Amos  HUNTINGTON

1739 Birth
4 September 1739
Norwich, Crown Colony of Connecticut

1739 - Norwich, Connecticut
1739 HUNTINGTON Amos ye Son of matthew Huntington & of his wife Lydia was born the 4th day of September 1739: Birth

Vital Records of Norwich Connecticut, 1659-1848. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007.) Originally published as: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. Hartford, Society of colonial wars in the state of Connecticut, 1913.

Biography
Amos Huntington went to Shaftsbury, VT where he became a man of some distinction in civil and military life. Captain Amos Huntington, Shaftsbury Company in Colonel Moses Robinson's regiment, Vermont Militia Infantry, called into continental service on 6/ 29/ 1777 by Major General Arthur St. Clair, for the defence of Fort Ticonderoga during the northern invasion of Lieut. General John Burgoyne's army. He served at Fort Ticonderoga until its evacuation 7/ 6/ 1777 and during the retreat in the desperate battle of Hubbardton on 7/ 7/ 1777 in which he was made prisoner by the Brunswick Germans under Major General Friederich Adolphus, Baron de Riedesel, who commanded the British wing; was taken to Quebec and confined on a prison ship until 10/ 24/ 1777 and then sent to Lieut. General Sir Henry Clinton, commanding British army in New York City, and by arrangement, placed on parole as prisoner of war, in exchange for Captain William Farquhar, H.B.M. 20 Regiment Foot, who had been captured at the...Read MORE...


The Huntington Family In America 1633-1915 Page 188-189

Biography
Amos, born Sept. 4, 1739. He married, 1767, Peace Clark. He went to Shaftesbury, Vt., where he became a man of some distinction in civil and military life. He had the charge, in our revolutionary war, of one of the two companies, furnished by Shaftesbury for the service, and honored his captaincy. He was in the unequal fight of Hubbardston, on the 7th July, 1777, and of course was obliged to yield to the superior force, under Burgoyne's elated generals, Frazer and Riedesel. Yet not without the most determined resistance, did the company which he led, yield the ground, nor indeed would they consent to save themselves by flight. He, himself, was overborne by the sudden onset of Riedesel, after he had been successfully contesting the ground with the forces under Frazer, and was taken prisoner. He was kept for six months on board a prison ship, during which he was taken from Quebec to New York, where he was exchanged, with other prisoners, for those of the same rank in the hands of the...Read MORE...

1767 Marriage / Partner
Amos HUNTINGTON and Peace CLARK 4 February 1767,

He was 27 years old.

1768 Birth of Child
Amos HUNTINGTON was born 21 August 1768, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 28 years old.

1770 Birth of Child
Lydia HUNTINGTON was born 16 May 1770, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 30 years old.

1772 Birth of Child
Matthew HUNTINGTON was born 27 May 1772, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 32 years old.

1774 Birth of Child
Elias HUNTINGTON was born 31 October 1774, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 35 years old.

U.S. Revolutionary War
Service: VERMONT Rank: CAPTAIN
Birth: 9-4-1739 NORWICH CONNECTICUT
Death: 7-2-1822 SHAFTSBURY VERMONT
Service Description: 1) SHAFTSBURY REGT
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1776 Birth of Child
Daniel HUNTINGTON was born 8 November 1776, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 37 years old.

1780 Birth of Child
Asa HUNTINGTON was born 1 January 1780, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 40 years old.

1782 Birth of Child
Peace HUNTINGTON was born 23 June 1782, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 42 years old.

1785 Death of Child
Peace HUNTINGTON died 19 April 1785, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 45 years old.

1788 Death of Child
Asa HUNTINGTON died 7 June 1788, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center)

Amos was 48 years old.

1793 Marriage of Child
Matthew HUNTINGTON married 12 May 1793, Rome, New York, USA to Mary "Polly" CATLIN

1794 Marriage of Child
Amos HUNTINGTON married 9 March 1794, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center) to Pamelia HURD

1798 Marriage of Child
Elias HUNTINGTON married 4 January 1798, Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA (South, Center) to Aurelia GALUSHA

Death
name: Amos Huntington
event: Death
event date: 02 Jul 1822
event place: Shaftsbury, , Vermont, United States
gender:
age: 83
estimated birth year: 1739
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mother:
spouse:
spouse's father:
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film number: 0027592
digital folder number: 004666996
image number: 02647

'Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ XFV6-WS9 : accessed 11 Feb 2013), Amos Huntington, 1822.
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