Elijah Geer (1765 - 1824)

Born 8 Jul 1765 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Phoebe (Dewey) Geer — married before 1788 in Connecticut

Descendants

Died 8 May 1824 at age 58 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

Elijah Geer was born at Kent, Connecticut, in July of 1765, a son of Ezra and Elizabeth (Canada) Geer; he married Phoebe Dewey by 1788. He died at Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1824.

Sources

• Birth (NEHGS; image of typewritten transcript): "Elijah, s. [Ezra & Elizabeth], b. July 8, 1765" -- Kent VRs, p. 39; 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/i/13279/39/236092200 (by subscription)

• Birth, parentage, marriage, and lineage: "The Geer Genealogy: A Historical Record of George and Thomas Geer and Their Descendants in the United States from 1623 to 1923", by Walter Geer, Brentano's, 1923, p. 25 & p. 38; https://books.google.com/books?id=w1lMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false and https://books.google.com/books?id=w1lMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKV-PGX : accessed 25 April 2021), Elijah Geer, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 232, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1; FHL microfilm 568,141.