[1][3][4] Peter Hall was born at Akropong-Akwapim on the Gold Coast on 17 May 1851, the tenth child of eleven children of his parents.

[1][3] The older Halls came to the Gold Coast in 1843 as part of a group of 24 Caribbean Moravian missionaries recruited by the Danish minister, Andreas Riis and the Basel Mission in 1843, to aid the work of the society in evangelism and formal education.

[1][3][10] His father, John Hall was born in Williamsfield, Jamaica in 1802 and was a rum distiller by occupation and Elder or Presbyter at the Irwinhill Moravian Church in Montego Bay.

[1][3][11] Mary Hall, his mother, was also born in Williamsfield in 1811 and was also a congregant at the Moravian church in Irwinhill, Montego Bay.

[1][3][11] When they arrived in colonial Ghana, John Hall was appointed the first Elder or Presbyter of the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong.

[11] Four of Peter Hall's siblings did not survive infancy in Jamaica and an additional five died after being born on the Gold Coast.

[1] In his autobiography, Peter Hall stated that his parents migrated to the Gold Coast as mission volunteers out of love for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to prove to native Africans that there monogamous black Christians in the world.

[1][11] The West Indian group in 1843 comprised six distinct families and three bachelors: the Halls, Greenes, Miller, Mullings, Rochester, and Walkers, in addition to Clerk, Hosford and Robinson.

[1] It took five years for the first African native at Akropong to be baptised and the Halls decided to permanently make the Gold Coast their home.

[1][10] Cocoyam, mango, coffee, banana, plantain and pear were seedlings introduced to the Gold Coast food economy by Peter Hall's father and his West Indian colleagues in 1843.

[1][10][15][16] Peter Hall recalled his mother, Mary affectionately calling him, “Last baby; little bowl” as a child and he was always found tied to her apron strings.

Miller and so on, and we the children always addressed them as “Uncle so and so” or “Aunt so and so.” Among ourselves, we referred to one another as ‘sister’ or ‘brother’” [1][10][11] The community of brethren is a key tenet of the Moravian movement, from which the West Indians were raised.

[3][11] A notable incident in his childhood was the 1854 naval bombardment of Osu by the British forces as revenge for the organised resistance to the then newly introduced poll tax.

[1][10] After that episode, he had a bout of intermittent fever making him bedridden for weeks before a certain Mr. Wood, a tenant f his father gave him some medication.

He received instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, Biblical studies, history, geography, science, music and religion.

[1][10] His teacher-catechists were alumni of the foundational or pioneer class of the Basel Mission Seminary, Akropong and included John Rochester (died in 1859), Paul Staudt Keteku, Philip Kwabi and Robert Miller.

In September 1865, he entered the Basel Mission middle boarding school at Akropong which was under the headship of the Reverend Mader pending the arrival of the Rev.

After the epidemic subsided, Peter Hall continued his studies and on 18 August 1872, he and his classmates were consecrated as teacher-catechists by the Rev.

[1][10] One of his mentors, Johnson left him with the parting words, Matthew 16:24 “If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”[10] Peter Hall and Joshua Adaye were appointed teachers at the Basel Mission boarding middle school at Akropong.

[1][10] During one of the journeys, a heavy rainfall made him spending the night under an open hut sitting on his tin trunk as the ground was too wet for him to spread his mat.

[1][10] At Nkonya, he initially face opposition from the natives who worshipped idols including a heathen god called Sia.

[1][10] Together, with his fellow second generation West Indian colleague, Nicholas Timothy Clerk, Peter Hall went to Adele and Salaga in the Northern Territories.

After interceding in prayer for the paramount chief, Nana Akuffo, the locals accused him of meddling in a land dispute between the natives and the church.

Someone fired a gun into their compound while a trader who had sold palm nuts to his wife returned to forcibly take them while they were boiling in a pot in their yard.

[1][10] In January 1908, he was transferred to Adawso were natives were so receptive, he begged the church management to stay on when his tenure ended after five years.

[5][22][23] This new development provided an opportunities for African members of the Basel Mission to take more administrative responsibility even though they had no prior experience in management.

[10] The Synod Committee elected Peter Hall as the first Moderator of Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast on 14 August 1918.

[24] At the Synod, the church retained its eleven districts: Christiansborg (Osu), Abokobi, Odumase-Krobo Aburi, Akropong, Anum, Kyebi, Begoro, Nsaba, Abetifi and Kumasi.

[24] Mission stations were opened at Aburi, Larteh, Odumase, Abokobi, Kyebi, Gyadam, Kwahu, Asante, Anum as well as the Northern territories including Yendi and Salaga.

[10][27][28][29] His funeral service was held at the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong and his body was interred at the old Basel Mission Cemetery in the town.