Amos Geer, Esq.

"AMOS GEER, died May, 1821. Graduated at Yale College 1757. Amos Geer was a farmer and filled many town offices. He was Justice of the Peace a great many years. He was a superior penman, and old documents in his fine handwriting are still preserved in the records of Groton from 1781 to 181 5; and during that period he performed the marriage ceremony for more than a hundred couples, as it was customary in those days to call upon a civil magistrate rather than a clergyman for that service.

He was appointed by the town one of the Committee of Correspondence, 20 June, 1774, in the Cause of Liberty for the Colonies, after the British had ordered the port of Boston closed. He represented the town of Groton in the State Legislature in the year 1780, two terms, and again in 1790. He died 19 May, 1821, aged 85. His son Amos, Jr., succeeded him on the same farm (1772-1865), and he was succeeded by his son Jacob Allyn (1817-1857) a successful farmer and school teacher many winters. His son. Deacon Isaac Gallup Geer, is the present owner and occupant. He has held various town and church offices. He Was elected to the Connecticut Legislature for 1913-1914."

Source: Genealogy of the Geer family in America from 1635 to 1914, by Walter Geer, p 190-191

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Amos Geer, Esq., son of Robert Geer, Jr., and Abigail (Greenman) Geer, was born April 14, 1736, in North Groton, on the place now occupied by his great-grandson, Dea. Isaac Gallup Geer. He was graduated at Yale College in the class of 1787. He was a superior penman ; and many old documents, in his elegant hand, are still preserved— among them the records of Groton for the years 1797 and 1804. He served the town 34 years as justice of the peace, from 1781 to 1815, and during that period performed the marriage ceremony for more than one hundred couples, as it was customary in those days to call upon a civil magistrate rather than a clergyman for that service. He was appointed by the town one of the committee of correspondence, June 20, 1774, in the cause of liberty, after the British had ordered the port of Boston closed. . He represented the town of Groton in the State Legislature in the year 1780—two terms and again in 1790.

He died May 19, 1821, aged 85. He had ten children. His son, Amos Geer, Jr., succeeded him on the same farm. Amos Geer, Jr. (1772-1865), was succeeded by his son, Jacob A. Geer (1817-1857), and he by his son, the present occupant. Dea. I. G. Geer has, within a few years, added to his landed possessions by purchasing the adjoining farm on the east, known as the Seabury Thomas farm, which includes the ledge known as Winthrop's ledge, as it was granted, to Gov. John Winthrop, May 6, 1656, and described as "the stone quarry, south-east of Poquetanuck river, near the foot-path from Mohegan to Mistick."—Miss Caulkins. [E. G]

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF LEDYARD 1650-1900, by Rev. John Avery, published by Noyes & Davis: Press, Norwich, Connecticut, 1901 p 207