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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaLyman HALL
(1724-1790)
HALL, Lyman, a Delegate
from Georgia; born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., April
12, 1724; was graduated from Yale College in 1747; studied theology
for a short time and in 1749 began preaching; later studied
medicine and commenced practice in Wallingford; moved to
Dorchester, S.C., in 1752, and, a few years later, to the
“Midway District,” Liberty County, Ga., where he
continued the practice of his profession and also engaged in the
cultivation of rice; member of the conventions of 1774 and 1775
held in Savannah; Member of the Continental Congress 1775-1777; a
signer of the Declaration of Independence; upon the fall of
Savannah in 1778 and the capture of Sunbury, when his property was
despoiled, went north with his family; resumed residence in
Savannah in 1782 and again practiced medicine; Governor of Georgia
in 1783; judge of the inferior court of Chatham County, which
office he resigned upon moving to Burke County; died in Burke
County, Ga., October 19, 1790; interment on his plantation near
Shell Bluff, Burke County, Ga.; reinterment in 1848 beneath the
monument in front of the courthouse on Greene Street, Augusta,
Ga.
Bibliography
Hall, James William. Lyman Hall, Georgia Patriot. Savannah:
Pigeonhole Press, [1959].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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