William Hallam and Unknown

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Husband William Hallam ¹

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         Father: [Father] Hallam (      -      )
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1 M [Unk] Hallam

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2 F Rachel Hallam ¹

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         Spouse: William Hallam (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Hallam

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About 1770 two brothers, William and Henry Hallam, cut off from ancestral inheritance by the laws of entail and primogeniture, sought to lay foundations by their own enterprise in a field of more promise and a wider range than England extended to the portionless scions of her gentry and nobility. Imbued with the broadest spirit of religious toleration, so deeply rooted in the institutions of Maryland, they first located in Hagerstown, in that colony. Both married and became heads of families. Henry settled in Virginia, William in South Carolina, and there became one of the largest planters of his day. Both adhered to the fortunes of the colonies, and became Revolutionary soldiers.
William was captured at the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777. The British officer, to whom he was delivered after capture, insulted him and slapped him in the face with his sword, but paid the penalty of his temerity with his life, for the brave cavalier shot him dead instantly, and made good his escape. After peace was declared he settled in South Carolina. He was a cultured gentleman of the old-school brood, enlightened and liberal, and in his will cut through the laws of primogeniture and divided his property equally among a large family of sons and daughters.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 384.