John Ellis Genealogy
Record modified: 2024-11-30
This is my ancestor 12 generations back.
Born: 1623-09-14 Bishop's Gate, London England
Died: 1697-04-02 Sandwich, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts USA
Marriages:
1. 1644-06-04 Elizabeth Freeman
Children of John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman:
Notes:
married in Sandwich MA
He also married 1680 Mary Burgess.
other children (dates may be wrong):
Elizabeth 1645 + Samuel Briggs
Mordecai 1650-03-24 (OS)
Deborah 1652 + Joseph Doty
Joel 1654
Matthias 1657-06-02 Sandwich
Monoah 1659
Freeman 1661
Gideon 1663
William 1665
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He is supposed to have come over on the Mayflower (1629, not 1620) with his uncle Richard Masterson.
He took the oath of freeman 1641-06-02 in Boston.
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Plymouth MA Court Orders 1641-1651 p85
1645-06-04 court
John Ellis, of Sandwich, for abuseing himself with his now wyfe by com-
mitting uncleannesse with her before marryage, is censured to be whipt at
publike post, and Elizabeth, his wyfe, to stand by while execution of the
sentence is performed; which was accordingly donn. And the said John Ellis,
for his long and tedious delayes, occasioning much trouble & charge to the
countrey, for that he would not confesse the truth untill the present, is
fined 7.
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Plymouth MA Court Orders 1651-1661 p38
1653-06-09 court
John Ellis approved by the Court to bee leiftenant of the milletary companie at Sandwidge.
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In 1658 the town of Sandwich MA appointed a committee to lay out the true bounds of every inhabitant's lands. Among the owners listed were John Ellis Sr and John Ellis Jr.
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"The history of Cape Cod : annals of thirteen towns of Barnstable County"
Vol. II. The annals of the town of Sandwich
p62
[about 1659]
The town appointed
"John Ellis and James Skiff to take care of the whales and all other
fish that yield oil in quantity"; and, subsequently, sale was made to
John Ellis of "the right of all such fish coming within the limits and
bounds of the town the next three years".
[That's probably this John but it might be his father.]
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"History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts : 1620-1637-1686-1890"
Chapter XIV. Town of Sandwich
p276
In 1659 John
Ellis was licensed to keep an "ordinary" at Sandwich village, and sell
"strong waters and wines, only not to let town-dwellers stay drinking
unnecessarily at his house".
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This appears to be his death record, but it's in Medfield MA.
There's a 1690 Medfield will for John Ellis naming his wife Joan and children who do not match this John's.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1715
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