Amos lived in Northampton, Massachusetts and was married to a woman named Bathsheba, also of Northampton. He might have been captured from Africa. As a free man, Amos was a servant to someone named Hunt. This was probably his former enslaver, Jonathan Hunt, III. The Hulls had five children, all born free- Amos, Jr., born in 1754; Asaph, born in 1755; Margaret, born in 1757 and died by 1761; Agrippa, born in 1759; and a second Margaret, born in 1761. Amos, Sr. was a member of Northampton's First Church of Christ. He died on June 19, 1761.