HALL. AMONG the most strenuous advocates of the colonial cause, was doctor LYMAN HALL, a delegate from Georgia. Although he does not appear to have acted a very conspicuous part in the proceedings of congress, he was nevertheless a useful member, and enjoyed the honour of representing that small, but patriotic, portion of the colony of Georgia, which, in opposition to the great majority of its inhabitants, resolved to unite in maintaining the general rights and liberties of the country. As a representative of the Parish of St. John, he possessed a peculiar claim to the attention of congress, because the example of that district, as was anticipated, proved a strong incitement to the whole colony in their final accession to the general confederacy: this event occurred within four months after the appointment of Dr. Hall, and the whole thirteen provinces now stood in hostile array against the mother country. The weight of his influence, and his persuasive manner, mingled with a strong enthusiasm in relation to the cause which he advocated, materially influenced the paro chial committee, of which he was chairman, and consequently the general inhabitants of the parish, in the adoption of that resolution which paved the way to the immediate accession of the colony of Georgia. He was born in Connecticut, about the year 1731, where he received a classical education: he then commenced the study of medicine, and attained a proper knowledge of his profession at an early period of life. Before the age of twenty-one years, he married in his native province, and in 1752, removed to Dorchester, South Carolina. During the same year he again changed his residence, and established himself in the district of Medway, in Georgia, to which place he was accompanied by about forty families, originally from the New England states. He settled at Sunbury, where he continued the practice of phy-` sic until the commencement of the revolutionary contest. A wider field of utility now appeared before him than the practice of physic, under any circumstances, could afford; but it was materially magnified when contrasted with the confined nature of his situation in Sunbury. The enthusiasm which now impelled him to risk his fortune in a peculiar manner, for the benefit of the common cause, was the result of pure patriotism. By accepting a prominent station he rendered himself more obnoxious to danger, and the locality of the Parish of St. John placed his property in a similar situation. As a frontier settlement, it was immediately exposed to the Creek Indians, to |