Elizabeth (Ellis) Turner (abt. 1690 - abt. 1789)

Born about 1690 in Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1789 at about age 99 in Surry, North Carolina, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth location Alternatives: (1) Spotsylvania County, Colony of Virginia, (later Orange County [1734] then Frederick County [1738]) OR Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania

She was called "sister of Brother Evans," assumed by some researchers to be Evan Ellis.^[1]

Dee posted "All My Relations" at Ancestry.com 15 Feb 2009: Her maiden name is not proven, but is highly probable. The TURNER and ELLIS families were associated with each other first in Philadelphia, PA in the middle 1600's; later in Frederick Co VA; and then latter still in Rowan Co NC.

Interestingly, I have seen a number of occurrences where Roger & Elizabeth's second son's name is spelled as Ellis (instead of the ususal Elias). He was a Tory and died in Feb 1785. He will was witnessed by Evan ELLIS, Sarah ELLIS, & Jane ELLIS.

Evan ELLIS was also a witness to the will of Roger TURNER in Feb 1775.

Evan ELLIS was the son of John ELLIS. Elizabeth ELLIS would therefore be the daughter of John ELLIS.

Also Thomas & Susannah TURNER (parents of Roger TURNER) were sponsors for the baptism of John and Evan ELLIS, sons of John ELLIS in 1732 according the the Baptismal Records of Rev. John C. Stover in Manatawny, Berks Co PA.

Also, Evan Ellis found in 1759 tax list of Rowan Co w/Thomas, Edward and Roger TURNER Jr.

Note there were an Evans and a Turner in Surry Co NC in 1678, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaschsm/1678.html.

Thie brother may be Edward Evans who, together with others, purchased land for a building in Philadelphia, 1742. Ibid.

Also at GoogleBooks, Dee Andrews, The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800, Princeton University Press, 2002, p 34: "Edward Evans is a case in point. An Irish shoemaker who immigrated to the colonies in the 1730s, Evans was converted by Whitefield during the revivals of the 1740s. As he was to write to Wesley years later, he had known of the Wesley brothers by reputation, but had been discouraged from corresponding by both Whitefield and Peter Böhler, whom Evans had met on one of the latter's American visits. In due time Evans determined that Whitefield was "a weak and vain man [who had] sunk entirely into what is called Calvin Opinion." Consequently Evans decided to join one of the Moravian communities, probably at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For twelve years the United Brethren 'fully engaged [his] time and attention," but Evans was to leave the Moravians as well, disillusioned with their "Jesuitical evasion[s]" and Count Zinzendorff's "absolute rule and direction" over Moravian affairs. The count's teaching, Evans complained to Wesley, were "observed and followed as the Bulls or Decretals of the Pope." "[S]ick of disappointment," Evans determined to spend the rest of his days "in a separated way, and cleave to Jesus only." He began to travel and preach independently and by the late 1760s was the leader of a small prayer group in Philadelphia." Andrews "case in point" is that Evans's "religious sensibilities paralleled those of many Americans ... moving from church to church" ..."Neither Anglican nor Moravian, Calvinist nor Quaker."

Cf. Edward EVANS, died 13 OCT 1771 in Philadelphia MM, PA (Hinshaw, 2: 359)

Disowned in 1742 at Phila MM for joining another society

Marriage Rebecca Clark b: 1705, married 5 Mar 1736/37 in Paynswick, Gloucestershire (Hinshaw, 2: 486, 518)

Children

1. Rebeccah, died 22 Oct 1745 or 8 Jun 1748

2. Margaret, died 2 Apr 1761, Philadelphia

3. William, died 21 May 1740

4. Jane, died 6 Jul 1745

Era Magazine, "Replies," Published by Henry T. Coates & Co., 1901, Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Oct 13, 2007, page 804.

There was another Evans family in Surry Co NC: See "Descendants of Nicholas Evans," at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tngiles/charts/evans.htm. There is no mention of Turners at this site.

Sources

1. ↑ Abraham Ritter, History of the Moravian Church of Philadelphia, from its foundation in 1742 to the present time. Comprising notices, defensive of its founder and patron Count Nicholas von Zinzendorff (http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofmoravia00ritt), Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1857, p 42.

• Source: S00049 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R00001 NOTEAncestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006).