Patience (Evans) Ellis (1704 - 1762)

Born 12 Feb 1704 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazar Ellis — married about 1720 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province [uncertain]

Died 1 Oct 1762 at age 58 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Biography

Patience was born to Matthias and Sarah Smith Evans in Medfield on February 12, 1703-4^[1]

Eleazar Ellis married Patience Evans in 1720^[2][3]

As the sole heir to her parents, she brought their estate into this marriage. Eleazar had inherited the Benjamin Wheelock estate. Since he died without survivors, he made his nephew Nathan his heir, and one of the the wealthiest and aristocratic men in Medfield. ^[2]

Eleazar and Patience Ellis had two children, both named Matthias, both died young.^[4]

Patience died October 1, 1762^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 49
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} >Tilden, William Smith, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries, (Boston, 1887, G.S. Olive). pages 376-377
3. ↑ This marriage between two Medfield people is not found in Medfield vital records
4. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 47 & 209
5. ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 209