Hall was named after his GG Grandfather Richard Lyman who arrived on the Lion from England in 1631. Lyman graduate from Yale College in 1747 in a class of 28 members. Later in his career he studied medicine and received a Doctor of Medicine degree. ^[3][4]

Lyman Hall was one of the four Signers of The Declaration of Independence who were trained as doctors as well as one of the four Signers who were trained as ministers. ^[5]

After the war, Hall became the 16th Governor of Georgia and championed the founding of the University of Georgia in 1785. ^[6]

Legacy

• Hall County, Georgia is named in his honor.

Lyman Hall bio

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Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 "Wallingford" p. 136. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928.
2. ↑ Lyman Hall, Biographical Directory of the Continental Congress
3. ↑ Biography, Signers of the Declaration of Independence
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Lyman Hall
5. ↑ NPS Biography, Lyman Hall
6. ↑ Midway Church Museum Biography of Lyman Hall
7. ↑ "Memoirs of Georgia, Volume 1", The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895, pg 226-227.

See also:

• Find A Grave: Memorial #2786: Burial: Courthouse Grounds, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia,
• Find A Grave: Memorial #210512466: Cenotaph: Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut
• Child, Frank Samuel. Fairfield, Ancient and Modern (Fairfield Historical Society, Fairfield, Conn., 1909) Page 27
• Walter A. Clark. Dr. Lyman Street Hall: Connecticut's Contribution to Colonial Georgia. Correspondence, The Hartford Courant, Mar. 16, 1910, p. 16.
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885)
• Charles S. Hall. 1896. HALL ANCESTRY. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Genealogical Publishing Company, Vol. 1, page 459
• Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. History of Wallingford, Connecticut (Charles Henry Stanley Davis, Wallingford, Connecticut, 1870) Page 525: "He died Feb. 1791, aged 66 years. He was a son of the Hon. John and Mary (Lyman) Hall, of Wallingford."
• https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/lyman-hall-1724-1790
• Men of Mark in Georgia, Volume I (Northen, Georgia, 1907), pages 142-146.
• FamilySearch PID: KLBC-XSK
• Palmer, Charles Ray. The Bi-Centennial Celebration of The First Congregational Church and Society of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1895) Page 30.

• "He studied theology with an uncle in Cheshire, and was ordained here September 27, 1749. His pastorate was short. It ended, not altogether happily, June 18, 1751. His views were not acceptable to the more ardent friends of Mr. Cooke, and the antagonism to him which was developed during his stay led to the forming, shortly after his dismission, of the Stratfield Baptist Society. So far as I know, this was the most abiding result of his ministry. ... He turned his attention to the study of medicine, was in Fairfield as late as 1757, but eventually removed to Georgia. Early in 1775 he took a seat in the Continental Congress from that Colony... He died October 19, 1790 leaving a widow but no children. He is buried in Wallingford, and a monument commemorates him there."