Elijah Danforth

1733 - 1809  (75 years)

• Name	Elijah Danforth  [1, 2]
  Birth	20 Mar 1733	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Feb 1809	Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I39496	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Thomas Danforth,   b. 22 May 1703, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. Abt 1786, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Sarah Leonard   d. 22 May 1742
  Marriage	11 Jun 1730  [3]
  Family ID	F23208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Copeland,   b. 1 Apr 1740, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 12 Mar 1816 (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1 Oct 1761  [1, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Asa Danforth,   b. 6 Apr 1779, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 22 Jul 1830, Norton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F23207	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  A DAR lineage says that he "was a private in Capt. Seth Gilbert's company, Col. John Daggett's, regiment, which marched in the Lexington Alarm of 1775."

  
  

• Sources

  [S7065] The Copeland Family by Warren Turner Copeland. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Company, 1937. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S7062] Danforth Genealogy: Nicholas Danforth of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N.E. (1589-1638) and William Danforth, of Newbury, Mass. (1640-1721) and Their Descendants by John Joseph May. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1902.