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Personal data Freeman Ellis 

• He was born on May 26, 1745 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
• He died on March 15, 1802 in Hartford, Oxford, Maine, USA, he was 56 years old.
• A child of Joel Ellis and Phebe Freeman
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Freeman Ellis

He is married to Sarah Bradford.

They got married on March 19, 1767 at Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, he was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Joanna Ellis  1767-????
2. Mercy Ellis  1769-1837 
3. Benjamin Ellis  1771-1836 
4. Jane Bradford Ellis  1773-1866 
5. Sarah Ellis  1775-1839
6. Freeman Ellis  1779-1866 

Notes about Freeman Ellis

Audrey Maxine Ellis' 3rd Great Grand Uncle

He was a "Minuteman" 19 April 1775, and served in the Massachusetts Militia at Roxbury during the Seige of Boston.

The following entry in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War" (vol. 5, p. 302) details his military service:

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 enlisted into the army; 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; company return dated Oct. 7, 1775; order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, Nov. 9, 1775.

He removed to Hartford, ME in 1792, and was a founding Selectman of the town, 13 Aug 1798. He served as Town Clerk.

Sarah Bradford Ellis' application for a military widow's pension includes the following affidavit:

"The said Freeman Ellis served eight months as Orderly Sergeant in Capt. John Bradford's Company in Col. Cotton's Regiment at Roxbury in the year 1775. The said Freeman Ellis also served one month as a soldier in Capt James Harlow's company but then commanded by Lieutenant Elijah Bisbee at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island in the Spring of the year 1777." [Signed] Sarah Ellis [10 February 1837]" (Federal Pension Record No. W24114)

A BIOGRAPHY OF FREEMAN ELLIS, by Larry Overmire (5th great grandson), Aug. 2008:

Freeman Ellis was born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on July 7, 1745, the third of seven children of Joel Ellis, Jr., and Phebe Freeman. His great grandparents were Sgt. John Churchill and Rebecca Delano, distant cousins of Sir Winston Churchill and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

On Mar. 19, 1767, at Plympton First Church, Plympton, Massachusetts with Rev. Jonathan Parker presiding, 22-year-old Freeman married 19-year-old Sarah "Sally" Bradford, the daughter of Gideon Bradford and Jane "Jennee" Paddock. Sarah was the 3rd great granddaugter of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower. She and Freeman had six children: Joanna, Mercy, Benjamin, Jane Bradford, Sarah "Sally," and Freeman II.

During the Revolution, Freeman served as a Corporal in Capt. John Bradford's Co. which marched to Marshfield, Massachusetts, on the alarm of April 19, 1775, the date on which British and American soldiers exchanged fire in Lexington and Concord. He enlisted again on May 2, 1775 and was promoted to Sgt. in Capt. Bradford's Co. Freeman also served as a private in Capt. James Harlow's Co., commanded by 1st Lt. Elijah Bisbee, Jr., Col. Thomas Lothrop's regiment, Brig. Joseph Cushing's brigade for 16 days of service marching on an alarm to Bristol, R.I.

Freeman and Sarah moved to Hartford, Oxford County, Maine in 1792. He died there on Mar. 15, 1802, at the age of 56, and was laid to rest in the Starboard Hill burying ground (aka Meeting House Hill Cemetery). His gravestone was not located in 2009 and may have disappeared.

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