Judge John Eliot

From Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862):

[ELIOT] "JOHN, Newton, first min. of that town, then Cambridge vill. s. of the apostle, freem. 1660, ord. 20 July 1664, had w. Sarah, third d. of Thomas Willet, the disting. first Eng. mayor of N. Y. of wh. the Cambridge rec. gives date of d. 13 June 1664, but Jackson's Hist. says 1665. By her he had Sarah, bapt. 21 Sept. 1662, wh. m. 16 Nov. 1681, John Bowles. He m. next, 23 May 1666, Elizabeth d. of Daniel Gookin, had John, b. 28 Apr. 1667, H. C. 1685, wh. was a man of some distinct. at Windsor in Conn. At the age of only 32 he was cut off, 13 Oct. 1668, in his will of 15 Aug. preced. provid. for the two ch. and ano. if his w. Extrix. had one. She m. 8 Dec. 1680, Edmund Quincy. ".

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Taken from: "Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians",1598-1905";
By William Horace Eliot (jr.); The Tuttle, Moorhouse, a Taylor Printer; New Haven, Ct.; Pgs. 37-39

9. JOHN3,( John2, John1) Guilford and Windsor Conn lawyer and statesman; A.B. H. C. 1685. He was a deputy from Guilford to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut in 1696- 7. In 1701, and for many subsequent years, he was a deputy from Windsor, the last time in 1718. He was Speaker not less than eight times, for which he was allowed special compensation. During many sessions he was upon important committees. For many years he was appointed Justice of the Peace and Quorum for Hartford, Co. In 1708 he was granted a monopoly to manufacture tar and pitch. He also accepted an offer from the town of Windsor to work iron ore.
The County Court Records in New Haven, 1666- 1698, show that he was appointed Commissioner of the heirs of Major Thompson, Sept. 9, 1667. During his residence in Guilford, he was employed as a school teacher. He had the honor of a gift of land and was sent to the General Assembly.
When the institution, which finally became Yale University, was in its first beginning, his advice was sought and given in regard to legal procedures connected therewith.
In 1714 at a proprietors meeting in Northampton, Mass., it was voted to refer a matter respecting a land division to a committee of which John Eliot was one. According to the "Economic and Social History of New England, 1620- 1789", by William B. Weeden, his library was of an unusually high character. The most comprehensive list I have seen covers the library of John Eliott, Esq., at Hartford in 1719. It contains 243 titles (See Part III). The brilliant and permanent literature of Queen Anne had made hardly any impression in our colonies, but this collection had two volumes of 'The Tattler'. It is a most heterogeneous lot, old histories, sermons, a few medical books, and more upon law, miscellaneous literature almost all now unknown to the ordinary reader.
His maternal grandfather, Major General Daniel Gookin, applied to Harvard College for a scholarship for him, Sept. 12, 1682, saying His father left him but small matters (except his bookes), of outward things in order to bring him up to learning, which was his last desire at his death. After graduation he studied divinity and entered upon the work of the ministry, but must have soon discontinued it, When he took his second degree in 1688, his exercise is worded,"An Diversifi catio corporum Oriatur a motu". There is added, "Affirmat Respondens Johannes Eliotes".
According to the inscription on a horizontal slab over his grave in Windsor, he died March ye 25, Anno Christi 1719. Aetatus suae LII.
Quotation from will of Joseph Eliot, "Whereas My father, upon the decease of my last brother, Benjamin, gave me deeds of my brother's land and movable estate in immediate possession, yet with this provision that it should be only for covart, he being left alone in his old age and not to hinder his making his will according to his meaning and true intent, which he afterwards did, and therein gave a third part of his lands and goods to his grandson, my nephew, John Eliot who hath accordingly received his full part in the movables, and I have given him an imperfect deed of the lands; I do now confirm and ratify my father's will to him, so far as I am enabled by the deeds afore mentioned, but for several reasons see not light or ground any further as to the enlarging his portion, which reasons may be better concealed than published."
It will be seen from the foregoing that John Eliot," Apostle", made a will, but neither the original nor a copy of it can be discovered. The reasons for not enlarging the portion of John (No. 9), have been successfully concealed. Sibley (Harvard Graduates, vol. 3; p. 339) says his uncle Joseph (No. 4), wished him to pursue the clerical profession. Much to the scandal and regret of his uncle, as appears from his will, he became a lawyer and politician. In his chosen profession his career was eminently useful and creditable. He married, first, Oct. 31, 1699, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Stoughton, and widow of James Mackman. She was baptized Nov. 18, 1660; d. Nov. 24, 1702. He married, second, Mary, dau of John Wolcott of Windsor. She died about 1746.

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from: Sewall or Sewell of Coventry

Elizabeth Eliot

• F, b. 1712, d. 22 December 1794
• Elizabeth Eliot was born in 1712.1 She was the daughter of Judge John Eliot and Mary Wolcott. Elizabeth Eliot married Judge Thomas Chandler on 23 November 1732 in Windsor, Connecticut, their banns being entered in the town records of Woodstock, 21 Oct. 1732.2 Elizabeth Eliot died on 22 December 1794.

Children of Elizabeth Eliot and Judge Thomas Chandler:

• Lucy Chandler b. 18 Sep 1733, d. 28 Aug 1773
• John Chandler+ b. 4 Mar 1735/36, d. 1821
• Thomas Chandler Jr. b. 23 Sep 1740
• Elizabeth Chandler b. 17 Jan 1743/44
• Charles Chandler3 b. 28 Aug 1745, d. 4 Jan 1746/47

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