Elias Burdick, the youngest son of Stephen, was born in Hopkinton, R. I., in 1780. He became a ship carpenter, but in 1816 came to Clifford township, Susquehanna county, and purchased a farm. In 1806 he married, for his first wife, Patty Brightman (1786-1810), who bore him two daughters, Patty, born in 1807, wife of Gideon Palmer, of Rhode Island, and Thankful, born in 1809, who married Abram Burdick of Clifford. For his second wife Elias Burdick married in 1811, Sarah Brightman (1788-1859), and by this marriage his children were: Luther (1812-1878), a farmer of Clifford township; Sally (1814-1877), wife of Samuel Cole, also deceased, who was a farmer of Clifford township; Mary, who married her cousin, Philip Burdick, of Clifford township; Julia, born in 1818, who married Rev. B. B. Palmer, a Methodist Episcopal minister of Nebraska (both now deceased); Stephen, born in 1820, a retired farmer of Clifford; Abigail, born in 1822, who married William H. Main (both are deceased); Elisha, deceased, born in 1824, who settled on the old homestead in Clifford township; and Caleb (1826-1874), a farmer in Clifford. Elias Burdick, the father, died on his farm in 1858, aged seventy-eight years. Billings Burdick, son of Stephen, settled in Greenfield township, Lackawanna Co., Penn., with his wife, Hannah.
