Person:Thomas Ellis (39)

Birth date estimated based on time of marriage.

1. ↑ Whittemore, Henry. Genealogical guide to the early settlers of America: with a brief history of those of the first generation and references to the various local histories and other sources of information where additional data may be found. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1898-1906)
   p. 173.

   "Thomas Ellis, of Medfield, 1649, may be the same who was baptized at Wrentham, England, 1629, and married 1659 [sic, 1657 by record], Mary, daughter of Thomas Wight, of Dedham, had Mary, 1660; Abiel, 1662; Samuel, 1664; Thomas, 1686 [sic, 1666]; Patience, 1668; Ruth, 1670; Thomas, again, 1674; Joanna, 1677; and Juda. He died 1690. His widow died 1693."

2. ↑ Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
   p. 208.

   ELLICE, Thomas, [died] Dec. 12, 1690.

3.   Holman, Mary Lovering, and Harriett Grace Scott. The Scott Genealogy. (Boston, Mass., 1919).

   Widow Ellis married (1) before 1620 _____ Ellis, and (2), probably before 1633, Lambert Genery. She died before 14 May 1658. … In the list of admissions to the (Dedham) church … The wife of Goodman Genery, 4 Dec. 1640." She brought two sons Richard Ellis an Joseph Ellis. John Ellis, Ann Ellis and Thomas Ellis were also in Dedham and Medfiled but it unknown if or how they were related to Widow Ellisand her two sons.

4.   Tilden, William S. History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886: with Genealogies of the Families that Held Real Estate or Made any Considerable Stay in the Town During the First Two Centuries. (Boston, Mass.: Geo. H. Ellis, 1887)
   377, link to source.

   Thomas Ellis of Dedham was brother of John Ellis of Dedham [page 374]. He came to Medfield in 1651/2. He built his home on North Street in 1653 and is still in possession of the family today. He married Mary Wight who died 1683. He died 1690. Children listed.