Col. M. Carter Hall

"Vermont attorney and militia officer. The oldest child of Governor and Congressman Hiland Hall, he was named for Bennington attorney Marshall Carter, under whom Hiland Hall studied law. Usually called M. Carter Hall, he practiced law in Bennington, and from 1844 to 1846 served on the military staff of Governor William Slade with the rank of Colonel."

• Source - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159559414

"Marshall Carter Hall, (Hiland, Nathaniel, Thomas, Hiland, Thomas, Samuel, John): b. March 7, 1820; residence Bennington, Vt.; m., April 20, 1844, Sophia Baker, dau. of Martin C. and Pamela (Baker) Deming, of Arlington, Vt., b. Feb. 27, .1820. He was named for Marshall Carter, senior law partner of his father and a member of his father's family at the time of his death, Sept. 5, 1820, aged 31. M. Carter Hall d. at Bennington, June 15, 1881. For most of the last half of his life he had been sorely afflicted with rheumatism, which had so affected and distorted his limbs as to render him almost entirely helpless, and his sufferings were great. Previous to this affliction he was an active business man of extensive acquaintance and influence in the town, county, and State.

His children were:

1. Frances Helen, b. Dec. 20, 1844
2. Samuel Baker, b. Feb. 17, 1846
3. Sophia Deming, b. at Arlington, Dec. 13, 1847."

• Source - The Halls of New England: Genealogical and Biographical by David Brainard Hall. 1883. Page 26.