1John Taylor Perry, The Odlin Family, NEHGR Vol. 41, pp. 266-267 (Jul 1887).
"2. ELISHA2 (John1) married August 1659, Abigail, daughter of Dea. Henry Bright, of Watertown, died 1705. Four daughters and two sons were the result of this union, of whom three daughters, Hannah, born Sept. 3, 1666; Abigail, born April 5, 1670, and Margaret, born Aug. 5, 1672, and one son John, born Nov. 18, 1681, survived their children. Elisha, like his father, lived to a good old age, and was a respected citizen, as the following extract from Sewall indicates:
'Sept. 14, 1724. Last night died my good old Christian neighbour and friend Mr. Elisha Odlin, sensible and calm to the very last. He was born July 1, 1640, upon the same lot in Newbury Street, where he all along liv'd and now dyed in the 85th year of his age.'
Elisha was a deacon of the Old South Church, and his fellow deacon Sewall was one of his bearers.".