Person:Ellen Unknown (248)

Following her death, her daughters and their husbands entered into an agreement dividing up the property: On 28 April 1698, whereas "Mrs. Hellena Glover late of New Haven deceased" left a writing which conveyed her testamentary wishes, but did not live to have it drawn up formally, "Moses Mansfeild of the town and county of New Haven in New England, for myself & in behalf of the children of my late dear wife Mercy, David Ashley of the town of Westfeild in the county of Hampshire in New England by & with the consent of Hannah my present wife & John Ball of said New Haven by & with the consent of Sarah my present wife and Abigaile Burr relict of Mr. Daniell Burr late of Fairfeild in New England deceased," the funeral charges and debts of "our honored mother the said Hellena Glover" having been paid, along with "an addition of five pounds to be paid … unto the surviving children of Mr. John Glover late of New Haven deceased," the residue is to be "equally divided among the said Moses, David, John & Abigaile" [NHPR 2:2:203-4].

Name

Great Migration identifies her as "Helena _____." and notes, "Henry Glover was in some way brother to Thomas Cooper COOPER {1635, Windsor}, which has led a number of prominent genealogists to speculate on what that might imply about the identity of Glover's wife [TAG 23:95-97, 48:208-14; Hale, House 498; Gillespie Anc 164; GM 2:2:205-12].

The GM citation is to the Thomas Cooper entry, which notes, "Based on the deed in which Thomas Cooper called Henry Glover of New Haven "his brother," Clarence Almon Torrey and Donald Lines Jacobus concluded that the most likely explanation was that Glover had married Cooper's sister [TAG 23:95-97; Hale, House 498], while Paul Prindle favored a more complicated solution [TAG 48:208:14; Gillespie Anc 164.]"

Prindle argues that her name was Russell. Henry and Ellen appear multiple times in wills of the Russell, Davis and Wakeman families. Prindle argues that the best way to make all of the references make sense is if Ellen is the sister of William Russell and Sarah Russell. William Russell m. Sarah Davis, who is the niece of John Wakeman. Her mother was Martha Davis ('my sister Davis' in John's will). William and Sarah's children were under guardianship of Henry and Ellen and they all administered and witnessed each other's wills. Though the idea that Ellen is a Wakeman, Davis or a Cooper is considered, most Wakeman wills do not mention her, and wills involving the Coopers are not consistent with those theories.

1. ↑ New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850. (Hartford [Connecticut]: Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917-1924)
   1:70.

   M^rs Hannah glouer died March y³ 1^st 1697/8.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Glover, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
   3:660.

   "… Helena [sister of William Russell], who d 1 Mar 1697/8 (New Haven Vital Records)."

3.   The brackets indicate that Jacobus, at the time of publication (1926), considered the relationship to William Russell probable but not proven.