Amos Childs (1764 - 1847)

Born 5 Jul 1764 in Waltham, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Alexander) Childs — married 28 Feb 1788 in Lincoln, Maine

Husband of Hannah (Webber) Childs — married 1 Nov 1801 in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Died 19 Feb 1847 at age 82 in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States

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Biography

Amos Childs was born on 5 Jul 1764 in Waltham, Massachusetts Bay Colony to parents Phinehas Child and his wife Lois (Dakin) Child. ^[1]

Private Amos Childs served with Massachusetts during the American Revolution.

Amos Childs is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-132495
Rank: Private

Amos Childs served as a drummer. He was about eleven years of age when the Revolution began, and his application states he enlisted for three years in Mar 1781 and took an honorable discharge on 22 Dec 1783. Private with Col. John Crane's regiment enlisted Mar 1781 discharged 22 1783. ^[2]

He married for his first wife one Esther Alexander on 28 Feb 1788 in Lincoln, Maine.^[3] They had:

1. Robert Childs, b. 20 Apr 1789^[4]
2. John Childs, b. 11 Sep 1790^[5]
3. Rebecka Childs, b. 11 Nov 1792^[6]
4. Sophia Childs, b. 22 Nov 1794^[7]
5. Jonas Childs, b. 7 Aug 1801^[8]

Esther died on 14 Aug 1801, one week after the birth of her youngest child.

Amos married Hannah Webber in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine on 1 Nov 1801.^[9] They had two children, Paulina and Carolina.

The 1790 census^[10][11] His household is made up of four people, including himself (a male 16 years and upwards) and another male, younger than 16, as well as two females. The younger male is probably Robert who would have been about 15 months old on enumeration day (2 Aug 1790). One of the females was presumably his wife, Esther, the mother of the children. However, the identity of the female child (presumed) is unknown. In considering this, of course, it may not have been a child of Amos and Esther's - she could have been any age and had any relationships with the family.

He appears in the 1800 census in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, however, his name was indexed as "Amos Chick" on page 67.^[12] In this entry, his household consists of eight people including himself and his wife Esther in the 26-44 range, one female 16-25, and five younger children - one boy and three girls under the age of ten as well as one boy from 10-15. These may represent John, Robert, Rebekah and Sophia, but known children listed above do not account for the third young girl nor the female aged from 16-25. Recall that the 1790 census also had an unidentified female who would be ten years older for the 1800 census. Assuming the census data is actually for Amos and Esther Childs and their family, we have, perhaps, two daughters unidentified.

In 1818, he applied for an received a pension for his service in the Revolution. When he died, Hannah applied for and received a widow's pension. In this document, there is confirmation that Amos and Hannah had had two children. When the widow's pension papers were filed, it was stipulated that there had been two children, and that only one was still living at the time (1853)..^[13]

In the 1840 census,^[14] Amos is 75 and living with his wife, Hannah, who is between 60 and 70 years of age. He is counted as a pensioner from the Revolutionary War or other military service.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 20 May 2022), Amos Child, 5 Jul 1764; citing Birth, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009672.
2. ↑ "Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications, 1835-1838," database with images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 10 November 2022), Amos Childs, 13 Mar 1818; citing Vassalboro, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States, Maine State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm .
3. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 22 July 2021), Amos Childs and Ester Alexander, 28 Feb 1788; citing Lincoln, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
4. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch ( : 14 January 2020), Amos Childs in entry for Robert Childs, 1789.
5. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch ( : 14 January 2020), Amos Childs in entry for John Childs, 1790.
6. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch ( : 14 January 2020), Amos Childs in entry for Rebekah Childs, 1792.
7. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch ( : 14 January 2020), Amos Childs in entry for Sophia Childs, 1794.
8. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch ( : 14 January 2020), Amos Childs in entry for Jonas Childs, 1801.
9. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907", database, FamilySearch, Amos Childs, 1801.
10. ↑ U.S. Census, Some counties in Maine
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch ( : 14 October 2022), Maine > Lincoln > Vassalborough > image 2 of 3; citing NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). shows Amos living in Vassalboro, Lincoln County, Maine.
12. ↑ "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 28 October 2022), Amos Chick, Vassalborough, Kennebec, Maine, United States; citing p. 67, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 218,677.
13. ↑ Military: "U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900"
    Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1995 #41226 (accessed 10 November 2022)
    Name: Amos Childs; Pension Year: 1833; Application State: Maine; Applicant Designation: Widow's Pension Application File; Second Applicant Name: Hannah Childs; Second Applicant Application State: Maine; Second Applicant Designation: Bounty-Land-Warrant Application File; Archive Publication Number: M804; Archive Roll Number: 536; Total Pages in Packet: 45.
14. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch, Amos Childs, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States; citing p. 292, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .

• Find a Grave, database and images (: accessed 19 September 2022), memorial page for Amos Childs (1764–19 Feb 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #81499198, citing North Vassalboro Village Cemetery, Vassalboro, Kennebec County, Maine, USA; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493) .
• Family testimony taken when data for DAR applications were being collected.
• Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications, 1835-1838," database with images, FamilySearch, Amos Childs, 06 May 1836; citing Vassalboro, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States, Maine State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm .
• "Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications, 1835-1838," database with images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 7 July 2021), Amos Childs, 11 May 1835; citing Vassalboro, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States, Maine State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm .