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Elijah Kellogg, 17511819 (aged 68 years)

Name
Elijah /Kellogg/
Surname
Kellogg
Given names
Elijah
Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage4 January 1737Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, USA
20 months
elder brother
2 years
elder sister
2 years
elder brother
9 years
himself
17511819
Birth: 1751 37
Death: 14 February 1819Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, USA
2 years
younger sister
1 month
younger sister
2 years
younger brother
Family with Tryphenia Westover
himself
17511819
Birth: 1751 37
Death: 14 February 1819Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont, USA
partner
daughter
3 years
son
4 years
son
2 years
son
5 years
daughter
3 years
daughter
Birth
1751 37
Birth of a sister
Christening of a sister
Birth of a sister
Christening of a sister
Birth of a brother
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Death of a wife
Death
Unique identifier
229298A0C15E184C93AB9443FE0401EB72CD
Last change
22 June 200200:00:00
Note

Early in 1776 Elijah Kellogg came to Shoreham, Vermont with Col
. Doolittle, Paul Moore, Samuel Wolcott and 12 or 14 other men f
rom Worcester County Mass., and built a log house in which the
y lived together as one family, taking turns in houseowrk and co
oking and working together at clearing and improving the land wh
ich they had jointly purchased. Elijah Kellogg was an uncle o
f General Amos Kellogg and came from Sheffield, Mass. He return
ed to Sheffieldand lived there until after the Revolutionary Wa
r; afterwards he returned toShoreham, where he died. He wa
s a soldier int he war and served at various times in 1777, 78 a
nd 81. In 1775 he was one of Col. Ethan Allen's party in the ca
pture of Fort Ticonderoga and is said to have been the first ma
n who entered the fort after Allen and Arnold. Not long after T
iconderoga was evacuated by St. Clair, Elijah Kellogg was take
n prisoner during a battle betweena small party of Americans fr
om a recruiting post at Castleton and foraging party of Burgoyne
's army under Captain Fraser together with Lieutenant elias Hal
l and a brother. They were confined in a barn at Ticonderoga fo
r three months with some three or four hundred others. He after
wards escaped with theHall brothers and crossed the lake in saf
ety.