Ancestry of
Amariah Dana

(1738–1830)

Amariah Dana

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Dana 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sumner   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1738 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Oct 1830 
  • Death Location:
  • Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • South Amherst Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Marriages for Amariah Dana

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  • Spouse:
  • Dorothy May
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jun 1763
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruth Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1780
  • Marriage Location:
  • Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts

• Sources for Amariah Dana

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Pomfret, p. 55, Birth record for Amariah Dana.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Pomfret, p. 56, Birth and death record for daughter Lucretia Dana.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/23/2022).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amherst, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth records for children of Amariah and Dorithy Dana.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amherst, Vol. 1, pp. 12-13, Birth records for children of Amariah Dana and Ruth Williams.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Amherst, Vol.1, p. 12, Marriage of Amariah Dana and Ruth Williams.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 1963, Vol. 39, p. 230.
  • ⁸ May, John, et. al., Journal and Letters of Col. John May, of Boston: Relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and '89 . . ., Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Col (1873), 7.
  • ⁹ Williams, Alicia Crane, Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1990), 170-172.