Captain Samuel Elliott is Jim’s 6th great-grandfather. Research has definitively identified that Samuel was born around 1751 in Ballymena, Antrim County, Ulster, Ireland (Northern Ireland) and parents are not known. According to the Licking County Pioneer Society (1872), he immigrated to America in 1771 and lived in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Revolutionary War Service
Samuel Elliott had a long history of service in the Revolutionary War. He first enlisted in Captain John Boyd’s Company of Militia in Col. Thomas Portor’s Battalion, Lancaster Co, PA in 1776. In 1777, he was a lieutenant. (DAR Application Member #750249) Samuel Elliott enlisted in Captain Edward Paschall’s company, of the First Philadelphia Militia, Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel William Bradford. (Pennsylvania Archives 6th Series, Volume 1, edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery,1906 pp. 68). He enlisted as one of 4 sergeants on August 26, 1779. They mustered at Fort Mifflin, October 18, 1779, the same Fort as my ancestor Capt. Nathan Stoddard was killed two years prior. He is also found serving as a Captain in the Second Company of the Fifth Battalion of Lancaster County Militia 27th April 1782.
After the war, he, his wife and family relocated to “Maryland in 1788 located upon lands lying west of Fort Cumberland.
In 1800 he opened a trading tent with the Indians at Bowling Green, Licking County and planted a crop [of corn and potatoes] and returned to Maryland for his family. Upon returning to Licking County, he harvested the crop and purchased land of General Schenk upon which he resided until the time of his death on May 24, 1831.” (DAR Application #133417).
He was one of the pioneers to Licking County, Ohio and a robust biography appears in the Our Pioneers: being biographical sketches of Capt. Elias Hughes, John Ratliff, Benjamin Green, Richard Pitzer, John Van Buskirk, Isaac and John Stadden, and Capt. Samuel Elliott ; with brief notices of the pioneers of 1801 and 1802 / by Isaac Smucker. pamphlet and is copied here:
Jim descends from Samuel and Mary Campbell’s 2nd son Samuel Elliott Jr., who was a twin with Alexander Elliott, born on 13 May 1788.
Samuel Elliott Jr. marries Margaret Parr and they have a son Richard Elliott.
Richard and his wife Rebecca Speaker have a daughter named Mary Elliot.
Mary marries Thomas Cochlin and they have a daughter Sophia Cochlin.
Peter Monroe & Mary Lucinda Baucher Sophia marries George W. Howell (a different Howell family than previously mentioned in Jim’s ancestry).
They have a daughter Mary Lucinda Howell who marries a Peter Monroe Baucher.
Mary and Peter have a son James E. Bowker who marries Virginia Conklin, my husband’s grandparents.
Only the last two generations made their way to Michigan, previously they were all in Ohio, Licking County and then Auglaize and Mercer Counties.
References:
Captain Samuel Elliott: Licking County Pioneer, (1983) by Mariam Parr.
Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Vol. VII, pages 468, 470-472, 974, 1062.
History of Licking County (Ohio) (1881) Compiled by N. W. Hill Jr., p. 218.
“Our Pioneers”, (1872) Isaac Smucker of Licking County.
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