Display Patriot - P-320239

Amos WILKINSON

SAR Patriot #: P-320239

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Lieutenant / Captain

DAR #: A125625

Birth: Apr 1749 / / PA
Death: 11 Oct 1833 / / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Lt 1st PA Battalion, Capt of Artillery in PA Line, Lt Cont Navy

Additional References:

Rev War veterans buried in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Society SAR (PASSAR)

Pension S6431

Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Anerican Revolution, pg 435

The PA Line 1776-1783, pg 39-40, 199

Spouse: Marcy Carpenter
Children: Benoni;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1999-08-27	OH	4459	Raymond Lee Hilliard III (152412)	Benoni
1999-08-27	OH	4460	Matthew David Hilliard (152414)	Benoni
1999-08-27	OH	4461	David Miles Hilliard (152413)	Benoni

Burial:

Georgetown Cemetery_(C-0372802)

Location:

Georgetown / Beaver / PA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

44908

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

21371861

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn

Born in April, 1749 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Parents John (1723-1791) and Jerusha Brownson Wilkinson. He served as a Lieutenant and Captain on the Pennsylvania Continental Line, a Lieutenant in the 1st Pennsylvania Battalion of the 4th Continental Army starting in January 1776; he became Captain of the 4th Continental Artillery on March 14, 1777; on June 7, 1779 resigned and enlisted as a Lieutenant on the ship “Hyderally” which was later named the “General Washington.” He married Mercy Carpenter ( _-1836) in 1772; children: Elizabeth, Mary, Marcy and Benoni.

He lived in Pennsylvania during enlistment and the War, then moved to Beaver County, Pennsylvania, after the War. He applied for a pension while living on April 13, 1818. He lived for a time with his daughters in Columbiana County, Ohio, but was living with his son in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, at the time of his death on October 2, 1833 at 84 years of age and was buried at Georgetown Cemetery, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. McCord, History of Columbiana County, p. 525. Joan Witt, Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Columbiana County, Ohio. Ohio State DAR Linage Chairman, 1999. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #2, p. 336. Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. 3, p. 3839. William H. Egle, Archives of Pennsylvania, Series 3, Volume XXIII, (Harrisburg, Pa., Wm. Ray, Printer, 1887), p. 816. Thomas L. Montgomery, Ed., Archives of Pennsylvania, Fifth Series, Volume II, (Harrisburg, Pa.: 1906), pp. 48, 67, 68. Revolutionary War veterans buried in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Society SAR (PASSAR). Has a VA tombstone.

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