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MARY ALLISON, OF GOSHEN, N. Y. 213
N. Y., Jan. 19, 1758, and died May 24, 1816, aged 58 years,
4 months, 5 days. She died April 20, 1821, aged 58 years,
5 months, 4 days. He was a physician ; resided in or near
Goshen, N. Y., where he and his wife lived and where they
are buried. Dr. Elmer was the son of Dr. Nathaniel Elmer,
Sr., and his wife, Ann Thompson. Dr. Nathaniel is said to
have been "remarkably humorous." Dr. William Elmer
was always a companionable man ; was cheerful, and pleasant
in his manners, and had a large vein of natural humor.
Of Mrs. Elmer, his wife, her daughter, Sarah Maria, said,—
" She was a kind, affectionate, self-denying mother, a woman
of most correct principles and habits, a decided Christian as
was also my father." He and his family were Presbyterians.
CHILDKEX BOKN IN GOSHEX, N. Y.
1327. Micah Allison Elmer* (139!)), b. May 13, ITSl; m., Feb. 4, 1804, his
second cousin, Elizabeth Allison. He d. Dec. 31, 1849.*
1328. Horace Elmer* (1406a), b. Sept. 23, 1783; d. at Morristown, N. J.,
June 1, 1850, and left a family.
1329. Stephen Allison Elmer,* b. 1785; d. May, 1850; unmarried.
1330. Sarah Maria Elmer* (1407), b. 1796; d. Dec. 12, 1874; m. Mahlon
Ford.
1331. Sarah Allison 3
[1311] (Gen. Williara,2 Joseph i).
She married, Nov. 2, 1773, William W. Thompson, who was
sheriff of Orange county, N. Y., in 1785.
He was born in 1815, at Clonakilty, county of Cork, Ireland. It is on
tlie southeast coast.
Edward Elmer, the emigrant ancestor of this American family, was a
young man, probably not married, when he left England. He was a
Puritan, and left England to escape the persecution to which that sect
was subjected, as did those who came with him. It is probable
that he
came from the county of Essex, as did many of his fellow-passengers,
and likely from Braintree, where Rev. Thomas Hooker preached before
he came to Xew England. He with 123 passengers came in the ship
Lion, which arrived in Boston, Mass., Sept. 16, 1632, having been twelve
weeks on the ship and eight weeks from "Land's End." He settled
first at Newton, now Cambridge, Mass., with Rev. Thomas Hooker and
the others, and in June, 1635, he, with Mr. Hooker and his congregation,
removed to Hartford, Conn., where he settled. Later he removed to
Northampton, Mass., and returned to Hartford. He owned a farm at
South Windsor, Conn., where he was killed by the Indians during King
Philip's War, in 1676. A part of his farm is still owned by his descen-
dant, Samuel E. Elmore, of Hartford, Conn. The emigrant, Edward
Elmer, married . Mary Their son, Samuel Elmer,- married
Elizabeth and lived in , Hartford, Conn. Their son, Dea. Jona-
than Elmer,^ married Mary and lived in , Norwalk, Conn. Their
youngest son. Dr. Nathaniel Elmer,* married Anne Thompson. Their
son. Dr. William Elmer,' married Mary Allison, as mentioned above.
(From MS. of Samuel E. Elmore, of Hartford, Conn.)
' In some records he is called Michael.