Elijah Wentworth

1744 - 1810  (65 years)

• Name	Elijah Wentworth
  Birth	30 Dec 1744	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	31 Dec 1744	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	Jul 1810	Canaan, Hancock, Maine   [1, 3]
  Burial	Knight's Burial Ground, Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I41856	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Amariah Wentworth,   b. 1719, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Feb 1799, Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Shepard,   b. 19 Jul 1723   d. 15 Sep 1791, Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	22 Oct 1741	Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F24492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Capen,   b. 3 Jul 1748, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 6 Dec 1833 (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	20 Jul 1769	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Elijah Wentworth,   b. 26 Sep 1775, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Nov 1863, St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F24491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  According to The Wentworth Genealogy, he "was a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution." He removed to Braintree and, in about 1785, to Maine.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8063] The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. by Charles Albert Hayden. Minneapolis, 1929. [S8070] The Shepard Families of New England: Volume I, Ralph Shepard of Dedham by Gerald Faulkner Shepard; edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. New Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1971. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878., date only.