Lucia Ellsworth, {Fictional}

Not the daughter of James Rychard Bower & Elizabeth Bower

Far from being the name of a real person, Lucia appears to have been a person who had a bower - a character in a novel titled The Tutor of Truth by Samuel Jackson Pratt, p. 30. London: printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1779. umich.edu In short, a fabrication.

This couple (John Ellsworth and Lucia Bower) appears to be a fiction created to supply parents for a number of immigrants to America. The only published source, [1] is known to be unreliable. There is no record of any John Ellsworth being knighted. A search of records has discovered no Ellsworths born in Cambridgeshire during the relevant period. The name of "Eelstown", previously listed as his birthplace and the birthplace of many others from this family, does not exist.

Disconnected children

• Theophilus "Christopher" Elswaert
• Jeremiah Ellsworth
• Sgt. Joseph Ellsworth

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• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bower-90
• ↑ Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 4, Page 1717. Publisher: Lewis historical publishing Company, 1913. <GoogleBooks>