Col. Robert Elliott

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Husband Col. Robert Elliott ¹

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
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           Died: 1794 1
         Buried:  - Cincinnati, OH

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Children

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1 M Com. Jesse Duncan Elliott, U.S.N. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 14 Jul 1782 - Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 1
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           Died: 18 Dec 1845 - Philadelphia, PA 3
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General Notes: Husband - Col. Robert Elliott

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He was a contractor in the United States army, and was killed by the Indians, while traveling from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton with his servant. The Colonel being somewhat advanced in life wore a wig. The native who shot him, in haste to take his scalp, drew his knife, and seized him by the hair. To his astonishment the scalp came off at the first touch. The wretch exclaimed, in broken English; "damn lie." The body was recovered and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, and was subsequently re-interred by his son, then Commodore Elliott, in the city of Cincinnati, and a suitable monument erected to his memory. The Colonel's pocket book, containing papers and a lock of hair, were purchased from the Indians by an American officer, at the Greenville Treaty, in 1795, who handed them over to the Colonel's son, since Commodore Elliott.

1 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 219.

2 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 38.

3 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 228.