Richard Ellingwood
Born in Maine about 1790, probably the son of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, and said to have been taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden in 1814. He probably married Hannah Brown in 1809, and about 1816-18 took the family west to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana. Probably the father of Elijah Ellingwood, and so the great-grandfather for whom Cudge Ellingwood was named.
Life
- 1790BornFeb 1790, Frankfort, Maine
2 Feb 1790 in the family Bible (per Gray), 9 Feb in the trees; the Bible is the better source. Frankfort was then in Hancock County, now Waldo. "Born Maine", 60, in the 1850 census.
- 1809Married Hannah Brown1809
The family Bible, per Gray. The trees give 18 Aug or Sept 1809 at Pownal; no record has been found. The Hampden intention of 10 Sept 1809 is his sister Sally's.
compiledprobable - 1820LivedManchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
Head of household of six, page 29 of Manchester Township, with a boy (Elijah) and three girls (Hannah, Hope and Sarah) under 10, and a woman (Hannah) 26 to 45.
documentedproven - 1840LivedManchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
Head of household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
documentedprobable - 1850Lived
- 1860LivedManchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
Head of household, carpenter. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
documentedprobable - 1864Died25 Mar 1864, Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana
The family Bible, per Gray. The Ancestry tree has 25 Mar 1871, which FamilySearch gives as Hannah's death.
Family
- Father
- Richard Ellingwood
He is the son Richard named first in the Frankfort will of 1802; the family Bible kept by Finley's son Elliott Lee records him born February 1790 (Gray); the Indiana Richard was born in Maine about 1790 and named a daughter Hope. No Indiana record names his father.
compiledprobableSources
- Hancock County, Maine, probate file of Richard Ellingwood of Frankfort, 1802-1803
- Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790, vols. 1 and 3 (Picton Press, 1988)
- 1850 U.S. census, Clay Township, Dearborn County, Indiana: Richard and Hannah Ellingwood
- Reasoning:
research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Master_Research.md
- Mother
- Spouse
Pedigree
Notes
Finley Ellingwood’s grandfather, the “great grandfather Richard Ellingwood” for whom Cudge was named. Twelve when his father died at Frankfort, he was named first in his father’s will (record). Ruth Gray says he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Hampden, 3 September 1814, when the British came up the Penobscot (source).
He married Hannah Brown in 1809. Their children were born in Maine to 1815 and in New York in 1817; the family went west about 1816-18, perhaps by way of Cincinnati (a Richard Ellinwood there in 1817, and “Eilingwood Richard, shipcarpenter” in the 1819 directory, possibly he), to Manchester, Dearborn County, Indiana, settled from 1817 by families from Cumberland County, Maine (source). He is at Manchester in the 1840 census (record); in 1850 at Clay Township, 60, born Maine, with Hannah and two grandchildren, Elizabeth A. and John B. Kennedy, the children of his daughter Harriet (record); in 1860 at Manchester again, a carpenter (record).
Open questions
- An Indiana record naming his father or his Maine birthplace, which would prove the link to Frankfort; and the family Bible itself (Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Pasadena, 1929).
- The 1809 marriage record; Dearborn County deeds, probate and graves.
- The tree also attaches a 20th-century public-records entry at Topsham, Maine, which belongs to someone else.
Cudge's memoir
Cudge was named Richard after his great-grandfather Richard Ellingwood.
I was named Richard Everett. Richard after my great grandfather Richard Ellingwood. Everett was the surname of close friends of my parents.
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Richard's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.