Amaziah PARMITER

Abt 1750 - 1777  (~ 27 years)

• Name	Amaziah PARMITER
  Birth	Abt 1750	Massachusetts (?)
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Spencertown, NY
  Death	19 or 29 Oct 1777	New York   [1]
  	Died of wounds suffered at the battle of Stillwater (Bemis Heights?), NY
  Notes	Private, Capt. Abraham Watson's Company, Col. John Greaton's (2nd) regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Feb. 11, 1777, to Oct 29, 1777; reported died Oct. 19, 1777; also, Capt. Abraham Watson's Company, Col. Greaton's regt.; return [year not given]; residence, Spencertown; enlisted for town of Spencertown; mustered by Company Muster Master Wheler. Spencertown was one of the towns just west of the Massachusetts border that were the subject of an early boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New York. It is not surprising that he would enlist in a Berkshire County, Massachusetts regiment. Spencertown is currently a hamlet in the town of Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York. An Amaziah Palmeter is listed in two reference books of Revolutionary War soldiers from Connecticut. "Rolls and lists of Connecticut Men in the Rev. 1775-1783. Ed. by Albert C. Bates. Hartford, CT, 1901-1909. (Vols. 8 and 12 of the "Collections" of the Connecticut Hist. Soc.)(2v.):8:35. "Record of Connecticut Men in Mil. and Naval Service during the Rev. War, 1775-1783, by Henry P. Johnston, Hartford. 1889. (17,779p.):111-112. [1]
  Person ID	I2211	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2010

  
  

  Family ID

  F2314

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• Sources

  [S139] Mass. Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 11 page 947 (Reliability: 3).