>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 97 17:57:47 UT >From: "DAVID NOONAN" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected], "Philip R. Matthews" <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Eldridges >Sender: [email protected] > >Hi Philip, I have a book "CHATHAM", by William C. Smith, third edition, 1981. >History of Chatham, with Eldredges. > >Barnabas, family of, >Page 342: (Barnabas Eldredge) Youngest son of Jehoshaphet and Elizabeth >(Covell) Eldredge, b. about 1710; m. Mary Hurd of Eastham Oct. 20, 1733 >(east. Rec.). he lived at Chatham on Eldredge Neck adjoining his father's >farm. >Children (Chat. Rec.): >1. Edward b. Sept. 9. 1736, m. Adne Hammond of Dartmouth (int. Nov.19, 1762): >lived at Dartmouth, later moved to Duanesbury and then Sharon, N. Y. >2. Asabel, b. Oct. 27, 1739: died Jan. 18, 1743. >3. Barnabas, b. Oct. 7, 1743, m. Patience Crowell of Yarmouth about 1763 and >lived there. >4. Zenas, b. Apr. 11,1748, m. Dorcas Eldredge, Aug. 8,1765 and soon joined the >emigration to Dutchess Co. N.Y. >5. Marah (Mary?), b. June 12, 1750: perhaps m. Samuel Doane, Dec. 17, 1771 >(Chat. Rec.). >6. Asabel, b. Aug 12, 1752, died Jan. 8, 1753. >7. Asabel, b. "Bar." 6, 1755, died soon. >8. Levi, b. Nov. 21, 1756, died Dec. 23, 1756. >The above is from a foot note #4, town meeting called for December 17, 1772. >Barnabas Eldredge was on the "Committee of Correspondence", reported the form >of a letter to the Selectmen of Boston. > >Page 321: Barnabas Eldredge, Jr. served under Capt. Jabez Snow's Company at >Annapolis Royal, 1759 - 1762. >Page 349: Barnabas Eldredge, Served from one to six days on an alarm to New >Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778. > >Ebenezer Eldredge, >Page 345: Pay roll of Capt. Thomas Hamilton's Company... 1775, station at >Barnstable County. >Page 350: in Capt. Nathaniel Freeman's Company... served at Rhode Island for >three months, from July 15, 1780. > >Hope this is your Eldredges that you are looking for, >David Noonan, Massachusetts > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Philip R. Matthews >Sent: Friday, June 13, 1997 8:22 AM >To: [email protected]; gwhrb.internet#c#ednet.ns.ca#c#[email protected] >Subject: Eldridges > >My wife descends from a Barnabas Eldridge who came to Nova Scotia in >snip > >