Amaziah WESCOAT
- BIRTH: Abt. 1785; Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, USA
- DEATH: 03 May 1864; Greenwood, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA
- BURIAL: Geneva Memorial Cemetery, Geneva, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA
Father: Nathan WESCOAT
Mother: Isabel GRINNELL
Family 1: Mary CASTLE
- MARRIAGE: Bef. 1810
- CHILDREN:
- Isaac WESCOAT
- Mary WESCOAT
- Susannah WESCOAT
- Castle WESCOAT
- Sarah Ann WESCOAT
- Esther/Etta WESCOAT
- Elizabeth Maria WESCOAT
_James WAISTCOAT___
_James WESCOAT______|
| |_Mary DICKENS______
_Nathan WESCOAT__|
| | _Jotham HORTON_____
| |_Hannah HORTON______|
| |_Hannah MARTIN_____
|
|--Amaziah WESCOAT
|
| _Jonathan GRINNELL_
| _Nathaniel GRINNELL_|
| | |_Alice MIAS________
|_Isabel GRINNELL_|
| ___________________
|_Ruth CLARK_________|
|___________________
Notes
Updated May 27, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) 1810 United States Census for New York, Ontario Co., Farmington: 6 Aug 1810.
- Name: Amaziah WAISTCOAT
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
- Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
- Number of Household Members: 3
(2) U.S., War of 1812 Service Records via Ancestry.com
- Name: Amaziah WESTCOAT
- Company: HOWELL'S REG'T (1814), NEW YORK MILITIA.
- Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
- Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
- Roll Box: 222
- Microfilm Publication: M602
(3) New York, War of 1812 Certificates and Applications of Claim and Related Records via Ancestry.com
"United States of America, State of Pennsylvania, County of Crawford. On this 18th Day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Amaziah WESCOTT, aged 68 years, a resident of Crawford County in the State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law, declared that he is the identical Amaziah WESCOTT who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. P. HARVEY in the (forgotten) Regiment of N.Y. State Militia, commanded by Col. ROGERS in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States, on the 18th day of June 1812. That he volunteered or was drafted under the General Orders of the Governor of this State, for its defense of Lewiston on or about the month of Sept. A.D. 1812 for the term of twenty one days and was honorably discharged from said service; for which he received from the United States his Land Warrant, No. (forgotten) for 160 acres... and that there is now due and payable to him from the State of New York, the sum of nine Dollars, with interest thereon, agreeable to the said Law."
Signed by Amaziah WESCOTT with "his X mark"
(4) New York, U.S., Military Equipment Claims, War of 1812 via Ancestry.com
- Name: Amaziah WESTCOTT
- Residence: Crawford, Pennsylvania
- Allowed Amount: $15.00
- Page number: No.: 9,201
- Type of Claimant: APPLICANT
- Title: Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812
(5) 1820 United States Census for Pennsylvania, Crawford Co., Fallowfield: August 7, 1820.
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
- Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
- Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
- Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 16: 5
- Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
- Total Free White Persons: 7
- Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 7
(6) 1830 United States Census for New York, Niagara Co., Lockport
- Name: Amaziah WESCOTT
- Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
- Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
- Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 4
- Total Free White Persons: 11
- Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 11
(7) 1840 United States Census for Pennsylvania, Crawford Co., Greenwood
- Name: Amaziah WESTCOAT
- Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
- Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
- Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
- Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
- No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
- Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
- Total Free White Persons: 5
- Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 5
(8) 1860 United States Census for Pennsylvania, Crawford Co., Greenwood Twp., Meadville Post Office: page 62; June 21, 1860.
Amaziah WESCOAT is living on a farm with his daughter and son-in-law, Mary [WESCOAT] BROOKS and Quinton BROOKS, and family. He is listed incorrectly as "Amasiah BROOKS." He is 70 years old and born in Massachusetts.
(9) Erlenkotter Family Records, citing:
... (9a) [birth] Amasiah WESCOAT, Declaration for the purpose of obtaining bounty land for service in the War of 1812, Crawford County, PA, 4 December 1850.
... (9b) [death] Grinnell, Lawrence J., The Descendants of Matthew and Rose (French) Greenell (Abt. 1590-Bef. 1643), The Grinnell Family Association of America, Greenacres, FL, 1997, Part I, p. 107.
... (9c) [death] Jenks, Margaret R., Thomas Horton of Milton and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Vol. 3, Part 2, 1990, p. 1428.
... (9d) [death] Gravestone, Geneva Memorial Cemetery, Geneva, Crawford County, PA.
NOTES PROVIDED IN THE ERLENKOTTER FAMILY RECORDS:
- 1810 census at Farmington, Ontario County, NY.
- 1820 census at Fallowfield, Crawford County, PA.
- 1830 census at Lockport, Niagara County, NY.
- 1840 census at Greenwood, Crawford County, PA, head of household.
- 1850 census, he's not been located.
- 1860 Census at Greenwood, Crawford County, PA [p. 350, family #424].
"The birth year of 'About 1785' for Amaziah is derived from a declaration for War of 1812 bounty land dated 4 December 1850 in which he stated that he was then 65 years old. At the time he was a resident of Greenwood, Crawford County, PA; in 1813, when he was drafted into the New York militia, he had been at Farmington, NY. The 1860 census and his gravestone give ages that suggest he might have been born three or four years later, but his status as a head of household in 1810 makes this unlikely." This source also provides much more extensive notes to establish Amaziah's parentage.
"On 18 May 1813 he was appointed as the administrator of the estate of his late brother Obadiah WESCOAT, who had died intestate [Ontario County Letters of Administration, Book 6, p. 289]. Amaziah served during the War of 1812 in Howell's regiment of New York militia. On 24 February 1815 he was appointed as the guardian for Clarissa and Lewis WESCOAT of Palmyra, Ontario County, NY [Ontario County Letters of Administration, Book 8, p. 20]."
"On the 16th day of the third month in 1815, Amaziah WESCOAT of Ontario County, NY purchased twenty acres of land for $100 from Darius COMSTOCK of Palmyra in the same county, the land being in lot 89 in township 11 of the third range in this county and bounded on the east by land owned by the heirs of Nathan WESCOAT [Ontario County Deed Records, Book 42, p. 35]. On 1 November 1819 Amaziah, then of Fallowfield, Crawford County, PA, sold eight acres of this land to Welcome HERENDEEN of Farmington, NY for $100; on 13 February 1830 he was of Lockport, Niagara County, NY when he appeared to acknowledge the deed [Ontario County Deed Records, Book 53, pp. 15-16]. On 1 November 1819 he also sold to Elisha GARDNER of Farmington, Ontario County, NY for $400 the remaining twelve acres purchased from Darius COMSTOCK along with two undivided tenth parts of about ninety acres of land in lots 89 and 104 in Farmington [Ontario County Deed Records, Book 59, pp. 277-278]. (The two tenth shares were from his father Nathan WESCOAT's estate, presumably one being his own and the other held as the administrator for his brother Obadiah's estate.)"
"On 16 December 1825 Amaziah WESCOTT of Lockport, Niagara County, NY and his wife Polly sold to Elisha W. GARDNER of Farmington, Ontario County, NY for $110 one undivided tenth part of about ninety acres of land in lots 89 and 104 in Farmington [Ontario County Deed Records, Book 59, pp. 283-284]. This tenth share had been deeded to Amaziah by Humphrey DENNINS and his wife Clarissa, who had received it as heirs to the estate of Nathan WESCOTT, deceased."
"In a declaration for obtaining bounty land dated 4 December 1850, Amasiah WESCOAT, a resident of Greenwood, Crawford County, PA, aged 65 years, stated that he was drafted at Farmington, Ontario County, NY and had served in the New York militia as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Barzilla HARVEY. He was enrolled on 1 January 1813 and served for about 35 days. His service was affirmed by John GRINNEL, who had served in the same company."
(10) Find a Grave
- Name: Amaziah WESCOAT
- Birth: 1785; Massachusetts, USA
- Death: 3 May 1864 (aged 78–79); Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Burial: Geneva Memorial Cemetery; Geneva, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Memorial ID: 29304954
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Additional Notes.
Mayflower lineage: Richard Warren -1; Abigail Warren -2; Abigail Snow -3; Abigail Ford -4; Jonathan Grinnell -5; Nathaniel Grinnell -6; Isabel Grinnel -7; Amaziah Wescoat -8.