Elizabeth Ellis

  General Notes:

ELIZABETH, b. about 1645; m. about 1664 SAMUEL2 BRIGGS (John1). He was among the original settlers in Scippican and he held land in common with William2 Ellis (see No. 7 below for details). We believe that there can be little doubt that Samuel Briggs' wife was a daughter of Lt. John1 Ellis, particularly since his first two daughters were named Elizabeth and Bennet, presumably after the wife's mother and the grandmother, Bennet (Hodsoll) Freeman, and that the printed accounts which claim that Briggs married the daughter Bennet2 Ellis are mistaken, since, as noted below, Bennet Ellis was born in 1649, yet the wife of Samuel Briggs had a daughter born in April 1665 when Bennet2 Ellis would have been barely sixteen years old. [Lt. John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis of Sandwich, Mass by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass & Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburg, PA]

Elizabeth married Samuel Briggs, son of John Briggs and Catherine [Unknown], on 2 Feb 1663/64 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA ^5,37.^,110 (Samuel Briggs was born about 1640 ²⁹ and died on 2 Nov 1688 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA ¹¹⁰.)