Among the early settlers of Dedham, Mass., were a number of persons by the name of Ellis. They were probably all related, but were unlikely to have been brothers and sisters. From the fragmentary data existing it seems probable that a widow Ellis, with two sons, Richard and Joseph, married Lambert Genery (or Chenery) and came to this country. It is quite possible that John, Thomas and Ann Ellis, also early settlers of Dedham, may have been her children or her step-children, but there is no proof of it.
*Lambert Genery signed the Dedham Covenant in 1636, as did also |John Ellice, Richard Ellice and Joseph Ellice. In the list of admissions to the church there are the following:
The wife of Goodman Genery, 4 Dec. 1640.
Lambert Genery, 9 June 1644. ...
... Widow Ellis married (1) before 1620 ___ Ellis, and (2), probably before 1633, Lambert Genery. She died before 14 May 1658. Her children were: ...
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*Lambert Genery ... married first, a widow Ellis, by whom he had two sons, John and Isaac Genery. She died before 14 May 1658, for on that date he married, second, ...
