Ephraim Kellogg (1742 - 1815)

Born 3 Jan 1742 in Amherst, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Hastings) Kellogg — married 1761 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 29 Jan 1815 at age 73 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ephraim Kellogg was born in Massachusetts on 3 January 1742. He was the son of Ephraim Kellogg and Dorothy Hawley.^[1]

Ephraim was married to Esther Hastings in 1761 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Children

Hopkins listed his children, all born at Amherst, Massachusetts.

1. John, b. 23 Sept., 1762; m. (1) Roxanna Mattoon; (2) Mrs. Martha (Belden) Ingram.
2. Electa, b. 6 Aug., 1764; m. Deacon Nathaniel Bangs.
3. Ephraim, b. 15 June, 1766; m. Martha Smith.
4. Esther, b. 2 Mar., 1768; m. Elijah Prouty.
5. Joanna, b. 1 Dec, 1769 ; d. young.
6. Philana, b. 23 Mar., 1772 ; probably d. young.
7. Abigail, b. 19 May, 1774; d. young.
8. Elijah, b. 17 Mar., 1776; m. Hannah Herrick.
9. Elisha, b. 27 Mar., 1778; m. Abigail Lawrence.
10. Joel, born 29 Jan., 1780; m. Elizabeth Alexander.
11. Waitstill, b. 19 Sept., 1781; m. (1) Olive Ashley; (2) Submit Blodgett.
12. Philomela, b. 15 Jan., 1784; m. in Amherst, 27 Feb., 1810, Elisha Smead, of Weybridge, Vt.

In his will Ephraim mentions children:

• John Kellogg
• Ephraim Kellogg
• Electa (Kellogg) Bangs, wife of Nathaniel
• Elijah Kellogg
• Elisha Kellogg
• Waitstill Kellogg
• Philamela (Kellogg) Smead wife of Elisha
• Esther (Kellogg) Prouty (deceased, children of)
• Joel Kellogg) (children of)^[2]

Death and Probate

Ephraim died in Amherst, Massachusetts, on 29 January 1815 or 29 January 1815.

He made his will on 30 July 1814 and it was accepted for probate on 7 February 1815.^[3]

He is buried in West Cemetery in Amherst. The inscription on his gravestone reads:^[4]

Mr.

Ephrom Kellogg

died

29 Jany 1815

AE 73

Research Notes

Responses to the above notes, by Ellen Smith 20:53, 14 October 2023 (UTC):

The FamilySearch record references his father Ephraim as the youngest son of Nathaniel and Sarah and it identifies this Ephraim as that man's son, with the date of 3 Jan 1742. I inserted a link to the record image, where this appears in a note at the bottom of the image.

There is a mistake in the indexing of the probate record by Ancestry.com. The record image shows that the will was created in July 1814, and the probate date is in February 1815. Thus the January 1815 death date is consistent with the probate date. I have observed that Ancestry often mistakenly labels the date of a will as the probate date.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC5Z-M6J : 14 January 2020), Ephraim Kellogg, 1742.
2. ↑ “Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC53-FZ1 : 10 February 2018), Ephraim Kellogg in entry for Joel Kellogg, 29 Jan 1781; citing AMHERST,HAMPSHIRE,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 186,128
3. ↑ Probate record for Ephraim Kellogg, Massachusetts County, District and Probate Courts. Probate Records, 1660-1916; Index, 1660-1971; Massachusetts. Probate Court (Hampshire County); Probate Place: Hampshire, Massachusetts. Ancestry.com. (Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015). Record image accessed at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9069/images/007705565_00298
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125082279/ephraim-kellogg: accessed 20 November 2023), memorial page for Ephraim Kellogg (1742–29 Jan 1815), Find a Grave Memorial ID 125082279, citing West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by James Bianco (contributor 47745493)

• Alvord, Samuel Morgan. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord, an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass. Webster, New York: A.D. Andrews, printer, 1908. Page 82. https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00alvo#page/82/search/john
• Hopkins, Timothy. The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New (Sunset Press, 1903)