... Ely Burritt, born March 12, 1773 at Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York and died September 1, 1823 in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1800, and was licensed to practice medicine at Troy, New York, on March 29, 1802 and quickly gained recognition for his medical skills. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Mr. Blackleach Burritt Yale College 1765 (a great great-grandson of William Leete, a governor of the Colony of Connecticut) and Martha Welles (a great great-granddaughter of Thomas Welles, the fourth governor of the Colony of Connecticut).