From Find-A-Grave.
GEN. AMOS HALL
Born Nov. 21, 1761 Guilford, Connecticut Died Dec. 28, 1827, West Bloomfield, New York.
Son of Captain Stephen Hall and Abigail Sexton.
Entered the military at age 15 as a fifer in his father's regiment during the Revolutionary War. In 1790, settled in upstate New York and took the first census in western New York in 1790. Helped to found West Bloomfield.
He was also a U.S. deputy marshal, member of the state assembly, a state senator 1809-1813. Rose to the rank of major general during the War of 1812 and was commander-in-chief of the Niagara Frontier.
Buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in West Bloomfield, New York.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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