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Rh When the British took possession of Georgia he re- moved with his family to the north, and all his property was confiscated by the royal government. In 1782 he returned to Georgia, before the evacu- ation of Savannah, and was governor of the state for one term, after which he retired from public life.

HALL, Nathan Kelsey, statesman, b. in Mar- cellus, Onondaga co., N. Y., 10 March, 1810 ; d. in Buffalo, N. Y., 2 March, 1874. He was the son of a New England shoemaker, who emigrated to cen- tral New York in the early part of the century. In 1818 the family moved to Erie county, N. Y., where young Hall worked on a farm and occasion- ally at his father's trade. He was educated in the country district-schools, and at the age of eighteen became a student in the office of Millard Fillmore, who was then a practising attorney at Aurora, N. Y. In 1832 he was admitted to the bar and to ha copartnership with his preceptor, who in the mean time had removed to Buffalo. In 1836, Solomon G. Haven was admitted as a member of the firm. Mr. Hall was deputy clerk of Erie coun- ty in 1831-'2, clerk of the board of supervisors in 1832-8, city attorney in 1833-'4, and alderman in 1837. He was appointed master in chancery by Gov. Seward in 1839, and judge of the court of common pleas in 1841. In 1845 he was elected to the assembly, and before the expiration of his term was chosen a representative, in congress as a Whig, serving in 1847-'9. He declined a renomination, preferring the practice of his profession to public life. In 1850 Mr. Hall was appointed postmaster- general by President Fillmore, and in 1852 he be- came U. S. judge for the northern district of New York, which office, he filled till his death, making a creditable record in judicial administration.

HALL, Nathaniel, clergyman, b. in Medford, Mass., 13 Aug., 1805 ; d. in Dorchester, Mass., 21 Oct., 1875. He became clerk in a store in Boston, and subsequently was secretary in an insurance- office. He was graduated at the Harvard divinity- school in 1834, and in the following year was col- league pastor with Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris of the 1st Unitarian parish, Dorchester, Mass. He became sole pastor in 1836, and held this post until his death. He was an earnest philanthropist and abolitionist. About forty of his sermons were published, including several on slavery printed be- tween 1850 and 1860.

HALL, Newman, English clergyman, b. in Maidstone, Kent, 22 May, 1816. He was gradu- ated at the University of London in 1841, and re- ceived the degree of LL. B. there in 1855. He had charge of the Albion Congregational church in Hull from 1842 till 1854, when he removed to London to become pastor of Surrey chapel, Black- friar's road, known as Rowland Hill's chapel. In 1850 he opposed the general cry against papal ag- ?;ression. During the civil war he was a firm riend of the U. S. government, and at its close visited the United States in the interest of inter- national good - will. He opened congress with prayer, and delivered an oration on " International Relations " in the house of representatives in No- vember, 1867. As a memorial of this visit, Lincoln Tower, part of his new church-building on West- minster road, was built by the joint subscriptions of Americans and Englishmen. In 1873 he again visited the United States, lecturing in the principal cities. His publications have been widely circu- lated and reprinted in the United States. Among these are '-The Christian Philosopher" (London, 1849); "Italy, the Land of the Forum and the Vatican" (1853): "Lectures in America" (New York, 1868); "Sermons and History of Surrev Chapel " (1868) ; " From Liverpool to St. Louis " (London, 1869) ; " Pilgrim's Songs," a volume of devotional poetrv (1871); "Praver; its Reasonable- ness and Efficacy " (1875) ; " The Lord's Prayer " (1883); and "Songs of Earth and Heaven " (1885). He delivered a lecture on the assassination of President Lincoln, in London, in 1865.

HALL, Robert Bernard, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 28 Jan., 1812 ; d. in Plymouth, Mass., 15 April, 1868. He entered the Boston public Latin-school in 1822, and studied theology at New Haven in 1833-'4. He was ordained to the minis- try of the orthodox Congregational church, but afterward became an Episcopalian. In 1855 he was a member of the Massachusetts senate and was elected to congress in 1855 on the Know- Nothing ticket, and again in 1857 on the Repub- lican ticket. He was a delegate to the Union con- vention in Philadelphia in 1866. Mr. Hall was one of the twelve founders of the New England anti-slavery society in Boston in January, 1832, and was one of the founders of the American anti- slavery society in Philadelphia in December, 1833. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Iowa central college in 1858.

HALL, Robert Newton, Canadian jurist, b. in Laprairie. Quebec, 26 July, 1836. He was gradu- ated at Burlington college, Vt., in 1857, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1861. He was appointed general batonnier of the bar of the province of Quebec in 1878, is dean of the faculty of law in Bishop's college, Lennox- ville, from which he received the degree of LL. D. in 1880, and became a queen's counsel the same year. He was a government director of the Cana- da Pacjfic railway in 1873, is president of Massa- wippi railway, a director of the Quebec central railway, and was elected as a Liberal Conservative to the Dominion parliament in 1879.

HALL, Robert Pleasants, lawyer, b. in Ches- ter district, S. C, 23 Dec, 1825 : d."in Macon, Ga., 4 Dec, 1854. He removed with his parents to Georgia in 1837, studied law with his brother Samuel in Knoxville, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In the following year he removed to Ma- con, where he had a high reputation until his death. His leisure was devoted to literature, and he published a volume of " Poems by a South Caro- linian " (Charleston, 1848). He left numerous manuscript articles in prose and verse, which in- clude a contemplative poem on Andre Chenier ; " Winona," a legend of the Dacotahs ; and " The Cherokee," describing the scenery in upper Georgia. HALL, Samuel, printer, b. in Medford, Mass., 2 Nov., 1740 ; d. in Boston, 30 Oct., 1807. He was apprenticed to his uncle, Daniel Fowle, of Ports- mouth, N. H., and subsequently went to Newport, R. I., where in 1761 he formed a partnership with Ann, the widow of James Franklin, which continued until 1768. In that year he published the " Es- sex Gazette " in Salem. In 1775 he removed to Cambridge and issued the " New England Chron- icle," and in the following year resided in Boston. He again published the " Salem Gazette " in 1781, and in 1785 the " Massachusetts Gazette." In 1789 he went to Boston and opened a book-store, which he sold in 1805 to Lincoln and Edmunds. His journals were of much service to the patriot cause during the Revolution.

HALL, Samuel, jurist, b. in Somerset county, Md., 1 June, 1797; d. in Princeton. Ind., about 1855. He removed with his family to Jefferson county, Ky., in 1805, and received no early education. In 1815 he went to Princeton, Gibson co., Ind., and obtained a situation in a country store. Subsequently