Jedediah Ellis Family

Jedediah Ellis, son of Samuel Ellis, was born April 10, 1822 in Woodstock, Massachusetts (now Connecticut) to Samuel Ellis and Betsey Young. He died July 6, 1894, Syracuse, Onandaga, New York. He married April 3, 1845 in Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts to Harriet Augusta Moffitt. On James and Sophronia’s birth records it shows that Jedediah was …

The Indian War that Wasn’t

A distant cousin shared this funny story with me recently. He also shared the picture of Richard “John” Hall. On Saturday the 6th day of January, 1838, near the same spot where a quarter of a century before the first settler in the Town of Ellington felled the trees and erected his rude log cabin …

Martin Family

There are two Martin family lines that converge through marriage though they are not related to each other. Because of this, I am starting out with the first branch and then will follow with the second branch. Bartholomew Martin Little is known about our first known ancestor on this branch. Bartholomew Martin was born about …

Hall Family

Richard John Hall was the father of Joseph Hall (Richard) who married Sarah Kimball. Their son was Benjamin Hall below. Third Generation Benjamin Hall (Joseph, Richard) was born April 27, 1712 in Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, and died October 27, 1795 in Metheun, Essex, Massachusetts. Benjamin married Rebecca Farnham on October 9, 1735 in Massachusetts. She …

John Olin, II

John Olin II was born March 8, 1711/12 in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island. He married Susannah Pierce in East Greenwich on December 8, 1734. She was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island April 8, 1708 and was the daughter of Jeremiah Pierce. John and Susannah (Pierce) Olin lived in Rhode Island where they reared …