Moses Ellsworth

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor #: A037978

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Moses Ellsworth and Anna Maria Elizabeth Henckel were married in Salisbury, Rowan County (now Davidson County) North Carolina in 1750. The date and place of Moses Ellsworth's birth is not known, but it is presumed he was born about the year 1730. He died on Coburn's Creek, Harrison Co., Virginia (now West Virginia) in January 1802 (his will was probated January 18, 1802) and he is believed buried one mile from his home in the old Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church yard.

Anna Maria Elizabeth Henckel was christened August 22, 1731 in the New Goshoppon Congregation, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania by Rev. John Peter Miller, and is the daughter of John Justus (called "Yost") and Magdalena (Eschmann) Henckel. She died in Ohio (probably in Clark or Champaign Co.,) but the date is not known.

In 1761, Moses Ellsworth patented 60 acres of land on the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River, near Deep Springs, about two miles above Riverton (then in Augusta Co., Virginia). In 1769 he added 46 acres adjoining, and in 1771 he added 257 additional acres. This section of land became a part of Rockingham Co. (1778-1788) and then (1788) Pendleton Co., Virginia (now West Virginia). John Justus Henckel (Hinkle), father-in-law of Moses Ellsworth, had extensive holdings about one mile east of Moses Ellsworth's tract, on which he built a fort, known as "Hinkle's Fort", as a protection against Indians.

Moses Ellsworth sold his land holdings in 1787 and migrated to Harrison Co., Virginia (now West Virginia) where in 1788 he bought land on Coburn's Creek, six to eight miles above Clarksburg. On February 15, 1790, Moses Ellsworth, Sr. conveyed to his son, Jacob Ellsworth, 124 acres of land described as situated on a western branch of the West Fork River called Coburn's Creek-- see Deed Book I of Harrison Co., page 373.

During the Revolutionary War, Moses Ellsworth Sr.., along with other citizens in Pendleton Co., Virginia, is given credit for "supplies furnished the American Army for military use. The items included diets, beef, bacon, oats, coarse linen, horse hire, etc." All living descendants of Moses Ellsworth Sr., therefore, are eligible to join the "Sons of the American Revolution" or the "Daughters of the American Revolution" if he or she should so desire.

(from "Sketches of Life and Labor of James Quinn, Who was Nearly Half a Century a Minister of the Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church" by John F. Wright of the Ohio conference in 1851 -- Chapter XIV, page 248:)

"In every age of the Church there have been persons of sterling worth, not only in the ministry, but also in the membership who in their day were pillars of the house... I now propose to give some account of the Ellsworth family in their generation.

"In the year of 1799, I became acquainted with Moses Ellsworth, the pious patriarch of this extensive, pious, and amiable family. He was of English descent. His pious wife was a German. They often used the German tongue in conversation. This led me to the conclusion that Mr. Ellsworth himself was a German, but this was an error. Of the time and place of his birth, I am not advised; it was most probably in one of the New England states. But he had married, settled, and raised most of his family in Pendleton Co., Virginia; and from thence removed to Harrison Co., same state, 1783 and settled on the West Fork of the Monongahela near Clarksburg. Here he opened his house to receive the first Methodist missionaries and his heart to receive the Gospel of the Grace of God, which ultimately proved to be the power of God to the salvation of his own soul, the souls of his household, and many of his neighbors.

"He had four sons: Jacob, John, Moses, and Aaron. Aaron died in holy triumph before my acquaintance with the family. The sons were all praying men, and heads of families. The daughters, three or four in number, were also pious, with their husbands and some of their children. When I traveled Clarksburg Circuit in 1799, there were at least fifty of the family and connections who were members of the M.E. Church, and they were religious in earnest, for if they sung loud, and shouted lustily, they lived up to their profession. The old patriarch and his good wife held onto the even tenor of their way till death came; but as he came without a sting, they smiled and bid the world adieu."

(Excerpts from a letter written by Wesley L. Cheuvront of Clarksburg, W.Va., on January 29, 1949:)

"The Ellsworths, Hinkles, Cheuvronts, and Bumgardners all came from Rockingham County to Harrison County Virginia about 1785. Mr. Quinn in writing about them says they came from Pendleton County in 1783, but since Pendleton County was not formed until 1787, and since the names of all of them appear in the census of Rockingham County in the year 1784, we judge Mr. Quinn is in error. In the old land transfers at the clerk's office here, we notice that Jacob and Hannah Ellsworth rendered a deed to Abram Hinkle for 200 acres of land near where the village of Good Hope is now located in May 1787, a part of which is now owned by Charles H. Washburn and his sister.

"On February 14, 1802, John and Mary Ellsworth made a deed for one acre of ground, situated on the West Fork River, to nine trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church....the deed specified that only Methodists would be allowed to preach in the church that was to be built. This church building took the name of the Ellsworth Church, and was thus designated until all by the name of Ellsworth had moved to Ohio, then it became known as the Bethel Church, until the building of the church of Good Hope, which became known as the New Bethel Church and has retained that name to the present time. The Old Bethel Church cemetery occupies the entire acre of ground deeded by John Ellsworth and his wife Mary, and has been filled with graves for years.

"Prior to the building of the Ellsworth Church in 1802, a Methodist Society was formed, with Moses Ellsworth as leader, as early as 1786 in what is now the Good Hope community. They met in the various homes-- in the homes of the Ellsworths, Washburns, Bennetts and others. Mr. Quinn says there were some fifty members of the Ellsworth Family belonging to the Methodist Church in 1799. This included the various connections of the Ellsworth, such as the Hinkles, Wests, Richards, and Cheuvronts.

"Then in the Coburn's Creek section - near here - the home of Jacob Ellsworth was a regular appointment on the old Clarksburg circuit, and was known as "the Jacob Ellsworth Preaching Place". This was the forerunner of the Coburn's Creek Methodist Church, now abandoned, and was reported in a Quarterly Meeting held at Bridgeport (Benjamin Webb Preaching Appointment) on July 6-7, 1805. (see pages 28-31 "History of Methodism in Bridgeport" by Barnhart). The Ellsworth meeting house was reported also, one of the stronger points of the 28 on the old Clarksburg Circuit.

"The Ellsworth Meeting House was built of hewn white-oak logs, with a fireplace at one end, with a door toward the end on the south side of the building. The location of the chimney, built for burning wood, is yet plainly visible. And I recall, when I was just a small boy, more than sixty years ago, seeing a pile of the hewn logs that had once been the Ellsworth Meeting House, piled up at one side of the cemetery."

From: "Arthur Aylsworth and His Descendants in America", by Homer Elhanan Aylsworth, M.D. Roseville, Warren Co., IL: Edited 1887, Prividence, RI by James N. Arnold.

[The editor finds among the author's MS. a number of families over which was written "Undetermined Genealogies," and regrets that the author could not have been permitted to have made them more clear to the reader, and so have incorporated them in their appropriate place in this work. They are here submitted without change, believing, even as incomplete as they are, they may be very important in establishing their proper place in this work at some future time when others have had time to study the subject more fully.]

MOSES ELLSWORTH, married (???) Hinkle, and, according to Oliver Ellsworth, of Gilson, Ill., was the son of Moses, whom he called one of three brothers who came from England and settled in Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y., the others being David and Arthur. Moses took his only son Moses and moved to Carolina, thence to Pendleton County, Va., where the son reared his family, and removed to Harrison County, Va.

Sons.

John, b. Jan. 25, 1765, m. Mary Richards, who was born Jan.

20, 1769. He died about 1824, at Sidney, Shelby Co., O.

Moses, b. Feb. 1767, m. Mollie Bumgartner, b. Oct. 1762. He

died aged about 68 years, and she aged about 93 years.

Aaron.

Jacob.

Sources: Harriet Ellsworth Siebert and Willard Ellsworth, M.D., "Ellsworth Genealogy - Male Descendants of Moses Ellsworth of North Carolina and Virginia" (Library of Congress genealogy)

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