James Elliot was born in 1839 (like the stone says over there), in Massachusetts. Later on he became a legislator for the state of Vermont, which was neither a state nor even a colony when he was born; it was still disputed territory between New York and New Hampshire.

Although Elliot was too young to participate in the American Revolution, his political fortunes waxed and waned…but mostly waxed.

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