Known for

• 17th Governor of Georgia (1783-1784)​

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During 1776

• Delegate for Georgia

• Age: 52

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Background

• Born: 1724 in Wallingford, Connecticut

• Education: Yale

• Spouse: Abigail Burr (m. 1752, d. 1753), Mary Osborn (m. 1757)

• ​Children: 1 son

• Slaveowning​

  • Can't find any direct record of his slave ownership, but given that he owned plantations in the South, he definitely owned some

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Personal beliefs

• Politics: Patriot/Whig​

  • May 13, 1775: First admitted to the Second Continental Congress a delegate from the Parish of St. John's in the Colony of Georgia, not as a delegate from the colony itself

    • ​St. John's Parish was a hotbed of radical sentiment in a predominantly Loyalist colony, and Hall helped persuade the parish to send a delegate

  • July 8, 1775: Georgia decided to send a full delegation to Congress, and Hall joined the delegation

• Religion: Episcopalian​

  • ​In 1751, Hall was dismissed by the Fairfield West Consociation (where he had been ordained) on charges of immoral conduct

    • Those charges were proven, and confessed by him

    • We don't know what the charges were because the documents were burnt during the American Revolution