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182. JOHN ELDERKIN (c. 1616–1687)
The origins of the migrant ancestor John Elderkin are unknown. He was born about 1616. He died on 22 June 1687 in Norwich. He married the widow Elizabeth Gaylord of Windsor after 1657. [1]
John deposed that he was 56 years old in 1672. [2]
John Elderkin was a millwright, shipwright, house carpenter and general contractor for the building of mills, bridges and meeting houses in New London, Norwich and elsewhere. [3]
John Elderkin was chosen by the town of Pequot to keep an ordinary and this was confirmed by the Connecticut Court on 17 May 1655. [4]
Mrs. Lake and John Elderkin had a lot of eight acres divided between them, just south of William Comstock’s. land on Post Hill. [5]
John accumulated 700 aces on Saw Mill Brook and sold it to Mr. Antipas Newman on 22 April 1662. [6]
Children of John Elderkin:
i. Paltiah Elderkin (possibly) (#91) was born say 1650. She died after 13 November 1683. She married Daniel Comstock.
2. Caulkins, History of New London, 158–9.
3. Caulkins, History of New London, 158–9.
4. PRC, vol. 1, 276.
5. Caulkins, History of New London, 68.
6. Caulkins, History of New London, 96.
Revised November 19, 2019
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