John Ellis

Bef 1600 -

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• Name	John Ellis  [1]
  Born	Bef 1600	England
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	4341
  Person ID	I4341	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Ann Ellis,   b. Between 1600 and 1610, England ,   d. Aft 1682  (Age ~ 83 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - Bef 1600 - England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Notes

  From” Collver/Culver Genealogy” compiled by Frances McIntosh 1970: John is mentioned as the father of Edward Culver’s wife Ann Ellis and he is also mentioned as one of the signers of “The Dedham covenant” (also called “The Dedham Compact”) in 1636. Ann’s mother is listed as Susan Lumber/Lombard/Lumbert/and others. I also found this interesting story online which mentions his name at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Dedham,_Massachusetts,_1635%E2%80%931792 Tiot In 1635 there were rumors in the Massachusetts Bay Colony that a war with the local Indians was impending and a fear arose that the few, small, coastal communities that existed were in danger of attack. This, in addition to the belief that the few towns that did exist were too close together, prompted the Massachusetts General Court to establish two new inland communities. The towns of Dedham and Concord, Massachusetts were thus established to relieve the growing population pressure and to place communities between the larger, more established coastal towns and the Indians further west. The grant from the colony gave them over "two hundred square miles of virgin wilderness, complete with lakes, hills, forests, meadows, Indians, and a seemingly endless supply of rocks and wolves." Aside from "several score Indians, who were quickly persuaded to relinquish their claims for a small sum, the area was free of human habitation." The original grant stretched from the border of Boston to the Rhode Island border. Dedham was settled in the summer of 1636 by "about thirty families excised from the broad ranks of the English middle classes" traveling up the Charles River from Roxbury and Watertown traveling in rough canoes carved from felled trees. These original settlers, including Edward Alleyne, John Everard, John Gay and John Ellis "paddled up the narrow, deeply flowing stream impatiently turning curve after curve around Nonantum until, emerging from the tall forest into the open, they saw in the sunset glow a golden river twisting back and forth through broad, rich meadows." In search of the best land available to them they continued on but the river took many turns, so that it was a burden the continual turning about.... West, east, and north we turned on that same meadow and progressed none, so that I, rising in the boat, saw the river flowing just across a bit of grass, in a place where I knew we had passed through nigh an hour before. "Moore," said Miles then to me, "the river is like its Master, our good King Charles, of sainted memory, it promises overmuch, but gets you nowhere." They first landed where the river makes its 'great bend,' on what is today Ames Street, near the Dedham Community House and the Allin Congregational Church in Dedham Square. The Algonquins living in the area called the place Tiot. Tiot, which means "land surrounded by water," was later used to describe the village of South Dedham, today the separate town of Norwood. In "its first years, the town was more than a place to live; it was a spiritual community." Many of the other yeomen settling the new Dedham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony came from Suffolk, in eastern England. This group included elders Nathan Aldis, George Barber, Henry Brock, Eleazor Lusher, Robert Ware, John Thurston, Francis and Henry Chickering and Anthony, Corneileus and Joshua Fisher. I have not yet found any source records on John Ellis.

  
  

• Sources

  [S212] Collver/Culver Genealogy, Compiled by Frances McIntosh, (Date: 1970;).