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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: Rev Douglas Arnold Puckett
Nathan Hall was born July 30, 1738, at Abingdon, Gloucester County, Virginia, a son of John Hall, III, and Sarah. He was baptizes at Abingdon Anglican Parish Church at Gloucester County, Virginia. He was descended from seventeenth-century English immigrants to Virginia Colony.
In 1755, Nathan Hall married Anna Rowe. He and his family moved to Brunswick County, Virginia, July 5, 1774.
Always a religious man and faithful to the Anglican Church, Nathan Hall became a lay reader at Horse Pasture (near present-day Martinsville, Virginia.) According to the court books of Pittsylvania County, “Nathan Hall, clerk of Horse Pasture Chapel, received 250 pounds of tobacco for three months’ service as reader,” October 3, 1774.
Nathan Hall backed American Independence. He gave 225 pounds of beef from his farm to Jesse Beard, the Commissary of provisions, for use of the Patriot army. The Henry County, Virginia, Order Book declared that he was allowed two pounds, five shillings as repayment for these goods, May 6, 1782.
With the collapse of the Anglican/Episcopal denominational faith in that part of Virginia, Nathan Hall turned to the Baptists. The Congregationalist minister, Reverend Daniel Marshall, was a “New Lighter” immersion baptism proponent. In the 1750s and 1760s, Marshal had gone up and down the frontier in the southern colonies with other colleagues preaching and establishing Baptist churches. Nathan Hall, baptized into the Baptist faith, and ordained a Baptist minister, was licensed to preach at Pigg River and Blackwater Regular Baptist Churches at nearby Franklin County. From 1783 until 1810, he did this and also performed a number of weddings. He died February 19, 1815, and was buried at the Charity Community of present-day Patrick County. He owned a small tobacco plantation and had ten slaves.
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