Amos Hall

  General Notes:

Sources include IGI files research of Steven Meservy; Genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson in 1897.

Amos and his father served in the Rev War. Papers have been filed and approved by DAR. Moved to Canada c 1805.

Gwen Rawlings Barry, A HISTORY OF MEGANTIC COUNTY, Downhomers of Quebec's Eastern Townships, Evans Books, 1999, pp. 45-51. (translated from French to English)
The colonization of the canton of Ireland begins in the hamlet from Mable Grove with the arrival from the captain Amos Hall, originating in Massachussetts and old bodyguard of the first president of the United States, George Washington. In 1804, Amos Hall starts from Compton, in Canton-of-the Is, to arrive at the lake at Trout. It delimits a site on which will be built, in 1839, the church Anglican Holy Trinity, rebuilt in 1900. Amos Hall settles definitively in 1807 with his wife, Martha Straw, and its eleven children. In the cemetery methodist of Mable Grove, close to the Dinning bridge, you can still see the tomb stone of the wife of Hall. Located with the crossing of the ways Craig and Gosford, the municipality of Ireland profited, throughout century, its situation of economic crossroads and communication which the presence of the two ways got to him on its territory.

Capitaine Amos Hall was the first settler in Megantic County. In 1804 he settled in the Township of Ireland. He was born in 1758 in Salem, Mass. He married Martha Straw in 1782. Amos Hall first came to Ireland Township in the summer of 1804 with his companion Demon. They left Hall's land in Shipton Township and traveled to Ireland on a hunting expedition to Trout Lake, where they built a small camp. On this visit, he drove a stake into the ground on the site of what later became Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Maple Grove and another stake at the bottom of the hill, declaring "between these two stakes I intend to live and die." In 1807, after returning many times with his son, walking fifty miles through virgin forests inhabited with wild animals and Indians, he settled permanently with his wife and 11 children.

Looking for the parents of one Sarah Anne HALL, born 9/1821 in Sherbrooke or close-by Eastern Township, d:4/2/1875 in Hopkinton, NH . She married Hiram Abiff AMSDEN of Sherbrooke (b:3/26/1818-d:2/8/1844) on 12/13/1841 in Hatley, QUE. Methodist Church records They had a daughter Sarah, born 12/4/1842 in Sherbrooke. After Hiram died Sarah moved to Hopkinton, NH and married Lucius Harvey TYLER on 5/10/1852 in Concord , NH . Because Sarah moved to Hopkinton after her husband died I suspect that her paternal grandparents were Capt. Amos HALL, Sr (b:10/1/1761, Stonington, CT-d:10/19/1854, Maple Grove, QUE) and Martha Straw (b:11/28/1764, Hopkinton, NH-d:1/13/1822, Maple Grove, QUE) as they were married in Hopkinton in 1782 and lived there for some time before moving to Ireland Township, Megantic County, QUE in 1807. Although I note that there were some other Halls in Stanstead county around 1820 (Levi, Jabez, Luther, Elam, John and Lewis). Since Sarah and Hiram were married in Hatley it could be that her father was one of the Stanstead Halls and not one of the the sons of Megantic County's Amos HALL. Might you shed some light on Sarah's parents? Dave Barnard, Falmouth, ME 04105 russmatt99@yahoo.com

AMOS
Hall Family # 1 : Inverness and Ireland Tps
HALL AMOS (Captain in the Revolutionary War, on the American side) b 1758, d 1854, settled in 1807 in Maple Grove, Ireland Tp. Born Salem, Mass, moved to Hopkinton, New Hampshire, then Ireland Tsp, m in 1782 to MARTHA STRAW b 1754, d 1822, from New Hampshire. Amos and Martha had 11 children. Amos m 2^nd in 1827 at Holy Trinity CE, Levis to SARAH WILSON. Children :
JOHN HALL b 1793 USA, Congregationalist, d 1883, settled Ireland Tp, m MARGARET READY. Child Elizabeth b 1831.
IRA HALL b 1792, d 1857, m in 1822 at Shipton, Que Protestant to NANCY BAILEY b 1798, 1876, bur Methodist Cemetery, Maple Grove, Ireland Tp. Nancy was the dau of Orsamac Bailey and Margaret Whitmore of Cookshsire, Que Children :
IRA BAILEY HALL b 1823, d 1875, settled Ireland Tp m in 1850 to JULIA BARWIS b 1832 LC. Children :
Julia Hall b 1852
Tirzah Jane Hall b 1854, d 1927, bur HT, Maple Grove, m Thomas R Porter
Ira Bailey Hall b 1856, m in 1882 at Jefferson, NH to Charlotte Otis b 1867 at Jefferson, dau of Herman and Hannah Otis.
ADELINE PERSIS HALL b 1830, d 1878, m THOMAS BARWIS. Lived Arthabaska Co, Que.
EMILY HALL b 1840.
SOLOMON HALL b 1827, d 1884, bur Methodist Maple grove, settled Ireland Tp, m in 1848 to JANE BILL of Ireland Tp.
MIRIAM or MIRIAH b 1829, d 1845
AMOS HALL b 1787, d 1845, settled Inverness Tp, Upper Ireland, m in 1814 in Ireland Tp to MARY "POLLY" BAILEY b 1794, d 1882. In 1861, Polly was living in Ireland Tp with her children Rufus and Jared. Children :
Jared Bailey b 1821, d 1891, m in 1854 at Eaton Congregational Church to Maria Louisa Chaddock, b 1838 LC. Lived Ireland Tp. Children :
Laura Maria b 1862
Luke Chaddock m Janet. Child :
Maria Louisa b 1875
Note : Jared and Maria Louisa had a home child as a domestic servant. She was Edith Strond/Stroud, b c 1862, came to Canada in 1887 on the SS Parisian with Waifs and Strays Association. She was assigned to Mrs. Hall as a domestic servant.
Rufus b 1833
Cyrus William b 1840, d 1902 of typhoid at Barre, Vt, m 1864 to Eliza Jane Annesley. Children :
Mary Jane b 1865
Amos Allen b 1867
Cyrus Richard Lee b 1868
John Lowell b 1872
Julia Pheobe b 1874
Amos m Jane Lynaugh. Child : Jane Augusta 1855-1861 at Inverness
HALL LUKE settled Ireland Tp, m 1828 at Holy Trinity, C of E Levis, Que to JANE READY. Children :
Jane baptized 1832
William b 1832
John b 1836
Elmira Victoria b 1839.
HALL JEMIMA 1786-1852, died Ireland Tp, bur C of E Inverness, m SAMUEL MESERVEY b 1768. Lived Ireland Tp
HALL ELECTA of Ireland Tsp m in 1822 at Shipton, Que Protestant to MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN.
HALL ELIZABETH PATRICIA 1808-1845, m ERASTUS BILLS. Lived New Ireland, Ireland Tp. After Elizabeth's death, Erastus married Elizabeth's sister, Roxanna.
HALL LUCINDA b 1794 m JOHN CROSS
HALL EZEKIEL
HALL ROXANNA, d 1847, m ERASTUS BILLS. After Roxanna's death, Erastus Bills and their children moved to Dodge County, Wisconsin.
HALL SOPHIA m WILLIAM READY

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one of the original settlers of the region

Amos married Martha Straw, daughter of Ezekiel Straw and Elizabeth (Beth) Hoyt, in 1782 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Martha Straw was born on 23 Nov 1764 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, died on 23 Jan 1822 in Maple Grove, Quebec, Canada and was buried in Maple Grove Methodist Cemetery in Quebec, Canada.)