Abraham Samuel Elston (abt. 1745 - aft. 1823)

Born about 1745 in Westfield, Union, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Jewell) Elston — married 28 Sep 1768 in Westfield, Essex, New Jersey

Descendants

Died after 25 Sep 1823 after about age 78 in Minisink, Orange, New York, USA

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Biography

Abraham Elston was born in 1745 in New Jersey to Samuel Elston and Sarah of uncertain maiden name, but some have claimed she was a Spencer. Others claim that Sarah Spencer was Abraham's grandmother, wife of his grandfather who was also named Samuel Elston. The Sarah Spencer profiled as Abraham's grandmother is Sarah Spencer; that profile was created by GED-COM import without sources; this ambiguity is discussed in a research note in that profile.

From ^[1]: "Abraham [was] almost certainly the son of Samuel and Sarah Elston [. He] lived in Essex Co., now Union Co., N.J., near Westfield and moved to Orange Co., N.Y., near Port Jervis. This is the only Elston family before the Revolution where we have public records of both the marriage and baptism (or birth) of the ch[ildren]." The move to Orange County was in fact to Minisink^[2]. While still in Westfield, he married Mary Jewell, 28 Sep 1768^[1][3].

His second marriage was to Sarah Dye.^[1]

Abraham's date of death is estimated as on or soon after 25 Sep 1823 when he made his final will, which was proved 26 Nov 1823^[4].

Research Note

While it is plausible that Abraham's middle name was Samuel (as that was his father's given name), and while this middle name appears in several other online trees, I ( Stu Elston) am unaware of any source that supports this.

The Find-A-Grave memorial^[5] for Abraham, giving his death date as 4 Sep 1823 is suspect given the record of his will, recorded as given at a later date and cited above in the main biography, the lack of a gravestone image, and the currently unknown details of his burial.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Elston, James Strode. The Elston Family in America. Rutland,VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1942; p. 88. Available online at the HathiTrust Digital Library: [1]
2. ↑ U.S. Federal Census. Year: 1790; Census Place: Minisink, Orange, New York; Series: M637; Roll: 6; Page: 365; Image: 330; Family History Library Film: 0568146. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3. ↑ "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 27 August 2020. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City. Also "New Jersey, Church Records, 1675-1970," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVY-99FJ-M?cc=2106099 : 3 October 2019), > image 1 of 1; Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.
4. ↑ Probate Records, 1787-1916; Index to Surrogate's Records, 1787-1941;Wills, Vol F-G, 1811-1824. Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (Orange County); Probate Place: Orange, New York; Source: Film recorded by Ancestry.com. New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.; Abraham's will is in Vol. G, p. 147, image 329
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #211930957 (accessed 28 December 2022)
   Memorial page for Abraham Elston (1745-4 Sep 1823); Maintained by Nan (contributor 46824729).