"_____The ancestry of John Ellis of Rehoboth is at present not determined. There was a John Ellis in the Plymouth Cology, who evidently came from Leyden on the second voyage of the Mayflower, and a John Ellis Jr., is also mentioned in the early reoords, and was evidently his son. The descendants on this line have not as yet been clearly traced, but as there was a large increase of the name in and near Plymouth, it seems to have sprung from this stock, and John of Rehoboth, a few miles away, would appear most naturally to belong to that family. He seems to have been the first Ellis in Rehoboth, where he married Eunice Millard in 1738; the probable date of his birth being about 1715-17. In the same town in 1746, Hester Ellis was married to Peter Millard. These may have been John's sisters, and none of them were born there, nor were any other of the name Ellis until John's children."
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"_____Immediately after the conflict at Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, troops were enlisted in New Hampshire under Col. Ephraim Doolittle, of which regiment a company was raised in Richmond by Capt. Oliver Capron. Both Henry Ingalls and John Ellis joined Capron's company on May 5th, and Ingalls appears as seargeant and Ellis as private on the muster roll."
