Joseph Ellis of Dedham

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Joseph Ellis

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: circa 1672 (43-52)
Dedham, Norfolk County , Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Unknown Ellis and 'widow Ellis' Genery
Husband of Ruth Brackett
Father of Joseph Ellis, Jr.; Ruth Ellis; John Ellis and Mary Ellis
Brother of Lt. Richard Ellis of Dedham
Half brother of John Chenery and Isaac Chenery

Occupation: Schoolmaster at Dedham
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About Joseph Ellis of Dedham

Her children were: By first husband, Ellis:

  • i. Richard 2 Ellis, b. 1621; m. Elizabeth French.
  • ii. Joseph Ellis, b. , d. abt. 1672; m. abt. 1660, Ruth Morse, dau. of John and Annis Morse.

... Joseph, who served Dedham as its schoolmaster for a number of years. ...


5 children; 3rd Joseph.


Lambert Genery is said to have been first at Watertown and if so was in this country before 1636, for in that year we find him a signer of the Dedham Covenant. He mar- ried first, a widow Ellis, by whom he had two sons, John and Isaac Genery. She died before 14 May 1658, for on that date he married, second, Thamzin Hewes by whom he had, Mary Genery, born in Dedham, 24 Dec. 1659. He was born 1593, and died in Dedham 30 Jan. 1 673-4 . He deposed aged eighty years, 1 7 June 1 673. He was admit- ted a Freeman in Dedham in May 1645 and served the town as constable in 1658-9.

He made his Will 17 Feb. 1673, proved 4 Feb. 1674, mentions son John Genery; Isaac Genery; daughter Mary; son-in-law Richard Ellis, and daughter-in-law Ruth Ellis, widow; and gives to church in Dedham.


https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Anne_Ellis_%282%29

Holman, Mary Lovering, and Harriett Grace Scott. The Scott Genealogy. (Boston, Mass., 1919) 192.

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 an 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 Ellisand her two sons.


The likely but currently unlinked relatives of 'widow Ellis' Genery:

John Ellis of Medfield, Anne Colver, and Thomas Ellis of Medfield


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Joseph Ellis of Dedham's Timeline

1624
1624
England
1663
December 2, 1663
DEDHAM, MA.
1666
March 2, 1666
Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1667
November 25, 1667
DEDHAM, MA.
1671
March 24, 1671
DEDHAM, MA.
1672
1672
Age 48
Dedham, Norfolk County , Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America