Israel Ellingwood
Mariner of Boston, "Capt." on his gravestone, born at Beverly, the eldest son of Ralph Ellinwood, who was lost at sea when Israel was fourteen. He married Susanna Rand in 1741/2, was a coaster at Boston by 1743 and bought half a house in Cross Street at the North End; after Susanna's death he married Hannah Perkins. Father of Richard Ellingwood; he died at Boston in 1785 and was buried in the Granary.
Life
- 1714Born29 Sep 1714, Beverly, Massachusetts
Baptized 3 Oct 1714.
- 1741Married Susanna Rand18 Mar 1741/2, Boston, Massachusetts
By Rev. Thomas Foxcroft (Boston Marriages 28:244). The trees give 18 May 1741.
documentedproven - 1752Married Hannah Perkinsint. 9 Nov 1752, Boston, Massachusettsdocumentedproven
- 1785Died14 Mar 1785, Boston, Massachusetts
"Israel, Capt., Mar. 14, 1785, ae. 73 y." (Granary); the age is wrong for 1714. The trees give Beverly or Gloucester, without support.
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Family
- Father
- Ralph Ellinwood
Three records agree: the Beverly register's family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood; the 1743 division of Ralph III's estate, giving Israel the eldest son's two shares; and Ralph II's will of 1741, naming "my Two Grandsons Israel Elinwood & Ralph Elinwood", children of "my Son Ralph Elinwood Decd". The 1714 baptism enters the father as "Ralph j[r]".
documentedprovenSources
- Beverly compiled register: the Ellingwood families, with the division of 1743
- Will of Ralph Ellenwood of Beverly, husbandman, 1741
- Beverly, Massachusetts, record of baptisms, 1714-1715: Israel, son of Ralph Ellingwood jr.
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Master_Research.md
Other claim · Ellinwood 1963, pp. 23-24Ralph Ellinwood✕disprovenLeonard made Israel a son of Ralph II by a third wife, Sarah Woodbury, and had Ralph III die young. Ralph II's own will calls Israel his grandson.
- Mother
- Spouse 1
- Spouse 2
- Hannah Perkins
About 1727 - 14 Dec 1784, "w. Capt. Israel", buried in the Granary aged 57; she owned the covenant at First Church in 1755.
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Pedigree
Notes
Born at Beverly on 29 September 1714 and baptized 3 October, his father entered as “Ralph j[r]” (record; the page is in the Gallery). He was fourteen when his father was lost at sea, and his mother remarried the next year. By 1743 he was “Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster”, taking his double share of his father’s estate and acting as guardian of his brother Daniel (record); in every later record he is a mariner, and on his gravestone “Capt.”
He married Susanna Rand at Boston in March 1741/2 (record) and in 1745 bought half a house at the North End, on Cross Street (record). Their children were baptized at First Church (record). After Susanna’s death he married Hannah Perkins (1752), and in 1753 he became guardian of his children for what came to them from their grandfather Robert Rand (record).
He died at Boston on 14 March 1785 and was buried in the Granary (record). His will left his estate to “my beloved Children Richard Susanna Ralph & Sarah”; it included two tenements near the head of Cross Street and, at Beverly, half of a house “on the south side of the way that leads from the Ferry to Ellingwoods point”, still in the family 111 years after Ralph I’s death. His son-in-law Robert Hitchborne was executor (record).
Open questions
- Where his “Capt.” came from: coasting master, militia, or a privateer command.
- The date and witnesses of his will, and the 1785 division of his estate.
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Connections
- Notable ancestor
- Coasting mariner of Boston's North End; "Capt." on his Granary gravestone
Israel Ellingwood is the 5x great-grandfather of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. Shipmasters, builders and pioneers.
- Famous kin
- Paul Revere
Boston silversmith and patriot, rider of 18 April 1775
First cousin of Robert Hitchborne, who married Susanna Ellingwood, sister of Richard Ellingwood (1742/3), in 1765: Robert's father Thomas Hichborn was a brother of Revere's mother, Deborah. - Rear Adm. Philip Hichborn
Chief Constructor of the U.S. Navy, 1893-1901, who built the fleet of the Spanish-American War
Rear Adm. Philip Hichborn is the third cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Nathan Griffin Hichborn
Shipbuilder of Stockton, Maine, Treasurer of Maine (1865-1868) and a delegate to the 1860 convention that nominated Lincoln
Nathan Griffin Hichborn is the second cousin, four times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Elinor Wylie
Poet and novelist (Nets to Catch the Wind, The Venetian Glass Nephew)
Wife of Philip Simmons Hichborn, son of Rear Adm. Philip Hichborn and a great-great-grandson of Susanna (Ellingwood) Hitchborne; they married in 1906.
- Paul Revere
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Israel's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.
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