Person:Lyman Hall (4)

  1. Lyman Hall1724 - 1790
m. 1752
Facts and Events
Name[1] Lyman Hall
Gender Male
Birth[1] 12 Apr 1724 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 1752 Connecticut, USAto Abigail Burr
Death[1] 19 Oct 1790 Burke, Georgia, United States

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Lyman Hall (April 12, 1724October 19, 1790), physician, clergyman, and statesman, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him.

LYMAN HALL was born on April 12, 1724 in Wallingford, Connecticut. It was not in the state of his birth, however, that Hall would gain fame as a colonial congressman, but further south, in Georgia.

Hall studied for the ministry at Yale where he graduated in 1747 at the age of twenty-three. Soon after, he married Abigail Burr and subsequently decided he would rather heal unhealthy bodies than tainted souls. So he studied long and hard and by 1754 he was ready to practice medicine.

First he opened an office in South Carolina, then he and his family settled in Sunbury on the Georgia coast. As a dedicated doctor, Hall's practice expanded and prospered - so much so that he was financially able to acquire a vast and successful rice plantation in Burke County, Georgia.

While the Georgia legislature was at first reluctant to send a representative to the Second Continental congress in 1775, Lyman Hall was determined to change this posture. He called a citizen's meeting that was filled with patriots who outwardly supported his loud cry for total independence. Thus, he was elected as a delegate to congress. He had no authority to vote, however, until the following year when his appointment was confirmed by the Georgia legislature.

In 1776, two other representatives for Georgia joined Hall at the Old State House in Philadelphia. He was the oldest of these signers and the one who spoke out most forcefully for freedom and a breakaway from the rule of England.

During the Revolutionary War, while Hall was still serving in Congress, the British destroyed his beautiful plantation. Hall's family, however, managed to escape to the north, later joining him in Philadelphia.

In 1782, Lyman Hall retuned to Georgia, where he was elected to the office of governor. He served just one year before returning in 1784 to a new plantation.[3]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Helen D. Love Scranton. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974).
  2.   Lyman Hall, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  3. Dwight, Nathaniel. The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1860, Edited by Stanley l. Klos 2000), as quoted here.
Signers of U.S. Declaration of Independence