William Hall

Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois
ARCH 973.3
SOL
Ill. State Genealogical Society 1975
page 96

Born 1762 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Died: May 13, 1846
Buried: Hall Cemetery, Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois; Government Headstone.
 Spouse: ______ Holland
Residence: He lived in North Carolina and Tennessee, and in 1815 moved to Madison County, Illinois, settling near Collinsville.
Services: Sergeant: NC and SC. He enlisted April 1779 at Long Cane, South Carolina, serving for his uncle, William. He marched to Savannah, Georgia. He joined Gen. Benjamin Lincoln at St. Mary's in the Company of Capt. James McCall.  He was made Sergeant in Capt. William Alexander's Company; served in the Companies of Capt. Gilbert Falls and Capt. James Duckworth. He aided in the defense of Charleston; entered Capt. John Pitt's Company and was detailed to transfer provisions to Gen. Horatio Gates until the battle of Camden, August, 1780. He was in the battles of Ramsour Mills, Guilford Court House, and the battle of Eutaw Springs, from which engagement he delivered seventy-five prisoners to Gen. Francis Locke.
Pension: S31089 (NC: SC); Madison County, Illinois Pension Roll, April 9, 1833, age 71; Madison County Pension Census, June 1, 1840, age 88
Marker: His name is on a bronze tablet in the Madison County Court House at Edwardsville, placed by Ninian Edwards Chapter DAR, Alton, September 16, 1912.