David Hall

Merchant in Barbados, then partner in Hall McGarel (q.v.) in London. Note there was a David Hall, "free mulatto" who owned two enslaved people in St Michael in 1832 so one of the smaller claims around Locust Hall may be for this man instead.

1. Willl of David Hall of Portland Place Middlesex proved 14/09/1844. 'Formerly of Portman Square [sic], then of Botley's Park Surrey and now of Portland Place but intending to move very soon to 10 Park Crescent Middlesex.' [Probate Calendar]. The will is very short and simple and left everything to his son Alexander Hall Hall.

2. Born Tully (Ireland) c. 1772. Married Margaret Salter, daughter of John Forster Alleyne and Elizabeth Gibbs (Willing) [died 7 May 1823] in Barbados 1811. Partner in Alexander, David and George Hall; David and George Hall; George Hall & Company. Left Barbados 1811, partner in Underwood Hall & Co. of London, West India merchants with Henry Iles Underwood, Charles McGarel and Alexander Hall. The firm continued after Underwood's death as Hall, McGarel & Co.

3. 'Before his death he seems to have realised all his West Indian property and interests', including Locust Hall, sold in 1843 to William Alleyne Culpeper.

T71/897 Barbados claim no. 2307; T71/898 Barbados claim nos. 3731 (Locust Hall), 3732 and 3733; T71/885 British Guiana claim nos. 314 (Ma Retraite), 555 (Eendragt (Endragt?) and Mon Repos), 714 (Philadelphia) and 750 (Cumings Lodge); T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2405 (Hamburg, Tiger Island).

1.  PROB 11/2005/48. William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume Two 1840-1859 MS reference 1844/32. His London address was 44 Portland Place in the 1838 Boyles Court Directory.

2. James C. Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados families: from Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society (1983), p. 270.

3. Ibid.