Sources & Information:
Item 1.John Ellis was a Revolutionary War soldier enlisting 16 July 1779 for service
in the Continental Army. He served in Capt. Bradley's company, Col. Rossiter's
regiment; Capt. Mean's company, 12th Regiment; Capt. Porter's company, Col.
Rossiter's regiment; Capt. Ebenezer Smith's company, Col. Calvin Smith's
regiment; discharfed in 1783. After the war he was Adjutant of Danforth's
Regiment, New York Militia, 1796, Brigadier General, Onondaga County Militia,
1811.

During the War of 1812 he was the Brig. General of the Eighteenth Division of
Infantry, N.Y. State Militia, commanding the Onondaga Brigade which he led
into the engagements with the British invasion forces at Oswego Falls and
Sacketts Harbor. He received the highest commendations for patriotism and
promotion to Major General New York State Militia 1818. He was a peacetime
pioneer, farmer, sheep and cattle herder, cloth manufacturer, and saw mill
operator. He was one of the organizers of the first Presbyterian Society of
Onondaga and is buried at Zion Church, Onondaga Hill, N.Y.
All of their children were born in Syracuse, New York.

Item 2.ECN Summer 1996, pg 58 has short article on Revolutionary Soldiers, Resident
or Dying in Onondaga Co. N.Y. by Rev. W. M. Beauchamp and Centennial History
of the Town of Dryden and Genealogical and Family History of Central N.Y.
This includes data on General John Ellis b. in Hebron, Conn. 1764.

Item 3. The Register, July 1967, p. 226.
Mack Genealogy, Vol. 1 p. 351.
Genealogy of General John Ellis by C. B. Tillinghast.
Col. Harry H. Ellis, Dallas, Tx.

Item 4.NEHGS Cemetery Records, Ellis Family Cemetery opposite the County House,
Onondaga, Onondaga Co., N.Y.