Amos Carroll (1728 - 1792)

Born 23 Jan 1728 in Middleton, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Smith) Carroll — married 29 Sep 1748 in Middleton, Massachusetts

Husband of Lucy (Hosmer) Carroll — married 7 Dec 1758 in Thompson, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 23 Nov 1792 at age 64 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Amos Carroll served with 11th Regiment, Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution.

Amos Carroll is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A019746.

Amos Carroll is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P129313
Rank: Lieutenant

Lieutenant Amos, son of Nathaniel and Hannah Carroll, was born in 1728, died 1792. He settled in Connecticut, at the town of Killingly, in the part now known as Thompson. He was a farmer, and after cultivating for short periods two other farms, settled permanently in the Brandy Hill district on the farm known as the Fort Hill farm, and suggesting the name was an old Indian fort. He responded to the "alarm" with General Israel Putnam and his neighbors, and appears on the records as having served with the "Lexington Alarm Men." October 31, 1778, he was commissioned lieutenant of the Seventh company of the Alarm List in the Eleventh Regiment of Connecticut, by Governor Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut.

Amos Carroll married (first) at Middleton, Massachusetts, Mary Smith. Children: Mary, born 1749, died 1816; she married Daniel Hemmingway, of Barre, Massachusetts. John, born January 5, 1754, died 1823; he spent his boyhood days on the Fort Hill farm, married, in Thompson, 1779, Hannah Thayer, and later settled in New York state, at Springfield, Otsego county, where he died. Dr. Ephraim, born 1757, died 1812; married Lucy Clark; he was a practicing physician of Woodstock, Connecticut.

Amos Carroll married (second) Mrs. Lucy Hosmer Barrett, at Thompson, Connecticut. Children: Abigail, born 1762, died 1840; she married Joseph Tourtellot, of Thompson. Wyman, born 1765, died 1827; he married, 1795, Sarah Crosby, and lived at Thompson. Hannah, born 1768, died 1839; she married Joshua Tourtellot, of Thompson. Elijah, born 1771, died 1848; married, 1795, Pasha Smith, and removed to Dairnard, Vermont. Rachel, born 1774, died 1819; married, 1795, Ebenezer Burrill, of Burrillville, Rhode Island.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Vol. I, pp. 340-343 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/carroll.html

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