Henry Ellis (1721 - 1806)

Born 29 Aug 1721 in County Monaghan, Ireland

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Died 21 Jan 1806 at age 84 in Naples, Italy

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Biography

Henry Ellis is Notable.

Ellis was born August 29, 1721 in County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of Francis and Joan (née Maxwell) Ellis. He was Royal Governor of Georgia from 17 May 1758 -2 November 1760, The subtropical climate took its toll on his health, and he had to be removed as governor then left Georgia, stopping in New York to request military assistance to the southern colonies. He published "Heat of the Weather in Georgia" in Philosophical Trans actions of the Royal Society in 1758. His administration of the colony was highly esteemed. Recognizing the danger posed to the colony by hostile neighbors, he established a treaty with the Creeks.

He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia on 15 August 1756 by Lord Halifax, President of the Board of Trade, after the death of Charles Lawrence but never actually set foot in the colony because he was recalled to England to advise the new secretary of state, Charles Wyndham, Lord Egremont on American affairs. Ellis left the administration of Nova Scotia to its Lieutenant Governor, Jonathan Belcher.

He studied law at the Middle Temple in London (p169, Who's who in America). In May 1746, he went out as agent of a company for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. After extinguishing with difficulty a fire in his ship, he sailed to Greenland, where he exchanged commodities with the Inuit peoples on 8 July. He then proceeded to Fort Nelson, and wintered in Hayes River. He renewed his efforts in June 1747, without success, and returned to England; where he arrived on 14 October. He published an accounts of his explorations in 1748, entitled "Voyage made to Hudson's Bay in 1746, by the Dobbs Galley and The California, to discover a Northwest Passage." and in 1750 published "Considerations on the Great Advantages which would Arise from the Discovery of the North West Passage". After publishing these accounts, Ellis was inducted into the Royal Society.

Ellis left his name to Fort Ellis in Nova Scotia and Ellis Square in Savannah, Georgia.

Sources

See also:

• Henry Ellis (governor). (2014, September 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:12, October 19, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Ellis_(governor)&oldid=625974324

• Governor Henry Ellis on Wikipedia (new)

• "Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia." Governors of the Colony of Nova Scotia 1710-1786. https://lt.gov.ns.ca/history/governors-colony-nova-scotia-1710-1786 (accessed February 22, 2019).

• https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/henry-ellis-1721-1806

• Men of Mark in Georgia, Volume I (Northen, Georgia, 1907), pages 63-68.

• Considerations on the Great Advantages which would Arise from the Discovery of the North West Passage. London. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

• Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842. Retrieved May 14, 2016.

• Waller, Tom. “Henry Ellis, Enlightenment Gentleman.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 3, 1979, pp. 364–376. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40580542. Accessed 28 May 2021.
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Publication date 1912, Family: Leslie-Ellis of Magherymore
• FamilySearch PID: M8ZS-JG8

• https://archive.org/details/cihm_34895

Published Works:

• Ellis, Henry. A voyage to Hudson's-Bay by the "Dobbs Galley" and "California" in the years 1746 and 1747 for discovering a North West Passage. Dublin: George and Alexander Ewing. ISBN 9780665348952. Retrieved December 5, 2022 – via archive.org.
• Ellis, Henry (1750). Considerations on the Great Advantages which would Arise from the Discovery of the North West Passage. London. Retrieved May 14, 2016 – via Google Books. Retrieved December 5, 2022
• Ellis, Henry (1757). "An Account of the Heat of the Weather in Georgia". Philosophical Transactions. Royal Society. 50: 754. doi:10.1098/rstl.1757.0103 Retrieved December 5, 2022