1) "The Bingham Family in the United States, especially of the State of
Connecticut", compiled by Theodore A. Bingham, M.A. (Yale), Brig. Gen., U.S.
Army, 929.273 B513 bt (1927), pp. 73-74, entry 1904; p. 290, entry 18,541
pp. 519-20 entry 184,894. Says: Lived first at Lyndon, Caledonia, VT. Then at Littleton, Grafton, NH Was a prominent lawyer and for years one of the Supreme Court Justices of NH.
2) 1850 Lyndon, Caledonia, VT p 163. Listed at sherrif's res (George Ide). Age 24, attorney, b: VT. On the same page, a Louisa Smith, age 26 b: VT with Thomas Bartlett Jr. (attorney) family. Possibly the Louisa he married first.
3) 1860 Bath, Grafton, NH census p 777. Listed at a Hotel (Edwin Carlton
innkeeper) with a number of other attorney's. Age 34, attorney and counsellor
at law, b: VT.
4) 1870 Littleton, Grafton, NH census p 61 (p 597 stamped),
age 44, lawyer, 12,000 real estate/20,000 personal (check for will); b: NH
5) 1880 Littleton census, ed 95 sh 28, age 55, Justice of Supreme Court, b: VT,
parents: VT, ___.
Descendant:
George Chandler ("Chan") Bingham
says the family of Elisha Warner Bingham and Sarah (Sally) [Perry] Bingham -- parents of Erastus Bingham -- from the Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire area up the iced-over Connecticut River by covered wagon[?] to Concord, Essex, Vermont.