My 5x great grandfather Elisha Houghton, like his father Ephraim, got only a brief mention in the Houghton Genealogy. But because one of his descendants was a prominent clergyman in Pennsylvania, he got a slightly longer entry in a book edited by John Woolf Jordan:
(IV) Elisha, son of Ephraim and Hannah (Sawyer) Houghton, was born July 20, 1746. He resided at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Children: 1. Maria, born 1777. 2. Moses, of whom further. 3. Aaron, twin of Moses, born March 22, 1781, died November 24, 1842; married, September 13, 1804, Martha Eaton.=p149
Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania, Volume 1 Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913 New York, New York
Elisha married Meriah Peirce in Harvard, Ma. on 30 Nov 1768 where his daghter Maria was born. After the Revolutionary War his twin sons Aaron and Moses were born in Fitchburg,.The family also lived for a time in Adams, Ma. but eventually Elisha ended up moving to Vermont where he died on 18 Nov 1826 in the town of Shaftsbury.
Luckily for me there were records online of Elisha's service in the Revolutionary War as well as his Pension File. I first blogged about them back in 2012 but I'm going to repost them in the next few blog entries.
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