Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: GSHY-3TX
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70864548
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Middletown - DNA Family 006
• Story: 24 Jul 2022, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; The Problem of two John Halls

Notes:

Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
HALL, John, s. Daniel & Phebe, b. May 26, 1717 (Vol. LR2, p. 26)
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From FindaGrave:

Gravesite Details

92 yrs. Wed Esther.
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Birth:
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name:       John Hall [John Halle, Halls, Hale]
Gender:       Male
Birth Date:       26 May 1717
Birth Place:       Middletown
Parent:       Daniel
Parent:       Phebe

Christened:
Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920
Name:       John Hall
Father:       Daniel Hall
Baptism Date:       26 May 1717
Baptism Place:       Middletown, Connecticut, USA

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSHY-3TX

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70864548

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall and Esther Willicke of Middletown, Connecticut

Story:
The John Hall who married Esther Hubbard and the John Hall who married Mary Willis were two different people. This is easily demonstrated because they both have children being born at the same time. However, many esearchers conflate these two different John Halls.

My working assumption - and this is something that I am currently working on for the Hall Families of New England study I am involved with (https://www.albionseed.com) - is that the John Hall born to Daniel Hall and Phebe Ward in 1717 was the John Hall who married Esther Hubbard and died in 1808 and is buried with his wife in the Old Farm Hill Cemetery in Middletown.

The key records of that family from the Barbour collection are:

Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)

HALL, John, s. Daniel & Phebe, b. May 26, 1717 (Vol. LR2, p. 26)

HALL, John, 2nd, m. Esther HUBBARD, Sept. 21, 1749 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Esther, d. John & Esther, b. July 20, 1750 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, s. John & Esther, b. Apr. 27, 1752 (Vol. 2, p. 247)
---, Elizabeth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. May 15, 1754 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Hannah, d. Jno.. & Esther, b. Mar. 29, 1756 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, David, s. Jno. & Esther, b. Feb. 15, 1758 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Phebe, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Mar. 12 1760 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Jonathan, s. Jno & Esther, b. Mar. 12, 1762 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, Ruth, d. Jno. & Esther, b. Sept. 13, 1764 (Vol. 2, p. 257)
---, John, d. July 16, 1808 (Vol. 2, p. 257)

That death date for John at aged 92 based on the headstone with the memorial for Esther also in same cemetery with death in 1797 seems like good evidence for this John being the son of Daniel Hall and Phebe Ward.

The records for the John Hall and Mary Willis family give fewer clues.

HALL, John, Carpenter, m. Mary WILLIS, Dec. 14, 1752 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, John, s. John & Mary, b. Jan. 22, 1753 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, Mary, d. John & Mary, b. Dec. 15, 1754 (Vol. 2, p. 344)
---, Thomas, s. John & Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1756 (Vol. 2, p. 244)
---, William, s. John & Mary, b. Nov. 6, 1758 (Vol. 2, p. 344)

A death record for a John Hall in Middletown of 25 December 1786 has been put up, but I cannot find the source for this so it is difficult to prove who it is for (eg, age at death).

The record below has been widely interpreted are being Mary's death record.

HALL, w. John, d. Oct. 1, 1762 (Vol. 1, p. 6)

This is definitely not Mary (Willis) Hall. FindaGrave morial for Mary Hall of Hartford died in 1825 where she is represented as widow of John Hall of Middletown and the sister of her daughter in law memorialized on the same memorial is more convincing:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146471549

At this point I do not know who the widow of John who died in 1762 was.

Died:
Age 92

John married Esther Hubbard on 21 Sep 1749 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Nathaniel Hubbard and Sarah Johnson) was born on 14 Feb 1726/27 in Middletown, Hartford County, Connecticut; died in Dec 1797; was buried after Dec 1797 in Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]