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m. - Amos Blanchard1766 - 1842
Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
Amos Blanchard |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3][4] |
Jan 1766 |
Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Military[3] |
1776 |
Massachusetts, United StatesRev War - fifer |
| Marriage |
27 Jan 1780 |
Milford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United Statesto Lavinia Hopkins |
| Death[3][4][5] |
25 May 1842 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Burial[5] |
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Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ George A. Ramsdell// Family Registers by William P. Colburn. The History of Milford, New Hampshire. (1901)
756. - ↑ Amos Blanchard, in Ramsdell, George A. The history of Milford. (Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press, 1901)
Vol I, p 756.
... 8. Lavinia, b. in 1769, m. Amos Blanchard, Jan. 27, 1789. ...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Amos Blanchard, in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1905).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Amos Blanchard, in Andover.essexcountyma.net.
[Transcribed by JAS 2005
originally published in the Andover Townsman March 31, 1899]
... His sons bravely took up the work [of the war], (6) Daniel enlisting at 18, his small brother (6) Amos a fifer at 14. ... This (6) Amos the fifer had a wife, Lavinia Hopkins and a large family of twelve children. He taught music and writing in Exeter Academy and for one short year he owned a house opposite the old toil gate of Andover Bridge, which Ebenezer Poor sold to him, reserving the privilege of crossing to the Fish Guards, and feeding the Bridge Horses. Many of us recall this old homestead, that stood in the corner of the road that swept around the willows from North Parish. Lawrence McGovern, one of my schoolmates was born there and I used to hover about the river brink at the foot of the garden. What a place for a band of children before the damn has spoiled the cruel but beautiful dash of rapids. Here Cyrene Blanchard, one of the twelve was born in 1800. Perhaps the poor mother induced Amos to sell to Simeon Foster when she was able to go on the road again, on account of the river, but I shall always believe he bought that house for the one short year he held it, because it was one of the old Blanchard homesteads, the one his father owned once and sold to Sara Ballard, the original (4) Joseph homestead given to Daniel. Peter Martin came to West Parish from up country somewhere, married one of those Danes who owned one of the other Blanchard homes, and moved the houses off the land he bought right and left, and when he left Andover was living at the Bridge, on that very spot in 1799. Peter did mischief in such transposition of his buildings. You must read the interesting account of Master Blanchard's advent in Lynn in 1811 with a carriage load of children, "come to stay," in "Essex Co Standard History." (sketch of Lynn by Newhall.) This loving tribute by one who knew his worth is appreciated by his granddaughter, the authoress Amy Blanchard who writes those entertaining juveniles now published in Philadelphia. ...
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Amos Blanchard, in Find A Grave.
[includes headstone photo]
- Amos Blanchard, in Hurd, Duane Hamilton. History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (Essex, Massachusetts: J.W. Lewis & Company, 1888)
Vol 1, p 340.
... 1842. Amos Blanchard, a musician of the Revolutionary army, and for many years a teacher of a district school, died May 25th, aged seventy-eight. ...
- Amos Blanchard, in Lynnhistory.com.
[Transcribed by Shaun Cook. Sources not provided.]
... BLANCHARD, AMOS, - was not accredited to the town of Lynn during the war, but lived here at its close. He was a pensioner in 1840, and died May 25, 1842, aged seventy-six. He was one of the very last of the old Revolutionary heroes to die, and was buried in an unmarked grave in the old Western Burial Ground. He was one of the four prominent survivors of the war who took part in the celebration of the 4th of July, 1825.
The old "Merry House," so called, was on the northerly side of Boston Street, near Grove. Master Amos Blanchard lived there, and taught the little school at the western end of the Common. He was a musician in the Revolutionary War. From 1811 to 1824 he led the singing in the Old Tunnel Meeting-House, and played the bass-viol in the church for many years.
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