Amos Slaymaker (March 11, 1755June 21, 1837) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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. His younger sister, Faithful, was the mother of the nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister
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.
Biography
Amos Slaymaker was born at London Lands in
Lancaster County in the
Province of Pennsylvania
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. He built and operated a hotel on the
Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike
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. During the
Revolutionary War, he served as an ensign in the company of Capt.
John Slaymaker. He was a member of an association formed for the suppression of
Tory
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activities in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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.
He served as justice of the peace of
Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania, and county commissioner from 1806 to 1810. He served in the
Pennsylvania State Senate
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in 1810 and 1811.
Slaymaker was elected as a
Federalist
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to the
Thirteenth
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Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
James Whitehill. He died in Salisbury in 1837.
References
Retrieved on 2009-03-01
The Political Graveyard
External links
FamilySearch: 1VGK-M29 (Amos Slaymaker)
1755 births
1837 deaths
Pennsylvania state senators
Continental Army soldiers
Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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