Name/Title
Hall, SalmonDescription
*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 HallBiographical Information
Occupation
Bookseller, Circulating Library, Publisher and Bookbinder