Ebenezer Ellinwood

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.

A family page of the town’s later compiled register: “The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood,” their eight children with births, marriages and deaths, and “Ralph Ellenwood married to Sarah Woodberry of Salem 1712.” In the margin, the division of Ralph’s estate in 1743, “Israel 2 shares,” and “Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster,” guardian of his brother Daniel. Below are Martha and Ebenezer of Ralph and Martha, and other Ellingwood families of Beverly.

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.

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.”