Ames, Thomas F. (1782-1859)

Name:

Ames, Thomas F. (1782-1859)

Title:

Adjutant, 20th Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, 1819-
Colonel, New Hampshire Militia
Member, Cheshire County Agricultural Society
Member, Social Friends Lodge, No. 42, F. & A. M., Keene, 1825-

Other Names:

Ames, Thomas Fay

Born:

04/14/1782

Birthplace:

Easton, MA

Died:

12/09/1859

Death Location:

Keene, NH

Residence:

Easton, MA 1782
Hanover, NH 1790, 1791
Keene, NH 1806-1859

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Saddler
Harnessmaker
Leatherworker
Chaisemaker, 1830

Father:

Ames, Jacob (1754-1837)

Mother:

Fay, Jane (1753-1811)

Relations:

Partnership Willard & Ames, Chaise Trimmers & Harnessmakers, Keene, 1806-1807
(Josiah Willard (1778-1859) and Thomas F. Ames)
Partnership, Thomas F. Ames & Company, 1839, 1843
(Thomas F. Ames, Abiel S. Tilden, and Thomas C. Ames)
Partnership, Ames & Tilden, 1849, 1854
(Thomas F. Ames and son -in-law, Abiel S. Tilden)

Spouse:

Rebecca Capen (1790-1869), March 24, 1807, Keene

Children:

Ann Rebecca, born May 27, 1809; died 1854; m. Abiel S. Tilden
Jane Fay, born December 24, 1811
Thomas Capen, born January 4, 1814; Septembr 21, 1846, Dubuque, IA
Silas Fay, born June 31, 1816
Marietta Gridley, born August 4, 1818
Frances Maria, born September 24, 1820
Caroline Fowle, born July 12, 1822
George Lafayette, born September 5, 1824
Horace Leavitt, born September 6, 1833

Notes:

Simon G. Griffin, A History of the Town of Keene, From 1732, When the Township was Granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, When It Became a City. (Keene, NH: Sentinel Printing Company, 1904), 362-363, 376, 398, 413, 415, 442, 453-454.

Charles C. Whittier, Genealogy of the Stimpson Family of Charlestown, Mass., and Allied Lines. (Boston, Massachusetts: David Clapp & Son, 1907), 74.

"Willard & Ames" Advertisement, New Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, NH, October 25, 1806, 7.

Advertisement, New-Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, NH, December 4, 1813, 4.

"Spring Saddles," New-Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, NH, April 18, 1828, 1.

"Notice," New-Hampshire Sentinel, Keene, NH, August 21, 1839, 1.

Woodland Cemetery, Keene, NH