EARLY FAMILIES OF CHARLESTOWN, NH
From:	Janice Farnsworth (Farns10th@AOL.COM)

SURNAME: HALL
Source:  History of Charlestown, NH: Fort No. 4 by Rev.
          Henry H. Saunderson 1876

p.382
Oliver Hall was born at Middletown, CT, Aug 30, 1752.
He was the son of Daniel Hall, Jr. and his wife, Mary
Dwight, dau of Capt. Samuel and Mary (Lyman) Dwight of
Northhampton, MA.  

The children of Daniel Hall, Jr. and his wife, Mary
Dwight of Northampton, MA were:
1.  Esther Hall b. Jan 12, 1738 Stephen Hall
2.  Abiah Hall b. Dec 2, 1740 m. Benjamin Clark of
    Westfield, CT and died Mar 18, 1826.
3.  a child, d. in infancy.
4.  Jonathan Hall b. Nov 28, 1743 d. unmarried at
    Charleston, S. C.
5.  Mary Hall b. Nov 3, 1745 m. Eliphalet Terry of En-
    field, CT; d. Jan 10, 1833.
6.  Daniel Hall b. Aug 16, 1747; d. Oct 13, 1755
7.  Elihu Hall b. March 23, 1749
8. *Oliver Hall (subject of this profile)
9.  Phebe Hall b. June 23, 1754 d. Nov 2, 1759
10. Seth Hall b. May 2, 1756 lived at Keene, NH d. unm.
(see also Hist. of descendants of John Dwight of Dedham
MA Vol.I, pp 272-273)

Oliver Hall prob. in 1776 established himself at Charles-
town, NH  He was a saddler and as a great share of
travelling was done on horse-back everyone with the means
kept a horse and kept a fine saddle.  He soon built up
an immense business for he supplied not only Charlestown
but most of the towns for many miles around.  His first
years in town were in the period of the Revolution when
he had all he could do for the demands of his products.

He also brought up large stores of provisions and kept a
team for transporting them to market; also large numbers
of cattle and horses.  Some of his horses he sent to
the West Indies, to which islands also, he sent large
shipments of mules.  His brother-in-law, Dr. Samuel
Crosby and was an apothecary in Charlestown, NH was
employed by Mr. Hall to make extensive journeys for his
business and to act as his agent.  He died of greater
wealth than ever fell to any inhabitant of this town.

He built the house that was later owned by Richardson
Robertson and his store stood in the yard just north of
it.  He m. at Charlestown, NH Nov 16, 1777 Hannah Terry
dau of Benjamin Terry, Jr. of Enfield, CT  She b. Oct
10, 1756.  Their children were:

1. Horace Hall b. Oct 8, 1778
2. Seth Hall b. Mar 4, 1786
3. Solon Hall b. Feb 28, 1789 d. 1806 at age 17.

Horace Hall at an early age was sent to an excellent
school and then taught at Leominster, MA then utltimately
fitted for Dartmouth College and grad. 1798. He assisted
his father in his business until his his father's death
Jan 1, 1822.  After his father's death he left Charles-
town and entered partnership with Mr. James Read of
Boston.  At Charlestown he erected the Stone Grist Mill
which was described in the Annals of Charlestown by
Rev. Jazaniah Crosby, pub. 1834: "About a mile from the
village and on the spot where Spafford's Mills were
burnt in 1746 and again in 1757.  There is now in erection
built by his son, Horace Hall, Esq., a grist mill of
superior structure and of durable materials." 

Horace Hall never married.  He d. at Charlestown (NH)
Oct 20, 1861 and with him the family became extinct.
He represented the town in 1804-05.

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