!NOTE: The children of Elisha and Sarah are mostly speculation based on the bible record of Rene Paul Braffett9
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: 29-Mar-1904 Brooklyn, Kings, NY deaths207, 6720, Elisha Braffet, age 76, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WFX-PRP
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Lackawaxen and Union Cemetery, Lackawaxen, Pike, PA1, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178930525
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Elisha Braffett, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/L7BQ-TXF
!CENSUS: 20-Jul-1850 Lumberland, Sullivan, NY, 72/72, Elisha Braffit
!CENSUS: 13-Jun-1855 Sullivan, Cochecton, NY, 153, Elisha Braffet, born Sullivan, NY, age 27
!CENSUS: 03-Aug-1860 Tusten, Sullivan, NY, 1200/1214, Methias Braffett, age 32
!REFERENCE: Jun-1863 Orange/Sullivan, NY Civil War draft registration, Elish Braffet, age 30, farmer, born NY
!CENSUS: 12-Jul-1870 Tusten, Sullivan, NY, 17/17, Elisha Braffit
!CENSUS: 14-Jun-1880 Lackawaxen, Pike, PA211, 120/121, Elisha Braffet, this census indicates the family probably moved from NY to PA between 1872 and 1876
!OCCUPATION: Lumberman and steersman; farmer
!CENSUS: 09-Jun-1900 Ward 2, Jersey City, Hudson, NJ, Elisha Braffett
!REFERENCE: 31-Mar-1904 Evening Gazette, Port Jervis, Orange, NY, page 1, obituary for Elisha Braffett
!REFERENCE: 04-Dec-2000 letter from James Braffett175, Eliza
!REFERENCE: Braffett in PA208
!REFERENCE: "Holt! T'Other Way!" by Leslie C. Wood, page 212, Elisha Braffett is listed as a steersman from Narrowsburg, http://www.dcnyhistory.org/rivermenindexdougboyer.html
!REFERENCE: Y DNA analysis for great-great grandson James William Braffett176