Putnam, who, in addition to being among the great publishers of that time, was a devoted patron of art, and such offers were made to Mr. Hall as determined him upon making his home liere. His family joined him the following fall and he settled in Hoboken until the spring of 1851, when he removed to Morrisania and occupied a house on Union Avenue, near Wall Street, Woodstock. In 1854 he purchii«ed a house on George Street, near Boston Avenue, where he i):issed the remainder of his life, and died on April 25, 1885.

Among his well-known portraits, for which he was particularly noted, are twelve separate portraits of Washington, after all the celebrated artists and sculptors; and etchings of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, done Ibr private parties and printed exclusively for their use; also an etching of the wellknown American composer, George F. Bristow, and one of himself, in 1872, which is the best likeness extant.

His larger works were very numerous, including " Washington and family after hunting," and " AVashington at Jlount Vernon."

Mr. Hall had eight children -- four sons and four daughters: Anne, married Ed. H. Knight, and died in Brooklyn in 1858 and her husband in 1872, leaving a son, Ed. H. (now a resident of ]\Iorrisauia), and two daughters; Emily, married William Momberger, of Morrisania, a lithographic artist and designer ; Henry B., living in Morrisania, married and has three cliildren living; Charles B. (same), has five children; Alfred B. (same), has five children ; Ernest (same), has three children ; Alice and Eliza, unmarried, all living in Morrisania.