Hall, Salmon

Name/Title

Hall, Salmon

Description

*b.1774, Plymouth Conn. father Benjamin, mother Phebe. Davis. History of Wallingford Conn., pg.773. "Salmon Hall, a printer and bookseller who had moved to New Bern from Connecticut when he was 28 years old.." North Carolina Libraries, Fall Winter 2006 pg. 61. Died. in New Bern 1840 aged 69. Sheppard, The True Republican or American Wig, pg. 7. 1. "2nd Monday of September 1805 William Griffith, orphan aged about 14 years, bound to Salmon Hall as a bookbinder." New Bern-Craven County, Public Library, Records from 1805-1809 2. (1848) North State Whig, October 18, 1848.  W. S. Hall  is "prepared to bind books in the neatest, cheapest, and most expeditious manner." Ant-Bellum North Carolina: A Social history, Guion Griffis Johnson chapter XXVI, pg 815, .

Also Known As

Salmon Hall

Biographical Information

Occupation

Bookseller, Circulating Library, Publisher and Bookbinder