Martha Rowlandson
Wife of Ralph Ellinwood II, married at Marblehead on 19 August 1691, when she was "of Beverly", and mother of seven children, Ralph among them. She was born at Salisbury in 1666, a twin, the daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and probably of Dorothy Portland. Mary Rowlandson, author of the 1682 captivity narrative, was very probably her aunt by marriage.
Life
- 1666Born24 Aug 1666, Salisbury, Massachusetts
A twin, with her sister Mary.
- 1691Married Ralph Ellinwood19 Aug 1691, Marblehead, Massachusetts
The Beverly compiled register has "August 21 [?] 1691, by Mr Samuel Cheevers of Marblehead".
- 1712Died
Family
- Father
- Thomas Rowlandson
An agreement about his estate, 8 April 1706, as Hoyt prints it, names "Ralph Elenwood and Martha his wife" among his children. He died at Salisbury in July 1682.
documentedprovenSources
- Hoyt, Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, vol. 1 (1897)
- Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts (printed)
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Kin_Connections.md
- Mother
- Dorothy Portland
Martha's birth is recorded to Thomas and "Dorethi"; Thomas married Dorothy Portland in 1654.
documentedprobable
Pedigree
Notes
Wife of Ralph Ellinwood II, married at Marblehead on 19 August 1691: “Ralph [Ellinwood], and Martha Rowlandson of Beverly” (record). The Beverly town record of their daughter Return’s birth names her, “Return, d. Ralph and Marthew”, against the church editors’ bracketed “[Ellen]” (record).
She was born at Salisbury on 24 August 1666, a twin, daughter of Thomas Rowlandson and Dorothy
Portland (record); an agreement about her father’s estate in 1706
names “Ralph Elenwood and Martha his wife” among his children, with John Ellenwood, her husband’s
brother, who had married her sister Elizabeth in 1684/5 (source).
Her father was a brother of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson of Lancaster, husband of Mary Rowlandson, the
author of the captivity narrative of 1682, as Savage and Hoyt both have it; and her brother Thomas,
nineteen, was killed in the attack on the Rowlandsons’ garrison house at Lancaster on 10 February
1675/6, listed as “nephew of the minister” (source).
So Mary Rowlandson was very probably her aunt by marriage. This replaces the earlier finding that no
connection to Rev. Joseph had been found (books/ellingwood/ellingwood-ch2.md, note 16;
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Kin_Connections.md, section 3.2).
The Salisbury births also record a son of hers before her marriage, “Sam[ue]ll, s. Martha [Rolenson], Jan. 12, 1686 [1687],” who died eight days later (record). When she married Ralph in 1691 she was “of Beverly,” probably living near her married sister Elizabeth at Bass River.
Open questions
- The estate papers of Thomas Rowlandson the elder (Lancaster, 1657; Middlesex probate), which would name his sons Thomas and Joseph and prove the Lancaster link; and the original 1706 agreement.
- Her death: “1712” in the Ancestry tree, with no record seen.
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Connections
- Famous kin
- Leonard Ellinwood
Musicologist and hymnologist of the Library of Congress, editor of The Hymnal 1940 Companion, and the family's genealogist
Leonard Ellinwood is the seventh cousin, once removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Rev. Frank Field Ellinwood
Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions from 1871 and professor of comparative religion at New York University
Rev. Frank Field Ellinwood is the fourth cousin, four times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Everett E. Ellinwood
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Territory, member of the Arizona constitutional convention and chancellor of the University of Arizona
Everett E. Ellinwood is the fifth cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Ralph E. Ellinwood
Ambulance driver captured in 1918, author of Behind the German Lines, and editor of the Arizona Daily Star
Ralph E. Ellinwood is the sixth cousin, twice removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Tom Ellinwood
Editorial cartoonist and executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star
Tom Ellinwood is the seventh cousin, once removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. - Truman J. Ellinwood
Henry Ward Beecher's stenographer for thirty years, who took down and edited his sermons
Truman J. Ellinwood is the fifth cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
- Leonard Ellinwood
- In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Martha's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.
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