Individual Details

Elijah shipped on the Pickering leaving Boston 15 February 1799 for the West Indies. The ship was a "swift runner." It turned out to be a pirate ship. Elijah was never heard from again. It's being a pirate ship is from the Eldridge genealogy book. There was a USS Pickering that sailed from Boston to the West Indies and the information on this ship conflicts with the idea of a pirate ship -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pickering_(1798)

https://archive.org/details/eldredgegenealo00eldrgoog/page/n20

Birth	26 Dec 1778	Willington, Tolland, Connecticut
Death	Aft 1799	at sea

Father	Zoeth Eldridge (1751 - 1828)
Mother	Elizabeth Pearl (1756 - 1779)
Sibling	Zoeth Eldridge (1772 - 1780)
Sibling	Timothy Eldridge (1773 - 1775)
Sibling	Erastus Eldridge (1775 - 1820)
Sibling	Timothy Eldridge (1777 - 1820)