Ellis-Ellsworth-Giddings Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameFreeman Ellis , Sgt. 
Birth7 Jul 1745, Plymouth, Plympton, MA.
Birth18 Jul 1745, Birth: Also shown as 7 July 1745.
Death15 Mar 1802, Hartford, Oxford County, Maine.
FatherJoel Ellis (1710-1783)
MotherPhebe Freeman (1713-1792)
Misc. Notes
Sources & Information:
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Archives from Secretory of Commonwealth. Ellis, Freeman, Plympton. Corporal, Capt. John Bradford's co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Marshfield; service, 12 days; reported enlised into the army; also, Sergeant, Capt. John Bradford's co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; service, 3 mos. 7 days; also, company return dated Oct. 7, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, Nov. 9, 1775. A Revolutionary War “Minuteman,” removed to Hartford, ME in 1792.
John P. Ellis statement in e-mail of Dec. 16, 1998, to Edward D. Ellis, as follows: “Much of this family history was published by Caleb Holt Ellis in 1900 in a book called “The Bradfords, Fullers and Ellises.” That book was very helpful, but it contains errors. I am in the process of going back to original sources.” EDE.
He is listed in the 1790 census as the head of a Plympton family of two males over 16, one under 16 and five females. Children are from the Vital Records of Plympton.
Freeman is buried at Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery in Hartford., Maine. Was a founding Selectman of the town of Hartford in 1798 and also served as Town Clerk.
Freeman Ellis and Sarah Bradford marriage in Plymouth County, Book II, as 19 March 1767.
Freeman Ellis (born 7 July 1745, died 15 March 1802): sergeant in a Massachusetts unit; married to Sarah Bradford; pension appl. (24114) submitted by his widow.
Other Sources:
IGI page 12048 & Vital Records of Plympton, Ma.
N.E.H.G.S. Register, Jan 1968, pp. 59-60.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailorss in the Revolutuon, p. 302.
Genealaogical Record, The Bradfords, Fullers and Ellises, by C. H. Ellis, p. 21.
Mrs Freeman (Alice) G. Ellis, 122 Shrewsbury Street, Holden, MA. 01520.
Col. Harry H. Ellis, dec'd, Dallas, Tx.
Rev. John Ellis, 32 KAL Shore Rd., Norway Maine 04268; ECN, Summer 1998, pg. 44.
The Ellis Family, The american Genealogical Research Institute, Arlington, Virginia, Pg. 76.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Archives from Secretory of Commonwealth. Ellis, Freeman, Plympton. Corporal, Capt. John Bradford's co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Marshfield; service, 12 days; reported enlised into the army; also, Sergeant, Capt. John Bradford's co., Col. Theophilus Cotton's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; service, 3 mos. 7 days; also, company return dated Oct. 7, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, Nov. 9, 1775. A Revolutionary War “Minuteman,” removed to Hartford, ME in 1792.
John P. Ellis statement in e-mail of Dec. 16, 1998, to Edward D. Ellis, as follows: “Much of this family history was published by Caleb Holt Ellis in 1900 in a book called “The Bradfords, Fullers and Ellises.” That book was very helpful, but it contains errors. I am in the process of going back to original sources.” EDE.
He is listed in the 1790 census as the head of a Plympton family of two males over 16, one under 16 and five females. Children are from the Vital Records of Plympton.
Freeman is buried at Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery in Hartford., Maine. Was a founding Selectman of the town of Hartford in 1798 and also served as Town Clerk.
Freeman Ellis and Sarah Bradford marriage in Plymouth County, Book II, as 19 March 1767.
Freeman Ellis (born 7 July 1745, died 15 March 1802): sergeant in a Massachusetts unit; married to Sarah Bradford; pension appl. (24114) submitted by his widow.
Other Sources:
IGI page 12048 & Vital Records of Plympton, Ma.
N.E.H.G.S. Register, Jan 1968, pp. 59-60.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailorss in the Revolutuon, p. 302.
Genealaogical Record, The Bradfords, Fullers and Ellises, by C. H. Ellis, p. 21.
Mrs Freeman (Alice) G. Ellis, 122 Shrewsbury Street, Holden, MA. 01520.
Col. Harry H. Ellis, dec'd, Dallas, Tx.
Rev. John Ellis, 32 KAL Shore Rd., Norway Maine 04268; ECN, Summer 1998, pg. 44.
The Ellis Family, The american Genealogical Research Institute, Arlington, Virginia, Pg. 76.
Spouses
Marriage19 Mar 1767, Plympton First Church, Plympton, MA. Plymouth, Plympton, MA., IGI pg. 12048.