Richard Ellingwood

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name
Richard Ellingwood
sex
male
access
public
summary
Born in Maine about 1790, probably the son of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, and said to have been taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden in 1814. He probably married Hannah Brown in 1809, and about 1816-18 took the family west to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. Probably the father of Elijah Ellingwood, and so the great-grandfather for whom Cudge Ellingwood was named.
born
date
Feb 1790
place
Frankfort, Maine
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, online-tree-familysearch, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
note
2 Feb 1790 in the family Bible (per Gray), 9 Feb in the trees; the Bible is the better source. Frankfort was then in Hancock County, now Waldo. "Born Maine", 60, in the 1850 census.
died
date
25 Mar 1864
place
Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, online-tree-familysearch]
note
The family Bible, per Gray. The Ancestry tree has 25 Mar 1871, which FamilySearch gives as Hannah's death.
residences
date
1820
place
Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1820-manchester-ellingwood]
note
Head of household of six, page 29 of Manchester Township, with a boy (Elijah) and three girls (Hannah, Hope and Sarah) under 10, and a woman (Hannah) 26 to 45.
date
1840
place
Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1840-manchester-ellingwood]
note
Head of household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
1850
place
Clay Township, Dearborn County, Indiana
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood]
note
Head of household, as "Raheal Ellenwood".
date
1860
place
Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1860-manchester-ellingwood]
note
Head of household, carpenter. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
events
what
Captured at Hampden
date
3 Sep 1814
place
Hampden, Maine
sources
[book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
note
Taken prisoner when the British came up the Penobscot.
what
Ship carpenter
date
1819
place
Cincinnati, Ohio
note
"Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter," in the Cincinnati directory, on the family's way west down the Ohio.
what
Down the Ohio
date
c. 1818
place
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
note
The way west from New York ran down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh and the Ohio, as the Maine families of the 1817 "land fleet" went.
father
id
richard-ellingwood-1767
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[probate-hancock-richard-ellingwood-1803, book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood]
research
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Master_Research.md
note
He is the son Richard named first in the Frankfort will of 1802; the family Bible kept by Finley's son Elliott Lee records him born February 1790 (Gray); the Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 and named a daughter Hope. No Indiana record names his father.
mother
id
hope-holdershaw-1768
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[probate-hancock-richard-ellingwood-1803, book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
spouses
id
hannah-brown-1786
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood, census-1860-manchester-ellingwood]
married
date
1809
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
note
The family Bible, per Gray. The trees give 18 Aug or Sept 1809 at Pownal; no record has been found. The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's.

Finley Ellingwood's grandfather, the "great grandfather Richard Ellingwood" for whom Cudge was named. Twelve when his father died at Frankfort, he was named first in his father's will (record). Ruth Gray says he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden, 3 September 1814, when the British came up the Penobscot (source).

He married Hannah Brown in 1809. Their children were born in Maine to 1815 and in New York in 1817; the family went west about 1816-18, perhaps by way of Cincinnati (a Richard Ellinwood there in 1817, and "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter" in the 1819 directory, possibly he), to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, settled from 1817 by families from Cumberland County, Maine (source). He is at Manchester in the 1840 census (record); in 1850 at Clay Township, 60, born Maine, with Hannah and two grandchildren, Elizabeth A. and John B. Kennedy, the children of his daughter Harriet (record); in 1860 at Manchester again, a carpenter (record).

Open questions

  • An Indiana record naming his father or his Maine birthplace, which would prove the link to Frankfort; and the family Bible itself (Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena, 1929).
  • The 1809 marriage record; Dearborn County deeds, probate and graves.
  • The tree also attaches a 20th-century public-records entry at Topsham, Maine, which belongs to someone else.
  1. ---
  2. name: Richard Ellingwood
  3. sex: male
  4. access: public
  5. summary: >-
  6. Born in Maine about 1790, probably the son of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, and said to have
  7. been taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden in 1814. He probably married Hannah Brown in 1809,
  8. and about 1816-18 took the family west to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. Probably the
  9. father of Elijah Ellingwood, and so the great-grandfather for whom Cudge Ellingwood was named.
  10. born:
  11. date: Feb 1790
  12. place: Frankfort, Maine
  13. basis: compiled
  14. confidence: probable
  15. sources: [book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, online-tree-familysearch, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
  16. note: 2 Feb 1790 in the family Bible (per Gray), 9 Feb in the trees; the Bible is the better source. Frankfort was then in Hancock County, now Waldo. "Born Maine", 60, in the 1850 census.
  17. died:
  18. date: 25 Mar 1864
  19. place: Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
  20. basis: compiled
  21. confidence: probable
  22. sources: [book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, online-tree-familysearch]
  23. note: The family Bible, per Gray. The Ancestry tree has 25 Mar 1871, which FamilySearch gives as Hannah's death.
  24. residences:
  25. - date: "1820"
  26. place: Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
  27. basis: documented
  28. confidence: proven
  29. sources: [census-1820-manchester-ellingwood]
  30. note: Head of household of six, page 29 of Manchester Township, with a boy (Elijah) and three girls (Hannah, Hope and Sarah) under 10, and a woman (Hannah) 26 to 45.
  31. - date: "1840"
  32. place: Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
  33. basis: documented
  34. confidence: probable
  35. sources: [census-1840-manchester-ellingwood]
  36. note: Head of household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  37. - date: "1850"
  38. place: Clay Township, Dearborn County, Indiana
  39. basis: documented
  40. confidence: probable
  41. sources: [census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood]
  42. note: Head of household, as "Raheal Ellenwood".
  43. - date: "1860"
  44. place: Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
  45. basis: documented
  46. confidence: probable
  47. sources: [census-1860-manchester-ellingwood]
  48. note: Head of household, carpenter. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  49. events:
  50. - what: Captured at Hampden
  51. date: "3 Sep 1814"
  52. place: Hampden, Maine
  53. sources: [book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
  54. note: "Taken prisoner when the British came up the Penobscot."
  55. - what: Ship carpenter
  56. date: "1819"
  57. place: Cincinnati, Ohio
  58. note: "\"Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter,\" in the Cincinnati directory, on the family's way west down the Ohio."
  59. - what: Down the Ohio
  60. date: "c. 1818"
  61. place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  62. note: "The way west from New York ran down the Allegheny to Pittsburgh and the Ohio, as the Maine families of the 1817 \"land fleet\" went."
  63. father:
  64. id: richard-ellingwood-1767
  65. basis: compiled
  66. confidence: probable
  67. sources: [probate-hancock-richard-ellingwood-1803, book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood]
  68. research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Master_Research.md
  69. note: He is the son Richard named first in the Frankfort will of 1802; the family Bible kept by Finley's son Elliott Lee records him born February 1790 (Gray); the Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 and named a daughter Hope. No Indiana record names his father.
  70. mother:
  71. id: hope-holdershaw-1768
  72. basis: compiled
  73. confidence: probable
  74. sources: [probate-hancock-richard-ellingwood-1803, book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
  75. spouses:
  76. - id: hannah-brown-1786
  77. basis: compiled
  78. confidence: probable
  79. sources: [book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790, census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood, census-1860-manchester-ellingwood]
  80. married:
  81. date: '1809'
  82. basis: compiled
  83. confidence: probable
  84. sources: [book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790]
  85. note: The family Bible, per Gray. The trees give 18 Aug or Sept 1809 at Pownal; no record has been found. The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's.
  86. ---
  88. Finley Ellingwood's grandfather, the "great grandfather Richard Ellingwood" for whom Cudge was
  89. named. Twelve when his father died at Frankfort, he was named first in his father's will
  90. ([record](/files/sources/probate-hancock-richard-ellingwood-1803/)). Ruth Gray says he was taken prisoner at the Battle of
  91. Hampden, 3 September 1814, when the British came up the Penobscot
  92. ([source](/files/sources/book-gray-1988-maine-families-1790/)).
  94. He married Hannah Brown in 1809. Their children were born in Maine to 1815 and in New York in
  95. 1817; the family went west about 1816-18, perhaps by way of Cincinnati (a Richard Ellinwood
  96. there in 1817, and "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter" in the 1819 directory, possibly he), to
  97. Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, settled from 1817 by families from Cumberland County, Maine
  98. ([source](/files/sources/book-history-dearborn-ohio-1885/)). He is at Manchester in the 1840 census
  99. ([record](/files/sources/census-1840-manchester-ellingwood/)); in 1850 at Clay Township, 60, born Maine, with Hannah and
  100. two grandchildren, Elizabeth A. and John B. Kennedy, the children of his daughter Harriet
  101. ([record](/files/sources/census-1850-clay-township-ellingwood/)); in 1860 at Manchester again, a carpenter
  102. ([record](/files/sources/census-1860-manchester-ellingwood/)).
  104. ## Open questions
  106. - An Indiana record naming his father or his Maine birthplace, which would prove the link to
  107. Frankfort; and the family Bible itself (Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena, 1929).
  108. - The 1809 marriage record; Dearborn County deeds, probate and graves.
  109. - The tree also attaches a 20th-century public-records entry at Topsham, Maine, which belongs to
  110. someone else.
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