Person:Jonathan Ellis (6)

Excerpts from "The Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Organization of the United Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhose Island, September 7, 1904" ([1]).

1749. The church hears at least two candidates, a Mr. Brown, and Jonathan Ellis. In "Sketches of Ministers" written by Emerson Davis: Reverend Jonathan Ellis of Sandwich, Mass., graduated from Harvard in 1737, and was ordained pastor of the Second Church in Plymouth, Mass., November eighth, 1738, when he was but twenty-one years old. Being naturally earnest, he became exceedingly enthusiastic, and said so many extravagant things that people became disaffected and he was dismissed October thirty-first, 1749. He is installed pastor at Little Compton December fifth of the same year, continuing there for thirty-six years. He dies September seventh, 1785, and the church is without a pastor for a year and a half.

Excerpts from "Proceedings of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration of the Second Congregational Church in Plymouth, (Manomet) Mass." ([2]).

...occasionally came together by themselves for public worship from the year[s] 1729-1738, with no settled pastor, and still kept their membership with the old Church in Plymouth. But sooner or later their separation was sure to come. So on May 22, 1738, they unanimously voted to give Mr. Jonathan Ellis a call to be their pastor. Mr. Ellis was a Harvard graduate, just out of the college. He accepted the call, was ordained, Nov. 8, 1738, and after laboring nearly 11 years among them, was dismissed, Oct. 31, 1749. ... For over three years after the dismissal of Rev. Jonathan Ellis, the Church had no settled pastor.

1. ↑ Sandwich, Mass., Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   30:104.

   Jonathan Ellis son of s'd John and Sarah Ellis Born 1st day of may 1717.