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Capitaine Amos Hall
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.
Reference
Gwen Rawlings Barry, A HISTORY OF MEGANTIC COUNTY, Downhomers of Quebec's Eastern Townships, Evans Books, 1999, pp. 45-51.
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