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Amos2 CLARK
(John1)
was born to
John CLARK
and
Mary (Polly) ROBINSON
on 14 May 1768 at Bedford,
Westchester County,
New York.
On 10 June 1794 at
Greenfield,
Saratoga County,
New York,
he married
Zilpah
(Zilpha)[1]
HOYT[2].
Amos is
not found in the 1790 census, however, it is not unusual for adult males to
reside with their parents until they were married.
Zilpha’s
father,
Gideon HOIT,
and family are living in
Saratoga
Township,
Albany
(later Saratoga)
County in 1790 with three males over 16 and three females,[3]
and in Greenfield
Township,
Saratoga
County
in 1800, listing a male and female over 45.[4]
In 1800, an
Amos Clark
is living at Chenango,
Tioga County,
New York.
He is listed as a male, between 26 and 44, living
with a male between 10 and 15, and a female between 26 ad 45.[5]
This matches the ages of
Amos’
family at that time, but he is not known to have lived there.
In the Records of Dismissal of the First Baptist Church of
Aurelius, Cayuga
County,
New York,
Zelphia CLARK
was dismissed by letter in 180? and
Amos CLARK
18
November 1810.
Amos’ father,
John,
and his brothers
Ichabod (b. 1766) and
Thomas
(b. 1774) were also members of this church.[6]
Amos
is not found in the 1810 census and may be living with relatives.
In 1820, in Freeport Township,
Ontario County (later Conesus, Livingston County),
Amos
lived with two males 16-25, two females under 10, two females 10-15, one female
16-25 and one female, probably
Zilpha, 26-44.
Listed on the same page are
Amos’
brother
Thomas
(b. 177) and
Amos’ nephew
Jotham
CLARK
(b. 1794).
Jotham described
Amos:
“Amos,
half-brother of my father, married
Zilpha Hoyt,
a daughter of
Gideon and
Elizabeth Hoyt,
brother and sister of my grandfather and grandmother
Weed.
He was a sober, thinking turn of mind.
From my first acquaintance with him he had poor health and
employed much of his time in reading.
He was esteemed a good councilor of reliable
judgment.
His son,
Elias,
was a Livingston
County
representative in the Assembly for a number of years, but died young.
He was a man of talent sufficient for a jurist or
legislator.
Amos died at the age of
sixty-four from a cancer of longstanding, leaving a respectable family most of
whom married and raised families of their own.
In his early days he had to contend with the difficulties
attendant on new settlements.
The hardships that had to be endured by him and his
family, and the deprivation, did not keep them from making a very respectable
standing in their community.
He had been fortunate in connecting with a woman who
had fortitude in adversity and who did much to keep the family from immoral
conduct and train them to industry and usefulness.”[7]
Amos
died on 2 May 1840 at age 71 and is buried at Westminster (near
London), Canada.[8]
Zilpah
HOYT
was born 16 June 1772 in Pound Ridge,
Westchester
County,
daughter of
Gideon
HOYT
and
Elizabeth
WEED.
She died 08 August 1852.
She is buried at
Westminster, Canada
with her husband.[9]
Bedford Historical Records, Volume IX, Bedford Genealogy
confuses
Amos, son of
John
(b. 1740), with another
Amos CLARK
that was born in Bedford, April 3, 1768, the son of
Nathaniel CLARK
(b. 1715)..
The record lists a
Zilpha CLARK
as Amos’
sister, born
1 January 1770,
died 25 January 1786.[10]
Amos, son of
Nathaniel,
married as his first wife,
Patience NEWMAN,
on 01 October1788.
She died about 1762.
The record lists as his second
wife, Zilpha
HAIT, whom this
Amos
allegedly married 10 June 1794.
The record states she was born
16 June 1772
to Gideon HAIT
and
Elizabeth _____. His second wife died
6 August
1852.
Amos, son of
Nathaniel,
died in Bedford
on 20 August 1797, calculated at the age of 29.
Children of
Amos
and Patience
are listed as
Peter, born
26 Feb 1789;
Stephen,
born 20 September 1791;
and
Elizabeth (Betsey), born 10 April 1794.[11]
The
Bedford
records confuse the issue by listing
Zilpha HAIT
(HOYT),
as the wife of the son of
Nathaniel.
Children
of Amos2 CLARK
and Zilpah
(Zilpha)
HOYT include:
i.
Elias3 CLARK
was born circa 1795.
An
Elias CLARK
was elected Inspector of Schools, Conesus,
Livingston
County, in 1821.[12]
[1]
Jotham
Clark,
The Journal
of Jotham Clark (1794-1887), History and Humor from The
Homestead" with some genealogical descendants off
Ichabod Clark (1766-1844) (Edited and
Published by Eleanor Osborne Ratsep, Quick Print of Latrobe, PA, 1985.
Copy provided by
Liz Cornish, 2/10/03) p.
56.
Amos,
half-brother of my father, married Zilpha Hoyt, a daughter of Gideon and
Elizabeth Hoyt, brother and sister of my grandfather and grandmother
Weed.
[2]
Hoyt, David W.,
A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight and
Hight Families, With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families, a List
of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, etc.
Providence Press,
Providence,
1871; p. 393 (3399) vi. Zilpah,6
b. June 16, 1772 in Poundridge,
N.Y.;
m. Amos
Clark,
June 10, 1794, in Sar. Co.
She d. Aug. 8, 1852.
He was b. in Bedford,
May 14, 1768; d. May 2, 1840.
Both are buried in
Westminster,
Near London, Can. W.
[3]
1790 United States Federal Census , New York,
Albany
(Later, Saratoga) County, Saratoga Township,
Roll M637_6, , Page 305/17, Image 303 (Ancestry.com), Line 54, Gideon
Hoit, 303.
[4]
1800 United States Federal Census,
New York, Saratoga
County, Roll: M32_27,
Greenfield
Township,
Page 34, Image
115 (Ancestry.com), Line 30, Gideon Hoit, M00001 F00001.
[5] 1800
Uniterd States Federal Census, New York, Tioga County, Chenango
Township, Roll M32_24, Page 230/268 Image 240, Ancestry.com, Line 22,
Amos Clark, M01010
F00010.
[6]
Cornell University, Carl A. Kroch Library, Rare and Manuscripts
Collections, Ithaca, New York; Cayuga County Holdings, #6290 First
Baptist Church of Aurelius, New York, Records 1795-1911, Extracted by
Gordon L. Remington, P.O. Box 11685, Salt Lake City, UT 85147. Provided
by Linda Fonville, 21 June
2003.
[7]
Jotham Clark, The Journal of
Jotham Clark (1794-1887), History and Humor from The
Homestead" with some genealogical descendants off
Ichabod Clark (1766-1844), Edited and Published by Eleanor Osborne Ratsep, Quick Print of Latrobe, PA, 1985.
Copy provided by
Liz Cornish,
2/10/03) p. 56
[8]
Hoyt, David W. , A Genealogical History of the
Hoyt, Haight and Hight Families, With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt
Families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury,
Massachusetts, etc.. , Providence Press Co., Providence,
1871, p. 383 "(3399) VII. Zilpha, b. June 16, 1772, in
Poundridge,
N.Y.; m. Amos
Clark, June
10, 1794 in Sar. Co.
She d. Aug. 8, 1852.
He was b. in Bedford, May 14, 1768; d. May 2, 1840.
Both are buried in
Westminster,
near
London,
Can."
[9]
Hoyt, David W., A Genealogical
History of the Hoyt, Haight and Hight Families, With Some Account of the
Earlier Hyatt Families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and
Amesbury, Massachusetts, etc.. (Providence Press,
Providence, 1871. p. 383: p. 216. I stop on my
journey at the humble cottage of my great grandfather, who resided a
short time during the Revolutionary period at Poundridge,
Westchester County,
New York.
His name was Gideon Hoyt.
p. 354, The Hait Family. (2901)
V.
Gideon,5 bap. March 20, 1736-7;
m. Elizabeth Weed, at Stamf., Feb. 7, 1760 (3394); resided in “old
Poundridge” in 1773, and up to the time of the revolution; afterwares
removed to Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N.Y., and was buried there.
He may have lived in Bedford,
N.Y., a short time,
about 1763.
He d. July 26, 1801.
His wife prob. D. in 1815. p. 393, (3399)
VI. Zilpah,6 b. June 16, 1772 in
Poundridge,
N.Y.; m. Amos Clark,
June 10, 1794, in Sar. Co.
She d. Aug. 8, 1852.
He was b. in Bedford, May 14, 1768; d. May 2, 1840.
Both are buried in Westminster, Near London, Can. W.
[10]
Town of
Bedford, Westchester County,
New York, , Bedford Historical Records, , Volume IX, Bedford Genealogy, Descendants of the Original
Settlers
(Bedford Hills, New York, Published by the Town of Bedford, 1978) p. 41.
[11]
Town of
Bedford, Westchester County,
New York, Bedford
Historical Records, , Volume IX,
Bedford
Genealogy, Descendants of the Original Settlers
(Bedford Hills, New York, Published by the Town of Bedford, 1978) p. 44.
[12]
James H. Smith, History of
Livingston County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical
Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (D. Mason & Co.,
Syracuse, N. Y., 1881, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society,
HeritageQuest Online) p 330.
Compiled by Edwin
Charles (Chuck) Rodekohr
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