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  John first crossed the plains in 1850.  His name then appears in the records of the Utah Territorial Militia in October 1851.  On 31 August 1852 he was re-baptized at Salt Lake City and soon he left on a Mission to Great Britain.  In 1857 he returned to the United States on the ship George Washington with his family (where their surname is spelled "Hull"); they traveled to Utah with the Jesse B. Martin Company.   Evidence from church records and histories proves the Hall family traveled to Utah in 1857 with John's DeGrey in-laws.

Jesse B. Martin Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 35

Company Unknown (1850)

• Age at Departure: 28

Sources

• 1860 Salt Lake City, Utah census.
• 1870 Utah census, Washington County.
• "Death Of A Worthy Man," Deseret Weekly, 22 March 1890, 430.
• Find a Grave
• Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
• Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.