Source: Great Quotes from Histories or Bios Concerning John Elderkin
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History snippets about John Elderkin in various histories and genealogies. An example is this:
SAVAGE, VOL 2 DICT FIRST SETTLERS OF NE Page 61
ELDERKIN, JOHN, Lynn 1637, Dedham 1641, Reading 1646, and two yrs. later at Providence, and of New London 1651, where he built both the first ch. and first mill, finally in 1664 sett. at Norwich there also built the first ch. and mill, d. 23 June 1687 aged a. 71. He had Abigail, b. 13 Sept. 1641, but what was his w.'s name, or whether she had more ch. or when she d. is unkn. Yet a d. of this w. m. Daniel Comstock. He m. for. sec. w. Eliz. d. of John Drake, wid. of William Gaylord, and had Ann, b. Jan. 1661; John, Apr. 1664; Bathshua, Nov. 1665; James, Mar. 1671; and Joseph, Dec. 1672. His wid. long surv. him, and d. 18 June 1716, aet. 95; and the error in Hist. of Norwich, 117, whereby this date was made to belong to the h. is thus explain. JOHN, Norwich,s. of the preced. m. 1685, Abigail Fowler. Four of the name had in 1829 been gr. at Yale. |