Elihu
Baxter
Born in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut,
Ancestors 
Son of William Baxter
and Unknown (Unknown) Baxter
Brother of
William Baxter UE, Christiana (Baxter) Bill, Persis (Baxter) Phelps, John Baxter, Abigail Baxter, Hiram Baxter and Demaris (Baxter) Herrick
Husband of
Tryphena (Taylor) Baxter
— married
19 Dec 1776 in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire
Descendants 
Father of
William Baxter, Ira Baxter, Elihu Baxter Jr., Tryphena (Baxter) Root, Lavina Baxter, Chester Baxter, Erastus Baxter, James Baxter, John W Baxter, Climena Baxter, Lavina Baxter, Zylpha (Baxter) Sweatt, Harry Baxter, Hiram Baxter and Statira (Baxter) Shepard
Died
at age 85
in Norwich, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Jul 2011
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Biography
Elihu Baxter served with Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.
son of William Baxter
April 4, 1776 enrolled in Capt James Osgood's Co, Col Bedel's Regt NH troops September 177 re-entered in Col Peter Olcott's Reg, Gen Gates army
He is listed among the members of Capt. James Osgood's Co. in Col. Bedel's Regt. in 1776. As a Private he received two months wages, 40s bounty, 15s blanket money, and 1 d per mile billeting. On Apr. 4, 1776 he was given 4.16.10..[1]
Capt. Timothy Bush's company under Col. Peter Olcott at the time the enemy came to Royalton Oct 16, 1780.
Payroll of a company of militia under the command of Lt. James Smalley, employed in guarding at Stratford at the time of the alarm at Newbury, under the direction of Col. Peter Olcott, of Norwich Oct. 24, 1780.
He married Tryphena Taylor on December 19, 1776
Children:
- William Baxter (1778-1827) m Lydia Ashley
- Ira Baxter (1779-1838)m Arsena Sprague
- Elihu Baxter (1781-1863) m1 Clarissa Simms, m2 Sarah Cone, died in ME
- Tryphena Baxter (1783-1837) m Josiah Root, died in Michigan
- Lavina Baxter (1785 -1791)
- Chester Baxter (1785-1865) m Hannah Root
- Erastus Baxter (1787-) m Lucy Freeman, died in NY
- James Baxter (-1838) m Caroline Baxter, died in Canada
- John Baxter (1792 - 1817)
- Lavina Baxter (1785-1791) twin of Climena
- Climena Baxter (1794-1815)
- Zylpha (Baxter) Sweatt (abt.1797-1866)
- Harry Baxter (1799-1852) m1 Sophronia Steele, m2 Adeline W. Thompson
- Hiram Baxter (abt.1801-1807)
- Statira Baxter (1803-) m Horace Shephard
Sources
- Memorial of the Baxter family By Joseph Nickerson Baxter (1879)
- Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume 3 By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs
- The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 75 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
- Maine in war, organization and officers of the society By Sons of the American Revolution. Maine Society
- ↑ Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to May 1777. Compiled and edited by Isaac W. Hammond A.M., 1885 Concord, NH, Parsons B. Cogswell, State Printer. Page 274. Republished by Archive.org
- "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDKC-QQW : 31 December 2014), Elihu Baxter and Tryphena Taylor, 19 Dec 1776; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 16,101.
- "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XFNL-X9W : 5 November 2017), Elihu Baxter, 1835, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,473.
- Find A Grave Memorial# 80433227
- Walter Hill Crocket, Soldiers of the Revolutionary War Buried in Vermont, and Anecdotes and (Vermont Historical Society read in the Hall of the House of Representatives: n.p., 1904), 32.
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~0.39%
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