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Amidon, Roger Sr.[1, 2]

Male 1702 - Bef 1794  (92 years)


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  • Name Amidon, Roger  
    • Named in his father's will.
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 6 Feb 1702  Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Birth date is from Best. Birth record not found yet. [2]
    Gender Male 
    Residence Bef 1748/9  Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    He grew up in Oxford, was married there, and in Feb 1748/9 Roger Amidown of Oxford, Worcester County sold land in Oxford. 
    Residence 1748/9  Worcester County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    6 Feb 1748/9 Roger Ammidown of Oxford, Worcester County bought for for 300 pounds in old tenor bills 100 acres of land from John Jones of Middlesex County. This property was lying in land belonging to the Province of Massachusets Bay adjacent to the Town of Oxford. It bordered southerly on Roxbury School Farm in Oxford, westerly on Joshiah Kingsbury, and northerly and easterly on Province land. A plan of the land was attached.
    Witnesses: Anthy Jones, Elizabeth Jones
    Rec'd [?] Aug 1753

    6 Oct 1765 Roger Amidown of the Douglas District, Worcester County sold for 150 pounds 100 acres of land (described above and originally in deed book 33, p. 510) to Abjiah Kingsbury [who was] "living near Oxford and adjacent to the south side of Oxford".
    Witnesses: Ephrain Ballard and Edward Davis
    Rec'd 9 Oct 1765
    This deed shows that Roger was living in Douglas by 1765.

    The land in the above two deeds was described as the Leonard Grant in the History of Oxford Massachusetts. On 1 Jan 1739 100 acres of land belonging to the Province of Massachusetts Bay was granted to Elkanah Leonard of Middleboro for prosecuting persons from Rhode Island who had committed acts of violence during a controversy between the two governments. On 5 Jan 1739 Leonard sold it to John Jones, who in 1748 sold it to Roger Amidown, who sold it to Abijah Kingsbury in 1765.  
    Residence By 6 Oct 1765  Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    On 6 Oct 1765 Roger Amidon of the Douglas District sold his property near Oxford to Abijah Kinsbury. He lived in Douglas until his death. 
    Death Bef 9 Apr 1794  Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • No record of Roger Senior's death has been found. He died before 9 Apr 1794, the date that Roger Jr. and his siblings sold the land "which belonged to our honored father Roger Amidown deceased". He may have died as early as 1778, because after that year Roger Jr. stopped using the suffix junior when he sold land. At that time men stopped signing junior when they were no longer the younger man with the same name in a locality. Roger junior's land sales could be identified when his wife Elizabeth co-signed them. [7]
    Person ID I187  Martin-Bloom
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2021 

    Father Amidon, Philip,   b. 26 Jan 1669/70, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Mar 1747, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Warfield, Ithamar,   b. 28 Mar 1675/6, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 16 Sep 1700  Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    • There is confusion about Philip's second marriage, some sources saying he married Ithamar Warfield 30 Aug 1700 and others saying he married Joanna Warfield (intention) on the same date and that he married Ithamar as his 3rd wife some years later. This confusion may have arisen because both records appear in the same transcription of the Rehoboth vital records. In the groom's record (p. 10) Philip married Joanna and in the bride's record (p. 508) Ithamer married Philip. Neither Best nor Torrey mentions Joanna, but the History of Oxford says she died in 1711 in Mendon and attributes several of Philip's children to her. This is not correct, however, as Mendon vital records say these same children were born to Philip and Ithamar. I have found no other record for Joanna, but I have found Ithamar's birth record. I am not satisfied that Joanna existed and have not included her as one of Philip's wives. [8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
    Family ID F74  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hunkins, Elizabeth,   b. Prob by 1715   d. Bef 28 Feb 1757 (Age ~ 42 years) 
    Marriage 27 Oct 1731  Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Children 
     1. Amidon, Rachel,   b. 28 Sep 1732, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Amidon, Elizabeth,   b. 18 Jul 1734, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Amidon, Roger,   b. 11 Nov 1736, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Amidon, Jeremiah,   b. 12 Nov 1738, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Amidon, Samuel,   b. 18 Jun 1741, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Amidon, Lt. Samuel,   b. 13 Oct 1742, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Amidon, Rachel,   b. 20 Feb 1744/5, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Amidon, Roger Jr.,   b. 12 May 1747, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1825, Rowe, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Family ID F73  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2020 

    Family 2 Rice, Mrs. Rachel 
    Marriage 28 Feb 1757  Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Family ID F889  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jan 2021 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 27 Oct 1731 - Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - He grew up in Oxford, was married there, and in Feb 1748/9 Roger Amidown of Oxford, Worcester County sold land in Oxford. - Bef 1748/9 - Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 28 Feb 1757 - Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - On 6 Oct 1765 Roger Amidon of the Douglas District sold his property near Oxford to Abijah Kinsbury. He lived in Douglas until his death. - By 6 Oct 1765 - Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 9 Apr 1794 - Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Documents
    Roger Amidon Senior's Land Transactions in Worcester County, Massachusetts    		Roger Amidon Senior's Land Transactions in Worcester County, Massachusetts
    Land Transactions from the Towns of Oxford and Douglas and for Land bordering the Town of Oxford, but not in it. One of the deeds confirms the identity of some of his children.

  • Sources 
    1. [S20] Viktor Ottman Wilson, Dewitt and Elma Ottman Family, (Privately Published, 1988, Printed by the Johnson Company, Rochester, MN 55901), p 17.

    2. [S334] Frank E. Best, The Amidon Family, (Self published, Chicago, Illinois,1904), pp. 8, 9.

    3. [S164] Deed, Worcester County, Book 33, p. 510, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZH-KXP1?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-3WR%3A361612201%2C361677201.

    4. [S164] Deed, Worcester County, Book 54, p. 228, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZH-J8CQ?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-H23%3A361612201%2C361713401.

    5. [S343] George F. Daniels, History of the Town of Oxford Massachusetts, (Self published with the co-operation of the Town, Oxford, 1892), p. 290.

    6. [S164] Deed, Worcester County, Book 54, p. 228, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZH-J8CQ?cc=2106411&wc=MCBL-H23%3A361612201%2C361713401.

    7. [S164] Deed, Worcester County, Book 145, p. 90, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZH-P3NP?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-HMS%3A361612201%2C361885401.

    8. [S315] Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rehoboth, Vol. 1, Marriages, p. 508, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/14010/508/253490264.
      Warfield, Ithamer and Philip Ammidowne, both of Rehoboth, Aug. 30, 1700

    9. [S315] Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rehoboth, Vol. 1, Marriages, p. 10 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/14010/10/253478442.
      Ammidowne, Philip and Joanna Warfield, Sept. 16, 1700, Int, Aug. 30, 1700.

    10. [S334] Frank E. Best, The Amidon Family, (Self published, Chicago, Illinois,1904), pp. 5-8.

    11. [S217] Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, USA, 2004), Vol. 1, p. 34, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21174/34/426912269, 929.374 T694 85-27460.
      AMMIDOWNE, Philip (1669/70-) & 2/wf Ithamar WARFIELD; 16 Sep 1700; Rehoboth/Mendon/Oxford {Oxford Hist. 371; Amidon 6; Randall 5; Woodstock 2:189}

    12. [S343] George F. Daniels, History of the Town of Oxford Massachusetts, (Self published with the co-operation of the Town, Oxford, 1892), p. 371.

    13. [S315] Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Oxford, Vol. 1, Marriages, p. 127.
      Amidown, Roger and Elizabeth Hunkins, 27 Oct. 1731

    14. [S315] Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dudley, Vol. 1, p. 134, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/7697/134/142385718.
      Amidown, Roger and [wid.] Rachel Rice, Feb. 28, 1757


 

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