Amos HUNTINGTON
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 Convention of Saratoga on 10/ 17/ 1777. Captain Amos Huntington was not exchanged and released from his parole as a prisoner of war until March 1782, his continental service having thus embraced a period of four years and about ten months.

He subsequently devoted himself to the peaceful pursuits of husbandry and enjoyed the confidence, and shared in the honors awarded by his fellow citizens. He was emphatically a peace maker. He died in Shaftsbury, VT on 7/ 2/ 1822 and was a member of the Baptist church.


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