I have come across records and references to William Hall over the years and questioned whether James Hall (who married Sarah Duncan) was the son of William Hall and Hannah Richardson. A biography (with no evident sources) written in 1898 about Amos Hall states that the father of James Hall immigrated from England. "...James Hall, the great-great-grandfather of the gentleman of whom we write [Amos A. Hall] , was born only four miles from London. His son, whose Christian name was also James, had a son Amos, from whom our subject is descended. He was born in Charleston, S.C., and during the War of the Revolution, particularly in the battle of Cowpens, supplied the soldiers with provisions. The son of this man was Samuel Hall, our subject's father. He was also born in South Carolina, and when arriving at man's estate emigrated to Ohio, where he married Miss Fanny Alexander, whose birthplace was in Kentucky." (Portrait and Biographical Records of Jasper, Marshall and Grundy Counties, Iowa -- Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1894.) Wendy McGuire Message: 6 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:39:01 -0500 (EST) From: Winack27@aol.com Subject: Re: [SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS] Duncan, Hall and Dickson To: sc-bushriverquakers@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <565d7.376e5ff0.3c4e3055@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" In a message dated 1/22/2012 4:10:42 P.M. Central Standard Time, hhimrey@gmail.com writes: I sympathize with anybody trying to trace the very-common name Hall--that's my maiden name.