Brief Life History of Amos
When Amos Field Sr. was born on 20 April 1750, in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, his father, Bennett Field, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Spofford, was 35. He married Zeruiah Baldwin in 1772. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Bennington, Bennington, Vermont, United States in 1790. He died on 17 June 1830, in Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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- Amos Fields, "United States Census, 1820"
- Amos Field, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Alfred Field - death, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1772
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).
Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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