Jack Hall (thief)

Jack Hall (around 1673/7 – 17 December 1707) was an English thief.

[1] Born John Hall to Rebecca and Anthony Hall, a cobbler, in Bishop's Head Court, near Gray's Inn Lane, Holborn, London.

His date of birth is uncertain: before he was executed on 17 December 1707 he gave his age as 32, which would indicate that he was born in late 1673, or in 1674, but parish records show he was baptised at St Andrew Holborn on 18 January 1677.

In 1707 he was arrested along with Stephen Bunce and Dick Low for a burglary committed at the house of Captain Guyon, near Stepney.

[1][3] A broadsheet of his Gallows Confessional was put to the melody of "Captain Kidd", previously executed for piracy in 1701.