Family:Eleazer Backus and Elizabeth Chester (1)

Parents: Ebenezer Backus and Elizabeth Fitch Eleazer Fitch Backus b. 13 Jan 1770 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States	Parents: John Chester and Elizabeth Huntington Elizabeth Chester b. 10 Nov 1774 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Facts and Events

Marriage^[1]

8 Jun 1807

Children

		Birth
1.	Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D.	Abt 1808 Albany, New York, United States
2.	Rev. John Backus, D.D.	Abt 1810 Albany, New York, United States
3.	Mary Backus	Abt 1812 Albany, New York, United States

References

↑ Family Recorded, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society).

[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 ; ...