Joseph (Ammidown) Amidon (1733 - 1821)

Born 25 Nov 1733 in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Dorcas (Carpenter) Amidon — married after 4 Jan 1765 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 14 May 1821 at age 87 in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States

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Private Joseph (Ammidown) Amidon served with Worcester County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Joseph (Ammidown) Amidon is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 103180
Rank: Private

Biography

When Joseph Amidon was born on August 14, 1741, in Oxford, Massachusetts ^[1] his father, Philip, was 33 and his mother, Submit, was 30.

He married Dorcas Carpenter on January 4, 1765, in Charlton City, Massachusetts ^[2]. He responded to the Lexington alarm in Capt. Samuel Curtis’ Company in 1775. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

They had four children and were in Charlton, Massachusetts in the 1800 census ^[6]. By 1803 five members of the family were living in Petersburgh, Rensselaer ^[7]. Joseph served in the NY Militia during the War of 1812^[8]. Joseph was a bar keeper in E Postenkill, NY ^[9]. Joseph, Dorcus and three of the children were living in Sand Lake, NY in the 1820 census ^[10]. He died on May 14, 1821, in Troy, New York, having lived a long life of 79 years ^[11]. Joseph is buried in the Poestenkill Cem NY ^[12].

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850
3. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-02-03), "Record of Jonathan Streeter", Ancestor # A002302.
4. ↑ United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
5. ↑ United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
6. ↑ 1800 United States Federal Census
7. ↑ New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804
8. ↑ New York, War of 1812 Payroll Abstracts for New York State Militia, 1812-1815
9. ↑ Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York
10. ↑ 1820 US CENSUS, Census Place: Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York
11. ↑ Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
12. ↑ Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850

• New York, War of 1812 Payroll Abstracts for New York State Militia, 1812-1815

• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 1; Serial: 11127; Volume: 2

• Landmarks of Rensselaer County, New York

• New York, Tax Assessment Rolls of Real and Personal Estates, 1799-1804

• Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899

• Amos B. Carpenter, A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America: Brought Down From Their English Ancestor, John Carpenter, 1303, With Many Biographical Notes of Descendants and Allied Families (Amherst, Mass.: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, 1898), p. 167.

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRM-B76 : accessed 4 February 2021), Ammidown, Charlton City, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 325, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 16; FHL microfilm 205,617.

• 1820 US CENSUS, Census Place: Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York; Page: 62; NARA Roll: M33_68; Image: 283.

• U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-02-03), "Record of Jonathan Streeter", Ancestor # A002302.

• "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DG-GV42 : 24 November 2020), Joseph Amidown, 19 Apr 1775; citing 19 Apr 1775, Massachusetts, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,320.

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-KR3G : 15 December 2020), Joseph Amadon, 19 Apr 1775; citing Military Service, United States, Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711081.

• Vital Records of Charlton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1905); p. 11, p. 120

• Vital Records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1916); p. 24