Cause of death - Hemorrhage of the throat.

Occupations -
Businessman; Gentleman farmer.

William and Eleanor married
on 16 October 1791
at Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
They were the parents of thirteen children;
Eleanore, Charles Henry, William Augustus, Lucretia, George Alfred, Alfred Gowen,
George Treadway, Hammond Jacob, Elizabeth, William Augustus, Hammond Gowen,
Charles Henry Juncken, Henry Hammond.

DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY:
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In 1791 William opened a hat shop on Rue Saint-Jean at Quebec. Around 1801 he owned a second shop at Trois-Rivieres. As well as selling hats retail at his two establishments, he sold them wholesale to the small tradesmen of Quebec and surrounding countryside.
William soon became the owner of substantial properties. In 1792 he and his uncle, Henry Juncken, a businessman, had petitioned for
a grant of ten square miles in the Beauce, behind the parishes of Saint-Joseph and Sainte-Marie. On 18 August of that year
they secured permission to have a survey done of their land grant, which was then called Broughton Township. In 1796, the two entered into association with a number of farmers from the two parishes; and with some artisans from Quebec. The associates each received 1,200 acres, and then ceded 1,100 of them to Juncken and Hall as compensation for costs related to obtaining the concession. On 26 October 1800 a proclamation of the governor officially established Broughton Township and granted a third of it - 22,000 acres to Juncken, Hall, and their associates. When Juncken died on 10 October 1802, Henry Hall, [William's brother] inherited their uncle's share of the township. Within two years Henry was dead, and William became sole owner of 18,300 acres.
In April 1817 William was chosen to participate in the work of a commission dealing with transportation in Dorchester County and that part of Buckingham County within the district of Quebec. In 1818 William obtained a licence to erect a toll-bridge at Saint-Henri on the Riviere Etchemin; he brought Hammond Gowen, merchant Robert Melvin, and three inhabitants of Saint-Henri into the project
and construction began in the spring of 1820.
In 1820 William received a prize from the Agriculture Society in the district of Quebec for his harvest of the previous year. At this period, his son, Charles Henry Hall was residing in the spacious residence [known as Broughton Manor] that he had built on his estate. William also owned a flour-mill and a sawmill on lot 10 in concession 5. On 6 December 1821, William put his property on Rue de la Fabrique up for sale or rent, announcing that he wanted to retire to his estate in Broughton the following spring. The property consisted of three stone buildings each with three stories, a house, a large building with chimneys used as a hat factory, and, behind it, a warehouse. Legal difficulties during the next two years ended in the sale of the property by sheriff's auction. William abandoned the hatter's trade for good in 1824. It is not known whether he did so to avoid bankruptcy, or to pursue his growing interest in the Broughton properties.
Whatever the case, he instructed merchant Joseph Cary to liquidate his Quebec operation.
William died in the Parish of Saint-Joseph
[at Lauzon] Lower Canada, where he had been residing for a short time.
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Son of William HALL
and
Christina Barbara JUNCKEN
{born in Germany}.