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244 THE ELLISONS OF NEW JERSEY.
Joseph Ellison made his will Dec. 15, 1732, and mentions his brother,
John Ellison, his wife, Margaret Ellison, and his brother, Thomas Ellison,
Joseph Ellison, of Shrewsbury, N. J., bought land of Arthur Brown,
March 1, 1731.
Joseph Ellison, of New Brunswick, county of Middlesex, N". J., apparently
the same as above, made his will May 9, 1739; proven .June 9, 1739.
He had wife, Martha Ellison, and children, Anna Ellison, Mary Ellison,
and daughter-in-law Ann . Thomas JlUison was one of the executors.
Thomas Ellison, of Hempstead, N. Y., Queen's Co., "on Nassau
Island," N. Y., bought land in New Jersey, called Havorsneck, of "Walter
and Mary Newman, one hundred and sixty-four acres, Sept. 4, 1708.
Thomas Ellison of Shrewsbviry, county of Monmouth, N. J., yeoman,
bought land in that town of John Lawrence, June 16, 1709.
Thomas Ellison, of Perth Amboy, N. J., husbandman, on March 20,
1723, and Seth JLllison, carpenter, passed a legal document in relation to
land.
Thomas Ellison, of Shrewsbury, N. J., bought land in that place, Jan.
21, 1739, of Beriah Goddard, of Dartmouth, Mass.
Thomas Ellison, of Shrewsbury, N. J., on April 13, 1762, bought land
there of James Towney, of Buck's Co., Penn. He made his will Sept.
10, 1766; proven Dec. 1, 1770. He had a wife, Margaret Ellison. He had
a daughter, Anna Ellison, who married Mr. Allen, and had a son, Samuel
Allen. He had daughters, — Elizabeth Ellison, who married Mr. Morris,
Rebecca Ellison, Hannah Ellison; sons, —Amos Ellison, Lewis Ellison,
Thomas Ellison, and granddaughters, — Elizabeth and Mary Ellison.
FEOM SUFFOLK COUNTY RECORDS, AT BOSTON, MASS.
Thomas Ellison, Jr., of the city of New York, Merchant. •
He married
Mary Peck, Nov. 10, 1761. He and Vife, Mary (Peck) Ellison, and Hannah
Peck of the same place, spinster, two of the six daughters of and coheirs
of Benjamin Peck, late of the city of New York, deceased, sold
July 9, 1771, to Jeremiah Leaming, of Norwalk, Conn., their part of
land and wharfs at Boston, Mass., which belonged to Benjamin Peck,
which he got from his father, Thomas Peck.
William Ellison, of Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1773, sold land to Thomas
Hill,
OTHER RECORDS.
Thomas Ellison, of New Windsor, Ulster Co., N. Y., made will Sept. 18,
1789, mention of his sons—Thomas Ellison, John Ellison, William Ellison,
and daughters —Eleanor Ellison, Mary Ellison, and Margaret (Ellison)
Crooke.
Thomas Ellison, of New York city; will dated Feb. 1, 1796. He mentions
his wife, Mary Ellison, his brothers John and William Ellison, and
his nephew Thomas Ellison, son of his brother William Ellison. He
mentions Thomas Ellison Colden, his sister Elizabeth Colden, his sister
Eleanor Ellison, his sister Mary Ellison, his niece Margaret Ellison,
and John Inglis, Margaret Inglis, Ann Inglis, children of Charles Inglis,
the bishop of Nova Scotia, by his niece Margaret Crooke. He mentions
his sister Elizabeth Colden, his niece Alice Colden, wife of Lewis Antill.
Mary Ellison, of New York city, had a will dated Oct. 20, 1810. She
mentions her sister, J^lizabeth Colden, Alice Antill, granddaughter of
Elizabeth Colden, her sister, Margaret Crooke, widow of John Crooke,
John Inglis, .son of Charles Inglis, bishop of Nova Scotia, and his
daughter, Margaret Halliburton, his daughter Ann Pigeon. She speaks
of her sister Eleanor Ellison, Margaret Miller's daughter, of her brother