Jared Eliot

Jared Eliot
Jared Eliot
Born	7 November 1685
Died	22 April 1763 (aged 77)
Alma mater	Yale University ;
Occupation	Minister
Parent(s)	Rev. Joseph Eliot ; Mary Eliot ;

Jared Eliot (November 7, 1685—April 22, 1763)^[1] was an American colonial minister, physician, agronomist, farmer, and slave owner.^[2] He was located in Guilford, Connecticut and wrote several articles on agriculture and animal husbandry as well as on the mineral qualities of Connecticut lands. He worked at the Yale Corporation (former name of the Yale University's board of trustees) from 1730 until 1763.^[2]

Eliot was the eldest son of Joseph Eliot and his second wife, Mary Wyllys. The Eliots raised their family in Guilford (formerly known as Menunkatucket), which was settled by Europeans in 1639.^[3] Jared emulated his father and grandfather, who were also willing to help others; he stated, “I have learned many useful things from the lowest of the People, not only in Rank, but in Understanding too”.^[4]

^ Emerson, Wilimena Hannah Eliot; Eliot, Ellsworth; Eliot, George Edwin; Eliot, William Horace (1905). Genealogy of the descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [New Haven, Conn. : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor.
^ ^a ^b "First Library Fund". Yale, Slavery and Abolition. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
^ Federal writers’ Project. Connecticut. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Pg 92)
^ Grasso, Christopher. “The Experimental Philosophy of Farming: Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 50. No. 3. (July 1993): 502-528. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947364 page 504

[1] Emerson, Wilimena Hannah Eliot; Eliot, Ellsworth; Eliot, George Edwin; Eliot, William Horace (1905). Genealogy of the descendants of John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [New Haven, Conn. : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor.

[:0-2] "First Library Fund". Yale, Slavery and Abolition. Retrieved 2018-07-15.

[3] Federal writers’ Project. Connecticut. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Pg 92)

[jstor.org-4] Grasso, Christopher. “The Experimental Philosophy of Farming: Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut.” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 50. No. 3. (July 1993): 502-528. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947364 page 504

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