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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 65635715
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Wallingford - DNA Family 032
• Degree: 1789, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; B. A. from Yale College

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From FindaGrave:

Elkanah was born in Cheshire to Ebenezer and Lucy (Hall) Doolittle.

After he graduated from Yale College in 1789, he taught at the Sunbury Academy in Sunbury, Georgia for several years.

Returning to Cheshire, he married Abigail Cook, daughter of Samuel and Jerusha (Hollingworth) Cook. They moved to New York City in 1792.

After Abagail's death in 1801, he was married in New York City on Nov. 5, 1803 to Hannah Compton of New Jersey. He took up his residence in Brooklyn, where his house and grounds comprised the block bounded by Sands, Washington, High and Fulton streets (now occupied by the East River Bridge tracks, shops and yards).

He was a tallow chandler and extensive manufacturer of soap and candles on property at Pearl, Vandewater and Gold streets, N. Y. City. Later Harper Bros.' publishing establishment acquired the title to that property from him and had their business there for some years.

Elkanah became a trustee for the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn in 1822. He was also one of the directors, and at one time the president of the first bank in Brooklyn, which formed in Apr 1824.

*The actual burial place of Elkanah is not known for sure, but is thought to be in Brooklyn, NY. Most cemeteries from that time no longer exist, and many graves were moved into other cemeteries. The most likely place is Greenwood Cemetery, but their records from that time are not indexed. Please contact the creator of this memorial with any additional information.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65635715

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of John Hall and Jane Woolen of New Haven and Wallingford.

Elkanah married Abigail Cooke before 1792. Abigail (daughter of Samuel Cooke and Jerusha Hollingworth) was born on 27 Jun 1775 in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 16 Dec 1801 in New York, New York County, New York; was buried after 16 Dec 1801 in Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elkanah married Hannah Compton on 5 Nov 1803. Hannah was born in 1780 in New Jersey; died on 31 Jul 1830 in New York, New York County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]