Brief Life History of Mahlon
When Mahlon Hall was born on 7 July 1773, in Bedford, Virginia, United States, his father, Leonard Hall Sr, was 42 and his mother, Johanna Litton, was 41. He married Betsy Wickler on 19 February 1795, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died about 1840, in Lafayette, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68.
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- Malen Hall, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mahlon Hall -
- Malen Hall, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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