Benjamin Ellinwood

The Beverly register of baptisms for 1667-1668, in the town’s book: each child is entered as “child of” its parents, with the date. Benjamin is there on 17 May 1668: “Benj[amin] … Ralph & Ellen Ellinwood.” His birth, 1 April 1668, is in the county register. The left-hand page of the opening is blank.

Two pages before the family of Ralph and Sarah. On the left, “Benjamin & Mary Ellingwood” (“Benjamin the father died March 28 1731 aged about 64, Sabbath day”) and “Ralph and Martha Ellingwood”, with their children’s births and baptisms. On the right, the marriages: “1682. Marriage of Ralph Ellinwood and Catharine ___ declared null for his incompetence”; Ralph and “Martha Robison” (interlined “Rowlandson of Beverly”), married in August 1691 by Samuel Cheever of Marblehead; John Ellingwood and Elizabeth Rowlinson, 1685; and at the foot, “1 mo: 1677. Ralf Ellenwood, a childe of ye covenant, publickly rebuked and admonished, for stealing meal at mill.”

A page of the town’s register of births: the children of “Benjamin Elingwood by Mary his Wife,” from Ellinor (7 July 1688) and Benjamin (27 Jan 1689/90) to Andrew (22 Oct 1706), Jonathan (1708) and Eunice [1711?], and James, son of John Elingwood by Sarah, 22 Sept 1706. Benjamin was the brother of Ralph Ellinwood II.

An index page of the Salem copy of the town records, with each entry’s year, book and page. The right-hand column, under “Ellinwood,” lists the children of Ralph and Ellen: Raulph 1657, John 1659, Joseph 1662, Mary 1664, Elizabeth 1666, Benjamin 1668 and David 1670, all at book 1, page 17, and Ralph 1694 at page 165. The left-hand column has two Ralphs, one of 1655 (probably Ralph and Ellen’s marriage [?]), and later Ellinwoods from 1712 to 1775.

The cloth-bound volume, its spine lettered “Town Records, Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1665-1725, Town of Beverly.” The births of Ralph and Martha Ellinwood’s and Benjamin and Mary Ellinwood’s children are entered in it.

The E page of the county register of returns from the towns. Near the top: “14 March 55 Ralph Elinwood maryed to Ellen Lyn: their son Ralph born 18 March 57. son John born 2d July 59. Joseph bo: 12:3:62”. Further down: “Ralph Elinwood his daughter Mary bo: by Ellen his wife 3:2d:64, daughter Elizabeth born 27 June 66, David born 6 July 70, Benjamin born 1:2mo:68.” The dates are in the old style, with March the first month.

An opening of the baptisms, October 1696 to 1699, the binding tight. On 5 Sept [1697], “Ebenezer … Ralph … Ellingwood”, a week after his birth. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s Priscilla (March 1697) and David (December 1698) are on the same opening.

Two pages of the town’s register of births, each entry with its year in the margin. On the right: “Ebenezer Elenwood Sonn of Ralph Elenwood by Martha his Wife was Borne on ye Nine & Twentieth day of August in ye year of our Lord God 1697.” On the left, “Priscilla Elenwood ye daughter of Benjamin Elenwood by Mary his wife,” born 3 March 1696/7.

An opening of the baptisms, 1700 to 1705. On 25 Feb [1700/1], “Marth[a] … Ralph … Ellingwood”. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s Samuel (7 Dec 1701) and Robert (30 Dec 1704) are also here.