Elijah
Fisher
Born in Norton, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of John Fisher
and Mary Grover (Balcom) Fisher
Brother of
John Fisher [half], David Fisher, Hannah (Fisher) Wilkinson, Joel Fisher, Eunice (Fisher) Trafton, Bathsheba (Fisher) Titus and Abiel Fisher
Husband of
Jerusha (Keen) Fisher
— married
14 Dec 1785 in Turner, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Father of
John Fisher, Jerusha (Fisher) Keen, Mary B. Fisher, Elijah Fisher, Grinfill Fisher, Sarah (Fisher) Berry, Priscilla (Fisher) Briggs and Salome (Fisher) Woodsum
Died
at age 83
in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States
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Biography
Birth
- Elijah Fisher was born at Norton, Massachusetts, on 17 Jun 1758, the son of John Fisher and Mary (Balcom) Fisher..[1]
Revolutionary Service
Private Elijah Fisher served with 4th Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
- On 5 May 1775, Elijah Fisher enlisted in Captain Moses Knapp’s Company, 12th Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, commanded by Colonel James Reed. On his 17th birthday, 18 Jun 1775, he and his regiment saw action at Breed’s (Bunker) Hil.
- After the battle of White Plains, on 27 Nov 1776, Elijah was discharged as being ill. He recovered his health, and reenlisted for three years on 7 Jan 1777, again in Captain Knapp’s Company, but in the newly formed 4th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Sherpard. With this unit of the Continental Line, Elijah saw action at the engagement at Stillwater, New York.
- From 19 May 1778 until his discharge on 6 Jan 1780, Elijah Keen served as a member of the personal guard of General George Washington. He reenlisted on 10 Oct 1780, for six months, and served in the 8th company, 1st Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line, commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper. On 15 Dec 1780, while serving in this regiment he was promoted to first sergeant. With his six month enlisted over, he was discharged on 10 Apr 1781. [2]
- Elijah Fisher kept a journal during his time in the Army, and a portion of that has been transcribed and is available on the website of the Sons of Liberty Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, from which the above information is taken.[3]
Elijah left the Jersey Prison ship 9 April 1783 Page 246 The Private Soldier under Washington by Charles Knowles Bolton, Kennikat Press, Port Washington NY 1902.
See Also: The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men ... By Bruce Chadwick page 364 - https://books.google.ca/books?id=DD0wLbmV1nEC&pg=PA364&lpg=PA364&dq=Elijah+Fisher+AND+Jersey+Prison+Ship&source=bl&ots=wg1ZAsBtSt&sig=ACfU3U12K0tOidZrYxqTN_83NKKm8Gpdbw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwissafPmZ74AhX4m44IHeiZCLgQ6AF6BAgWEAM#v=onepage&q=Elijah%20Fisher%20AND%20Jersey%20Prison%20Ship&f=false
Marriage
- On 18 Nov 1785, Elijah Fisher and Jerusha Keen published at Turner, Maine (then in Massachusetts) their intention to marry, and they married there on 14 Dec 1785.[4]
Residence
- Elijah and Jerusha Fisher moved to Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) shortly after their marriage. They were there by 1789 and remained there for the rest of their lives.[5]
Death
- Elijah Turner died at Livermore, Maine, on 28 Jan 1842,[6][7] and he is buried at the Boothby Family Cemetery in Livermore, where his gravestone shows his age at his death as 83.[8]
Sources
- ↑ Vital Records of Norton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1906). page 56
- ↑ Revolutionary War Commander-in-Chief Guards List of known Guards of George Washingtonhttp://genealogytrails.com/main/military/eliteguards.html
- ↑ Web page, "Diary of Private Elijah Fisher of the Commander-in-Chief Guards"
- ↑ Transcription by Turner town clerk of marriage record of Elijah Fisher and Jerusha Keen, in Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch, Delayed returns for vital records 1670-1891 > Finch, 1872-Fogg, 1829 > image 820 of 4788; Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta. citing an "old hand made book"
- ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 23
- ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862", page 4; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 210 of 718
- ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 24
- ↑ Photo of gravestone of Elijah Fisher (Find A Grave: Memorial #58894877)
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