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246 THE ELLISONS OF NEW WINDSOR, N. Y.
When his son Thomas Ellison took possession, he erected a
stone mansion on the bluff overlooking the river, and a dock
and storehouse, and founded the freighting business, which
was continued a century by himself and his descendants.
His house was occupied by General Washington in 1779 as
his head-quarters.
JOHN Ellison's childken.
I. John Ellison. No record.
II. Thomas Ellison was a colonel in French and Indian war.
III. William Ellison. No record.
IV. Joseph Ellison. No record.
Col. Thomas Ellison, son of John, married Margaret Garrebrant
in 1723. He built the homestead that year, the house
afterwards occupied as Washington's headquarters. He died
there.
CHILDREN.
I. Thomas Ellison, d. young.
II. Elizabeth Ellison, m. Cadwallader Golden.
III. Margaret Ellison, m. John Crook, and had one daughter.
IV. Eleanor Ellison, b. 1730.
V. Thomas Ellison, b. 1732; m. Mary, daughter of Benjamin Peck. See
notice of them and the Peck family from Suffolk Co., Mass.,
records, p. 244, and Mr. Ellison's will.
VI. Mary Ellison. Single.
VII. John Ellison, d. young.
VIII. John Ellison, m. Catherine Jameson.
IX. Francis Ellison, d. young.
X. William Ellison, m. Mary Floyd and had three children.
If the foregoing account of the origin of this family is cor-
rect, these Ellisons of Newburgh and New Windsor, N. Y.,
are not related, on this side the ocean, to the Long Island
Ellisons, who were, and are now, tlie J.l]isons of Rockland
county, N. Y. But it is not improbable that upon the other
side the sea they both sprang from a common source, and
that, the Allisons of Scotland.
has incorporated what he has himself gleaned, and what has been furnished
by others, so that the information would be preserved, and with
the hope that it would aid and stimulate the future historian of the Ellison
family.