"The
plaintiff’s wish to correct what he regards as a widespread misconception about
those who served the nation under the Articles of Confederation is laudable."
--
Steven
D. Merryday, United States District Judge
Lyman Hall - Signer of the Declartion of Independence Biography by
Appleton's edited by Stanley L. Klos
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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, LymanHall 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.
Hall
died on October 19, 1790 in Burke County, Georgia, at the age of sixty-six.
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plaintiff’s wish to correct what he regards as a widespread misconception about
those who served the nation under the Articles of Confederation is laudable."
--
Steven
D. Merryday, United States District Judge
Keynote Address on the 2003
Re-Internment of Samuel and Martha Huntington
Cyrus Griffin
10th President of the United States
in Congress Assembled
January 22, 1788 to January 21, 1789
Keynote Address on the 2003
Re-Internment of Samuel and Martha Huntington Part II
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