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John Ellet

Male Abt 1608 - Aft 1658  (~ 50 years)


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  • Name John Ellet 
    Born Abt 1608  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Aft 30 Nov 1658  of, , Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2972  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Margaret,   d. 17 Aug 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1633 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Ellet,   b. 2/02 Feb 1633/4, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Ellet,   b. 12 Jun 1636, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Anne Ellet,   b. 12 Jul 1638, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Samuel Ellet,   b. Jun 1640, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 30 Jul 1640, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     5. Martha Ellet,   b. 27/27 Jan 1640/1, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 28/28 Jan 1640/1, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     6. Sarah Elliot,   b. 22 Dec 1643, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F657  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III, pp. 632-34:
      "John Ellet
      Origin: Unknown
      Migration: 1633
      First Residence: Watertown
      Removes: Stamford 1646
      Estate: Granted a homestall of eight acres, one acre in Patch Meadow, a twenty-five acre Great Dividend, four acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, four acres in the Remote Meadows, nine acres of upland beyond the further plain, and a farm of seventy-eight acres [WaBOP 5, 6, 8, 13, 40, 95]. By the time of the Composite Inventory he had disosed of his grant in the Beaverbrook Plowlands, at that date held by John Whitney Jr. [WaBOP 139]. On 8 May 1646 John Ellet sold the remainder of his Watertown lands to Thomas Wincoll [SLR 1:74].
      The Stamford lands of "John Elette" were listed on 5 March 1650: one house & houselot, one acre and a half; two acres meadow in the East Field; three acres meadow in the same field; and five acres in the North field; to which was added on 7 March 1650 "more of John Elot," one acre and a half of upland in the North Field [StTR 1:32-33].
      On 27 December 1650 "Edmon Lockwood" sold to "John Ellott" two acres in the East Field [StTR 1:33].
      Birth: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage.
      Death: After 30 November 1658 (creditor in inventory of Thomas Stevens [StTR 84]). (John Ellet was named as an abutter in a deed as late as 20 February 1659/60 [StTR 1:58], but this is no guarantee that he was still alive.)
      Marriage: By 1633 Margaret ____ (who is given as the mother of all the children listed below). "Marget wife to John Eliot" died at Stamford 17 August 1658 [StTR 1:26].
      Children (all born Watertown):
      i Elizabeth, b. 2 February 1633[/4] [WaVR 3]; no further record.
      ii John, b. 12 June 1636 [WaVR 4]; no further record.
      iii Anne, b. 12 July 1638 [WaVR 5]; no further record.
      iv Samuel, b. June 1640 [WaVR 8]; bur. 30 July 1640 [WaVR 8].
      v Martha, b. 27 January 1640[/1] [WaVR 8]; bur. 28 January 1640[/1] [WaVR 8]; no further record. (These last two entries are clearly in conflict; given the spacing between the other births, Martha's dates should probably be one year later.)
      vi Sarah, b. 22 December 1643 [WaVR 11]; she may be the Sarah Elliot who married at Stamford 27 January 1658[/9] Thomas Roberts [StTR 1:87].
      Associations: John Ellet and his family were part of the group migration from Watertown to Stamford in 1646, with Nicholas Knapp, Nicholas Theale, William Potter, Robert Lockwood, John Waterbury, Richard Ambler and GREGORY Taylor [GMN 1:8].
      Comments: In the grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows, which were in part based on size of household, Ellet received four acres. This corresponds to John, his wife Margaret, daughter Elizabeth and son John, and indicates that Elizabeth was in fact the first Child, and there is no evidence of earlier children who might have been born in England.
      After 1658 this family seems to fade away, and there is no certainty that the marriage of Thomas Roberts and Sarah Elliot belongs here. It may be that more than one of the daughters married in the Stamford area and left descendants, or it may be that the family simply died out. Since there is no record of a probate for John Ellet, it may also be that he moved away from New England."

      2. "Great Migration Newsletter," Vols. 1-15, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2007, p. 8, (1990 issue) in commenting on 1646 migration patterns from Watertown:
      "An important goal of the Great Migration Study Project is to identify groups of families of individuals who migration... Specifically, if we see several families moving together, we can reasonably hypothesize that they may have been associated at some time in the past.
      The early migration from Watertown to Wethersfield on the Connecticut river in 1635 and 1636 is well known, and the later migration of some of these same families form Wethersfeild to the new town of Stamford, around 1640 and 1641, is also documented. Some years later several families moved directly form Watertown to Stamford, as evidenced principally by their sale of Watertown lands in late 1645 and early 1646 [Ancestors in my database are capitalized]:
      Nicholas Theale...
      William Potter...
      Nicholas Knapp - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71).
      Robert Lockwood - Sold to Brian Pendleton on 7 May 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:71).
      John Ellet - Sold to Thomas Wincoll on 29 June 1646 (Suffolk Deeds 1:74).
      John Waterbury...
      Richard Ambler...
      Gregory Taylor...
      We should not be surprised that, once Stamford was founed by migrants from Wethersfield who had even earlier lived in Watertown, a few Watertown families would also move to Stamford. One would not predict, however, that they would wait for several years after Stambord was founded, and that then eight families would all move within the space of a year, or two at most.
      The conclusion that some of these families might share a common origin in England, although certainly not proven, does become a sound working hypothesis, ad will direct research in English sources. as the Project proceeds, it should uncover many more clusters of families such as this, which are seen to move togeter in a concerted way."

      3. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 72: "Page 84 [1:70]" shows 17 shillings of money owed to "To Elet" in the inventory dated 30 Nov 1658 of the estate of Thomas Stevens. The author includes the following footnote:
      "This person is most likely John Eliot. Huntington ("History of Stamford, 52) states: "Elliot, John, was here early though his name is variously spelled on the records. He was a landholder in 1650. He lost his wife Margret, in 1658; and no later record of the name appears."

      4. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), pp. 27-46: "Page 30 [1:24] through page 57 [1:47]" details land holdings and transactions by various individuals in which some of the bounds abut land owned by John Ellet.

      5. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), p. 52:
      "ELLIOT, JOHN, was here early though his name is variously spelled on the records. He was a landholder in 1650. He lost his wife Margret, in 1658; and no later record of the name appears."