According to J. W. Ebsworth in 'Roxburghe Ballads', VIII, p. 856, it was a singer named Ross who sang "Sam Hall" at the Cider-Cellars, Maiden Lane, London, in 1849. Ebsworth had given a very little of the ballad at p. 669, but had there misidentified the singer.
"Sam Hall" is a profane reworking of "Jack the Chimney Sweep", on a broadside in the Madden collection, a J. Pitts issue (1802-40). This commences "My name is Jack All chimney sweep, chimney sweep". This issue has no tune direction. There is little doubt that the song originally appeared on a broadside ballad of 1700-01, and that the tune "Coming Down" cited on the "Captain Kidd" broadside took its title from the "Jack Hall" ballad. See the version of "Jack Hall" in the recently reprinted Sharp's 'One Hundred English Folksongs', #81, where the song ends "O but never a word I said coming down, coming down, O but never a word I said coming down."
I have given elsewhere recently the evidence that the 18th century tune known as "Captain Kidd" was the "Put in All/ Ye Jacobites by Name" tune. However, it appears that the "Jack Hall" and "Captain Kidd" ballads are 5 to 6 years earlier than the song "Put in All", so we don't know what the tune direction was on the "Jack Hall" ballad. It may have been "Sound a Charge", but that's just hopeful thinking to allow use to come up with the lost 17th century tune for several broadside ballads and a religous song in the same stanza form.