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Amos Slaymaker

Amos Slaymaker

American politician

Amos Slaymaker (March 11, 1755 – June 21, 1837) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. His younger sister, Faithful, was the mother of the nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister George Duffield.[1][2]

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Biography

Amos Slaymaker was born at London Lands in Lancaster County in the Province of Pennsylvania. He built and operated a hotel on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.[3][4]

During the Revolutionary War, he served as an ensign in the company of Captain John Slaymaker. He was a member of an association formed for the suppression of Tory activities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[5][6]

A justice of the peace of Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania and county commissioner from 1806 to 1810, he then served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1810 and 1811.[7][8]

Slaymaker was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Whitehill.[9][10]

Death and interment

Slaymaker died in Salisbury on June 21, 1837, and was interred in the Leacock Presbyterian Cemetery in Paradise.[11][12]

References

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    "Slaymaker, Amos" (S000483), in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Washington, D.C.: Offices of the Historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, retrieved online, March 1, 2009.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos." Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Political Graveyard, May 10, 2022.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," The Political Graveyard.
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    Rupp, I. Daniel (1844). History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. pp. 126–128. ISBN 9780806351858.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," The Political Graveyard.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," The Political Graveyard.
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    "Slaymaker, Amos," in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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