Hall, John Elihu, 1783-1829

John E. Hall was a Baltimore attorney with premises on Chatham Street, although he moved to Philadelphia after the Baltimore Riots of 1812, in which he was severely beaten by the mob. He was the son of John Hall and Sarah Junkin Ewing, was married to Fanny Chew. He studied at Princeton, and was admitted to the bar in 1805 in Philadelphia. In 1806, he began publication of the first law journal in the U.S., the American Law Journal, in Baltimore. He began editing The Port Folio, in 1816, but the publication had failed by 1827.

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[Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker, July 28, 1812, Vol. 3]

Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker. The letter is from Vol. 3 of Charles N. Bancker's correspondence journal. Littleton gives a detailed recount of the riot that occurred in Baltimore on July 27, 1812. Anti-war articles written by Alexander Contee Hanson in the Federal Republican newspaper caused riots against the newspaper. The riot and events occurring afterwards were violent and resulted in the death of at least one man, Dr. Gale. Littleton includes an additional note with some of the names of the men involved.