Lois (Ely) Halleck (1751)

Born 1751 in Connecticut

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Mattituck, New York

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Biography

Lois Ely, b. 1751, dau. of Samuel Ely and Hannah Marsh, m. her third cousin, Ezra Selden. Captain Ezra Selden was born at Lyme, Conn., March 23, 1752. He was the eldest son of Ezra Selden and Elizabeth Rogers. He graduated at Yale, 1773, and was a lawyer of considerable repute.

They settled at Lyme, where he raised and commanded a company which served in the army of the Revolution. He was severely wounded at the capture of Stony Point, and died in 1788.

The widow married Rev. Ezra Halleck, of Mattituck, L. I., where she died, and he married again and had other children.

Children of Captain Ezra Selden and Lois Ely :

1. Ulysses, b. 1778 (grad. at Yale, 1802; was a lawyer; settled in Norwich); d. Jan. 24, 1812; unm.

2. Abigail, d. 1803, unm.

Second husband, Rev. Ezra Halleck :

3. Jerusha, b. at Mattituck; m. Gershom Edwards of Riverhead.

4. Abigail, d. an infant.

5. Ulysses, d. an infant.

6. Abbey 2d, d. unm.

7. Louisa, m. Page, of Newburyport. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Ely Ancestry, pp.171-172

• The Ely ancestry : lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, who came to Boston, Mass., about 1655, & settled at Lyme, Conn. in 1660" by Beach, Moses Sperry, 1822-1892; Ely, William; Vanderpoel, George Burritt; Ely, Sumner Adriel Published 1902 The Calumet Press https://archive.org/details/elyancestrylinea00beac