i'd forgotten i'd bookmarked this wonderful site. it's a great place to find all sorts of information. the url is: http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/bhp/markers/markers_map.html in our recent discussions about the discovery of the grave stone of edward plummer over on haley road i was looking through some notes that i'd gathered from lucy ames edwards' "Grave Markers of Duval County" and, besides the mention of the William Plummer Family Plot and the Edward D. Plummer Family Plot, she mentions a Revolutionary Soldier's Grave with a subtitle "Dr. James Hall." she says, "This small burial plot is in a grove of trees on a bank above the Beauclerc Road, not far from the St. Johns River, in the section of Duval County known as Plummers Cove." on the Florida Historical Markers Program web site i found the following information. (i haven't figured out yet why the location of this historical marker is on Lomax Street. any suggestions as to the reason for this?) Title: JAMES HALL-SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION / JAMES HALL-DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Location:Lomax Street. County: Duval City: Jacksonville Description: James Hall was born on October 8, 1760, in Keene, New Hampshire. Records of the Continental Army indicate that James Hall of Keene was mustered into service about August 20, 1776. Hall served throughout the Revolutionary War as an infantry soldier of the Continental Army line. New Hampshire units participated in the important campaign of the fall of 1777 which culminated in the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 17, 1777. Hall continued to serve with the Continental Army as it endured the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. On June 28, 1778, he was in the ranks of Poor's Brigade at the battle of Monmouth where he participated in the final advance of the day in that "hottest day of battle". James Hall was promoted to sergeant on April 1, 1780. He served on through the war and was present at Yorktown in October, 1781, in Col. Alexander Scammell's Third New Hampshire Regiment. When the war ended, twenty-one year old JamesHall was a full-time fighting patriot. JAMES HALL-DOCTOR OF MEDICINE During the next two decades, James Hall became a doctor. At length, he decided to move to the Spanish territory of Florida. In 1790, Dr. James Hall, then aged thirty, settled near Cow Ford (now Jacksonville). He was the first known American physician to sustain the practice of medicine in Florida. In 1803, the first settler of Cow Ford, Robert Pritchard, died. Since his arrival in 1783, Pritchard had acquired considerable land holdings. These included seven hundred acres in the Goodby's Lake region and sixteen thousand acres on Julington Creek. Within the year of Robert Pritchard's, his thirty-six year old widow, Eleanor (nee Plummer) married the fourty-four year old Doctor James Hall. The Halls made their home in what is now called Plummer's Cove. Here Dr. Hall sustained his practice until 1810, at the age of fifty, he was banished from East Florida by the Spanish for having participated in the "Florida-Georgia Rebellion." On February 22, 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States, and in 1822 Doctor Hall returned to what had become Jacksonville. He continued his medical practice and was active in many community matters, such as testifying at Spanish Land Grant hearings. James Hall died at LaGrange, Florida (on Plummer's Cove) on December 25, 1837. julie