Lyman Hall

Lyman Hall ( born April 12, 1724 in Wallingford, Connecticut, colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, now USA, † October 19, 1790 on his plantation at Shell Bluff, Burke County, Georgia, United States) signed as a representative of Georgia's declaration of independence of the United States and is it one of the founding fathers of the United States.

Life

Hall was the son of John Hall and Mary Street. In a time when the relationship is of great importance has been attached, he had good connections: his paternal grandfather John Hall (1670-1730) was a member of the Board of Governors and a judge in the colony Supreme Court. His maternal grandfather was the Reverend Samuel Street ( Harvard 1664), Wallingfords first pastor.

Hall graduated at Yale College in 1747 and studied with his uncle, Reverend Samuel Hall ( 1695-1776; Yale 1716) in Cheshire (Connecticut). 1749, he was appointed to the pulpit of the church Stratfielder (now Bridgeport ( Connecticut ) ). His pastorate was heatedly: an outspoken group of parishioners was against his appointment; In 1751 he was dismissed after accusations of his moral character, which " were supported by evidence and his own confession ," according to a biography. He continued preaching two more years left as a temp on unoccupied pulpits, while he was studying medicine and education. In 1752 he married Abigail Burr of Fairfield, who died the following year. In 1757 he was married again, moved to South Carolina and settled as a physician in Dorchester at Charleston, a community that had been a few decades earlier founded by immigrants from Massachusetts. When these immigrants in the Midway District - now Liberty County - moved to Georgia, Dr. Hall joined them. He soon became one of the leading citizens in the newly established town of Sunbury.

Policy

On the eve of the American Revolution, the St. John's community was in Sunbury a hotbed of radical sentiments. Although Georgia was not represented from the beginning in the Continental Congress, the community was convinced by Halls influence them to send a delegate to Philadelphia - Hall itself highly he received in March 1775 a seat in Congress, which he kept until 1780. He was one of three Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

In January 1779 Sunbury was burned by the British. Hall's family fled to the north, where they remained until the departure of the British in 1782. Hall returned to Georgia and settled in Savannah. In January 1783, he was elected governor of the state - and stayed there for a year. After the expiration of his term he returned to his medical practice.

In 1790, Hall moved to a plantation in Burke County on the border with Carolina, where he died at the age of 67 years. Hall's widow, Mary Osborn died in November 1793. His son John also died soon afterwards, leaving no children. Hall County is named after Lyman Hall. His birth town of Wallingford honored Lyman Hall, she named one of its two high schools after him.

Swell

• Franklin B. Dexter: Lyman Hall. In: Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College, 1745-1763. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1896.
• Charles S. Hall: Hall ancestry. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1896.