General Notes

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.