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Birth: 03 Aug 1751 Sunderland / Hampshire / MA Death: 29 Aug 1822 Bristol / Addison / VT
Qualifying Service Description:
1778, served as a Corporal in the company of Captain Gideon Ormsby, commanded by Colonel Gideon Warren of the 5th Regiment of Vermont
1778, served as a Corporal in the company of Captain Tehan Noble, commanded by Colonel Warren
1779, served in the company of Lieutenant Enoch Eastman, assisting the Sheriff of Cumberland County
1779-1780, served as a Corporal in the company of Captain Tehan Noble, commanded by Colonel Ira Allen of the 6th Regiment of Vermont. Marched on Alarm
Additional References:
Goodrich, John ERolls of the Soldiers in the Rev War, 1775 to 1783, Vermont. Rutland: The Tuttle Co, 1904, pg 76,100,170, 225, 803
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Rev War. Micropublication M881, roll 889, 892. Washington: National Archives
An upright stone that is contemporary with the death of the Patriot.
Photo by permission: Herman Brown, Vermont SAR
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The cemetery is located on the north side of Stony Hill Road, east of Burpee Road.
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Author: VTSSAR
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Amos was the 9th of 10 children (7th son) born of William Scott (1702-1771) and his wife, Rachel Scott (b. 1710). Amos's siblings were: Rachel (1729-1762), Elisha (b. 1732), Simeon (1735-1810), Ebenezer (b. 1738-1757), Hepzibah (b 1740), Nathan (b. 1743), William (1745-1769), David (b. 1748), and Hezekiah (b. 1753). William Scott (1702-1773) and some of his family moved from Sunderland, Franklin County, Province of Massachusetts, to Swanzey, Cheshire County, Province of New Hampshire, in about 1768. It appears that Amos may not have moved with his parents, but if he had, he, in turn, soon moved to Rupert on the New Hampshire Grants, where he joined his 1st cousin Oliver Scott (b. 1739). Oliver built the first grist mill in Rupert in about 1773.
On 28 May 1778, the Governor and Council of the Independent Republic of Vermont (formerly the New Hampshire Grants) organized the 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia. They selected Gideon Warren, Colonel commanding the Regiment, Tehan (Tappen) Noble, Captain, and Enoch Eastman, Lieutenant, of its Rupert Company from Bennington County.
On 5 June 1778, Amos entered, as a Corporal, along with Sergeant Cyprian Eastman, a Detachment of Colonel Gideon Warren's Regiment under the command of Captain Gideon Ormsby for service done to guard the frontiers by order of the Governor and Council. Amos was discharged on 6 July 1778 after serving 22 days. Later in 1778, on 7 November, Corporal Amos Scott entered and served in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, Colonel Gideon Warrens' 5th Regiment of Vermont Militia, along with Cyprian Eastman, one of the Company's Sergeants, for seven days when called out by order of the Vermont Governor and Council to defend the frontiers of the State.
In May 1779, Amos and Cyprian Eastman served under Lieutenant Enoch Eastman when they assisted the Sheriff in Cumberland County (now Windham County), Vermont, in serving writs upon 44 persons who had received commissions from New York, charged with "inimical conduct" (malevolence behavior) in opposing the authority of the state of Vermont.
The 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia was established on 23 October 1779 upon reorganizing the 2nd and 5th Regiments into three Regiments. The Rupert Company was then reassigned from the 5th Regiment to the 6th Regiment. Amos served as a Corporal for six days and was paid for marching 80 miles, along with Sergeant Cyprian Eastman, in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, Colonel Ira Allen's 6th Regiment of Vermont Militia when that Company was called out to respond to the alarm of 26 March 1780. Later in the same year, in October 1780, Amos served three days and was paid for marching 30 miles in Captain Tehan Noble's Company, the same Regiment, when they were called out during the alarm caused by the raid led by British Major Christopher Carleton into the Lake Champlain Valley and beyond. Again Cyprian Eastman was one of the Sergeants serving in Captain Eastman's Company.
The first settlement in Bristol, Addison County, Vermont, commenced in the spring of 1786; Amos arrived in town soon after the arrival of its first settlers.
Soon after the first grist-mill was built in Bristol in 1792, Amos built a saw-mill on the New Haven River in the west part of the town. A year earlier (1791), near this same location, Amos, Gurdon Munsill, and Cyprian and Amos Eastman built a forge to manufacture iron.
Amos married his second wife, Miriam Eastman (1758-1839), the sister of both Cyprian (born in 1749) and Amos Eastman (1768-1864). They had 15 known children (eight sons and seven daughters); the first five children were born in Rupert, and the rest in Bristol:
Sylvester (1779-1856)
Sylvanus
Salome
Cylinda (1785 1861)
Amy
Amos
Mariah
Enoch
Sarah
Artemas
Ruth
Lois
Anson
Oren, born in 1803
John Lanson (1805-1855)
Amos was enumerated in the 1st US Census taken in Vermont in 1791, residing in Bristol as Head of a Family with two males of the age of 16 and upward, three males under 16 years, and five females.
Sources:
Allen, Orrin Peer, Descendants of William Scott of Hatfield, Mass. 1668-1906 and of John Scott of Springfield, Mass., 1659-1906, Massachusetts. Palmer: Press of C.B. Fiske & Company, 1906, pages 27-28
Hibbard, George S., Rupert, VT. Historical and Descriptive 1761-1898, Vermont. Rutland: The Tuttle Company, 1899, page 152
Goodrich, John E, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, Vermont. Rutland: The Tuttle Co., 1904, pages 76-77, 100, 170-171, 225-226, 803
Cabot, Mary R., Annals of Brattleboro 1681-1895, Vol. I, Vermont. Brattleboro: E.L. Hildreth & Co., 1921, page 118
Hemenway, Abby Maria, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine Embracing A History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military, Vol. I, Vermont. Burlington: [np], 1868, page 19
Child, Hamilton, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Addison County, Vt., for 1881-82, New York. Syracuse: The Journal Office, 1882, page 89
Rix, Guy S., History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America, New Hampshire. Concord: Ira C. Evans, 1901, pages 66,135
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