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Excerpt from John Elderkin: One of the Founders of Connecticut, and Some of His Descendants

John Elderkin came to New England, and is first heard of at Lynn, Mass, in 1637. Lynn was the third plantation of the Massachusetts colony, first settled in 1629. In 1638 twenty acres of land were allotted to John Elderkin. He was a carpenter and millwright, and in the volume of the early history of Lin, or Notable People, it is recorded that he owned a mill, probably in that town. He appears in Dedham in 1641, in Reading in 1646, in Providence in 1648,in New Lon don in 1651, in Norwich in 1664, where he lived until his death, June 23d, 1687.

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