 1751 - 1806 (55 years)
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| Name |
Amos Melvin |
| Birth |
15 Jun 1751 |
Concord, Mass.  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Aug 1806 |
Concord, Mass. |
| Person ID |
I6274 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2002 |
| Family |
Anna Flatt, b. Abt 1763 d. 24 Jan 1830, Concord, Mass. (Age 67 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Amos Melvin, b. 15 Oct 1782, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. Charles Melvin, b. 4 Nov 1784, Concord, Mass. d. 11 Feb 1846, Lowell, Mass. (Age 61 years) |
| | 3. Anna Melvin, b. 1 Sep 1786, Concord, Mass. d. 25 Feb 1805, Concord, Mass. (Age 18 years) |
| | 4. James Flatt Melvin, b. 21 Jun 1788, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. John Melvin, b. 15 Jul 1790, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 6. Joshua Melvin, b. 28 Dec 1792, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. Emerson Melvin, b. 1 Mar 1795, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. Mary Melvin, b. 14 Jun 1797, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. William Melvin, b. 5 Dec 1800, Concord, Mass. d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 10. Phebe Melvin |
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| Family ID |
F3113 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
22 Feb 2009 |
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| Notes |
- "As a member of the Concord Minute Men, he was on guard the gray dawn of Apr 19, 1775, and as the news came that the British regulars were coming, he sprang to the little meeting house and, by his vigorous ringing of the bell, roused the people to a lively sense of their approaching danger" ("Palmer Groups" - Emily Leavitt") also, Amos went with others from Concord to Boston on an alarm and to convey stores thence and returned with empty teams in 1777.
Amos appears among the lists of "6 weeks men" in Dec 1775 and Jan 1776, and among the men forming the first guard at Cambridge.
That Amos married Anna Flatt is well authenticated by their grandchildren, but the imperfect town books of Concord do not bear the record, only stating that "Amos Melvin, husband of Anna, died Aug 13, 1806".
Amos drew up his will Aug 9, 1806. In it he left his estate in charge of his wife, who was to take charge of his nine children. Besides property in Concord, he also owned land in Acton, the adjoining town.
| From "Battle of Concord", published in "Our Country" |
CONCORD had been aroused. Dr. Prescott had reached the town twenty minutes after he left Revere and Dawes in the hands of their captors. He told Amos Melvin, the sentinel at the Court-house, that the regulars were coming. It was then about two o'clock in the morning of the 19th of April, 1775. That scion of a heroic family, who had battled with the French and Indians in recent wars, seized the bell-rope and rung out such a vehement alarm that the villagers were all aroused from their slumbers, and soon filled the streets.
(by Benson J. Lossing in 1877) |
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