Jared Eliot M.D., D.D. (1685 - 1763)

Born 7 Nov 1685 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Smithson) Eliot — married 26 Oct 1710 in Killingworth, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 22 Apr 1763 at age 77 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut

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Biography

Name

Rev. Jared Elliott, M.D., D.D.

Occupation

Minister of Killingworth Congregation, Clinton, CT until his death.

Education

Clergyman and Physician

Notes

Eliot, the grandson of John Eliot, noted New England missionary, was graduated from the Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale College) in 1706. He taught for two years and then received a call as pastor of the Congregational Church in Killingworth (Clinton), Conn. He served as minister of the congregation until his death. He also became respected as a physician throughout New England.

• Fact: Burial Indian River Cemetery, Clinton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

Marriage

Mrs. Hannah Smithson married Jared Eliot in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, on 26 October 1710.^[1]

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49381980 : accessed 23 November 2016), memorial page for Jared Eliot (1685 - 1763) - Find A Grave Memorial.
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 52-6 & Page 344
• Pease, John Chauncey & Niles, John Milton. A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island (William S. Marsh, 1819) Page 284: He "invented or discovered the art of making sand-iron, being iron manufactured from black sand... He was a memmber of the Royal Society of London."
• Jeff Walton, transcribed from The Descendants of Rev. John Eliot, Capt. James Parker, Capt. Thomas Prentice from New England and Pulteney, New York, 1620-1967: Including references to the families of Mullins, Southworth, Bradford, Bridge, Stanton, Lord; compiled by Wilford V. Case; Syracuse, NY; December 15, 1967.
• Wikipedia: Jared_Eliot
• Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence (subscription). CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. Yale page 29
• Hollister, Gideon. The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 507-8
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 188-9
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 479-81

1. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/rd/12795/107/144304193