John Lyman

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John married Dorcas Plumb on 12 Jan 1654/55. Dorcas (daughter of John Plumb and Dorothy Chaplin) was born in 1635 in Bradford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 Apr 1725 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 297

Mary married John Hall on 8 Dec 1692 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. John was born on 22 Dec 1670 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Apr 1730 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Mary Street. Mary was born on 16 Apr 1698 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 Oct 1778 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3671
• Birth: 1724, Connecticut, USA

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12th Governor of Georgia--Signer of the Declaration of Independence

LYMAN HALL was born on April 12, 1724 in Wallingford, Connecticut. It was not in the state of his birth, however, that Hall would gain fame as a colonial congressman, but further south, in Georgia.
Hall studied for the ministry at Yale where he graduated in 1747 at the age of twenty-three. Soon after, he married Abigail Burr and subsequently decided he would rather heal unhealthy bodies than tainted souls. So he studied long and hard and by 1754 he was ready to practice medicine.
First he opened an office in South Carolina, then he and his family settled in Sunbury on the Georgia coast. As a dedicated doctor, Hall's practice expanded and prospered - so much so that he was financially able to acquire a vast and successful rice plantation in Burke County, Georgia.
While the Georgia legislature was at first reluctant to send a representative to the Second Continental congress in 1775, Lyman Hall was determined to change this posture. He called a citizen's meeting that was filled with patriots who outwardly supported his loud cry for total independence. Thus, he was elected as a delegate to congress. He had no authority to vote, however, until the following year when his appointment was confirmed by the Georgia legislature.
In 1776, two other representatives for Georgia joined Hall at the Old State House in Philadelphia. He was the oldest of these signers and the one who spoke out most forcefully for freedom and a breakaway from the rule of England.
During the Revolutionary War, while Hall was still serving in Congress, the British destroyed his beautiful plantation. Hall's family, however, managed to escape to the north, later joining him in Philadelphia.
In 1782, LymanHall retuned to Georgia, where he was elected to the office of governor. He served just one year before returning in 1784 to a new plantation.
Hall died on October 19, 1790 in Burke County, Georgia, at the age of sixty-six.

Lyman Hall
1724-1790
Representing Georgia at the Continental Congress
Born: April 12, 1724
Birthplace: Wallingford, Conn.
Education: Graduated Yale College, (Physician.)
Work: Elected to Continental Congress, 1775; Delegate to the Georgia House of Assembly, Elected Governor of Georgia, 1783; Judge, 1785.
Died: October 19, 1790
Lyman Hall was born in Connecticut in 1724. He studied medicine at Yale College, graduated in 1756 and went to Charleston, South Carolina, shortly after to establish a medical practice. He bought land in Georgia in 1760 and established a plantation there, while continuing to practice medicine. Two years later he returned to South Carolina, still as a physician. In 1774, by this time partisan in revolutionary politics, he again came to Georgia and earned the unflattering attention of the Royal Governor, James Wright. He also secured election to the Continental Congress, where he was involved in provisioning food and medicine for the Revolutionary Armies. He was reelected to congress through 1780 but retired to his adopted state in 1777 when state matters, including the situation of his longtime friend Button Gwinnett, demanded his attention. A short time later, the war reached Savannah. Hall's property was burned and he stood accused of high treason. He fled to Charleston, which was also overtaken by the British. He then fled to Connecticut, some say, where he was harbored by family.
He returned to Georgia in 1782, to reclaim his lands, was elected to the House of Assembly in 1783 and then elevated to the office of the Governor. After a single year as Governor, he served one more year in the Assembly, then a year as judge. He then returned to private life and was involved in the continued development of agriculture in the state. Hall died in 1790 at the age of 66.

Lyman married Abigail Burr in 1752 in Connecticut, USA. Abigail was born in 1729 in Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]