Amos Shepardson ^{2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10}

  Birth Notes:

Some say this is the same Amso who married Abigail Pratt.

  Death Notes:

IGI Individual Record (FamilySearch)
Amos Shepardson
Male
Birth: 1752 <Massachusetts>
Death: 23 JUN 1811
Parents:
Father: Amos Shepardson
Mother: Abigail Pratt

  Noted events in his life were:

• Note. ³ There is a book out there saying this Amos is the same Amos that
married Abigail Pratt.

Something doesn's seem right about it and I think that Amos, father of Arunah Shepardson was the son of Abigail Pratt and Amos Shepardson.

I have no concrete proof of this.

Here is the quote from the book (The Shepardson family. Branches of the family in the United States when the first census was taken in 1790) but he too lists no sources for his information.

There was trouble in the family, and he dropped out of sight.
His wife d. 10 March, 1808

It is possible that the unhappy Amos Shepardson, after leaving
home and family went to New Hampshire, where he married Rebecca Whitcomb, daughter of Thomas and Anne (Whitney) Whitcomb, who lived awhile in Deerfield, N. H., before settling in Norridgewock, Maine.

They lived in Hinsdale, N. H. (See Family 25) befoi'e moving to Northfield, Mass., about 1793. The birth dates of the first two children mentioned below indicate that they and the father and mother might make the 3 m. and 1 f. ascribed to the Hinsdale family in 1790. A tradition says that Amos Shepardson had eleven children by his two wives, although only ten names are known. In 1820 he moved from Northfleld to "New York State" where he is supposed to have died at Hague. The names of children by the second wife are similar to those in his father's

• Military, 1777. ^{2 3 9} Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA

• Fact, 1787. ³ Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, USA
Votes for Separation from Massachusetts, 1787

Plantation of Nerrigawalk and Seven mild Brook and Sandy Part of River.
Yea
Amos Sheperdson

• Fact, Nov 3, 1788. ³ Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, USA
Listed as one of the first settlers of Norridgewock, Maine along with his father in-law Thomas Whitcomb.

William Allen.
The history of Norridgewock: comprising memorials of the aboriginal inhabitants and Jesuit missionaries, hardships of the pioneers, biographical notices of the early settlers, and ecclesiastical sketches.

• Residence, 1790. ^{2 3 4} Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
1790 United States Federal Census
about Amos Shepardson
Name: Amos Shepardson
Township: Attleborough
County: Bristol
State: Massachusetts
Number of Free White Males Under 16: 1
Number of Free White Males 16 and Over: 1
Number of Free White Females: 2
Number of Household Members: 4

• Residence, 1800. ^{2 3 7} Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
Hampshire County in 1800

1800 United States Federal Census
Name: Amos Shephardson
Township: Northfield
County: Hampshire
State: Massachusetts
Free White Males Under 10: 1
Free White Males 10 to 15: 2
Free White Males 16 to 25: 1
Free White Males 45 and Over : 1
Free White Females Under 10 : 1
Free White Females 26 to 44 : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16 : 4
Number of Household Members Over 25 : 2
Number of Household Members: 7

• Residence, 1810. ^{2 3 8} Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA
Hampshire County in 1810

1810 United States Federal Census
Name: Amos Sheperdson
Township: Warwick
County: Hampshire
State: Massachusetts
Free White Males Under 10: 1
Free White Males 10 to 15: 1
Free White Males 45 and Over: 1
Free White Females 10 to 15: 1
Free White Females 45 and Over: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 5

Amos married Rebecca Whitcomb, daughter of Thomas Whitcomb and Anna Whitney, on Sep 4, 1786 in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, USA.^{1 2 3} (Rebecca Whitcomb was born on Apr 4, 1760 in Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA ^{1 3 11 12} and died in New York, USA ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

Could this be the marriage for Amos and Rebecca? Was she previously
married or could this be a transcription error? This marriage ocurred where Rebecca Whitcomb's father Thomas resided for the remainder of his life..Amos Shepardson was there too.

Maine Marriages, 1771-1907 for Amos Shepardson
Groom's Name: Amos Shepardson
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace: Of Norridgewock
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Rebeckah Winslow
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace: Of Norridgewock
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 04 Sep 1786
Marriage Place: Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M52268-1
System Origin: Maine-EASy
Source Film Number: 11577
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MARRIAGES SOLEMNIZED BY OLIVER WOOD, ESQUIRE, OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
From the Archives of the Maine Historical Society
1786 Sept. 4. Amos Shepardson and Rebecca Winslow, both of Norridgewock. ³