John Hall

Awarded the compensation for Hall Head estate in St Thomas-in-the-East Jamaica with Thomas Gordon as owners-in-fee.  The estate had reportedly been left to him, apparently subject to the life interest of Alice Kennion, by Alice Kennion's husband John Kennion of Liverpool (q.v.).

1. John Hall is shown by The UC San Diego Special Collections as the son of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall's brother Thomas Hall [who was b. c 1758], and thus the cousin of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall (q.v.). However, online genealogies show no such son of Thomas Hall. Instead, this was in fact John Hall the son of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall and hence the brother of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall and the nephew of Thomas Hall. In Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall's will he left his estates in St James Jamaica to his son John Hall.

2. The Will of John Hall of St Marylebone [made in 1835] was proved 25/04/1856. He left £2000 to his uncle Thomas Hall, and his estates at Newborough Staffs to 'my brother Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall of Holly Bush'. He left his estates in the Borough of Derby to John Bell Crompton of Derby, and his moiety in Hall Head estate and the right services of the apprentices on it to his nephew Lorenzo Kirkpatrick Hall. He left his residual estate including his share of slave compensation to his brother Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall and his nephew Lorenzo Kirkpatrick Hall.

T71/867 St Thomas-in-the-East No. 511. Jamaica Almanac 1833 & 1838 show Hall Head owned by 'Gordon & Hall'.

1. The Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records are at UC San Diego Special Collections http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4k4006vg/ [accessed 04/03/2012] and show the estate as Hallhead. The 'Historical Background' is unambiguous in identifying John Hall the owner of Hall Head in 1821 as the son of Thomas Hall (born c. 1758). However, John Hall, son of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall and brother of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall is shown as being admitted at Trinity Hall 1796, school Eton, living near Worcester and dying in 1856.

2. PROB 11/2230/402.