Amasa Hollister (1768 - 1847)

Born 30 May 1768 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut

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Died 30 Mar 1847 at age 78 in Hollisterville, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

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"Amasa, son of Nathaniel Hollister and Mehitable Mattison, was born in Glastonbury, Conn., May 30, 1768; he married Mehitable Everts in 1790; she was born April, 1768, and died June 26, 1843. He died March 30, 1847. He removed from Glastonbury to Wayne Co., Penn., about 1817, and settled where the village of Hollisterville now is, the fine water power there being still in the possession of the Hollister family." - Hollister Family of America

"Amasa Hollister came from Glastonbury, Conn., March 15, 1817, and purchased Ebenezer Cobb's interest in the saw-mill. He drove an ox-team, ten sheep and one cow, via Newburgh, and was two weeks on the road. Alanson Hollister, his son, came in September, 1817. He was then in his fifteenth year. The same fall he and his father raised the house now occupied by E. B. Hollister, Esq. Amasa, being a blacksmith, made all the nails."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ pg 758 - History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania By Alfred Mathews 1886

• No. 391, pg 88 and 134-135 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68893646