Frances Foster was born in Perquimans Precinct, North Carolina in about 1722. The daughter of a council member, she married Anglican missionary Clement Hall in 1742. The couple had nine children together and eventually established themselves in Edenton. There in 1774 Frances Hall and her daughters signed a nonimportation agreement that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves. Genealogical records suggest she died in North Carolina in 1795.