Ellingwood Master Family Tree

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Ellingwood Master Family Tree

Master reference for the connections in the Ellingwood paternal line, from Ralph Ellingwood, who came to Massachusetts on the Truelove in 1635, to Jordan Ellingwood. It records each direct ancestor with spouses and children, how each parent-child step is supported, and the families who married in. Biographies, anecdotes and the full source notes for each person are in the companion file, Ellingwood_Master_Research.md.

Last revised: 4 October 2026 (first edition). Built from the Chapter One and Chapter Two research files, the FamilySearch Family Tree, the Suffolk and Hancock County probate records read on FamilySearch this session, the printed Boston, Beverly, Salem and Marblehead records, and the compiled genealogies of Leonard Ellinwood (1963) and Ruth Gray (1988).

How each entry reads

  • Line 1: Name (birth - death). Direct ancestors are in bold.
  • Then birth, death, marriage(s), and a short note.
  • Link: how the parent-child step to this person is supported, with its rating.
  • Siblings of direct ancestors get a single line.

Ratings. Two scales, used where they matter rather than on every line.

  • How we know it: [D] Documented (a primary record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one); [C] Compiled (a secondary genealogy, county history or online tree); [I] Inferred (our own reasoning from the records); [T] Tradition (family lore with no source).
  • How sure we are (for parent-child links and disputed points): Proven, Probable, Possible, Disproven.

Abbreviations: b. born; bapt. baptised; chr. christened; d. died; bur. buried; m. married; int. marriage intention; c. about; bef. before; aft. after; VR printed vital records; EQC Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County; FS FamilySearch.

Dates. Before 1752 the legal year began on 25 March, so a date between 1 January and 24 March is written with both years (7 Jan 1742/3). Old-style records number the months from March, so "3:2mo:1664" is 3 April 1664.

The line at a glance

Ralph I (c. 1607 - 1673/4) > Ralph Jr. (1656/7 - aft. Apr 1741) > Ralph III (1694 - 1728/9) > Capt. Israel (1714 - 1785) > Richard (1742/3 - 1784) > Richard (c. 1767 - 1802/3) > Richard (1790 - 1864) > Elijah (1819 - 1872) > Dr. Finley (1852 - 1920) > Richard Everett "Cudge" (1895 - 1985) > Richard Everett "Dick" Jr. (1929 - 2019) > John > Jordan

Places: England (origin unknown) > Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts > Boston > Frankfort and Hampden on the Penobscot River, Maine > Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana > Kankakee, Illinois > Chicago and Evanston, Illinois > Madison, Wisconsin > Spokane, Washington.

Strength of each step

Step Rating What supports it
Ralph I > Ralph Jr. [D] Proven Essex County register of vital returns: "Raulph Elmwood maryed to Ellen Lyn" 14 March [16]55, "ther son Raulph born 18th March 57" (FS film 007009706, item 3, image 18). Ralph I's will (Jan 1673/4) names son "Raph" and gives him the double portion.
Ralph Jr. > Ralph III [D] Proven Beverly VR: "Elenwood, Ralph, s. Ralph and Martha, Apr. 18, 1694." Ralph Jr.'s will (1741, Essex Probate docket 12365) leaves a fifth of his real estate to "the Children of my Son Ralph Elinwood Decd" and names "my Two Grandsons Israel Elinwood & Ralph Elinwood."
Ralph III > Israel [D] Proven Beverly register, family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood: Israel b. 29 Sept 1714 (FS image group 004934217, image 138). Grandfather's will of 1741 names grandson Israel. The 1743 division of Ralph III's estate gives Israel two shares as eldest son; marginal note of 6 Dec 1743: "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster, for self & guardian of brother Daniel, a minor."
Israel > Richard (1742/3) [D] Proven Boston Births p. 245: "Richard Son of Israel and Susanna Ellinwood, Born 7 January 1742." First Church in Boston baptism 16 Jan 1743. Suffolk Probate, 8 June 1753: Israel appointed guardian "unto your Son Richard Ellingwood a minor aged about 11 years." Israel's will, proved 19 Mar 1785, names children Richard, Susanna, Ralph and Sarah.
Richard (1742/3) > Richard (c. 1767) [D] for the Boston family, [I] for the identity with the Frankfort man. Proven by the weight of evidence Suffolk Probate, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695, docket 18561): Enoch James of Boston, blacksmith, guardian "unto Richard Ellingwood a Minor above 14 years of age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston, deceased." Suffolk Probate, 26 Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424): the estate of Joseph Ellingwood, late of Boston, divided between "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased" and "Richard Ellingwood, and Ralph Ellingwood, brothers of said Joseph." The Richard and Ralph who appear on the Penobscot from 1787 match this pair in names and ages; Ralph's 1800 census entry at Frankfort gives "Boston" as the place he came from; the Frankfort Richard named children Sarah, Susannah and Ralph. Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790 vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96, makes the same identification. No single record says "Richard of Frankfort, son of Richard of Boston."
Richard (c. 1767) > Richard (1790) [D] will; [C] Bible. Probable (strong) Will of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, 11 Aug 1802, names his six children, Richard first (Hancock Probate docket 2056). A family Bible owned in 1929 by Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena (Finley's son) records Richard Ellingwood b. 2 Feb 1790, d. 25 Mar 1864, m. 1809 Hannah Brown (cited by Gray 1988). The Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 (1850 census) and named a daughter Hope (b. 1813) after the Frankfort Richard's wife.
Richard (1790) > Elijah [I] plus [C] Bible. Probable (strong) No record yet found names Elijah's father. Elijah was born 27 Nov 1819 at Manchester, Dearborn County, where Richard was living by the 1820 census; the Bible recording Richard was kept by Elijah's grandson Elliott Lee.
Elijah > Finley [D] Proven 1860 census, Momence, Kankakee Co., Illinois: Finley in Elijah's household. Who's Who in America (1912-1921, supplied by Finley): "s. Elijah and Mary Abigail (Rice) E." Kankakee County Court, 27 Jan 1875: Finley appointed guardian of "his brother" Ellsworth Ellingwood, an orphan aged ten.
Finley > Richard Everett (Cudge) [D] Proven Cook County birth certificate (delayed registration 23 Nov 1955): Richard Everett Ellingwood b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, father Finley Ellingwood b. Manchester, Indiana, mother Jennie S. Elliott b. Saratoga, New York. 1900 and 1910 Evanston censuses. Finley's 1918 biography and 1920 death notice name the son.
Cudge > Dick [D] Proven 1930 Madison and 1940 Spokane censuses; Dick's obituary (Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019) names his parents "Cudge and Ruth."
Dick > John > Jordan [D] Proven Dick's 2019 obituary names his son John (Lynn) and grandchildren including Jordan, Ross and Lauren; family knowledge.

Part One: Salem and Beverly

  • Ralph Ellingwood I (c. 1607 - 1673/4)
    • b. c. 1607, England, place unknown. "Ralph Ellwood 28" on the Truelove register, London, 19 Sept 1635 [D]; "aged about three score years" in 1669 [D]
    • d. between 7 and 30 Jan 1673/4, Beverly (will dated 7 Jan; inventory taken 30 Jan of the "late deceased") [D]; grave not located
    • m. (1) by 1637, Elizabeth, surname unknown (d. bef. 1655) [D for the wife, see Research file]
    • m. (2) 14 Mar 1654/5, Salem, Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn (c. 1636 - aft. June 1678). She m. (2) by June 1677 William Basse alias Bath [D]
    • Note: Planter of Salem, then of the Cape Ann side (Beverly) by about 1641. Farm on the point now called Ellingwood Point. Will unsigned, proved June-July 1674; inventory £352 12s 2d.
    • Link to parents: none known. FS attaches "Herbert E Ellingwood (1562-1640)" and "Addie M Croft" with no sources. Disproven as a working hypothesis: his English origin has never been found.
    • Possible children by Elizabeth [D for the records, Possible that they are hers and his]: Josiah, bapt. 26 Mar 1644, Salem; James, b. c. 1652/3 (deposed 21 Dec 1669 "aged about 16")
    • Children by Eleanor (Essex county register) [D]:
      • Stephen, bapt. 16 Jan 1655/6; not in the will, probably d. young
      • Ralph Jr., b. 18 Mar 1656/7: continues below
      • John, b. 2 July 1659; m. 8 or 13 Jan 1684/5, Marblehead, Elizabeth Rowlison of Salisbury; wounded at Wells 1676 (right forefinger shot away), pensioned 1700/1
      • Joseph, b. 12 May 1662 (12:3:62)
      • Mary, b. 3 Apr 1664 (3:2mo:64); m. John Smith
      • Elizabeth, b. 27 June 1666
      • Benjamin, b. 1 Apr 1668 (1:2mo:68), chr. 17 May 1668; "coaster of Beverly"; m. Mary; d. 28 Mar 1731
      • David, b. 6 July 1670
      • Sara, bapt. 6 or 7 June 1666, parents not stated; "may have been Josiah's" (Leonard Ellinwood)

Part Two: Beverly, the sons and grandsons

  • Ralph Ellingwood Jr. (Ralph II) (1656/7 - aft. 8 Apr 1741)

    • b. 18 Mar 1656/7, Salem (county register; the later fair copy misreads 13 March) [D]
    • d. after his will of 8 Apr 1741, Beverly [D for the will; date per O'Connor and the Find a Grave contributor notes, C]. FS and WikiTree still give "1728," which belongs to his son
    • m. (1) Katherine, surname unknown; marriage annulled at Salem court, June 1682 [D]
    • m. (2) 19 Aug 1691, Marblehead, Martha Rowlandson "of Beverly" [D]. She was probably the daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and Dorothy Portland of Salisbury [C]. Her death date is not known (FS 1712, WikiTree 1707, neither sourced)
    • Note: Husbandman of Beverly. Soldier at Fort Narragansett, Dec 1675. Rebuked by the Beverly church 20 Mar 1676/7 "for stealing meale at mill." Will names daughters Abigail, Return Wardwell and Martha Smith, sons Ebenezer and Thomas, the children of his deceased son Ralph, and grandsons Israel and Ralph.
    • Link: [D] Proven (see table).
    • Children by Martha [D, Beverly VR and church records]:
      • Return, b. 22 May 1692, bapt. 29 May 1692; m. ___ Wardwell (her father's will)
      • Ralph III, b. 18 Apr 1694: continues below
      • Abigail, b. c. 1695/6; unmarried in 1741, "not able to provide for her self" (her father's will)
      • Ebenezer, bapt. 5 Sept 1697
      • Martha, b. "Feb. 7, 1700" (Beverly VR; 1699/1700 or 1700/1); m. ___ Smith (her father's will)
      • Thomas, bapt. 16 May 1703
      • Esther, bapt. 24 Aug 1707; not in the 1741 will

  • Ralph Ellingwood III (1694 - 1728/9)

    • b. 18 Apr 1694, Beverly [D] (FS says Salem)
    • d. at sea, winter 1728/9, returning from Jamaica; reported in the New England Weekly Journal, 13 Jan 1728/9 [C, from the Find a Grave contributor notes; the newspaper itself not yet seen]
    • m. int. 3 Feb 1711/2, Beverly, Sarah Woodbury (b. 14 Dec 1690, Beverly, daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler [C]). She m. (2) int. 31 May 1730, Zebulon Allen of Salem [D]. Her death is disputed: d. Nov 1788 "aged 98" (FS) or 22 June 1776 (a Find a Grave contributor)
    • Note: Mariner on the Jamaica run. Built a barn and well on his father's land (his father's will). Died intestate; his widow administered; the estate was divided in 1743.
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children (Beverly register) [D]:
      • Sarah, b. 5 Oct 1712; m. (1) 1729 John West; m. (2) 1749 Richard Hood of Lynn
      • Israel, b. 29 Sept 1714: continues below
      • Ralph, b. 18 Aug 1716; int. 1736 Eleanor Woodbury; d. 21 Dec 1754 per FS ("dead before 175_" in the register margin)
      • Ephraim, b. 11 May 1718; not in the 1743 division, probably d. young
      • Icabod, b. 6 Nov 1720; not in the 1743 division, probably d. young
      • Esther, b. 29 Jan 1721/2; m. 29 July 1744 Edmond Giles
      • Daniel, b. 28 July 1724; a minor under Israel's guardianship in 1743; d. 1747/8 in London per FS (smallpox per the family literature) [C]
      • Abiel (Abia), b. 12 Aug 1726; m. 24 Feb 1742/3 Richard Thissell
      • Eleanor, b. c. 1727 per FS only [C]

Part Three: Boston

  • Capt. Israel Ellingwood (1714 - 1785)

    • b. 29 Sept 1714, Beverly; bapt. 3 Oct 1714 [D]
    • d. 14 Mar 1785, Boston; bur. Granary Burying Ground: "Israel, Capt., Mar. 14, 1785, ae. 73 y." [D]. FS gives Beverly and WikiTree Gloucester as the place of death; both are unsupported
    • m. (1) 18 Mar 1741/2, Boston, by Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, Susanna Rand (b. 12 Feb 1715/6, Boston; d. by Nov 1752; the Granary stone gives only "1751"). She was the daughter of Robert Rand, joiner, and Susanna Cheever. Her intention with Jumanuel DeRivers was forbidden 10 Mar 1738/9, and she married Emanuel Derevers on 5 Apr 1740 [D], so she was probably a widow when she married Israel [I]
    • m. (2) int. 9 Nov 1752, Boston, Hannah Perkins (c. 1727 - 14 Dec 1784, Granary, "w. Capt. Israel," aged 57) [D]
    • Note: "Coaster" in 1743, "mariner" in every later record. Owned houses at the North End of Boston (Cross Street) and half of a house in Beverly on the road from the ferry to Ellingwood's Point. Will proved 19 Mar 1785 (Suffolk Probate docket 18396); son-in-law Robert Hitchborne executor.
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children by Susanna [D: Boston births and First Church baptisms]:
      • Richard, b. 7 Jan 1742/3, bapt. 16 Jan 1743: continues below
      • Susanna, b. and bapt. 8 Apr 1744; m. 16 July 1765, by Rev. Charles Chauncy, Robert Hitchborne, cooper, very probably a first cousin of Paul Revere [C]; he d. 1800 at Hampden, Maine; she d. 28 Nov 1807, Boston [C]
      • Ralph, b. 11 Sept 1745, bapt. 22 Sept 1745; d. 25 Apr 1786, Boston, aged 40; bur. Granary; administration 1786 (docket 18733) [D]. Not Ralph of Frankfort
      • Sarah, b. 25 Aug 1747, bapt. 30 Aug 1747; m. 3 Jan 1771, by Rev. Mather Byles, John Pulling (not the Old North lantern Pulling; see Research file)
      • Israel, bapt. 30 Oct 1748; not among the children placed under guardianship in 1753, so probably d. young [I]

  • Richard Ellingwood (1742/3 - 1784)

    • b. 7 Jan 1742/3, Boston; bapt. 16 Jan 1743, First Church [D]
    • d. by 5 Nov 1784, Boston ("late of Boston Cooper deceased"; administration 5 Nov 1784, docket 18305) [D]
    • m. 5 Jan 1766, Boston (Trinity Church section of the Boston marriages), Sarah Slater (parents unknown). As "Sarah Ellingwood of Boston Widow" she administered his estate and, two days later, on 7 Nov 1784, married Isaac Downes [D]. Living 26 Jan 1790 as "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs" [D]
    • Note: Cooper of Boston. Almost certainly the Richard Ellinwood "of Boston" commissioned master of the letter-of-marque schooner Cleora, bound for the French West Indies, 9 June 1777 [D for the commission, Probable for the identity]. His wife was licensed to retail in Cross Street in 1782 [D].
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children [D: Suffolk guardianships of 22 Nov 1785 and the 1790 distribution; no Boston birth records found]:
      • Richard, b. c. 1767, "a Minor above 14 years of age" in Nov 1785: continues below
      • Ralph, b. 11 Jan 1770/1 per Gray [C]; "a minor above 14 years of age Grand Son of Israel Ellingwood" in Nov 1785 [D]; m. 19 July 1792, Orrington, Delilah Holdershaw, both of Frankfort [D]; of Frankfort; d. April 1857, aged 81 (Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857) or 11 Apr 1859 (gravestone, Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport) [D, conflict]
      • William, "a minor above 14 years of age (now out of this State) Grandson of Israel Ellingwood," Nov 1785 [D]; Probable son of Richard; not among the heirs of Joseph in 1790, so probably dead by then [I]
      • Joseph, "a minor under 14 years of Age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased," Nov 1785 [D]; d. by 19 Jan 1790, Boston; his estate (£86 12s 4d in cash) went to his mother and brothers Richard and Ralph [D]

Part Four: The Penobscot, Maine

  • Richard Ellingwood (c. 1767 - 1802/3)
    • b. c. 1767, probably Boston [I]; between his parents' marriage (Jan 1766) and Nov 1771 (over 14 in Nov 1785) [D]
    • d. between 11 Aug 1802 (will) and 2 May 1803 (will proved), Frankfort, Hancock County, Massachusetts (now Maine) [D]. FS gives 2 May 1803, which is the probate date; WikiTree gives Hampden
    • m. 24 Dec 1787, Orrington, Hope Holdershaw (c. 1768 - living 18 July 1829), daughter of John Holdershaw (Holder Shaw) and Sarah Cole of Eastham, Cape Cod [D for the marriage; C for her parents]
    • Note: "Trader" and "merchant" of Frankfort. Owned three quarters of the schooner Hope, a store at the shore, 72 acres of homestead land and lots in Goshen; held notes of hand from some thirty neighbors. Estate inventoried at $3,588.44 (24 May 1803).
    • Link: [D] plus [I], Proven (see table).
    • Children named in his will, in this order [D]; dates from Gray (1988) and FS [C]:
      • Richard, b. 2 or 9 Feb 1790: continues below
      • John, a minor over 14 in 1804/5
      • Sarah (Sally), b. 2 Feb 1792 (FS) or c. 1786 (Gray, from her age at death); m. int. 10 Sept 1809, Hampden, Moses B. Patten; d. at Hampden (Gray: 3 Sept 1840 aged 54y 7m; FS: 15 Sept 1846; conflict)
      • Ralph, a minor in 1804; probably the Ralph who d. at Frankfort, reported Feb 1840
      • Susannah (Susan), b. c. 1798; m. 1827 Yates Nickerson; d. 22 Jan 1847, Hampden
      • Lucy, b. c. 1801; m. Paul D. Delano; d. 23 July 1828, aged 27; bur. Cove Cemetery, Winterport

Part Five: Indiana and Illinois

  • Richard Ellingwood (1790 - 1864)

    • b. 2 Feb 1790 (family Bible, per Gray) or 9 Feb 1790 (FS), Frankfort [C]
    • d. 25 Mar 1864, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (family Bible, per Gray; FS) [C]
    • m. 1809 Hannah Brown (family Bible, per Gray) [C]. FS says Sept 1809 at Pownal, Maine; no record found. Hannah was 64 and born "Cape Cod" in the 1850 census [D]; FS identifies her with Hannah Brown b. 20 Jan 1786 at Gorham, daughter of Benjamin Brown and Sarah Phinney [C], which rests only on the birth date (Possible). FS gives her death as 25 Mar 1871 at Manchester, the same day and month as Richard's; unverified
    • Note: Taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden, 3 Sept 1814 (Gray) [C]. Probably the "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter" of the 1819 Cincinnati directory (Possible). In Manchester Township by the 1820 census; at Clay Township, Dearborn County, in 1850, aged 60, born Maine [D].
    • Link: Probable (see table).
    • Children per FS [C], except where noted:
      • Hannah, b. 1812, Maine
      • Hope S., b. 1813, Maine; d. 30 Nov 1906
      • Sylinda, b. 1815, Maine
      • Sarah Brooks, b. 26 Mar 1817, New York; d. 14 July 1904, Aurora, Indiana
      • Harriet, b. c. 1819; m. 1842 Samuel M. Kennedy; d. 1846 [C, History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties 1885, p. 792]. Her children Elizabeth and John B. were living with Richard and Hannah in 1850 [D]
      • Elijah, b. 27 Nov 1819: continues below
      • Elizabeth Ann, b. Apr 1820; d. 24 Feb 1902
      • John, b. 13 Feb 1823, Dearborn Co.; d. 11 May 1892
      • Elmira, b. 1827; d. 25 Sept 1901

  • Elijah Ellingwood (1819 - 1872)

    • b. 27 Nov 1819, Manchester, Dearborn Co., Indiana (gravestone, per FS) [C]
    • d. 25 Sept 1872, Kankakee, Illinois (gravestone, Find a Grave index); bur. Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee [C]. Finley's 1918 biography puts his father's sudden death "a few months" after July 1871 (conflict)
    • m. 25 July 1841, Dearborn Co., Indiana, by R. Hargrave, Mary Abigail Rice (b. 1822, Maine; d. 1874 per FS; dead by Jan 1875) [D]. She was a daughter and heir of Rufus Rice of Dearborn County (d. by 1846) [C]
    • Note: Manchester, Indiana, 1850; to Illinois 1857; Momence, Kankakee Co., 1860; Kankakee 1870 [D].
    • Link: Probable (see table).
    • Children [D for census entries; C for FS dates]:
      • Adeline, b. 14 Apr 1842; m. James W. Kay of Watseka, Illinois; d. 18 Feb 1889
      • Melville, b. 17 Oct 1843; d. 13 May 1849
      • Aurora, b. 11 Aug 1845; d. 2 Mar 1846
      • Jane, b. 2 May 1847; d. 15 Aug 1848 (FS)
      • Jennie (Jane) Plummer, b. 16 Apr 1850; d. 21 June 1929, Cable, Wisconsin
      • Nancy, b. c. 1852 (1860 census)
      • Finley, b. 12 Sept 1852: continues below
      • Mary, b. c. 1856 (1870 census)
      • Ellsworth V., b. 3 July 1864, Kankakee; d. Nov 1918, Pueblo, Colorado; under Finley's guardianship 1875
      • Minnie, b. 2 Aug 1865, Kankakee

Part Six: Chicago and Evanston

  • Dr. Finley Ellingwood (1852 - 1920)
    • b. 12 Sept 1852, Manchester, Dearborn Co., Indiana (Who's Who in America, supplied by himself) [C]
    • d. 26 June 1920, at his son's home in Pasadena, California (family death notice, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920; California Death Index) [D]. Cremated; private burial 17 July 1920, Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, Illinois [D]
    • m. 1 Sept 1880, Chicago, Jennie S. Elliott (FS: Sibelia Jane Elliott, 1857-1929), born at Saratoga, New York [D]
    • Note: Eclectic physician, professor at Bennett Medical College, editor of the Chicago Medical Times and Ellingwood's Therapeutist, author of the American Materia Medica, president of the National Eclectic Medical Association 1919. Home 2209 Central Street, Evanston.
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children (NEMA Quarterly, Sept 1918; FS dates) [D/C]:
      • Elma Jane, b. 20 May 1881, Manteno; m. M. G. Larsen
      • Laura Abigail, b. 8 Jan 1883, Manteno; m. A. A. Cother; d. 21 Nov 1918, Chicago, aged 35 (indexed as "Lucy A. Cother") [D]
      • Elliott Lee, b. 13 Feb 1884, Manteno; mechanical engineer, Los Angeles; d. 4 Sept 1942; owner of the family Bible in 1929
      • a son, b. 8 Jan 1888, Chicago; d. in infancy
      • Finley Fitch, b. 26 Nov 1890, Chicago; chemist and mineralogist; d. 6 Aug 1975, Arlington, Vermont
      • Richard Everett, b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston: continues below
      • Lloyd, b. 18 Oct 1896, Chicago; ensign USN 1918; d. Sept 1975

Part Seven: Madison and Spokane

  • Richard Everett "Cudge" Ellingwood Sr. (1895 - 1985)

    • b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, Illinois [D]
    • d. 28 Feb 1985, Dade County, Florida, aged 90 (Florida Death Index) [D]; burial Spokane per FS [C]
    • m. 26 July 1921, Spokane, Ruth Ethelwyn Short (b. 13 Jan 1893, Woodstock, Ontario; d. 13 Feb 1974, Spokane), daughter of John Gerald Short and Mary Pattullo [D]. FS also carries 24 July
    • Note: Northwestern University B.S. 1917 and baseball captain; YMCA war work in Europe; University of Wisconsin Extension 1922-1937; founder of Soft Water Service Co., Spokane.
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children [D/C]:
      • Ruth, b. 15 Apr 1923, Madison; m. ___ Dorman; d. 30 Sept 2020, Pullman, Washington
      • Joyce Louise, b. 21 June 1925, Madison; m. ___ Lee; d. 16 Aug 2023, Vero Beach, Florida
      • Mary Jane, b. 29 Sept 1926, Madison; m. ___ Smith; d. 7 Oct 2007
      • Jeanette B. (Janet), b. 1929, Wisconsin; m. ___ Belmondo; d. 1 Jan 2019, Kent, Washington
      • Richard Everett Jr., b. 14 Nov 1929, Madison: continues below

  • Richard Everett "Dick" Ellingwood Jr. (1929 - 2019)

    • b. 14 Nov 1929, Madison, Wisconsin (obituary; FS) [C]. Family notes give 13 Nov
    • d. 24 Apr 2019, Arizona: Glendale per FS, Wickenburg per family notes [C]
    • m. (1) March 1955, Frances Fairchild Holbrook (b. 26 July 1931, Tacoma), daughter of Richard Clifford Holbrook and Lucille McMillan; div. 1983. Who's Who in the West gives 19 Mar 1955; family notes give 26 Mar 1955, Seattle
    • m. (2) Sept 1987, Linda
    • Note: Army radio specialist to 1951; University of Washington; president of Soft Water Service Co. from 1963; president of the Rotary Club of Spokane 1971-72.
    • Link: [D] Proven.
    • Children by Frances: Richard "Brook," Kit, John

  • John Ellingwood (living), m. Lynn Margaret Dwyer

    • Children: Jordan (b. 1989), Ross, Lauren

Part Eight: Families who married in

  • Elizabeth (first wife of Ralph I). Surname unknown. FS names her "Elizabeth Tomkins" from the hypothesis that Ralph married a Truelove shipmate (the register carries five Elizabeths). Possible only.
  • Lynn. Ellen (Eleanor), second wife of Ralph I. Her parents are unknown; Henry and Sarah Lynn of Boston are a hypothesis (Possible). FS's "born Wiltshire" has no source.
  • Basse alias Bath. William, fisherman, Eleanor's second husband by 1677.
  • Katherine (first wife of Ralph Jr.). Surname unknown.
  • Rowlandson (Rowlison, Roleson) of Salisbury. Martha, wife of Ralph Jr., and Elizabeth Rowlison, wife of his brother John. Thomas Rowlandson m. Dorothy Portland at Salisbury, 17 May 1654. No connection found to Rev. Joseph Rowlandson of Lancaster.
  • Woodbury. Sarah, wife of Ralph III, daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler of Beverly [C].
  • Allen. Zebulon Allen of Salem, Sarah Woodbury's second husband (1730).
  • Rand and Cheever. Susanna Rand, first wife of Israel, daughter of Robert Rand of Boston, joiner (b. 1686, d. 11 Feb 1752), and Susanna Cheever (1682-1748), daughter of Richard and Abigail Cheever (Rand Genealogy, 1898, p. 20). Robert Rand's estate gave each of Israel's children a portion in 1753.
  • Derevers. Emanuel, Susanna Rand's first husband (1740).
  • Perkins. Hannah, second wife of Israel (1752).
  • Hitchborne. Robert, cooper, husband of Israel's daughter Susanna; executor of Israel's will; later of the Penobscot (Hampden, Frankfort and Cape Jellison), where he d. 1800.
  • Pulling. John, husband of Israel's daughter Sarah (1771); identity unknown.
  • Slater. Sarah, wife of Richard (1742/3). Parents not established. Candidates in Boston: James Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (m. 1735); Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (m. 1739/40).
  • Downes. Isaac, Sarah (Slater) Ellingwood's second husband (1784).
  • Holdershaw (Holder Shaw, later Shaw) of Eastham and Orleans, Cape Cod, then Frankfort. John (d. bef. 7 May 1807) m. at Eastham, 4 Dec 1760, Sarah Cole (b. 1738, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Nickerson) Cole of Harwich) [C, Gray]. Two daughters married Ellingwood brothers: Hope (Richard, 1787) and Delilah (Ralph, 1792). The family dropped "Holder" and became Shaw about 1790.
  • Brown. Hannah, wife of Richard (1790). See above.
  • Rice and Sylvester. Mary Abigail, wife of Elijah, daughter of Rufus Rice (d. by 1846) and, per FS, Mary Sylvester; a Maine family in Manchester, Indiana.
  • Elliott and Adams. Jennie S. (Sibelia Jane), wife of Finley, daughter of Charles Franklin Elliot of Saratoga Springs and Susan Marriah Adams; the Adams line runs to Henry Adams of Braintree (see the genealogy notes).
  • Short and Pattullo. Ruth Ethelwyn, wife of Cudge. See ruth-short notes.
  • Holbrook. Frances Fairchild, wife of Dick. See Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md.
  • Dwyer. Lynn Margaret, wife of John.

Part Nine: Ellingwoods not joined to the line

Kept here so their records are not mistaken for ours.

  • Leonard Ellinwood's appendix (1963, pp. 377 ff.) lists Finley, the Frankfort Ralph (as "m. Dolly Shaw 26 July 1791," d. 11 Mar 1857), Joseph of Winterport (b. 1796), a privateersman Joseph of the War of 1812, and a "Richard Ellinwood" in the Cincinnati census of 1817 as unconnected individuals. Leonard did not join the Penobscot or Indiana families to Israel; his main text ends Richard (1742/3) with his marriage.
  • Ralph of Frankfort's family (Delilah Holdershaw): Mary (m. Alexander Staples), Joseph (1796-1838, m. Sarah Folsom), Delilah (1798-1844, m. ___ Howe), William, Nathan (1804-1881), Richard (1804-1866, m. Lydia Bartlett), Irene (m. ___ Whitcomb), John (1813-1855). Four sons settled at Ellingwood's Corner, Winterport.
  • The Beverly privateersmen of the Revolution: Benjamin (commander of the Active and Sebastian), Joshua of Beverly (commander of the Mars and Valiant), William (1st mate of the Saratoga). Descendants of Ralph I's other sons, not ours.
  • Leonard Ellinwood's own line splits from ours at Ralph Jr.'s sons: Ralph I > Ralph Jr. > Thomas (1703) > Thomas (1728) > Daniel (1751) > James > Daniel > Daniel Webster > George Francis > Leonard (1905).
  • "ELEANOR, widow, was buried on April 29, 1732" (Beverly VR, in Leonard's appendix). Unidentified. Not Ralph I's widow, who was by then Eleanor Bath and would have been about 96.

Part Ten: Forks and discrepancies

Question Claims Present reading
Ralph I's parents Herbert E Ellingwood and Addie M Croft (FS, no sources) Disproven as attached; origin unknown
Ralph I's first wife Elizabeth Tomkins (FS) Elizabeth, surname unknown; Tomkins Possible
Ralph I's death 30 Jan 1673 (FS) Between 7 and 30 Jan 1673/4; 30 Jan is the inventory date
Eleanor Lynn's death 1677 (former FS) Unknown; 1677 is the year she appears as Mrs. Bath; alive June 1678
Ralph Jr.'s birth 18 Mar 1657 (county register); 13 Mar (Salem fair copy) 18 Mar 1656/7
Ralph Jr.'s death 1728 (Leonard, FS, WikiTree) After 8 Apr 1741; the 1728/9 death is his son Ralph III's. FS still needs correcting
Ralph Jr.'s wife in the 1692-1697 baptisms "[Ellen]" (1905 editors of the Beverly church records) Martha: Beverly VR "Return, d. Ralph and Marthew"
Israel's mother Ralph Jr.'s "third wife" Sarah Woodbury (Leonard 1963) Sarah Woodbury, wife of Ralph III (MacDonald 1995; Picard and MacDonald 2000)
Israel's first marriage 18 May 1741 (FS spouse record, WikiTree) 18 Mar 1741/2 (Boston Marriages p. 244)
Israel's death place Beverly (FS); Gloucester (WikiTree) Boston; buried Granary
Susanna Rand's death 18 Oct 1749, Beverly (FS, WikiTree) Unknown; Granary stone reads only "1751"
Richard's birth 7 Jan 1742 (FS) 7 Jan 1742/3
Richard's occupation Privateer master (Leonard: "may be") Cooper (deeds 1765, probate 1784); the Cleora commission of 1777 is Probable
Richard (c. 1767)'s death 2 May 1803 (FS, WikiTree) Between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803 (2 May is the probate date)
Richard (c. 1767)'s residence at death Hampden (WikiTree) Frankfort (will, probate docket, appraisers all "of Frankfort")
When the Ellingwoods reached the Penobscot "Settlers prior to 1784" (Bangor Historical Magazine 2:29, 1886) c. 1786-87: both brothers were Boston minors in Nov 1785; earliest Penobscot record is the Orrington marriage of 24 Dec 1787
Ralph of Frankfort's death 11 Apr 1859 (gravestone, FS); 11 Mar 1857 (Leonard) April 1857 is supported by two newspapers of June-July 1857; the stone's 1859 is probably a recutting or misreading
Hope Holdershaw's death 18 July 1829 (FS) Unknown; 18 July 1829 is a date she was living (Hancock Deeds 13:68)
Richard (1790)'s birth 9 Feb 1790 (FS); 2 Feb 1790 (Bible, per Gray) Open; the Bible is the better source
Richard (1790)'s marriage place Pownal (FS) Unknown; the Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 belongs to his sister Sally
Hannah Brown's origin Gorham, b. 20 Jan 1786 (FS) 1850 census says born Cape Cod; the Gorham identification is Possible
Sarah (Ellingwood) Patten's dates b. 2 Feb 1792, d. 15 Sept 1846 (FS); d. 3 Sept 1840 aged 54y 7m (Gray) Open
Elijah's death 25 Sept 1872 (gravestone); late 1871 (Finley's 1918 biography) Gravestone preferred; open
Finley's death 29 June 1920 (JAMA, Who Was Who, Leonard); 21 or 20 June (California Eclectic Medical Journal); "Evanston" (Leonard) 26 June 1920, Pasadena (family notice, California Death Index)
Finley's children "six" (family notes from Leonard) Seven, one dying in infancy; Laura d. 1918
Cudge and Ruth's marriage 24 July 1921 (FS); 26 July 1921 (marriage certificate) 26 July 1921
Cudge's death 1985 Miami (FS) 28 Feb 1985, Dade County (Florida Death Index)
Dick's birth 13 Nov 1929 (family notes); 14 Nov 1929 (obituary, FS) Open; obituary preferred
Dick's marriage to Frances 19 Mar 1955 (Who's Who in the West); 26 Mar 1955, Seattle (family notes) Open
Dick's death place Glendale (FS); Wickenburg (family notes) Open
John Pulling, husband of Sarah Ellingwood The Old North lantern-hanger (family lead) Disproven: Capt. John Pulling Jr. was then married to Annis Lee (d. 11 Aug 1771)
Robert Hitchborne and Paul Revere First cousins (family lead) Probable (WikiTree, DAR lineage records; not checked against his own birth record)

Key sources

Full citations and notes are in Ellingwood_Master_Research.md, Part Two. The records that carry the links:

  • Essex County register of vital returns, 1658-1701, FS film 007009706, item 3, image 18 (Ralph I's second marriage and children).
  • Will of Ralph Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman (1741), Essex Probate docket 12365; first page as a FamilySearch memory on Ralph Jr. (L5DY-FMG).
  • Beverly compiled register, "The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood," FS image group 004934217, image 138.
  • Boston Births 1700-1800 (Record Commissioners vol. 24), pp. 245, 251, 256, 263.
  • Records of the First Church in Boston (Colonial Society of Massachusetts vol. 40), pp. 411-415, 440-441.
  • Suffolk County Probate Records: guardianships of Israel's children, 8 June 1753 (dockets 10462-10465); administration on Richard Ellingwood, cooper, 5 Nov 1784 (docket 18305); will and estate of Israel Ellingwood, 1785 (docket 18396); guardianships of Richard, Ralph, William and Joseph, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695, dockets 18559-18562); estate of Joseph Ellingwood, Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424). Read on FamilySearch, "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records."
  • Hancock County, Maine, Probate, docket 2056: will, inventory and notes of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, 1802-1803. FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290.
  • Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790, vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96, and vol. 3 (1988), pp. 140-141.
  • 1850-1870 U.S. censuses (Dearborn Co., Indiana; Kankakee Co., Illinois); Kankakee County Court Record, Jan 1875, p. 624.
  • Who's Who in America (1912-1921); National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly, Sept 1918 and Sept 1920; Chicago Tribune death notices, 29 June and 16 July 1920.
  • Cook County birth certificate of Richard Everett Ellingwood (delayed, 1955); Florida Death Index (1985); Spokesman-Review obituary of Richard E. Ellingwood Jr., 28 Apr 2019.
  • FamilySearch Family Tree IDs: Ralph I L4GJ-3XV; Ralph Jr. L5DY-FMG; Ralph III 99LD-MJJ; Israel KFTY-J25; Richard (1742/3) LCP4-P77; Richard (c. 1767) KHXD-1D2; Richard (1790) LCP4-GVF; Elijah 9NH2-W5W; Finley MZ1V-429; Cudge KH24-8ZK; Dick L2SS-LDB.
  1. # Ellingwood Master Family Tree
  3. Master reference for the connections in the Ellingwood paternal line, from Ralph Ellingwood, who came to Massachusetts on the Truelove in 1635, to Jordan Ellingwood. It records each direct ancestor with spouses and children, how each parent-child step is supported, and the families who married in. Biographies, anecdotes and the full source notes for each person are in the companion file, `Ellingwood_Master_Research.md`.
  5. **Last revised:** 4 October 2026 (first edition). Built from the Chapter One and Chapter Two research files, the FamilySearch Family Tree, the Suffolk and Hancock County probate records read on FamilySearch this session, the printed Boston, Beverly, Salem and Marblehead records, and the compiled genealogies of Leonard Ellinwood (1963) and Ruth Gray (1988).
  7. **How each entry reads**
  8. - Line 1: **Name** (birth - death). Direct ancestors are in bold.
  9. - Then birth, death, marriage(s), and a short note.
  10. - **Link:** how the parent-child step to this person is supported, with its rating.
  11. - Siblings of direct ancestors get a single line.
  13. **Ratings.** Two scales, used where they matter rather than on every line.
  14. - How we know it: [D] Documented (a primary record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one); [C] Compiled (a secondary genealogy, county history or online tree); [I] Inferred (our own reasoning from the records); [T] Tradition (family lore with no source).
  15. - How sure we are (for parent-child links and disputed points): **Proven**, **Probable**, **Possible**, **Disproven**.
  17. **Abbreviations:** b. born; bapt. baptised; chr. christened; d. died; bur. buried; m. married; int. marriage intention; c. about; bef. before; aft. after; VR printed vital records; EQC Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County; FS FamilySearch.
  19. **Dates.** Before 1752 the legal year began on 25 March, so a date between 1 January and 24 March is written with both years (7 Jan 1742/3). Old-style records number the months from March, so "3:2mo:1664" is 3 April 1664.
  21. ---
  23. ## The line at a glance
  25. Ralph I (c. 1607 - 1673/4) > Ralph Jr. (1656/7 - aft. Apr 1741) > Ralph III (1694 - 1728/9) > Capt. Israel (1714 - 1785) > Richard (1742/3 - 1784) > Richard (c. 1767 - 1802/3) > Richard (1790 - 1864) > Elijah (1819 - 1872) > Dr. Finley (1852 - 1920) > Richard Everett "Cudge" (1895 - 1985) > Richard Everett "Dick" Jr. (1929 - 2019) > John > Jordan
  27. **Places:** England (origin unknown) > Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts > Boston > Frankfort and Hampden on the Penobscot River, Maine > Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana > Kankakee, Illinois > Chicago and Evanston, Illinois > Madison, Wisconsin > Spokane, Washington.
  29. ## Strength of each step
  31. | Step | Rating | What supports it |
  32. |---|---|---|
  33. | Ralph I > Ralph Jr. | [D] **Proven** | Essex County register of vital returns: "Raulph Elmwood maryed to Ellen Lyn" 14 March [16]55, "ther son Raulph born 18th March 57" (FS film 007009706, item 3, image 18). Ralph I's will (Jan 1673/4) names son "Raph" and gives him the double portion. |
  34. | Ralph Jr. > Ralph III | [D] **Proven** | Beverly VR: "Elenwood, Ralph, s. Ralph and Martha, Apr. 18, 1694." Ralph Jr.'s will (1741, Essex Probate docket 12365) leaves a fifth of his real estate to "the Children of my Son Ralph Elinwood Decd" and names "my Two Grandsons Israel Elinwood & Ralph Elinwood." |
  35. | Ralph III > Israel | [D] **Proven** | Beverly register, family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood: Israel b. 29 Sept 1714 (FS image group 004934217, image 138). Grandfather's will of 1741 names grandson Israel. The 1743 division of Ralph III's estate gives Israel two shares as eldest son; marginal note of 6 Dec 1743: "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster, for self & guardian of brother Daniel, a minor." |
  36. | Israel > Richard (1742/3) | [D] **Proven** | Boston Births p. 245: "Richard Son of Israel and Susanna Ellinwood, Born 7 January 1742." First Church in Boston baptism 16 Jan 1743. Suffolk Probate, 8 June 1753: Israel appointed guardian "unto your Son Richard Ellingwood a minor aged about 11 years." Israel's will, proved 19 Mar 1785, names children Richard, Susanna, Ralph and Sarah. |
  37. | Richard (1742/3) > Richard (c. 1767) | [D] for the Boston family, [I] for the identity with the Frankfort man. **Proven** by the weight of evidence | Suffolk Probate, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695, docket 18561): Enoch James of Boston, blacksmith, guardian "unto Richard Ellingwood a Minor above 14 years of age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston, deceased." Suffolk Probate, 26 Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424): the estate of Joseph Ellingwood, late of Boston, divided between "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased" and "Richard Ellingwood, and Ralph Ellingwood, brothers of said Joseph." The Richard and Ralph who appear on the Penobscot from 1787 match this pair in names and ages; Ralph's 1800 census entry at Frankfort gives "Boston" as the place he came from; the Frankfort Richard named children Sarah, Susannah and Ralph. Ruth Gray, *Maine Families in 1790* vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96, makes the same identification. No single record says "Richard of Frankfort, son of Richard of Boston." |
  38. | Richard (c. 1767) > Richard (1790) | [D] will; [C] Bible. **Probable** (strong) | Will of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, 11 Aug 1802, names his six children, Richard first (Hancock Probate docket 2056). A family Bible owned in 1929 by Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena (Finley's son) records Richard Ellingwood b. 2 Feb 1790, d. 25 Mar 1864, m. 1809 Hannah Brown (cited by Gray 1988). The Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 (1850 census) and named a daughter Hope (b. 1813) after the Frankfort Richard's wife. |
  39. | Richard (1790) > Elijah | [I] plus [C] Bible. **Probable** (strong) | No record yet found names Elijah's father. Elijah was born 27 Nov 1819 at Manchester, Dearborn County, where Richard was living by the 1820 census; the Bible recording Richard was kept by Elijah's grandson Elliott Lee. |
  40. | Elijah > Finley | [D] **Proven** | 1860 census, Momence, Kankakee Co., Illinois: Finley in Elijah's household. Who's Who in America (1912-1921, supplied by Finley): "s. Elijah and Mary Abigail (Rice) E." Kankakee County Court, 27 Jan 1875: Finley appointed guardian of "his brother" Ellsworth Ellingwood, an orphan aged ten. |
  41. | Finley > Richard Everett (Cudge) | [D] **Proven** | Cook County birth certificate (delayed registration 23 Nov 1955): Richard Everett Ellingwood b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, father Finley Ellingwood b. Manchester, Indiana, mother Jennie S. Elliott b. Saratoga, New York. 1900 and 1910 Evanston censuses. Finley's 1918 biography and 1920 death notice name the son. |
  42. | Cudge > Dick | [D] **Proven** | 1930 Madison and 1940 Spokane censuses; Dick's obituary (Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019) names his parents "Cudge and Ruth." |
  43. | Dick > John > Jordan | [D] **Proven** | Dick's 2019 obituary names his son John (Lynn) and grandchildren including Jordan, Ross and Lauren; family knowledge. |
  45. ---
  47. ## Part One: Salem and Beverly
  49. - **Ralph Ellingwood I** (c. 1607 - 1673/4)
  50. - b. c. 1607, England, place unknown. "Ralph Ellwood 28" on the Truelove register, London, 19 Sept 1635 [D]; "aged about three score years" in 1669 [D]
  51. - d. between 7 and 30 Jan 1673/4, Beverly (will dated 7 Jan; inventory taken 30 Jan of the "late deceased") [D]; grave not located
  52. - m. (1) by 1637, Elizabeth, surname unknown (d. bef. 1655) [D for the wife, see Research file]
  53. - m. (2) 14 Mar 1654/5, Salem, Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn (c. 1636 - aft. June 1678). She m. (2) by June 1677 William Basse alias Bath [D]
  54. - Note: Planter of Salem, then of the Cape Ann side (Beverly) by about 1641. Farm on the point now called Ellingwood Point. Will unsigned, proved June-July 1674; inventory £352 12s 2d.
  55. - **Link to parents:** none known. FS attaches "Herbert E Ellingwood (1562-1640)" and "Addie M Croft" with no sources. **Disproven** as a working hypothesis: his English origin has never been found.
  56. - Possible children by Elizabeth [D for the records, **Possible** that they are hers and his]: Josiah, bapt. 26 Mar 1644, Salem; James, b. c. 1652/3 (deposed 21 Dec 1669 "aged about 16")
  57. - Children by Eleanor (Essex county register) [D]:
  58. - Stephen, bapt. 16 Jan 1655/6; not in the will, probably d. young
  59. - **Ralph Jr.**, b. 18 Mar 1656/7: continues below
  60. - John, b. 2 July 1659; m. 8 or 13 Jan 1684/5, Marblehead, Elizabeth Rowlison of Salisbury; wounded at Wells 1676 (right forefinger shot away), pensioned 1700/1
  61. - Joseph, b. 12 May 1662 (12:3:62)
  62. - Mary, b. 3 Apr 1664 (3:2mo:64); m. John Smith
  63. - Elizabeth, b. 27 June 1666
  64. - Benjamin, b. 1 Apr 1668 (1:2mo:68), chr. 17 May 1668; "coaster of Beverly"; m. Mary; d. 28 Mar 1731
  65. - David, b. 6 July 1670
  66. - Sara, bapt. 6 or 7 June 1666, parents not stated; "may have been Josiah's" (Leonard Ellinwood)
  68. ## Part Two: Beverly, the sons and grandsons
  70. - **Ralph Ellingwood Jr.** (Ralph II) (1656/7 - aft. 8 Apr 1741)
  71. - b. 18 Mar 1656/7, Salem (county register; the later fair copy misreads 13 March) [D]
  72. - d. after his will of 8 Apr 1741, Beverly [D for the will; date per O'Connor and the Find a Grave contributor notes, C]. FS and WikiTree still give "1728," which belongs to his son
  73. - m. (1) Katherine, surname unknown; marriage annulled at Salem court, June 1682 [D]
  74. - m. (2) 19 Aug 1691, Marblehead, Martha Rowlandson "of Beverly" [D]. She was probably the daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and Dorothy Portland of Salisbury [C]. Her death date is not known (FS 1712, WikiTree 1707, neither sourced)
  75. - Note: Husbandman of Beverly. Soldier at Fort Narragansett, Dec 1675. Rebuked by the Beverly church 20 Mar 1676/7 "for stealing meale at mill." Will names daughters Abigail, Return Wardwell and Martha Smith, sons Ebenezer and Thomas, the children of his deceased son Ralph, and grandsons Israel and Ralph.
  76. - **Link:** [D] **Proven** (see table).
  77. - Children by Martha [D, Beverly VR and church records]:
  78. - Return, b. 22 May 1692, bapt. 29 May 1692; m. ___ Wardwell (her father's will)
  79. - **Ralph III**, b. 18 Apr 1694: continues below
  80. - Abigail, b. c. 1695/6; unmarried in 1741, "not able to provide for her self" (her father's will)
  81. - Ebenezer, bapt. 5 Sept 1697
  82. - Martha, b. "Feb. 7, 1700" (Beverly VR; 1699/1700 or 1700/1); m. ___ Smith (her father's will)
  83. - Thomas, bapt. 16 May 1703
  84. - Esther, bapt. 24 Aug 1707; not in the 1741 will
  86. - **Ralph Ellingwood III** (1694 - 1728/9)
  87. - b. 18 Apr 1694, Beverly [D] (FS says Salem)
  88. - d. at sea, winter 1728/9, returning from Jamaica; reported in the New England Weekly Journal, 13 Jan 1728/9 [C, from the Find a Grave contributor notes; the newspaper itself not yet seen]
  89. - m. int. 3 Feb 1711/2, Beverly, Sarah Woodbury (b. 14 Dec 1690, Beverly, daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler [C]). She m. (2) int. 31 May 1730, Zebulon Allen of Salem [D]. Her death is disputed: d. Nov 1788 "aged 98" (FS) or 22 June 1776 (a Find a Grave contributor)
  90. - Note: Mariner on the Jamaica run. Built a barn and well on his father's land (his father's will). Died intestate; his widow administered; the estate was divided in 1743.
  91. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  92. - Children (Beverly register) [D]:
  93. - Sarah, b. 5 Oct 1712; m. (1) 1729 John West; m. (2) 1749 Richard Hood of Lynn
  94. - **Israel**, b. 29 Sept 1714: continues below
  95. - Ralph, b. 18 Aug 1716; int. 1736 Eleanor Woodbury; d. 21 Dec 1754 per FS ("dead before 175_" in the register margin)
  96. - Ephraim, b. 11 May 1718; not in the 1743 division, probably d. young
  97. - Icabod, b. 6 Nov 1720; not in the 1743 division, probably d. young
  98. - Esther, b. 29 Jan 1721/2; m. 29 July 1744 Edmond Giles
  99. - Daniel, b. 28 July 1724; a minor under Israel's guardianship in 1743; d. 1747/8 in London per FS (smallpox per the family literature) [C]
  100. - Abiel (Abia), b. 12 Aug 1726; m. 24 Feb 1742/3 Richard Thissell
  101. - Eleanor, b. c. 1727 per FS only [C]
  103. ## Part Three: Boston
  105. - **Capt. Israel Ellingwood** (1714 - 1785)
  106. - b. 29 Sept 1714, Beverly; bapt. 3 Oct 1714 [D]
  107. - d. 14 Mar 1785, Boston; bur. Granary Burying Ground: "Israel, Capt., Mar. 14, 1785, ae. 73 y." [D]. FS gives Beverly and WikiTree Gloucester as the place of death; both are unsupported
  108. - m. (1) 18 Mar 1741/2, Boston, by Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, Susanna Rand (b. 12 Feb 1715/6, Boston; d. by Nov 1752; the Granary stone gives only "1751"). She was the daughter of Robert Rand, joiner, and Susanna Cheever. Her intention with Jumanuel DeRivers was forbidden 10 Mar 1738/9, and she married Emanuel Derevers on 5 Apr 1740 [D], so she was probably a widow when she married Israel [I]
  109. - m. (2) int. 9 Nov 1752, Boston, Hannah Perkins (c. 1727 - 14 Dec 1784, Granary, "w. Capt. Israel," aged 57) [D]
  110. - Note: "Coaster" in 1743, "mariner" in every later record. Owned houses at the North End of Boston (Cross Street) and half of a house in Beverly on the road from the ferry to Ellingwood's Point. Will proved 19 Mar 1785 (Suffolk Probate docket 18396); son-in-law Robert Hitchborne executor.
  111. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  112. - Children by Susanna [D: Boston births and First Church baptisms]:
  113. - **Richard**, b. 7 Jan 1742/3, bapt. 16 Jan 1743: continues below
  114. - Susanna, b. and bapt. 8 Apr 1744; m. 16 July 1765, by Rev. Charles Chauncy, Robert Hitchborne, cooper, very probably a first cousin of Paul Revere [C]; he d. 1800 at Hampden, Maine; she d. 28 Nov 1807, Boston [C]
  115. - Ralph, b. 11 Sept 1745, bapt. 22 Sept 1745; d. 25 Apr 1786, Boston, aged 40; bur. Granary; administration 1786 (docket 18733) [D]. Not Ralph of Frankfort
  116. - Sarah, b. 25 Aug 1747, bapt. 30 Aug 1747; m. 3 Jan 1771, by Rev. Mather Byles, John Pulling (not the Old North lantern Pulling; see Research file)
  117. - Israel, bapt. 30 Oct 1748; not among the children placed under guardianship in 1753, so probably d. young [I]
  119. - **Richard Ellingwood** (1742/3 - 1784)
  120. - b. 7 Jan 1742/3, Boston; bapt. 16 Jan 1743, First Church [D]
  121. - d. by 5 Nov 1784, Boston ("late of Boston Cooper deceased"; administration 5 Nov 1784, docket 18305) [D]
  122. - m. 5 Jan 1766, Boston (Trinity Church section of the Boston marriages), Sarah Slater (parents unknown). As "Sarah Ellingwood of Boston Widow" she administered his estate and, two days later, on 7 Nov 1784, married Isaac Downes [D]. Living 26 Jan 1790 as "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs" [D]
  123. - Note: Cooper of Boston. Almost certainly the Richard Ellinwood "of Boston" commissioned master of the letter-of-marque schooner *Cleora*, bound for the French West Indies, 9 June 1777 [D for the commission, **Probable** for the identity]. His wife was licensed to retail in Cross Street in 1782 [D].
  124. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  125. - Children [D: Suffolk guardianships of 22 Nov 1785 and the 1790 distribution; no Boston birth records found]:
  126. - **Richard**, b. c. 1767, "a Minor above 14 years of age" in Nov 1785: continues below
  127. - Ralph, b. 11 Jan 1770/1 per Gray [C]; "a minor above 14 years of age Grand Son of Israel Ellingwood" in Nov 1785 [D]; m. 19 July 1792, Orrington, Delilah Holdershaw, both of Frankfort [D]; of Frankfort; d. April 1857, aged 81 (Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857) or 11 Apr 1859 (gravestone, Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport) [D, conflict]
  128. - William, "a minor above 14 years of age (now out of this State) Grandson of Israel Ellingwood," Nov 1785 [D]; **Probable** son of Richard; not among the heirs of Joseph in 1790, so probably dead by then [I]
  129. - Joseph, "a minor under 14 years of Age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased," Nov 1785 [D]; d. by 19 Jan 1790, Boston; his estate (£86 12s 4d in cash) went to his mother and brothers Richard and Ralph [D]
  131. ## Part Four: The Penobscot, Maine
  133. - **Richard Ellingwood** (c. 1767 - 1802/3)
  134. - b. c. 1767, probably Boston [I]; between his parents' marriage (Jan 1766) and Nov 1771 (over 14 in Nov 1785) [D]
  135. - d. between 11 Aug 1802 (will) and 2 May 1803 (will proved), Frankfort, Hancock County, Massachusetts (now Maine) [D]. FS gives 2 May 1803, which is the probate date; WikiTree gives Hampden
  136. - m. 24 Dec 1787, Orrington, Hope Holdershaw (c. 1768 - living 18 July 1829), daughter of John Holdershaw (Holder Shaw) and Sarah Cole of Eastham, Cape Cod [D for the marriage; C for her parents]
  137. - Note: "Trader" and "merchant" of Frankfort. Owned three quarters of the schooner *Hope*, a store at the shore, 72 acres of homestead land and lots in Goshen; held notes of hand from some thirty neighbors. Estate inventoried at $3,588.44 (24 May 1803).
  138. - **Link:** [D] plus [I], **Proven** (see table).
  139. - Children named in his will, in this order [D]; dates from Gray (1988) and FS [C]:
  140. - **Richard**, b. 2 or 9 Feb 1790: continues below
  141. - John, a minor over 14 in 1804/5
  142. - Sarah (Sally), b. 2 Feb 1792 (FS) or c. 1786 (Gray, from her age at death); m. int. 10 Sept 1809, Hampden, Moses B. Patten; d. at Hampden (Gray: 3 Sept 1840 aged 54y 7m; FS: 15 Sept 1846; conflict)
  143. - Ralph, a minor in 1804; probably the Ralph who d. at Frankfort, reported Feb 1840
  144. - Susannah (Susan), b. c. 1798; m. 1827 Yates Nickerson; d. 22 Jan 1847, Hampden
  145. - Lucy, b. c. 1801; m. Paul D. Delano; d. 23 July 1828, aged 27; bur. Cove Cemetery, Winterport
  147. ## Part Five: Indiana and Illinois
  149. - **Richard Ellingwood** (1790 - 1864)
  150. - b. 2 Feb 1790 (family Bible, per Gray) or 9 Feb 1790 (FS), Frankfort [C]
  151. - d. 25 Mar 1864, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (family Bible, per Gray; FS) [C]
  152. - m. 1809 Hannah Brown (family Bible, per Gray) [C]. FS says Sept 1809 at Pownal, Maine; no record found. Hannah was 64 and born "Cape Cod" in the 1850 census [D]; FS identifies her with Hannah Brown b. 20 Jan 1786 at Gorham, daughter of Benjamin Brown and Sarah Phinney [C], which rests only on the birth date (**Possible**). FS gives her death as 25 Mar 1871 at Manchester, the same day and month as Richard's; unverified
  153. - Note: Taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden, 3 Sept 1814 (Gray) [C]. Probably the "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter" of the 1819 Cincinnati directory (**Possible**). In Manchester Township by the 1820 census; at Clay Township, Dearborn County, in 1850, aged 60, born Maine [D].
  154. - **Link:** **Probable** (see table).
  155. - Children per FS [C], except where noted:
  156. - Hannah, b. 1812, Maine
  157. - Hope S., b. 1813, Maine; d. 30 Nov 1906
  158. - Sylinda, b. 1815, Maine
  159. - Sarah Brooks, b. 26 Mar 1817, New York; d. 14 July 1904, Aurora, Indiana
  160. - Harriet, b. c. 1819; m. 1842 Samuel M. Kennedy; d. 1846 [C, History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties 1885, p. 792]. Her children Elizabeth and John B. were living with Richard and Hannah in 1850 [D]
  161. - **Elijah**, b. 27 Nov 1819: continues below
  162. - Elizabeth Ann, b. Apr 1820; d. 24 Feb 1902
  163. - John, b. 13 Feb 1823, Dearborn Co.; d. 11 May 1892
  164. - Elmira, b. 1827; d. 25 Sept 1901
  166. - **Elijah Ellingwood** (1819 - 1872)
  167. - b. 27 Nov 1819, Manchester, Dearborn Co., Indiana (gravestone, per FS) [C]
  168. - d. 25 Sept 1872, Kankakee, Illinois (gravestone, Find a Grave index); bur. Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee [C]. Finley's 1918 biography puts his father's sudden death "a few months" after July 1871 (conflict)
  169. - m. 25 July 1841, Dearborn Co., Indiana, by R. Hargrave, Mary Abigail Rice (b. 1822, Maine; d. 1874 per FS; dead by Jan 1875) [D]. She was a daughter and heir of Rufus Rice of Dearborn County (d. by 1846) [C]
  170. - Note: Manchester, Indiana, 1850; to Illinois 1857; Momence, Kankakee Co., 1860; Kankakee 1870 [D].
  171. - **Link:** **Probable** (see table).
  172. - Children [D for census entries; C for FS dates]:
  173. - Adeline, b. 14 Apr 1842; m. James W. Kay of Watseka, Illinois; d. 18 Feb 1889
  174. - Melville, b. 17 Oct 1843; d. 13 May 1849
  175. - Aurora, b. 11 Aug 1845; d. 2 Mar 1846
  176. - Jane, b. 2 May 1847; d. 15 Aug 1848 (FS)
  177. - Jennie (Jane) Plummer, b. 16 Apr 1850; d. 21 June 1929, Cable, Wisconsin
  178. - Nancy, b. c. 1852 (1860 census)
  179. - **Finley**, b. 12 Sept 1852: continues below
  180. - Mary, b. c. 1856 (1870 census)
  181. - Ellsworth V., b. 3 July 1864, Kankakee; d. Nov 1918, Pueblo, Colorado; under Finley's guardianship 1875
  182. - Minnie, b. 2 Aug 1865, Kankakee
  184. ## Part Six: Chicago and Evanston
  186. - **Dr. Finley Ellingwood** (1852 - 1920)
  187. - b. 12 Sept 1852, Manchester, Dearborn Co., Indiana (Who's Who in America, supplied by himself) [C]
  188. - d. 26 June 1920, at his son's home in Pasadena, California (family death notice, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920; California Death Index) [D]. Cremated; private burial 17 July 1920, Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, Illinois [D]
  189. - m. 1 Sept 1880, Chicago, Jennie S. Elliott (FS: Sibelia Jane Elliott, 1857-1929), born at Saratoga, New York [D]
  190. - Note: Eclectic physician, professor at Bennett Medical College, editor of the Chicago Medical Times and Ellingwood's Therapeutist, author of the American Materia Medica, president of the National Eclectic Medical Association 1919. Home 2209 Central Street, Evanston.
  191. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  192. - Children (NEMA Quarterly, Sept 1918; FS dates) [D/C]:
  193. - Elma Jane, b. 20 May 1881, Manteno; m. M. G. Larsen
  194. - Laura Abigail, b. 8 Jan 1883, Manteno; m. A. A. Cother; d. 21 Nov 1918, Chicago, aged 35 (indexed as "Lucy A. Cother") [D]
  195. - Elliott Lee, b. 13 Feb 1884, Manteno; mechanical engineer, Los Angeles; d. 4 Sept 1942; owner of the family Bible in 1929
  196. - a son, b. 8 Jan 1888, Chicago; d. in infancy
  197. - Finley Fitch, b. 26 Nov 1890, Chicago; chemist and mineralogist; d. 6 Aug 1975, Arlington, Vermont
  198. - **Richard Everett**, b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston: continues below
  199. - Lloyd, b. 18 Oct 1896, Chicago; ensign USN 1918; d. Sept 1975
  201. ## Part Seven: Madison and Spokane
  203. - **Richard Everett "Cudge" Ellingwood Sr.** (1895 - 1985)
  204. - b. 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, Illinois [D]
  205. - d. 28 Feb 1985, Dade County, Florida, aged 90 (Florida Death Index) [D]; burial Spokane per FS [C]
  206. - m. 26 July 1921, Spokane, Ruth Ethelwyn Short (b. 13 Jan 1893, Woodstock, Ontario; d. 13 Feb 1974, Spokane), daughter of John Gerald Short and Mary Pattullo [D]. FS also carries 24 July
  207. - Note: Northwestern University B.S. 1917 and baseball captain; YMCA war work in Europe; University of Wisconsin Extension 1922-1937; founder of Soft Water Service Co., Spokane.
  208. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  209. - Children [D/C]:
  210. - Ruth, b. 15 Apr 1923, Madison; m. ___ Dorman; d. 30 Sept 2020, Pullman, Washington
  211. - Joyce Louise, b. 21 June 1925, Madison; m. ___ Lee; d. 16 Aug 2023, Vero Beach, Florida
  212. - Mary Jane, b. 29 Sept 1926, Madison; m. ___ Smith; d. 7 Oct 2007
  213. - Jeanette B. (Janet), b. 1929, Wisconsin; m. ___ Belmondo; d. 1 Jan 2019, Kent, Washington
  214. - **Richard Everett Jr.**, b. 14 Nov 1929, Madison: continues below
  216. - **Richard Everett "Dick" Ellingwood Jr.** (1929 - 2019)
  217. - b. 14 Nov 1929, Madison, Wisconsin (obituary; FS) [C]. Family notes give 13 Nov
  218. - d. 24 Apr 2019, Arizona: Glendale per FS, Wickenburg per family notes [C]
  219. - m. (1) March 1955, Frances Fairchild Holbrook (b. 26 July 1931, Tacoma), daughter of Richard Clifford Holbrook and Lucille McMillan; div. 1983. Who's Who in the West gives 19 Mar 1955; family notes give 26 Mar 1955, Seattle
  220. - m. (2) Sept 1987, Linda
  221. - Note: Army radio specialist to 1951; University of Washington; president of Soft Water Service Co. from 1963; president of the Rotary Club of Spokane 1971-72.
  222. - **Link:** [D] **Proven**.
  223. - Children by Frances: Richard "Brook," Kit, **John**
  225. - **John Ellingwood** (living), m. Lynn Margaret Dwyer
  226. - Children: **Jordan** (b. 1989), Ross, Lauren
  228. ---
  230. ## Part Eight: Families who married in
  232. - **Elizabeth** (first wife of Ralph I). Surname unknown. FS names her "Elizabeth Tomkins" from the hypothesis that Ralph married a Truelove shipmate (the register carries five Elizabeths). **Possible** only.
  233. - **Lynn.** Ellen (Eleanor), second wife of Ralph I. Her parents are unknown; Henry and Sarah Lynn of Boston are a hypothesis (**Possible**). FS's "born Wiltshire" has no source.
  234. - **Basse alias Bath.** William, fisherman, Eleanor's second husband by 1677.
  235. - **Katherine** (first wife of Ralph Jr.). Surname unknown.
  236. - **Rowlandson** (Rowlison, Roleson) of Salisbury. Martha, wife of Ralph Jr., and Elizabeth Rowlison, wife of his brother John. Thomas Rowlandson m. Dorothy Portland at Salisbury, 17 May 1654. No connection found to Rev. Joseph Rowlandson of Lancaster.
  237. - **Woodbury.** Sarah, wife of Ralph III, daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler of Beverly [C].
  238. - **Allen.** Zebulon Allen of Salem, Sarah Woodbury's second husband (1730).
  239. - **Rand and Cheever.** Susanna Rand, first wife of Israel, daughter of Robert Rand of Boston, joiner (b. 1686, d. 11 Feb 1752), and Susanna Cheever (1682-1748), daughter of Richard and Abigail Cheever (Rand Genealogy, 1898, p. 20). Robert Rand's estate gave each of Israel's children a portion in 1753.
  240. - **Derevers.** Emanuel, Susanna Rand's first husband (1740).
  241. - **Perkins.** Hannah, second wife of Israel (1752).
  242. - **Hitchborne.** Robert, cooper, husband of Israel's daughter Susanna; executor of Israel's will; later of the Penobscot (Hampden, Frankfort and Cape Jellison), where he d. 1800.
  243. - **Pulling.** John, husband of Israel's daughter Sarah (1771); identity unknown.
  244. - **Slater.** Sarah, wife of Richard (1742/3). Parents not established. Candidates in Boston: James Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (m. 1735); Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (m. 1739/40).
  245. - **Downes.** Isaac, Sarah (Slater) Ellingwood's second husband (1784).
  246. - **Holdershaw (Holder Shaw, later Shaw)** of Eastham and Orleans, Cape Cod, then Frankfort. John (d. bef. 7 May 1807) m. at Eastham, 4 Dec 1760, Sarah Cole (b. 1738, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Nickerson) Cole of Harwich) [C, Gray]. Two daughters married Ellingwood brothers: Hope (Richard, 1787) and Delilah (Ralph, 1792). The family dropped "Holder" and became Shaw about 1790.
  247. - **Brown.** Hannah, wife of Richard (1790). See above.
  248. - **Rice and Sylvester.** Mary Abigail, wife of Elijah, daughter of Rufus Rice (d. by 1846) and, per FS, Mary Sylvester; a Maine family in Manchester, Indiana.
  249. - **Elliott and Adams.** Jennie S. (Sibelia Jane), wife of Finley, daughter of Charles Franklin Elliot of Saratoga Springs and Susan Marriah Adams; the Adams line runs to Henry Adams of Braintree (see the genealogy notes).
  250. - **Short and Pattullo.** Ruth Ethelwyn, wife of Cudge. See `ruth-short` notes.
  251. - **Holbrook.** Frances Fairchild, wife of Dick. See `Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md`.
  252. - **Dwyer.** Lynn Margaret, wife of John.
  254. ## Part Nine: Ellingwoods not joined to the line
  256. Kept here so their records are not mistaken for ours.
  258. - **Leonard Ellinwood's appendix (1963, pp. 377 ff.)** lists Finley, the Frankfort Ralph (as "m. Dolly Shaw 26 July 1791," d. 11 Mar 1857), Joseph of Winterport (b. 1796), a privateersman Joseph of the War of 1812, and a "Richard Ellinwood" in the Cincinnati census of 1817 as unconnected individuals. Leonard did not join the Penobscot or Indiana families to Israel; his main text ends Richard (1742/3) with his marriage.
  259. - **Ralph of Frankfort's family** (Delilah Holdershaw): Mary (m. Alexander Staples), Joseph (1796-1838, m. Sarah Folsom), Delilah (1798-1844, m. ___ Howe), William, Nathan (1804-1881), Richard (1804-1866, m. Lydia Bartlett), Irene (m. ___ Whitcomb), John (1813-1855). Four sons settled at Ellingwood's Corner, Winterport.
  260. - **The Beverly privateersmen of the Revolution:** Benjamin (commander of the *Active* and *Sebastian*), Joshua of Beverly (commander of the *Mars* and *Valiant*), William (1st mate of the *Saratoga*). Descendants of Ralph I's other sons, not ours.
  261. - **Leonard Ellinwood's own line** splits from ours at Ralph Jr.'s sons: Ralph I > Ralph Jr. > Thomas (1703) > Thomas (1728) > Daniel (1751) > James > Daniel > Daniel Webster > George Francis > Leonard (1905).
  262. - **"ELEANOR, widow, was buried on April 29, 1732"** (Beverly VR, in Leonard's appendix). Unidentified. Not Ralph I's widow, who was by then Eleanor Bath and would have been about 96.
  264. ## Part Ten: Forks and discrepancies
  266. | Question | Claims | Present reading |
  267. |---|---|---|
  268. | Ralph I's parents | Herbert E Ellingwood and Addie M Croft (FS, no sources) | **Disproven** as attached; origin unknown |
  269. | Ralph I's first wife | Elizabeth Tomkins (FS) | Elizabeth, surname unknown; Tomkins **Possible** |
  270. | Ralph I's death | 30 Jan 1673 (FS) | Between 7 and 30 Jan 1673/4; 30 Jan is the inventory date |
  271. | Eleanor Lynn's death | 1677 (former FS) | Unknown; 1677 is the year she appears as Mrs. Bath; alive June 1678 |
  272. | Ralph Jr.'s birth | 18 Mar 1657 (county register); 13 Mar (Salem fair copy) | **18 Mar 1656/7** |
  273. | Ralph Jr.'s death | 1728 (Leonard, FS, WikiTree) | **After 8 Apr 1741**; the 1728/9 death is his son Ralph III's. FS still needs correcting |
  274. | Ralph Jr.'s wife in the 1692-1697 baptisms | "[Ellen]" (1905 editors of the Beverly church records) | **Martha**: Beverly VR "Return, d. Ralph and Marthew" |
  275. | Israel's mother | Ralph Jr.'s "third wife" Sarah Woodbury (Leonard 1963) | Sarah Woodbury, **wife of Ralph III** (MacDonald 1995; Picard and MacDonald 2000) |
  276. | Israel's first marriage | 18 May 1741 (FS spouse record, WikiTree) | **18 Mar 1741/2** (Boston Marriages p. 244) |
  277. | Israel's death place | Beverly (FS); Gloucester (WikiTree) | **Boston**; buried Granary |
  278. | Susanna Rand's death | 18 Oct 1749, Beverly (FS, WikiTree) | Unknown; Granary stone reads only "1751" |
  279. | Richard's birth | 7 Jan 1742 (FS) | **7 Jan 1742/3** |
  280. | Richard's occupation | Privateer master (Leonard: "may be") | **Cooper** (deeds 1765, probate 1784); the *Cleora* commission of 1777 is **Probable** |
  281. | Richard (c. 1767)'s death | 2 May 1803 (FS, WikiTree) | Between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803 (2 May is the probate date) |
  282. | Richard (c. 1767)'s residence at death | Hampden (WikiTree) | **Frankfort** (will, probate docket, appraisers all "of Frankfort") |
  283. | When the Ellingwoods reached the Penobscot | "Settlers prior to 1784" (Bangor Historical Magazine 2:29, 1886) | **c. 1786-87**: both brothers were Boston minors in Nov 1785; earliest Penobscot record is the Orrington marriage of 24 Dec 1787 |
  284. | Ralph of Frankfort's death | 11 Apr 1859 (gravestone, FS); 11 Mar 1857 (Leonard) | **April 1857** is supported by two newspapers of June-July 1857; the stone's 1859 is probably a recutting or misreading |
  285. | Hope Holdershaw's death | 18 July 1829 (FS) | Unknown; 18 July 1829 is a date she was **living** (Hancock Deeds 13:68) |
  286. | Richard (1790)'s birth | 9 Feb 1790 (FS); 2 Feb 1790 (Bible, per Gray) | Open; the Bible is the better source |
  287. | Richard (1790)'s marriage place | Pownal (FS) | Unknown; the Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 belongs to his sister Sally |
  288. | Hannah Brown's origin | Gorham, b. 20 Jan 1786 (FS) | 1850 census says born **Cape Cod**; the Gorham identification is **Possible** |
  289. | Sarah (Ellingwood) Patten's dates | b. 2 Feb 1792, d. 15 Sept 1846 (FS); d. 3 Sept 1840 aged 54y 7m (Gray) | Open |
  290. | Elijah's death | 25 Sept 1872 (gravestone); late 1871 (Finley's 1918 biography) | Gravestone preferred; open |
  291. | Finley's death | 29 June 1920 (JAMA, Who Was Who, Leonard); 21 or 20 June (California Eclectic Medical Journal); "Evanston" (Leonard) | **26 June 1920, Pasadena** (family notice, California Death Index) |
  292. | Finley's children | "six" (family notes from Leonard) | **Seven**, one dying in infancy; Laura d. 1918 |
  293. | Cudge and Ruth's marriage | 24 July 1921 (FS); 26 July 1921 (marriage certificate) | **26 July 1921** |
  294. | Cudge's death | 1985 Miami (FS) | **28 Feb 1985, Dade County** (Florida Death Index) |
  295. | Dick's birth | 13 Nov 1929 (family notes); 14 Nov 1929 (obituary, FS) | Open; obituary preferred |
  296. | Dick's marriage to Frances | 19 Mar 1955 (Who's Who in the West); 26 Mar 1955, Seattle (family notes) | Open |
  297. | Dick's death place | Glendale (FS); Wickenburg (family notes) | Open |
  298. | John Pulling, husband of Sarah Ellingwood | The Old North lantern-hanger (family lead) | **Disproven**: Capt. John Pulling Jr. was then married to Annis Lee (d. 11 Aug 1771) |
  299. | Robert Hitchborne and Paul Revere | First cousins (family lead) | **Probable** (WikiTree, DAR lineage records; not checked against his own birth record) |
  301. ---
  303. ## Key sources
  305. Full citations and notes are in `Ellingwood_Master_Research.md`, Part Two. The records that carry the links:
  307. - Essex County register of vital returns, 1658-1701, FS film 007009706, item 3, image 18 (Ralph I's second marriage and children).
  308. - Will of Ralph Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman (1741), Essex Probate docket 12365; first page as a FamilySearch memory on Ralph Jr. (L5DY-FMG).
  309. - Beverly compiled register, "The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood," FS image group 004934217, image 138.
  310. - *Boston Births 1700-1800* (Record Commissioners vol. 24), pp. 245, 251, 256, 263.
  311. - *Records of the First Church in Boston* (Colonial Society of Massachusetts vol. 40), pp. 411-415, 440-441.
  312. - Suffolk County Probate Records: guardianships of Israel's children, 8 June 1753 (dockets 10462-10465); administration on Richard Ellingwood, cooper, 5 Nov 1784 (docket 18305); will and estate of Israel Ellingwood, 1785 (docket 18396); guardianships of Richard, Ralph, William and Joseph, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695, dockets 18559-18562); estate of Joseph Ellingwood, Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424). Read on FamilySearch, "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records."
  313. - Hancock County, Maine, Probate, docket 2056: will, inventory and notes of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, 1802-1803. FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290.
  314. - Ruth Gray, *Maine Families in 1790*, vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96, and vol. 3 (1988), pp. 140-141.
  315. - 1850-1870 U.S. censuses (Dearborn Co., Indiana; Kankakee Co., Illinois); Kankakee County Court Record, Jan 1875, p. 624.
  316. - *Who's Who in America* (1912-1921); *National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly*, Sept 1918 and Sept 1920; Chicago Tribune death notices, 29 June and 16 July 1920.
  317. - Cook County birth certificate of Richard Everett Ellingwood (delayed, 1955); Florida Death Index (1985); Spokesman-Review obituary of Richard E. Ellingwood Jr., 28 Apr 2019.
  318. - FamilySearch Family Tree IDs: Ralph I L4GJ-3XV; Ralph Jr. L5DY-FMG; Ralph III 99LD-MJJ; Israel KFTY-J25; Richard (1742/3) LCP4-P77; Richard (c. 1767) KHXD-1D2; Richard (1790) LCP4-GVF; Elijah 9NH2-W5W; Finley MZ1V-429; Cudge KH24-8ZK; Dick L2SS-LDB.
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