Mordecai Ellis
Probably a son of John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman, born at Sandwich in Plymouth Colony in 1650/1, and a brother of Lt. Matthias Ellis. A lieutenant himself, he administered his father's estate with his mother in 1677 and married Sarah. Through his son Samuel, as the compilers have it, he was an ancestor of William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett, who married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Life
- 1650Born24 Mar 1650/1, Sandwich, Plymouth Colonydocumentedproven
- c. 1706Diedprobably 5 Feb 1706/7
The Sandwich VR editors' date. Pane-Joyce gives 5 Feb 1709/10; Freeman's Annals 1715.
Family
- Father
- Mother
- Spouse
- Sarah
She died 25 Oct 1716.
Pedigree
Notes
Brother of Lt. Matthias Ellis. With his mother, administrator of his father’s estate, 1677. As Lt. Mordecai Ellis he sat in March 1681/2 on the jury that tried the Indian James, indicted for kicking Samuel Crocker of Barnstable, who died three weeks later; the verdict was “nott guilty of wilfull murder” (PCR 6:82-84; 7:246-249). A son Mordecai died 1 Nov 1717; a daughter Sarah married Joshua Blackwell, 8 June 1704. Through his son Samuel (Pane-Joyce, citing Brownson and McLean) he was the grandfather of Mercy Ellis (bapt. 1733), who married John Bartlett 3rd at Plymouth in 1762 and was the grandmother of Ellis Bartlett (b. 1817), father of William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett, who married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Open questions
- His death: 1706/7, 1709/10 or 1715?
Mollie's typescript
- ProvenBaroness Burdett-Coutts's husband was son of Ellis Bartlett of Manomet
Confirmed. Ellis Bartlett was born at Plymouth on 15 June 1817, grandson of Mercy Ellis; Davis (1899) has his son William "m. Baroness Burdett Coutts". Mercy and George Ellis both descended from John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman of Sandwich, so the young man was probably a distant cousin, as Mollie's father said. The Baroness was Thomas Coutts's granddaughter, not his widow.
Read it in the book, p. 38 →
Connections
- In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Mordecai's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.