Samuel Hall (1676 - 1738)

Born 1676 in Bucks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1738 at about age 62 in Kennett Square, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Samuel was a Friend (Quaker)

HALL, SAMUEL, a weaver, was living in Kennet about 1710, and died in 1738, leaving children as follows: Mary, m. to Robert Whitacre; Sarah, m. to David Baily; Phebe, m. to Calvin Cooper; Elizabeth, m. to Robert Whiteside; Hannah, Dinah, Susanna, Margaret, George, Samuel, James, and Charles. George Hall married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Jane Hoopes, and is said to have had twenty four children. Samuel, the father, and George were weavers. Charles Hall married Sarah Taylor, and his descendants are living in Kennet.^[1]

Will of Samuel Hall

Hall, Samuel. Kennet. Weaver. October 3, 1738. October 24, 1738. B.30. To wife Elizabeth 1/3 of estate real and personal. To daughter Mary wife of Robert Whitacre 20 shillings. To daughter Sarah wife of David Baily 20 shillings. To daughter Phebe wife of Calvin Cooper 20 shillings. To daughter Elizabeth wife of Robt. Whiteside 20 shillings. To daughters Hannah, Dinah, Susanna and Margaret 30 shillings and cow each. Remainder of estate real and personal to 4 sons, George, Samuel, James and Charles. Executors: William Cooper, Robert Lewis.^[2]

Note

Note: _FA1: 7 JUN 1707 Complaint in Kennett Meeting House & disowned one month

later* 2 _FA2: 1710 Living in Kennet, PA 3 _FA3: Identification of

children 3 _FA4: 1715 Shown on Kennet Rate list, Samuel Hall, 2s

(shillings?) 4 _FA5: Occupation: Weaver 5 _FA6: 24 OCT 1738 Died in

Kennet, Chester Co., PA (Will proved this date) 6 _FA8: *He was probably

disowned, according to this book because his _FA9: children were baptised

at the Swedes' Church in Wilmington. _FA10: The book surmises that

Samuel's wife was a member of that church and noted that _FA11: her name,

Anna Elizabeth, indicates that "she is not of _FA12: English blood".

Reference Number: W320

Title: Two Hundred Years AgoAuthor: Ruth Genivea PhillipRepository:

Call Number: Media: ManuscriptText: "married about 1726, Samuel Hall

of Kennett Township, Pennsylvania, a member of the Society of Friends,

son of James and Hannah Hall of Bucks County".

Sources

1. ↑ History of Chester County, p 585
2. ↑ Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825, Book B:30.

• Futhey, J. S., & Cope, G. (1881). History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: With genealogical and biographical sketches. Louis H. Everets. https://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Chester_County_Pennsylvania_w.html?id=jcYxAQAAMAAJ

• Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825, Book B:30.