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Emily Dickinson

American Poet

Rachel Ellis

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Emily Dickinson — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 27 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Ellis Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Adams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jan 1728/1729 
  • Birth Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Seth Marsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Feb 1749/1750 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sarah Marsh (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rachel Ellis's birth is recorded in the vital records for both Sturbridge and Medfield, Massachusetts.

• Additional marriages for Rachel Ellis

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  • Spouse:
  • Phineas Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Sep 1773
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

• Sources for Rachel Ellis

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 47, Birth record for Rachel Ellice.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brimfield, Vol. 1, p. 239, Marriage record for Phineas Sherman and Rachel Marsh.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Medfield, Vol. 1, p. 156, Marriage record for Seth Marsh and Rachal Ellis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sturbridge, Vol. 1, p. 47, Birth record for Rachel Ellis.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 202.
  • ⁶ Sherman, Charles Pomeroy, Sherman Genealogy in the Direct Line from Thomas Sherman, I (c1443-1493) . . ., Atlantic City: Brooks and Idler (1922), 26.
  • ⁷ Sherman, Roy V., The New England Shermans, Akron, Ohio: unknown (1974), 55, 67-68.
  • ⁸ Wight, William Ward, The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of his Descendants 1635-1890, Milwaukee: Swain and Tate, Printers (1890), 18.