Colonel Elizur Talcott

DAR Ancestor # A113367 Name on pension papers: Elizur Talcott

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Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 states he was a "soldier and patriot"

The following information concerning Jonathan Hale was copied from a genealogical notebook written in long hand by Lucy Josephine Hale Wright and evidentally copied by her from records kept by Othello Hale - Clement Hale Wright, 1954.

Colonel Elizur Talcott was a man of wealth and note in his day, possessing land in various places and was one of the large owners of the "Connecticut Tract" on the Susquehanna River, which he lost by the defect in the title of the State of Connecticut to the lands.

He held many of the principal public offices of the town during his life. He was chairman of the meeting in the town of Glastonbury which denounced the "Boston Port Bill". He held a commission as Colonel of a Troop of Horse previous to, and during, the Revolutionary War was called into the field and served with the Connecticut forces on Long Island in command of his troop; was in New York City while the British Army was marching in, and from there was taken home on a litter and did not again join the Continental Army. - See more at: http://skowlunds.com/getperson.php?personID=P1422&tree=skowlund#sth...

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