Jonathan Elmer (abt. 1686 - 1758)

Born about 1686 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Son of Samuel Elmer Sr. and Elizabeth (Garrett) Booth

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Elmer — married 1709 in Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1758 at about age 72 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Jonathan Elmer was the third son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Garrett) Elmer, born in 1685 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony in the New World. The following year he was baptized in the Center Church on May 8, 1687. Many of the church records in those days marked the baptism rather than the birth.

He moved to Norwalk before his marriage to Mary _____ in 1709. They resided in Wilton, then a part of Norwalk.

His name first appears in the town records of lands in 1712. In 1716, he was rated an inhabitant, and drawn as a grand juror. In 1733, he was a deacon in the church. He conveyed land in 1735 to Edward Elmer.

In 1746, the family moved to Sharon. He first purchased of Caleb Jewett, the lot on which Gov. Smith lived, and there resided till 1751, when he sold it to Jonathan Gillet and removed to what is now called the Martin place. He resided in Sharon until his death, which occurred January 5, 1758, at the age of seventy-three.

Name

Jonathan Elmer ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Birth

1686 • Hartford, Connecticut Colony ^{[1][4][5][14]}

Alternate birth date: 1685 ^[3][9][10]

Alternate birth date: 8 May 1687 ^{[6][7][8][15]} (This date was spurious and probably was meant to refer to baptism)

Baptism

8 May 1687 • Jonathan was baptized at the Center Church in Hartford, Connecticut Colony ^[10][11][12]

Marriage

1709 • Jonathan married Mary _____ in Norwalk, Connecticut Colony ^{[5][7][10][11][12]}

Children

Jonathan and Mary had children: ^[10][11][12]

1. Martin Elmer (1705-1778)
2. Elizabeth Jane (Elmer) Coe (1710-1794)
3. Eliakim Elmer (1714-abt.1758)
4. Daniel Elmer (abt.1718-)
5. Mary (Elmer) St. John (1719-1758)
6. Samuel (Elmer) Elmore (abt.1720-1805)
7. Abigail (Elmer) Keeler (1723-)
8. David Elmer (1725-abt.1789)
9. Jonathan Elmer (1727-1807)
10. Nathaniel Elmer M.D. (1733-1797)

Residence

1712 • Norwalk, Connecticut Colony ^[10][11]

1745 • Norwalk, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony ^[2]

1746 • Sharon, Connecticut Colony ^[10][11]

General History of the Town of Sharon Litchfield county, Conn. from its first settlement Author: Charles F. Sedgwick, A. M.

Page 128: Elmer, Deacon Jonathan, was from Norwalk, and came to Sharon in 1746. He first purchased of Caleb Jewett, the lot on which Gov. Smith lived, and there resided till 1751, when he sold it to Jonathan Gillet, and removed to what is now called the Martin place, near the stone bridge. There he lived till his death, January 5, 1758, at the age of seventy-three. He was highly respected as an officer in the church, and as a member of society. He had several sons, who lived in town, but there are none of his descendants bearing his name, remaining among us.

Call number: 2626020

Publisher: Charles Walsh

Title

Deacon ^[9][11][12]

DNA

Jonathan is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Robert Elmore and Esco Elmer match on 36 out of 37 markers (see FTDNA kits 364027 and 369990) thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA Edward Elmer.

Big Y and YSEQ testing of descendants of Edward Elmer's sons Edward and Samuel have shown that men on this Y line carry SNPs R-A2276, R-A2278, R-A2280, R-A2281 and R-A2283 as family level SNPs.

Death

5 January 1758 • Sharon, Connecticut Colony ^{[3][4][5][8][9][14][15]}

Alternate death date: 5 June 1778, in Sharon, Connecticut Colony ^[10][12]

Alternate death date: 5 June 1758 ^[7]

Burial

Hillside Cemetery (The Sharon Burying Ground) • Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony (Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States) ^{[9][11][14][15]}

Inscription: ^[9]

Notes

Elmore Historical Notes, by William Cronk Elmore

Jonathan Elmore resided in Wilton, then a part of Norwalk, CT. His name first appears in the town records of lands in 1712. In 1716, he was rated an inhabitant, and drawn as a grand juror. He conveyed land to Edward Elmer (a brother) in 1735. In 1733, he was a deacon in the church. In a history of Sharon, CT, by Gen. Chas. F. Sedgwick, it is stated that Deacon Jonathan Elmer came to Sharon from Norwalk in 1746, and resided there until his death in 1758. Several of Jonathan's children accompanied him to Sharon. One of them, Samuel, became a Colonel in the Revolutionary army. Col. Samuel Elmer adopted the spelling Elmore for his name, it having been so spelled in his commission, and he was also told by some British officers that Elmore was the way it was spelled in England. He appears to have persuaded some of his brothers, nephews and nieces to adopt this spelling. About 1801, Samuel moved to Vermont, where the town of Elmore was named after him, and presumably the mountain and state park bearing the name Elmore that appear on a map of the state.

Sources

• Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.

Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

Name: Jonathan Elmer

Birth Date: 1686

Volume: 50

Page number: 195

Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941. (The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 12 Dec 1934, 9565

• Connecticut, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Original data: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Connecticut Census, 1790-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

Name: Jonathan Elmer

State: CT

County: Litchfield County

Township: Norfolk

Year: 1745

Page: NPN

Database: CT 1635-1807 Misc. Records

• Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934. Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

Name: Johnathan Elmer

Birth Date: abt 1685

Age at Death: 73

Self Death Day: 5

Self Death Month: Jan

Self Death Year: 1758

Death Place: Connecticut

Gender: Male

FHL Film Number: 3121

• Elmer, L.Q.C. Genealogy Of The Elmer And The More Families (Published December 1930 by The Cornhill Publishing Company; Boston, Massachusetts)

Page 3: SAMUEL ELMER, son of Edward [Elmer], had children --- Samuel, b. 1677, d. February 1759; Edward; Jonathan, b. 1686, d. 1758 (see note 2); Daniel, b. 1689, d. Jan 14, 1755 (see note 3); and probably others. JONATHAN ELMER, son of Samuel 1st, had children--- Eliakim, _____; Martin, b. 1705, d. 1778; Samuel (see Note 4); Jonathan, b. 1727, d. 1807 (see Note 5); David, Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail.

Page 26: Note 2: JONATHAN ELMER, son of Samuel, and hrother of Rev. Daniel, resided in Wilton, then a part of Norwalk, Conn. His name first appears in the town records of lands in 1712. In 1716, he was rated an inhabitant and drawn as a grand juror; he conveyed land in 1735 to Edward Elmer. In 1733, was a deacon in the church.

A history of Sharon, by Gen. Chas. F. Sedwick, states that "Deacon Jonathan Elmer came to that town from Norwalk, in 1746, and resided there until his death, Jan. 5, 1758, at the age of 73."

Martin, one of his sons, died at Sharon, a bachelor, Aug. 8, 1778, aged 73.

For his son Samuel see Note 4.

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

Name: Deacon Jonathan Elmer

Birth Date: 1686

Death Date: 1758

SAR Membership: 41412

Role: Ancestor

Application Date: 12 Jun 1925

Spouse: Mary Elmer

Children: Nathaniel Elmer

• Family Data Collection - Births by Edmund West, comp. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.

Description: The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Jonathan Elmer

Father: Samuel Elmer

Birth Date: 8 May 1687

City: Center Church

County: Hartford

State: CT

Country: USA

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records by Edmund West, comp. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Description: The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Jonathan Elmer

Spouse: Mrs Mary Elmer

Parents: Samuel Elmer

Birth Place: Hartford, Hartford, CT

Birth Date: 8 May 1687

Marriage Place: Norwalk, Fairfield, CT

Marriage Date: 1709

Death Date: 5 Jun 1758

• Millennium File by Heritage Consulting. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.

Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.

Name: Jonathan Elmer

Birth Date: 8 May 1687

Birth Place: Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Death Date: 5 Jun 1758

Father: Samuel Elmer

Mother: Elizabeth

• Sharon, Connecticut and Northeast New York, U.S., Cemetery Index, 1750-1903 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Original data: Van Alystyne, L. Burying Grounds of Sharon, Connecticut, Amenia and North East New York: Being an Abstract of Inscriptions from Thirty Places of Burial in the Above Named Towns. Amenia, NY, USA: Walsh, Griffen and Hoysradt, Printers, 1903.

Name: Deacon Jonathan Elmer

Birth Date: abt 1685

Death Date: 5 Jan 1758

Death Age: 73

Inscription: Elmer, Deacon Jonathan, died Jan. 5, 1758, ae. 73

Cemetery: The Sharon Burying Ground

• Genealogical and Family History of Central New York; William Richard Cutter, A M. Published in New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912

Page 408: (III) Deacon Jonathan Elmer, third son of Samuel and Elizabeth Elmer, was born 1685, and baptized at the Center church in Hartford May 8, 1687. About 1712 he removed to Norwalk, and in 1746 settled at Sharon, Connecticut, where he died June 5, 1778. His wife Mary, born 1790, died at Sharon, January 22, 1783. Children: Elizabeth, Eliakim, Martin, Colonel Samuel, Mary, Daniel, Abigail, David, Rev. Jonathan and Dr. Nathaniel. Rev. Jonathan Elmer, born June 4, 1727, graduated at Yale at the age of twenty years, and was for some time pastor of a church at Florida in the town of Warwick, Orange county. New York; he married Amy Gale.

• Stiles, Henry Reed The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut, Case, Lockwood & Brainard company, 1891)

Data from Volume 2, Page 235: Fam. 8. Jonathan (Dea.) Samuel, Edward), bp. Center Ch., Htfd., 8 May 1687; m. Mary _____, who b. 1690, and d. Sharon, Conn., 22 Jan., 1783, in 93d year. He rem. To Norwalk, Conn., act. 1712, and to Sharon, Conn., 1746, where he d. 5 June, 1778, ae 73. Children:

1. Elizabeth, b. 1710; m. Jonathan Coe.

2. Eliakim, b. 1714; m. Lydia Trowbridge.

3. Martin, b. 1716; d. Unm’d.

4. Col. Samuel, b. 19 June, 1720; m. Mary Pardee.

5. Mary, m. Matthew St. John.

6. Daniel, M. Ruth Ford.

7. Abigail. B. 1723; m. Silas Keeler.

8. David, m. Jemima Curtice.

9. Rev. Jonathan, b. 4 June, 1727; m. Amy Gale, grad. Y.C., 1747.

10. Dr. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 1733; m. Anne Thompson.

• Olney, Sandra Sutphin. Passengers_On_The_Lion_From_England_To_Boston_1632 (Heritage Books, Maryland, 1992)

Dea. Jonathan ELMER (Samuel, Edward). Christened, 8 MAY 1687, in Hartford, CT. Died, 5 JUN 1778, in Sharon, CT.

He married Mary ( ). Born, 1690, in Hartford, CT. Died, 22 JAN 1783, in Sharon, CRT. Children:

i. Elizabeth ELMER. Born, CIRCA 1690, in Hartford, CT. She married Jonathan COE, 23 SEP 1737, in Durham, CT.

ii. Eliakim ELMER. Born, 1714, in Norwalk, CT. He married Lydia THROWBRIDGE, 9 MAY 1735, in Wilton, CT.

iii. Martin ELMER. Born, 1716, in Norwalk, CT. Died, 9 AUG 1780, in Sharon, CT (unmarried).

iv. Col. Samuel ELMER.

v. Mary ELMER. Born in Norwalk, CT. She married Matthew ST. JOHN, son of Matthew ST. JOHN and Ann WHITNEY, 1737, in Wilton, CT.

vi. Daniel ELMER.

vii. Abigail ELMER. Born, 1723, in Norwalk, CT. She married Silas KEELER, 14 APR 1746, in Ridgefield, CT.

viii. David ELMER.

ix. Rev. Jonathan ELMER.

x. Dr. Nathaniel ELMER.

• Phoenix, Stephen Whitney. The Whitney Family of Connecticut (New York, 1878) Vol. 1, Page 34. See footnote.
• Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library.

Name: Jonathon Elmer

Age: 73

Birth Date: abt 1685

Death Date: 5 Jan 1758

Burial Place: Sharon, Connecticut, USA

Cemetery: Hillside Cemetery

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22892920/deacon-jonathon-elmer : accessed 31 December 2021), memorial page for Deacon Jonathon Elmer (8 May 1687–5 Jan 1758), Find a Grave Memorial ID 22892920, citing Hillside Cemetery, Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Jan Franco (contributor 46625834).

Name: Deacon Jonathon Elmer

Birth Date: 8 May 1687

Birth Place: Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America

Death Date: 5 Jan 1758

Death Place: Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States of America

Cemetery: Hillside Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States of America

Has Bio?: Y

Acknowledgements

• Elmer-262 was created by Jeff Taylor on 11 June 2013.

See Also

• Place sources here.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Godfrey Memorial Library
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Connecticut, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Genealogy Of The Elmer And The More Families
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Family Data Collection - Births
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Family Data Collection - Individual Records
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Millennium File
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5} Sharon, Connecticut and Northeast New York, U.S., Cemetery Index, 1750-1903
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7} Genealogical and Family History of Central New York
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7} The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5} Passengers On The Lion From England To Boston 1632
13. ↑ The Whitney Family of Connecticut
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3} Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3} FindAGrave.com