Second Generation  

2. James ARMITAGE [5571] (Samuel¹) was born on 27 Jan 1749 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA and died on 6 Sep 1816 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA at age 67.

James married Martha DENNIS [5574] [MRIN: 3080] on 11 Oct 1775.

Children from this marriage were:

   9 F    i. Elizabeth ARMITAGE [5575] was born on 2 Aug 1776.

   10 F    ii. Hannah ARMITAGE [5576] was born on 2 May 1778.

Hannah married Jacob WALTON [5584] [MRIN: 3081] in 1801.

+ 11 M    iii. John ARMITAGE [5577] was born on 12 Mar 1782.

   12 F    iv. Martha ARMITAGE [5578] was born on 9 Nov 1782.

+ 13 M    v. Henry ARMITAGE [5579] was born on 13 Jan 1785.

+ 14 M    vi. Samuel [III] ARMITAGE [5580] was born on 16 Oct 1786 and died in 1816 at age 30.

   15 F    vii. Letitia ARMITAGE [5581] was born on 22 Sep 1788.

Letitia married Samuel HARTLEY [5646] [MRIN: 3102] in 1810.

   16 M    viii. Charles ARMITAGE [5582] was born on 14 Feb 1794.

Charles married Jane BEANS [5645] [MRIN: 3103] in 1822.

+ 17 M    ix. Amos ARMITAGE [5583] was born on 7 Jan 1796.

8. Amos ARMITAGE [5666] (Samuel¹) was born on 21 Jul 1764 in Catawissa Columbia Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 20 Sep 1847 in York Co. Ontario Canada at age 83, and was buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Ontario Canada.

General Notes: Recorder of Birth's Deaths and Marriages of the Yonge Street Friends.c.1800
Amos was a carpenter, but like most craftsman of the period, farmed on the side. They moved shortly after their marriage to Catawissa, on the upper Susquanna River. They did not remain there long as the area was not fertile. They joined a number of other Quakers from Catawissa and the neighbouring Muncy Monthly Meeting and moved to Upper Canada in May 1804. They purchased 100 acres of land ( west half, Lot 92, Conc. 1 Whitchurch Twp) in Oct of that year.

Both Amos and Martha were appointed Overseers in 1805, and later became Elders as well. Amos also became the Clerk of the business meetings of both the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting and the Canada Half Year Meeting of which it was a part.

--Other Fields
Religion: West Half, Lot 92, Conc 1 Whitchurch Township, Oct 1804
History: Tuesday, Sept 30 , 1806 Timothy Rogers and Amos Armitage were appointed to wait upon the governor to present his address.
History: Amos and Martha moved from Bucks Co, PA to the area of the Maiden Creek meeting in central PA sometime before November 5, 1792 when Buckingham meeting granted them a certificate of removal, they having already "settled within your area". They were not received on certificate at Maiden Creek until May 26, 1794, however, probably because they located in the remote Roaring Creek area. In 1802, Amos succeeded as clerk of the Roaring Creek Preparatory meeting, which was subordinate to the Catawissa Monthly Meeting.
History: In 1804, on October 15th, Amos acquired 100 acres on Lot 92 of Concession 1 in Whitchurch township, York Co., Ontario. On November 22nd, he witnessed a wedding at the Yonge Street meeting, north of Toronto. It was probably at this time that he wrote to his friend, Charles Chapman, at Catawissa, "I hope by this time thou hast got rid of they property on that barren mountain and art making ready to come to a land as it were flowing with milk and honey". He resigned as overseer at Roaring Creek on December 12, 1804 and moved the family during the sleighing season of January-February, 1805. On February 6th, the family was received at Pelham meeting in the Niagara area and by February 21st, he was appointed Recorder of Marriages at the Yonge Street Preparatory meeting. He petitioned the government for 200 (prob. additional) acres in June and was approved.
History: In 1805 (Oct/Nov) he was involved with the repair of the old log meeting house and on December 19th was appointed, with Nathaniel Rogers, to contract for a burying ground. Finding it "needful" to raise 21 pounds to purchase the land, Amos was appointed treasurer and eventually one of the trustees of the land (in June, 1807), receiving the deed in March, 1810.
History: When the Yonge meeting achieved monthly status in September of 1806, an interim clerk (Nathaniel Pearson) was chosen. At the same meeting, Amos and Timothy Rogers were appointed to present an address to the Lt.Governor of Upper Canada, which they did and brought back a written reply on October 16th. Both the address and reply were printed in the Upper Canada Gazette on October 4, 1806.
History: At the meeting of October 16th, Amos was appointed the first permanent clerk of the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting. The following year, without reimbursement for personal funds used to maintain the meeting house, he resigned as clerk on October 15th. The next month, he was reimbursed over 5 pounds. When the new meeting house was planned, in the autumn of 1808, he was part of the committee to "carry on the work". He was clerk again from December, 1808 till June, 1809 and attended the Canada Half-Yearly meeting in January of 1810.
History: Taking part in the 1812 separation from the Yonge meeting by David Willson, he returned in 1816. When Phoebe Roberts and other ministers from Pennsylvania visited the area in 1821, they were hosted by Amos and Martha before their unsuccessful attempt to heal the separation. In 1824, another traveling minister mentioned both Amos and Martha as among the five elders at the Yonge meeting.
History: The Hicksite separation of 1828 finally severed the relationship of Amos and Martha from the Yonge Street orthodox Friends forever. Both of them continued in service as clerk and representatives of the Preparatory meeting of Hicksites. Amos purchased the minute book in 1832 and became clerk in 1833. Handwriting style in the book changes when his absence is noted, so it may be he was involved in the recording of minutes as well. Both were representatives to monthly and half-yearly meetings consistently between 1828 and 1841. Both are buried in the Hicksite cemetery at Yonge Street.

Amos married Martha DOANE [5670] [MRIN: 3114], daughter of Ebenezer DOANE [5671] and Anna Savilla SLOY [5672], on 14 Sep 1785 in Buckingham Monthly Meeting Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA. Martha was born on 15 Feb 1758 in Wrightstown Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 18 Oct 1840 in Whitechurch York Co. Province of Upper Canada at age 82, and was buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Province of Upper Canada.

Noted events in her life were:

• Occupation: Quaker Overseer.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 18 M    i. Seba ARMITAGE [5673] was born on 11 Jun 1786 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA and died on 27 Aug 1819 in Middletown Butler Co. Ohio USA at age 33.

+ 19 F    ii. Anna ARMITAGE [5674] was born on 26 Sep 1787 in Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 29 Dec 1865 at age 78, and was buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Ontario Canada.

+ 20 M    iii. Harvey ARMITAGE [5675] was born on 2 Mar 1789 in Catawissa Columbia Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 23 Apr 1877 in Mariposa Twsp. Victoria Co. Ontario Canada at age 88, and was buried in Apr 1877 in Friends Cemetery Woodville Mariposa Victoria Ontario Canada.

+ 21 M    iv. Amos ARMITAGE Jr. [5676] was born on 10 Apr 1790 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 30 May 1871 in Whitchurch Ontario Canada at age 81, and was buried in Hicksite Quaker Burying Ground Yonge Street Newmarket Ontario Canada.

+ 22 M    v. James ARMITAGE [5677] was born on 10 Jan 1792 in Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA.

   23 F    vi. Mary ARMITAGE [5678] was born on 5 Apr 1795 and died on 7 Jun 1801 at age 6.

+ 24 M    vii. Seth ARMITAGE [5679] was born on 24 Nov 1796 in Northumberland Co. Pennsylvania USA and died on 25 May 1877 in Whitchurch Ontario Canada at age 80.