Ralph Ellinwood

Also Ralph Ellwood · Ralph Elwood · Ralph Ellenwood · Ralph Ellingwood

The immigrant: Ralph Ellwood, 28, sailed from London on the Truelove in 1635 and was a planter of Salem from the first winter, then on the Bass River side that became Beverly, where his farm on the point is still Ellingwood Point. One of the founders of the Beverly church in 1667, he had eight children by his second wife, Eleanor Lynn, and died in January 1673/4.

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Life

  1. c. 1607
    Born
    c. 1607

    Aged 28 on the Truelove register, 19 Sep 1635; "about three score years" in 1669.

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    Sources· 1 found
  2. 1655
    Married Eleanor Lynn
    14 Mar 1655, Salem, Massachusetts

    "Raulph Elmwood maryed to Ellen Lyn."

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    Sources· 1 found
  3. 1673
    Died
    Jan 1673/4, Beverly, Massachusetts

    Will of 7 Jan 1673/4; inventory taken 30 Jan 1673/4.

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Family

Parents
Not known
Spouse 1
Elizabeth

Married within about two years of his arrival (a household of two in the Salem division of December 1637); living 1648, dead by 1655.

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Pedigree

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Notes

The immigrant. Ralph Ellwood, 28, sailed from London on the Truelove in September 1635 (record); a planter of Salem from the first winter, then on the Bass River side that became Beverly, where his farm on the point is still Ellingwood Point. One of the founders of the Beverly church in 1667. Eight children by Eleanor, seven of them living when he died in January 1673/4. His life is the Prologue and Chapter One of the Ellingwood book (books/ellingwood/).

Open questions

  • His English origins. Nothing connects him to any English family (Banks; Ellinwood 1963, p. 9 (record); the College of Arms search of 1953, record). Online trees, the Ancestry tree among them, give him a father Timothy Ellwood of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, and a line behind that; nothing supports it, and it is not used here.
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Pictures

Essex County register: Ralph Ellinwood's marriage to Ellen Lyn, 1655, and their childrenEssex County register: Ralph Ellinwood's marriage to Ellen Lyn, 1655, and their children1655-1670 · 2 people"A Letter from College of Arms, London, Dec. 29, 1953""A Letter from College of Arms, London, Dec. 29, 1953"Related · 2 pagesRalph and Ellen's children, with a sketch map of BeverlyRalph and Ellen's children, with a sketch map of BeverlyRelatedThe seal of Beverly, MassachusettsThe seal of Beverly, MassachusettsRelatedBenjamin Ellinwood's baptism, Beverly, 17 May 1668Benjamin Ellinwood's baptism, Beverly, 17 May 1668RelatedSalem records index: the EllinwoodsSalem records index: the EllinwoodsRelated

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Connections

Notable ancestor
Came on the Truelove in 1635; farmer on the point by the Salem ferry, Beverly

Ralph Ellinwood is the 8x great-grandfather of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. First comers.

Famous kin
  • Henry Larcom Abbot 1831-1927
    Army engineer, surveyor of the Mississippi with A. A. Humphreys, brevet major general, and consultant on the Panama Canal
    Henry Larcom Abbot is the sixth cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
  • Francis Ellingwood Abbot 1836-1903
    Philosopher of "free religion" and editor of The Index
    Francis Ellingwood Abbot is the sixth cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
  • Edwin Hale Abbot 1834-1927
    Lawyer and president of the Wisconsin Central Railway
    Edwin Hale Abbot is the sixth cousin, three times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
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