Elishama Tozer, a soldier of the Revolution, born July 3, 1741 in Lyme, NH and died in Waverly, NY 1790, having served as a Lieutenant in the Green Mountain Boys in 1775 and 1776, and also accompanied Benedict Arnold to Quebec. Later he served as Captain in Colonel Williams regiment from Charlotte Co., N.Y. In 1786 he was Captain of a Militia regiment and resigned in 1787. He was a resident of Skenerborough, later known as Whitehall, as early as 1772. He is recorded as living in 1776 in Charlotte Co., N.Y. When the first census was taken in 1790 he resided in the town of Whitehall, Washington Co., N.Y. and his family consisted of four males and four females. With this large family he came and settled one mile north of Factoryville, now North Waverly, on Cayuta Creek about 1801. He is buried in "The Rest" cemetery. Elishama and his wife Mary, unknown surname and believed to have been born in 1758 in France, had 9 children: (1) Baruch Tozer b. 1767, lived in Factoryville, buried in "The Rest" cemetery. His children were Frederick Tozer who died July 29, 1871 at 72 years, Alpheus Tozer, Elisha Tozer, Caroline Tozer, Almira Tozer, George Tozer who drowned in Galveston flood.; (2) Mary Tozer b. July 26, 1773 died May 4, 1846, married Salmon Johnson, they moved from Factoryville, N.Y. to Quaker Bottom, Lawrence Co., Ohio in 1824. They moved by wagon from Factoryville to Olean, N.Y. and then the rest of the way to Ohio by boat. They had 10 children, 3 of which were daughters that married and accompanied them to Ohio. Their children were Charlotte Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Salmon Johnson, Jr., Diantha Johnson, Cyrus Johnson, William Johnson, Thomas Floyd Johnson, Alva Tozer Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson and Deborah Johnson; (3) Elishama Tozer, Jr., b. 1780, known as Elder Elisha was born at Whitehall, N.Y. and died at the home of his son Harris Tozer in Waverly June 8, 1875 at age 81. He served in the war of 1812. He 1st married Mary Rexford who died Aug. 6, 1823 at age 35 and buried at "The Rest" cemetery. 2nd he married Rachael Kendall and they had 3 children: Guy Tozer who married twice and moved to Michigan, John Tozer who never married, and Harris Tozer who lived in Waverly, married Clarissa Harford who was the daughter of Peter and Melissa Harford; (4) James Tozer b. 1773 Washington Co., N.Y. June 10, 1780 d. Feb. 16, 1839, married Cynthia Wilson, lived for awhile on the south side of Chemung River. Cynthia was b. June 30, 1789 and died Sept. 19, 1862 and is buried in Forest Home cemetery. They had 9 children.; (5) Elizabeth (Betsey) Tozer; (6) Lydia Tozer who married John Parker and moved to Lawrence Co., Ohio; (7) Lucy Tozer who married Luther Doolittle and also moved to Lawrence Co., Ohio; (8) Richard Tozer; (9) Thomas Tozer b. abt. 1770