Baptised 10/6/1717-8 at Stratford, Ct. On 5/6/1747 "Elnathan's wife" was listed among the fifty men and women who were received to full communion in the Congregational church of Trumbull. In 1749 Elnathan was voted a "chorister" in this church to help lead congregational singing which the church had voted to replace "lining out" the hymns. In 1765 he moved to Bennington with family, soon after the town was settled. There is interesting information about Elnathan Hubbell to be found in histories of early Vermont, indicating that he was one of the first settlers there, and a member of the first Congregational church built in that state. In 1776 he was a member of Capt. Elijah Dewey's company at the battle of Bennington. He was an active participant in important events of the day, and his name appears most often in connection with the rescue party of Remember Baker, leader of anti-New York state struggles of Vermonters to assert title to land during years of tangled claims. Frequent violence resulted from these land problems. Descendants should see a delightful little book entitiled "An outline of family history" by Katherine J. Hubbell, 1905 (a copy is in the Library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston) which has nostalgic notes on this branch of the family. His remains lie in the old burying ground in Bennington, and his tombstone bears this inscription: "The Body of Elnathan Hubbell / Beside this Monumental stone / Consigned is dust to dust / Reader, perhaps a single hour / shall make this fate thine own / He departed this life July the 21st A.D. 1788, aged seventy-one years. / He was converted in the sixty-ninth year of his age." [Sources: Hubbell History; Jacobus, Old Fairfield an unknown place ; T.A.G. [Ab]; NY G&B "Record" an unknown person ; Boltwood, Noble gen [Fs]; Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters [Hs], and other miscellaneous readings about Vermont; Beach, Trunbull [Tm]. - all from History & genealogy of the Hubbell family. 3rd ed. Compiled & edited by Harold Berresford Hubbell, Jr., & Donald Sidney Hubbell. 1980. Brooklyn, NY : Theo. Gaus, Ltd., pg. 92.
The following issue are named in Walter Hubbell's 1915 "History of the Hubbell Family" but not in "Old Fairfield": Almon, Dewey, William, Cynthia, James (History & genealogy of the Hubbell family. 3rd ed. Compiled & edited by Harold Berresford Hubbell, Jr., & Donald Sidney Hubbell. 1980. Brooklyn, NY : Theo. Gaus, Ltd., pg. 92).