Edward Elmer Jr. (1654 - 1725)

Born 1654 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Son of Edward Elmer and Mary (Unknown) Catlin

Husband of Rebecca (Fitch) Elmer — married about 1684 (to before 1696) in Windsor, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 31 Oct 1725 at about age 71 in South Windsor, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Edward was a son of the first Elmer in The New World, third son, fourth child of of seven of Edward and Mary Elmer. He was born in Hartford in 1654. Not too much is known about Edward except that he married Rebecca Fitch and raised a family, six children in all. Later he married Hannah and had three more children. At 71 years of age, Edward's life came to an end.

EDWARD ELMER (II) was born in 1654 in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of Edward Elmer and Mary (maiden name unknown, possibly Partridge). He married Rebecca Fitch (~1664-1710), daughter of Joseph Fitch and Mary Stone, around 1684 in Windsor, Connecticut. They had 9 children: Mary; Hezekiah (1686-Aft. 1754); Caleb; Amos; Hester; and Rebecca. Edward and his family were noted to be members of the Centre Church of Hartford. After his father passed he received 92 pounds from the estate. However, in 1681 he reopened the estate due to other debtor claims and the court appointed auditors to go over the accounts. In 1696 Thomas Long, whom married his sister Sarah, sued Edward and John as administrators of the estate because Sarah never received her share of the estate. Rebecca also died prior to 1696, as he remarried to Hannah (maiden name unknown). They had 3 children together: Hannah; Edward; and Ann. Hannah died around 1710 and Edward died in 1725, in Hartford, Connecticut. Edward’s estate did not leave a distribution to his children Mary, Hester, and Hannah, indicating they had passed before him.

Name

Edward Elmer Jr. ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Birth

1654 • Hartford, Connecticut Colony ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Marriage

1. 1683 • Edward married Rebecca Fitch ^[1][6]
2. by at least 1696 • Edward married Hannah _____ ^[1]

Children

1. Edward and Rebecca had six children:
   1. Mary Elmer 1684 – 1712
   2. Hezekiah Elmer (1686-aft.1754)
   3. Caleb Elmer (abt.1687-abt.1753)
   4. Amos Elmer (1689-)
   5. Hester Elmer 1692 – 1725
   6. Rebecca (Elmer) Diggins (abt.1692-aft.1745)
2. Edward and Hannah had three children:
   1. Edward Elmer (1702-bef.1785)
   2. Ann Elmer 1703 – 1730
   3. Hannah Elmer 1710 – 1755

Residence

1654 • Hartford, Connecticut Colony ^[2]

Death

October 31, 1725 • South Windsor, Connecticut Colony ^{[3][5][6][7][8]}

DNA

Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. William Elmer and Robert Elmore match on 35 out of 37 markers 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 (this profile) represented by Esco Elmer and Samuel represented by Robert Elmore have shown that men related to Edward Elmer carry Y SNPs R-A2276, R-A2278, R-A2280, R-A2281 and R-A2283 as family level SNPs.

In Addition, Big Y and YSEQ SNP testing show that Y line descendants of Edward Elmer Jr (this profile) carry Y SNP A2284 as a family level SNP.

Sources

• Johnson, Elmer-Elmore Genealogy (1899) Pg. 1-2
• Hartford Probate District, Vol. 3 (courtside), Pg. 155-56
• Hartford Probate District, Vol. 3, Pg. 168-69, Case # 1884
• Manwarning, A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records (1904) Vol. 1 & III, Pg. 195, 223
• The American Genealogist, Vol. 70, Pg. 20-21
• Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1985) Pg. 249
• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (1995).

Original text: EDWARD, b. about 1654 (aged eleven on 5 May 1665 [WMJ 503]); m. (1) by 1686 probably Rebecca Fitch [TAG 68:98-100, 102]; m. (2) by 1696 Hannah _____ [TAG 68:99, 102].

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

page 3. Original text: EDWARD ELMER, b. -----, d. 1676 (see Note 1). Children--- John, b. 1646, m. Rosamund Genivere, d. Dec. 21, 1711; Samuel, b. 1649, d. April 1691; Edward, b. 1654, d. 1725; Joseph, b. 1656, d. 1657; Mary, b. 1658, m. J. Diggens, d. 1712; Elizabeth, b. 1659, m. Jos. Edwards, d. 1673; Sarah, b. 1664, m. Thomas Long.

• Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
• Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [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. The Millennium File contains more than 880,000 linked family records, with lineages from throughout the world, including colonial America, the British Isles, Switzerland, and Germany.
• Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torrey, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
• Ancestry.com, 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.

SAR membership #67332

• Harris, Gale Ion. Jeremiah and Mary (Cadwell) Diggins of Hartford and Windsor, Connecticut, The American Genealogist (Barrington, RI, 1995) Vol. 70, Page 19.
• http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cemeteries/cgi-bin/cemetery.cgi?id=1186098&database=Cemetery%20Records&return_to=http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/&submitter_id=
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-691S-CLZ?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DG-82Q%3A353350301%2C353359401%2C353364401 : 25 October 2020), Hampshire > Northampton > Births, marriages, deaths 1654-1853 > image 10 of 464; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston, image10 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-691S-CLZ?i=7&cc=2061550&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ29L-L25H

This source gives birth of 28 Aug 1655.

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/55391403/edward-elmer : accessed 9 July 2021), memorial page for Edward Elmer (1654–31 Oct 1725), Find a Grave Memorial ID 55391403, ; Maintained by Sue Downhill (contributor 47347066) Unknown.

Name: Edward Elmer

Birth Date: 1654

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

Death Date: 31 Oct 1725

Death Place: South Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America

Has Bio?: Y

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Anderson
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} AGBI
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Elmer2
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Edmund
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Heritage
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Torrey
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} SAR
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} USFAG