Amos Tryon (1736 - 1790)

Born 17 Mar 1736 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Hubbard) Tryon — married 17 Sep 1772 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Connecticut

Descendants

Died 19 Aug 1790 at age 54 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Amos was born in 1736, the son of David Tryon and Susanna Blevin.^[1] He married Mary Hubbard in 1772.^[2]He passed away in 1790.^[3][4] He is buried beside his wife at the Old Farm Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut.

He is referred to as Captain Amos Tryon in many records such as "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: edited by William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S. Stearns" and "Rosman Lawrence family : embracing the descendants, as far as known, of Rosman Lawrence of Middletown, Connecticut"

Amos Tryon, Middletown, 1790, names Susanna Wetherly of Chatham, niece, Amos Tryon s. David Tryon, nephew, Mary wife, Stephen brother & executor, Enoch his son and Luentia(?) daughter. Codicil also names William Tryon and his wife, Catherine. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection): Middletown Vital Records 1651-1854, p. 264. Original record Middletown Vol. 1, p. 20. (Ancestry.com)
2. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection): Middletown Vital Records 1651-1854, p. 265. Original record Vol. 2, p. 184. (Ancestry.com) [Shows marriage]
3. ↑ Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934: Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 28, p. 351.
4. ↑ Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934: FHL Film Number: 1513707 (Ancestry.com)
5. ↑ Connecticut Probate Records, Middletown District, No. 3564

• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford, Probate Packets, Tryon, Abijah-Wainwright, 1752-1880, page 14

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV2D-KRL7 : 13 December 2015), Amos Tryon, 1790; Burial, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States of America, Old Farm Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 70826222, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.