Amos  HUNTINGTON

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 full story


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 full story

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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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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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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