I am looking for the parents and ancestors of Daniel Elder, born somewhere around 1824, in Maine. His wife's name was Ann, born around 1825. She died in 1907, in Butte, Montana. Daniel and Ann had nine children: Henrietta, Daniel, George, Georgiana, Mary, Frederick, Edward, Endora, and Eulalia. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

1850
Name: Danl M Elder
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1825
Birth Place: Maine
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine
Household Members:
Name Age
Danl M Elder 25 ME (Millman)
Ann W Elder 24
Henrietta Elder 4
Danl M Elder 1
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: M432_257; Page: 266; Image: 18.

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Possible parents in same census town?
1850
Name: Charles Elder
Age: 61
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1789
Birth Place: Maine
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles Elder 61
Phebe Elder 61
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: M432_257; Page: 312; Image: 112.

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Possible brother in same census town?
1850
Name: Joshua Elder
Age: 29
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1821
Birth Place: Maine
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine
Household Members:
Name Age
Joshua Elder 29
Jerusha Elder 26
Harriet Elder 0
Henry Elder 24
Charles R Baker 23
Harriet Place 21
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: M432_257; Page: 266; Image: 17.

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LDS
CHARLES ELDER
Event(s):Birth: 19 SEP 1788 Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine Parents:
Father: JOSHUA ELDER
Mother: JOANNA ROBERTS

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ELDER DNA project
Chart 3: MAINE ELDER group:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/ed/Maine...
kit #23005
1. SAMUEL TYNG ELDER
b. 1784 Portland, Cumberland, ME,
d. 1829 Moss Point, Jackson Co., MS


Will look for more clues...
E-mail me anytime!
Nancy Elder Petersen
Vancouver, WA USA
NancyP@Teleport.com
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder

Requested on ILL - Ft. Vancouver Lib: 6/13/09
Received 6/27/2009 From Providence College Library, Rhode Island.
Book title: "A history of Cape Elizabeth, Maine "
by William B. Jordan, Jr.
Bowie, MD : Heritage Books, 1987, c1965.
# Subjects Cape Elizabeth (ME) -- History.
Call #: SC 974.191 Jor
ISBN: 1556130430 (pbk.)
Description: 385 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition: Facsim. reprint ed.

Page 362-363 - 1790 Census
Col. A - Names (4 ELDER entries)
Col. B - (# of Males 16 and over)
Col. C - (# of Males Under 16)
Col. D - (# of Females)

(Ancestry.com) 1790 Census - MAINE
(all 4 names handwritten together on same page - 2nd section, 3rd part)
Township: Cape Elizabeth
County: Cumberland
State: Maine
Source Citation: Year: 1790;
Census Place: Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Maine; Roll M637_2; Image: 0177.
# in household
Ellis ELDER, B-1,D-2
George ELDER, B-2,C-1,D-2
John ELDER, B-1,D-4
Joshua ELDER, B-1,C-2,D-1

Added to notes for DANIEL ELDER
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder...

E-mail me anytime!
--Nancy Elder Petersen
NancyP@Teleport.com
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder

Hi David,
This could be the same Joshua ELDER from Cape Elizabeth.
Land distribution for Rev. War Veterans
at Google Books
http://tinyurl.com/nymcbh

"Resolves of the state of Maine, from 1829 to 1835 inclusive. Vol. II
by Maine. Legislature.
Publisher: Portland : Ira Berry & Co., 1835."

Page 705, Chapter 18 - Resolve in favor of Joshua Elder
Approved February 19, 1835
"Resolved, That there be granted to Joshua ELDER
of Dexter in the County of Penobscot, a lot of land, containing
one hundred and sixty acres, to be selected by him or his
agent, lawfully authorized for that purpose,
from any otherwise unappropriated lots of land, in the east part
of township numbered six, in the second Range of townships
north of the Bingham Purchase, in the County of Penobscot...."

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1840
Name: Joshua Elder
Military service: Veteran
Township: Dexter
County: Penobscot
State: Maine
Source Citation: Year: 1840; Census Place: ,
Penobscot, Maine; Roll 149; Page: 294.
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1850
Name: Sarah Elder
Age: 63
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1787
Birth Place: Maine
Gender: Female
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
Household Members:
Name Age
Jabez R Bates 52
Olive P Bates 48
Frances Bates 24
Elijah E Bates 19
Maria Bates 14
Lorana Bates 12
Sarah A Bates 5
Sarah Elder 63
Hannah Hatch 23
Source Citation: Year: 1850;
Census Place: Dexter, Penobscot, Maine;
Roll M432_265; Page: 70; Image: 329.

--Nancy Elder Petersen
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder

Google Books:
"A History of Lewiston, Maine, with a Genealogical Register of Early Families ..."
By Janus G. Elder
http://tinyurl.com/nk356t

Page 149
ELDER, JOSHUA - Born 28 Oct. 1763 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine,
d. 22 Jan. 1846 in Dexter, Maine, s/o John and Miriam (Purington) Elder.
Joshua Elder was a revolutionary soldier.
Application for pension 14 Apr. 1831 at Monmouth, Maine.
He m. 16 Dec. 1784 Joanna ---
[Maine Historical Records on Leeds, ME, manuscript]
[letter from Bureau of Pensions, 1894]
[Dexter, Maine, VR, card file at Maine State Archives]
b. 13 Sept. 1764, d 26 Jan 1846, d/o Edward and Anna (Westcott) Doane
[birth and parent information letter dated 1894 from
Alfred Doane of South Boston, Massachusetts, to Elder].
Children:
WILLIAM b 28 Jun. 1785 in Littleboro Plt., Maine, (now Leeds, Maine),
d 9 Jul. 1823 age 38 years [records on file at AHS],
m. pub. 21 Sept. 1805 [AHS] Sarah Bates, b 17 Aug. 1787, d. 23 Jan 1855 age 67 years;
CHARLES b 19 Sept. 1788 d 1? May 1860 [AHS, Elder],
m (1) 20 Mar. 1808 Sarah Labree, b 30 Jun. 1788, d 3 Feb. 1838, and
m (2) 10 Feb. 1849 Phebe Miller, d 30 Sept. 1855;
RICHARD q.v.;
JOSHUA Jr. q.v
[The Doane Family by Alfred Doane, published by the author, 1902, p. 149].

Using my subscription to Footnote.com,
I searched for JOSHUA ELDER of MAINE in
Rev. War Pensions.

Found:
Joshua ELDER - Rev War Pension page 22 -
Listed with MASSACHUSETTS, 3rd Regiment (1783)
with info handwritten for Monmouth, MAINE - wife Joanna

Posted page 22 on my webpages
(Changed to TinyURL web address)
at
http://tinyurl.com/ljuhwv

---Nancy Elder Petersen
NancyP@teleport.com
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder

Page 23 - Joshua ELDER Rev. War Pension of Maine (and Mass):
"I John Merrill of Lewiston in the
County of Lincoln and State of Maine
aged sixty nine do testify and say
JOSHUA ELDER now of Monmouth in
the County of Kennebec and State aforesaid was a revolutionary soldier
with me in the third Massachusetts Regiment
commanded by Col. Greaton in the years of 1782 and 1783.
- If it should be necessary I can state other particulars.
Signed JOHN MERRILL, STATE OF MAINE
Posted handwritten page
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder...

Page 24 - Joshua ELDER Rev. War Pension - Maine (and Mass):
"I Samuel Crockett of Cape Elizabeth in the County of Cumberland, State of Maine
do testify and say, That I am well acquainted with
JOSHUA ELDER of Monmouth, in said State, & Formerly of said Cape Elizabeth, and that I know that said ELDER on or about the first day of June 1782 enlisted in the United States Service, at said Cape Elizabeth, in a Company first commanded by Captain Lee, and afterwards by
Captain Hunt in the Regiment
commanded by Colonel Greaton..."
Handwritten page posted
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder...

Adding to notes for Daniel ELDER of Maine,
searching Ancestry.com for Charles ELDER in 1830
as mentioned in Joshua's Rev. War Pension page 22:
posted at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder...

1830 census
Name: Charles Elder
Township: Greene
County: Kennebec
State: Maine
Source Citation: Year: 1830;
Census Place: Greene, Kennebec, Maine;
Roll 48; Page: 43.
Males
Under 5 = 1
5-10 = 2
20-30 = 1
40-50 = 1
Females
10-15 = 1
15-20 = 1
40-50 = 1

--Nancy Elder Petersen
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder

Adding 2 images to the notes for Joshua's Pension:
Page 11: Enlistment dates, with Col. Greaton and Hull
Page 17: War Dept. Certification

Posting on Footnote.com
at
http://www.footnote.com/page/93820123_joshua_elder_b_1763_ca...

---Nancy Elder Petersen
NancyP@Teleport.com
Host, ELDER DNA project