Elisha Wooster (1732 - 1797)

Born 5 Jul 1732 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Died 17 Apr 1797 at age 64 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, USa

Biography

Corporal Elisha WOOSTER 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born 6, 7 5 Jul 1732 in 'of Oxford'. He died 8 17 Apr 1797 in Oxford, New Haven, CT.

Elisha was the son of Samuel & Ann (Moss) Wooster

He was a Revolutionary War soldier

Sources

• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 98. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Ð 27." 1792 - Tax List - Oxford

http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.

• Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 101. .

• Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 2, p 491. "First Regt... Seventh Co." War Service Records - Campaign of 1756.

• Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 598. "Elisha,4, b 5 July 1732, d. unm.17 April 1797. He served in the French and Indian Was as a private in the Seventh Company, Fourth Connecticut Regiment, in 1755, as corporal in the same company in 1756, and for eighteen days in 1757 as a private in Captain Woodruff's militia. He bequeathed his entire estate by will to his "nephew Abel Waters, " having previously (on 26 Apr. 1788) given two deeds of property at Quaker's Farm (Oxford) to "Abel Waters son of Hannah Oatman wife of Samuel Oatman"."

• Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 83.

• Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of CT Families, vol 3, p 598.

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 318.

• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford, p. 51.