This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HALL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hcB.2ACE/205.737.740 Message Board Post: I DESCEND FROM AN ANCESTOR GEORGE HALL BORN TO A SLAVEWOMAN AND SLAVEMASTER ZACHARIAH HALL IN TATTNAL COUNTY GEORGIA. THERE WAS A BROTHER OF SOLOMON NAMED NEWTON, LISTED ON THE 1880 CENSUS. CAN NEWTON BE FENTON? MY COPY OF CENSUS NOT TOO CLEAR. GEORGE WAS BORN IN 1819. THE SLAVEOWNER ZACHARIAH WAS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA AND APPEARS ON THE TAX RECORDS IN TATTNALL COUNTY IN 1827. THERE IS A CHURCH NAMED AFTER THE SLAVEMASTER AND ALSO A NEIGHBORHOOD CALLED HALLTOWN. HWE GAVE THE LAND FOR THE CHURCH WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN 1864.