Samuel Ellis
- Born: Abt 1696, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,29,37,65,66,314
- Christened: 30 May 1697, Sandwich Church, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA 65
- Marriage: Mercy Gibbs about 1717 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,37,65,66,314
- Died: Bef 6 Mar 1745/46, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,37,65,66,314
General Notes:
SAMUEL3 ELLIS (Lt. Mordecai,2 Lt. John1), born about 1696, bap-tized in the Sandwich Church 30 May 1697, died between 27 June 1745 and 6 March 1745/6.
He married about 1717 MERCY4 GIBBS, born 21 Jan. 1695/6, died after 27 June 1745, daughter of John3 and Esther (Swift) Gibbs of Plymouth. She was a sister of Jane and Hannah Gibbs who married Samuel's brothers, William and Benjamin Ellis. Mercy (Gibbs) Ellis married, secondly, 12 April 1748, Samuel Churchill of Plymouth, born there 2 Oct. 1710, died there 11 July 1799, son of William2 and Lydia (Bryant) Churchill.
He was a minor, aged about thirteen, at the time of the distribution of his father's estate in February 1710, and one of the unnamed "five other children" noted in it. He was evidently apprenticed as a cordwainer: "John Thomas of Duxbury" sold "for £220. paid by Samuell Ellis, cordwainer, and Benjamin Ellis, labourer, both of Sandwich, County Barnstable, all my one halfe a tract in ... Plymouth ... about 300 acres, ... at a place called Monument Ponds near Indian Brook ..., " 11 July 1722 (PLCD, vol. 16, p. 67). Samuel Ellis was admitted to the Plymouth Church 14 July 1724 (Plymouth Church Records (1923), vol. 1, p. 228). The mother already was a member of the church. "Petition of Ebenezer Holmes, Samuell Ellis and other inhabitants of the Southern part of ... Plymouth, praying that the court permit them, as proprietors, the use of money provided by sale of the common lands ... towards the maintenance of a Reading & Writing School." So ordered by the Court 3 Dec. 1725 (Acts and Resolves, vol. 10, p. 692).
By a deed, dated 14 Jan. 1725/6, Samuel Ellis and Benjamin Ellis of Plymouth perfected an agreement to divide the tract which they had bought from John Thomas (above). The division sets forth that at the decease of John Thomas, the latter's brother Ebenezer Thomas fell heir to one half of the tract which had come to them through their father James Thomas. The Ellis brothers retained the eastern half of the tract (PLCD, vol. 20, p. 80). Samuel Ellis and his brother, William Ellis, of Plymouth bought for £10. from Jonathan Morey of the same place three lots of meadow land there, 3 Feb. 1726/7 (ibid., vol. 21, p. 101). He and William Ellis of Plymouth bought for £50. of their brother-in-law, Thomas Clarke, Jr., more Plymouth land 17 Jan. 1727/8 (ibid., p. 141). Samuel Ellis of Plymouth bought from Robert Harlow for £20. some 15 acres in Plymouth, bounded between the lands of Samuel and Benjamin Ellis, 2 Sept. 1728 (ibid., vol. 23, p. 128). Samuel Ellis of Plymouth bought for £50. a 60-acre lot near "Morey's hole" from "William Ryder of Newport ... Rhode Island, cordwainer," which was described as land granted to seller's father, Samuel Rider by the will of the grandfather, Lemuel Rider, 26 Jan. 1730/1 (ibid., vol. 26, p. 51).
The will, dated 15 Oct. 1736, of "Esther Gibbs, widow of John Gibbs, deceased," of Plymouth relates that the testatrix, "then at the house of Samuell Ellis of Plymouth, & being under her last sickness whereof she died," gave ten shillings to her "granddaughter Esther Ellis." She refers to, but does not name, her four daughters. Administration was given to "Samuell Ellis her son-in-law" (Plymouth County Probate, vol. 7, p. 270). In November 1738 the second church of Plym-outh, at Monument Ponds, was established and the Rev. Jonathan4 Ellis was ordained there. He was a nephew of Samuel3 Ellis, being a son of his brother John.3
The will of "Samuell Ellis Senr. of Plymouth," dated 27 June 1745 and proved 6 March 1745/6, gives "to my two eldest daughters, viz. Mary and Esther, each of them 40s. … to my three other daughters, viz. Jane, Rebecca & Mercy, each one bed and furniture ... To my lawfull wife Mercy Ellis, two cows [and other stock], furniture and the improvement of the biggest room and the new chamber over it, so long as she continue my widdow. And to my son Samuel I give all my buildings & cattle, excepting the above mentioned & all my wearing cloathes & my housing, with all my swamps & uplands & wood lotts lying in the town of Plymouth, and all my furniture for ploughing, carting & farming. Also all bonds & notes (the due incoming) & my wood lying now at ye water side & my Indian Boy to his behoof forever, requiring of my sd son Samuell that he keep the house in good repair and pay all funeral charges and also to honour all bonds, notes and lawfull damages which any person shall make upon my Estate ... and the sd son Samuel Ellis ... my Executor." Witnesses: Joseph Bartlett, Samuell Cornish, [Rev.] Jonathan Ellis.
Inventory, 23 May 1745, shows persons estate £793. 5s., and real estate £821. 10s. Lots in partnership with William Ellis £50. and .£15. (Plymouth County deeds, vol. 10, p. 109-110).
[Lt. John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis of Sandwich, Mass by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass & Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburg, PA]
Noted events in his life were:
• Will, 27 Jun 1745, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA. 37,65
Samuel married Mercy Gibbs, daughter of Lt. John Gibbs and Esther Swift, about 1717 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,37,65,66.,314 (Mercy Gibbs was born on 21 Jan 1695/96 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,37,65,66,627 and died after 27 Jun 1745 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA 5,65,66.)
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