Elijah Hildreth (1776 - 1853)

Born 25 Jul 1776 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Died 26 Aug 1853 at age 77 in New Ipswich, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

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Biography

Elijah was born in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, on July 25, 1776, the son of Elijah Hildreth and his wife Molly (Read).

Elijah married Isabella Caldwell, the daughter of John and Latitia (Richardson) Caldwell, on December 26, 1803. They had the following children, all born at Topsham, Vermont:

Isabella Hildreth (1804- )

Elijah Hildreth Jr. (1805- )

Eleazer Cummings Hildreth (1807- )

John Caldwell Hildreth (1808- )

Levi Currier Hildreth (1811- )

Jonathan Hildreth (1813- )

Elijah would live to be 77 years old, passing away in 1853.

Sources

• Vital records of Westford, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1915. Open Library Page 52

• Hildreth, Dorothy; G. J. Hildreth; Darel A. Hildreth. Hildreth family record 1605-1976 : relating to the descendants of Richard Hildreth (1605-1693), freeman, 1643, Cambridge and Chelmsford, Massachusetts through the thirteenth generation of Hildreth families in Midwestern United States. Genealogy Committee of the Hildreth Family of the Midwestern United States, 1977. ExLibrisRosetta Page 233