Elishama Tozer
Elishama Tozer (July 3, 1741 Lyme, New London County, Connecticut — 1790 Waverly, then in Montgomery County, now in Tioga County, New York) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Thomas Tozer (b. 1711) and Deborah (Bates) Tozer (b. 1718). In 1761, he married Mary, and they had several children. They lived in Whitehall, NY.
During the American Revolutionary War, he was a lieutenant in the Green Mountain Boys under Maj. John Brown.
He was a member from Charlotte County of the New York State Assembly in 1778-79 and a member of the New York State Senate (Eastern D.) in 1779-80.
He was buried at the Rest Cemetery in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Ancestors of Stephen Gregg Parker at Family Tree Maker [gives birthplace "Lyme, New Hampshire"]
- Tozer genealogy at Brent Glad
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 111 and 158; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [name given as "Elishamer Towser" on page 158, and "Elishamer Towzer" on page 310]
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