Hannah Brown
Wife of Richard Ellingwood (1790-1864), probably married in 1809, and probably the mother of Elijah Ellingwood. Born about 1786, probably on Cape Cod, she was living with Richard in Dearborn County, Indiana, at Clay Township in 1850 and at Manchester in 1860.
Life
- c. 1786BornCape Cod, Massachusetts
64, born "Cape Cod", in the 1850 census. The Ancestry tree has 28 Feb 1786 at Pownal; FamilySearch 20 Jan 1786 at Gorham.
- 1809Married Richard Ellingwood1809
The family Bible, per Gray. The trees give 18 Aug or Sept 1809 at Pownal; no record has been found. The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's.
compiledprobable - 1850Lived
- 1860LivedManchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
In her husband's household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
documentedprobable - 1871Died25 Mar 1871, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
As the trees have it; the same day and month as her husband's death in 1864, so it needs checking.
compiledpossible
Family
- Father
- Benjamin Brown of Gorham
FamilySearch's candidate: Hannah, born at Gorham, Maine, 20 Jan 1786, to Benjamin Brown and Sarah Phinney (McLellan, History of Gorham, p. 415). For it: the year; a family that came from Eastham, which could explain "Cape Cod"; a brother named Isaac Cole Brown; and Gorham and Pownal both in Cumberland County. Against it: McLellan has her born at Gorham and does not say whom she married. Possible, no better.
compiledpossibleSources
- FamilySearch Family Tree
- Hugh D. McLellan, History of Gorham, Maine (1903)
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md
Other claim · the Ancestry treeBenjamin Brown of New Ipswich, N.H., and Bethel, Maine✕disprovenBorn 1769, married Hannah Russell, died at Bethel 1819. The Bethel records give "Benjamin & his wife Hannah" children only from 1798; a New Hampshire family with no Cape Cod tie, and a father 16 or 17 in 1786. Very probably not hers.
- Mother
- Sarah Phinney
Daughter of Col. Edmund and Betty Phinney of Gorham, if the Gorham Hannah is she.
compiledpossibleOther claim · the Ancestry treeHannah Russell✕disprovenWife of Benjamin Brown of Bethel; see her father.
- Spouse
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Richard Ellingwood (1790-1864), married in 1809 (the family Bible, per Gray; source), and the mother of his nine or ten children. With him at Clay Township, Dearborn County, in 1850, aged 64 and born on Cape Cod (record), and at Manchester in 1860 (record). The Ancestry tree recorded her only as Hannah Ellingwood.
Open questions
- Her parents. Her Cape Cod birth would fit a family that knew the Holdershaws of Eastham; the Gorham Browns had land from a George Brown of Eastham. No Hannah Brown of the right age is in the Harwich or the printed Eastham records. Cumberland County probate of Benjamin Brown of Gorham, Gorham or Pownal town records naming “Hannah Ellingwood,” or the source of FamilySearch’s “Sept 1809, Pownal” marriage would settle it. The Bethel family is in the town records (record).
- Her death.