In a message dated 8/7/02 8:04:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I understand that John M. Hall was a carpenter and blacksmith. (Lived in > Broadkiln Hundred.) They were buried in Milton, De. > His father's name was James L. Hall and mother Nancy (Noney) last name I don't know if this will help but from the Delaware Archives the Holland - Black family bibles shows James Hall b. October 3, 1827 son of Magdalene Holland Hall and Robert Hall in Sussex County, Delaware. Magdalene was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Black Holland. She was born March 7 1808 in Sussex County, Delaware.