Amos Huntington (1739-1822)

Biography
The Huntington family in America says:
 * 1.2.4.5.8. Amos Huntington, born September 4, 1739. He married February 4, 1767, Peace Clark. He went to Shaftsbury, Vt., where he became a man of some distinction in civil and military life. Captain Amos Huntington, Shaftsbury Company in Colonel Moses Robinson's regiment, Vermont Militia Infantry, called into continental service on June 29, 1777, by Major General Arthur St. Clair, for the defence of Fort Ticonderoga during the northern invasion of Lient.-Gen. John Burgoyne's army. Served at Fort Ticonderoga until its evacuation, July 6, 1777, and during the retreat in the desperate battle of Hubbardton, July 7, 1777, in which [he was] made prisoner by the Brunswick Germans under Major General Friederich Adolphus, Baron de Riedesel, who commanded the British wing; was taken to Quebec and confined on a prison ship until October 24, 1777, and then sent to Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, commanding British army in New York City, and by arrangement, placed on parole as prisoner of war, in exchange for Captain William Farquhar, H. B. M. 20 Regiment Foot, who had been captured at the Convention of Saratoga, October 17, 1777. Captain Amos Huntington was not exchanged and released from his parole as a prisoner of war until March, 1782, his continental service having thus embraced a period of four years and about ten months. He subsequently devoted himself to the peaceful pursuits of husbandry, and enjoyed the confidence, and shared in the honors awarded by his fellow citizens. He was emphatically a peace maker. He died in Shaftsbury, July 2, 1822, a member of the Baptist church.

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