♂ John Elderkin

1612 - 1687

John Elderkin
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Paltiah Elderkin
Paltiah Elderkin
1635 - 1713

Among the first in New London, John Elderkin kept the inn there.  He built the first corn mills, and the first and second churches in New London and Norwich. In 1661 he constructed the very first merchant vessel ever built in New London, the “New London Tryall', for 200 pounds. Many mills, buildings, and bridges of the area were built by him.

 

Timeline

1612

1612 Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune when in conjunction with Jupiter, yet he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star because of its extremely slow motion along the ecliptic. Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope.

1635


Age: 23y
1635 Thirty Years' War – The Peace of Prague is signed, which ends the German civil war aspect of the conflict.

1637


Age: 25y

immigration


USA ⇓
He came first to Lynn and then to Dedham.
1637 Tulip mania collapses in the Dutch Republic.

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