Amos Hull, Sr. lived in Northampton, Massachusetts, and was married to a woman named Bathsheba, also of Northampton. He might have been captured from Africa. Church records identify Amos as a servant to Jonathan Hunt of Northampton, and that Amos was a full member of the First Church. It is not known when Amos gained his freedom but all five of the Hull children were born free- Amos, Jr., born in 1754; Asaph, born in 1755; Margaret, born in 1757 who died by 1761; Agrippa, born in 1759. The Hulls had a second daughter, also named Margaret in 1761; Amos Hull died in the same year. In common with most other residents, Amos purchased and paid for goods with agricultural produce and labor.
Sources Consulted
"Extended Biographies of Both Enslaved People and Free Black People" in the "Slavery Research Project" of Historic Northampton (Massachusetts), Slavery Research Project
"Amos and Agrippa Hull" in "Documenting the History of Black Lives in the Connecticut River Valley", Cliff McCarthy, Amos and Agrippa Hull
Mr. and Mrs. Prince, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, 2008, pp. 53-55