Elisha Stocking

Elisha Stocking

• Gender: Male
• Birth: March 25, 1714 Upper Houses, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
• Death: April 04, 1775 (61) Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
• Place of Burial: Old Burying Ground, Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
• Son of Daniel Stocking and Jane Mould
• Marriage 1 - 26 Jan 1736/37 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States to Rachel Ranney
• Marriage 2 - 5 Feb 1740 Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, First Congregational Society to Margery Wilcox
• Marriage 3 - 4 Feb 1758 Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, First Congregational Society to Thankful Sage

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6. Elisha Stocking, b. March 25, 1714; m. (1) Rachel Ranney, (2) Margery Wilcox, (3) Thankful (widow) Butler

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stocking-367

Elisha was born 25 Mar 1714.

Elisha was quartermaster of troop of horse in the militia. He res. and d. in Upper Middletown, April 4, 1775. [1]

Elisha was married three times - first to Rachel Ranney, daughter of Joseph & Mary (Starr) Ranney, on 26 Jan 1736/7 at Middlesex, CT - their children were Lucy, Sarah & Grace

After the death of Rachel he married Margery Wilcox, daughter of Francis & Abigail (Graves) Wilcox, on 15 Feb 17401 at Middletown, CT - parents of Submit, Zebulon, Rachel, Theodosia, John, Elisha & William

He was married a third time to Thankful Butler in Feb 1758 at Middletown, Middlesex, CT - they had a daughter, Margery

Family

The Kirbys of New England: A History of the Descendants of John Kirby of ...”. By Melatiah Everett Dwight. Page 99. GoogleBooks

IV . Elisha Stocking of Middletown, Ct., youngest son of the preceding, born March 25, 1714; died Oct., 1775; married (1), Jan. 26, 1737, Rachel Ranney, who died March 16, 1739; married (2), Feb. 15, 1740, Margery Wilcox, daughter of Francis Wilcox, born —; died June 29, 1752; married (3), Feb., 1758, Thankful Butler.

Children:

• 1. Lucy Stocking, b. June 10, 1737; m. Thomas Kirby, son of John Kirby of Middletown, Ct.
• 2. Grace Stocking, b. Feb. 28, 1739; m., 1760, Nathaniel Savage.
• 3. Submit Stocking, bapt. Feb. 28, 1741.
• 4. Zebulon Stocking, bapt. April 4, 1742; m., April 9, 1765, Martha Edwards, b. 1744, dau. of David Edwards, Jr., of Middletown, by whom he had a daughter, Lucretia, who married, May 2, 1790, Hezekiah Kirby, son of . Joseph Kirby of Middletown, Ct.
• 5. Rachel Stocking, bapt. June 29, 1743.
• 6. Theodosia Stocking, bapt. Feb. 23, 1745.
• 7. John Stocking, bapt. May 6, 1750.
• 8. Elisha Stocking, bapt. Aug. 27, 1751.
• 9. William Stocking, bapt. June 26, 1757.]

References

• “The Kirbys of New England: A History of the Descendants of John Kirby of ...”. By Melatiah Everett Dwight. Page 99. GoogleBooks
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117241192/elisha-stocking
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elisha_Stocking_%281%29 cites
  • Daniel Stocking and Jane Mould, 50 Elisha Stocking and Rachel Ranney, in Stocking, Charles H. W. (Charles Henry Wright). The Stocking ancestry: comprising the descendants of George Stocking, founder of the American family 7, 11-12. "(50) Elisha (Stocking), b. March 25, 1714. m. January 26, 1737, Rachel Ranney." "Elisha was quartermaster of troop of horse in the militia. He res. and d. in Upper Middletown, April 4, 1775."
  • Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records 433. "Stocking, … Elisha, s. [Daniell & Jane], b. Mar. 25, 1714 [LR2:4]"
• Adams, Charles Collard. “Middletown Upper Houses, A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, From 1650 to 1800, With Genealogical and Biographical Chapters on Early Families and A Full Genealogy of the Ranney Family.” (The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers, New York) 1908. p. 157. https://archive.org/stream/middletownupperh00adam#page/157/mode/1up see at archive.org