Amos Lincoln

(March 18, 1753 – January 14, 1829) 

On December 16, 1773, twenty-year-old Amos Lincoln was apprenticed with master carpenter Thomas Crafts, who, in the early evening hours, assisted in disguising both Amos and Thomas Crafts Jr. before heading to the ships at Griffin’s Wharf. 

At the start of the Revolutionary War, Amos Lincoln was released from his apprenticeship and, according to the Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of 1775.  

The following year, Lincoln enlisted in Thomas Crafts Jr.’s artillery company as a Lieutenant on May 10, 1776, and was promoted to Captain in 1777. That same year, Lincoln reportedly fought at the battles of Bennington and Brandywine as well as the battle of Monmouth in 1778. However, Amos Lincoln was among a number of officers who signed a petition to the Massachusetts legislature resigning their commissions due to a lack of consideration of submitted grievances by the legislature. Despite resigning in 1779, Amos was re-commissioned as a Captain in Lieutenant Colonel Paul Revere’s Continental Army Artillery Corps. 

Amos Lincoln became part of the Revere family circle due to his military service, and marriage to Deborah Revere. After the Revolution, Lincoln joined the Lodge of St. Andrew and once again took up the carpentry trade, having contributed to the construction of the new state house in Boston, completed in 1798.  

Amos Lincoln died in Quincy, Massachusetts, on January 14, 1829. The exact location of his grave is unknown, but it may be in Boston’s Copp’s Hill Burying Ground.