(August 22, 1744 – July 25, 1826) was a Presbyterian minister, chaplain in the Rowan County Regiment during the American Revolution, educator, and missionary in the Natchez area of the Mississippi Territory.

He received an early education locally and may have attended the Crowfield Academy of Centre Presbyterian Church.

For a time he considered marriage but instead decided to devote his life solely to the ministry.

He attended the College of New Jersey at Princeton, where he studied theology under John Witherspoon.

He often used his pulpit to assist in raising troops for these North Carolina militia units.

(Note: There was also another James Hall in the Salisbury District Regiment, who was a captain and major.

He also wrote a book, A narrative of a most extraordinary work of religion in North Carolina.