Saturday, July 12, 2014

Garland HALL

                        GARLAND HALL (5 Mar 1778 – 5 Apr 1847)

An exciting Discovery led me to determine that Garland HALL and Corbin HALL and now a John C. HALL of Robertson Co. TN and Logan Co. KY were children of Amos HALL of Chatham Co. NC - a RW soldier - and there is a Smith Co. TN connection with their guardian Thomas GREGORY!!!   This is a great find and not sure where it will lead at this point.  Descendants and researchers of these lines - please e-mail me at rick1547@gmail.com or post to this blog.    

This Thomas GREGORY came from Halifax Co. VA which keeps appearing in the records of the HALLs of middle Tennessee.  

1810 Logan Co. KY, page 165
Garlan HALL
          11010-30100
Three houses away
William HALL
            20010 – 20100

Familysearch.org – North Carolina, Chatham Co. Estate Records – Estate of Amos HALL, 1783
11 Nov. 1793 – Thomas GREGORY chosen as guardian of Patsey HALL.  His bondsmen were William GREGORY and Sandford JENKINS.   Test: Arche M. BRYDE

11 Nov 1793 – Thomas GREGORY chosen as guardian of Garland HALL.  His bondsmen were William GREGORY and Sandford JENKINS.  Test: Arche M. BRYDE

Estate sale – 12 July 1783.   One buyer was Wm. BOLING.   No HALLs as buyers.  Owned 40 acres. 

Bond dated no date signed by Thos. GREGORY and John PITTS.  Thos. GREGORY to execute his guardianship of John, Corbin, Gallant, and Patsey HALL,
NOTE: Thomas GREGORY came from Halifax Co. VA, then Mecklenburg Co. VA, then Chatham Co. NC then to Smith Co. TN where he left a will and died in 1818.
Amos HALL.   Enters warrant, issd. May 21st, grant delivered.  640 acres.  Feb. 17, 1778.  Beginning at a marked line near the ridge of rocks on the south side of Pitts Creek, , running east & round for compliment.
1779
Chatham Co., NC
Chatham Co., NC Deeds 1771-1782 p. 61
P.262 - 1 July 1779 - State of North Carolina to Amos Hall - 50 sh. for every 100 a. 305 a. near the Ridge of Rocks on the South side of Pitts Creek - joins Thomas Gregory. J. Glasgow Sec. Rd. Caswell
P. 263 - 1 July 1779 - State of North Carolina to John Gregory - 50 sh. for every 100 a. - 600? a. on the South side of Lick Branch the waters of Newhope - joins John Morgan and Gideon __?__ corner. J. Glasgow Sec. Rd. Caswell

http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jolee/divbar04.gif
1779
Chatham Co., NC
State of NC Grant Bk 30, Chatham Co.
957 pg 2 THOMAS GREGORY 3 Mar 1779 548 acres on N side of Pitts Creek (which is) a Branch of Newhope, joining AMOS HALL - records of Michael Gregory


1792?
Chatham Co., NC
Chatham Co., NC Court Minutes 1785/1790-1792
Pg. 200 - Patsey Hall & Garland Hall Orphans of Amos Hall dec'd be bound unto Thomas Grigory untill they arrive to Lawful Age they being the Girl Thirteen?? and the boy Eleven years now - Trade of a planter to Learn the body. (not sure of the year)(Amos Hall was a land bounder in 1779.) - Notes of Michael Gregory

NOTE: So by this it would appear that Garland was about 11 years old in 1792 - making him born in 1780 or 1781 - perhaps he was a posthumous birth.  

Aug. 31, 1778 Wake Co., N.C. Land Entries 1778 – 1846 p. 518
Warrant Issued. Absalom Herrard enters 640 a. in Wake and Chatham Co. on
both sides of Indian Branch ( a branch of New Hope Creek) Joining lines
of William Herrard, Rose Sears, Jacob Winberry, Thomas Gregory, Amos
Hale & Henry Watkins entry, inc. plantation where sd. Herrard now lives.
640:50/:16

Dec. 22, 1778 Wake Co. N.C. Land Entries 1778 – 1846 p. 812
Warrant Issued. Amos Hall enters 300 a. in Wake Co. on both sides of
Pitts Creek. Beg. On his own line & running with sd. Line on east course
to Wm. Davis line thence n. to Absalom Herrard’s line thence w. to
Thomas Hregorys line and thence to sd. Halls line. 300:50/:7.10
Garland Hall1156 was born March 05, 1776 in NC1157, and died April 05, 1847 in Macon County, IL1158. He married Penelope Strickland in Lincoln Co, TN #000631159, daughter of Joseph Strickland.

 Includes NotesNotes for Garland Hall:

War of 1812 Service Records 

Company Unit Induction Rank - Discharge 
HALL GARLAND 1 REG'T (MECALFE'S) W. TENNESSEE MILITIA. PRIVATE PRIVATE 
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"History of Macon County, Illinois", 1880 
Blue Mound Township History (Macon County, IL)

Blue Mound township is among the oldest settled in the county, much of genuine historic importance and interest clusters around it. As organized, this township contains about thirty-one square miles, lying just south of the Sangamon river, in the extreme western part of the county. It is bounded on the north by Harristown, on the east by South Wheatland, on the south by Pleasant View and on the west by Christian county. The surface is generally an undulating prairie, growing more broken on approaching the river. The soil is rich and productive. Formerly, nearly one-third of the territory was covered with tiember. The lands are well drained by the Sangamon river and its tributaries in the northern part, and Mosquito creek, with numerous affluents in the central and southern portions. 

The first settler in the Mosquito settlement was Dempsey Pope, who was born in North Carolina, and from there removed to Tennessee, and afterwardsc in 1827 emigrated to this state and located on Mosquito creek. Mr. Pope had quite a larte family of well-grown children when he came to this county. Garland Hall, a native of Kentucky, in 1830 emigrated to, and settled on section 29 of this township about two miles north of the present town of Blue Mound, where he erected a cabin, broke some land, fenced it in and began farming. He brought with him a small-sized family. Wyett Cherry who was an early settler in this locality, is still residing a short distance north-west of the town of Blue Mound.

The first land entered in the township was by James Edwards, March 16th, 1833, 40 acres in section No. 20; Garland Hall entered December 18th, 1833, 77.40 acres in section 19--and Dempsey Pope entered on the same day 80 acres, same section--all in township No. 15 N., R. ! E. of the 3d P.M. Benjamin Wilson entered Nov. 13th, 1827, 160 acres in section 34; also 80 acres in section 35; and on the same day Francis G. Hill entered 80 acres in section 36. The last three entries are in township No. 16 N., R. 1 E. of the 3d P.M.
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Garland Hall was born in Tenn. in 1790. He moved to the Ward neighborhood west of Decatur, Ill. in 1828, he traded a wagon that he came in from Tenn., for a log cabin on the bluff near the old spring. He moved into the log cabin in 1829 and entered the land at Vandalia the closest land office to him. He planted peach seeds on the north side of what is now the Hall Cemetery. He and his boys broke the land with oxen. Their plow had a wooden mouldboard and an iron shear. They planted corn but had to guard the field against blackbirds and crows.

He lost a small boy (Willie) that was buried in what is now Hall Cemetery. He also donated the ground for the original cemetery. He died in 1849.

(The above was taken from a book, but I found a Garland Hall in the 1830 TN Census, Overton Co. Also, according to his daughter, Susan, who married Wyatt Cherry, in the 1880 Census, she stated that her father and mother were born in North Carolina.)
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1810 US Census, Logan County, KY
HALL [or HALE ], Ransom Jun'r
2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
HALL [or HALE], William Jr.
1 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0
HALL [or HALE], Edward
0 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 0

The following two are on the same page, just a few houses away from each other: 
Hall, Garlan
1 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0
HALL, William
2 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0

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1820 US Census in Robertson Co, TN. 

GARLAND HALL There are 2 boys from 0 - 10 yrs; 1 boy from 10 - 16 yrs; 1 man from 26 - 45 yrs; 3 girls from 0 - 10 yrs; 1 girl from 10 - 16 yrs; 1 woman from 26 - 45 yrs.

Molly Hall 020200/00301/0 

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1830 US Census, Tennessee, Overton Co
Garland Hall, p.96
R R Hall, p.81
Nathan Hall, p.81
Porter Hall, p.4
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1840 CENSUS MACON COUNTY, IL
under 5; 5-under 10; 10-under 15; 15 to under 20; 20 to under 30; 30 to under 40; 40 to under 50; 50 to under 60; 60 to under 70; 70 to under 80; 80 to under 90; 90 to under 100; 100 and older

Hall, Garland 0-0-1-0-2-1-0-0-1-0-0 1-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0 
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Illinois Public Land Purchase Records
Garlant Hall is recorded as buying two parcels of land December 19, 1833 that total 15,740 acres in sections W2SEand E2SE.
HALL GARLAND NWNE 19 15N 01W 3 03/05/1836 CHRISTIAN 
HALL GARLAND N2NW 30 15N 01W 3 03/05/1836 CHRISTIAN 
HALL GARLANT W2SE 19 15N 01E 3 12/19/1833 MACON 
HALL GARLANT E2SW 19 15N 01E 3 12/19/1833 MACON 


Illinois Land Sales Records (1836)
Name Type Section Sect Township Range Meridian Acres Price Total Date Month Date Day Date Year Reside Volume Page Blank SocStat ID Corr-Tag 
HALL GARLAND FD NWNE 19 15N 01W 3 4000 125 5000 March 05 1836 058 145 073 244230 0 
HALL GARLAND FD N2NW 30 15N 01W 3 7682 125 9602 March 05 1836 058 145 073 244231 0 
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Indentures of Garland Hall
Information contributed by JJJSG@aol.com. 

Below are four indentures of Garland (Garlant) Hall born 5 March 1778 (Kentucky/Tennessee) m. Penelope Strickland early 1800s and died 5 April 1847 in Macon County, Illinois. 
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Transcribed from Court Entry reading: Garlent Hall from Thomas Huey June 19th 1815 Following the indenture from Tonnly Redfearn to Issac Redfearn 

AN INDENTURE
DATED NOVEMBER 1, 1815 

This indenture made this first day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen between Thomas Huey of the one part of the County of Lincoln and in the State of Tennessee and Garlent Hall of the County of Robertson and State of Tennessee of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars to the said Thomas Hughey well and truly paid by the said Garlent Hall at or before sealing and delivering of these presents. The receipt hereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted sold and Released and confirmed and by these presents doth grant Bargain sell Release and Confirm unto the said Garlent Hall his heirs and assigns all that tract or piece of Land Containing forty three acres lying and being in the County of Robertson and State of Tennessee on the waters of Red River Beginning at the North west Corner of a tract of land it being a Hickory Thomas Johnsons Corner and Running west Fifty Eight and a half poles to a post oak thence North one Hundred and seventeen poles to a Hickory thence East fifty Eight and one half poles to a stake thence South one hundred and seventeen poles to the beginning surveyed on the 22nd day December 1807. The premises where the said Garlent Hall now lives together with all and singular the Right and appurtenances thereof whatsoever to the said tract of land being and belonging as in anywise appertaining to have and to hold the said tract of Land and all and singular the premises and appurtenances thereunto belonging as afore said and every part thereof unto Garlent Hall his Heirs and assigns to the only proper benefit behoof of the said Garlent Hall his Heirs and assigns forever and the said Thomas Huey and his Heirs that tract of land and premises aforesaid and part thereof unto the said Garlant Hall his heirs and assigns and the said Thomas Huey do Warrant and define from him and his heirs and no other person or person in witness inhere of I have hereunto set this hand and Seal the day and year first above written signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us. 

Archibald M. Campbell
William McCurdy
John Huey for Thomas Huey (SEAL) 

Attorney in fact 

I Archibald M. Campbell of Logan County and state of Kentucky will warrant and forever defined the above mentioned land & premises which in Conveyed by John Huey to Garlent Hall his Heirs and assigns against the Just Claim of all persons or persons whatsoever witness my hand & seal this 8th day of May 1815. 

Test
Ad. M. Campbell (SEAL) 

Robertson County Court May Term 1815. This Indenture from John Huey Attorney in fact for Thomas Huey to Garlent Hall was proven in open Court by the oath of Archibald Campbell and William McCurdy subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be Registered. 

Test
Jas. Tunstale, C.R.C. 

Followed by the Indenture of Hugh Johnson from James England .. June 19, 1815
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Transcription of a Court Entry on page 1816 marked as 1132 and entitled:
Garland Hall from A.M. Campbell May 23rd 

AN INDENTURE
DATED MAY 13, 1816 

This indenture made this thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen between Archibald M. Campbell of the County of Logan and State of Kentucky of the one part and Garland Hall of the County of Robertson of the other part witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained and sold and by their presents doth give grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto the said Garlant Hall his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land containing twenty four acres lying and being in the County of Robertson on the waters of Red River Beginning at a post oak near Homer Hamilton's west boundary line of a forty three acre survey and running west forty four and a half poles to two black Jacks thence South eighty six poles to a post oak thence east forty four and a half poles to a Spanish oak thence South eight six poles to the beginning containing twenty four acres with the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining to have and to hold the aforesaid land and premises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said Garlent Hall his heirs and assigns and forever and the said Archibald M. Campbell for himself his heirs executors administrators doth hereby forever promise and agree that he will at all times hereafter warrant and forever defend the said land and premises to the said Garlant Hall his heirs and assigns forever against all claims and demands of any person or persons whatever whereby the above mentioned land and premises may be affected or encumbered contrary to the true intent and meaning of these presents in witness whereof Archibald M. Campbell hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written. 

Test
H.Frey
A.M. Campbell (SEAL)
Robert Long 

Robertson County Court May TERM 1816 THIS Indenture from Archibald M. Campbell to Garlant Hall was presented in Court acknowledged by the said Archibald M. Campbell to be his act and deed and by the Court ordered to be Registered. 

Test Ja. Sunstall C.R.C. 
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Transcription of a Court Entry on page 0313 entitled: Garland Hall from Tennessee Oct 19, 1819 

GARLAND HALL FROM TENNESSEE
October 19, 1819 
The State of Tennessee No. 12819 

To all to whom these presents shall come greetings. Know ye that by notice of part of certificate No. 1290 dated the twenty-third date of October 1812 penned by the Register of West Tennessee to William P. Anderson the thirteenth day of August 1814 by No. 12998 this is granted by the said State of Tennessee unto unto (sic) Garland Hall assignee of the said William P. Anderson a certain tract or parcel of land containing ten acres by survey bearing date the 26th day of August 1814 lying in the first district in Robertson County on the waters of Red River and located as follows to wit, beginning at a post oak on Alsa Babbs South East corner thence East twenty poles to a post oak on Homer Hamilton's line thence North with said line eighty poles to a dead oak thence West twenty poles to a stake on said Babbs' line thence South with his line eighty poles to the beginning. With the listed amounts and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Garland Hall and his heirs forever. In witness whereof Joseph McMinnis Governor of the State of Tennessee hath hereunto set his hand and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed at Winfries (?) burough on the second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and of the Independence of the Untied State this forty thrice -------- By the governor 

Jos. McMinnis
Daniel Graham
Secretary 

Recorded in the office of the Register of West Tennessee June 11th 1819. McGavock, Reg. Garland Hall is entitled to the within mentioned tract of land. 

McGavock, Register of West Tennessee
State of Tennessee
October 18th 1819
Robertson County 

Received one Cent this State tax on this grant. Let it be registered.
Wm. Deal, CRC 

Transcription of a Court Entry on page S 493 entitled: Garlant Hall from D.W. Slater dated 7th Dec 1826 

GARLANT HALL FROM D.W. SLATER
7th December 1826 

This Indenture made this fifteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty four between David W. Slater of the County of Robertson and State of Tennessee of the one part and Garlant Hall of the County and State aforesaid of the other part witnesseth that the said David W. Slater for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to him in hand paid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained sold aliened conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do bargain sell alien convey and confirm unto the said Garlant Hall a certain tract or parcel of land situated lying and being in the County of Robertson and State of Tennessee on the waters of red river Beginning at a black Jack the north west corner of a tract of land sold by said Slater to Richard Woodard running West fifty eight poles to a post oak then South ninety poles to a small hickory bush thence East fifty eight poles to a stake the South West corner of Richard Woodard then with his line North ninety poles to the Beginning Containing thirty two and three fourth acres and being part of a tract conveyed by Henry Slater to David W. Slater in this year 1823. To have & to hold this above granted premises with all and singular the rights profits hereditaments and appurtenances as hereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining to the said Garlant Hall his heirs and assigns forever. And the said David H. Slater for himself his heirs executors and administrators doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Garlant Hall his heirs and assigns the above mentioned premises he will warrant and forever defend against the interest claim of remaining heirs executors and administrators and against all other persons claiming the same. 

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 15th day of September 1824. 

Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of
John C. Stranghorn
D.H. Slater (SEAL)
Sandford H. King
William Gambill 

Robertson County, TN, Court November Term 1826. 

This Indenture from David H. Slater to Garlant Hall was proven in open Court by the oath Sanford H. King and William Gambill subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be registered. 

TEST
Wm. Seal (Clk) 
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This is a record I found, but I do not know if it is for my Garland Hall, but according to Susan Hall Cherry, his daughter, Garland was born in North Carolina.
ORPHAN'S INDENTURES & GUARDIANSHIP RECORDS IN COURT MINUTES
Taken from Chatham Co. Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions- 1774-1800 
NC State Archives film # C.022.30001 
Pg. 200 - May, 1792 
PATCEY HALL & GARLAND HALL, orphans of AMOS HALL, dec'd be bound unto THOMAS GRIGORY, untill they arrive to lawfull age, they being adjudged, the girl, thirteen and the boy Eleven years now, to learn the trade of a planter to learn the boy... ( sentence incomplete) 

Pg. 288 - Aug.?, 1793 
Ordered that THOMAS GREGORY be appointed guardian for GARLAND HALE, & PATSEY HALE, who has entered into bond with WM. GREGORY according to law. 

(Thomas GREGORY, Sr....b.about 1731 in NC?, lived in Chatham Co., NC d. before August 1818 in Smith Co., TN)
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More About Garland Hall:
Burial: Unknown, Hall Cemetery, Macon Co, IL.
Military service: 1812, W Tennessee Militia, 1 Reg't, Mecalfe's.

More About Garland Hall and Penelope Strickland:
Marriage: Lincoln Co, TN #00063.
1159

Children of Garland Hall and Penelope Strickland are:
       i.            Jack Hall, d. date unknown.
     ii.            Rhoda Hall, d. date unknown.
  iii.            +Margaret Hall, b. August 28, 1807, d. date unknown.
   iv.            +Alfred Benjamin Hall, b. May 14, 1813, d. September 03, 1873.
     v.            Jonathan Hall, b. February 08, 1816, d. February 01, 1854.
   vi.            James Hall, b. January 16, 1818, d. date unknown.
vii.            Tempy Hall, b. February 02, 1820, d. February 02, 18701160.
viii.            +Susan H. Hall, b. March 31, 1824, TN1161, d. July 01, 1894.
   ix.            Amos Hall, b. May 01, 1826, d. December 31, 1852.
  
                               
1800 Census, Chatham Co. NC, page 257, (written), page 152 (stamped)
Joseph PITTS                      01100-32100       3 slaves
John HALL                           22110-12010       no slaves
William HALL                      20100-01000       no slaves

                                                Page 309 (written),  page 204 (stamped)
John HALL                           10100-10010       no slaves
Four houses away
Bry GREGORY                    22010-32010       no slaves

1810 Census, Chatham Co. NC, page (blank)
John HALL                           21110-20210       7 slaves
Richard JONES                   01101-11010       12 slaves
4 houses away
Nathan HALL                      00010-00001       no slaves
Benj. JONES                       00100-00100


Page 3
Saml. HALL                          20010-11100
Five houses away
Thos. HALL                          20010-22010
Three houses away on next page
John MEBANE                   00001-11010


NO HALLs in 1820 Chatham Co. NC!

11639 SIMPSON CO MAJOR AMOS HALL Hall, Strickland, Campbell, McCurdy

11639: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV
Battle Perrin Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. (Simpson Co).

MAJ. AMOS HALL was born in Chatham County, N. C.,
September 9, 1803, and is the second in a family
of eleven children born to John C. and Sallie
(Strickland) Hall, both of whom were natives of
North Carolina and of English descent. John C.
Hall was educated and married in his native
State, where he was engaged in agricultural
pursuits until the spring of 1803, when he
emigrated with his wife and family to what is now
Simpson County, Ky., then almost an unbroken
wilderness. Here he bought wild land, moved into
a log cabin, and subsequently improved a farm. He
continued to add to his real possessions until he
was the owner of well improved farms in same
neighborhood, accounting in the aggregate to
about 1,000 acres, a part of which he afterward
deeded to his children. His death occurred
September 4, 1847, in his seventy-fifth year, and
was caused by his being stabbed by a drunken man
with whom he had a dispute concerning the
boundary of some lands. His father, Amos Hall,
Sr., the grandfather of Maj. Amos Hall, was a
veteran of the Revolutionary war, and was killed
at the battle of Lindley
s Mills, North Carolina.
The death of Mrs. Sallie Hall occurred in 1862,
in her seventy-fifth year. She was from her
girlhood a member of the Methodist Church South.
Maj. Amos Hall received a fair common school
education in youth, for that early day, at the
old field schools taught in the rude schoolhouses
of the Kentucky frontier, which were of the
primitive sort, with puncheon floors and
clapboard roofs. He was employed on his father
s
farm until he was twenty-seven years old, after
which he brought 100 acres of wild land, in the
southwest part of Simpson County, Ky., on the
waters of Spring Creek, and subsequently improved
the farm upon which he still resides. He
continued to add to his place from time to time,
now owning a well improved farm (one of the best
improved places in the county) of some 600 acres.
In early life he was a captain in the State
Militia, and was promoted to major. He married,
in March, 1829, Sallie Campbell, a native of
Logan County, Ky., born February 16, 1809. She
was a daughter of Gen. Archibald M. and Elizabeth
(McCurdy) Campbell. One son blessed their union,
viz.: Col. Amos B. Hall, who still resides on the
old homestead with his father. Mrs. Sallie Hall
departed this life September 9, 1884, in her
seventy-sixth year. She was a member of no
church, but was nevertheless a devout Christian.
In politics Maj. Hall is a Democrat and is one of
the early pioneers and enterprising and
successful farmers, as well as one of the
prominent and respected citizens of the county and district.

1840 U.S. Census, Logan Co. KY, page 205, line 5
John HALL         1 white male 70 – 80; 1 white female 60 – 70; Total – 2; 1
                   employed in agriculture.   4 slaves various ages

1830 U.S. Census, Logan Co. KY, page 67

Amos HALL         2 white males 20 – 30; 1 white female 20 – 30; 2 female slaves under 10; Total - 5
Then Benjamin HICKMAN
Then
John C. HALL      1 white male 10 – 15; 2 white males 15 – 20; 1 white male
                  20 – 30; 1 white male 50 60; 1 white female 5 – 10; 1 white
                  Female 10 – 15; 1 white female 15 – 20; 1 white female 40 –
                  50; 1 white female 70 – 80, total – 10. 

1820 U.S. Census, Logan Co. KY, page 39
John C. HALL      3 males under 10; 2 males 10 – 16; 1 male 16 – 18; 2 males
                  16 – 26; 1 male 45 upwards; 2 females under 10; 1 female
                  10 – 16; 1 female 26 – 45

Neither JOHN HALL in 1810 Logan Co. looks of right age and household makeup.

Let me see if I can give you some info:

B: 5/Mar/1778 -- Susan Hall (his dau) said in a family testimonial that both of her parents were born in North Carolina; however, all printed historical items that I have read have Garland a Kentuckian from Tennessee. I don't recall though any land patents, etc., that have come from Kentucky. (JG:2011).

Marriage to Penelope Strickland: 1806 -- Some of the family historians have Garland and Penelope married in Lincoln County, Tennessee, but I have found no records to-date for that marriage. My choice of date (1806) was chosen because Margaret was born in August of 1707, therefore, if she was the first pregnancy for Penelope, they would have married some time in late 1706 or very early in 1707. (jg:1/2011)

Residence 1 Nov 1815 -- Robertson Co., Tennessee -- Garland Hall has an indenture filed in this county. I have a copy of it at home, but won't be back in Texas for a good 2-3 weeks. Google Garland Hall indentures and you should be able to find where someone transcribed them. I do have copies of the originals.

1820 Residence -- Robertson Co., Tennessee -- Garland and Penelope appeared in the census with the following count:

Males: 2 (0-10); 1(10-16); 0(16-18); 0(16-25); 1(26-45)
Females: 3(0-10); 1(10-16); 1(26-45).

Neighbors included: Albert Riggs, several Huddlestons, William Campbell, Ira Griffin, and Benjamin Wilson. There were no Cherrys and only 2 Stricklin families (Isham & Susanna).

Mar 1824 Residence: Clark County, Tennessee. -- Susan Cherry's obit card says she was born in Clark Co., Tennessee. (Obit from the Blue Mound, Leader, Blue Mound, Macon County, Illinois. I haven't photographed the obit yet, only copied the library obit card. Not all of the Leaders are on file at the library, but many are. One of these trips home and I'll get the camera work done!

1830 arrival in Macon County, Illinois: QUOTE from Centennial History ... : In 1830 [to Blue Mound Township] came Garland Hall from Kentucky. He settled about two miles north of the village of Blue Mound. END QUOTE.

NOTE: However, I have found Garland Hall in the Overton County, Tennesee, census as well.

NOTE: Blue Mound, Illinois, was in Mosquito Township. Boody, Illinois, was in Blue Mound Township. Garland Hall's property was midway between Boody and Blue Mound. The Harbarger/Meisenhelter farm was two miles west of Boody, and Garland Hall's farm was about two or three miles southwest of our farm. Blue Mound was about six to seven miles from our farm, south of both. (JG)

From "History of Macon County, Illinois", 1880
Blue Mound Township History (Macon County, IL) (See note above.), we read:

QUOTE: Blue Mound township is among the oldest settled in the county, much of genuine historic importance and interest clusters around it. As organized, this township contains about thirty-one square miles, lying just south of the Sangamon river, in the extreme western part of the county. It is bounded on the north by Harristown, on the east by South Wheatland, on the south by Pleasant View and on the west by Christian county. The surface is generally an undulating prairie, growing more broken on approaching the river. The soil is rich and productive. Formerly, nearly one-third of the territory was covered with timber. The lands are well drained by the Sangamon river and its tributaries in the northern part, and Mosquito creek, with numerous affluents in the central and southern portions.

The first settler in the Mosquito settlement was Dempsey Pope, who was born in North Carolina, and from there removed to Tennessee, and afterwards in 1827 emigrated to this state and located on Mosquito creek. Mr. Pope had quite a large family of well-grown children when he came to this county. Garland Hall, a native of Kentucky, in 1830 emigrated to, and settled on section 29 of this township about two miles north of the present town of Blue Mound, where he erected a cabin, broke some land, fenced it in and began farming. He brought with him a small-sized family. Wyett (sic) Cherry who was an early settler in this locality, is still residing a short distance north-west of the town of Blue Mound.

The first land entered in the township was by James Edwards, March 16th, 1833, 40 acres in section No. 20; Garland Hall entered December 18th, 1833, 77.40 acres in section 19--and Dempsey Pope entered on the same day 80 acres, same section--all in township No. 15 N., R. ! E. of the 3d P.M. Benjamin Wilson entered Nov. 13th, 1827, 160 acres in section 34; also 80 acres in section 35; and on the same day Francis G. Hill entered 80 acres in section 36. The last three entries are in township No. 16 N., R. 1 E. of the 3d P.M.
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Garland Hall was born in Tenn. in 1790. He moved to the Ward neighborhood west of Decatur, Ill. in 1828, he traded a wagon that he came in from Tenn., for a log cabin on the bluff near the old spring. He moved into the log cabin in 1829 and entered the land at Vandalia the closest land office to him. He planted peach seeds on the north side of what is now the Hall Cemetery. He and his boys broke the land with oxen. Their plow had a wooden mouldboard and an iron shear. They planted corn but had to guard the field against blackbirds and crows.

He lost a small boy (Willie) that (who) was buried in what is now Hall Cemetery. He also donated the ground for the original cemetery. He died in 1849.

(The above was taken from a descendant, but I found a Garland Hall in the 1830 TN Census, Overton Co. Also, according to his daughter, Susan, who married Wyatt Cherry, in the 1880 Census, she stated that her father and mother were born in North Carolina.)

1833 Residence in Blue Mound, Illinois: QUOTE: Because township fifteen had more streams bordered by wooded areas, and because of its nearness to Decatur, it was settled earlier than township fourteen. Jonas Edwards entered the first tract, when he bought forty acres from the federal government in March, 1833; Garland Hall and George Reed entered tracts the following December; Alfred Hall and Dempsey Pope bought some in 1834; and they were followed in 1836 by Andrew Williams, John Warnick, Thomas Moffett, and John B. Moffett. Frederick Nientker (sic) entered his first land in 1849 and he was followed by William Pope and Jonathan Hall in 1852. Isaac Moore and Cornelius Goltra, and Frederick Bailey were patentees by 1854. END QUOTE.

Source: Centennial History of Blue Mound, p. 5.

Death: 5 April 1847, Macon County, Illinois. One could assume he died in Blue Mound; however, I haven't found research verification: He's buried in Hall Cemetery. I haven't checked to see if there is a photograph at findagrave.com. You might try there. I have one at home, but haven't unpacked from a recent move. Let me know tho' if you don't have it or can't find it online.

OTHER NOTES ON FAMILY: I keep running across a Rhoda Hall, who seems to be closely related to Garland, perhaps a sister? She also appears in Beulah's (my great-aunt, Beulah Harbarger) notes as Rhoda M. Perry Strickland, perhaps married Perry Strickland?

Various entries can be found for Rhoda as a dau of Garland, but I think she's too old?

OTHER NOTES ON PARENTS: Several sources have Amos Hall (born: 04 Aug 1757 in CT and died: 1790 in North Carolina) as Garland's father and Jemima Carter (born 1760 in CT and died 1787) as his mother. Garland's grandparents have been listed as Moses Hall (born: 25 Aug 1735 birthplace unknown and died: 1788 in CT) and his grandmother as Elizabeth Johnson (dau of Enos (born abt 1734 in CT and married 20 Mar 1754.) However, I have found no research on these two couples. I do believe though that I have in my files copies of land titles with Moses' name. (jg: 2010)

I have done more research, but haven't set up a Garland Box for all the research papers. He's been a favorite of mine, but it's been ages since I've looked closely at him.

Keep me in your contacts list. I'd love to share with you on other Hall family members, as well as any new research you may come across. Good hunting: Jane Meisenhelter Griffin .. Garland is my 4Grgrandfather on my dad's line.

jjjsg@aol.com 



NOTE: From Rick Allen - 
Many of the above notes pulled from various internet sources and I have not verified their veracity.  I don't believe researchers have the correct Amos HALL as having come from New Hampshire.  This just does not add up.  

More to come!  


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