Person:Freeman Ellis (4)

Watchers
  • HFreeman EllisAbt 1660 - Bef 1728
  • WMercy Nye?Abt 1660 - Aft 1728
m. Abt 1686
  1. Giddion Ellis1700/01 - Bef 1760
Facts and Events
Name Freeman Ellis
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1660 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Other[3] 1681 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesand his brothers were added as townsmen, eligible to vote for officers Misc
Other[4] 1681 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statestook oath of fidelity along with brothers Manoah, Matthias, and Mordecai
Residence? Abt 1682 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Property? Abt 1686 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesHe was given land in Sippican by his mother as a wedding present
Marriage Abt 1686 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesSecondary date: 1 JUL 1686
to Mercy Nye?
Property? Feb 1692/93 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesHe conveyed his Sippican land to brother-in-law, Joseph Dotey
Property[5] 1702 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United StatesHe bought land from Kenelm Winslow
Property[6] 1705 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesHe bought 10 acres of undivided land from Edward Dotey
Will? 7 Aug 1710 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation[2] cooper (probably)
Other? 15 Feb 1714 He and his brother accepted recorded land deeds to settle their mother's estate
Death? Bef 20 Jun 1728 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Probate? 20 Jun 1728
References
  1. or Rochester, Massachusetts
  2. In a deed acknowledgement of 1717/1718, a Freeman Ellis was described as a cooper -- probably this one but no proof yet.
  3. "The following "were ad. townsmen to vote for officers," &c." - The History of Cape Cod, (Google eBook), Frederick Freeman, 1862, p 73
  4. The History of Cape Cod, (Google eBook), Frederick Freeman, 1862, p 74
  5. Freeman Ellis of Rochester cooper, "sold for £10. paid by Jabez Hiller of Rochester, yeoman a ten acre lot . . . containing half the grant called the First Addition, belonging to Kenelm Winslow, his share at First, it being the grant which ffreeman . . . - Genealogies of Mayflower families: from the New England Historical ... - Volume 1 (Google eBooks) 1985, p. 595 (snippet view only) NOTE: Because of Freeman's and Kenelm's subsequent deaths, the Harwich deed was not initially finalized; Kenelm's son, John, officially transferred this land title to the Ellis family on 21 Jul 1727
  6. Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620 (Google eBook), E.A. Doty, 1897, p 627