Elkanah Doolittle

1767 - 1835  (68 years)

• Name	Elkanah Doolittle
  Born	15 Mar 1767	Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Group	Hall Direct Descendant
  	A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family
  Group	Halls of Wallingford - DNA Family 032
  	Descendants of John Hall and Jane Woolen of New Haven and Wallingford.
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	65635715
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65635715
  Degree	1789	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
  	B. A. from Yale College
  Died	29 Oct 1835	Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
  Person ID	I86047	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Ebenezer Doolittle,   b. 12 Oct 1736, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut ,   d. 4 Oct 1807, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Lucy Hall,   b. 25 Jul 1744, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut ,   d. 3 May 1803, Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut  (Age 58 years)
  Married	7 Jun 1762	Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F5592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Abigail Cooke,   b. 27 Jun 1775, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut ,   d. 16 Dec 1801, New York, New York County, New York  (Age 26 years)
  Married	Bef 1792
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F5553	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Hannah Compton,   b. 1780, New Jersey ,   d. 31 Jul 1830, New York, New York County, New York  (Age 50 years)
  Married	5 Nov 1803
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2014
  Family ID	F5591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 15 Mar 1767 - Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Degree - B. A. from Yale College - 1789 - New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Died - 29 Oct 1835 - Brooklyn, Kings County, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges

  Halls of Wallingford, Connecticut - DNA Family 032

  
  

• Notes

  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.