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Note: Lent Hall ( ca. b. 1769/70 d. 1845) These dates are based on 1830 and 1840 Census data and Minutes of First Creek Baptist Church which show passing of "aged brother Lent Hall". His wife was Mary "Polly" Hall, a daughter of Fenton Hall and Hannah Brown. In all property transfers, he used the given name Lent and not Fenton. The earliest property transfer in SC related to Lent Hall is dated 1791, so he was at least 21 years of age at that time.
While the exact birth dates of Lent Hall and his wife, Mary Polly Hall are unknown, their dates of death have surfaced in the First Creek Baptist Church Minutes on microfilm at the Anderson County Public Library. Lent Hall (ca. 1769/70 - June 1845) and Mary Polly Hall (ca. 1770 - Nov. 19, 1853).
Lent Hall made many purchases at Nathaniel Hall Estate Sale held 24 May 1799, following death of Nathaniel Hall's wife, Elizabeth.
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The earliest transaction of record found in South Carolina involving Lent Hall relates to a purchase of land from John Mauldin dated 24 March 1791. This purchase coincides with the same date of Nathaniel Hall's purchase of land from John Mauldin, Sr. Lent Hall's purchase was located on Governor's Creek, a branch of Great Rocky River. Both deeds were recorded on May 27, 1791 (Lucas, pp. 273- 275).
Lent Hall was one of the purchasers of another transaction referred to as The Sale of Harris Mauldin. Others cited were Benjamin Hall; Elizabeth Hall (ca. 1742 - 1799) probably wife of the late Reverend Nathaniel Hall who died in 1796/97); Hannah Mauldin; Fenton Hall; and Bartlett Tucker (Lucas, pp. 107- 108).
Lent Hall served as a witness on 22 January 1798 when Peter Keys and Lettice Keys and Company sold 494 acres of land at the mouth of Beaver Creek on the south side of Rocky River. Lent again made the oath to E. Brown (Lucas, p. 379).
Lent also attended the Nathaniel Hall Estate Sale dated May 24, 1799, following the death of Reverend Nathaniel Hall's wife, Elizabeth. He purchased numerous items.
Lent Hall was present when Thomas Milsap sold eighty acres of land on the south side of Rocky River. This property was bounded by James Thompson, John Tinsely, and granted to John Johnston. This deed is recorded in Book B, no. 5, p. 349 and dated 18 February 1801. The oath was made by Lent Hall to E. Brown. Lent also served as a witness. Other witnesses were John Hall, either a son of Nathaniel Hall or brother of Nathaniel Hall; and Winston Hall, son of John Hall and a first cousin of Lent Hall.
On Febrary 26, 1803, Lent Hall again served as a witness with Winston Hall when John Tinsely sold Thomas King one - hundred eighty acres on Rocky River. Lent Hall made the oath to E. Browne. The land sale involved property which bordered on land owned by Lent Hall, Robert Harkess, Elijah Brown, Esq. and by Robert Norris, Pendleton District, SC Deeds 1790 - 1806, Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., 1982, Recorded pp. 29 - 30; page 269).
In 1836, Lent Hall transferred property to his oldest son, Jeysee A. Hall. A record of this exchange is available on Microfilm at the Anderson County Public Library. Mary "Polly" Hall, wife of Lent Hall, was living at the time of this transfer as information from 1830 and 1840 Censuses indicate that she would have been between sixty and seventy years old in 1840. The 1850 Census listed her age as seventy.
In all of these transactions, and there may be others, the only given name used is Lent.
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