Elishama Tozer (July 3, 1741 – 1833) was an American politician and Revolutionary War veteran from New York.
Life He was born on July 3, 1741, in Lyme, New Hampshire, the son of Thomas Tozer (born 1711) and Deborah (née Bates) Tozer (born 1718). In 1761, he married a woman named Mary, and they had several children. They lived in Whitehall, New York.
During the American Revolutionary War, he was a lieutenant in the Green Mountain Boys under Maj. John Brown.
He was a member from Charlotte County of the New York State Assembly in 1778-79 and a member of the New York State Senate (Eastern D.) in 1779-80.
Around 1801 he moved to Waverly, Tioga County, New York. In 1828, Tozer, along with Piere Hyatt and Jerusha Wilcox, organized the Factoryville class in Waverly. He was also a local preacher.
He died in 1833, and was buried at the Rest Cemetery in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
Sources Ancestors of Stephen Gregg Parker at Family Tree Maker Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 111 and 158; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [name given as "Elishamer Towser" on page 158, and "Elishamer Towzer" on page 310]
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