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Elijah Bacon

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Elijah Bacon

Birth
Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
15 Sep 1788 (aged 33)
Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sect. C3, Stone 90
Memorial ID
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Bedford births: BACON, Elijah, s. Benjamin and Catherine, Sept. 19, 1754.

Bedford marriages: BACON, Elijah and Amittai Lane, -, 1785. [Amity, Dec. 15, M.R.]

Bedford deaths: BACON, Elijah, Sept. 13, 1788. [a. 34, G.R.]

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.:
Bacon, Elijah, Bedford. Private, Lieut. Moses Abbott's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 10 days; also, list of men between the ages of sixteen and sixty who are liable to bear arms, as returned to Col. Green, dated Bedford, May 15, 1775.

Lane Genealogies (Chapman & Fitts):
AMITTAI, b. 9 Feb., 1759, m. first, ELIJAH BACON, son of Dea. Benjamin and Catherine (Lane) Bacon, who was in Jonathan Wilson's company of minute men at the Concord Fight, Apr. 19, 1775, and was paid $25, Jan. 22, 1782, for hiring soldiers for the army in 1777, and d. in 1788; m. second, 31 Dec, 1789, BENJAMIN BACON, brother of Elijah. Benjamin Bacon, by marriage with his brother Elijah's widow, became owner of the whole Bacon estate in Bedford. The homestead was formerly a part of the grant of 500 acres on Shawshine river to Rev. Joseph Mitchell of Cambridge. Michael Bacon3 (Michael2,1) first leased and then purchased it of the widow Mitchell in July, 1682, for 200 pounds.—Bacon Homestead.
Bedford births: BACON, Elijah, s. Benjamin and Catherine, Sept. 19, 1754.

Bedford marriages: BACON, Elijah and Amittai Lane, -, 1785. [Amity, Dec. 15, M.R.]

Bedford deaths: BACON, Elijah, Sept. 13, 1788. [a. 34, G.R.]

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols.:
Bacon, Elijah, Bedford. Private, Lieut. Moses Abbott's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge; service, 10 days; also, list of men between the ages of sixteen and sixty who are liable to bear arms, as returned to Col. Green, dated Bedford, May 15, 1775.

Lane Genealogies (Chapman & Fitts):
AMITTAI, b. 9 Feb., 1759, m. first, ELIJAH BACON, son of Dea. Benjamin and Catherine (Lane) Bacon, who was in Jonathan Wilson's company of minute men at the Concord Fight, Apr. 19, 1775, and was paid $25, Jan. 22, 1782, for hiring soldiers for the army in 1777, and d. in 1788; m. second, 31 Dec, 1789, BENJAMIN BACON, brother of Elijah. Benjamin Bacon, by marriage with his brother Elijah's widow, became owner of the whole Bacon estate in Bedford. The homestead was formerly a part of the grant of 500 acres on Shawshine river to Rev. Joseph Mitchell of Cambridge. Michael Bacon3 (Michael2,1) first leased and then purchased it of the widow Mitchell in July, 1682, for 200 pounds.—Bacon Homestead.

Inscription

In Memory of
Mr ELIJAH BACON
who departed this Life
Septr 15th 1788
Aged 34 Years.



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