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- Edward Elmer came on the ship "Lion" from England, embarking 22 June 1632, per Pope, and arriving 16 Sept. 1632, per Savage. He settled at Cambridge, now Newton, where he was a proprietor in 1635, but sold his land before 1639 and was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, CT, one of Rev. Hooker's company. His home lot was on the east side of Maine St.. He was appointed chimney viewer in 1651 and was one of the first settlers at Northampton in 1654. There he was one of the first board of magistrates and and chosen recorder in 1656. He returned to Hartford in 1660 and there purchased a tract of 550 acres on the east side of the river in what is was Podunk, now South Windsor, CT. It was there that he was killed by Indians in June 1676, during King Philip's War. He had been freed from "watching and warding" there in 1667. His estate was large, consisting of 1,300 acres of land at Podunk and personal property valued at 1,021 pounds, 14 and 9. William Pitkin and Capt. Joseph Fitch were named overseers of his estete 6-7 Sept 1676. Alternate birth information: born about 1604, probably at Quinton near Northampton, per William Richard Cutter, Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. IV, (Orig. publ. NY, 1911; repr. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997), pg. 1975.
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