Elihu Hall (1723 - 1790)

Born 16 Jun 1723 in Calvert County, Maryland

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Died 1790 at about age 66 in Mt. Welcome, Cecil, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Elihu Hall is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-173370
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Elihu Hall served with Cecil County Militia, Maryland Militia during the American Revolution.

Elihu Hall is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A049574.

According to Christopher Johnston, Col. Elihu Hall “of Mt. Welcome, Cecil County, Md., was born in or about 1724 and died, according to family record, in January 1790. He lived at Mt. Welcome, an estate of 2000 acres extending from the Susquehanna to the Octoraro, and there exercised an open-handed hospitality according well with the name of the place. Only four rooms of the original mansion are now standing. It stood on an elevation near the Susquehanna, and was a mansion of such importance as to be located on a map of Pennsylvania, made a few years after the running of Mason and Dixon’s Line (Johnston’s Cecil County, p. 480). Elihu Hall was appointed, 6 June 1776, Major of the Susquehanna Battalion of Militia (ibid., p. 482), and was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the same Battalion, 9 September 1778 (Md. Archives, xxi, 196). He was one of the Justices of Cecil County from 1756 till 1771 (Commission Book), and was appointed, 4 June 1777, Judge of the Orphan’s Court for the same County (Archives, xvi, 274). Col. Hall married, 16 June 1757, Catherine (b. 19 Aug. 1736) daughter of John Orrick and Susanna his wife, daughter of Col. Thomas Hammond of Baltimore County.”^[1]

He was listed in the 1790 census in West Nottingham Hundred, Cecil, Maryland.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Christopher Johnston
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKY-JYM : accessed 25 August 2018), Colo Elihu Hall, West Nottingham Hundred, Cecil, Maryland, United States; citing p. 328, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 3; FHL microfilm 568,143.

• Christopher Johnston. "Hall Family of Calvert County." Maryland Historical Magazine. Vol. 8 (1913) 297-298.

See Also: Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 30 Oct 2021), "Record of Elihu Hall", Ancestor # A049574.