This page edited on February 11, 2011                                        

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING -

I will start with a dedication to a fantastic researcher of this family, Clay Conner Jr.   Mr. Conner wrote a self-published book in 1981 after years of researching Leonard Hall.  He died between then and 1984 when Barbara Renick contacted his widow for permission to make copies of the book THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEONARD HALL. Mrs. Conner was not interested in the research and gave Barbara permission to make copies and pass it around to others researching Leonard.  Barbara made the book available to the LDS in Salt Lake City and sent me a copy.  Since then I have made copies for other descendents of Leonard Hall as Clay Conner Jr. wanted.  But, it has been passed around for exactly and a little less what it costs to copy and mail.  I believe Mr. Conner would have wanted it that way.
I recently met another Hall researcher, Harry Hall, who had contacted Mr. Conner son (as others have done) and he also was not interested in the research and basically wanted nothing to do with the book.

I will also include on this page the Preface from his book, and his "table of contents" which includes a great chronological digest of the life of Leonard Hall.  I will    reference Clay Conner's work with a {cc1} on all pages.

The subsequent pages will include more information on Leonard, related links to sites for Leonard and Joanna, their children and other descendents.  Hope this will help us find the answers that Mr. Conner was looking for and will clear up any mistakes that might have been in his book.

PREFACE
FROM LIFE & TIMES OF LEONARD HALL
by Clay Conner Jr.

I have found in Leonard Hall the qualities of a strong and courageous man, one who lived the adventures, which brought forth this nation out of the battles fought between the British and French for domination of this new land.  He served during the French and Indian War, at some period prior to 1758.  He built his home and raised twelve children in Bedford Co., VA.
One of his sons, William Hall, served as a Sgt. Major for three years during the Revolutionary War.  Two of his sons, Caleb and Leonard Hall Jr., surveyed land in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1783 with Daniel Boone.
And then, at age 66, or thereabouts, he left it all behind in Virginia to seek new adventures in the undeveloped land of Southern Kentucky.  That took real courage and true pioneer spirit, and that was Leonard Hall, as American Pioneer.
The life of his children are well documented in the Barren County Circuit Court in Glasgow, Kentucky.  Their family court battle to seek and equitable settlement of their father's wealth has established and preserved their identity.
I would like to have more specific information about Leonard Hall before I publish this book, but for the sake of recording what I know rather than waiting too lond, I am closing this chapter for the moment.

I sincerely hope that future researchers find the answers to several questions that have escaped me, such as where and when was he born?  Where did he live during his childhood?  Who were his parents? When and where did he marry Joanna Letton, if not in Rock Creek Chapel in 1750?  When did he leave Maryland for Virginia and later Virginia for Kentucky?  Why did he move to Southern Kentucky when he had 2800 acres of land in the Blue Grass? When exactly did he die?  Where was he buried?    How could one put a story together without all this detail? 

Well, I did and I am sure you will gain much from what you find here.   

Signed Henry Clay Conner Jr.

  We do owe him a great debt for all the information he did leave us and to those he thanked for their help in finding these records.  Mrs. Joseph McCracken - on my line as dau. of Thomas Jefferson Hall, son of Neal, grandson of Leonard Jr., etc.; Willard Heiss; Staff at the Indiana State Library; Staff at the Kentucky Historical Society; "a lovely DAR Volunteer at the Kentucky Archives"; Larry Meadows; Ruby Rogers; Gladys Wilson of Glasgow, Kentucky and those who work in the County Clerk's office and the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Barren Co., KY; and to Cheyanne Conner "who has been responsible for encouraging me to carry on when the discipline of working with all this detailed material becomes a labor.   She has listened while I read her something I found, helped sort the good from the bad, transcribed many documents, and typed it all as it now appears.   She deserved the most credit of all".

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{I won't be able to include every date here, but will use the most important with sources -  Nancy}