Amos Slaymaker

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DiedJune 21, 1837(1837-06-21) (aged 82)
Amos Slaymaker
portrait by his daughter, Hannah Slaymaker Evans
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Born(1755-03-11)March 11, 1755
DiedJune 21, 1837(1837-06-21) (aged 82)

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]

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]

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