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Ellingwood Master Research

Research file for the Ellingwood paternal line, one section per generation from Ralph Ellingwood I to the present. Each section gives the vital facts, how the link to the parent is supported, a plain account of the person's life from the records, the anecdotes and quotations found, the spouses and notable siblings, the open questions, and the sources. The connections themselves (spouses, children, siblings, families who married in) are laid out in Ellingwood_Master_Family_Tree.md.

Last revised: 4 October 2026 (first edition).

Ratings. Used where they matter, not 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); [T] Tradition (family lore, no source).
How sure we are, for links and disputed points: Proven, Probable, Possible, Disproven.

Abbreviations: EQC, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County (1911-1921); FS, FamilySearch; VR, printed vital records to 1850; RC, Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Old-style dates are written with both years (7 Jan 1742/3); old-style months are numbered from March.

Where this file sits. The Chapter One and Chapter Two research for the book (ellingwood-narrative-outline.md, ellingwood-ch2-research-v2.md) holds the full quotations and page images for Ralph I and Ralph Jr.; this file summarises them and cites them, and holds everything new.

What this pass found

The Boston-to-Maine link is now documented. Suffolk County probate records show that Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, died by November 1784; that his widow Sarah administered his estate and two days later married Isaac Downes; that in November 1785 guardians were appointed for his sons Richard and Joseph and for Ralph and William, "Grandsons of Israel Ellingwood"; and that in January 1790 the estate of young Joseph went to his mother and his brothers Richard and Ralph. The Richard and Ralph who appear on the Penobscot from 1787 are this pair.
Richard of Frankfort's will, inventory and probate file (1802-1803) were read in full: a trader and merchant with three quarters of a schooner named Hope, a store at the shore, 72 acres, lots in Goshen, and notes due from about thirty neighbors.
Israel's will and estate (1785): besides two tenements on Cross Street in Boston, he still owned half of a house in Beverly on the road from the ferry to Ellingwood's Point. "Capt." is on his Granary gravestone.
Richard (1742/3) was a cooper of Boston. He survived smallpox in 1764, was very probably the master of the letter-of-marque schooner Cleora in 1777, and died in 1784. Before this pass nothing was known of him after 1777.
Susanna Rand had married Emanuel Derevers in 1740 before she married Israel.
Ralph Jr.'s will (1741), from the image attached to his FamilySearch profile: his grandsons Israel and Ralph were to have the use of "the Barn & Well their father Builded"; his daughter Abigail was "Not Able to provide for her Self"; his daughter Return was by then Mrs. Wardwell.
Elijah's family in Illinois: in January 1875 Finley, aged 22, became guardian of his orphaned brother Ellsworth, aged ten.
Finley's death settled as 26 June 1920 at Pasadena; his daughter Laura died in November 1918.
Cudge (Richard Everett Sr.): Northwestern baseball captain 1917, YMCA war work in London, University of Wisconsin Extension 1922-1937, founder of Soft Water Service in Spokane; died in Dade County, Florida, 28 Feb 1985.
The weakest steps now are the two Indiana links, Richard (1790) to the Frankfort family and Elijah to Richard (1790). Both rest on a family Bible known only through a 1988 citation, on names and ages, and on census evidence. Both are rated Probable.

Part One: The people

1. Ralph Ellingwood I (c. 1607 - 1673/4)

Vital facts

Born about 1607, England; place and parents unknown. Age 28 on 19 Sept 1635 [D]; "aged about three score years" on 29 Nov 1669 [D].
Emigrated on the Truelove, London, master John Gibbs; register of 19 Sept 1635, "Ralph Ellwood 28" [D].
Married (1) by 1637, Elizabeth, surname unknown [D/I]; (2) 14 Mar 1654/5, Salem, Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn [D].
Died between 7 Jan 1673/4 (will) and 30 Jan 1673/4 (inventory of "the late deceased"), Beverly [D]. Grave not located; the Abbott Street (Ancient) Burying Ground was first used in 1671 [C].

Parents. Unknown. FamilySearch attaches "Herbert E Ellingwood (1562-1640)" and "Addie M Croft (1562-1638)" with no sources, and above them "Edmund H Ellingwood" and "Elizabeth Villers." Disproven as attached: no record names Ralph's English parish, and every serious search (Charles Banks; the College of Arms for the family in 1953; Leonard Ellinwood 1963) came up empty. Middle initials of this kind were not in use in sixteenth-century England. These persons should be detached on FamilySearch.

Life

Single man on the Truelove, which sailed from London in September 1635 and reached Massachusetts Bay late that autumn. The register gives names and ages only. Do not confuse with the Truelove to Bermuda of June 1635.
Salem land division of 1637: half an acre of marsh and meadow "for a family of two," so married by then [D, Salem town records; Perley I:256, 461].
At the ferry field on the Cape Ann side (later Beverly) by April 1641, named in fence surveys "in the field next to ferry that leads to Ipswich" [C, O'Connor 1979]. Leonard Ellinwood doubted he ever lived in Salem proper.
Home farm: "the ten akres which was formerly old Robert Moltons lot" on the point west of today's Ellingwood Court, Beverly. How he acquired it is undocumented; purchase from Robert Moulton (d. 1655) or his heirs is the likely route [I].
Admitted to the Salem church 21 Mar 1647 [C]. "Goodwife Elwood" admitted 13 Aug 1648 was Elizabeth, not Eleanor, who married him only in 1655 [I].
Sold one acre near the Ipswich ferry to Francis Skerry, 22 June 1653, eight days before the ferry keeping passed from Skerry to Richard Stackhouse [C, Perley via O'Connor; Essex Deeds 1:18 not yet seen].
Never styled "Mr."; his wives were "Goodwife," the rank of a yeoman [C, Leonard Ellinwood's reading].
In 1659/60 he contracted with the town to keep Sara Lambert, a pauper, for two years at £10. The town paid partly in land, granting "all the wast lande that is comon from the est side of his lott to the poynt and soe rounde before the riuer soe farr as his lande goeth with all marsh or Creeke thatch... Downe to a lowe water marke," and partly by order: "Beniamin Balch is ordered to pay 40s out of the towne rate to mr Curwin by the apoyntment of goodwife Elwood which is in full sattisfaction of the 10li" [D, Town Records of Salem vol. 2, 11th month 1659].
Signed the Bass River petition of 1667 for a church of their own, spelling his name Ellingwood [C, O'Connor]. The Beverly church was gathered in 1667 with Rev. John Hale as pastor; Beverly was incorporated in 1668. Stone's lot map shows Ralph Ellenwood as lot 31, "the entire point" [C, Stone, History of Beverly (1843), p. 417].
Will dated 7 Jan 1673/4, "being weecke in body but of a good memory," unsigned; witnesses Thomas and Ann Pickton. It made "helen my wife my lawfull executrix ... to make use of all my estate to bring up our Children in the feare of the lord," and gave son Ralph the double portion at 21 [D, EQC V:363-364; Essex Probate Records II:412-413].
Inventory, Friday 30 Jan 1673/4, by John Massey (the ferry tavern keeper), Henry Skerry Sr. and Thomas Rootes: £352 12s 2d, including the farm, cattle, a canoe, four old Bibles, cider, salted mackerel, "1 barrell of a Gun, 3s." (a gun barrel without a gun), "6 Loads of haye," and "mony 3s." [D, EQC V:363-364]. Proved at the Salem court, June 1674; the probate copy is dated 3:5m:1674, which is 3 July 1674.

Records and anecdotes (EQC unless noted)

25 Oct 1638: trespass, Hollinworth v. Ellinwood (I:10).
c. 1640-41: "Elizabeth Elwood" testifies in a fence-repair dispute, Luff v. Bennett and Roaps (I:28), probably the first wife.
28 Dec 1642: presented for absence from watch; "Not proved" (I:50).
27 June 1644: a jury of inquest on his servant, found dead; twelve jurors named, no verdict printed (I:71).
Sept 1647: insufficient fences "next the corn field on Cape An side" (I:152).
11 July 1649: discharged on the general field; fined for a pound breach (I:180).
29 June 1653: "John Stoone, sr., John Stone, jr. and Nathaniell Stoone v. Ralf Elwood. Withdrawn" (I:285).
June 1660: the Stackhouse slander case. "Ralph Elenwood testified that when he and his wife were together, Stackhouse called them rogue and baud, and it was witnessed by Tho. Tuck and Samll. Corning" (II:218). In the same file Mary Woodbury accused Stackhouse of calling her a "filthy, bobtail sow" and threatening to "stab her and stamp her as fine as the earth." Stackhouse kept the Salem-Beverly ferry, granted to him in 1653 "for the reliefe of his ffamillie."
28 Aug 1665: one of fifteen Cape Ann side field owners in an arbitration agreement with the same neighbors (VI:147).
29 Nov 1669: "Ralph Elingwood, aged about three score years, deposed that last spring he and his wife branded two steers upon the horns but now the mark was worn out" (IV:216). Eleanor deposed with him, "aged about thirty-three years."
21 Dec 1669: James Ellinwood, about 16, deposed that William Powell, a seafarer boarding with Thomas Rootes, had said that "if he came not again from the sea all that he had should be his" (Essex Probate Records II:178).
1 May 1673: writ of John Knights against John Smith and Ralph Ellinwood for carting away dung, Ralph's house and land posted as security (V:218).

Spouses

Elizabeth (d. bef. Mar 1655). Seen three times: the 1637 "family of two," a 1641 court mention as "his wife Elizabeth" [C, O'Connor], and the 1648 church admission. Her surname is unknown. FS's "Elizabeth Tomkins" comes from the idea that Ralph married a Truelove shipmate (five Elizabeths were aboard); Possible only.
Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn (c. 1636 - aft. June 1678). About 18 at her marriage to Ralph, about 48. Her parents are unknown (Henry and Sarah Lynn of Boston are a hypothesis, Possible); FS's "born Wiltshire" has no source. She directed where the town's payment for Sara Lambert went (1659/60), swore to the inventory in July 1674, and married William Basse alias Bath, fisherman, by June 1677, when "Martin Hall v. Wm. Bath and Elenor, his wife, relict of Ralph Ellenwood, deceased" ended with a verdict for the defendants (VI:288). Bath had been fined for drunkenness in the session that proved Ralph's will (V:363). On 24 June 1678 "Ellin, wife of Wm. Bath" testified that Goody Hoar offered her pease (VII:51), in the theft case against Rev. John Hale's servant that later fed Dorcas Hoar's witchcraft trial of 1692. Her death is unknown.

Children and the open "first family." Children of Eleanor are listed in the Family Tree file. Josiah (bapt. 1644) and James (b. c. 1652/3) look like Elizabeth's sons; neither is in the 1674 will, and neither has a later record found [D for the records; Possible for the parentage]. Sara, bapt. June 1666, parents unstated.

Unsupported claims

"The Saxon": a FamilySearch commenter says Ralph's peers called him this, with no source; nothing in the court, town or church records uses it.
Welsh origin: theory of a commenter (Scott Ellinwood) from a "Celtic" R1b Y-DNA result. Jordan's Y-haplogroup is R-L21, which is consistent with Scott's report at that coarse level; it does not test the origin. A Y-37 or Big Y comparison between two documented paternal-line descendants would test the line itself.

Open questions: English origin; Elizabeth's surname; the deed for the Moulton lot; Eleanor's parents and death.

Sources: Hotten, Original Lists of Persons of Quality (1874), pp. 131-132; NEHGR 14 (1860): 323; TNA E 157 (the original register). EQC vols. I, II, IV, V, VI, VII (salem.lib.virginia.edu). Town Records of Salem vols. 1-2. Perley, History of Salem vols. I-II. Stone, History of Beverly (1843). Essex County Probate Records II:178, 412-413. Essex County register, FS film 007009706 item 3, image 18; Salem fair copy, film 007011200 item 2, image 37. Leonard Ellinwood, The Ellinwood (Ellenwood/Ellingwood) Family 1635-1963 (1963), pp. 1-10 [C]. Florence O'Connor, Ellingwood genealogy (1979), with the College of Arms letter of 29 Dec 1953 [C]. FS L4GJ-3XV.

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

Vital facts

Born 18 Mar 1656/7, Salem: "ther son Raulph born 18th March 57" (Essex county register) [D]. The nineteenth-century Salem fair copy has "13th," a copying error.
Married (1) Katherine, surname unknown, before 1682; annulled June 1682 [D]. (2) 19 Aug 1691, Marblehead, Martha Rowlandson "of Beverly" [D, Marblehead VR II].
Died after 8 Apr 1741 (his will) [D/C]. Alive and drawing his own Narragansett township right in the 1730s ("Ralph Elinwood ... (Alive) ... (By himself)," Bodge p. 423) [D].

Link: Proven (county register; father's will).

Life

Aged 16 at his father's death; to have the double portion at 21.
King Philip's War: served with his brother John in Capt. Joseph Gardner's company of Salem in the Narragansett expedition; the Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675 [C, Stone pp. 28-29; D, the 1730s Narragansett township grant list]. Gardner was shot through the head inside the fort.
Worked for the Beverly miller Martin Hale (Hall). On 20 Mar 1676/7 the Beverly church "publikly rebuked & admonished" him, "a childe of ye Covenant in this Church ... for stealing meale at mill" [D, Records of the First Church in Beverly (1905)]. In June 1677 the court fined "Martin Hale (also, Hall), miller, of Beverly, and Ralph Ellenwood, his man, for taking too much toll" (EQC VI:316). The same session heard Hall's suit against Ralph's mother and stepfather.
First marriage annulled, Salem court, June 1682: "Katheren Ellenwood, complaining of her husband Ralph Ellenwood's insufficiency, was given her apparel and what estate she brought with her, and court declared the marriage annulled." Her petition said "she was very young and would rather die than live with this man." Daniel Weld and Richard Knott, surgeon, examined him by order of the court; Weld had been surgeon to the Narragansett army. Mary Houghton deposed that one night in his house he said "he thought there were witches not far off" (EQC VIII:356-357), ten years before 1692.
Second marriage 1691 to Martha Rowlandson; children 1692-1707 (see the Family Tree file). A daughter named Return was born 22 May 1692 and baptized 29 May, as the Salem panic gathered. The 1905 editors of the Beverly church records supplied "[Ellen]" as the mother in the 1692 and 1697 baptisms; the town record gives "Return, d. Ralph and Marthew." His brother John married Elizabeth Rowlison of Salisbury in 1684/5, also at Marblehead.
No Ellingwood appears in the 1692 witchcraft trial records, although the family sat under Rev. John Hale, who testified against Dorcas Hoar and later wrote A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft.
Outlived his son Ralph III by about twelve years.

The will (1741) [D, Essex Probate docket 12365; first page attached as a FamilySearch memory to L5DY-FMG; date per O'Connor and the Find a Grave contributor notes]. "I Ralph Elinwood of Beverly in the County of Essex in New England husbandman Being Weak & Infirm in Bodey." Its provisions:

His personal estate, his common rights, and "a Small pece of Land I Now improve for a Garden & Adjoyns on my Son Ebenezer Elinwood's Land Extending Westerly to the Way that Leads down to the Water as the fence Now Stands" to be sold for debts, any overplus to be divided among his children, "my Son Ralph Elinwood's Children to have one Share."
To "my daughter Abigael Elinwood the Improvement of one half of my Real Estate during her Naturall Life She Being Not Able to provide for her Self."
"my Two Grandsons Israel Elinwood & Ralph Elinwood have the free Use & Improvement of the Barn & Well their father Builded on my Lands with Egress to & from the Same."
One fifth of the real estate each to the children of his son Ralph, deceased; to son Ebenezer; to son Thomas; to daughter "Return Wardwell"; and to daughter "Martha Smith."
Sons Ebenezer and Thomas with the two grandsons are named in the following clause (the second page, with the date and witnesses, is not in hand).

Spouses

Katherine (surname unknown). Separated and boarding before the annulment: Mary Horton deposed that "Katherine lived in one room of the house in which deponent lived and that she was a civil woman" (EQC VIII:356-357).
Martha Rowlandson (b. c. 1661-1666, Salisbury?). Probably daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and Dorothy Portland of Salisbury [C]. Her death is unrecorded (FS 1712 and WikiTree 1707 are unsourced); she is not mentioned in the 1741 will.

Notable siblings

John (b. 1659), "of Bas river." His own petition of February 1700/1 says that "about ye yeare of Our Lord God 1676" he was "Imprest & sent to ye Eastward as a souldier," and at Wells "was sorely wounded in my right hand my fore finger being shott away & ye rest of my hand so greiuously shattered & Torn & bones broaken yt it hath been thereby rendred almost altogether vseless Euer since." He signed by mark. The General Court granted £5 and £3 a year for life, 11 Mar 1700/1 (Acts and Resolves VII:270-271, 657).
Benjamin (1668-1731), "coaster of Beverly."

Open questions: Katherine's surname; Ralph Jr.'s exact death date and the second page of the will; Martha's parents and death; the original 1682 depositions (Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Rowley).

Corrections to make on FamilySearch: death "1728" to after 8 Apr 1741; the 1728/9 death belongs to his son (Madeline MacDonald, "Raised from the Dead: Ralph3 Ellingwood of Beverly, Massachusetts," The Maine Genealogist, Aug 1995; Madeline (Ellingwood) MacDonald and Gloria McGinley Picard, "When Birth Records Are Missing, What Then?", The Maine Genealogist, Nov 2000; neither seen, cited in FS notes) [C].

Sources: Essex county register (above); EQC VI:288, 316; VIII:356-357; Records of the First Church in Beverly (1905); Marblehead and Salisbury VRs; Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (1906), pp. 164-190, 423; Stone (1843), pp. 28-29, 174; Acts and Resolves of the Province VII; Essex Probate docket 12365; FS L5DY-FMG. Full quotations in ellingwood-ch2-research-v2.md.

3. Ralph Ellingwood III (1694 - 1728/9)

Vital facts

Born 18 Apr 1694, Beverly: Beverly VR, "Elenwood, Ralph, s. Ralph and Martha, Apr. 18, 1694" [D]. The Essex county register enters "Ralph Ellenwood Son of Ralph Ellenwood & Martha his wife" as born "18 Aprill 169-," the last digit worn away (FS image group 007009706, image 341) [D]; the next entry is dated 23 April 1695, which is where the 1695 in the saved file name comes from.
Married, intention 3 Feb 1711/2, Beverly, Sarah Woodbury [D].
Died at sea, winter 1728/9, returning from Jamaica [C].

Link: Proven.

Life

Married at seventeen. Eight children 1712-1726 (the Beverly register) and possibly a ninth, Eleanor (FS only).
Built a barn and a well on his father's land (his father's will of 1741).
"Wife of Ralph Ellenwood Jun'" received to full communion at Beverly, 20 Jan 1727/8 [D, Beverly church records].
Lost at sea on the homeward run from Jamaica; the New England Weekly Journal of 13 Jan 1728/9 reported it [C, Find a Grave contributor notes for Ralph Ellenwood (1657); the paper not yet seen]. The Massachusetts-Jamaica trade carried fish, lumber and staves south and molasses, sugar and rum north.
Died intestate. The widow administered as "Sarah Ellinwood alias Allen" after her intention with Zebulon Allen of Salem (31 May 1730). The estate waited until the children came of age; the division gave "Israel 2 shares, Ralph, Daniel, Esther, Abia, and Sarah West, 1 share each" [D, Beverly register margin]. Marginal note of 6 Dec 1743: "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster, for self & guardian of brother Daniel, a minor" (Daniel was 19, old enough to choose his own guardian, and chose his brother).

Spouse: Sarah Woodbury (b. 14 Dec 1690, Beverly), daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler [C]. Remarried Zebulon Allen, 1730. Death disputed: Nov 1788 "aged 98" (FS) or 22 June 1776 (Find a Grave contributor).

Notable siblings and children

His sister Return married a Wardwell; his sister Martha married a Smith (father's will).
His son Daniel (b. 1724) died in London in 1747/8 per FS [C]; the family literature says of smallpox.

Open questions: the New England Weekly Journal notice and the name of the vessel; the Essex probate file of his estate (administration, the 1743 division, guardianship bond, release).

Sources: Essex county register, image 341; Beverly VR; Beverly compiled register, FS image group 004934217, image 138; Beverly church records (1905); FS 99LD-MJJ.

4. Capt. Israel Ellingwood (1714 - 1785)

Vital facts

Born 29 Sept 1714, Beverly; baptized 3 Oct 1714 [D].
Married (1) 18 Mar 1741/2, Boston, by Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, Susanna Rand [D, RC 28 p. 244]; (2) intention 9 Nov 1752, Boston, Hannah Perkins [D, RC 30 p. 4].
Died 14 Mar 1785, Boston; buried Granary Burying Ground: "Israel, Capt., Mar. 14, 1785, ae. 73 y." [D, Codman, Gravestone Inscriptions ... Granary (1918), p. 90]. The stated age does not fit a 1714 birth (he was 70).

Link: Proven (Beverly register; grandfather's will; 1743 division).

Life

Fourteen when his father was lost at sea; his mother remarried the next year.
By 1743 "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster," a coastal mariner. "Mariner" in his deeds of 1745, 1758 and 1765, in the probate court in 1753, and in his will.
23 May 1745: bought from Henry Newhall for £200 "the Eastermost Moiety or half part of a certain messuage or Dwelling house and Land ... at the North End of Boston," fronting on Cross Street, twenty-two feet wide and sixty deep, with half the common entry [D, Suffolk Deeds, FS 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-7TTB].
8 June 1753: appointed by Judge Thomas Hutchinson guardian of his children for "such part & portion of Estate as accrued to him in right of his Grandfather Robert Rand late of Boston Joyner," Richard then "aged about 11 years" and Susannah "about nine" [D, Suffolk Probate, dockets 10462-10465].
About Jan 1758: took a mortgage deed from Nicholas Gray, barber, and his wife Bathsheba on a square North End house and lot, thirty-nine feet each way, for £84 8s, redeemable by 3 June 1759 [D, Suffolk Deeds 1757-1760, FS 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-9N79].
30 Apr 1765: bought from his son "Richard Ellingwood of Boston ... Cooper" an undivided quarter of a North End house and land for £35 16s 8d; witnesses Adam Knox and Susanna Ellingwood [D, Suffolk Deeds 1764-1765, FS 3:1:3QS7-L9Z3-S4BB].
"Capt." on his gravestone and on his wife Hannah's ("w. Capt. Israel"). No newspaper notice of his death found.

The will and estate (1785) [D, Suffolk Probate docket 18396; FS "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1785," images 78, 275, 383]

"I Israel Ellingwood of Boston in the County of Suffolk Mariner being weak of Body but of sound disposing mind & memory." To his wife Hannah one third of his estate for life; the remainder, and all the residue, to "my beloved Children Richard Susanna Ralph & Sarah in equal shares" as tenants in common. The will is undated in the transcript read; it was made while Hannah was alive (she died 14 Dec 1784).
Proved 19 Mar 1785 before Judge Oliver Wendell; administration to "Robert Hitchburne Executor."
The Beverly property, appraised at Beverly 3 May 1785 by Josiah Batchelder Jr., Eleazer Giles and John Dyson: "one half a dwelling House and about twenty two poles of Land under and adjoyning to the same scituated in Beverly ... on the south side of the way that leads from the Ferry to Ellingwoods point and continues from said way to low water mark," and about half an acre on the north side of the way; £162 10s.
The Boston property, appraised Dec 1785 by Jonathan Greenleaf, Samuel Turell and Jacob Cooper: "Two Tenements with the Land thereunto belonging near the head of Cross Street," £600; a quarter of a lot near Black Horse Lane, £30. The whole real estate, £792 10s, was judged able to "conveniently accomodate one of the Heirs."
Half of a house on the road to Ellingwood's Point was still in the family's hands in 1785, 111 years after Ralph I's death.

Spouses

Susanna Rand (b. 12 Feb 1715/6, Boston; bapt. same day, First Church), daughter of Robert Rand, joiner (1686-1752), and Susanna Cheever (1682-1748) [D/C, Rand Genealogy p. 20]. Her intention with "Jumanuel DeRivers" was marked "forbid," 10 Mar 1738/9 (RC 28 p. 230); the Rand Genealogy (1898, p. 21) adds "Forbid by Benjamin Lord." She then married "Emanuel Derevers," 5 Apr 1740, by Rev. Timothy Cutler of Christ Church (RC 28 p. 214) [D]. Derevers' fate is unknown; she was presumably his widow when she married Israel two years later [I]. She owned the covenant at First Church, 21 Nov 1742. She died by Nov 1752; the Granary list gives "Susanna, Mrs.," with a blank for the day and month, and "1751" [D]. FS's 18 Oct 1749 at Beverly has no source.
Hannah Perkins (c. 1727 - 14 Dec 1784, aged 57, Granary) [D]. Owned the covenant at First Church, 25 May 1755, as "Hannah (second wife of Israel) Ellingwood."

Notable children

Susanna married Robert Hitchborne, 16 July 1765 (by Rev. Charles Chauncy). He was a cooper of Ann Street (1789 directory), 1st lieutenant in Bromfield's Boston regiment (commissioned 25 Nov 1776), Israel's executor, and later of Hampden and Cape Jellison on the Penobscot, where he died in 1800 (estate probated Hancock County, 2 Nov 1801) [D/C]. WikiTree and DAR lineage records make his father Thomas Hitchborne a brother of Deborah Hitchborn, Paul Revere's mother, so he was very probably Revere's first cousin (Probable). His schooner Susannah was wrecked 18 Oct 1798 with two of his daughters aboard [C, Courier-Gazette, 7 Oct 2021]. He is a second Boston-Penobscot link in this family. Susanna died in Boston, 28 Nov 1807 [C].
Ralph (1745-1786), buried at the Granary aged 40; administration 1786. A "Ralph Ellinwood" signed a receipt for the wages of James Ellinwood on the frigate Hague (Capt. John Manley) to 29 Feb 1783 (Mass. Soldiers and Sailors V:285); which Ralph is unknown.
Sarah married John Pulling, 3 Jan 1771 (by Rev. Mather Byles). This is not Capt. John Pulling Jr. of the Old North lanterns: he married Annis Lee in 1768 and she died 11 Aug 1771 (Copp's Hill stones 291 and 1489); he married Sarah McBean of Hingham on 3 Jan 1773. The elder John Pulling died 18 Jan 1771. Sarah's husband is otherwise unidentified. A widow Sarah Pulling lived on Cross Street in 1789 and 1798 (will 1809, Suffolk docket 23446); whether she is Sarah Ellingwood is open.
Israel, baptized 30 Oct 1748; no later record.

Open questions: the date of the will and its witnesses (next image after FS image 78); where his "Capt." came from (coasting master, militia, or a privateer command); Susanna's death; the 1785 division and who took the property.

Sources: Boston Births (RC 24) pp. 108, 245, 251, 256, 263; Boston Marriages 1700-1751 (RC 28) pp. 214, 230, 244 and 1752-1809 (RC 30) pp. 4, 60, 70, 300, 399; Records of the First Church in Boston (CSM 40) pp. 411-415, 440-441; Codman (1918) p. 90; Suffolk Deeds and Probate as cited; F. O. Rand, Genealogy of the Rand Family (1898) pp. 20-21; Leonard Ellinwood (1963) p. 24 [C]; FS KFTY-J25.

5. Richard Ellingwood (1742/3 - 1784)

Vital facts

Born 7 Jan 1742/3, Boston: "Richard Son of Israel and Susanna Ellinwood, Born 7 January 1742" (RC 24 p. 245) [D]. Baptized First Church, 16 Jan 1743 (a Sunday in 1742/3) [D].
Married 5 Jan 1766, Boston, Sarah Slater (RC 30 p. 399, in the Trinity Church section) [D].
Died by 5 Nov 1784, Boston [D].

Link: Proven.

Life

Mother dead by the time he was about nine; father remarried 1752. In 1753 he and his sisters and brother received portions from their grandfather Robert Rand's estate.
Feb 1764, during Boston's smallpox epidemic: "Information was given the Selectmen by Dr. Whetworth, that Mr. Richard Ellingwood and Mr. Thomas Raymond who lodge at Mr. Hitchburnes House had the Small Pox." They "absolutely refused leaving the House and going to the Hospital," until Mr. Lewis "prevailed on the Messrs. Ellingwood & Raymond to consent to a removal ... Mr. Williston as ordered attended with the Sedan, in which they were carried to the Hospital at New Boston" [D, Boston Selectmen's Minutes 1764-1768, RC 20 pp. 40-41]. He was lodging with the Hitchbornes a year before his sister married into that family. At the same meeting of 21 Feb 1764 the selectmen summoned "Mr. Reviere" and Mr. Flagg, who had been "seen to go in and out of their Houses, contrary to Orders as they are infected with the Small Pox"; Mr. Reviere "promised the Selectmen that he would not in future enter any one Appartment of his House." The selectmen's notice of 20 Feb lists the sick "at Mr. Deans and Mr. Revieres Familys in Fish Street." This is very probably Paul Revere, whose household had smallpox that winter [I, Probable].
30 Apr 1765: "Richard Ellingwood of Boston ... Cooper" sold his father his quarter of a North End house [D].
9 June 1777: the Council ordered "a Commission be Issued to the said Richd. Ellinwood as Commander of the Schoonr. Cleora as a Letter of Marque." Thomas Adams of Boston, owner, had petitioned that "the Schooner Called the Cleora, Richard Ellinwood Master, of the Burthen of About Sixty Tons, Armed with four Carriage & Eight Swivel Guns Navigated by fourteen Men, Loaded with Ailwives and Lumber, bound to the French West Indies," be commissioned, "as he intends said Schooner to be further Equipped in the West Indies; to Cruize Against the Enemies of the United States of America." Bond $5,000, "Richard Ellinwood, of Boston, principal; Thomas Adams and Wm Shattuck, sureties" [D, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, MHS Collections 77 (1927), p. 100 and the facsimile facing it; Mass. Archives 167:17; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors V:285]. No other Richard Ellingwood is found in Boston in these years, so the identification is Probable.
21 Aug 1782: "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood approbated to retail in Cross Street" (RC 25 pp. 189, 192) [D]. Cross Street was where the family's houses stood; this is very probably his wife (Probable).
5 Nov 1784: "Sarah Ellingwood of Boston Widow, Admitted by the Judge Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Ellingwood late of Boston Cooper deceased," with Enoch James, blacksmith, and Asa Stoddard, bricklayer, as sureties. The inventory, taken the same day by Jacob Cooper and Samuel Cooper, lists a black walnut desk, a small looking glass, a mahogany table, six flag-bottom chairs, a tea table, an old maple table, a pine table, shovel and tongs, trammel, gridiron and spit, a dozen china plates, old bellows, an old chest of drawers, andirons, pots and kettle, a tea kettle, knives and forks, a flat iron, pewter, silver teaspoons, and a bed, bolster and pillows [D, Suffolk Probate, docket 18305, FS "Probate Records 1783-1784," image 522]. It is a small household estate with no real estate listed.
He died at least four months before his father, so his father's will (proved March 1785) still named him; his share passed to his children, which is why the 1785 guardians were appointed for "Grandsons of Israel Ellingwood" [I].

Spouse: Sarah Slater. Parents not established. Boston candidates: James Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (m. 5 Sept 1735); Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (m. 3 Jan 1739/40) [D for the marriages; the link to Sarah is not made]. Administered Richard's estate 5 Nov 1784 and married Isaac Downes two days later, 7 Nov 1784, by Rev. Samuel Stillman of the First Baptist Church (intention spelled "Alinwood") [D, RC 30 p. 77]. On 26 Jan 1790 "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs" received a third of her son Joseph's estate and signed the administrator's account by mark ("Sarah Downs her mark") [D]. FS gives her death as 1796 in Massachusetts, without a source.

Children (no Boston birth or baptism records found for any of them)

On 22 Nov 1785 Enoch James of Boston, blacksmith (one of the sureties on Richard's administration), was appointed guardian of all four boys, with Simeon Turner, housewright, and Thomas Lewis, wharfinger, as sureties [D, Suffolk Probate vol. 84, pp. 694-695, dockets 18559-18562; FS "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1785," image 373]:
- "unto Richard Ellingwood a Minor above 14 years of age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston, deceased" (18561);
- "unto Ralph Ellingwood a minor above 14 years of age Grand Son of Israel Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18560);
- "unto William Ellingwood a minor above 14 years of age (now out of this State) Grandson of Israel Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18562);
- "unto Joseph Ellingwood a minor under 14 years of Age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18559).
Joseph died by 19 Jan 1790, when Enoch James was made administrator of "Joseph Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased." The inventory of 22 Jan 1790 was cash only, £86 12s 4d (the machine transcript misreads the pound sign as a 1 or 2; the account confirms the figure). After charges of £16 16s 11d, including Enoch James's charge "as a Guardian," £69 15s 5d remained, distributed on 26 Jan 1790 "To Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased ... one third ... To Richard Ellingwood, and Ralph Ellingwood, brothers of said Joseph, the sum of Twenty three pounds, five shillings, and one penny half penny each" [D, Suffolk Probate vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424; FS "Probate Records 1789-1790," images 25, 39, 49]. Joseph's cash was presumably his share of his grandfather Israel's estate [I].
William is not among Joseph's heirs in 1790, which suggests he had died [I]; "now out of this State" in 1785 suggests he was at sea or already on the Penobscot.

Open questions: Sarah Slater's parents and death; any births or baptisms of the children (Trinity Church, Christ Church, or the New Brick Church registers); the original Cleora papers (Mass. Archives V:117, 167); whether the Cleora returned; the 1785 division of Israel's estate.

Sources: RC 20 pp. 40-41; RC 24 p. 245; RC 25 pp. 189, 192; RC 30 pp. 77, 399; CSM 40 p. 411; Suffolk Probate dockets 10463, 18305, 18559-18562, 19424, read on FamilySearch; Suffolk Deeds 1764-1765; MHS Collections 77 p. 100; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors V:285; Index to the Probate Records of the County of Suffolk vol. 1, p. 358 (archive.org indextoprobatere01geor); Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790 vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96 [C]; FS LCP4-P77.

6. Richard Ellingwood (c. 1767 - 1802/3)

Vital facts

Born about 1767, probably Boston [I]. He was over 14 on 22 Nov 1785 (so born by Nov 1771) and his parents married in Jan 1766. Named first in the 1790 distribution, perhaps as eldest [I].
Married 24 Dec 1787, Orrington (then Lincoln County), Hope Holdershaw [D, Maine VRs, FS index Q21S-QNN1].
Died between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803, Frankfort [D].

Link: Proven by the weight of evidence. The Boston guardianship and distribution records [D] establish Richard and Ralph as sons of Richard and Sarah. That they are the Richard and Ralph of Frankfort rests on: the matching pair of names and ages; Ralph's 1800 census entry at Frankfort, "from whence emigrated: Boston" [D]; the Frankfort Richard's children named Sarah, Susannah and Ralph; and the Hitchborne in-laws on the same stretch of the Penobscot [I]. Ruth Gray (1988) reached the same conclusion from the same Suffolk records [C]. The FamilySearch parent link was created in 2012 with no sources and should now carry the Suffolk citations.

Life

A Boston boy of about 17 when his father died; under a guardian from Nov 1785.
On the Penobscot by Dec 1787, when he married Hope Holdershaw at Orrington, across the river. The Bangor Historical Magazine's list of Hampden "settlers prior to 1784" (2:29, 1886) puts "Richard Ellenwood" on lot 1 and "Ralph Ellenwood" on lot 2 at the southern end of the river front, at Bald Hill Cove; the editor says the list was built from later plans and deeds, and the brothers were in Boston in 1785, so the "prior to 1784" is wrong for them [C/I].
1790 census, Frankfort: "Ellingwood, Richard," 2 white males 16 and over, 1 under 16, 1 female (Heads of Families ... Maine, p. 28) [D]. The second man is probably Ralph; the female is Hope; the boy is the infant Richard, born Feb 1790 [I]. No girl is in the household in 1790, though the 1800 census (below) has one aged 10-16. Gray's birth of about 1786 for Sally (from her age at death) would fall before her parents' marriage; FS's 2 Feb 1792 would not. Open [I]. Neighbors in the visitation order: Thomas Snow, John Holbrook, John Haldershaw, John Haldershaw Jr. [C, Bellis 2025].
Gray describes him as a trader and merchant at Bald Hill Cove, Winterport, running a fishery, with a half share of a right of way to a salmon fishery at the cove (Lincoln Deeds 22:93; Hancock Deeds 4:509) [C].
5 Mar 1801: Massachusetts resolve on "the Petitions of Richard Ellingwood and Daniel Livermore ... praying to have the deficiency of their respective Lots made up to them." A surveyor was to "set off by meets & Bounds to the said Richd. Ellingwood forty five Acres of Land within the Town of Hampden of the unappropriated Lands therein instead of the forty five Acres Lying without the Town of Hampden as run out by Ephraim Ballard," and the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands to "give said Ellingwood a title to his hundred Acres" on payment of the settlers' price under the resolve of 26 Mar 1788 [D, Acts and Resolves 1800-01, Resolves ch. 132, pp. 213-214].
1800 census, Frankfort (George Halliburton's division, p. 119): "Rich'd Ellingwood," with 2 boys under 10, 1 boy 10-16, 1 man 26-45, 2 girls under 10, 1 girl 10-16, 2 women 26-45. In the column "From whence emigrated" his line carries a ditto beneath "Cape Cod" (written for Stephen Atwood), where his brother's reads "Boston" [D]. The ditto may be careless; Hope's family was from Cape Cod.

The will, 11 Aug 1802 [D, Hancock County Probate docket 2056; FS film 004142074, image 1284]

In the name of God Amen. Sensible that it is appointed to all men once to die, and believing it to be the duty of Parents to make by Will, some just and equitable distribution of that worldly Estate which God in his providence has bestowed upon them, I desire in his holy fear, to do this, by the following Instrument ... First That my Beloved Wife Hopey, have the use and improvement of all my Estate both real & personal, during the term, or time she shall remain my Widdow, And on the Event of her becoming the Wife of another man, That she take only one third part ... and the remaining two thirds ... to be equally divided between my Six Children hereafter named, to wit, Richard Ellingwood, John Ellingwood, Sarah Ellingwood, Ralph Ellingwood, Susannah Ellingwood, & Lucy Ellingwood. Finally I do constitute my beloved Wife Hopey Ellingwood, sole executrix ... at Frankfort, this Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & two.

Signed "Richard Ellingwood" (the filed paper is the probate copy, marked "(signed)" and "L.S."). Witnesses: Francis LeB. Goodwin, Timothy Lombard, Ralph Ellingwood.

Probate and inventory [D, same docket, images 1285-1290]

Docket: "R. E. Frankfort Mercht. proved 2 May 1803."
Warrant to appraise, 5 May 1803, to "Francis LeBaron Goodwin esq. Noah Downes yeoman & Joseph Wardwell merchant all of Frankfort," for the estate of "Richard Ellinwood late of Frankfort Merchant deceased"; Goodwin sworn at Castine, 10 May 1803; the other two at Frankfort, 24 May 1803. Francis LeBaron Goodwin had been surgeon's mate on the frigate Warren, destroyed in the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 (Jones, History of Frankfort, p. 7).
"Inventory of all the real & Personal Estate of Richard Ellingwood late of Frankfort in the County of Hancock, Trader, Deceased," Frankfort, 24 May 1803. Store goods: 14 dozen earthen plates, small ware, 3 dozen Charlestown ware, 2 felt hats, 4 drawshaves, a scale beam, 12 lb of leaden weights, tin measures, a cooper's adze, 1½ bushels of salt, "Old Junk in lower Store," and "1 Store at the Shore" ($8). Buildings: 4 small buildings ($30), a barn ($80) and dwelling house ($900). House: a birch table and desk, six green chairs and six yellow, a looking glass and candlestand, crockery, window curtains, beds, a spinning wheel and clock reel, four silver teaspoons, pewter, candlesticks, bellows, knives and forks, an oval kitchen table, "Wearing apparrell" ($50). Farm: "72 Acres of Homestead Land" ($600), 3 cows, a horse, two three-year-old heifers, a hog and two pigs, 9 ewe sheep, "Old Salmon Nets & old casks" ($9), and "2 Sheep with Paul Downs on a lay for ½ Increase & Wool." Land: a lot in Goshen bought of Elisha Bolton (or Botton) and a lot in Goshen bought of John Carlton ($30 each). Shipping: "3/4ths of Schooner Hope," $1,500. Total $3,588.44.
"A list of Notes of Hand in the hands of the Executrix": about thirty debtors, among them Joseph Wardwell ($600), Noah Downs ($400), Nehemiah Rich, Solomon Longson, Jno. Holdershaw Jr. ($93.72), John Holdershaw ($50), Joseph Holdershaw ($15), several Colsons, Littlefields and Sullivans; some marked "doubtfull." Total $2,063.77, with "Sundry accounts on day book & Ledger" $127.31, together $2,191.08.
At a Court of Probate at Castine, November 1803, "Hope Ellenwood Executrix" swore to the inventory.
The schooner's name was presumably for his wife [I].

After his death. Hope was appointed guardian of the children, with Ralph Ellingwood as surety: Richard and John as minors over 14, and Sarah, Ralph, Susannah and Lucy under 14 (Hancock Probate docket 305; dated 13 Nov 1804 by WikiTree, 1 June 1805 by Gray for Richard and John) [C]. Hope headed a household at Frankfort in 1810 [D].

Spouse: Hope Holdershaw (c. 1768 - aft. 18 July 1829), born on Cape Cod (Barnstable per FS, Eastham per WikiTree) [C]; daughter of John Holdershaw (Holder Shaw) and Sarah Cole [C, Gray]. Her father was a corporal in Capt. Solomon Higgins's Eastham company in 1775 and a sergeant in Capt. Samuel King's company at Hull in 1776; her brother John Jr. served with him [D, Mass. Soldiers and Sailors VII:44, VIII:115]. John Holdershaw was admitted to the First Church of Eastham (Orleans) 29 Mar 1773; his daughter Delilah was baptized there 26 Jan 1777 [D, Mayflower Descendant 15:13, 10:233]. The family moved to Frankfort, where John died before 7 May 1807; its members dropped "Holder" and were called Shaw. On 4 Nov 1807 Hope conveyed her rights in her father's estate (Hancock Deeds 23:286); she was living 18 July 1829 (Hancock Deeds 13:68) [C, Gray]. FS gives 18 July 1829 as her death date, which looks like the deed date.

Brother: Ralph Ellingwood of Frankfort (c. 1771 - 1857). Born 11 Jan 1770/1 per Gray [C]; a Boston minor over 14 in 1785 [D]. Married 19 July 1792 at Orrington, "Ralph Ellingwood of Frankfort, and Delilah Holdershaw of Frankfort" (Bangor Historical Magazine 1:109) [D], Hope's younger sister. Witnessed his brother's will and stood surety for the guardianship. In 1800, "from whence emigrated: Boston." On 1-4 Sept 1814 he served in Capt. Elisha Thayer's company, "raised at Frankfort. Service at Hampden. Company in battle at Hampden," alongside Francis L. B. Goodwin; a Joseph Ellingwood served in Capt. A. Weston's company [D, Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ... 1812-14 (1913), pp. 216-217]. "Mr. Ralph Ellingwood, of Frankfort, who died in April, at the age of 81, had lived with his wife on the same farm, for sixty-four years" (Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; also The Flag of Our Union, 4 July 1857) [D]. His stone at Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport, reads 11 Apr 1859, aged 87y 3m [D]; Delilah died 19 Jan 1860, aged 84. Four of their sons settled at Ellingwood's Corner [C].

Open questions: when the brothers left Boston; the deeds behind the 1801 resolve and the Goshen lots; the guardianship papers in docket 305; any record of the schooner Hope (Penobscot customs registers are not online); John Ellingwood (b. c. 1789), the second son.

Sources: Hancock County Probate docket 2056 (FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290) and docket 305; Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts 1800-01, pp. 213-214; Heads of Families at the First Census, 1790: Maine, p. 28; 1800 census, Frankfort, Hancock Co., pp. 111, 119 (FS 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LR3 and 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LL1); 1810 census, Frankfort; Bangor Historical Magazine 1:109, 2:25-32; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors VII:44, VIII:115; Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ... 1812-14, pp. 216-217; Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; Erasmus A. Jones, History of the Town of Frankfort (1897, written c. 1844); Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790 vol. 1, pp. 95-96, vol. 3, pp. 140-141 [C]; WikiTree Ellingwood-421 and Ellingwood-447 [C]; FS KHXD-1D2, KCN9-CQZ, LHNK-JQ9.

7. Richard Ellingwood (1790 - 1864)

Vital facts

Born 2 Feb 1790 (family Bible, per Gray) or 9 Feb 1790 (FS, from "individual or family possessions"), Frankfort [C].
Married 1809, Hannah Brown (Bible, per Gray) [C].
Died 25 Mar 1864, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (Bible, per Gray; FS) [C].

Link: Probable (strong). He is the son Richard named first in the 1802 will [D]; the Bible owned by Finley's son Elliott Lee records an Indiana Richard born Feb 1790 who died in 1864 [C]; the Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 (1850 census) [D]; and he named a daughter Hope (b. 1813) [C]. Gray "believes" the Frankfort son is the man who went to Indiana. A record from Indiana naming his father or his Maine birthplace would make this Proven.

Life

Twelve or thirteen when his father died; under his mother's guardianship from 1804/5.
War of 1812: taken prisoner at Hampden, 3 Sept 1814 (Gray) [C]. The British force came up the Penobscot, anchored at Bald Hill Cove on the evening of 2 Sept, defeated the militia at Hampden on the 3rd, and occupied Hampden and Bangor (History of Penobscot County, 1882, p. 560; Jones, pp. 14-25) [C]. He is not on the 1814 militia rolls for Frankfort, where his uncle Ralph appears [D].
Married Hannah Brown in 1809. FS gives Sept 1809 at Pownal, Cumberland County; no record has been found there or at Gorham. (The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's, with Moses B. Patten.)
Children born in Maine 1812-1815 (Hannah, Hope S., Sylinda), then Sarah Brooks on 26 Mar 1817 in New York (FS), then the rest in Indiana from about 1819 [C].
The move west, 1816-1819: Gray dates it "1816/7." A household of "Ellinwood, Richard" in the Cincinnati census of 1817 had three men, one woman and four girls under 12 (Dickoré 1960, p. 20) [D abstract], and the Cincinnati Directory of 1819 lists "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter, n. Glass Factory" (p. 117) [D]. The four girls fit his daughters by 1817 (Hannah, Hope, Sylinda, Sarah) [I]. Possible that this is he. Dearborn County lies just down the Ohio from Cincinnati. In the fall of 1817 fifteen families from Cumberland County, Maine, went west together as "the great 'land fleet'" by Portland, Albany, the Mohawk, Olean, Pittsburgh and the Ohio to Lawrenceburgh, most settling on Green Brier Ridge, now Manchester (History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, 1885, p. 541) [C]. The Sylvesters, the family of Elijah's future mother-in-law, were among the first settlers of Manchester in 1818 (p. 555).
1820 census: Manchester Township, Dearborn County [D]. 1830 and 1840: Manchester [D].
1850 census, Clay Township, Dearborn County: "Raheal Ellenwood," 60, born Maine; Hannah, 64, born Cape Cod; Elizabeth A. Canady, 6, and John B. Canady, 4 [D]. These are the children of his daughter Harriet, who married Samuel M. Kennedy in 1842 and died in 1846 (History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, p. 792).
1860 census: Manchester Township, "Richd Ellingwood" and Hannah [D].
No land patent, probate or grave found for him or Hannah.

Spouse: Hannah Brown (c. 1786 - 1871?). The 1850 census makes her born on Cape Cod about 1786. FS identifies her with Hannah Brown born 20 Jan 1786 at Gorham, daughter of Benjamin Brown and Sarah Phinney (McLellan, History of Gorham (1903), p. 415, which does not say whom that Hannah married). The Gorham Browns had land from "Geo. Brown, of Eastham," so a Cape Cod connection is not impossible, but the identification rests on the birth date alone: Possible. FS gives her death as 25 Mar 1871 at Manchester, the same day and month as Richard's, which needs checking.

Open questions: the 1809 marriage record; the Bible itself (Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena, 1929; whereabouts now unknown); the 1830 and 1840 census tallies (1820 read 10 Oct 2026); Dearborn County deeds and probate after 1864; graves in Manchester Township.

Sources: Ruth Gray (1988) vol. 1, pp. 95-96 [C]; Dickoré, Census for Cincinnati, Ohio, 1817 (1960), p. 20; The Cincinnati Directory (1819), p. 117; History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana (1885), pp. 539-555, 792; 1820-1860 U.S. censuses (FS XHGN-HJ1, XHPY-TCS, XHBV-8BP, MHVL-MKK, M4FJ-J6W); McLellan, History of Gorham, Me. (1903), pp. 415, 714; FS LCP4-GVF, 24RF-N33.

8. Elijah Ellingwood (1819 - 1872)

Vital facts

Born 27 Nov 1819, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (from his gravestone, per FS) [C].
Married 25 July 1841 (FS), Dearborn County, by R. Hargrave; the Indiana marriage index names the bride "Abigail Rice" [D, index XXTS-LQD].
Died 25 Sept 1872, Kankakee, Illinois, aged 53; buried Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee [C, Find a Grave index QVKK-FFT6].

Link: Probable (strong). No record names his father. He was born in 1819 in Manchester, where Richard Ellingwood was living by 1820, and lived near him in 1850; the family Bible recording Richard (1790-1864) descended to Elijah's grandson [C/I].

Life

Married at 21. Mary Abigail and Elijah Ellingwood were among the heirs of her father Rufus Rice of Dearborn County, whose estate was administered from spring 1846 by Samuel McMullen; the heirs were sued to foreclose a mortgage held by the estate of James Rotham [C, Lyons, Dearborn County, Indiana Probate Order Book Abstracts (2017), pp. 134, 138, 234].
Children born at Manchester 1842-1852; three died young: Melville (1843-1849), Aurora (1845-1846), Jane (1847-1848) [C].
1850 census, Manchester: Elijah, 31; Mary A., 28, born Maine; Adaline, 8; Jane, 3 months [D].
Moved to Illinois in 1857 (Finley's 1918 biography) [C].
1860 census, Momence, Kankakee County: Elijah, 40; Mary A., 38; Adaline, 18; Jane, 10; Nancy, 8; Finley, given as 4 [D].
"E. Ellingwood" gave 50 cents to the Methodist church at Kankakee in 1863, 1864 and 1865, as did "Miss Adaline Ellingwood" in 1863 (Minutes of the Rock River Annual Conference) [D].
1870 census, Kankakee: Elijah, 49; Mary, 48; Jennie, 20; Mary, 14; Ellsworth, 7 [D].
Finley's 1918 biography: "He began the study of medicine July 10, 1871. The sudden death of his father, a few months later, threw the entire support of the family" on Finley, his mother being an invalid. He worked as a carpenter, taught school, and from 1873 was deputy clerk of the County Court of Iroquois County; "in 1875, his mother having died, he was able to complete his medical studies" [C, contemporary]. The gravestone date (Sept 1872) is more than a year after July 1871; the two do not quite agree.
27 Jan 1875, Kankakee County Court: "comes Finley Ellingwood and represents to the court that Ellsworth Ellingwood ... is an orphan minor of the age of ten years, has no father living and is without a guardian in this State." The court found "that said Finley Ellingwood is the brother of said minor" and appointed him guardian of the person and estate, with James W. Kay, Adeline's husband, on his bond [D, Kankakee County Court Record, Jan Term 1875, pp. 624-625; FS 3:1:939K-YCSM-5M].

Spouse: Mary Abigail Rice (1822 - 1874). Born in Maine (censuses); FS says Pownal. Daughter of Rufus Rice (d. by 1846) and, per FS, Mary Sylvester [C]. Described as an invalid by 1871; dead by Jan 1875 [D/C].

Notable children

Adeline (1842-1889) married James W. Kay of Watseka, as his second wife (Beckwith, History of Iroquois County (1880), p. 55).
Ellsworth V. (1864-1918), Finley's ward; died at Pueblo, Colorado.

Open questions: Elijah's occupation; his estate (Kankakee probate 1872-1875); Mary Abigail's death and burial; the Rice and Sylvester families' Maine origins.

Sources: Indiana Marriages (FS XXTS-LQD); 1850-1870 censuses (FS MHV2-CCS, MXCC-XRS, M6WC-R8M); Kankakee County Court Record, Jan 1875; Rock River Conference Minutes 1863-1865; NEMA Quarterly X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; Lyons (2017) [C]; FS 9NH2-W5W, L7XP-GKB.

9. Dr. Finley Ellingwood (1852 - 1920)

Vital facts

Born 12 Sept 1852, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (Who's Who in America, supplied by himself) [C]. FS's legacy source gives 30 Sept.
Married 1 Sept 1880, Chicago, Jennie S. Elliott [C, Who's Who; D, Cook County marriage index N76S-DNT].
Died 26 June 1920, at his son's home in Pasadena, California [D, family death notice, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920; California Death Index, aged 67].

Link: Proven (1860 census; his own Who's Who entry; the 1875 guardianship).

Life

To Illinois with his parents at four or five; boyhood at Kankakee.
Carpenter from about 14 to 20; three months at an academy at 17; taught school for three years; deputy clerk of the County Court of Iroquois County 1873-1875, and offered the county treasurership if he would give up medicine (NEMA Quarterly, 1918 and 1920).
Bennett Medical College, Chicago (eclectic), entered 1 Sept 1875, M.D. 23 Mar 1878. Practiced at Braidwood, a mining town, 1876-77 between terms; at Manteno, Kankakee County, 1 Apr 1878 to June 1884.
From 1884 professor of chemistry at Bennett (to 1900), then of materia medica and therapeutics (1900-1907); thirteen years lecturer at the Chicago Veterinary College.
Editor of the Chicago Medical Times 1884-1906 (sole control from 1887); founder of the Annual of Eclectic Medicine (1889-91); founder and editor of Ellingwood's Therapeutist (1906/7), 32 N. State Street, Chicago.
Secretary of the National Eclectic Medical Association 1902/3-1907; president, presiding at the 49th session in Chicago, June 1919; first vice-president of the World's Eclectic Medical Congress, 1903; president of the Illinois eclectic society three or four times; on the committee that framed the revised Illinois medical bill of 1886.
Books: Synopsis of Medical Chemistry (1889); Manual of Urinalysis (1891); A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1898; eight editions); Manual of the Eclectic Treatment of Disease (1906-07); Eclectic Practice of Medicine (1910); Pregnancy and Labor (1909 or 1912); American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy (1915, 1919), still read by herbalists.
Residences: Manteno 1878-84; Chicago 1884-92; Evanston from 1892, at 2209 Central Street.
Methodist; Sunday school superintendent "almost every year since the age of twenty"; I.O.O.F., Ancient Order of Foresters, Modern Woodmen; treasurer of the American Home-finding Association.
Politics: "Republican" in Who's Who to 1917, "Democrat" in 1920-21. The 1918 biography explains: "He has always been a Republican in politics, but at present, with three sons in the Government service, he is a staunch advocate of President Wilson (for whom he voted at the past election) and his policies."
1916: "suffering from a serious condition with his eyes; the sight of one is probably lost" (NEMA Quarterly, June 1916).
1920: went to Pasadena in May to visit his sons "in the hope of regaining his health"; a patient at the Westlake Hospital, Los Angeles; at his own request moved to his son's home in Pasadena, where he died of Bright's disease (California Eclectic Medical Journal, May-Aug 1920). Cremated; the ashes taken to Evanston; private burial at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, 17 July 1920; memorial service at Covenant Methodist Church, Evanston, 18 July (Chicago Tribune, 16 July 1920) [D].

Records and quotations (public domain)

His character, from the NEMA Quarterly obituary editorial (Sept 1920): "Dr. Ellingwood was tall and slender, growing heavier in later years, and had the bearing of a scholar and man of affairs." As a speaker he was "impulsive, earnest, and always enthusiastic." "Dr. Ellingwood was a Methodist and gloried in the fact." "A lover of music, he arranged and conducted many musical entertainments ... In his own family he maintained a musical orchestra." The same editorial calls him "An omnivorous gatherer of 'facts.'"
The family death notice (Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920): "ELLINGWOOD, Finley Ellingwood, M. D., 2209 Central-st., Evanston, Ill., husband of Jennie S., née Elliott, father of Mrs. M. G. Larsen [Elma J.], E. L., Finley F., R. E., and Lloyd Ellingwood, at Pasadena, Cal., on June 26."
His 1919 presidential address defined eclecticism as the school "which includes within its curriculum all of those teachings in this field which are accepted and included by all schools," and declared "we have faith, positive and certain, that nature has prepared, itself, remedies for the cure of disease." Of the germ theory: "There is much truth in the germ theory, but it is yet so fully in its infancy" (NEMA Quarterly XI, pp. 23-26).
His 1918 biography on his ancestry: "His parents were of Puritan stock, and their ancestors can be traced in unbroken lines back to the early days of New England history."
Unverified: the claim (Wikipedia; SWSBM) that he advocated for women physicians. Nothing in his own writing found so far says so.

Spouse: Jennie S. Elliott (1857-1929), born at Saratoga, New York (son's birth certificate) [D]; "also of New England ancestry" (1918). FS names her Sibelia Jane; no record found uses "Sibelia." Daughter of Charles Franklin Elliot (1829-1896) and Susan Marriah Adams (1837-1926) [C, family research]. She visited "her two sons who live in Pasadena" in 1912.

Children: seven, two daughters and five sons, one son dying in infancy (NEMA Quarterly, 1918). Laura Abigail (Mrs. A. A. Cother, of Austin, Texas, in 1918) died in Chicago on 21 Nov 1918, aged 35 [D, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, indexed as "Lucy A. Cother," born 8 Jan 1883, father Finley Ellingwood], which is why the 1920 notice names five. Elliott Lee (1884-1942), mechanical engineer in Los Angeles, owned the Richard Ellingwood Bible in 1929. Finley Fitch (1890-1975), chemist and mineralogist. Lloyd (1896-1975), ensign USN, Northwestern football halfback "Gog." Elma Jane (b. 1881), Mrs. M. G. Larsen.

Open questions: the Ellingwood's Therapeutist obituary (Lloyd Library, Cincinnati); Find a Grave memorial (FS index 668P-7VDW) and the Memorial Park lot; whether the family Bible survives among Elliott Lee's or Finley Fitch's descendants.

Sources: Who's Who in America vols. 7-11 (1912-1921); NEMA Quarterly X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; XI (1919), pp. 23-26; XII no. 1 (Sept 1920), pp. 434-436; California Eclectic Medical Journal 1912, 1920; Chicago Daily Tribune, 29 June, 30 June, 16 July 1920; JAMA 75(2):121 (10 July 1920, with the wrong date); Kelly and Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography (1928), pp. 372-373 [C]; Leonard Ellinwood (1963), p. 382 [C]; 1860, 1880, 1900-1920 censuses; Cook County birth and death records; FS MZ1V-429.

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

Vital facts

Born 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, Illinois [D, Cook County birth certificate, a delayed registration filed 23 Nov 1955, naming Finley Ellingwood born at Manchester, Indiana, and Jennie S. Elliott born at Saratoga, New York].
Married 26 July 1921, Spokane, Ruth Ethelwyn Short [D, marriage certificate; FS also carries 24 July].
Died 28 Feb 1985, Dade County, Florida, aged 90 [D, Florida Death Index VVWH-BQR]. Burial at Spokane per FS [C].

Link: Proven.

Life

1900 and 1910 censuses in his father's household at Evanston [D].
Northwestern University 1913-1917; B.S. June 1917, listed in the commencement program as away "In War Work of the International Y. M. C. A. in Europe" [D]. Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Deru; freshman and varsity basketball; varsity baseball 1916-17, captain 1917 (SAE General Catalogue, 1918, p. 152) [D]. "Ellingwood, center fielder, starred for Northwestern, being credited with both runs" (Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr 1916); "Capt. Richard Ellingwood '17 on first base" (Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr 1917) [D].
WWI: passport application 1917, aged 22; draft registration, Cook County; YMCA service card: residence Evanston, "Student, Special Eddy Party," Methodist, single (the "Eddy party" was presumably the YMCA group of Sherwood Eddy [I]); arrived back at Ellis Island 19 Mar 1918 [D, FS indexes]; by 1918 the YMCA's Army secretary at 45 Bedford Square, London [D, SAE catalogue]. His father's 1918 biography gives him as "Co. C, 14th Regiment, Regular Army Corps, U. S. A." [C]. Second lieutenant, Infantry, Officers' Reserve Corps, 1919 [D].
1920-21: Evanston directory, "com trav" (commercial traveler), and keeper of a shop at 1815 Central Street selling confectionery, toilet articles, sporting goods, cigars, stationery, ice cream and cameras [D]. Instructor and efficiency adviser for the Robert B. Schreffler Store Efficiency Co., Chicago [D, Appleton Post-Crescent, 16 Jan 1922].
Married Ruth Short at Spokane in 1921.
University of Wisconsin Extension Division, 1922-1937: in 1922 taught retail selling one evening a week at five vocational schools (Appleton, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah, Green Bay); instructor in business administration Oct 1922; assistant professor June 1924; assistant dean of the Extension Division by 1926 (an office created for him per Rosentreter, 1957); "R. E. Ellingwood, M.S., Assistant Professor of Business Administration" at the Milwaukee Extension Center 1931-33 [D/C]. Business Week, Oct 1932, on his retail clinics: he "will diagnose the ailing" stores.
1930 and 1935 at Madison [D]. Five children born at Madison 1923-1929.
1937: moved to Spokane and founded Soft Water Service Co., a Culligan franchise, 913 W. Bridge Avenue [C/D]. 1940 census, Spokane [D]; 1942 WWII draft registration, Spokane [D].
President of the Rotary Club of Spokane, 1951 (The Rotarian, Apr 1951) [D].
In 1952-1954 the Spokane YMCA ran "'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood, Priest Lake, Idaho, Wilderness and Adventure Camping for Active High School Youth" (Spokane high school yearbook advertisements) [D].
Retired 1963, when his son became president of the company [C].

Spouse: Ruth Ethelwyn Short (13 Jan 1893, Woodstock, Ontario - 13 Feb 1974, Spokane). Daughter of John Gerald Short, organ manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo; first cousin of Duff Pattullo, Premier of British Columbia. See the Short and Pattullo notes.

Open questions: his M.S. (where and when); the 1921 marriage record image; where in Florida and why (Dade County, 1985); his burial; an obituary.

Sources: Cook County birth certificate (FS Q23S-9JZ1); 1900-1950 censuses; WWI and WWII draft registrations; passport application 1917; YMCA WWI service card (Q2BX-8H14); Ellis Island arrival (JJ8Z-G24); Northwestern catalogues and 1917 commencement program; SAE General Catalogue (1918), p. 152; Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps (1919); Evanston directories 1914-15, 1920-21; Wisconsin newspapers 1922-1932; The Rotarian, Apr 1951; Spokane yearbooks 1952-1954; Florida Death Index; FS KH24-8ZK.

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

Vital facts

Born 14 Nov 1929, Madison, Wisconsin (obituary; FS) [C]. Family notes give 13 Nov.
Married (1) March 1955, Frances Fairchild Holbrook (19 Mar per Who's Who in the West; 26 Mar, Seattle, per family notes); divorced April 1983. (2) Sept 1987, Linda.
Died 24 Apr 2019, aged 89 [C, obituary]. Place: Glendale, Maricopa County (FS) or Wickenburg (family notes); the obituary does not say.

Link: Proven.

Life (from his obituary, Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019, paraphrased, and census and yearbook records)

Moved with his family from Madison to Spokane in 1937. Irving grade school; Lewis and Clark High School (yearbooks 1943, 1946, 1947). Censuses: 1930 and 1935 Madison, 1940 and 1950 Spokane [D].
Army radio communications specialist; discharged 1951.
B.S. in Business Administration, University of Washington, where he met Frances Holbrook.
President of Soft Water Service Co. from 1963. A 1964 government booklet on plant tours for foreign visitors gives "Contact Dick Ellingwood" for the Spokane plant.
Rotary from 1956; president of the Rotary Club of Spokane 1971-72; Paul Harris Fellow; Fred K. Jones Award. YMCA Red Triangle Award. Boards including the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, Washington Mutual and the Water Conditioning Dealers Association. Campaign chairman for State Representative Dick Bond. Friends called him "Civic Leader #1."
After selling the business he and Linda moved to Wickenburg, Arizona.
Survivors named in the obituary include his children Kit, Brook and John, stepchildren Samantha and Stacey, twelve grandchildren (among them Jordan, Ross and Lauren), and his sisters Ruth Dorman and Joyce Lee; his sisters Mary Smith and Janet Belmondo had died before him.

Spouse: Frances Fairchild Holbrook (b. 26 July 1931, Tacoma), daughter of Richard Clifford Holbrook and Lucille McMillan. See Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md and the Grandmommie notes.

Open questions: place of death; the 1955 marriage date.

Sources: Obituary, Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019 (transcribed at obits.arizonagravestones.org, id 89018); Who's Who in the West, 22nd ed. [C]; 1930-1950 censuses; Lewis and Clark High School yearbooks; FS L2SS-LDB.

12. John Ellingwood (living) and 13. Jordan Ellingwood (b. 1989)

John, youngest child of Dick and Frances; married Lynn Margaret Dwyer; children Jordan, Ross and Lauren. Jordan's Y-DNA haplogroup is R-L21 (23andMe).

Part Two: Sources

Grouped by kind. [D] primary records and published transcripts or abstracts of them; [C] compiled works. "Read" means the record or page image was examined in this research; "cited" means it is known only through another work.

Original records read on FamilySearch [D]

Essex County register of vital returns, 1658-1701. FS image group 007009706, item 3: image 18 (Ralph I and Ellen Lyn's marriage and children); image 341 (birth of Ralph III, 18 Apr 1694). Read.
Salem fair copy of births, marriages and deaths, 1658-1700. FS film 007011200, item 2, image 37, with index images 98-99. Read.
Beverly compiled register, "The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood." FS image group 004934217, image 138 (ark 3:1:33SQ-GRSJ-JT). Read.
Will of Ralph Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman, 1741. Essex Probate docket 12365. First page only, attached as a memory to FS L5DY-FMG. Read.
Suffolk County Probate Records ("Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records"), read through FamilySearch full-text search:
- 1753-1754, image 88 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-QWVH): guardianships of Richard and Susannah, children of Israel, 8 June 1753 (dockets 10463, 10465).
- 1783-1784, image 522 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-73TB): administration and inventory, Richard Ellingwood, cooper, 5 Nov 1784 (docket 18305).
- 1785, image 78 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-999P-G): probate and will of Israel Ellingwood, 19 Mar 1785 (docket 18396).
- 1785, image 275 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-999Z-R): inventory of Israel's Beverly property, 3 May 1785.
- 1785, image 373 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9993-R): guardianships of Ralph, William, Joseph and Richard, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695; dockets 18559-18562).
- 1785, image 383 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9993-8): warrant to divide and appraisal of Israel's real estate, Dec 1785.
- 1789-1790, image 25 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WFSZ): administration bond, Joseph Ellingwood, 19 Jan 1790.
- 1789-1790, image 39 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WX1M): inventory of Joseph Ellingwood, 22 Jan 1790.
- 1789-1790, image 49 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WXYK): account and decree of distribution, Joseph Ellingwood, 26 Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71; docket 19424).
Suffolk County Deeds, read through full-text search: Henry Newhall to Israel Ellingwood, 23 May 1745 (1744-1745, image 413, 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-7TTB); Nicholas and Bathsheba Gray to Israel Ellingwood, c. 1758 (1757-1760, image 70, 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-9N79); Richard Ellingwood, cooper, to Israel Ellingwood, 30 Apr 1765 (1764-1765, image 729, 3:1:3QS7-L9Z3-S4BB).
Hancock County, Maine, probate estate files, docket 2056, Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort: will 11 Aug 1802; docket "proved 2 May 1803"; warrant to appraise 5 May 1803; oaths 10 and 24 May 1803; inventory 24 May 1803; list of notes; probate court, Castine, Nov 1803. FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290 (3:1:S3HT-67FS-HBZ, -6FM, -HCK, -89Q, -CSZ, -HDZ, -QH3, -63B). Read.
U.S. census, 1800, Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine, George Halliburton's division, pp. 111 and 119 (3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LR3; 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LL1). Read.
Kankakee County, Illinois, County Court Record, January Term 1875, pp. 624-625: guardianship of Ellsworth Ellingwood (3:1:939K-YCSM-5M). Read.
Indexed records on FamilySearch (index entries read, images not): Maine Vital Records (marriages of 1787 and 1792); Indiana Marriages (Elijah, 1841); U.S. censuses 1790-1950; Cook County birth certificates; Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths (Lucy A. Cother, 1918); California Death Index 1905-1939 (Finley); Florida Death Index (Richard Everett, 1985); WWI and WWII draft registrations; U.S. Passport Applications (1917); YMCA WWI service cards; Ellis Island arrivals (1918); Washington County Marriages (1921); Find a Grave index entries.

Printed primary records [D]

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Essex Institute, 1911-1921). salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex. Vols. I:10, 28, 50, 71, 152, 180, 285; II:218; IV:216; V:218, 222, 258, 266-267, 363-364; VI:147, 288, 316, 401; VII:43-55, 181-183; VIII:206, 356-357; IX:365, 367.
Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, vol. II (1917), pp. 178, 412-413.
Town Records of Salem, vols. 1 (1634-1659) and 2 (1659-1680).
Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (1905).
Vital Records of Beverly, Salem, Marblehead and Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Essex Institute).
Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... 1600-1700 (1874), pp. 131-132; NEHGR 14 (1860): 323 (the Truelove register).
Acts and Resolves ... of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. VII (Resolves), 1700-1701 ch. 78, pp. 270-271, 657 (John Ellingwood's pension).
Boston Record Commissioners' Reports: vol. 20, Selectmen's Minutes 1764-1768, pp. 40-41; vol. 24, Boston Births 1700-1800, pp. 108, 245, 251, 256, 263; vol. 25, Selectmen's Minutes 1776-1786, pp. 189, 192; vol. 28, Boston Marriages 1700-1751, pp. 193, 212, 214, 230, 244; vol. 30, Boston Marriages 1752-1809, pp. 4, 60, 70, 77, 300, 399. archive.org: reportofrecordco2017bost, bostonbirthsfrom24bost, reportofrecordco25bost, reportofrecordco29bost, volumeofrecordsr1903bost.
Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1868, Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications vol. 40, pp. 411-415, 440-441.
Index to the Probate Records of the County of Suffolk, vol. 1 (1895), "Ellenwood, etc." archive.org: indextoprobatere01geor.
Codman, Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston (1918), p. 90. archive.org: gravestonegranar00codm.
Whitmore, The Graveyards of Boston: Copp's Hill Epitaphs (1878), nos. 291, 428, 1489.
G. W. Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, Massachusetts Historical Society Collections vol. 77 (1927), p. 100 and facsimile facing it. archive.org: massachusettshis77mass.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, vols. 5 (p. 285), 7 (p. 44) and 8 (p. 115).
Heads of Families at the First Census ... 1790: Maine (1908), pp. 27-28. archive.org: headsoffamiliesa01unit.
Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1800-01, Resolves, ch. 132, pp. 213-214. archive.org: actsresolvespass180001mass.
Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called Out ... War of 1812-14 (1913), pp. 216-217.
Bangor Historical Magazine, vol. 1, p. 109 (Orrington marriages); vol. 2, pp. 25-32 ("Town of Hampden").
Mayflower Descendant 10:166, 231, 233; 15:13, 15 (Orleans, formerly Eastham, church records).
The Cincinnati Directory (1819), p. 117.
Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; The Flag of Our Union, 4 July 1857 (Ralph of Frankfort).
Minutes of the Rock River Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, 1863-1865.
Who's Who in America, vols. 7 (1912-13), 9 (1916-17, p. 746), 11 (1920-21, p. 868).
National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly, X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; XI (1919), pp. 23-26; XII no. 1 (Sept 1920), pp. 434-436. archive.org: nationalecle10cinc, -11cinc, -12cinc.
California Eclectic Medical Journal, Nov 1912; May, June, Aug 1920.
Chicago Daily Tribune, 21 Apr 1916; 29 June, 30 June and 16 July 1920. JAMA 75(2):121 (10 July 1920).
Northwestern University catalogues 1913-1916 and 1917 commencement program; General Catalogue of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1918), p. 152; Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps (1919); Evanston directories 1914-15, 1920-21; Chicago Blue Book 1911-1912.
Appleton Post-Crescent, 16 Jan 1922 and 18 Nov 1926; Madison Capital Times, 2 Oct 1922 and 6 June 1924; Wisconsin Journal of Education, Apr 1922; Business Week, Oct 1932; The Rotarian, Apr 1951; Spokane high school yearbooks 1952-1954.
Obituary of Richard E. Ellingwood Jr., Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019 (paraphrased only).

Compiled works [C]

Leonard Ellinwood, The Ellinwood (Ellenwood/Ellingwood) Family, 1635-1963 (Washington, 1963). archive.org: ellinwoodellenwo00elli. Generations one to four of our line are on pp. 1-24; it misplaces Israel as a son of Ralph Jr.; Finley and the Frankfort Ellingwoods are in the appendix of unconnected individuals (pp. 382, 386, 390). In copyright; paraphrase.
Florence O'Connor, Ellingwood genealogy (1979), FamilySearch scan; includes the College of Arms letter of 1953. In copyright.
Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790, vol. 1 (Picton Press, 1988), pp. 95-96 (Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort), and vol. 3 (1988), pp. 140-141 (John Holdershaw/Shaw). archive.org (restricted): mainefamiliesin101ruth, mainefamiliesin103ruth. Read only through search snippets; the full entries are needed.
Madeline MacDonald, "Raised from the Dead: Ralph3 Ellingwood of Beverly, Massachusetts," The Maine Genealogist, Aug 1995 (probably vol. 17 no. 3). Not seen.
Madeline (Ellingwood) MacDonald and Gloria McGinley Picard, "When Birth Records Are Missing, What Then?", The Maine Genealogist, Nov 2000 (probably vol. 22 no. 4). Not seen. Cited in FS notes as untangling the Ralph Jr. and Ralph III generations.
Madeline E. MacDonald, Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport (1988), Digital Maine.
Stone, History of Beverly (1843). Perley, History of Salem, 3 vols. (1924-1928). Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War (3rd ed. 1906).
F. O. Rand, A Genealogy of the Rand Family (1898), pp. 20-21. archive.org: genealogyofrandf00rand.
Erasmus A. Jones, History of the Town of Frankfort (Winterport, 1897; written c. 1844). archive.org: historyoftownoff00jone.
History of Penobscot County, Maine (1882), pp. 376, 560.
History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana (1885), pp. 537-555, 792. archive.org: historyofdearbor00chic.
Marie Dickoré, Census for Cincinnati, Ohio, 1817 (1960), p. 20.
H. D. McLellan, History of Gorham, Me. (1903), pp. 415, 714.
Tina Lyons, Dearborn County, Indiana Probate Order Book Abstracts (2017).
H. W. Beckwith, History of Iroquois County (1880), p. 55.
Kelly and Burrage, Dictionary of American Medical Biography (1928), pp. 372-373.
Rosentreter, The Boundaries of the Campus (1957), p. 140.
Bellis, The 1790 Census of Hancock County (2025).
WikiTree profiles Ellingwood-1, -2, -421, -434, -435, -446, -447; Holdershaw-16; Hichborn-30.
FamilySearch Family Tree (IDs in the Family Tree file).
Find a Grave contributor notes for Ralph Ellenwood (1657), citing the 1741 will and the New England Weekly Journal of 13 Jan 1728/9.

Part Three: Research log

4 October 2026.

FamilySearch Family Tree read through its API for every direct ancestor: facts, sources, notes, change histories and relationship sources. The Richard (1742) to Richard (1767) link was created in 2012 by FamilySearch's own migration, with no sources. The Ralph I parent link has no sources.
FamilySearch full-text search used for "Ellingwood guardian," "Ellingwood Frankfort," "Joseph Ellingwood Boston," "Ellingwood Enoch James," "Israel Ellingwood." This found the Suffolk probate and deed entries above. Hancock County deeds 1800-1830 and Waldo County deeds and probate came up for "Ellingwood Frankfort" and were not yet read.
Hancock County probate file 2056 read image by image.
Internet Archive texts searched: Leonard Ellinwood (1963); Boston Births; Boston Marriages; Selectmen's Minutes; Suffolk probate index; Granary inscriptions; Massachusetts Privateers; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors; Rand Genealogy; Heads of Families 1790 Maine; Acts and Resolves 1800-01; Bangor Historical Magazine; Jones's Frankfort; Penobscot County history; Dearborn County histories; Dickoré; Cincinnati Directory 1819; Gorham history; NEMA Quarterly; Who's Who; Northwestern and SAE catalogues.

10 October 2026. Thirty-two record images downloaded from FamilySearch by Jordan (inbox "Transcript (11)-(43)"), read and filed as sources and Gallery pictures, and checked against the people pages:

Essex County register, image group 007009706, images 217 (Ralph I and Ellen's marriage, 14 March 1655, and their children) and 341 (Ralph III, "borne 18 April 169[4]"). Beverly town records, 004029870: baptisms 1696-1715 (images 84, 85, 90), births 1688-1711 (images 127, 371) and the 1665-1725 volume (286). Beverly compiled register, 004934217, images 135 and 138. New: Ebenezer, son of Ralph II and Martha, born 29 Aug 1697 (town births); Abigail, 22 Jan 1695/6, baptized 14 June 1696; Ralph III baptized 22 Apr 1694; Benjamin and Mary's eleven children; "John Ellenwood and Sarah Morrell married March 30. 1698" (open: which John). The compiled register dates Ralph II's marriage to Martha "August 21 [?] 1691", against 19 Aug in the Marblehead records.
The Orrington marriage return of 1790 (Richard and Hope, 24 Dec 1787), and the Frankfort censuses of 1790 (p. 77; John Haldershaw and John jr on p. 78) and 1800 (p. 119). In 1800 Richard's household has a girl 10-16 and a second woman 26-45 not yet identified, and two boys under 10, which dates John (fl. 1802) to after Aug 1790.
1820 census: Manchester Township, Dearborn County, confirmed. FamilySearch files the film (NARA M33, roll 13) under Jefferson County, but the same film at the Internet Archive (populationsc18200013unit, leaves n121-n125) has the heading "Manchester Township" on p. 27, and p. 29 opens with Robert McCracken, one of the township's founders. "Richard Ellingwood": a man and a woman 26-45, a boy and three girls under 10, which is Richard, Hannah, Elijah, Hannah, Hope and Sarah.
The censuses of Elijah's household in 1850, 1860 and 1870; Finley's in 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920 (in 1900 Jennie had borne seven children, six living; in 1920 their granddaughter Jennie Harriet Cother, 10, was with them).
Death certificates of Finley (Pasadena, 26 June 1920; cremated at Mountain View on the 28th), Lucy A. (Laura) Cother (Chicago, 21 Nov 1918), Jennie S. Ellingwood (Evanston, 23 Sept 1929: born 25 Oct 1857 at Saratoga Springs, mother Susan Maria [?] Adams; at 2209 Central Street 37 years) and Finley F. Ellingwood (Arlington, Vermont, 6 Aug 1975); two AMA Deceased Physicians cards for Finley; the marriages of Ellsworth and Ella Lee Nichols (Geneva, 19 Jan 1885), Elliott Lee and Jennie Henrietta Kendall (Pasadena, 2 Dec 1908) and Richard Everett and Ruth Ethelwyn Short (Spokane, filed 19 Aug 1921, signed "Ethelwyn").

Searched without result

Boston births or baptisms of the children of Richard and Sarah (Slater) Ellingwood: none in RC 24 or the First Church records.
Sarah Slater's parents and death.
Any Ellingwood in the 1789 and 1796 Boston directories, the 1790 Boston census, or the 1798 Boston direct tax.
A Boston newspaper notice of Israel's death; Richard's (1784) burial in the Granary, Copp's Hill, King's Chapel or Central burying grounds.
Either Maine Genealogist article online (its cumulative index is on CD only).
Richard Ellingwood (1767) and the schooner Hope in Jones's Frankfort history and the Bangor and Maine Historical Magazines.
The 1809 marriage of Richard Ellingwood and Hannah Brown.
Any Ellingwood land patent in Indiana (Waters, Indiana Land Entries, Cincinnati District); graves of Richard and Hannah.
Ellingwood entries in the 1893 and 1906 Kankakee County histories and the Iroquois County histories of 1893 and 1907. The 1883 Kankakee history is not online.
An obituary for Cudge (1985).
A primary source for "Sibelia Jane" as Finley's wife's name.

Part Four: Records to obtain next

In rough order of value.

Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790, vol. 1, pp. 95-96, and vol. 3, pp. 140-141, the full pages (library copy or Picton Press). They carry deed and probate citations not yet seen.
The two Maine Genealogist articles (Aug 1995; Nov 2000), from the Maine Genealogical Society or American Ancestors.
Hancock County Probate docket 305 (guardianship of Richard's children, 1804-1805) and Hancock County deeds 4:509, 13:68, 23:286-287, 24:192, and Lincoln County deeds 22:93; also the Hancock deeds 1800-1830 found by full-text search.
Maine State Archives land record 6:23 (Ralph's lot 2) and the 1801 petition behind the resolve for Richard.
The rest of Israel's will (next image after FS image 78 in "Suffolk Probate Records 1785") for its date and witnesses, and the 1785 division of his estate.
The Cleora originals, Massachusetts Archives vol. V pp. 117, 167, and vol. 167 p. 17.
The second page of Ralph Jr.'s 1741 will and the Essex probate file (docket 12365), and Ralph III's administration (Essex probate, 1729-1743).
New England Weekly Journal, 13 Jan 1728/9 (America's Historical Newspapers).
Dearborn County, Indiana: deeds and probate for Richard (d. 1864) and Hannah; marriage of Richard's children; Manchester Township cemetery records.
Kankakee County probate for Elijah (1872) and Mary Abigail (1874); Mound Grove Cemetery record.
Ellingwood's Therapeutist, July-Sept 1920 (Lloyd Library, Cincinnati) for Finley's obituary in his own journal.
The family Bible recorded by Gray as owned in 1929 by Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena: ask Finley's other descendants.
Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum (Rowley): the original 1682 depositions in the Katherine case, the 1677 Hall v. Bath file, and the 1678 Hoar file.
FamilySearch corrections to make: detach Herbert E Ellingwood and Addie M Croft from Ralph I; Ralph Jr.'s death to after 8 Apr 1741; Israel's first marriage to 18 Mar 1741/2 and death place to Boston; Richard (1742)'s birth to 7 Jan 1742/3 and death to bef. 5 Nov 1784, Boston; Richard (1767)'s death to between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803, Frankfort; add the Suffolk guardianship and distribution as sources on the Richard-to-Richard link; Finley's wife's name to Jennie S.

# Ellingwood Master Research
Research file for the Ellingwood paternal line, one section per generation from Ralph Ellingwood I to the present. Each section gives the vital facts, how the link to the parent is supported, a plain account of the person's life from the records, the anecdotes and quotations found, the spouses and notable siblings, the open questions, and the sources. The connections themselves (spouses, children, siblings, families who married in) are laid out in `Ellingwood_Master_Family_Tree.md`.
**Last revised:** 4 October 2026 (first edition).
**Ratings.** Used where they matter, not 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); **[T]** Tradition (family lore, no source).
- How sure we are, for links and disputed points: **Proven**, **Probable**, **Possible**, **Disproven**.
**Abbreviations:** EQC, *Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County* (1911-1921); FS, FamilySearch; VR, printed vital records to 1850; RC, *Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston*. Old-style dates are written with both years (7 Jan 1742/3); old-style months are numbered from March.
**Where this file sits.** The Chapter One and Chapter Two research for the book (`ellingwood-narrative-outline.md`, `ellingwood-ch2-research-v2.md`) holds the full quotations and page images for Ralph I and Ralph Jr.; this file summarises them and cites them, and holds everything new.
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## What this pass found
1. **The Boston-to-Maine link is now documented.** Suffolk County probate records show that Richard Ellingwood, cooper of Boston, died by November 1784; that his widow Sarah administered his estate and two days later married Isaac Downes; that in November 1785 guardians were appointed for his sons Richard and Joseph and for Ralph and William, "Grandsons of Israel Ellingwood"; and that in January 1790 the estate of young Joseph went to his mother and his brothers Richard and Ralph. The Richard and Ralph who appear on the Penobscot from 1787 are this pair.
2. **Richard of Frankfort's will, inventory and probate file** (1802-1803) were read in full: a trader and merchant with three quarters of a schooner named *Hope*, a store at the shore, 72 acres, lots in Goshen, and notes due from about thirty neighbors.
3. **Israel's will and estate** (1785): besides two tenements on Cross Street in Boston, he still owned half of a house in Beverly on the road from the ferry to Ellingwood's Point. "Capt." is on his Granary gravestone.
4. **Richard (1742/3)** was a cooper of Boston. He survived smallpox in 1764, was very probably the master of the letter-of-marque schooner *Cleora* in 1777, and died in 1784. Before this pass nothing was known of him after 1777.
5. **Susanna Rand** had married Emanuel Derevers in 1740 before she married Israel.
6. **Ralph Jr.'s will** (1741), from the image attached to his FamilySearch profile: his grandsons Israel and Ralph were to have the use of "the Barn & Well their father Builded"; his daughter Abigail was "Not Able to provide for her Self"; his daughter Return was by then Mrs. Wardwell.
7. **Elijah's family in Illinois:** in January 1875 Finley, aged 22, became guardian of his orphaned brother Ellsworth, aged ten.
8. **Finley's death** settled as 26 June 1920 at Pasadena; his daughter Laura died in November 1918.
9. **Cudge** (Richard Everett Sr.): Northwestern baseball captain 1917, YMCA war work in London, University of Wisconsin Extension 1922-1937, founder of Soft Water Service in Spokane; died in Dade County, Florida, 28 Feb 1985.
10. **The weakest steps now** are the two Indiana links, Richard (1790) to the Frankfort family and Elijah to Richard (1790). Both rest on a family Bible known only through a 1988 citation, on names and ages, and on census evidence. Both are rated Probable.
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## Part One: The people
### 1. Ralph Ellingwood I (c. 1607 - 1673/4)
**Vital facts**
- Born about 1607, England; place and parents unknown. Age 28 on 19 Sept 1635 [D]; "aged about three score years" on 29 Nov 1669 [D].
- Emigrated on the *Truelove*, London, master John Gibbs; register of 19 Sept 1635, "Ralph Ellwood 28" [D].
- Married (1) by 1637, Elizabeth, surname unknown [D/I]; (2) 14 Mar 1654/5, Salem, Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn [D].
- Died between 7 Jan 1673/4 (will) and 30 Jan 1673/4 (inventory of "the late deceased"), Beverly [D]. Grave not located; the Abbott Street (Ancient) Burying Ground was first used in 1671 [C].
**Parents.** Unknown. FamilySearch attaches "Herbert E Ellingwood (1562-1640)" and "Addie M Croft (1562-1638)" with no sources, and above them "Edmund H Ellingwood" and "Elizabeth Villers." **Disproven** as attached: no record names Ralph's English parish, and every serious search (Charles Banks; the College of Arms for the family in 1953; Leonard Ellinwood 1963) came up empty. Middle initials of this kind were not in use in sixteenth-century England. These persons should be detached on FamilySearch.
**Life**
- Single man on the *Truelove*, which sailed from London in September 1635 and reached Massachusetts Bay late that autumn. The register gives names and ages only. Do not confuse with the *Truelove* to Bermuda of June 1635.
- Salem land division of 1637: half an acre of marsh and meadow "for a family of two," so married by then [D, Salem town records; Perley I:256, 461].
- At the ferry field on the Cape Ann side (later Beverly) by April 1641, named in fence surveys "in the field next to ferry that leads to Ipswich" [C, O'Connor 1979]. Leonard Ellinwood doubted he ever lived in Salem proper.
- Home farm: "the ten akres which was formerly old Robert Moltons lot" on the point west of today's Ellingwood Court, Beverly. How he acquired it is undocumented; purchase from Robert Moulton (d. 1655) or his heirs is the likely route [I].
- Admitted to the Salem church 21 Mar 1647 [C]. "Goodwife Elwood" admitted 13 Aug 1648 was Elizabeth, not Eleanor, who married him only in 1655 [I].
- Sold one acre near the Ipswich ferry to Francis Skerry, 22 June 1653, eight days before the ferry keeping passed from Skerry to Richard Stackhouse [C, Perley via O'Connor; Essex Deeds 1:18 not yet seen].
- Never styled "Mr."; his wives were "Goodwife," the rank of a yeoman [C, Leonard Ellinwood's reading].
- In 1659/60 he contracted with the town to keep Sara Lambert, a pauper, for two years at £10. The town paid partly in land, granting "all the wast lande that is comon from the est side of his lott to the poynt and soe rounde before the riuer soe farr as his lande goeth with all marsh or Creeke thatch... Downe to a lowe water marke," and partly by order: "Beniamin Balch is ordered to pay 40s out of the towne rate to mr Curwin by the apoyntment of goodwife Elwood which is in full sattisfaction of the 10li" [D, Town Records of Salem vol. 2, 11th month 1659].
- Signed the Bass River petition of 1667 for a church of their own, spelling his name **Ellingwood** [C, O'Connor]. The Beverly church was gathered in 1667 with Rev. John Hale as pastor; Beverly was incorporated in 1668. Stone's lot map shows Ralph Ellenwood as lot 31, "the entire point" [C, Stone, History of Beverly (1843), p. 417].
- Will dated 7 Jan 1673/4, "being weecke in body but of a good memory," unsigned; witnesses Thomas and Ann Pickton. It made "helen my wife my lawfull executrix ... to make use of all my estate to bring up our Children in the feare of the lord," and gave son Ralph the double portion at 21 [D, EQC V:363-364; Essex Probate Records II:412-413].
- Inventory, Friday 30 Jan 1673/4, by John Massey (the ferry tavern keeper), Henry Skerry Sr. and Thomas Rootes: £352 12s 2d, including the farm, cattle, a canoe, four old Bibles, cider, salted mackerel, "1 barrell of a Gun, 3s." (a gun barrel without a gun), "6 Loads of haye," and "mony 3s." [D, EQC V:363-364]. Proved at the Salem court, June 1674; the probate copy is dated 3:5m:1674, which is 3 July 1674.
**Records and anecdotes (EQC unless noted)**
- 25 Oct 1638: trespass, Hollinworth v. Ellinwood (I:10).
- c. 1640-41: "Elizabeth Elwood" testifies in a fence-repair dispute, Luff v. Bennett and Roaps (I:28), probably the first wife.
- 28 Dec 1642: presented for absence from watch; "Not proved" (I:50).
- 27 June 1644: a jury of inquest on his servant, found dead; twelve jurors named, no verdict printed (I:71).
- Sept 1647: insufficient fences "next the corn field on Cape An side" (I:152).
- 11 July 1649: discharged on the general field; fined for a pound breach (I:180).
- 29 June 1653: "John Stoone, sr., John Stone, jr. and Nathaniell Stoone v. Ralf Elwood. Withdrawn" (I:285).
- June 1660: the Stackhouse slander case. "Ralph Elenwood testified that when he and his wife were together, Stackhouse called them rogue and baud, and it was witnessed by Tho. Tuck and Samll. Corning" (II:218). In the same file Mary Woodbury accused Stackhouse of calling her a "filthy, bobtail sow" and threatening to "stab her and stamp her as fine as the earth." Stackhouse kept the Salem-Beverly ferry, granted to him in 1653 "for the reliefe of his ffamillie."
- 28 Aug 1665: one of fifteen Cape Ann side field owners in an arbitration agreement with the same neighbors (VI:147).
- 29 Nov 1669: "Ralph Elingwood, aged about three score years, deposed that last spring he and his wife branded two steers upon the horns but now the mark was worn out" (IV:216). Eleanor deposed with him, "aged about thirty-three years."
- 21 Dec 1669: James Ellinwood, about 16, deposed that William Powell, a seafarer boarding with Thomas Rootes, had said that "if he came not again from the sea all that he had should be his" (Essex Probate Records II:178).
- 1 May 1673: writ of John Knights against John Smith and Ralph Ellinwood for carting away dung, Ralph's house and land posted as security (V:218).
**Spouses**
- **Elizabeth** (d. bef. Mar 1655). Seen three times: the 1637 "family of two," a 1641 court mention as "his wife Elizabeth" [C, O'Connor], and the 1648 church admission. Her surname is unknown. FS's "Elizabeth Tomkins" comes from the idea that Ralph married a *Truelove* shipmate (five Elizabeths were aboard); **Possible** only.
- **Ellen (Eleanor) Lynn** (c. 1636 - aft. June 1678). About 18 at her marriage to Ralph, about 48. Her parents are unknown (Henry and Sarah Lynn of Boston are a hypothesis, **Possible**); FS's "born Wiltshire" has no source. She directed where the town's payment for Sara Lambert went (1659/60), swore to the inventory in July 1674, and married William Basse alias Bath, fisherman, by June 1677, when "Martin Hall v. Wm. Bath and Elenor, his wife, relict of Ralph Ellenwood, deceased" ended with a verdict for the defendants (VI:288). Bath had been fined for drunkenness in the session that proved Ralph's will (V:363). On 24 June 1678 "Ellin, wife of Wm. Bath" testified that Goody Hoar offered her pease (VII:51), in the theft case against Rev. John Hale's servant that later fed Dorcas Hoar's witchcraft trial of 1692. Her death is unknown.
**Children and the open "first family."** Children of Eleanor are listed in the Family Tree file. Josiah (bapt. 1644) and James (b. c. 1652/3) look like Elizabeth's sons; neither is in the 1674 will, and neither has a later record found [D for the records; **Possible** for the parentage]. Sara, bapt. June 1666, parents unstated.
**Unsupported claims**
- "The Saxon": a FamilySearch commenter says Ralph's peers called him this, with no source; nothing in the court, town or church records uses it.
- Welsh origin: theory of a commenter (Scott Ellinwood) from a "Celtic" R1b Y-DNA result. Jordan's Y-haplogroup is R-L21, which is consistent with Scott's report at that coarse level; it does not test the origin. A Y-37 or Big Y comparison between two documented paternal-line descendants would test the line itself.
**Open questions:** English origin; Elizabeth's surname; the deed for the Moulton lot; Eleanor's parents and death.
**Sources:** Hotten, *Original Lists of Persons of Quality* (1874), pp. 131-132; NEHGR 14 (1860): 323; TNA E 157 (the original register). EQC vols. I, II, IV, V, VI, VII (salem.lib.virginia.edu). *Town Records of Salem* vols. 1-2. Perley, *History of Salem* vols. I-II. Stone, *History of Beverly* (1843). *Essex County Probate Records* II:178, 412-413. Essex County register, FS film 007009706 item 3, image 18; Salem fair copy, film 007011200 item 2, image 37. Leonard Ellinwood, *The Ellinwood (Ellenwood/Ellingwood) Family 1635-1963* (1963), pp. 1-10 [C]. Florence O'Connor, Ellingwood genealogy (1979), with the College of Arms letter of 29 Dec 1953 [C]. FS L4GJ-3XV.
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### 2. Ralph Ellingwood Jr. (Ralph II) (1656/7 - aft. 8 Apr 1741)
**Vital facts**
- Born 18 Mar 1656/7, Salem: "ther son Raulph born 18th March 57" (Essex county register) [D]. The nineteenth-century Salem fair copy has "13th," a copying error.
- Married (1) Katherine, surname unknown, before 1682; annulled June 1682 [D]. (2) 19 Aug 1691, Marblehead, Martha Rowlandson "of Beverly" [D, Marblehead VR II].
- Died after 8 Apr 1741 (his will) [D/C]. Alive and drawing his own Narragansett township right in the 1730s ("Ralph Elinwood ... (Alive) ... (By himself)," Bodge p. 423) [D].
**Link:** **Proven** (county register; father's will).
**Life**
- Aged 16 at his father's death; to have the double portion at 21.
- King Philip's War: served with his brother John in Capt. Joseph Gardner's company of Salem in the Narragansett expedition; the Great Swamp Fight, 19 Dec 1675 [C, Stone pp. 28-29; D, the 1730s Narragansett township grant list]. Gardner was shot through the head inside the fort.
- Worked for the Beverly miller Martin Hale (Hall). On 20 Mar 1676/7 the Beverly church "publikly rebuked & admonished" him, "a childe of ye Covenant in this Church ... for stealing meale at mill" [D, Records of the First Church in Beverly (1905)]. In June 1677 the court fined "Martin Hale (also, Hall), miller, of Beverly, and Ralph Ellenwood, his man, for taking too much toll" (EQC VI:316). The same session heard Hall's suit against Ralph's mother and stepfather.
- First marriage annulled, Salem court, June 1682: "Katheren Ellenwood, complaining of her husband Ralph Ellenwood's insufficiency, was given her apparel and what estate she brought with her, and court declared the marriage annulled." Her petition said "she was very young and would rather die than live with this man." Daniel Weld and Richard Knott, surgeon, examined him by order of the court; Weld had been surgeon to the Narragansett army. Mary Houghton deposed that one night in his house he said "he thought there were witches not far off" (EQC VIII:356-357), ten years before 1692.
- Second marriage 1691 to Martha Rowlandson; children 1692-1707 (see the Family Tree file). A daughter named Return was born 22 May 1692 and baptized 29 May, as the Salem panic gathered. The 1905 editors of the Beverly church records supplied "[Ellen]" as the mother in the 1692 and 1697 baptisms; the town record gives "Return, d. Ralph and Marthew." His brother John married Elizabeth Rowlison of Salisbury in 1684/5, also at Marblehead.
- No Ellingwood appears in the 1692 witchcraft trial records, although the family sat under Rev. John Hale, who testified against Dorcas Hoar and later wrote *A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft*.
- Outlived his son Ralph III by about twelve years.
**The will (1741)** [D, Essex Probate docket 12365; first page attached as a FamilySearch memory to L5DY-FMG; date per O'Connor and the Find a Grave contributor notes]. "I Ralph Elinwood of Beverly in the County of Essex in New England husbandman Being Weak & Infirm in Bodey." Its provisions:
- His personal estate, his common rights, and "a Small pece of Land I Now improve for a Garden & Adjoyns on my Son Ebenezer Elinwood's Land Extending Westerly to the Way that Leads down to the Water as the fence Now Stands" to be sold for debts, any overplus to be divided among his children, "my Son Ralph Elinwood's Children to have one Share."
- To "my daughter Abigael Elinwood the Improvement of one half of my Real Estate during her Naturall Life She Being Not Able to provide for her Self."
- "my Two Grandsons Israel Elinwood & Ralph Elinwood have the free Use & Improvement of the Barn & Well their father Builded on my Lands with Egress to & from the Same."
- One fifth of the real estate each to the children of his son Ralph, deceased; to son Ebenezer; to son Thomas; to daughter "Return Wardwell"; and to daughter "Martha Smith."
- Sons Ebenezer and Thomas with the two grandsons are named in the following clause (the second page, with the date and witnesses, is not in hand).
**Spouses**
- **Katherine** (surname unknown). Separated and boarding before the annulment: Mary Horton deposed that "Katherine lived in one room of the house in which deponent lived and that she was a civil woman" (EQC VIII:356-357).
- **Martha Rowlandson** (b. c. 1661-1666, Salisbury?). Probably daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and Dorothy Portland of Salisbury [C]. Her death is unrecorded (FS 1712 and WikiTree 1707 are unsourced); she is not mentioned in the 1741 will.
**Notable siblings**
- **John** (b. 1659), "of Bas river." His own petition of February 1700/1 says that "about ye yeare of Our Lord God 1676" he was "Imprest & sent to ye Eastward as a souldier," and at Wells "was sorely wounded in my right hand my fore finger being shott away & ye rest of my hand so greiuously shattered & Torn & bones broaken yt it hath been thereby rendred almost altogether vseless Euer since." He signed by mark. The General Court granted £5 and £3 a year for life, 11 Mar 1700/1 (*Acts and Resolves* VII:270-271, 657).
- **Benjamin** (1668-1731), "coaster of Beverly."
**Open questions:** Katherine's surname; Ralph Jr.'s exact death date and the second page of the will; Martha's parents and death; the original 1682 depositions (Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Rowley).
**Corrections to make on FamilySearch:** death "1728" to after 8 Apr 1741; the 1728/9 death belongs to his son (Madeline MacDonald, "Raised from the Dead: Ralph3 Ellingwood of Beverly, Massachusetts," *The Maine Genealogist*, Aug 1995; Madeline (Ellingwood) MacDonald and Gloria McGinley Picard, "When Birth Records Are Missing, What Then?", *The Maine Genealogist*, Nov 2000; neither seen, cited in FS notes) [C].
**Sources:** Essex county register (above); EQC VI:288, 316; VIII:356-357; *Records of the First Church in Beverly* (1905); Marblehead and Salisbury VRs; Bodge, *Soldiers in King Philip's War* (1906), pp. 164-190, 423; Stone (1843), pp. 28-29, 174; *Acts and Resolves of the Province* VII; Essex Probate docket 12365; FS L5DY-FMG. Full quotations in `ellingwood-ch2-research-v2.md`.
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### 3. Ralph Ellingwood III (1694 - 1728/9)
**Vital facts**
- Born 18 Apr 1694, Beverly: Beverly VR, "Elenwood, Ralph, s. Ralph and Martha, Apr. 18, 1694" [D]. The Essex county register enters "Ralph Ellenwood Son of Ralph Ellenwood & Martha his wife" as born "18 Aprill 169-," the last digit worn away (FS image group 007009706, image 341) [D]; the next entry is dated 23 April 1695, which is where the 1695 in the saved file name comes from.
- Married, intention 3 Feb 1711/2, Beverly, Sarah Woodbury [D].
- Died at sea, winter 1728/9, returning from Jamaica [C].
**Link:** **Proven**.
**Life**
- Married at seventeen. Eight children 1712-1726 (the Beverly register) and possibly a ninth, Eleanor (FS only).
- Built a barn and a well on his father's land (his father's will of 1741).
- "Wife of Ralph Ellenwood Jun'" received to full communion at Beverly, 20 Jan 1727/8 [D, Beverly church records].
- Lost at sea on the homeward run from Jamaica; the New England Weekly Journal of 13 Jan 1728/9 reported it [C, Find a Grave contributor notes for Ralph Ellenwood (1657); the paper not yet seen]. The Massachusetts-Jamaica trade carried fish, lumber and staves south and molasses, sugar and rum north.
- Died intestate. The widow administered as "Sarah Ellinwood alias Allen" after her intention with Zebulon Allen of Salem (31 May 1730). The estate waited until the children came of age; the division gave "Israel 2 shares, Ralph, Daniel, Esther, Abia, and Sarah West, 1 share each" [D, Beverly register margin]. Marginal note of 6 Dec 1743: "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster, for self & guardian of brother Daniel, a minor" (Daniel was 19, old enough to choose his own guardian, and chose his brother).
**Spouse:** **Sarah Woodbury** (b. 14 Dec 1690, Beverly), daughter of William Woodbury and Joanna Wheeler [C]. Remarried Zebulon Allen, 1730. Death disputed: Nov 1788 "aged 98" (FS) or 22 June 1776 (Find a Grave contributor).
**Notable siblings and children**
- His sister Return married a Wardwell; his sister Martha married a Smith (father's will).
- His son Daniel (b. 1724) died in London in 1747/8 per FS [C]; the family literature says of smallpox.
**Open questions:** the New England Weekly Journal notice and the name of the vessel; the Essex probate file of his estate (administration, the 1743 division, guardianship bond, release).
**Sources:** Essex county register, image 341; Beverly VR; Beverly compiled register, FS image group 004934217, image 138; Beverly church records (1905); FS 99LD-MJJ.
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### 4. Capt. Israel Ellingwood (1714 - 1785)
**Vital facts**
- Born 29 Sept 1714, Beverly; baptized 3 Oct 1714 [D].
- Married (1) 18 Mar 1741/2, Boston, by Rev. Thomas Foxcroft, Susanna Rand [D, RC 28 p. 244]; (2) intention 9 Nov 1752, Boston, Hannah Perkins [D, RC 30 p. 4].
- Died 14 Mar 1785, Boston; buried Granary Burying Ground: "Israel, Capt., Mar. 14, 1785, ae. 73 y." [D, Codman, *Gravestone Inscriptions ... Granary* (1918), p. 90]. The stated age does not fit a 1714 birth (he was 70).
**Link:** **Proven** (Beverly register; grandfather's will; 1743 division).
**Life**
- Fourteen when his father was lost at sea; his mother remarried the next year.
- By 1743 "Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster," a coastal mariner. "Mariner" in his deeds of 1745, 1758 and 1765, in the probate court in 1753, and in his will.
- 23 May 1745: bought from Henry Newhall for £200 "the Eastermost Moiety or half part of a certain messuage or Dwelling house and Land ... at the North End of Boston," fronting on Cross Street, twenty-two feet wide and sixty deep, with half the common entry [D, Suffolk Deeds, FS 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-7TTB].
- 8 June 1753: appointed by Judge Thomas Hutchinson guardian of his children for "such part & portion of Estate as accrued to him in right of his Grandfather Robert Rand late of Boston Joyner," Richard then "aged about 11 years" and Susannah "about nine" [D, Suffolk Probate, dockets 10462-10465].
- About Jan 1758: took a mortgage deed from Nicholas Gray, barber, and his wife Bathsheba on a square North End house and lot, thirty-nine feet each way, for £84 8s, redeemable by 3 June 1759 [D, Suffolk Deeds 1757-1760, FS 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-9N79].
- 30 Apr 1765: bought from his son "Richard Ellingwood of Boston ... Cooper" an undivided quarter of a North End house and land for £35 16s 8d; witnesses Adam Knox and Susanna Ellingwood [D, Suffolk Deeds 1764-1765, FS 3:1:3QS7-L9Z3-S4BB].
- "Capt." on his gravestone and on his wife Hannah's ("w. Capt. Israel"). No newspaper notice of his death found.
**The will and estate (1785)** [D, Suffolk Probate docket 18396; FS "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1785," images 78, 275, 383]
- "I Israel Ellingwood of Boston in the County of Suffolk Mariner being weak of Body but of sound disposing mind & memory." To his wife Hannah one third of his estate for life; the remainder, and all the residue, to "my beloved Children Richard Susanna Ralph & Sarah in equal shares" as tenants in common. The will is undated in the transcript read; it was made while Hannah was alive (she died 14 Dec 1784).
- Proved 19 Mar 1785 before Judge Oliver Wendell; administration to "Robert Hitchburne Executor."
- The Beverly property, appraised at Beverly 3 May 1785 by Josiah Batchelder Jr., Eleazer Giles and John Dyson: "one half a dwelling House and about twenty two poles of Land under and adjoyning to the same scituated in Beverly ... on the south side of the way that leads from the Ferry to Ellingwoods point and continues from said way to low water mark," and about half an acre on the north side of the way; £162 10s.
- The Boston property, appraised Dec 1785 by Jonathan Greenleaf, Samuel Turell and Jacob Cooper: "Two Tenements with the Land thereunto belonging near the head of Cross Street," £600; a quarter of a lot near Black Horse Lane, £30. The whole real estate, £792 10s, was judged able to "conveniently accomodate one of the Heirs."
- Half of a house on the road to Ellingwood's Point was still in the family's hands in 1785, 111 years after Ralph I's death.
**Spouses**
- **Susanna Rand** (b. 12 Feb 1715/6, Boston; bapt. same day, First Church), daughter of Robert Rand, joiner (1686-1752), and Susanna Cheever (1682-1748) [D/C, Rand Genealogy p. 20]. Her intention with "Jumanuel DeRivers" was marked "forbid," 10 Mar 1738/9 (RC 28 p. 230); the Rand Genealogy (1898, p. 21) adds "Forbid by Benjamin Lord." She then married "Emanuel Derevers," 5 Apr 1740, by Rev. Timothy Cutler of Christ Church (RC 28 p. 214) [D]. Derevers' fate is unknown; she was presumably his widow when she married Israel two years later [I]. She owned the covenant at First Church, 21 Nov 1742. She died by Nov 1752; the Granary list gives "Susanna, Mrs.," with a blank for the day and month, and "1751" [D]. FS's 18 Oct 1749 at Beverly has no source.
- **Hannah Perkins** (c. 1727 - 14 Dec 1784, aged 57, Granary) [D]. Owned the covenant at First Church, 25 May 1755, as "Hannah (second wife of Israel) Ellingwood."
**Notable children**
- **Susanna** married Robert Hitchborne, 16 July 1765 (by Rev. Charles Chauncy). He was a cooper of Ann Street (1789 directory), 1st lieutenant in Bromfield's Boston regiment (commissioned 25 Nov 1776), Israel's executor, and later of Hampden and Cape Jellison on the Penobscot, where he died in 1800 (estate probated Hancock County, 2 Nov 1801) [D/C]. WikiTree and DAR lineage records make his father Thomas Hitchborne a brother of Deborah Hitchborn, Paul Revere's mother, so he was very probably Revere's first cousin (**Probable**). His schooner *Susannah* was wrecked 18 Oct 1798 with two of his daughters aboard [C, Courier-Gazette, 7 Oct 2021]. He is a second Boston-Penobscot link in this family. Susanna died in Boston, 28 Nov 1807 [C].
- **Ralph** (1745-1786), buried at the Granary aged 40; administration 1786. A "Ralph Ellinwood" signed a receipt for the wages of James Ellinwood on the frigate *Hague* (Capt. John Manley) to 29 Feb 1783 (*Mass. Soldiers and Sailors* V:285); which Ralph is unknown.
- **Sarah** married John Pulling, 3 Jan 1771 (by Rev. Mather Byles). This is **not** Capt. John Pulling Jr. of the Old North lanterns: he married Annis Lee in 1768 and she died 11 Aug 1771 (Copp's Hill stones 291 and 1489); he married Sarah McBean of Hingham on 3 Jan 1773. The elder John Pulling died 18 Jan 1771. Sarah's husband is otherwise unidentified. A widow Sarah Pulling lived on Cross Street in 1789 and 1798 (will 1809, Suffolk docket 23446); whether she is Sarah Ellingwood is open.
- **Israel**, baptized 30 Oct 1748; no later record.
**Open questions:** the date of the will and its witnesses (next image after FS image 78); where his "Capt." came from (coasting master, militia, or a privateer command); Susanna's death; the 1785 division and who took the property.
**Sources:** Boston Births (RC 24) pp. 108, 245, 251, 256, 263; Boston Marriages 1700-1751 (RC 28) pp. 214, 230, 244 and 1752-1809 (RC 30) pp. 4, 60, 70, 300, 399; *Records of the First Church in Boston* (CSM 40) pp. 411-415, 440-441; Codman (1918) p. 90; Suffolk Deeds and Probate as cited; F. O. Rand, *Genealogy of the Rand Family* (1898) pp. 20-21; Leonard Ellinwood (1963) p. 24 [C]; FS KFTY-J25.
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### 5. Richard Ellingwood (1742/3 - 1784)
**Vital facts**
- Born 7 Jan 1742/3, Boston: "Richard Son of Israel and Susanna Ellinwood, Born 7 January 1742" (RC 24 p. 245) [D]. Baptized First Church, 16 Jan 1743 (a Sunday in 1742/3) [D].
- Married 5 Jan 1766, Boston, Sarah Slater (RC 30 p. 399, in the Trinity Church section) [D].
- Died by 5 Nov 1784, Boston [D].
**Link:** **Proven**.
**Life**
- Mother dead by the time he was about nine; father remarried 1752. In 1753 he and his sisters and brother received portions from their grandfather Robert Rand's estate.
- Feb 1764, during Boston's smallpox epidemic: "Information was given the Selectmen by Dr. Whetworth, that Mr. Richard Ellingwood and Mr. Thomas Raymond who lodge at Mr. Hitchburnes House had the Small Pox." They "absolutely refused leaving the House and going to the Hospital," until Mr. Lewis "prevailed on the Messrs. Ellingwood & Raymond to consent to a removal ... Mr. Williston as ordered attended with the Sedan, in which they were carried to the Hospital at New Boston" [D, Boston Selectmen's Minutes 1764-1768, RC 20 pp. 40-41]. He was lodging with the Hitchbornes a year before his sister married into that family. At the same meeting of 21 Feb 1764 the selectmen summoned "Mr. Reviere" and Mr. Flagg, who had been "seen to go in and out of their Houses, contrary to Orders as they are infected with the Small Pox"; Mr. Reviere "promised the Selectmen that he would not in future enter any one Appartment of his House." The selectmen's notice of 20 Feb lists the sick "at Mr. Deans and Mr. Revieres Familys in Fish Street." This is very probably Paul Revere, whose household had smallpox that winter [I, Probable].
- 30 Apr 1765: "Richard Ellingwood of Boston ... Cooper" sold his father his quarter of a North End house [D].
- 9 June 1777: the Council ordered "a Commission be Issued to the said Richd. Ellinwood as Commander of the Schoonr. Cleora as a Letter of Marque." Thomas Adams of Boston, owner, had petitioned that "the Schooner Called the Cleora, Richard Ellinwood Master, of the Burthen of About Sixty Tons, Armed with four Carriage & Eight Swivel Guns Navigated by fourteen Men, Loaded with Ailwives and Lumber, bound to the French West Indies," be commissioned, "as he intends said Schooner to be further Equipped in the West Indies; to Cruize Against the Enemies of the United States of America." Bond $5,000, "Richard Ellinwood, of Boston, principal; Thomas Adams and Wm Shattuck, sureties" [D, *Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution*, MHS Collections 77 (1927), p. 100 and the facsimile facing it; Mass. Archives 167:17; *Mass. Soldiers and Sailors* V:285]. No other Richard Ellingwood is found in Boston in these years, so the identification is **Probable**.
- 21 Aug 1782: "Mrs. Sarah Ellingwood approbated to retail in Cross Street" (RC 25 pp. 189, 192) [D]. Cross Street was where the family's houses stood; this is very probably his wife (**Probable**).
- 5 Nov 1784: "Sarah Ellingwood of Boston Widow, Admitted by the Judge Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Ellingwood late of Boston Cooper deceased," with Enoch James, blacksmith, and Asa Stoddard, bricklayer, as sureties. The inventory, taken the same day by Jacob Cooper and Samuel Cooper, lists a black walnut desk, a small looking glass, a mahogany table, six flag-bottom chairs, a tea table, an old maple table, a pine table, shovel and tongs, trammel, gridiron and spit, a dozen china plates, old bellows, an old chest of drawers, andirons, pots and kettle, a tea kettle, knives and forks, a flat iron, pewter, silver teaspoons, and a bed, bolster and pillows [D, Suffolk Probate, docket 18305, FS "Probate Records 1783-1784," image 522]. It is a small household estate with no real estate listed.
- He died at least four months before his father, so his father's will (proved March 1785) still named him; his share passed to his children, which is why the 1785 guardians were appointed for "Grandsons of Israel Ellingwood" [I].
**Spouse: Sarah Slater.** Parents not established. Boston candidates: James Slater and Elisabeth Odiorne (m. 5 Sept 1735); Claus Slater and Sarah Russell (m. 3 Jan 1739/40) [D for the marriages; the link to Sarah is not made]. Administered Richard's estate 5 Nov 1784 and married Isaac Downes two days later, 7 Nov 1784, by Rev. Samuel Stillman of the First Baptist Church (intention spelled "Alinwood") [D, RC 30 p. 77]. On 26 Jan 1790 "Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs" received a third of her son Joseph's estate and signed the administrator's account by mark ("Sarah Downs her mark") [D]. FS gives her death as 1796 in Massachusetts, without a source.
**Children** (no Boston birth or baptism records found for any of them)
- On 22 Nov 1785 Enoch James of Boston, blacksmith (one of the sureties on Richard's administration), was appointed guardian of all four boys, with Simeon Turner, housewright, and Thomas Lewis, wharfinger, as sureties [D, Suffolk Probate vol. 84, pp. 694-695, dockets 18559-18562; FS "Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1785," image 373]:
- "unto Richard Ellingwood a Minor above 14 years of age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston, deceased" (18561);
- "unto Ralph Ellingwood a minor above 14 years of age Grand Son of Israel Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18560);
- "unto William Ellingwood a minor above 14 years of age (now out of this State) Grandson of Israel Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18562);
- "unto Joseph Ellingwood a minor under 14 years of Age Son of Richard Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased" (18559).
- Joseph died by 19 Jan 1790, when Enoch James was made administrator of "Joseph Ellingwood late of said Boston deceased." The inventory of 22 Jan 1790 was cash only, £86 12s 4d (the machine transcript misreads the pound sign as a 1 or 2; the account confirms the figure). After charges of £16 16s 11d, including Enoch James's charge "as a Guardian," £69 15s 5d remained, distributed on 26 Jan 1790 "To Sarah, the wife of Isaac Downs, the Mother of said deceased ... one third ... To Richard Ellingwood, and Ralph Ellingwood, brothers of said Joseph, the sum of Twenty three pounds, five shillings, and one penny half penny each" [D, Suffolk Probate vol. 89, p. 71, docket 19424; FS "Probate Records 1789-1790," images 25, 39, 49]. Joseph's cash was presumably his share of his grandfather Israel's estate [I].
- William is not among Joseph's heirs in 1790, which suggests he had died [I]; "now out of this State" in 1785 suggests he was at sea or already on the Penobscot.
**Open questions:** Sarah Slater's parents and death; any births or baptisms of the children (Trinity Church, Christ Church, or the New Brick Church registers); the original *Cleora* papers (Mass. Archives V:117, 167); whether the Cleora returned; the 1785 division of Israel's estate.
**Sources:** RC 20 pp. 40-41; RC 24 p. 245; RC 25 pp. 189, 192; RC 30 pp. 77, 399; CSM 40 p. 411; Suffolk Probate dockets 10463, 18305, 18559-18562, 19424, read on FamilySearch; Suffolk Deeds 1764-1765; MHS Collections 77 p. 100; *Mass. Soldiers and Sailors* V:285; *Index to the Probate Records of the County of Suffolk* vol. 1, p. 358 (archive.org indextoprobatere01geor); Ruth Gray, *Maine Families in 1790* vol. 1 (1988), pp. 95-96 [C]; FS LCP4-P77.
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### 6. Richard Ellingwood (c. 1767 - 1802/3)
**Vital facts**
- Born about 1767, probably Boston [I]. He was over 14 on 22 Nov 1785 (so born by Nov 1771) and his parents married in Jan 1766. Named first in the 1790 distribution, perhaps as eldest [I].
- Married 24 Dec 1787, Orrington (then Lincoln County), Hope Holdershaw [D, Maine VRs, FS index Q21S-QNN1].
- Died between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803, Frankfort [D].
**Link:** **Proven** by the weight of evidence. The Boston guardianship and distribution records [D] establish Richard and Ralph as sons of Richard and Sarah. That they are the Richard and Ralph of Frankfort rests on: the matching pair of names and ages; Ralph's 1800 census entry at Frankfort, "from whence emigrated: Boston" [D]; the Frankfort Richard's children named Sarah, Susannah and Ralph; and the Hitchborne in-laws on the same stretch of the Penobscot [I]. Ruth Gray (1988) reached the same conclusion from the same Suffolk records [C]. The FamilySearch parent link was created in 2012 with no sources and should now carry the Suffolk citations.
**Life**
- A Boston boy of about 17 when his father died; under a guardian from Nov 1785.
- On the Penobscot by Dec 1787, when he married Hope Holdershaw at Orrington, across the river. The Bangor Historical Magazine's list of Hampden "settlers prior to 1784" (2:29, 1886) puts "Richard Ellenwood" on lot 1 and "Ralph Ellenwood" on lot 2 at the southern end of the river front, at Bald Hill Cove; the editor says the list was built from later plans and deeds, and the brothers were in Boston in 1785, so the "prior to 1784" is wrong for them [C/I].
- 1790 census, Frankfort: "Ellingwood, Richard," 2 white males 16 and over, 1 under 16, 1 female (*Heads of Families ... Maine*, p. 28) [D]. The second man is probably Ralph; the female is Hope; the boy is the infant Richard, born Feb 1790 [I]. No girl is in the household in 1790, though the 1800 census (below) has one aged 10-16. Gray's birth of about 1786 for Sally (from her age at death) would fall before her parents' marriage; FS's 2 Feb 1792 would not. Open [I]. Neighbors in the visitation order: Thomas Snow, John Holbrook, John Haldershaw, John Haldershaw Jr. [C, Bellis 2025].
- Gray describes him as a trader and merchant at Bald Hill Cove, Winterport, running a fishery, with a half share of a right of way to a salmon fishery at the cove (Lincoln Deeds 22:93; Hancock Deeds 4:509) [C].
- 5 Mar 1801: Massachusetts resolve on "the Petitions of Richard Ellingwood and Daniel Livermore ... praying to have the deficiency of their respective Lots made up to them." A surveyor was to "set off by meets & Bounds to the said Richd. Ellingwood forty five Acres of Land within the Town of Hampden of the unappropriated Lands therein instead of the forty five Acres Lying without the Town of Hampden as run out by Ephraim Ballard," and the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands to "give said Ellingwood a title to his hundred Acres" on payment of the settlers' price under the resolve of 26 Mar 1788 [D, *Acts and Resolves* 1800-01, Resolves ch. 132, pp. 213-214].
- 1800 census, Frankfort (George Halliburton's division, p. 119): "Rich'd Ellingwood," with 2 boys under 10, 1 boy 10-16, 1 man 26-45, 2 girls under 10, 1 girl 10-16, 2 women 26-45. In the column "From whence emigrated" his line carries a ditto beneath "Cape Cod" (written for Stephen Atwood), where his brother's reads "Boston" [D]. The ditto may be careless; Hope's family was from Cape Cod.
**The will, 11 Aug 1802** [D, Hancock County Probate docket 2056; FS film 004142074, image 1284]
> In the name of God Amen. Sensible that it is appointed to all men once to die, and believing it to be the duty of Parents to make by Will, some just and equitable distribution of that worldly Estate which God in his providence has bestowed upon them, I desire in his holy fear, to do this, by the following Instrument ... First That my Beloved Wife Hopey, have the use and improvement of all my Estate both real & personal, during the term, or time she shall remain my Widdow, And on the Event of her becoming the Wife of another man, That she take only one third part ... and the remaining two thirds ... to be equally divided between my Six Children hereafter named, to wit, Richard Ellingwood, John Ellingwood, Sarah Ellingwood, Ralph Ellingwood, Susannah Ellingwood, & Lucy Ellingwood. Finally I do constitute my beloved Wife Hopey Ellingwood, sole executrix ... at Frankfort, this Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & two.
Signed "Richard Ellingwood" (the filed paper is the probate copy, marked "(signed)" and "L.S."). Witnesses: Francis LeB. Goodwin, Timothy Lombard, Ralph Ellingwood.
**Probate and inventory** [D, same docket, images 1285-1290]
- Docket: "R. E. Frankfort Mercht. proved 2 May 1803."
- Warrant to appraise, 5 May 1803, to "Francis LeBaron Goodwin esq. Noah Downes yeoman & Joseph Wardwell merchant all of Frankfort," for the estate of "Richard Ellinwood late of Frankfort Merchant deceased"; Goodwin sworn at Castine, 10 May 1803; the other two at Frankfort, 24 May 1803. Francis LeBaron Goodwin had been surgeon's mate on the frigate *Warren*, destroyed in the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 (Jones, *History of Frankfort*, p. 7).
- "Inventory of all the real & Personal Estate of Richard Ellingwood late of Frankfort in the County of Hancock, Trader, Deceased," Frankfort, 24 May 1803. Store goods: 14 dozen earthen plates, small ware, 3 dozen Charlestown ware, 2 felt hats, 4 drawshaves, a scale beam, 12 lb of leaden weights, tin measures, a cooper's adze, 1½ bushels of salt, "Old Junk in lower Store," and "1 Store at the Shore" ($8). Buildings: 4 small buildings ($30), a barn ($80) and dwelling house ($900). House: a birch table and desk, six green chairs and six yellow, a looking glass and candlestand, crockery, window curtains, beds, a spinning wheel and clock reel, four silver teaspoons, pewter, candlesticks, bellows, knives and forks, an oval kitchen table, "Wearing apparrell" ($50). Farm: "72 Acres of Homestead Land" ($600), 3 cows, a horse, two three-year-old heifers, a hog and two pigs, 9 ewe sheep, "Old Salmon Nets & old casks" ($9), and "2 Sheep with Paul Downs on a lay for ½ Increase & Wool." Land: a lot in Goshen bought of Elisha Bolton (or Botton) and a lot in Goshen bought of John Carlton ($30 each). Shipping: "3/4ths of Schooner Hope," $1,500. Total **$3,588.44**.
- "A list of Notes of Hand in the hands of the Executrix": about thirty debtors, among them Joseph Wardwell ($600), Noah Downs ($400), Nehemiah Rich, Solomon Longson, Jno. Holdershaw Jr. ($93.72), John Holdershaw ($50), Joseph Holdershaw ($15), several Colsons, Littlefields and Sullivans; some marked "doubtfull." Total $2,063.77, with "Sundry accounts on day book & Ledger" $127.31, together $2,191.08.
- At a Court of Probate at Castine, November 1803, "Hope Ellenwood Executrix" swore to the inventory.
- The schooner's name was presumably for his wife [I].
**After his death.** Hope was appointed guardian of the children, with Ralph Ellingwood as surety: Richard and John as minors over 14, and Sarah, Ralph, Susannah and Lucy under 14 (Hancock Probate docket 305; dated 13 Nov 1804 by WikiTree, 1 June 1805 by Gray for Richard and John) [C]. Hope headed a household at Frankfort in 1810 [D].
**Spouse: Hope Holdershaw** (c. 1768 - aft. 18 July 1829), born on Cape Cod (Barnstable per FS, Eastham per WikiTree) [C]; daughter of John Holdershaw (Holder Shaw) and Sarah Cole [C, Gray]. Her father was a corporal in Capt. Solomon Higgins's Eastham company in 1775 and a sergeant in Capt. Samuel King's company at Hull in 1776; her brother John Jr. served with him [D, *Mass. Soldiers and Sailors* VII:44, VIII:115]. John Holdershaw was admitted to the First Church of Eastham (Orleans) 29 Mar 1773; his daughter Delilah was baptized there 26 Jan 1777 [D, Mayflower Descendant 15:13, 10:233]. The family moved to Frankfort, where John died before 7 May 1807; its members dropped "Holder" and were called Shaw. On 4 Nov 1807 Hope conveyed her rights in her father's estate (Hancock Deeds 23:286); she was living 18 July 1829 (Hancock Deeds 13:68) [C, Gray]. FS gives 18 July 1829 as her death date, which looks like the deed date.
**Brother: Ralph Ellingwood of Frankfort** (c. 1771 - 1857). Born 11 Jan 1770/1 per Gray [C]; a Boston minor over 14 in 1785 [D]. Married 19 July 1792 at Orrington, "Ralph Ellingwood of Frankfort, and Delilah Holdershaw of Frankfort" (Bangor Historical Magazine 1:109) [D], Hope's younger sister. Witnessed his brother's will and stood surety for the guardianship. In 1800, "from whence emigrated: Boston." On 1-4 Sept 1814 he served in Capt. Elisha Thayer's company, "raised at Frankfort. Service at Hampden. Company in battle at Hampden," alongside Francis L. B. Goodwin; a Joseph Ellingwood served in Capt. A. Weston's company [D, *Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ... 1812-14* (1913), pp. 216-217]. "Mr. Ralph Ellingwood, of Frankfort, who died in April, at the age of 81, had lived with his wife on the same farm, for sixty-four years" (Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; also The Flag of Our Union, 4 July 1857) [D]. His stone at Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport, reads 11 Apr 1859, aged 87y 3m [D]; Delilah died 19 Jan 1860, aged 84. Four of their sons settled at Ellingwood's Corner [C].
**Open questions:** when the brothers left Boston; the deeds behind the 1801 resolve and the Goshen lots; the guardianship papers in docket 305; any record of the schooner *Hope* (Penobscot customs registers are not online); John Ellingwood (b. c. 1789), the second son.
**Sources:** Hancock County Probate docket 2056 (FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290) and docket 305; *Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts* 1800-01, pp. 213-214; *Heads of Families at the First Census, 1790: Maine*, p. 28; 1800 census, Frankfort, Hancock Co., pp. 111, 119 (FS 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LR3 and 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LL1); 1810 census, Frankfort; Bangor Historical Magazine 1:109, 2:25-32; *Mass. Soldiers and Sailors* VII:44, VIII:115; *Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia ... 1812-14*, pp. 216-217; Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; Erasmus A. Jones, *History of the Town of Frankfort* (1897, written c. 1844); Ruth Gray, *Maine Families in 1790* vol. 1, pp. 95-96, vol. 3, pp. 140-141 [C]; WikiTree Ellingwood-421 and Ellingwood-447 [C]; FS KHXD-1D2, KCN9-CQZ, LHNK-JQ9.
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### 7. Richard Ellingwood (1790 - 1864)
**Vital facts**
- Born 2 Feb 1790 (family Bible, per Gray) or 9 Feb 1790 (FS, from "individual or family possessions"), Frankfort [C].
- Married 1809, Hannah Brown (Bible, per Gray) [C].
- Died 25 Mar 1864, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (Bible, per Gray; FS) [C].
**Link:** **Probable** (strong). He is the son Richard named first in the 1802 will [D]; the Bible owned by Finley's son Elliott Lee records an Indiana Richard born Feb 1790 who died in 1864 [C]; the Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 (1850 census) [D]; and he named a daughter Hope (b. 1813) [C]. Gray "believes" the Frankfort son is the man who went to Indiana. A record from Indiana naming his father or his Maine birthplace would make this Proven.
**Life**
- Twelve or thirteen when his father died; under his mother's guardianship from 1804/5.
- War of 1812: taken prisoner at Hampden, 3 Sept 1814 (Gray) [C]. The British force came up the Penobscot, anchored at Bald Hill Cove on the evening of 2 Sept, defeated the militia at Hampden on the 3rd, and occupied Hampden and Bangor (History of Penobscot County, 1882, p. 560; Jones, pp. 14-25) [C]. He is not on the 1814 militia rolls for Frankfort, where his uncle Ralph appears [D].
- Married Hannah Brown in 1809. FS gives Sept 1809 at Pownal, Cumberland County; no record has been found there or at Gorham. (The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's, with Moses B. Patten.)
- Children born in Maine 1812-1815 (Hannah, Hope S., Sylinda), then Sarah Brooks on 26 Mar 1817 in **New York** (FS), then the rest in Indiana from about 1819 [C].
- The move west, 1816-1819: Gray dates it "1816/7." A household of "Ellinwood, Richard" in the Cincinnati census of 1817 had three men, one woman and four girls under 12 (Dickoré 1960, p. 20) [D abstract], and the Cincinnati Directory of 1819 lists "Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter, n. Glass Factory" (p. 117) [D]. The four girls fit his daughters by 1817 (Hannah, Hope, Sylinda, Sarah) [I]. **Possible** that this is he. Dearborn County lies just down the Ohio from Cincinnati. In the fall of 1817 fifteen families from Cumberland County, Maine, went west together as "the great 'land fleet'" by Portland, Albany, the Mohawk, Olean, Pittsburgh and the Ohio to Lawrenceburgh, most settling on Green Brier Ridge, now Manchester (History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, 1885, p. 541) [C]. The Sylvesters, the family of Elijah's future mother-in-law, were among the first settlers of Manchester in 1818 (p. 555).
- 1820 census: Manchester Township, Dearborn County [D]. 1830 and 1840: Manchester [D].
- 1850 census, Clay Township, Dearborn County: "Raheal Ellenwood," 60, born Maine; Hannah, 64, born **Cape Cod**; Elizabeth A. Canady, 6, and John B. Canady, 4 [D]. These are the children of his daughter Harriet, who married Samuel M. Kennedy in 1842 and died in 1846 (History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, p. 792).
- 1860 census: Manchester Township, "Richd Ellingwood" and Hannah [D].
- No land patent, probate or grave found for him or Hannah.
**Spouse: Hannah Brown** (c. 1786 - 1871?). The 1850 census makes her born on Cape Cod about 1786. FS identifies her with Hannah Brown born 20 Jan 1786 at Gorham, daughter of Benjamin Brown and Sarah Phinney (McLellan, *History of Gorham* (1903), p. 415, which does not say whom that Hannah married). The Gorham Browns had land from "Geo. Brown, of Eastham," so a Cape Cod connection is not impossible, but the identification rests on the birth date alone: **Possible**. FS gives her death as 25 Mar 1871 at Manchester, the same day and month as Richard's, which needs checking.
**Open questions:** the 1809 marriage record; the Bible itself (Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena, 1929; whereabouts now unknown); the 1830 and 1840 census tallies (1820 read 10 Oct 2026); Dearborn County deeds and probate after 1864; graves in Manchester Township.
**Sources:** Ruth Gray (1988) vol. 1, pp. 95-96 [C]; Dickoré, *Census for Cincinnati, Ohio, 1817* (1960), p. 20; *The Cincinnati Directory* (1819), p. 117; *History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana* (1885), pp. 539-555, 792; 1820-1860 U.S. censuses (FS XHGN-HJ1, XHPY-TCS, XHBV-8BP, MHVL-MKK, M4FJ-J6W); McLellan, *History of Gorham, Me.* (1903), pp. 415, 714; FS LCP4-GVF, 24RF-N33.
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### 8. Elijah Ellingwood (1819 - 1872)
**Vital facts**
- Born 27 Nov 1819, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (from his gravestone, per FS) [C].
- Married 25 July 1841 (FS), Dearborn County, by R. Hargrave; the Indiana marriage index names the bride "Abigail Rice" [D, index XXTS-LQD].
- Died 25 Sept 1872, Kankakee, Illinois, aged 53; buried Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee [C, Find a Grave index QVKK-FFT6].
**Link:** **Probable** (strong). No record names his father. He was born in 1819 in Manchester, where Richard Ellingwood was living by 1820, and lived near him in 1850; the family Bible recording Richard (1790-1864) descended to Elijah's grandson [C/I].
**Life**
- Married at 21. Mary Abigail and Elijah Ellingwood were among the heirs of her father Rufus Rice of Dearborn County, whose estate was administered from spring 1846 by Samuel McMullen; the heirs were sued to foreclose a mortgage held by the estate of James Rotham [C, Lyons, *Dearborn County, Indiana Probate Order Book Abstracts* (2017), pp. 134, 138, 234].
- Children born at Manchester 1842-1852; three died young: Melville (1843-1849), Aurora (1845-1846), Jane (1847-1848) [C].
- 1850 census, Manchester: Elijah, 31; Mary A., 28, born Maine; Adaline, 8; Jane, 3 months [D].
- Moved to Illinois in 1857 (Finley's 1918 biography) [C].
- 1860 census, Momence, Kankakee County: Elijah, 40; Mary A., 38; Adaline, 18; Jane, 10; Nancy, 8; Finley, given as 4 [D].
- "E. Ellingwood" gave 50 cents to the Methodist church at Kankakee in 1863, 1864 and 1865, as did "Miss Adaline Ellingwood" in 1863 (Minutes of the Rock River Annual Conference) [D].
- 1870 census, Kankakee: Elijah, 49; Mary, 48; Jennie, 20; Mary, 14; Ellsworth, 7 [D].
- Finley's 1918 biography: "He began the study of medicine July 10, 1871. The sudden death of his father, a few months later, threw the entire support of the family" on Finley, his mother being an invalid. He worked as a carpenter, taught school, and from 1873 was deputy clerk of the County Court of Iroquois County; "in 1875, his mother having died, he was able to complete his medical studies" [C, contemporary]. The gravestone date (Sept 1872) is more than a year after July 1871; the two do not quite agree.
- 27 Jan 1875, Kankakee County Court: "comes Finley Ellingwood and represents to the court that Ellsworth Ellingwood ... is an orphan minor of the age of ten years, has no father living and is without a guardian in this State." The court found "that said Finley Ellingwood is the brother of said minor" and appointed him guardian of the person and estate, with James W. Kay, Adeline's husband, on his bond [D, Kankakee County Court Record, Jan Term 1875, pp. 624-625; FS 3:1:939K-YCSM-5M].
**Spouse: Mary Abigail Rice** (1822 - 1874). Born in Maine (censuses); FS says Pownal. Daughter of Rufus Rice (d. by 1846) and, per FS, Mary Sylvester [C]. Described as an invalid by 1871; dead by Jan 1875 [D/C].
**Notable children**
- Adeline (1842-1889) married James W. Kay of Watseka, as his second wife (Beckwith, *History of Iroquois County* (1880), p. 55).
- Ellsworth V. (1864-1918), Finley's ward; died at Pueblo, Colorado.
**Open questions:** Elijah's occupation; his estate (Kankakee probate 1872-1875); Mary Abigail's death and burial; the Rice and Sylvester families' Maine origins.
**Sources:** Indiana Marriages (FS XXTS-LQD); 1850-1870 censuses (FS MHV2-CCS, MXCC-XRS, M6WC-R8M); Kankakee County Court Record, Jan 1875; Rock River Conference Minutes 1863-1865; NEMA Quarterly X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; Lyons (2017) [C]; FS 9NH2-W5W, L7XP-GKB.
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### 9. Dr. Finley Ellingwood (1852 - 1920)
**Vital facts**
- Born 12 Sept 1852, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana (Who's Who in America, supplied by himself) [C]. FS's legacy source gives 30 Sept.
- Married 1 Sept 1880, Chicago, Jennie S. Elliott [C, Who's Who; D, Cook County marriage index N76S-DNT].
- Died **26 June 1920**, at his son's home in Pasadena, California [D, family death notice, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920; California Death Index, aged 67].
**Link:** **Proven** (1860 census; his own Who's Who entry; the 1875 guardianship).
**Life**
- To Illinois with his parents at four or five; boyhood at Kankakee.
- Carpenter from about 14 to 20; three months at an academy at 17; taught school for three years; deputy clerk of the County Court of Iroquois County 1873-1875, and offered the county treasurership if he would give up medicine (NEMA Quarterly, 1918 and 1920).
- Bennett Medical College, Chicago (eclectic), entered 1 Sept 1875, M.D. 23 Mar 1878. Practiced at Braidwood, a mining town, 1876-77 between terms; at Manteno, Kankakee County, 1 Apr 1878 to June 1884.
- From 1884 professor of chemistry at Bennett (to 1900), then of materia medica and therapeutics (1900-1907); thirteen years lecturer at the Chicago Veterinary College.
- Editor of the *Chicago Medical Times* 1884-1906 (sole control from 1887); founder of the *Annual of Eclectic Medicine* (1889-91); founder and editor of *Ellingwood's Therapeutist* (1906/7), 32 N. State Street, Chicago.
- Secretary of the National Eclectic Medical Association 1902/3-1907; president, presiding at the 49th session in Chicago, June 1919; first vice-president of the World's Eclectic Medical Congress, 1903; president of the Illinois eclectic society three or four times; on the committee that framed the revised Illinois medical bill of 1886.
- Books: *Synopsis of Medical Chemistry* (1889); *Manual of Urinalysis* (1891); *A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics* (1898; eight editions); *Manual of the Eclectic Treatment of Disease* (1906-07); *Eclectic Practice of Medicine* (1910); *Pregnancy and Labor* (1909 or 1912); *American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy* (1915, 1919), still read by herbalists.
- Residences: Manteno 1878-84; Chicago 1884-92; Evanston from 1892, at 2209 Central Street.
- Methodist; Sunday school superintendent "almost every year since the age of twenty"; I.O.O.F., Ancient Order of Foresters, Modern Woodmen; treasurer of the American Home-finding Association.
- Politics: "Republican" in Who's Who to 1917, "Democrat" in 1920-21. The 1918 biography explains: "He has always been a Republican in politics, but at present, with three sons in the Government service, he is a staunch advocate of President Wilson (for whom he voted at the past election) and his policies."
- 1916: "suffering from a serious condition with his eyes; the sight of one is probably lost" (NEMA Quarterly, June 1916).
- 1920: went to Pasadena in May to visit his sons "in the hope of regaining his health"; a patient at the Westlake Hospital, Los Angeles; at his own request moved to his son's home in Pasadena, where he died of Bright's disease (California Eclectic Medical Journal, May-Aug 1920). Cremated; the ashes taken to Evanston; private burial at Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, 17 July 1920; memorial service at Covenant Methodist Church, Evanston, 18 July (Chicago Tribune, 16 July 1920) [D].
**Records and quotations (public domain)**
- His character, from the NEMA Quarterly obituary editorial (Sept 1920): "Dr. Ellingwood was tall and slender, growing heavier in later years, and had the bearing of a scholar and man of affairs." As a speaker he was "impulsive, earnest, and always enthusiastic." "Dr. Ellingwood was a Methodist and gloried in the fact." "A lover of music, he arranged and conducted many musical entertainments ... In his own family he maintained a musical orchestra." The same editorial calls him "An omnivorous gatherer of 'facts.'"
- The family death notice (Chicago Tribune, 29 June 1920): "ELLINGWOOD, Finley Ellingwood, M. D., 2209 Central-st., Evanston, Ill., husband of Jennie S., née Elliott, father of Mrs. M. G. Larsen [Elma J.], E. L., Finley F., R. E., and Lloyd Ellingwood, at Pasadena, Cal., on June 26."
- His 1919 presidential address defined eclecticism as the school "which includes within its curriculum all of those teachings in this field which are accepted and included by all schools," and declared "we have faith, positive and certain, that nature has prepared, itself, remedies for the cure of disease." Of the germ theory: "There is much truth in the germ theory, but it is yet so fully in its infancy" (NEMA Quarterly XI, pp. 23-26).
- His 1918 biography on his ancestry: "His parents were of Puritan stock, and their ancestors can be traced in unbroken lines back to the early days of New England history."
- Unverified: the claim (Wikipedia; SWSBM) that he advocated for women physicians. Nothing in his own writing found so far says so.
**Spouse: Jennie S. Elliott** (1857-1929), born at Saratoga, New York (son's birth certificate) [D]; "also of New England ancestry" (1918). FS names her Sibelia Jane; no record found uses "Sibelia." Daughter of Charles Franklin Elliot (1829-1896) and Susan Marriah Adams (1837-1926) [C, family research]. She visited "her two sons who live in Pasadena" in 1912.
**Children:** seven, two daughters and five sons, one son dying in infancy (NEMA Quarterly, 1918). Laura Abigail (Mrs. A. A. Cother, of Austin, Texas, in 1918) died in Chicago on 21 Nov 1918, aged 35 [D, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, indexed as "Lucy A. Cother," born 8 Jan 1883, father Finley Ellingwood], which is why the 1920 notice names five. Elliott Lee (1884-1942), mechanical engineer in Los Angeles, owned the Richard Ellingwood Bible in 1929. Finley Fitch (1890-1975), chemist and mineralogist. Lloyd (1896-1975), ensign USN, Northwestern football halfback "Gog." Elma Jane (b. 1881), Mrs. M. G. Larsen.
**Open questions:** the Ellingwood's Therapeutist obituary (Lloyd Library, Cincinnati); Find a Grave memorial (FS index 668P-7VDW) and the Memorial Park lot; whether the family Bible survives among Elliott Lee's or Finley Fitch's descendants.
**Sources:** Who's Who in America vols. 7-11 (1912-1921); NEMA Quarterly X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; XI (1919), pp. 23-26; XII no. 1 (Sept 1920), pp. 434-436; California Eclectic Medical Journal 1912, 1920; Chicago Daily Tribune, 29 June, 30 June, 16 July 1920; JAMA 75(2):121 (10 July 1920, with the wrong date); Kelly and Burrage, *Dictionary of American Medical Biography* (1928), pp. 372-373 [C]; Leonard Ellinwood (1963), p. 382 [C]; 1860, 1880, 1900-1920 censuses; Cook County birth and death records; FS MZ1V-429.
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### 10. Richard Everett "Cudge" Ellingwood Sr. (1895 - 1985)
**Vital facts**
- Born 14 Feb 1895, Evanston, Illinois [D, Cook County birth certificate, a delayed registration filed 23 Nov 1955, naming Finley Ellingwood born at Manchester, Indiana, and Jennie S. Elliott born at Saratoga, New York].
- Married 26 July 1921, Spokane, Ruth Ethelwyn Short [D, marriage certificate; FS also carries 24 July].
- Died 28 Feb 1985, Dade County, Florida, aged 90 [D, Florida Death Index VVWH-BQR]. Burial at Spokane per FS [C].
**Link:** **Proven**.
**Life**
- 1900 and 1910 censuses in his father's household at Evanston [D].
- Northwestern University 1913-1917; B.S. June 1917, listed in the commencement program as away "In War Work of the International Y. M. C. A. in Europe" [D]. Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Deru; freshman and varsity basketball; varsity baseball 1916-17, **captain 1917** (SAE General Catalogue, 1918, p. 152) [D]. "Ellingwood, center fielder, starred for Northwestern, being credited with both runs" (Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr 1916); "Capt. Richard Ellingwood '17 on first base" (Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr 1917) [D].
- WWI: passport application 1917, aged 22; draft registration, Cook County; YMCA service card: residence Evanston, "Student, Special Eddy Party," Methodist, single (the "Eddy party" was presumably the YMCA group of Sherwood Eddy [I]); arrived back at Ellis Island 19 Mar 1918 [D, FS indexes]; by 1918 the YMCA's Army secretary at 45 Bedford Square, London [D, SAE catalogue]. His father's 1918 biography gives him as "Co. C, 14th Regiment, Regular Army Corps, U. S. A." [C]. Second lieutenant, Infantry, Officers' Reserve Corps, 1919 [D].
- 1920-21: Evanston directory, "com trav" (commercial traveler), and keeper of a shop at 1815 Central Street selling confectionery, toilet articles, sporting goods, cigars, stationery, ice cream and cameras [D]. Instructor and efficiency adviser for the Robert B. Schreffler Store Efficiency Co., Chicago [D, Appleton Post-Crescent, 16 Jan 1922].
- Married Ruth Short at Spokane in 1921.
- University of Wisconsin Extension Division, 1922-1937: in 1922 taught retail selling one evening a week at five vocational schools (Appleton, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah, Green Bay); instructor in business administration Oct 1922; assistant professor June 1924; assistant dean of the Extension Division by 1926 (an office created for him per Rosentreter, 1957); "R. E. Ellingwood, M.S., Assistant Professor of Business Administration" at the Milwaukee Extension Center 1931-33 [D/C]. Business Week, Oct 1932, on his retail clinics: he "will diagnose the ailing" stores.
- 1930 and 1935 at Madison [D]. Five children born at Madison 1923-1929.
- 1937: moved to Spokane and founded Soft Water Service Co., a Culligan franchise, 913 W. Bridge Avenue [C/D]. 1940 census, Spokane [D]; 1942 WWII draft registration, Spokane [D].
- President of the Rotary Club of Spokane, 1951 (The Rotarian, Apr 1951) [D].
- In 1952-1954 the Spokane YMCA ran "'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood, Priest Lake, Idaho, Wilderness and Adventure Camping for Active High School Youth" (Spokane high school yearbook advertisements) [D].
- Retired 1963, when his son became president of the company [C].
**Spouse: Ruth Ethelwyn Short** (13 Jan 1893, Woodstock, Ontario - 13 Feb 1974, Spokane). Daughter of John Gerald Short, organ manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo; first cousin of Duff Pattullo, Premier of British Columbia. See the Short and Pattullo notes.
**Open questions:** his M.S. (where and when); the 1921 marriage record image; where in Florida and why (Dade County, 1985); his burial; an obituary.
**Sources:** Cook County birth certificate (FS Q23S-9JZ1); 1900-1950 censuses; WWI and WWII draft registrations; passport application 1917; YMCA WWI service card (Q2BX-8H14); Ellis Island arrival (JJ8Z-G24); Northwestern catalogues and 1917 commencement program; SAE General Catalogue (1918), p. 152; Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps (1919); Evanston directories 1914-15, 1920-21; Wisconsin newspapers 1922-1932; The Rotarian, Apr 1951; Spokane yearbooks 1952-1954; Florida Death Index; FS KH24-8ZK.
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### 11. Richard Everett "Dick" Ellingwood Jr. (1929 - 2019)
**Vital facts**
- Born 14 Nov 1929, Madison, Wisconsin (obituary; FS) [C]. Family notes give 13 Nov.
- Married (1) March 1955, Frances Fairchild Holbrook (19 Mar per Who's Who in the West; 26 Mar, Seattle, per family notes); divorced April 1983. (2) Sept 1987, Linda.
- Died 24 Apr 2019, aged 89 [C, obituary]. Place: Glendale, Maricopa County (FS) or Wickenburg (family notes); the obituary does not say.
**Link:** **Proven**.
**Life** (from his obituary, Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019, paraphrased, and census and yearbook records)
- Moved with his family from Madison to Spokane in 1937. Irving grade school; Lewis and Clark High School (yearbooks 1943, 1946, 1947). Censuses: 1930 and 1935 Madison, 1940 and 1950 Spokane [D].
- Army radio communications specialist; discharged 1951.
- B.S. in Business Administration, University of Washington, where he met Frances Holbrook.
- President of Soft Water Service Co. from 1963. A 1964 government booklet on plant tours for foreign visitors gives "Contact Dick Ellingwood" for the Spokane plant.
- Rotary from 1956; president of the Rotary Club of Spokane 1971-72; Paul Harris Fellow; Fred K. Jones Award. YMCA Red Triangle Award. Boards including the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, Washington Mutual and the Water Conditioning Dealers Association. Campaign chairman for State Representative Dick Bond. Friends called him "Civic Leader #1."
- After selling the business he and Linda moved to Wickenburg, Arizona.
- Survivors named in the obituary include his children Kit, Brook and John, stepchildren Samantha and Stacey, twelve grandchildren (among them Jordan, Ross and Lauren), and his sisters Ruth Dorman and Joyce Lee; his sisters Mary Smith and Janet Belmondo had died before him.
**Spouse: Frances Fairchild Holbrook** (b. 26 July 1931, Tacoma), daughter of Richard Clifford Holbrook and Lucille McMillan. See `Holbrook-Master-Family-Tree.md` and the Grandmommie notes.
**Open questions:** place of death; the 1955 marriage date.
**Sources:** Obituary, Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019 (transcribed at obits.arizonagravestones.org, id 89018); Who's Who in the West, 22nd ed. [C]; 1930-1950 censuses; Lewis and Clark High School yearbooks; FS L2SS-LDB.
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### 12. John Ellingwood (living) and 13. Jordan Ellingwood (b. 1989)
John, youngest child of Dick and Frances; married Lynn Margaret Dwyer; children Jordan, Ross and Lauren. Jordan's Y-DNA haplogroup is R-L21 (23andMe).
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## Part Two: Sources
Grouped by kind. **[D]** primary records and published transcripts or abstracts of them; **[C]** compiled works. "Read" means the record or page image was examined in this research; "cited" means it is known only through another work.
### Original records read on FamilySearch [D]
- **Essex County register of vital returns, 1658-1701.** FS image group 007009706, item 3: image 18 (Ralph I and Ellen Lyn's marriage and children); image 341 (birth of Ralph III, 18 Apr 1694). Read.
- **Salem fair copy of births, marriages and deaths, 1658-1700.** FS film 007011200, item 2, image 37, with index images 98-99. Read.
- **Beverly compiled register,** "The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood." FS image group 004934217, image 138 (ark 3:1:33SQ-GRSJ-JT). Read.
- **Will of Ralph Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman, 1741.** Essex Probate docket 12365. First page only, attached as a memory to FS L5DY-FMG. Read.
- **Suffolk County Probate Records** ("Suffolk, Massachusetts, Probate Records"), read through FamilySearch full-text search:
- 1753-1754, image 88 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-QWVH): guardianships of Richard and Susannah, children of Israel, 8 June 1753 (dockets 10463, 10465).
- 1783-1784, image 522 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-73TB): administration and inventory, Richard Ellingwood, cooper, 5 Nov 1784 (docket 18305).
- 1785, image 78 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-999P-G): probate and will of Israel Ellingwood, 19 Mar 1785 (docket 18396).
- 1785, image 275 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-999Z-R): inventory of Israel's Beverly property, 3 May 1785.
- 1785, image 373 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9993-R): guardianships of Ralph, William, Joseph and Richard, 22 Nov 1785 (vol. 84, pp. 694-695; dockets 18559-18562).
- 1785, image 383 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-9993-8): warrant to divide and appraisal of Israel's real estate, Dec 1785.
- 1789-1790, image 25 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WFSZ): administration bond, Joseph Ellingwood, 19 Jan 1790.
- 1789-1790, image 39 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WX1M): inventory of Joseph Ellingwood, 22 Jan 1790.
- 1789-1790, image 49 (3:1:3Q9M-C9YR-WXYK): account and decree of distribution, Joseph Ellingwood, 26 Jan 1790 (vol. 89, p. 71; docket 19424).
- **Suffolk County Deeds,** read through full-text search: Henry Newhall to Israel Ellingwood, 23 May 1745 (1744-1745, image 413, 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-7TTB); Nicholas and Bathsheba Gray to Israel Ellingwood, c. 1758 (1757-1760, image 70, 3:1:3QS7-99Z3-9N79); Richard Ellingwood, cooper, to Israel Ellingwood, 30 Apr 1765 (1764-1765, image 729, 3:1:3QS7-L9Z3-S4BB).
- **Hancock County, Maine, probate estate files,** docket 2056, Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort: will 11 Aug 1802; docket "proved 2 May 1803"; warrant to appraise 5 May 1803; oaths 10 and 24 May 1803; inventory 24 May 1803; list of notes; probate court, Castine, Nov 1803. FS film 004142074, images 1284-1290 (3:1:S3HT-67FS-HBZ, -6FM, -HCK, -89Q, -CSZ, -HDZ, -QH3, -63B). Read.
- **U.S. census, 1800,** Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine, George Halliburton's division, pp. 111 and 119 (3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LR3; 3:1:33S7-9R8K-9LL1). Read.
- **Kankakee County, Illinois, County Court Record,** January Term 1875, pp. 624-625: guardianship of Ellsworth Ellingwood (3:1:939K-YCSM-5M). Read.
- **Indexed records on FamilySearch** (index entries read, images not): Maine Vital Records (marriages of 1787 and 1792); Indiana Marriages (Elijah, 1841); U.S. censuses 1790-1950; Cook County birth certificates; Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths (Lucy A. Cother, 1918); California Death Index 1905-1939 (Finley); Florida Death Index (Richard Everett, 1985); WWI and WWII draft registrations; U.S. Passport Applications (1917); YMCA WWI service cards; Ellis Island arrivals (1918); Washington County Marriages (1921); Find a Grave index entries.
### Printed primary records [D]
- *Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts*, 9 vols. (Essex Institute, 1911-1921). salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex. Vols. I:10, 28, 50, 71, 152, 180, 285; II:218; IV:216; V:218, 222, 258, 266-267, 363-364; VI:147, 288, 316, 401; VII:43-55, 181-183; VIII:206, 356-357; IX:365, 367.
- *Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts*, vol. II (1917), pp. 178, 412-413.
- *Town Records of Salem*, vols. 1 (1634-1659) and 2 (1659-1680).
- *Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772* (1905).
- *Vital Records of Beverly, Salem, Marblehead and Salisbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849* (Essex Institute).
- Hotten, *The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... 1600-1700* (1874), pp. 131-132; NEHGR 14 (1860): 323 (the *Truelove* register).
- *Acts and Resolves ... of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay*, vol. VII (Resolves), 1700-1701 ch. 78, pp. 270-271, 657 (John Ellingwood's pension).
- Boston Record Commissioners' Reports: vol. 20, *Selectmen's Minutes 1764-1768*, pp. 40-41; vol. 24, *Boston Births 1700-1800*, pp. 108, 245, 251, 256, 263; vol. 25, *Selectmen's Minutes 1776-1786*, pp. 189, 192; vol. 28, *Boston Marriages 1700-1751*, pp. 193, 212, 214, 230, 244; vol. 30, *Boston Marriages 1752-1809*, pp. 4, 60, 70, 77, 300, 399. archive.org: reportofrecordco2017bost, bostonbirthsfrom24bost, reportofrecordco25bost, reportofrecordco29bost, volumeofrecordsr1903bost.
- *Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1868*, Colonial Society of Massachusetts *Publications* vol. 40, pp. 411-415, 440-441.
- *Index to the Probate Records of the County of Suffolk*, vol. 1 (1895), "Ellenwood, etc." archive.org: indextoprobatere01geor.
- Codman, *Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston* (1918), p. 90. archive.org: gravestonegranar00codm.
- Whitmore, *The Graveyards of Boston: Copp's Hill Epitaphs* (1878), nos. 291, 428, 1489.
- G. W. Allen, *Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution*, Massachusetts Historical Society *Collections* vol. 77 (1927), p. 100 and facsimile facing it. archive.org: massachusettshis77mass.
- *Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War*, vols. 5 (p. 285), 7 (p. 44) and 8 (p. 115).
- *Heads of Families at the First Census ... 1790: Maine* (1908), pp. 27-28. archive.org: headsoffamiliesa01unit.
- *Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts*, 1800-01, Resolves, ch. 132, pp. 213-214. archive.org: actsresolvespass180001mass.
- *Records of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Called Out ... War of 1812-14* (1913), pp. 216-217.
- *Bangor Historical Magazine*, vol. 1, p. 109 (Orrington marriages); vol. 2, pp. 25-32 ("Town of Hampden").
- *Mayflower Descendant* 10:166, 231, 233; 15:13, 15 (Orleans, formerly Eastham, church records).
- *The Cincinnati Directory* (1819), p. 117.
- Maine Farmer, 18 June 1857; The Flag of Our Union, 4 July 1857 (Ralph of Frankfort).
- Minutes of the Rock River Annual Conference of the M. E. Church, 1863-1865.
- *Who's Who in America*, vols. 7 (1912-13), 9 (1916-17, p. 746), 11 (1920-21, p. 868).
- *National Eclectic Medical Association Quarterly*, X no. 1 (Sept 1918), pp. 1-3; XI (1919), pp. 23-26; XII no. 1 (Sept 1920), pp. 434-436. archive.org: nationalecle10cinc, -11cinc, -12cinc.
- California Eclectic Medical Journal, Nov 1912; May, June, Aug 1920.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, 21 Apr 1916; 29 June, 30 June and 16 July 1920. JAMA 75(2):121 (10 July 1920).
- Northwestern University catalogues 1913-1916 and 1917 commencement program; *General Catalogue of Sigma Alpha Epsilon* (1918), p. 152; Official List of Officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps (1919); Evanston directories 1914-15, 1920-21; Chicago Blue Book 1911-1912.
- Appleton Post-Crescent, 16 Jan 1922 and 18 Nov 1926; Madison Capital Times, 2 Oct 1922 and 6 June 1924; Wisconsin Journal of Education, Apr 1922; Business Week, Oct 1932; The Rotarian, Apr 1951; Spokane high school yearbooks 1952-1954.
- Obituary of Richard E. Ellingwood Jr., Spokesman-Review, 28 Apr 2019 (paraphrased only).
### Compiled works [C]
- **Leonard Ellinwood**, *The Ellinwood (Ellenwood/Ellingwood) Family, 1635-1963* (Washington, 1963). archive.org: ellinwoodellenwo00elli. Generations one to four of our line are on pp. 1-24; it misplaces Israel as a son of Ralph Jr.; Finley and the Frankfort Ellingwoods are in the appendix of unconnected individuals (pp. 382, 386, 390). In copyright; paraphrase.
- **Florence O'Connor**, Ellingwood genealogy (1979), FamilySearch scan; includes the College of Arms letter of 1953. In copyright.
- **Ruth Gray**, *Maine Families in 1790*, vol. 1 (Picton Press, 1988), pp. 95-96 (Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort), and vol. 3 (1988), pp. 140-141 (John Holdershaw/Shaw). archive.org (restricted): mainefamiliesin101ruth, mainefamiliesin103ruth. Read only through search snippets; the full entries are needed.
- **Madeline MacDonald**, "Raised from the Dead: Ralph3 Ellingwood of Beverly, Massachusetts," *The Maine Genealogist*, Aug 1995 (probably vol. 17 no. 3). Not seen.
- **Madeline (Ellingwood) MacDonald and Gloria McGinley Picard**, "When Birth Records Are Missing, What Then?", *The Maine Genealogist*, Nov 2000 (probably vol. 22 no. 4). Not seen. Cited in FS notes as untangling the Ralph Jr. and Ralph III generations.
- **Madeline E. MacDonald**, *Ellingwood Corner Cemetery, Winterport* (1988), Digital Maine.
- Stone, *History of Beverly* (1843). Perley, *History of Salem*, 3 vols. (1924-1928). Bodge, *Soldiers in King Philip's War* (3rd ed. 1906).
- F. O. Rand, *A Genealogy of the Rand Family* (1898), pp. 20-21. archive.org: genealogyofrandf00rand.
- Erasmus A. Jones, *History of the Town of Frankfort* (Winterport, 1897; written c. 1844). archive.org: historyoftownoff00jone.
- *History of Penobscot County, Maine* (1882), pp. 376, 560.
- *History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana* (1885), pp. 537-555, 792. archive.org: historyofdearbor00chic.
- Marie Dickoré, *Census for Cincinnati, Ohio, 1817* (1960), p. 20.
- H. D. McLellan, *History of Gorham, Me.* (1903), pp. 415, 714.
- Tina Lyons, *Dearborn County, Indiana Probate Order Book Abstracts* (2017).
- H. W. Beckwith, *History of Iroquois County* (1880), p. 55.
- Kelly and Burrage, *Dictionary of American Medical Biography* (1928), pp. 372-373.
- Rosentreter, *The Boundaries of the Campus* (1957), p. 140.
- Bellis, *The 1790 Census of Hancock County* (2025).
- WikiTree profiles Ellingwood-1, -2, -421, -434, -435, -446, -447; Holdershaw-16; Hichborn-30.
- FamilySearch Family Tree (IDs in the Family Tree file).
- Find a Grave contributor notes for Ralph Ellenwood (1657), citing the 1741 will and the New England Weekly Journal of 13 Jan 1728/9.
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## Part Three: Research log
**4 October 2026.**
- FamilySearch Family Tree read through its API for every direct ancestor: facts, sources, notes, change histories and relationship sources. The Richard (1742) to Richard (1767) link was created in 2012 by FamilySearch's own migration, with no sources. The Ralph I parent link has no sources.
- FamilySearch full-text search used for "Ellingwood guardian," "Ellingwood Frankfort," "Joseph Ellingwood Boston," "Ellingwood Enoch James," "Israel Ellingwood." This found the Suffolk probate and deed entries above. Hancock County deeds 1800-1830 and Waldo County deeds and probate came up for "Ellingwood Frankfort" and were not yet read.
- Hancock County probate file 2056 read image by image.
- Internet Archive texts searched: Leonard Ellinwood (1963); Boston Births; Boston Marriages; Selectmen's Minutes; Suffolk probate index; Granary inscriptions; Massachusetts Privateers; Mass. Soldiers and Sailors; Rand Genealogy; Heads of Families 1790 Maine; Acts and Resolves 1800-01; Bangor Historical Magazine; Jones's Frankfort; Penobscot County history; Dearborn County histories; Dickoré; Cincinnati Directory 1819; Gorham history; NEMA Quarterly; Who's Who; Northwestern and SAE catalogues.
**10 October 2026.** Thirty-two record images downloaded from FamilySearch by Jordan (inbox "Transcript (11)-(43)"), read and filed as sources and Gallery pictures, and checked against the people pages:
- Essex County register, image group 007009706, images 217 (Ralph I and Ellen's marriage, 14 March 1655, and their children) and 341 (Ralph III, "borne 18 April 169[4]"). Beverly town records, 004029870: baptisms 1696-1715 (images 84, 85, 90), births 1688-1711 (images 127, 371) and the 1665-1725 volume (286). Beverly compiled register, 004934217, images 135 and 138. New: **Ebenezer, son of Ralph II and Martha, born 29 Aug 1697** (town births); **Abigail, 22 Jan 1695/6**, baptized 14 June 1696; Ralph III baptized 22 Apr 1694; Benjamin and Mary's eleven children; "John Ellenwood and Sarah Morrell married March 30. 1698" (open: which John). The compiled register dates Ralph II's marriage to Martha "August 21 [?] 1691", against 19 Aug in the Marblehead records.
- The Orrington marriage return of 1790 (Richard and Hope, 24 Dec 1787), and the Frankfort censuses of 1790 (p. 77; John Haldershaw and John jr on p. 78) and 1800 (p. 119). In 1800 Richard's household has a girl 10-16 and a second woman 26-45 not yet identified, and two boys under 10, which dates John (fl. 1802) to after Aug 1790.
- **1820 census: Manchester Township, Dearborn County, confirmed.** FamilySearch files the film (NARA M33, roll 13) under Jefferson County, but the same film at the Internet Archive (populationsc18200013unit, leaves n121-n125) has the heading "Manchester Township" on p. 27, and p. 29 opens with Robert McCracken, one of the township's founders. "Richard Ellingwood": a man and a woman 26-45, a boy and three girls under 10, which is Richard, Hannah, Elijah, Hannah, Hope and Sarah.
- The censuses of Elijah's household in 1850, 1860 and 1870; Finley's in 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920 (in 1900 Jennie had borne seven children, six living; in 1920 their granddaughter Jennie Harriet Cother, 10, was with them).
- Death certificates of Finley (Pasadena, 26 June 1920; cremated at Mountain View on the 28th), Lucy A. (Laura) Cother (Chicago, 21 Nov 1918), Jennie S. Ellingwood (Evanston, 23 Sept 1929: **born 25 Oct 1857 at Saratoga Springs**, mother Susan Maria [?] Adams; at 2209 Central Street 37 years) and Finley F. Ellingwood (Arlington, Vermont, 6 Aug 1975); two AMA Deceased Physicians cards for Finley; the marriages of Ellsworth and Ella Lee Nichols (Geneva, 19 Jan 1885), Elliott Lee and Jennie Henrietta Kendall (Pasadena, 2 Dec 1908) and Richard Everett and Ruth Ethelwyn Short (Spokane, filed 19 Aug 1921, signed "Ethelwyn").
**Searched without result**
- Boston births or baptisms of the children of Richard and Sarah (Slater) Ellingwood: none in RC 24 or the First Church records.
- Sarah Slater's parents and death.
- Any Ellingwood in the 1789 and 1796 Boston directories, the 1790 Boston census, or the 1798 Boston direct tax.
- A Boston newspaper notice of Israel's death; Richard's (1784) burial in the Granary, Copp's Hill, King's Chapel or Central burying grounds.
- Either *Maine Genealogist* article online (its cumulative index is on CD only).
- Richard Ellingwood (1767) and the schooner *Hope* in Jones's Frankfort history and the Bangor and Maine Historical Magazines.
- The 1809 marriage of Richard Ellingwood and Hannah Brown.
- Any Ellingwood land patent in Indiana (Waters, *Indiana Land Entries*, Cincinnati District); graves of Richard and Hannah.
- Ellingwood entries in the 1893 and 1906 Kankakee County histories and the Iroquois County histories of 1893 and 1907. The 1883 Kankakee history is not online.
- An obituary for Cudge (1985).
- A primary source for "Sibelia Jane" as Finley's wife's name.
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## Part Four: Records to obtain next
In rough order of value.
1. **Ruth Gray, *Maine Families in 1790*, vol. 1, pp. 95-96, and vol. 3, pp. 140-141**, the full pages (library copy or Picton Press). They carry deed and probate citations not yet seen.
2. **The two *Maine Genealogist* articles** (Aug 1995; Nov 2000), from the Maine Genealogical Society or American Ancestors.
3. **Hancock County Probate docket 305** (guardianship of Richard's children, 1804-1805) and **Hancock County deeds** 4:509, 13:68, 23:286-287, 24:192, and Lincoln County deeds 22:93; also the Hancock deeds 1800-1830 found by full-text search.
4. **Maine State Archives land record 6:23** (Ralph's lot 2) and the 1801 petition behind the resolve for Richard.
5. **The rest of Israel's will** (next image after FS image 78 in "Suffolk Probate Records 1785") for its date and witnesses, and the 1785 division of his estate.
6. **The *Cleora* originals**, Massachusetts Archives vol. V pp. 117, 167, and vol. 167 p. 17.
7. **The second page of Ralph Jr.'s 1741 will** and the Essex probate file (docket 12365), and **Ralph III's administration** (Essex probate, 1729-1743).
8. **New England Weekly Journal, 13 Jan 1728/9** (America's Historical Newspapers).
9. **Dearborn County, Indiana:** deeds and probate for Richard (d. 1864) and Hannah; marriage of Richard's children; Manchester Township cemetery records.
10. **Kankakee County probate** for Elijah (1872) and Mary Abigail (1874); Mound Grove Cemetery record.
11. **Ellingwood's Therapeutist**, July-Sept 1920 (Lloyd Library, Cincinnati) for Finley's obituary in his own journal.
12. **The family Bible** recorded by Gray as owned in 1929 by Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena: ask Finley's other descendants.
13. **Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum (Rowley):** the original 1682 depositions in the Katherine case, the 1677 Hall v. Bath file, and the 1678 Hoar file.
14. **FamilySearch corrections to make:** detach Herbert E Ellingwood and Addie M Croft from Ralph I; Ralph Jr.'s death to after 8 Apr 1741; Israel's first marriage to 18 Mar 1741/2 and death place to Boston; Richard (1742)'s birth to 7 Jan 1742/3 and death to bef. 5 Nov 1784, Boston; Richard (1767)'s death to between 11 Aug 1802 and 2 May 1803, Frankfort; add the Suffolk guardianship and distribution as sources on the Richard-to-Richard link; Finley's wife's name to Jennie S.