Gordon Hall was born on April 8, 1784 in Tolland, Massachusetts. His parents were Nathan and Elizabeth Hall. Gordon went to Williams College between 1805 and 1808. After graduation, he worked as a minister in Woodbury, Connecticut from 1809-1810. He also spent some time working in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hall would enroll in Andover Theological Seminary in 1810 and eventually be ordained on February 6th, 1812. That same month, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent Hall and four others to India. Upon arrival, Hall went to Bombay with fellow missionary Samuel Nott. He would eventually marry Margaret Lewis in December of 1816. They would have four children together, though only one would survive into adulthood. In 1826, while touring areas of the country with outbreaks of cholera, he contracted the disease and died.

Margaret Lewis Hall was born in Wales on July 20, 1783. She moved to India and while there learned to speak Hindustani. She met Gordon Hall in Bombay and they would marry in 1816. They would have four children together, though only one would survive into adulthood. In 1825, she left with their two sons for Salem, Massachusetts in order to leave them with relatives. One of the sons would die on the journey and when Gordon died the following year, she remained in the United States. She died in Northampton, Massachusetts on January 25, 1868.

Gordon Hall was born Nathan Hall on November 4, 1823 in India. He was the youngest child of Margaret and Gordon and the only one to survive past childhood. At some point he would change his name from Nathan to Gordon. He attended Yale in 1843 and also Yale Theological Seminary in 1847. He served as minister in Wilton, Connecticut from 1848 to 1852 and then at the Edwards Church in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1852 until his death. He received an honorary divinity degree from Amherst College in 1864. Gordon married Emily Baldwin Merwin in 1848 and they had seven children together. Gordon died on November 5, 1879 of typhoid pneumonia.

Gordon Robert Hall was born on September 28, 1849 in Wilton, Connecticut. His mother was Emily Baldwin Hall and father was Gordon Hall. Hall graduated from Amherst College in 1872 and then the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1880. He was a working physician at Kings County Hospital and a consultant in hospitals in New York. He died on October 23, 1923 in Brooklyn, New York.

Samuel Merwin was the father of Emily Baldwin Hall, who would eventually marry Gordon Hall. He was born on May 21, 1781 and was a minister in New Haven, Connecticut. He died on September 3, 1856 in New Haven.

Clarina Bradley Merwin was the mother of Emily Baldwin Hall, who would eventually marry Gordon hall. She was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1788 and died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1859.