Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790
Lyman Hall (April 12, 1724 – October 19, 1790) was a Founding Father of the United States, physician, clergyman, and statesman who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia. Hall County is named after him. He was one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence, along with Benjamin Rush, Josiah Bartlett, and Matthew Thornton.
Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Hall graduated from Yale College in 1747 and was called to the pulpit of Stratfield Parish (now Bridgeport, Connecticut) two years later. Dismissed from his pulpit in 1751, he continued to preach for two more years, filling vacant pulpits, while he studied medicine and taught school. He migrated to South Carolina and established himself as a physician at Dorchester, South Carolina, near Charleston, a community settled by Congregationalist migrants from Dorchester, Massachusetts, decades earlier. When these settlers moved to the Midway District – now Liberty County – in Georgia, Hall accompanied them. Hall soon became one of the leading citizens of the newly founded town of Sunbury.
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