Amos Hamlin (1766–1843), physician, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, and fought with the Massachusetts militia during the waning days of the American Revolution. Having moved in about 1800 to Durham, New York, he practiced medicine, was a surgeon in the state militia, 1808–14, and at various times held the offices of treasurer and secretary of the Greene County Agricultural Society. A member of the county’s medical society from 1808, Hamlin served as its president, 1823–25. Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, his friend and relation by marriage, described him as “a man of professional ability & experience and of good standing in society.” Hamlin ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1824. He died in Durham (H. Franklin Andrews, The Hamlin Family: A Genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable Massachusetts [1902], 224–5; The Pension Roll of 1835 [1835; indexed ed., 1992], 2:410; DNA: RG 29, CS, N.Y., Greene Co., 1810, 1840; Hugh Hastings and Henry Harmon Noble, eds., Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783–1821 [1901–02], 2:1000, 1500; New-York Columbian, 7 June 1817; Albany Plough Boy, 11 Nov. 1820; Medical Society of the State of New York, Transactions [1879]: 74, 76–7; Hastings, ed., Public Papers of Daniel D. Tompkins [1898–1902], 2:610; Michael J. Dubin, United States Congressional Elections, 1788–1997 [1998], 82).