Person:Giddion Ellis (1)

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Giddion Ellis
b.5 Feb 1700/01 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
d.Bef 10 Dec 1760 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Abt 1686
  1. Giddion Ellis1700/01 - Bef 1760
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  • H.  Giddion Ellis1700/01 - Bef 1760
  • W.  Anna Clarke1700 - Aft 1738
m. 11 Feb 1719
  1. Elenor Ellis1725 - 1772
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Name Giddion Ellis
Alt Name Gidean Ellis
Gender Male
Birth[1] 5 Feb 1700/01 Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 11 Feb 1719 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Anna Clarke
Property[2] 3 May 1721 purchased for £80 a 55 acre tract of Plymouth housing and land from Hezekiah Bosworth of Cape Cod
Property[3] 11 Feb 1722/23 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statespurchased for £110 from Eleazer & Hannah Churchill of the same town 7 more acres there
Property[4] 7 Mar 1724/25 bought from his brother-in-law, Josiah Clarke for £9 land described as "at Monument Ponds"
Property[5] 29 May 1725 paid £112. to "Joseph Bartlett of Plymouth, seafaring man" for a 30 acre tract near Fresh Pond
Property? 1728 bought 160 acres from John Barnes Secondary date: 1 JUL 1728
Property[6] 28 Jun 1728 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesIn a land exchange with John May, he received a farm at Monument Ponds
Property[7] 17 Feb 1728/29 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Stateswith William Ellis and Benjamin Cornish, bought tor £47 two parcels of land
Property[8] 1 Mar 1728/29 Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statessold for £200 to Samuell Wood of Middleborough a half-lot
Property[9] 10 Nov 1730 sold the 160 acres he had bought from John Barnes to John May and John Wetherhead
Property[10] 18 Mar 1731/32 sold for £350 to Samuel, Thomas and Jane Cornish his entire homestead farm
Residence? Bef 7 Feb 1733/34 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United StatesSecondary date: 6 FEB 1734
Property[11] 7 Feb 1733/34 sold for £19. to John May of Plymouth three lots at Little Meadows
Other[12] Abt 1750 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesbuilt his son Elijah a one room house
Property[13] 31 Mar 1756 Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesbought for £12 from Josiah Bump of Lebanon, Connecticut a parcel of cedar swamp
Property[14] 5 Nov 1756 An indenture detailed the owners of inherited property
Occupation? cordwainer
Death? Bef 10 Dec 1760 Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United StatesSecondary date: 9 DEC 1760
Other[15] 10 Dec 1760 £627, 5 shillings, 8 pence Inventory
Other[16] 2 Feb 1762 The administrators appointed by the court distributed the estate among his wife and children
Other? 23 Mar 1763 His widow, Jemima gave a receipt for the shares of their father's estate due to the four youngest surviving children: Abiel, Ephraim, Samuel and Reuben Ellis
Other? Intestate
References
  1. ↑ Ellis, Giddion, ch. Freeman and Mercy, Feb 5, 1710/1- Rochester VR
  2. ↑ A deed of 3 May 1721 shows Gideon Ellis, cordwainer, of Plymouth purchased a 55-acre parcel (with house) from Hezekiah Bosworth of Cape Cod for £80 - site cited PLCD, vol. 15, p. 215
  3. ↑ A deed of 11 Feb 1722/3 records that Gideon Ellis, cordwainer of Plymouth, bought 7 acres there from Eleazer and Hannah Churchill, of the same town, for
    £110. - Site cited PLCD, vol. 16, p. 144
  4. ↑ bounded by Joseph Silvester . . . and . . . my honoured father's" land (i.e., Thomas Clarke) site cited PLCD vol. 25, p. 26
  5. ↑ site cited PLCD., vol. 19, p. 106
  6. ↑ On 28 June 1728 "Gideon Ellis of Plymouth . . . cordwainer" exchanged with John May of same a tract of Ellis land there described as having belonged at first to Thomas Dotey, for which he received from May a farm where the latter "now dwelleth" at Monument Ponds, "bounded northerly by Elizabeth Bartlett . . . southerly by Indian lands, Westerly by John Barnes & Easterly by the Sea" - site cited PLCD, vol. 23, p. 79-80.
  7. ↑ He, with William Ellis and Benjamin Cornish, bought tor £47., by deed 17 Feb. 1728/9, two parcels of land in Plymouth from Ebenezer Thomas of Norwich, New London Co., Conn., both at Ship Pond alias Attanantumuk, 80 acres in all
    site cited PLCD vol. 24, p. 13
  8. ↑ Gideon Ellis and Anna his wife, Josiah Morton & Elizabeth his wife, Nathaniel and Abigail Bartlett and Sarah Clarke, all of Plymouth, sold for £200 to Samuell Wood of Middleborough all the one half lot at Middleborough (which they had inherited of the father, Dea. Thomas Clarke) - site cited PLCD., vol. 26, p. 182
  9. ↑ In the same year he bought 160 acres from John Barnes which he sold 10 Nov. 1730 to John May and John Wetherhead - site cited PLCD., vol. 26, p. 13; vol. 27, p. 25
  10. ↑ He sold for his entire homestead farm, "where I now dwell," at Monument Ponds (which he had bought from John May less than four years before) to Samuel, Thomas and Jane Cornish for £350. - site cited PLCD, vol. 27, p. 144
  11. ↑ Gideon Ellis, late of Plymouth, now of Sandwich . . . yeoman sold for £19. to John May of Plymouth three lots at Little Meadows, which Ellis had bought from the said May "some time ago," 7 Feb. 1733/4 also "Gideon Ellis of Sandwich husbandman, sold for £9. paid by Nathaniel Bartlett of Plymouth 3 parcells in Plymouth which Ellis had bought from his brother-in-law Josiah Clarke" - site cited Betsey D. Keene in her History of Bourne, Betsey D. Keene, (1937), p. 57, also The Register, vol. 115, p. 98, April 1961, PLCD, p. 186 and PLCD., vol. 28, p. 152
  12. ↑ site cited The Register, April 1966, p 116
  13. ↑ Gideon Ellis of Sandwich, by deed dated 1749 (acknowledged 4 Dec. 1751, recorded 31 March 1756), bought for £12. from Josiah Bump of Lebanon ... Conn. a parcel of Cedar Swamp in Wareham which had belonged to the grantor's father, Isaac Bump - site cited PLCD, vol. 43, p. 215
  14. ↑ between Gideon Ellis of Sandwich . . . yeoman, and Jemima his wife, John Tomson, yeoman & Lydia his wife & Ephraim Wood of Middleborough; whereas the above parties stand possessed of a certain tract of land given them by their honoured father Elnathan Wood, late of Middleborough, deceased, to his five daughters in his last will and testament, about 50 acres, whereof Gideon & Jemima Ellis in behalf of one-fifth John Tomson & Lydia his wife 3/5ths, and Ephraim Wood 1/5th." Division agreed and sworn 5 May 1756; recorded 1 May 1760 - site cited PLCD, vol. 46, p. 90
  15. ↑ Gideon Ellis died intestate in Sandwich before 10 Dec. 1760 when his estate was appraised by Thomas Bourne, Elijah Perry and Samuel Tobey: real estate about £500.; other property £127, 4s, 8d. Sworn 17 Feb. 1761 - site cited Barnstable County Probate, vol. 12, p. 143
  16. ↑ The son-in-law, Timothy Perry, and the son Ebenezer Ellis were appointed administrators. The widow's thirds were set off to the relict Jemima Ellis. Final distribution was made to Elijah Ellis the Eldest son of the deceased 1/6th part, a double portion and to each of the other children 1/12th part, namely to Ebenezer Ellis, Elnathan Ellis, Abiel Ellis, Ephraim Ellis, Samuell Ellis, Reuben Ellis, Abigail Muxum and Eleanor Perry (land beginning southerly by Timothy Perry's land), Susannah Perry (land bounded by Timothy Perry) and Anna Ellis
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