General Notes

Was married inNorwich, Connecticut. Moved north to the New Hampshire Grants.  IN 1774 Amos and their 13 year old son Solomon left Connecticut to go north and build a home for the family.  They decided upon a clearing in the small town of Salisbury.  Together they built a cabin large enough for teh whold family.  They were finished with teh cabin by the spring of 1775, but they still needed to clear land to plant wheat so teh family would have bread the next winter.  While they were doing this, a large maple twisted and pinned Amos to the ground, killing him instantly. Frantically, Solomon chopped the tree aaway and freed his father's body.  Then he ran all the way to Middlebury to the home of Benjamin Smalley.  Smalley and his two sons, Imri and Alfred, went with solomon to the Salisbury clearing and they brought Amos's body back to the Middlebury Burial plot where Smalley's two daughters were buried.