Many thanks for the kind responses, and my apologies for taking so long to reply. The reason that I was unsure about the 1799 Thomas Hall was because he had so many siblings at such short intervals, that I thought that, although biologically possible, it was perhaps unlikely, so there may have been more than one James Hall fathering children in H. Whitney parish.
On Freesearch, some children had just the father named as James, and others both the father James and the mother Mary, so it was impossible to be certain of the parentage.
