Elijah
Burritt
Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Daniel Burritt
and Comfort (Nichols) Burritt
Husband of
Sarah (Fairchild) Burritt
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Daniel Burritt, Anne (Burritt) Sherman, Mercy (Burritt) Fayerweather, Phebe (Burritt) Hawley, Hannah (Burritt) Shelton and Mary (Burritt) Nichols
Died
at about age 98
in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Mar 2017
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Biography
- m1. Sarah Hall, dau. of John Hall of Bridgeport, Conn.
- Daniel, merchant, Bridgeport, known as Colonel Burritt, unmarried.
- Comfort, died young
- Ann, married Ephraim Wheeler Sherman, and had issue, three sons and three daughters
- Hannah, m. Silas Shelton, of Huntington, and had two sons five daughters
- Mercy, m. Capt. James Fayerweather, of Bridgeport
- Phoebe, m. Capt. Samuel Hawley, No. 2,335 in the Hawley family record.
- m2. Sarah Fairchild of Redding, Conn.
- Mary, m. Barak T.Nichols
- m3. Sarah (Chappell) McLean, widow of Dr. John McLean, physician, Norwalk, Conn. Children: Sarah, m. George Wade, Bridgeport
In 1767, he received a distribution from his father's estate.[1]
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- Burritt, Lewis. The Burritt Family in America: Descendants of William Burritt of Stratford, Connectucut, 1635-1940 (n.p., 1940) Page 31
- Raymond, Esq., M. D., Rev. Blackleach Burritt and Related Stratford Families, Fairfield Historical Society, Reports and Papers (The Standard Assoc., Bridgeport, 1882) Page 7-9
From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:
- US, Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1841
- Connecticut Deaths Index, 1841
- Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, 1841
Sources
- ↑ “Probate Records, v. 15-16, 1764-1775”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-Y938-T : 17 June 2022), FHL microfilm 007627304, image 238-239, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 15, 1764-1767, Page 439-441.
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