Person:Amzi Doolittle (1)

From Vermont Vital Records: Amzi Doolittle b. Feb 24 (parents:) Jerusha and Amzi Doolittle http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/VERMONT/2001-10/1004222462

1813-1824: Justice of the Peace, Townshend, VT. (Phelps, Collections, p. 225) 1814-1815: Representative to the General Assembly (Phelps, p. 227)

1840 US Census: Winchester, Cheshire Co., NH:

1850 US Census: Winchester, Cheshire Co., NH: House #330: Amzi Doolittle, 82, farmer, b. MA Mrs. A. ", 81, b. MA (in same house with adopted son Hiram, his wife and family)

1860 US Census: Winchester, Cheshire Co., NH: House 135, Amzi Doolittle, 92, b. MA (with adopted son, Hiram and his family); now widowed.

He appears to have been the one referred to in Townshend, VT records as "Lieut. Amzi Doolittle" based on this from page. 171 of Phelps' Collections relating to the history and inhabitants of the town of Townshend, VT [John Hazeltine's] first wife was Lieut. Amzi Doolittle's sister... [This was Lucy Doolittle, dau of Amzi Sr., sister to Amzi Jr.]

From November 2004 visit to Evergreen cemetery, Winchester, NH (route 119):

12. Jarusha, dau of Hiram & Lucy Doolittle, d. Nov 26, 1844, age 2 months, 16? days. photo

13. Hiram L., son of Hiram & Lucy Doolittle, d. March 10, 1841, age 1 y, 5 m, 7? days

14. Amzi L., son of Hiram & Lucy Doolittle, d. June 27?, 1825, age 3 mos, 27? days

15. Harriet C., dau of Hiram & Lucy Doolittle, d. July 19, 1853, age 15. photo

16. Esther E., dau of Hiram & Lucy Doolittle, d. April 14, 1854, age 31. photo

17. Lucy H., wife of Hiram Doolittle, b. Jan 25, 1803; d. May 1, 1892. photo

18. Hiram Doolittle, d. Apr 23, 1877, age 77. photo

19. Esther, wife of Amzi Doolittle, Esq., d. Jun 20, 1853, age 84. photo. [nee Barber, dau of Thomas Barber and Hannah Miller.]

20. Amzi Doolittle, died Jun 20, 1863, age 95 years. photo [son of Amzi Doolittle Sr.]

21. Jerusha, wife of Amos Marsh, the former wife of A. Doolittle, died Oct. 19, 1844 age 102. photo. [Jerusha Smith, m1 Amzi Doolittle Sr.; mother of Amzi Jr., and I believe also of Origin Doolittle; m2. Amos Marsh.]

From O.P. Allen's _The Doolittle Family_, p. 18: He settled on a farm in Townsend, near his father, which he cleared; eing a man of marked ability, he took an active part in the civil and political affairs of the town; he was justice of the peace, selectman, deputy sheriff and representative for 1816-17 and 21, hodling some of the other positions many years. He was also high in the order of Free Masonry. In 1824 he removed with his brother Origin, to Winchester, N.H., where they bought a farm of 300 acres just east of the village, where he resided the remainder of his life. He had no children, but adopted a newphew of his wife's, Hiram shepard, son of Joseph and Sybel (Barker [sic]) who took the name of Doolittle and became his heir-at-law.

1. ↑ Lusk, Elizabeth Barber. (Correspondence began in October 2004.)
   Correspondence of 10 August 2004.
2. ↑ Warwick (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1739-1900
   Vol. 1, p. 10.

   Amzi Doolittle Son to Amzi Doolittle and Jerusha Doolittle was born February the 24 - 1768.

3. ↑ Townshend, VT Land Deeds
   Volume 1, p. 4, recorded by town clerk March 1783.

   Amzi Doolittle son to Amzi Doolittle and Jerusha his wife, b. February 24, 1768

4. ↑ Tombstone Reading - Evergreen Cemetery, Winchester, NH.

   Amzi Doolittle, died Jan. 20, 1863, AE 95 yrs.
   [Note: clear picture at Find a Grave. Looks like Jun. but is Jan. when one zooms-in, curl to close the A, visible at top of circle.]

5. ↑ Townshend, VT Vital Records
   p. 16.

   Treasurer: A. Doolittle, Jr., 1823.

6. ↑ New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947. (New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration)
   [1].

   Name: Amzi Doolittle
   Place of Death Winchester
   Date of Death: Jan. 19, 1863
   Age: 95 [birth about 1768]
   Place of Birth: Warwick, Mass.
   Sex: Male; Color: White; Condition: Single
   Occupation: Farmer
   Cause: Erysipelas
   Name of Father: -- Doolittle
   Maiden Name of Mother: [blank]
   Reported from: Winchester, N.H.
   [Note: duplicate record gives date of death as 20 Jan 1863, based on doctor's report, but dated 1985?]