I have a Samuel Hall who died in Bedford County, PA 1795. I have posted his Will on ancestry.com. It has been surmised that Samuel may have been born as early as the 1730's. The first evidence I have found of him in Bedford County was in the 1779 tax records for that county. He is listed, as is, a Thomas Hall, whom very well may be the father of Samuel, or at the very least his brother. I have concluded with some circumstantial evidence that Samuel's last wife (unknown if she was the only) was a woman named Sarah. I believe that this Thomas and Samuel may be responsible for many of the Hall's reportedly coming out of the Huntingdon and Bedford County area's. Thomas and Samuel can also be found in military records as serving in the local militias of that area during the Revolutionary war. Samuel can be found in Colerain Twp, Bedford County, 1790 census. I have found references to Thomas Hall as early as 1767, in stories about Hunting with a man named Petersen around Black Log Creek in Huntingdon County, PA. I have seen speculation that these Hall's may have been tied to Lane's and migrated northward with them from the Baltimore region, but I believe the Hall's were in this area prior to the Lane habitation. I also have a suspicion that a reported marriage that occurred in 1750 between Samuel Hall and Sarah Warner, from Quaker Meeting Minutes may be a possibility, as a Henry Warner was also an early pioneer in those parts. Interestingly, Lane's Hall's and Warner's migrated west after 1800. It would be exciting to hear if any of these Hall descendants have participated in the DNA projects!
I am Joe Bridges, Descendant of Abraham Bridges and Ellen Hall. b abt1782, and daughter of Samuel Hall. I am a member of the Bridges DNA project and have found it to be quite informative. It actually proves that these Bedford PA Bridges originated in Surry County VA around 1700.