Eunice Hall (1762-1849)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Eunice Hall, paternal grandmother of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap.  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Eunice Hall:

IMPORTANT NOTICE:  Through an extensive autosomal DNA testing project involving 48 great grandchildren of Gilbert Belnap, the parents of Eunice Hall have been nearly conclusively determined to be James Hall (1730-1804) and Abigail Beers (1731-1801?) and her paternal grandparents to be Francis Hall (1705-1735) and Ann Seeley (1707-1779).  Family trees showing Eunice Hall (1762-1849) as the daughter of Eleazer Hall (1732-1789) (a brother of James Hall) and Mary Lake (1733-1791) are INCORRECT.  The lineage of Eunice Hall through Eleazer Hall has been confirmed to be FALSE.  Online family trees appearing on sites such as FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com that show this incorrect lineage information should be corrected.

Research on Eunice Hall’s parentage

• Email from Donald L. Hammon to Brent J. Belnap, 24 Dec 2018 (regarding parentage of Eunice Hall)
• Email from Brent J. Belnap to Donald L. Hammon, 24 Aug 2022 (regarding DNA matches from Gordon Leslie Belnap to Hall family members)
• Brent J. Belnap, Belnap Family Organization Autosomal DNA Report on Eunice Hall [TO COME]

Marriage Records

• Grumman, William Edgar. The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut, and the Record of Their Services (Hartford Press, 1904), p. 125
• Todd, Charles Burr. The History of Redding, Connecticut, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, 2nd ed. (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), pp. 45, 198
• Bailey, Frederic W., ed. Early Connecticut Marriages, As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (1896), p. 76
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 2, p. 434

Death Records

• “Died,” Erie Observer, 7 Apr 1849

Photographs and Images

• North East Phillips Cemetery Headstone: Eunice Hall (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Sep 1991)

Spouse

• Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)

Children

• David Belnap (1780-1858)
• Jesse Belnap (1781-1849)
• Eunice Belnap (1784-1822)
• Ira Belnap (1785-1878)
• Ansel Belnap (1787-1870)
• Rosel Belnap (1789-1832)
• Elem Belnap (1791-1813)
• Anna Belnap (1792-1810)
• Gilbert Belnap (1794-1851)
• Sarah (“Sally”) Belnap (1795-1879)
• Polly Belnap (1797-1854)
• Laura Belnap (1799-1875)
• Betsy Belnap (1800-1801)
• Hiram Belnap (1802-1848)
• Isabel Belnap (1804-1806)

Parents

• James Hall (1730-1804)
• Abigail Beers (1731-1801?)

Last update:  21 Jul 2025