Ellis-Ellsworth-Giddings Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameLevi Ellis 
Birth6 MAR 1738/39, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
DeathJun 1815, Ovid, Seneca, N.Y.
BurialWest Lodi Cemetery, Lodi, N.Y.
FatherChristopher Ellis (1717-)
MotherPriscilla Chase (1720-)
Misc. Notes
Sources & Information:
Note name and spelling of Levi Ellis. ELES, LEVI, son of Christopher Eles/Priscalah, born 6 March 1739, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma. IGI Massachusetts page 12068.
1st. Individual Record: Levi Ellis, Birth & Parents names.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IG...cid=10...n=11&frompage=99. 2nd. Individual Record: Levi Ellis, Birth, Death, Burial & Parents names.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF...s=0&am...dly=&frompage=99.
Levi Ellis, son of Christoher Ellis and Priscilla Chase of Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, (Cape Cod) Massachusetts. Born 6 Mar 1739 at Yarmouth. This raises the Loyalist question upon relocating to Vernon, Sussex Co., New York, 1770-98, then to Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y. He was however listed on Hardyston, Sussex Co., New Jersey Sept. 1774 tax list.
Was possibly a Baptist while living near or in Warwich, Orange Co., N.Y. 1775. Operated a grist mill, farm and blacksmith business. He was possibly a widower after 1775. He died 1815.
His first marriage abt 1760 to Elizabeth (Unknown last name) and resulting in children Elizabeth b. c. 1760, William b. 1762, Levi Jr. b. 1764, Lazarus B. 1766, Abner, Amos, Archibald, Barbara, Nancy, Simeon b. c. 1775.
His second marriage to Elizabeth Hillman and resulted in children Anna b. 1785-90, d. 1817, Will and probate record of 3 July 1815, Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y., Moses B. 1792, Charlotte B. 1795-1800, d. 1817 N.Y.
Levi Ellis was listed in Fourth Battalion of New Jersy, Volunteers 25 March 1777.
Property was sold off on 9 April 1777 and again on 18 July 1777. There being an Inquisition against him and others in Sussex Co., New Jersey 10 march 1779, published in NJ Gazette at Trenton, NJ. (Record did not show him fleeing to Candada or other loyalists resettlement areas).
EGRS. Also The New Loyalist Index, Volume III, including Cape Cod & Islands, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York loyalists, by Paul J. Bunnell, F.A.C.G., U.E., Heritage Books, Inc.
Records of the Baptist Church of Warwick, N.Y.
Levi DeMotte Ellis Letters.
History of Seneca County, N.Y.
Wanda Black Morris, Rockford, Illinois.
Loyalists Treated Badly During American Revolution, ECN Winter 1992, pg 14, by Jean Ellis Grace, P.O. Box 187, Lodi, N.Y. 14860.
The N.Y. Moses Ellis, Son of Levi Ellis, ECN Spring 1992, pg. 25, By Jean Ellis Grace.
Tidbits from Ellis Freeman Descendants, Sandwich, Ma., ECN Fall 1997, pg. 64, by Jean Ellis Grace.
Family Group Record --- FamilySearch@Ancestral File.
http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/family_group_record.asp?familyid=8872484.
Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850. Page 90 "The birth of children of Cristiopher and Pricalah Eles: Levi E(illegible) was born March the 6th 1739."
Note name and spelling of Levi Ellis. ELES, LEVI, son of Christopher Eles/Priscalah, born 6 March 1739, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma. IGI Massachusetts page 12068.
1st. Individual Record: Levi Ellis, Birth & Parents names.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IG...cid=10...n=11&frompage=99. 2nd. Individual Record: Levi Ellis, Birth, Death, Burial & Parents names.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF...s=0&am...dly=&frompage=99.
Levi Ellis, son of Christoher Ellis and Priscilla Chase of Yarmouth, Barnstable Co, (Cape Cod) Massachusetts. Born 6 Mar 1739 at Yarmouth. This raises the Loyalist question upon relocating to Vernon, Sussex Co., New York, 1770-98, then to Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y. He was however listed on Hardyston, Sussex Co., New Jersey Sept. 1774 tax list.
Was possibly a Baptist while living near or in Warwich, Orange Co., N.Y. 1775. Operated a grist mill, farm and blacksmith business. He was possibly a widower after 1775. He died 1815.
His first marriage abt 1760 to Elizabeth (Unknown last name) and resulting in children Elizabeth b. c. 1760, William b. 1762, Levi Jr. b. 1764, Lazarus B. 1766, Abner, Amos, Archibald, Barbara, Nancy, Simeon b. c. 1775.
His second marriage to Elizabeth Hillman and resulted in children Anna b. 1785-90, d. 1817, Will and probate record of 3 July 1815, Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y., Moses B. 1792, Charlotte B. 1795-1800, d. 1817 N.Y.
Levi Ellis was listed in Fourth Battalion of New Jersy, Volunteers 25 March 1777.
Property was sold off on 9 April 1777 and again on 18 July 1777. There being an Inquisition against him and others in Sussex Co., New Jersey 10 march 1779, published in NJ Gazette at Trenton, NJ. (Record did not show him fleeing to Candada or other loyalists resettlement areas).
EGRS. Also The New Loyalist Index, Volume III, including Cape Cod & Islands, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York loyalists, by Paul J. Bunnell, F.A.C.G., U.E., Heritage Books, Inc.
Records of the Baptist Church of Warwick, N.Y.
Levi DeMotte Ellis Letters.
History of Seneca County, N.Y.
Wanda Black Morris, Rockford, Illinois.
Loyalists Treated Badly During American Revolution, ECN Winter 1992, pg 14, by Jean Ellis Grace, P.O. Box 187, Lodi, N.Y. 14860.
The N.Y. Moses Ellis, Son of Levi Ellis, ECN Spring 1992, pg. 25, By Jean Ellis Grace.
Tidbits from Ellis Freeman Descendants, Sandwich, Ma., ECN Fall 1997, pg. 64, by Jean Ellis Grace.
Family Group Record --- FamilySearch@Ancestral File.
http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/family_group_record.asp?familyid=8872484.
Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850. Page 90 "The birth of children of Cristiopher and Pricalah Eles: Levi E(illegible) was born March the 6th 1739."
Spouses
Marriageabt 1760, p n/k
Marriageabt 1760, p n/k