Notes
Birth date is also shown as 12 Dec 1757, Stonington CT (from pension records 6)
Military:
'Elias served three years Mar 19 1777 to Mar 19 1780 in the Continental
Army. Sergeant in Col Seth Warner's Regt. Also private for 3 days of
Aug. 1780 Capt John Marcy's Company under Col. Ebenezer Wood, and private
9 days in Lieut. Asahel Smth's Co of Militia which marched to Fort
Fortitude Oct 20 1780 by order of Col. Samuel Stafford' -Harry Hoisington quoting from Hoisington genealogy by Almon Kidder
"Elias served three years in Seth Warner's Green Mountain Regiment. He served in Quebec and at the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington. Later, after his enlistment expired, he served at other times, once as part of the garrison at Fort Fortitude at Bethel. Fort Fortitude was garrisoned until October 31, 1782. Perhaps while there he had scouted up in Little Hollow and had told his son Sayles about the area." 2
Listed in 1790 Census in Windsor VT, 2 males over 16, 4 males under 16, 1
female.
Listed on 1800 census at Windsor VT, 3 males under 10, 2 males betw
10-16, 1 male betw 16-25, 1 male betw 26-45, 1 fem under 10, 1 fem betw
26-45.
Elias' pension file transcription:
Tombstone reads:
In Memory of Cap'
Elias Hoisington who
died Jany. 13th 1810
aged 51 years.
'Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord.'
Sources
1. Records of the First Congregational Church of Southington. , as quoted in e-mail from Maida Follini to Hoisington mailing list.
2. Leyland E. Wood. Two Vermont Hollows, a history of Gilead and Little Hollows. Leland E. Wood, Randolph, VT. 1976. p. 222.
3. Vermont Vital Records film F-30267 Rec ID 21428. Transcribed by Harriette Jensen 042904. Vermont Vital Records Center, Middlesex VT.
4. Early Windsor County VT Marriages. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lmfwelch/html/earlymarriages.html.
5. Windsor VT Town Records, researched by Judy Hulliberger and verified by Harriette Jensen 9/15/03. Book 1, page 44.
6. Pension record transcribed by Harriette Jensen.
Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.
