Amos Palmer was born in Litchfield, Conn., June 13,
1773. He was the second son of Ichabod B. and Mary
Palmer, and grandson of the Rev. Solomon Palmer, who
received orders as deacon and priest of the Church of England at the hands of the Bishop of Bangor, and served as a faithful missionary under the venerable society for the propagation of the gospel in Litchfield and its vicinity, where he entered into his rest a.d. 1771.

Amos came with his father to the town of Butternuts
(now Morris), Otsego Co., N. Y., at an early age, and helped to clear the forest from the farm on which he continued to reside until his death, — a period of nearly sixty years. This, in the outset, indicates the steadfastness and regularity for which his life in all its features was noted.

He married at the age of twenty-seven, and became the
father of eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity,
— two daughters and eight sons, — who honored and reverenced their parents, and witnessed to the world the blessed fruits under God of faithful training in the way they should go. He was a man who never wasted words ; he used but few of them and without jesting, always to the point, sound, decisive, and out of a conscience endeavoring to keep itself void of offense towards God and towards men. He had a time and place for all things, so that the affairs of his daily life were minutely arranged in regular order.

He continued firm and steadfast in the faith of his father,
knowing what he believed and why. To his efforts, that is,
his services as warden and lay reader, his liberal contributions of his means, his wise counsels, his constant attendance at services with his family, and, more than all, his unspotted Christian character and example, adorning his faith and profession, Zion church, in Morris, owed its establishment and continued prosperity more than to those of any other layman of his day. He departed this life in the peace of God through Christ, Nov. 1, 1861.

Clarissa, the wife of Amos Palmer, was the daughter of
Joseph and Martha Lull, and one of a family of sixteen
children, all but one of whom lived to be married, and have
families of their own. She was married Dec. 21, 1806, and,
with great self-denial, patience, and cheerfulness, did faithfully all the duties devolving upon her as wife and mother, until, in the providence of God, such duties were required of her no more.

She survived her husband about twelve and a half years,
during the most of which time she had a home with
her eldest daughter, Mrs. Jonah Davis, of the village of
Morris.

Such a home, under affectionate care, with every provi-
sion for comfort, joined with faculties remarkably good for
her age, attended the closing years of a life of duties well
done. Though reared a Baptist, she joined her husband in
faith and church soon after her marriage, and living as faithfully and consistently that in the end closed her eyes in the comfort of a reasonable religion and holy hope, and in her ninetieth year. May their good examples be blessed toward bringing all who knew them to have their perfect consummation and bliss together with them in eternal and
everlasting glory.

History of Otsego County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
by Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)

Publication date 1878 page 212