Person:John Elderkin (2)

Emigrated from England to America about 1637 going first to Lynn, then to Dedham CT. Was the first proprietor of "The Cove" Occupation was carpenter and miller.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Elderkin, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
   104.

   "Elderkin, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1638; [Resided] Lynn, Dedham, Reading, Providence, New London, Norwich [EQC 2:270; DeChR 25; Wethersfield 2:98; Snow-Estes 1:447-50; New London Hist 1:58-59]."

2.   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)
   2:107.

   ELDERKIN, JOHN, Lynn 1637, Dedham 1641, Reading 1646, and two y[ea]rs. later at Providence, and of New London 1651, where he built both the first ch[urch]. and first mill, finally in 1664 sett[led]. at Norwich there also built the first ch[urch]. and mill, d[ied]. 23 June 1687 aged a[bout]. 71. He had Abigail, b[orn]. 13 Sept. 1641, but what was his w[ife].'s name, or whether she had more ch[ildren]. or when she d[ied]. is unkn[own]. Yet a d[aughter]. of this w[ife]. m[arried]. Daniel Comstock. He m[arried]. for. sec[ond[. w[ife]. Elizabeth d[aughter]. of John Drake, wid[ow]. of William Gaylord, and had Ann, b[orn]. Jan. 1661; John, Apr. 1664; Bathshua, Nov. 1665; James, Mar. 1671; and Joseph, Dec. 1672. His wid[ow]. long surv[ived]. him, and d[ied]. 18 June 1716, a[bou]t. 95; and the error in Hist[ory]. of Norwich, 117, whereby this date was made to belong to the h[usband]. is thus explain[ed].

3.   Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
   1:22.

   "John Elerkin deceafed 22^th of June Amo 1687"