David H. Hall (b.? - d.?)
MSA SC 5496-8888
Accomplice to slave flight, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1847

Biography:

On October 3, 1847, the famed Underground Railroad supporter, Thomas Garrett, wrote a letter to David H. Hall regarding an attempt to purchase the enslaved children of a slave that Garrett helped escape from bondage in Prince George's County.  The children's owner, referred to as "Pumphrey", refused to sell them unless the mother returned to work for him, even as a free woman.  Hall, based on his association with this central figure in the Underground Railroad, may have been involved with the Underground Railroad in Prince George's County.

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