[NEHGR, 15:220, Jul 1861]
... Eleazer Fitch, b. 13 Jan. 1779, at N., m. Harriet Whiting, b. 14 Sept. 1779, youngest dau. of Col. William Bradford Whiting and Amie Lathrop of Canaan, N.Y. They settled at Albany, where she d. 13 July, 1804, leaving one child. He then m. 8 June, 1807, Elizabeth Chester, b. 10 Nov. 1774, at Weathersfield, eldest dau. of Col. John Chester and Elizabeth Huntington, and had by her three children : Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Schenectady, N.U., Rev. John Backus, D.D., Presbyterian clergyman at Baltimore, Md., and Mary the wife of James Bayard, Esq., of Philadelphia ; ...
