Ralph Ellinwood

Two pages before the family of Ralph and Sarah. On the left, “Benjamin & Mary Ellingwood” (“Benjamin the father died March 28 1731 aged about 64, Sabbath day”) and “Ralph and Martha Ellingwood”, with their children’s births and baptisms. On the right, the marriages: “1682. Marriage of Ralph Ellinwood and Catharine ___ declared null for his incompetence”; Ralph and “Martha Robison” (interlined “Rowlandson of Beverly”), married in August 1691 by Samuel Cheever of Marblehead; John Ellingwood and Elizabeth Rowlinson, 1685; and at the foot, “1 mo: 1677. Ralf Ellenwood, a childe of ye covenant, publickly rebuked and admonished, for stealing meal at mill.”

A page of the county register of births returned from the towns, 1689-1695. Near the foot of the right-hand page: “Ralph Ellenwood Son of Ralph Ellenwood & Martha his wife was borne 18 April 169[4?].” The last figure of the year is worn away; the Beverly records give 1694. The next entry, Benjamin Walcot, was “Born at Salem 23 April 1695.” This full page replaces an earlier clipping of the same entry.

A family page of the town’s later compiled register: “The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood,” their eight children with births, marriages and deaths, and “Ralph Ellenwood married to Sarah Woodberry of Salem 1712.” In the margin, the division of Ralph’s estate in 1743, “Israel 2 shares,” and “Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster,” guardian of his brother Daniel. Below are Martha and Ebenezer of Ralph and Martha, and other Ellingwood families of Beverly.

An index page of the Salem copy of the town records, with each entry’s year, book and page. The right-hand column, under “Ellinwood,” lists the children of Ralph and Ellen: Raulph 1657, John 1659, Joseph 1662, Mary 1664, Elizabeth 1666, Benjamin 1668 and David 1670, all at book 1, page 17, and Ralph 1694 at page 165. The left-hand column has two Ralphs, one of 1655 (probably Ralph and Ellen’s marriage [?]), and later Ellinwoods from 1712 to 1775.

An opening of the town’s copy of the church baptisms, with the father’s given name and the mother’s or family’s surname for each child. In June 1713, “Sarah … Ralph j[r] … Sarah Ellingwood”; on 3 Oct 1714, “Israel … Ralph j[r] … Ellingwood”, the entry that joins the Beverly Ellinwoods to the Boston Ellingwoods. The “j” marks other fathers on the page too, so it reads as junior. This FamilySearch image replaces an earlier screenshot of the same page.