Ebenezer Ellis I (1729 - 1818)

Born 27 May 1729 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah UNKNOWN — married 1756 in Sandwich, MA

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1818 at age 88 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

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Biography

This profile is part of the Ellis Name Study.

Ebenezer Ellis was born May 27, 1729, the son of Gideon Ellis and Anna Clark of Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

He married Hannah, whose parents are unknown^{[3] [4] [5]}, and they had children, including:

1. Gideon, born December 25, 1754^[6], and was perhaps baptized in 1757, who married Sarah Rees^{[4] [5] [3]}
2. Ezekiel, born 1760 in Massachusetts, who married Hannah Crocker^{[4] [5] [3]}
3. Ebenezer Ellis, born January 15, 1763 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, who married Lydia Scott, daughter of Rev. Jonathon Scott on December 18, 1788, and who died in 1799^{[4] [5] [3]}
4. Hannah, born February 4, 1765, who married Steven Tinkham, son of Edward Tinkham on November 15, 1782; and then married Comfort Healey in November 1795^[7]; and who died January 16, 1862^{[4] [5] [3]}
5. Bethia, born January 13, 1767, who married David W. Beveridge^{[4] [5] [3]}
6. Elizabeth, born September 28, 1769, who died unmarried^{[4] [5] [3]}
7. Samuel, born January 3, 1773, who married Hannah Bartlett, daughter of Lemuel Bartlett on June 23, 1797^[8]; and then married Susanna (Magrey) Perry, widow of Levi Perry in 1836^[9]; and who died December 18,1860^{[4] [5] [3]}
8. Anna, born 1774, who died in 1776^{[4] [5] [3]}

When Gideon Ellis died February 1761, Ebenezer, as the oldest surviving son was named executor of his father's estate, however the estate was administered by Timothy Perry, his brother-in-law, because Ebenezer and his family had emigrated to Nova Scotia^[3]

On June 9, 1761, Ebenezer and his family, together with Sealed Landers and Moses Perry arrived in Chebogue (Yarmouth), Nova Scotia on the Schooner Pompey^[10] Note Moses Perry was married to Ebenezer's sister, Eleanor. ^{[4] [5] [3]}

Ebenezer Ellis died April 5, 1818, in Yarmouth^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-G79B : 13 July 2016), Ebenezer Ellece, 27 May 1729; citing Birth, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 416,334.
2. ↑ Lt John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis by Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney) and Mclean, Maclean W. , published in Volume 120, page 116 of the Vital Records from The NEHGS Register Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12} Lt John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis by Brownson, Lydia B. (Phinney) and Mclean, Maclean W, published in Volume 121, page 133 of the Vital Records from The NEHGS Register Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.)
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; page 101
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10} Genealogical notes of Cape Cod families by Brownson, Lydia B.; Norton, Doris V.; Held, Grace V.; Publication date 1967; Publisher Lydia B. Brownson; This open source shows information that is otherwise found behind a paywall See Vol. 19 (Ellis to Farris), pages 227 and 256 for Ebenezer, son of Gideon and Anna
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-RHG4 : 13 July 2016), Ebeneser Ellis in entry for Gideon Ellis, 25 Dec 1754; citing Birth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 775,836.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7RS-N6R : 10 December 2014), Hannah Healy in entry for Elizebeth Healy, 23 Oct 1872; citing Southbridge, Massachusetts, v 249 p 363, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,201.
8. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2P6-H3Y : 28 November 2014), Samuel Ellis in entry for Catherine Atwood, 29 Feb 1872; citing Cemetery, Lower Clyde, Shelburne, reference p42 line15; FHL microfilm 1,298,86
9. ↑ "Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMG6-R19 : 8 December 2014), Samuel Ellis and Susanna Perry, 1836, Marriage; citing p. 6787, volume 1800, , Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.
10. ↑ A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia by John Roy Campbell, printed by J. & A. McMillan, 1876 -

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