Amos SILVESTER

Father: Joseph SILVESTER
Mother: Mary BARSTOW

Family 1: Elizabeth HENCHMAN

(1) The Mayflower Descendant, Volume VIII (1906); Scituate, Mass., Vital Records; page 205: "Amos SILVESTER & Elizabeth HENCHMAN were maryed November the 20th 1706"

  1. Amos SILVESTER
  2. William SILVESTER
  3. Joseph SILVESTER
  4. Henchman SILVESTER
  5. Michael SILVESTER
  6. Mary SILVESTER
  7. Nathaniel SILVESTER
  8. Caleb SILVESTER
  9. Edmund SILVESTER
  10. Mary SILVESTER
  11. Elizabeth SILVESTER
  12. Thomas SILVESTER
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                     _Richard SILVESTER _|
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 _Joseph SILVESTER _|
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|                   |_Naomi // __________|
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|--Amos SILVESTER
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|                    _William BARSTOW____|
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|_Mary BARSTOW _____|
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                    |_Anna HUBBARD_______|
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Notes

Updated January 5, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Amos SILVESTER
- Event Type: Birth
- Birth Date: 15 Nov 1685
- Birth Place: Scituate, Massachusetts
- Father Name: Joseph SILVESTER

(2) The Mayflower Descendant, Volume VIII (1906); Scituate, Mass., Vital Records; page 205.

"Amos SILVESTER + Elizabeth HENCHMAN were maryed November the 20th 1706"

(3) U.S. and International Marriage Records via Ancestry.com

- Name: Amos SILVESTER
- Gender: male
- Birth Place: MA
- Birth Year: 1685
- Spouse Name: Elizabeth HENCHMAN
- Marriage Year: 1706

(4) Find a Grave

- Name Amos SYLVESTER
- Birth: 15 Nov 1685
- Death: 23 Oct 1753 (aged 67)
- Burial: Hanover Center Cemetery; Hanover, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
- Memorial ID: 142556201

(5) Barry, John Stetson. A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., with Family Genealogies. Boston, published by Samuel G. Drake, 1853. Page 402.

"Amos [SILVESTER],... m. Elizab. HENCHMAN, Nov. 20, 1706, who d. Feb. 11, 1762, ae. 77, and he Oct. 23, 1753. His house stood on Wash'n st., near where that of Rob't. SYLVESTER now stands, and was for many years a Tavern stand, kept by his widow after his decease. He was Selectman in 1743, and a blacksmith by trade, his shop standing near the house. When the old mansion was torn down, two chairs were preserved, one of wh. is in the possession of Rob't, and the other of Michael SYLVESTER."

(6) Silvester, Albert Henry, "Richard Silvester of Weymouth, Mass., and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume LXXXV (Boston, MA: 1931), p. 263.

- Baptized in the Second Church of Scituate on May 30, 1686
- Yeoman, blacksmith
- A selectman of Hanover, Massachusetts in 1743
- House stood on what is now Washington St., in Hanover; a tavern, and was operated by his wife after his death (reported May 20, 1762)
- Tavern burned soon after the death of his widow

(7) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC.