Jeremiah Ellis III (abt. 1697 - bef. 1757)

Born about 1697 in Surry, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Hicks) Ellis — married 1720 in Surry County, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 3 May 1757 before about age 60 in Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg, Virginia

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Biography

Jeremiah Ellis III was a Virginia colonist.

Jeremiah Ellis, III was born about 1697 in Surry County, Virginia, a son of Jeremiah Ellis and Elizabeth Davis. Jeremiah left Surry County, Virginia before April 1740 for Lunenburg County, Virginia. Lunenburg County Tithe lists 1749, include both Jeremiah Ellis and son Abraham Ellis. When Jeremiah died, his son Abraham inherited a tract of land on Great Creek, of the Roanoke River. Jeremiah wrote his Will on in Lunenburg County, Virginia November 13, 1756 and probated May 3, 1757. The earliest Will of a person by the name of Ellis in the records of Lunenburg county, Virginia is that of Jeremiah Ellis, ^[1] In it he mentions his wife, Priscilla Ellis, and the following children:

1. Abraham Ellis
2. Daniel Ellis
3. James Ellis
4. Nathaniel Ellis
5. Priscilla Ellis, at that time the wife of a man named Nipper
6. Lydia Ellis, at that time the wife of a man named Nipper

• Family Data Collection - Individual Records

Name: Jeremiah Ellis

Spouse: Priscilla Hicks

Parents: Jeremiah Ellis

Birth Place: Surry, VA

Birth Date: 1697

Marriage Place: Surry, VA

Marriage Date: 1740

Death Place: Lunenburg, VA

Death Date: May 1757

Source Citation

Birth year: 1697; Birth city: Surry; Birth state: VA

Source Information

Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records

Research Notes

A search of Ancestry.com and familysearch.org turned up no records except a mention in an article about his son, Abraham Ellis (see above). A search using both Google and Bing search engines did not turn up any references to sources for this Jeremiah Ellis.

The Revolutionary Military records for Jeremiah Ellis found on familysearch.org do not refer to this Jeremiah. They refer to another Jeremiah Ellis of West Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Sources

1. ↑ Lunenburg Will Book 1, page 178

• Department of Archives and History. Public Information Subject Files—Surname files, 1901-1984. Article on son Abraham Ellis and family. Ancestry Image
• Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, Vestry Book, 1746-1816 by Landon Covington Bell and Landon C. Bell, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1974 page 204
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCXY-YBL

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010