This is a rare 1762 Yale College Diploma of Amos Northrop.Please see photos.Signed by Yale President Thomas Clap and five others,including Thomas Ruggles,Solomon Williams,Elnathan Whitman,Noahus Hobart(Noah),and Moses Dickinson.
AMOS NORTHROP, 3d, the oldest child of Amos Nor-throp of New Milford, Connecticut, and grandson of Amos and Mary (Gunn) Northrop, of Milford, was born in the former town on December 19, 1742. His mother was Anna, oldest daughter of Solomon Baldwin, of Milford. His youngest brother was graduated here in 1776. Of his two sisters, the elder married the Rev. Abner Benedict (Yale 1769) and the younger was the mother of Professor Nathaniel W. Taylor (Yale 1807).
He lived in New Milford, and was appointed to the rank of First Lieutenant in Colonel Samuel Whiting's regiment, which was raised for service north of New York during the winter of 1776-77.
Later he is said to have served as commissary in the army. He died in New Milford, from consumption, hastened by exertions in the field, on March 19, 1779, in his 37th year.
He married on December 7, 1768, Anne, the youngest sister of Friend Grant (Yale 1761), by whom he had two sons and two daughters. The elder son was the father of the Hon. Birdsey G. Northrop (Yale 1841).
She next married, on January 11, 1780, Thomas Wells, Junior, of New Milford, by whom she had four children. Her husband died in 1826, and she died (in New Milford) on June 1, 1840, in her 89th year.
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