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Samuel Ellis Sr. (abt. 1720 - 1798)

Samuel Ellis Sr.
Born about in Marylandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1741 in Prince George's County, MDmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 78 in Iredell County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Samuel Ellis Sr. performed Patriotic Service in North Carolina in the American Revolution.
This profile is part of the Ellis Name Study.

The first of the Haplogroup R1b Group 9 Ellis to immigrate was Christopher Ellis, who arrived in Maryland in 1661. Samuel2 Ellis is linked to the Christopher Ellis family. For the long version of the origins of our Ellis line in Maryland, see Appendix 4 or go to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ellissurnamedna/genealogy/Robert%20L%201.pdf.

By the mid-to late 1740s, there were three Ellis families, headed by:

  • James,
  • Samuel1,
  • and William Ellis

living in Beallsville, in what was then western Prince George’s County, MD.

Much of what we know about James, Samuel2 and William Ellis stems from a census taken in 1776 in which ages were included along with the names. In her 1985 book James and Mary Veatch Ellis Their Sons and Other Descendants, Ann-Jannette Emerson listed

  • sixteen people with the surname of Ellis in Sugarland Hundred (in present day Montgomery County, MD)
  • and fourteen in Sugar Loaf Hundred (in present day Frederick County, MD).

The arrangement of the names and their ages suggest the groupings were family plantation groups. The two people pertinent to the five of us in Group 9 are:

  • James
  • and Samuel Ellis.

The Samuel Ellis whose name appears in the 1776 census was born in 1721. He is not the same Samuel Ellis who was on the 1733 New Scotland Hundred tax list, but he may have been his son. Between 1752 and 1772, there were several land transactions between this Samuel Ellis and James Ellis, son of Christopher and Elizabeth Cater Ellis, leading previous historians to conclude the two probably were related, either brothers or cousins.

Samuel2 Ellis married Mary Hoagland c. 1741 in Prince George’s County. By 1742, Samuel2 Ellis and William Ellis were living at Beallsville when they signed a petition seeking a new All Saints Parish. (At the time, the western part of Prince George’s County was part of St. John’s Parish with its church located east of the Potomac.)

Samuel Ellis and Mary (Hoagland) Ellis lived in Sugarland Hundred in 1776, which was in present day Montgomery County but adjacent to Sugar Loaf Hundred. Samuel´s 1798 will lists his wife as Mary and his children as:

  1. Solomon Ellis,
  2. James Ellis,
  3. Joshua Ellis,
  4. Zephaniah Ellis,
  5. Samuel Ellis Jr.,
  6. Cassandra (Ellis) Summers,
  7. Anne (Ellis) Summers,
  8. Jemima (Ellis) Wilson,
  9. Kesiah Greenfield.

Though segregated by gender, the children are otherwise listed in order of birth.[1]

Samuel2 and Mary Hoagland Ellis and some of their children moved to Rowan County, North Carolina, beginning with their son Samuel Ellis, Jr. (aka: Samuel3 Ellis), who enlisted in the North Carolina Militia in Rowan County, NC in 1778 at the tender age of 16. By 1790, all of their sons except James Ellis were known to be in North Carolina.

Birth: CIRCA 1730 MARYLAND[2]

Death: before Aug 19, 1801, Iredell County, North Carolina[3]

Spouse: Mary Hoagland[4]

Children:

  1. Solomon Ellis (1744-1838)
  2. James Ellis (1746-1809)
  3. Joshua Ellis (1746/55-1828)
  4. Zephaniah Ellis (1755-1829)
  5. Jeminmah (Ellis) Wilson (after 1760-?)
  6. Kesiah (Ellis) Greenfield
  7. Mary (Ellis) Tomlinson
  8. Samuel Ellis, Jr. (1762 in Frederick County, Maryland - 1847 in Hart Co, Kentucky), married Martha Howard in 1788 in Rowan County, North Carolina[5]
  9. Anne (Ellis) Summers (1769-1827), married Basil Summers in 1788 in Rowan County, North Carolina
  10. Cassandra (Ellis) Summers or Tomlinson[6]

Samuel and his son operated a mill on Hunting Creek.[7]

Revolutionary War Service

Service: NORTH CAROLINA[8]

Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Service Source: NC REV PAY VOUCHERS, #3, 323

Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES

Sources

  1. #DNA, #C1790Sr, #Estate
  2. #DAR
  3. #Estate, #C1790Sr, #C1800Sr, #Will
  4. #DAR, #DNA
  5. #DAR
  6. either Mary or Cassandra married Humphrey Beckett Tomlinson. The other one married William Summers, Sr. not sure. Profiles are in conflict. Sources needed
  7. #Keever
  8. #DAR, #Tracks
  • Ellis Surname DNA Project: Follow Up of Results in Haplogroup R1b, Groups 2 and 9; Old Questions Answered, New Ones Arise, prepare by Robert L. Ellis, 2013
  • "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z7-3WST : 21 November 2016), Samuel Ellis, 1805; citing Iredell, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm
  • "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR8-5WS : accessed 18 September 2017), Samuel Ellis, Salisbury, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 620, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 29; FHL microfilm 337,905. Note: two Samuel Ellis's, probably father and son.
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Feb 3, 2018), "Record of Samuel Ellis", Ancestor # A037833.
  • "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2M-9GQ : accessed 3 February 2018), Samuel Ellis, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 396, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
  • "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2M-955 : accessed 3 February 2018), Samuel Ellis, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 398, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 568,147.
  • "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR8-57G : accessed 3 February 2018), Samuel Ellis, Salisbury, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 620, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 29; FHL microfilm 337,905.
  • "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR8-5WS : accessed 3 February 2018), Samuel Ellis, Salisbury, Iredell, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 620, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 29; FHL microfilm 337,905.
  • "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z7-3WST : 21 November 2016), Samuel Ellis, 1805; citing Iredell, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm .
  • "Genealogical Society of Iredell County, Inc., NC Revolutionary Soldiers’ Graves – Iredell, Davie & Alexander Co., Iredell County Tracks, Fall 2006." See Part 1 and Part 2
  • Wills, Iredell County, North Carolina; Ellis, Samuel (11 Jun 1798, probated 19 Aug 1801): Book I, page 98
  • Iredell Piedmont County, by Homer M. Keever, with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mild red Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, by Homer M. Keever. See Iredell, Piedmont County for more details.

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Ellis-13880 and Ellis-7485 appear to represent the same person because: a few more sources to add to merged profile
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