12 Facts About Lyman Hall

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Lyman Hall was an American Founding Father, physician, clergyman, and statesman who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.

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Lyman Hall was one of four physicians to sign the Declaration, along with Benjamin Rush, Josiah Bartlett, and Matthew Thornton.

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Lyman Hall was the son of John Hall, a minister, and Mary Hall.

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Lyman Hall studied with his uncle Samuel Hall and graduated from Yale College in 1747, a tradition in his family.

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Lyman Hall 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.

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Lyman Hall soon became one of the leading citizens of the newly founded town of Sunbury.

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Lyman Hall was delegated and was admitted to a seat in the Congress in 1775.

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Lyman Hall was one of the three Georgians and one of four doctors to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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Lyman Hall's family fled to the North, where they remained until the British evacuation in 1782.

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Lyman Hall's efforts led to the chartering of the University of Georgia in 1785.

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Lyman Hall is memorialized in Georgia where Hall County, Georgia, bears his name; and in Connecticut, his native state, where the town of Wallingford honored him by naming a high school after its distinguished native son.

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Lyman Hall's remains were re-interred there in 1848 after being exhumed from his original grave on his plantation in Burke County.