Samuel (Elmer) Elmore (abt. 1720 - 1805)

Born about 1720 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Died 23 Aug 1805 at about age 85 in Lake Elmore, Elmore, Lamoille, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Colonel Samuel (Elmer) Elmore served with Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment (1776), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Samuel (Elmer) Elmore is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A038046.

Samuel (Elmer) Elmore is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-154356
Rank: Colonel

When Samuel Elmer was born on January 19, 1720, his father, Jonathan, was 34 and his mother, Mary, was 30. He had five children with Mary Pardee and three children with Sylvia Hunter. For his service in the American Revolution, he (along with 60+ others) was granted lands in Vermont where the town of Elmore was named after him. He died on August 23, 1805, having lived a long life of 85 years, and was buried in Lake Elmore, Vermont.

Genealogy of the Elmer and the More Families As Originally Compiled By The Honorable L. Q. C. Elmer To which has been added such additional data as could be gathered from various members of the family BY Brookes More Pages 33-34 Note 4

SAMUEL ELMER, son of Deacon Jonathan Elmer, and great-grandson of Edward, was a major in Hinman's regiment, in 1775, and afterwards a colonel in the New York line.

Ebenezer Elmer records in his journal, Sept. 2d, 1776, "was introduced to Colonel Elmer and found him to be a son of Jonathan Elmer, brother to my grandfather, Daniel Elmer.

Had considerable conversation with him; he appears to be a free, familiar man, and an old soldier. His name is Samuel; has a son who is lieutenant.” During the succeeding winter he met him again at Ticonderoga.

Samuel adopted the spelling Elmore, the name having been so spelled in his commission. In the old Connecticut records, it is spelled Elmer, Elmar, Elmor, and Elmore; such variances in spelling names being then very common. In 1779-81 he was a representative from Sharon in the General Assembly. About 1801 he removed from Sharon to Vermont, where the town of Elmore is named from him. His son John, who died at Canaan Corner, Conn., was a representative in the General Assembly thirteen times, between 1802 and 1815; and his son John, Jr., was a representative from the same town in 1837; he died in 1856. It I believed that some of his descendants are still living, but this has not been ascertained.

Name

Samuel Elmer Jr. ^[1][2]

Surname changed to Elmore before the American Revolution.

Birth

10 June 1720 • Connecticut

Alternate: 19 January 1720 ^[2]

Alternate: 19 June 1720 ^[1]

Marriage

1. About 1745 • Samuel married [Pardee-180|Mary Pardee] ^[1]
2. Samuel married [Hunter-7709|Sylvia Hunter] ^[1]

Children

Samuel and Mary had children: ^[1]

1. Martin Elmer 1746–1759
2. Samuel Elmer 1752-1777
3. Mary Elmer 1754-1843
4. Mehitable Elmer 1756-1831
5. Marvin Elmer 1759–1759

Samuel and Sylvia had children: ^[1]

1. Martine Elmer 1764-1856
2. John Elmer 1765-____
3. Jesse Elmer 1767-____

Military Service

French and Indian War: ^[3]

Campaign of 1756, Second Regiment. Eighth Company. Samuel was the First Lieutenant under Captain Ruggles.

Campaign of 1757, Col. Lyman's Regiment. Ninth Company. Samuel was the First Lieutenant under Captain Jeffries.

American Revolution:

Continental Regiments, 1776 • Col. Samuel Elmore had his own regiment. It is listed under the 10th Connecticut Regiment. It was made up mostly of Connecticut men and based at Fort Stanwix. ^[4]

Connecticut Line: Fourth Connecticut: 1st May, 1775, to 20th December, 1775 ^[5]

Quoted from RevolutionaryWar.US

Elmore's Regiment

(aka 10th Connecticut Regiment)

Authorized 8 January 1776 in the Continental Army as a regiment to be raised from the troops in service in Canada and assigned to the Canadian Department.

Organized 15 April 1776 at Quebec, Canada, as Elmore's Regiment, to consist of eight companies, primarily from Connecticut. Reassigned 2 July 1776 from the Canadian Department and assigned to the Northern Department.

Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment was raised under authority of the Continental Congress, to serve for one year from April, 1776, and credited to Connecticut.

The Colonel, Samuel Elmore, had served as Major of Hinman's Regt. in the Northern Dept. in 1775, and again as Lieut.-Col. of Wooster's provisional Regt. in the winter of '75-'76.

Elmore and most of his company officers recruited their men in Connecticut and to some extent from the regiments that served in the North.

Some of the officers belonged in New York and a few in Massachusetts, and men were recruited from both of those states.

The regiment took the field in July, '76, under Schuyler, and on August 25th marched from Albany "into Tryon County." During the remainder of its term, it was posted at Ft. Stanwix and vincity.

Disbanded in May 1777 at Fort Schuyler, New York.

Politics

1802-1815 • Representative from Sharon in the General Assembly

Death

23 August 1805 • Elmore, Lamoille, Vermont, United States ^[2]

Burial

Lake Elmore Cemetery • Lake Elmore, Lamoille, Vermont, United States ^[2]

Notes

History of the Elmore Family with Biographical Notes, "...was a major in Hinman's regiment in 1775, and afterwards a Colonel in the New York line." "Samuel adopted the spelling Elmore, the name having been so spelled on his commission. In the old Connecticut records it is spelled Elmer, Elmar, Elmor, and Elmore; such variances in spelling nmes being then very common. In 1779 - 1781, he was a Representative from Sharon, Conn., in the General Assembly. About 1801, he removed from Sharon to Vermont, where the town of Elmore is named after him. His son John, who died at Canaan Corner,Conn., was a representative in the general assembly thirteen times between 1802 and 1815, and his son, John, Jr., was a representative from the same town in 1837. He died in 1856."

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

• Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian War, 1755-62 [database on-line]. Guertin, Iris, Rose, compiler. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Original data: Connecticut Historical Society. Rolls of Connecticut Men in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762. Vol. I-II. Hartford, CT, USA: Connecticut Historical Society, 1903-1905.

Page 277: Second Connecticut Regiment under Colonel & Captain Nathan Whiting. Tenth Company: Captain Samuel Elmore

• Rolls of Connecticut men in the French and Indian war, 1755-1762; Connecticut Historical Society; Bates, Albert Carlos, 1903.

Page 124: Campaign of 1756, Second Regiment. Eighth Company -- Captain Ruggles

Benjamin Ruggles [of New Milford], Captain.

Samuel Elmor, First Lieutenant.

Jehiel Barnum [of Kent], Second Lieutenant.

Page 185: Campaign of 1757, Col. Lyman's Regiment. Ninth Company -- Captain Jeffries

John Jeffries [of Cornwall], Captain

Samuel Elmor, First Lieutenant.

Adam Hinman [of Woodbury], Secnd Lieutenant.

Hezekiah Baldwin [of New Milford], Ensign.

• Historical register of officers of the Continental army during the war of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783; Heitman, Francis B. (Francis Bernard), 1838-1926; Washington, D. C.; W. H. Lowdermilk & Co.; 1893; archive.org.

Page 17: Connecticut Line: Fourth Connecticut

Colonel Benjamin Hinman, 1st May, 1775, to 20th December, 1775.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Pitkin, 1st May, 1775, to 20th December, 1775.

Major Samuel Elmore, 1st May, 1775, to 20th December, 1775

• Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 1775-1783; Connecticut Historical Society; Volume VIII; Pages 16, 17, 41, 43

Page 41: Continental Regiments; Col. Elmore's Regiment. Capt. Woodbridge's Company. A Pay Roll of Cap Theodore Woodbridge' Company in Col Elmores in the Service of the United States of America -- From the 16th Day of April 1776 -- to the 31st Day of July both Days included.

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

21. Col. Samuel Elmer (Dea. Jonathan, Samue, Edward). Born 19 JUN 1720, Norwalk, CT. [Note 2]

He married, first, Mary PARDEE. Born, 1728. Died, 16 AUG 1760, in Sharon, CT [Note 16]. Children:

i. Samuel [Note 5] ELMER. Born, 7 AUG 1752, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

ii. Mary ELMER. Born, 24 APR 1754, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

iii. Mehitable ELMER. Born, 14 JAN 1756, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

He married, second, [Hunter-7709|Sylvia ( )]. Born, 1728. Died, 9 AUG 1792, in Sharon, CT [Note 16]. Children:

iv. Martine ELMER. Born, 16 JAN 1764, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

v. John ELMER. Born, 3 AUG 1765, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

vi. Jesse ELMER. Born, 26 JUN 1767, in Sharon, CT [Note 35].

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 04 October 2020), memorial page for Col Samuel Elmore (19 Jan 1720–23 Aug 1805), Find a Grave Memorial no. 14296703, citing Lake Elmore Cemetery, Lake Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont, USA ; Maintained by Denise (Deni) Earle (contributor 46620406).

Name: Col Samuel Elmore

Birth Date: 19 Jan 1720

Death Date: 23 Aug 1805

Cemetery: Lake Elmore Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Lake Elmore, Lamoille County, Vermont, United States of America

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Acknowledgments

• This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Elmer-462 was created by Robert Elmore through the import of Elmore.ged on Jan 8, 2015.

See Also

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Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Passengers On The Lion From England To Boston 1632
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} FindAGrave.com
3. ↑ Rolls of Connecticut men in the French and Indian war, 1755-1762
4. ↑ Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution
5. ↑ ]]#USRW|Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, April, 1775, to December, 1783]]