Not the same as Lt. John Ellis of Sandwich or as John Elston
Parents unverified. Perhaps related to 'widow Ellis' Genery.

John Ellis

• Born 1616 in England
• Seen as Son of Thomas Ellis and Alice (Phillips) Ellis] ?
• seen as Brother of Thomas Ellis of Dedham
• Husband of Susanna (Lombard or Lumber) Ellis married 10 Nov 1641 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Husband of Joan [(Willis?] Ellis — married 16 Jun 1655 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Father of John Ellis, Susanna Ellis, Hannah Ellis, Samuel Ellis, Joseph Ellis and Eleazar Ellis
• Died 2 Apr 1697 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Province

Married

• Married (1) Susannah Lombard in Dedham, Massachusetts 10 March 1641. She died 5 Apr. 1653, in Medfield.
• Married: (2) Joan Clap Willis on 26 Jun 1656 in Boston, Massachusetts Colonial America.

Biography

18 Aug 1636: John Ellis and others agreed to have only men "fitting" in the town, that water anywhere in town shall belong to all for fishing, that men "in service" shall not be admitted, or given a lot until said service is over. He signed the Town Covenant the following month. During the following years he attended town meetings and was granted land and had minor town dealings.[1]

On 17 July 1640, John "Ellice" was admitted to the Dedham church.[2] On 18 August 1636, John Ellis attended the founding meeting for the town of Dedham. This meeting was held at Watertown, and John may have been living at Watertown at the time.

Origins

John Ellis was presumably born in England. He first appears in Massachusetts Bay records in Dedham in 1636.

W. S. Tilden wrote that "Thomas Ellis was a brother of John and came from Dedham to Medfield in the end of 1651 or the beginning of 1652." So the two would seem to have the same parents, possibly those identified in the profiles cited.

Research Note This John Ellis is easy to confuse with Lt. John Ellis of Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony, but they are separate people. Halsey Bullen

1636 Founding of Dedham, Massachusetts

18 Aug 1636: John Ellis and others agreed to have only men "fitting" in the town, that water anywhere in town shall belong to all for fishing, that men "in service" shall not be admitted, or given a lot until said service is over. He signed the Town Covenant the following month. During the following years he attended town meetings and was granted land and had minor town dealings.[1]

On 17 July 1640, John "Ellice" was admitted to the Dedham church.[2] On 18 August 1636, John Ellis attended the founding meeting for the town of Dedham. This meeting was held at Watertown, and John may have been living at Watertown at the time.[2][3]

Marriages

John Ellis first married Susannah Lombard, on 10 Mar 1641 in Dedham. ? date. John Ellice and Suzan Lumber married 10 9th m. 1641 (10 Nov 1641)[4] Susan ye wife of br: John Ellice was received into the Church 12d 2m 1644.[3] Susannah died in Medfield on Apr. 4, 1654[5]

John Ellis then married Joan, widow Clapp, on 16 Jun 1655 in Medfield[6]

Children

John and Susannah had, in Dedham:[7];

1. John, b. 26 April 1646
2. Susanna, b. 1648

John and Susannah had, in Medfield:[8]

1. Hanna, b. Apr. 9, 1651. Hannah, d/o John Elice was bpt 18 5m 1652 at the church in Dedham[3]

John and Joan had, in Medfield:[9]

1. Samuel, b. May 24, 1660
2. Joseph, b. Oct. 24, 1662
3. Eleazar, b. Apr. 24, 1664

Death

John died in Medfield on Apr. 2, 1697. Joan survived him, dying a widow on March 4, 1703-4[10][11]

Will

John's will was dated 24 Sep 1690 and sworn to in court 24 Jun 1697. He made bequests to his eldest son John and to John's son John. Then made bequests to daughter Susannah Evans and Susanna's son Ebenezer and daughter Hannah Rockott[sic]. He mentions his first wife, with the implication that she was the mother of the previous children. Bequests were made to wife Jone, and sons Joseph and Eleazer who are all named executors.[12]

Events

• Founder: 1636, among the 1st settlers of Dedham, MA
• Freeman: 02 Jun 1641, Dedham, MA
• Immigrant Ancestor: 1635, England, Suffolk, to MA
• Migration: 1635, England, Suffolk, to MA

The settlement of Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham was settled in the summer of 1636 by "about thirty families excised from the broad ranks of the English middle classes"[4] traveling up the Charles River from Roxbury and Watertown traveling in rough canoes carved from felled trees.[5] These original settlers, including Edward Alleyne, John Everard, John Gay and John Ellis "paddled up the narrow, deeply flowing stream impatiently turning curve after curve around Nonantum until, emerging from the tall forest into the open, they saw in the sunset glow a golden river twisting back and forth through broad, rich meadows."[5] In search of the best land available to them they continued on but

The river took many turns, so that it was a burden the continual turning about.... West, east, and north we turned on that same meadow and progressed none, so that I, rising in the boat, saw the river flowing just across a bit of grass, in a place where I knew we had passed through nigh an hour before. "Moore," said Miles then to me, "the river is like its Master, our good King Charles, of sainted memory, it promises overmuch, but gets you nowhere."[5]

They first landed where the river makes its 'great bend,'[5] on what is today Ames Street, near the Dedham Community House and the Allin Congregational Church in Dedham Square. The Algonquians living in the area called the place Tiot.[2] Tiot, which means "land surrounded by water," was later used to describe the village of South Dedham, today the separate town of Norwood.[6] In "its first years, the town was more than a place to live; it was a spiritual community."[1]

Notes

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Ellis_%288%29

• 1. Ellis, in Holman, Mary Lovering, and Harriett Grace Scott. The Scott Genealogy. (Boston, Mass., 1919) 192.
  • His parents and origins are unknown. m/1 Susan Lumber 10 Nov 1641 m/2 Joan widow of John Clapp 16 Jun 1655. Widow Ellis married (1) before 1620 _____ Ellis, and (2), probably before 1633, Lambert Genery. She died before 14 May 1658. … In the list of admissions to the (Dedham) church … The wife of Goodman Genery, 4 Dec. 1640." She brought two sons Richard Ellis and Joseph Ellis. John Ellis, Ann Ellis and Thomas Ellis were also in Dedham and Medfiled but it unknown if or how they were related to Widow Ellis and her two sons.
• 2. Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015) 106.
  • [Origins]Unknown; [Arrival] 1636; Dedham, [then] Medfield [DeTR 1:20; DeChR 23; DeVR 126; MBCR 1:379; Medfield Hist 374; SPR Case # 2376]
• 3. Tilden, William S. 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, Mass.: Geo. H. Ellis, 1887) 374.
  • m/1 Susan Lumber 1641 m/2 Joan widow of John Clapp 1655; Children: John 1646 m Mary Herring, Susanna m Matthias Evans, Hannah 1651-1717 m Samuel Rockwood, Samuel 1660-1684, Joseph 1662, Eleazar 1664. John Ellis was brother of Thomas Ellis of Dedham.
• 4. Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971) Case 2376.
  • vol. 11, p. 304 Will of "John Ellice Sen'r of Medfeild ... preserved to old age", dated 24 Sep 1690, proved 24 Jun 1697, names oldest son John Ellice, his son John Ellice my Grand Child; daughter Susanna Evins, her son Ebenezer; daughter Hannah Rocket; moveables of his first wife to be divided between daughters Susanna and Hannah; wife Jone Ellice; sons Joseph Ellice and Eleazer Ellice. Wife and sons Joseph and Elezaer to be executors.
• 5. Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903) p. 208.
  • ELLICE, John, [died] Apr. 2, 1697.
• 6. Based on his arrival date (1636) assuming he was an adult at the time he may have been born about 1616.

Sources

• ↑ Hill, Don Gleason. Early Records of Dedham, Massachusetts (The Office of the Dedham Transcript, 1886-1899) Vol. 3 (1892) 1636-1659. A complete transcript of book one of the general records of the town, together with the selectmen's day book, covering a portion of the same period. p/20, p. 3, pp 3, 20, 27, 33, 45, 49, 50, 70, 75, 79, 82, 87, 88, 95, 100, 107, 109, 113, 152, 155, 158, 161,165, 172, 174, 175, 176, 185, 219,
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20. NEHGS AmericanAncestors.org, (Vol 17, Page 28).
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hill, Don Gleason. Early Records of Dedham, Massachusetts (The Office of the Dedham Transcript, 1886-1899) Vol. 2 (1888) A memorial volume. The record of baptisms, marriages and deaths, and admissions to the church and dismissals therefrom, transcribed from the church records in the town of Dedham, 1638-1845. Also all the epitaphs in the ancient burial place in Dedham, together with the other inscriptions before 1845 in the three parish cemeteries. John p. 23, susan p. 28 Hannah p. 33
• ↑ Hill, Don Gleason. Early Records of Dedham, Massachusetts (The Office of the Dedham Transcript, 1886-1899) Vol. 1 (1886) The record of births, marriages and deaths, and intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham ... With an appendix containing records of marriages before 1800, returned from other towns, under the statute of 1857. 1635-1845 p. 126
• ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 207: " Elice"
• ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 136: "Elice (see Ellice, Ellis), John and Joan Clapp, June 16, 1655
• ↑ Don Gleason Hill, Julius Herbert Tuttle, Benjamin Fisher. Early Records of Dedham, Massachusetts, (Dedham Transcript Press - Publisher, 1888.)Viewed on archive.org, pp. 3
• ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 46
• ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 46, 49:
• ↑ Norfolk, Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, p. 208
• ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHDX-666 : 13 July 2016), John Ellis, 02 Apr 1697; citing Death, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 721,179.
• ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) link americanancestors ($)
• 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, published 1887. Reference page 374, 376
• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory, p. 106
• Scott genealogy : [descendants of John Scott of Roxbury ...]
• https://archive.org/stream/scottgenealogyde00holm#page/192/mode/2up
• The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope. Page 100. GoogleBooks John Clap.
• The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope. Page 155. GoogleBooks John Ellis.
• (Suffolk Probate Vol. 11, p. 304 FamilySearch Image
• Military service: Lt in Colonial Wars ( King Phillips War) engaged to train troops
• Residence: Medfield
• Residence: Aug 1643 - Sandwich,Barnstable,Massachusetts
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Aug 7 2017, 18:09:33 UTC
• History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts. 1650. 1886; with genealogies of families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries by Tilden, William Smith, 1830-1912; Monks, John A. S Page 374. Archive.Org

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This John Ellis is easy to confuse with Lt. John Ellis of Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony, but they are separate people.

John Ellis, Jr, born Abt. 1618; died Unknown.