Person:John Ellis (155)

Information on John Ellis

John Ellis recieved 20 shillings from his father, Hezekiah Ellis' will of 1726. John had a plantation of 2,268 acres on the South Fork of the North Fork/Branch of the South river with surveys listed in Colonial Caroline County. This area was in Spotsylvania County, later becoming part of Orange County. In 1738 it became a part of Frederick and Augusta Counties. When John Ellis settled in this area, it was a wilderness filled with wild animals, and Indians. A very prominent family, John Madison, was his neighbor. James Madison, the 4th President of the United States, was born in 1751 at Port Conway, King George County, Virginia. Shortly after his birth, his mother brought him from her parents home to the Madison home in Orange County. John raised his family to be strong, independent, exellent hunters and wise in the ways of the wilderness. They hunted, fished, and trapped for their food. They also became as cunning as the Indians.

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