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Lot HALL

SAR Patriot #: P-173132

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State of Service: VT Qualifying Service: Lieutenant / Prize Master

DAR #: A049346

Birth: 02 Apr 1757 Yarmouth / Barnstable / MA
Death: 17 May 1809 Westminster / Windham / VT

Qualifying Service Description:

Lieutenant, Privateer "Eagle", Captain Elijah Freeman Payne, May 1776; captured 15 Sep 1776, prisoner at Scotland, exchanged fall of 1777
Prize Master, ship "General Putnam", Capt Daniel Waters, service 10 July 1779 to 7 Sept. 1779 on the Penobscot Expedition
Prize Master, privateer "Essex", Capt John Cathcart, 12 June 1780

Additional References:

Halls of New England, Genealogical and Biographical, by Rev. David B. Hall, 1883, pg 241-243.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol 7, pg 98
Naval Documents of the American Rev., Volume 7, pg 688-689 (images 712-713)
The Edinburgh Advertiser (Edinburgh, Scotland) 18 Oct 1776, pg 253, column 3.
Pension W.19751.
Muster/payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Rev. War (MA&RI) -Volume 40, pg 13, 112, 127b (images 331, 449,483)

Spouse: Mary/Polly Homer
Children: Daniel; Benjamin; Timothy; Mary; Timothy;

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Burial:

Old Westminster Cemetery (aka Old East Parish Cemetery, Westminster Cemetery Old)_(C-0371300)

Location:

Westminster / Windham / VT / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1970518

Grave Plot #:

SE section--Row 4--Lot 108

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

76420429

Marker Type:

SAR Stake

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

bef 2011

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: David Crandall Schafer

Lot Hall, P-173132, by David C. Schafer

Lot Hall, second child of five born to Lot and Hannah (Doane) Hall, was born on 2 April 1757 at Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

4 October 1838, Polly Hall, widow of Lot Hall provided lengthy testimony of the service rendered by her deceased husband during the American Revolution. Deponent Polly Hall’s testimony included, “Lot Hall entered the naval service as Lieutenant, aforesaid & received enlisting orders and enlisted twenty-nine men and a boy in the County of Barnstable aforesaid and transported them to Providence, Rhode Island when Lieutenant (Elijah Freeman) Payne received said seamen… Clark & Nightengale furnished said Lieutenant Payne & said Hall with a vessel, munitions and provisions to transport said enlisted men and officers to Charlston, S. Carolina to on board the ship “Randolph” aforesaid. That the said Hall, while on the passage from Providence to Charleston, was captured by a British Vessel and carried, a Prisoner of War in Scotland.”[1] Details of the voyage led by Lieutenant Elijah Freeman Payne aboard the privateer “Eagle” are given in “Extract of a Letter from Port Glasgow, dated 14 Oct 1776”. “Yesterday the Speirs, from the Bay of Honduras with mahogany arrive here, under the command of Mr. William Carmichael formerly the mate of the said vessel. She sailed from the bay on the 15 July last and on the 6^th September, long. 56.13, lat. 4Q.50 fell in with the “Eagle” schooner of Rhode Island, an American privateer, commanded by Elijah Freeman Payne, burden about 50 tons, mounted with six carriage guns and ten swivels and 50 men, who took the master of Spiers (Lamont), all the papers belonging to the vessel, and some bales of dry goods on board, putting her under the command of a Mr. Hall in character of a lieutenant and prize master.”[2] Held prisoner for about one year, Lot Hall was exchanged but with no provision to return home. Returning home by way of a circuitous route through Ireland, the West Indies and Virginia, Lot Hall arrived back home on 22 February 1778.

June 1779 brought the arrival of two British Regiments to Penobscot Bay on the coast of Maine for the purpose of establishing an outpost from which to launch raids into New England. Massachusetts leadership responded with an armada of over 40 armed vessels led by Commodore Dudley Saltonstall. From “A Roll of the Ship “General Putnam”, crew of 150, with 20 guns, commanded by Captain Daniel Waters, Lot Hall is listed as Prize Master, engaged 10 July1779, with wages of 3 pounds per month.[3] 12 June 1780, Lot Hall engaged aboard the privateer “Essex”, crew of 150, with 20 guns, commanded by Capt. John Cathcart, with the “station” of Prize master.[4]

Lot Hall was married to Mary/Polly Homer on 5 January 1786 at Boston. The children born to Lot and Mary Hall were:

Daniel was born on 17 July 1787, and married Anjinette Fitch.
Benjamin was born on 24 December 1788, and married Olivia Price.
Timothy was born in 1790 and died on 1 January 1796.
Mary was born on 6 May 1794, and married Job Lyman.
Timothy was born in 1803 and died 11 Dec 1858, no marriage.

Lot Hall died 17 May 1809 at Westminster, Windham County, Vermont, and was buried at the Old Westminster Cemetery. His obituary read: “At his seat in Westminster, on Wednesday, the 17^th instant, the Hon. Lot Hall, Esq. – In the death of Judge Hall, society has lost a worthy, and valuable member, and the State of Vermont a distinguished and virtuous citizen. He was a kind and indulgent parent, a tender husband, a benevolent and charitable neighbor.”[5]

Mrs. Polly (Homer) Hall, aged 72 years, died 21 February 1843, at Westminster, Vermont and was buried beside her husband the Honorable Lot Hall.

Sources:

[1] Pension W.19751

[2] The Edinburgh Advertiser (Edinburgh, Scotland) 18 October 1776, p. 253, column 3.

[3] Muster/payrolls and various papers (1763-1808) of the Rev. War (MA&RI) Vol. 40, p. 112 (image 449)

[4] Ibid, Volume 40, p. 13 (image 331)

[5] Middlebury Mercury (Middlebury, VT) 24 May 1809, p. 3.

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