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Modern flat V/A style bronze marker. It is unclear if he is buried at this location or if this is a cenotaph
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Author: Mark Andrew Davis
Elkanah Corbin was born on 23 October 1752 at Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, a son of James Corbin and Susanna Bacon.
He married Hannah Harlow on 25 September 1773 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The first two of their children were born in Killingly, Connecticut. The known children of Elkanah and Hannah were:
Ira was born on 19 November 1776.
Mercy was born on 24 April 1778.
Dorcas was born on 9 January 1780.
Hannah was born in 1782.
Elkanah was born on 12 May 1784.
Simeon was born in 1786.
Abigail was born on 3 February 1789.
Asenath was born in 1791.
During the American Revolution, Elkanah enlisted in March 1776 for a term of one year in the Company of Captain Jonathan Houghton of old Marlborough under the command of Colonel Calvin Smith of the Massachusetts Line. He became ill in December, and combined with the lack of clothing; he was approved to leave the company and return home, having completed eleven months of service.
The family moved from Killingly, Connecticut, to Charleston, New York, in about 1779, where the remainder of their children were born. His daughter later commented about her father that his service in the war left him crippled, and he used crutches for the rest of his life. It was at Charleston where Elkanah died about 1821. A new grave marker indicates he died on 4 September 1821. The grave marker is located at Christian Church Cemetery, Charleston, Montgomery County, New York.
Sources:
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of John Richard Lewis Billington, National Number 147371.
Find a Grave.com, digital record, Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed), memorial for Elkanah Corbin, Find a Grave Memorial # 40451834, Charleston Four Corners, New York.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War Vol. 3, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1897, page 996.
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Micropublication M804, roll 0653. Washington: National Archives, S43384.
Holbrook, Jay Mack, Massachusetts Vital Records of Plymouth 1663-1890, Massachusetts. Oxford: Holbrook Research Institute, 1984.
Lawson, Harvey M., History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline), Mass. and Woodstock, Conn., Connecticut. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1905.
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