He was botonist and agronomist who wrote articles on agriculture and animal husbandry as well as a geologist who wrote on the mineral qualities of Connecticut lands, winning recognition in England, where he was given a gold metal by the Royal Society of Arts and unanimously elected a member of the Royal Society.

[7] John's actions in attempting to help the Indians gave the Eliot name social status in the New England theocracy.

Jared emulated his father and grandfather, who were also willing to help others; he stated, “I have learned many useful things from the lowest of the People, not only in Rank, but in Understanding too,”[5] In 1700, there was considerable interest in establishing a college in Connecticut.

[9] The ministers along the shore of Long Island Sound who originated plans for the college began to arrange a meeting of the ecclesiastical General Assembly.

[11] Joseph Eliot was among those chosen to devise the charter, including its “powers of conferring degrees as unobtrusive as possible”.

Joseph's voice on behalf of Connecticut was significant to his fellow colonists until his unexpected, early death on May 24, 1694.

[13] Jared's family tree – beginning with his grandfather John Eliot and his wife Hannah – is extensive, with several children from each marriage.

The youngest child was Benjamin; born in January 1647, he graduated from Harvard and became his father's assistant in teaching the Indians.

He determined to live a successful life, to preserve his family's reputation; one of his goals was to “obtain a liberal education in ‘an academic course of studies’”.

[21] Due to Jared's intelligence and education, Pierson predicted that he (and Samuel Cooke, another student) would become Yale school trustees; Eliot did so in 1730.

[17][22][23] In June 1707, Eliot was notified of Pierson’s death; he was ordained on the first of that month, fulfilling his father's wish for one of his sons to become a minister.

[27] His dual role is attested; “it should not be surprising that both great names in Connecticut medicine in the century spanning 1650-1750 belong to the cleric-physicians Gershom Bulkeley and Jared Eliot”.

After transferring his medical practice to his son-in-law, Eliot wrote a series of essays on "field husbandry" (primarily agriculture).

The fact that the essays were published near his home enabled his neighbors and friends to share his accomplishments; “Jared is best seen as a thoughtful and convincing writer”.

[33] Jared wrote his essays in a flowing, easily understandable style, describing farming in the light of science.

[34] Eliot posits that sowing different types of grains – such as oats and peas, or summer wheat and barley – improved the crop of each.

Many types of grain should be grown, because each has a different purpose: flax, barley, wheat, maslin, colewort seed and rapeseed were mentioned.

Eliot aimed to demonstrate to the colonists that improvements were needed by indicating how alternative techniques were effectively used elsewhere.

[38] Other farmers comment to Eliot about how the ideas from his previous essays have affected them; for example, seaweed, wet leaves and sea salt might be used for fertilizer.

[39] The fifth essay concerned problems with tillage (in this case, the land which is worked – by plowing, sowing and harvesting crops).

Eliot adapted ideas which had been recently formulated by Jethro Tull, an English writer on tilling.

[40] Eliot attempted to improve Tull's machine, with the aid of President Clap (of Yale College) and Behoni Hillyard, a wheelwright in Killingworth.

Jared revealed that he was part of a group of investigators who secured an ore bed at Sansbury (by a patent grant from the Great Assembly) to find something to make into iron.

It stated, “I will and bequeath to the President and Fellows of Yale College, in New Haven, ten pounds of lawful money, the interest of which sum shall be applied to the use of the library, in buying books from time to time, according to their best skill”, this was the first Yale college library fund.

Eliot's house in Guilford, Connecticut, built in 1723, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.