Lucy Bennett
Wife of Matthias Ellis of Middleborough, married in 1743, and mother of George Ellis. Born at Middleborough in 1725 to Joseph Bennett Jr. and his wife Thankful, she was 16 when her father died insolvent, and in 1791 her dower was set off from her husband's insolvent estate. Through her father the family probably descends from John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley of the Mayflower.
Life
- 1725Born2 Oct 1725, Middleborough, Massachusetts
"Lucia Bennet the Daughter of Joseph Bennet Junr & of Thankfull his wife was born October 2 1725" (MD 6:228).
- 1743Married Matthias Ellis7 Apr 1743, Middleborough, Massachusetts
Citing Genealogies of Mayflower Families 1:665. The marriage entry (MD 30:8) has not been seen. Weston has "m. 1743."
- 1804Died3 Oct 1804, Middleborough, Massachusetts
"d. Oc. 3, 1804, ae. 79" (Weston's catalogue of First Church members). The place is not stated.
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Family
- Father
- Joseph Bennettdocumentedproven
Sources
- Middleborough, Massachusetts, vital records (town books, and as printed in The Mayflower Descendant)
- Reasoning:
research/freeman-ellis/Freeman_Ellis_Line_Research.md
Other claim · an earlier hypothesis in the research (from the 1758 and 1763 deeds)Samuel Bennett✕disprovenHer birth record names Joseph Bennett Jr.
- Mother
- Spouse
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Matthias Ellis of Middleborough. Her father died on 3 Jan 1741/2, when she was 16, intestate and insolvent. Her mother Thankful, as administratrix, reported his personal estate “not Sufficient for the payment of his just debts” and sold his land at public vendue to Seth Samson, “the highest Bidder” (recorded 18 Dec 1746); she married Samson in 1758. That she is the Lucia Bennett born in 1725 rests on the compiled marriage (Bosworth database, citing Genealogies of Mayflower Families 1:665), on Weston’s catalogue (“Lucia Ellis, wid. of Matthias, m. 1743, o. Bennet, mo. 273,” no. 273 being Thankful Bennet), and on the Bennett land she and Matthias sold in 1758 and 1763 with Elizabeth Morton and John Bennett the second, who fit her sister Elizabeth (b. 1731) and brother John (b. 1733/4).
Her dower in her husband’s insolvent estate was set off in April 1791. Weston’s catalogue also ties her to her son George: “Phebe Thomas, w. Azel … o. Ellis, dau. of Geo., gr. mo. 623,” 623 being Lucy.
Through her father the family descends from John Howland, Elizabeth Tilley, and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley of the Mayflower.
Open questions
- See the marriage entry itself (MD 30:8).
Connections
- In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Lucy's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.