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State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: 2nd Lieutenant / Physician or Surgeon
Birth: 23 Aug 1752 Cedarville / / NJ Death: 18 Oct 1843 Bridgton / / NJ
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Spouse: Hannah Seeley Children: Lucius QC;
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Ebenezer Elmer was born in Cedarville, New Jersey, on August 23, 1752. He pursued an academic course, studied medicine and practiced in Cedarville. He served in the Continental Army as ensign, lieutenant, surgeon’s mate, and regimental surgeon, and later practiced medicine in Bridgeton from 1783-1789.
Ebenezer Elmer, a lieutenant in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment in the Continental Service, maintained fourteen volumes in which he recorded military orders and his own personal observations about the military conflict from January 9, 1776 to August 12, 1779. Included are notes about troop movements and encounters with the enemy, leisure activities of the officers, religious services, treaties and encounters with the Indians, and problems with smallpox among the troops. These journals provide rich details about Native American culture. Elmer makes a number of observations about the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca people, describing their instruments of war, peace symbols, child rearing and education practices, systems of trade (use of wampum), and dance. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1789–1795, serving as speaker in 1791 and 1795.
Ebenezer Elmer (August 23, 1752 – October 18, 1843) was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Congress from the Democratic-Republican Party from 1801 to 1807. Elmer's older brother, Jonathan Elmer, and Ebenezer's son Lucius Elmer were members of the United States House of Representatives.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1807 not re-nominated by the Republicans in 1806, the Federalists put up a combined ticket with Dr. Elmer which was unsuccessful.
He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council in 1807, and was chosen vice president of that body. He was collector of customs of Bridgeton from 1808 until 1817, when he resigned, was reappointed in 1822 and served until 1832, when he again resigned. He served in the War of 1812, as adjutant general of the New Jersey Militia and brigadier general of the Cumberland brigade. He was vice president of Burlington College from 1808–1817 and 1822-1832. He retired from public life and died in Bridgeton on October 18, 1843. Elmer was interred in Old Broad Street Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Bridgeton.
For more information on the 3rd New Jersey Regiment see:
Manuscript Group 94, Elias Dayton (1737-1807) Papers
Manuscript Group 216, Captain Thomas Patterson's 2nd Company, 3rd New Jersey Continental Regiment Account book
Manuscript Group 377, Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823) Papers
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