Addison Hall (1797-?) was a prominent citizen of Virginia who was a reverend and served in the Virginia House of Delegates[1] from 1823 to 1829.[2]

He was a member of Morattico Baptist Church. His daughter Henrietta Hall Shuck became a missionary to China.

He divorced his wife over infidelity.[3]

He took in his brother's widow and their three children.[4] In 1832 he wrote to Col. Robert W. Carter in Richmond, Virginia.[5]

Further reading

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  • Life and Writings of Rev. Addison Hall by Thomas Sanford Dunaway (1872)[6]

References

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  1. ^ "House History". history.house.virginia.gov.
  2. ^ https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/4927
  3. ^ "rev Addison HAll divorces his wife". Richmond Dispatch. October 25, 1870. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-dispatch-rev-addison-hall-divor/27640776/
  5. ^ "Item 19: Addison Hall, at Waverley, to Col. Robert W. Carter, at Richmond, 1832 December 26 | Special Collections Research Center". scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu.
  6. ^ Dunaway, Thomas Sanford (1872). "Life and Writings of Rev. Addison Hall".
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