Dr. William Brenton HALL

Male 1764 - 1809  (45 years)


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  • Name William Brenton HALL  [1
    • He was born in Wallingford, May 31, 1764, graduated at Yale College in 1786, and studied medicine, probably in New Haven. He is said to have enjoyed special advantages for the times from medical lectures which he attended, which must have been either the private lectures of Dr. Romayne in New York or those delivered in Philadelphia, where were the only two medical colleges at that day in the country. He commenced practice in Wallingford, and in 1790 removed to Middletown. In 1792 he asked permission of his native town to establish a "Pock-House", as it was then called, on his father's farm, which was in the northeast part of Meriden near the Middletown line. In the Wallingford records we find the following entry respecting his application:

      "At a town meeting held at Wallingford, December 18, 1792, the petition of William B. Hall, Physician and Surgeon, was presented, 'praying liberty to erect an hospital on his father's farm, quite remote from the publick road or dwelling house, for the purpose of inoculation for the small pox, or to inoculate at any other place which he should think most proper under the immediate inspection and direction of the Civil Authority and selectmen of said Town, on condition said Hall be under bonds to pay all expenses that the town or any of its Inhabitants may be put to in case the infection should spread through his carelessness or neglect, and in every such case to pay in to the Town Treas'y Forty shillings or any other sum that should be desired."

      This petition was granted by the town. These houses were usually very profitable, and Dr. Hall's enterprise proved so successful that in 1793 Aaron Andrews, Ensign Hough and Bilious Kirtland, "all of said Wallingford, Physicians and Surgeons," also obtained permission "to inoculate in such house or houses as should be judged safe, convenient and proper." [1]
    Prefix Dr. 
    Birth 31 May 1764  Wallingford, New Haven Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Jul 1809  Middletown, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I101734  Main Tree
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

    Father Brenton HALL, Esq.,   b. 2 Apr 1738, Cheshire, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 1820, Meriden, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
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    Mother Lament COLLINS,   b. 4 Jul 1745   d. 30 Nov 1782 (Age 37 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Marriage 18 Feb 1762  [1
    Family ID F468  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mehetable PARSONS,   b. 24 Dec 1772, Lyme, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1828 (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 6 Mar 1796  Middletown, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Samuel Holden Parsons HALL,   b. 23 Jun 1804, Middletown, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Mar 1877 (Age 72 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F467  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Dec 2020 

  • Sources 
    1. [S12076] Charles S. Hall, HALL Ancestry A Series of Sketches of the Lineal Ancestors of the children of Samuel Holden Parsons Hall and his wife Emeline Bulkeley.