{"id":21157,"date":"2026-06-11T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2026-06-09T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:08:50","slug":"the-founders-lyman-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21157","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Lyman Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lyman Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Take things always by their smooth handle.”<\/strong> Thomas Jefferson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyman Hall graduated from Yale became a preacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut was fired from that job and eventually moved to Sunbury, Georgia. During the revolutionary war Sunbury was burned to the ground by the British Navy. Hall by this time had become a physician and was named a delegate from Georgia to the second continental congress. He was one of three Georgians and four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In my cursory research I was not able to find one quote from Hall that has survived. Hence the Jefferson quote above. It is an old favorite of mine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lyman Hall “Take things always by their smooth handle.” Thomas Jefferson Lyman Hall graduated from Yale became a preacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut was fired from that job and eventually moved to Sunbury, Georgia. During the revolutionary war Sunbury was burned to the ground by the British Navy. Hall by this time had become a physician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1543],"tags":[1559,1541,1590,1616,1617],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-founding-fathers","tag-founders","tag-founding-fathers","tag-georgia","tag-lyman-hall","tag-sunbury"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-10.44.43-AM.png?fit=502%2C656&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21159,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions\/21159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}