Excerpt from John Hall of Wallingford, Conn: A Monograph

John hall, of New Haven and Wallingford, was one of the after signers to the New Haven Planters' covenant, June 4, 1639, but the exact date of his signature thereto is not known. His autograph with that of the other after signers may be seen on page 3, first book of the New Haven Colony records, and is the twenty-third autograph there given. The original agreement and names of the first signers are recorded in a uniform hand. This is followed by numerous autographs. From this fact it is thought that the original agreement when first signed, June 4, 1639, was on a loose sheet of paper and that the agreement and the names of the first signers were after wards transcribed in the book by the clerk who left a blank space for subsequent signers. No date is given for any of these later signers.

John Hall was in New Haven before Jan. 17, 1641, when he received land on Mill River at a meeting held on that date for the purpose of distributing land to the inhabitants by casting lots. He was a soldier in the Pequot war, May and June, 1637, as is shown by a grant of fifty acres of land from the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, at the October session in 1698, to his son Thomas Hall of Wallingford, in consideration of his father's service in the Pequont warre. (c. B. Vol. 4, From 1641 until his death, 1676, his record is clear and free from doubt, but with the single exception of the fact that he was in the Pequot war of 1637, all records prior to his signing the New Haven Covenant are liable to be confounded with those of some other John Hall, which was by no means an uncommon name.

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