Lyman Hall (12 April 1724-19 October 1790) was the Federalist Governor of Georgia from 7 January 1783 to 9 January 1784, succeeding John Martin and preceding John Houstoun.
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Lyman Hall was born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1724, and he became a physician and a Congregationalist pastor. In 1757, he moved to Dorchester, South Carolina to work as a physician, and he later relocated to Midway, Georgia and became a leading citizen of Sunbury. During the American Revolutionary War, Hall was sent to the Continental Congress by his radical constituents in St. John's Parish, and he was one of three Georgians to sign the US Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1779, Sunbury was burned by the British, and Hall and his family fled to the North until the British evacuation in 1782. Afterwards, Hall settled in Savannah, and he served as Governor from 1783 to 1784. He later relocated to a plantation in Burke County, and he died in 1790.