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David Hall was born in approximately 1764 in Andover, Massachusetts, to William Hall and Christina Barbara Juncken Hall. He was a farmer who worked on his grandmother, Sarah Barker's, land. He married Lydia Holt on 25 December 1787 in Andover. They did not have any children. In 1796, David Hall went to help fight a fire at a neighbour's property and was killed in an explosion when the fire reached a store of gunpower.
Dates of existence and biographical information based on the contents of the fonds and its acquisition file, a marriage record and a death record.