Richard Hall, of Mount Welcome

Ancestors of President-elect Biden according to wargs@wargs.com, (ancestors 682 & 683)-The origins of Richard Hall, of Mount Welcome are currently unknown. There are a couple different options for parents floating around on internet trees, but they are either incorrect or undocumented. See his Wikitree page, which cites Anderson's Great Migration Begins and discusses some of the possibilities.

Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be circa 1635 in Lamborne, Berkshire, England.

Date of marriage to Elizabeth Wingfield might be 1662. Place has also been (erroneously?) reported to be England.

"Major [Robert Randolph] Henry's maternal ancestor, Richard Hall, was born in Warwickshire, England in 1634, and came to Maryland in 1647. He acquired a large grant of land in Cecil county, and in 1670 he built Mount Welcome, which has been the family home for generations."

Men of Mark in Virginia: Ideals of American Life; a Collection of Biographies of Leading Men in the State, Volume 4 edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 1908, p. 177 [Googlebooks]

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Richard signed his will in Calvert County 17 September 1687, and it was proved 4 June 1688. His estate was apraised 28 August 1688. He left about 5,100 acres divided among his sons. He gave Elisha 750 acres of the 1000 acre “Hall’s Hills”, including the part where Richard dwelt. Joseph got the rest of “Hall’s Hills” and 150 acre “The Defence” adjoining it, plus two negroes. Benjamin received 100 acre “Micham”, and another 100 acres on the south side thereof. Aaron got 200 acre “Spittle” adjoining “ Thacham” lately given to Richard’s son-in-law John SMITH (husband of Lucia). In addition, Rachel, now wife of Walter SMITH, received 300 acre “Aldermason”. Elizabeth got 300 acres of the 400 acre “The Hope” in Cecil County. Sarah got the remaining 100 acres of “The Hope” plus 200 adjoining acres. Instructions were given that the children should be brought up as Friends. Friends on the Western shore of Maryland were given £2. Friends William RICHARDSON, Edward TALBOTT, and Samuel CHEW were named overseers. He also left something for the use of Friends.[17]

PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Quaker. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: claimed rights in 1663 for transporting thirteen people (himself, his wife, and eleven others); he served five terms in the Assembly, one of the longest legislative records in seventeenth-century Maryland; his two sons and three sons-in-law also served in the Assembly. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: carpenter; planter.

PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1666, 1669, 1674-1674/75 (elected to the 3rd session; Laws 4), 1676-1682 (Accounts 1, 3), 1682-1684 (Accounts 2; Laws 2).

WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 2,500 acres in 1666; over 3,700 acres by 1676.

WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on August 28, 1688. LAND: ca. 5,100 acres.

 Kelly, J. Reaney. Quakers in the founding of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Maryland Historical Society, 1963), 40. ... Richard Hall, or Halls as the name appears in the Testimony, was the fourth signer. He was a son of John Hall who came into Maryland in 164044 and later settled at Herring Creek. John Hall was granted "Marshs Seat" which had originally been surveyed in 165045 for Thomas Marsh, a Puritan leadear. He was the founder of the first Hall family in that part of Maryland. In 1759 "Marshs Seat" was the birthplace of the Reverend Mason Locke ("Parson") Weems, the first biographer of George Washington. The family of John Hall should not be confused with the later family founded by Reverend Henry Hall, identified with St. James Protestant Episcopal Church of Herring Creek. At his death in 1688, Richard Hall left approximately 2,500 acres of land to his wife and eight children.46

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 Kemp, AnnaBelle (AnnaBelle Cregar). Lucas genealogy. (Hollywood, California: A. Kemp, 1964 (Los Angeles : Bookman Press)), 94. "He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends and his name frequently appears on their records; he was one of the Commissioners of the Cliffs Monthly Meeting of Friends in Western Calvert Co., in 1684 (See Minutes of this meeting p 13.) He was a man of means and large land holdings one of the very important Quakers in that county. (See Hist of Calvert Co. by Stein p. 267, also see Hall family in Md Hist Soc Mag of 1913 vol 8 p 291.)" ↑ Will Abstract of Richard Hall, in Cotton, Jane Baldwin; F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Wright; and Annie W. B. (Annie Walker Burns) Bell. The Maryland calendar of wills. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968). Vol 2, p 32 -  HALL, Richard, Calvert Co. Sept. 17, 1687 - Aug. 28, 1688  Eldest son: Elisha  Sons: Joseph, Benjamin and Aaron  Dau: Rachel, wife of Walter SMITH  Daus: ELIZA and Sarah  Dau: Lueta, wife of John SMITH  Wife: ELIZA  To: The Quaker Church, personalty  Sons to be of age at 18  Mentions: "Hall's Hills"; "Hogsdowne" "Michum"; "Additional Sprittle";  "Aldermason"; "The Hope" (in Cecil Co); "Hall's Choice" and "The Spittle."

 Butcher, Bernard Lee, and James Morton Callahan. Genealogical and personal history of the upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912), 3:1306. ... Richard Hall ... patented a large tract of land called "Mount Welcome" on the east side of the Susquehanna river, about a mile above the mouth of the Octoraro in 1640. He is believed to have been a son of Bishop Joseph Hall, of England. ...

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