In a message dated 8/31/2007 10:26:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Have you looked for a will for Nicholas or any other Ellises in New York State? You could do that online on a site _www.sampubco.com_ (http://www.sampubco.com/) , county by county. It's just an index; if you want copies you have to order from him, David Samuelson, and it can take an age, but at least the index tells you what's there. I don't think it covers any administrations - just wills. Is there any kind of write-up for Christopher in a NY mug book? Were there any other Ellises among his associates? And what were the names of his children? Dear Jane: I did not answer all of your questions in my previous email. I have probably looked for Nicholas ELLIS's will at sampubco, but just in case I hadn't, I did now . There is no will for him at sampubco. I have purchased several wills from Mr. Samuelsen. I belong to many Rootsweb email lists and receive several online newsletters. I have in the past been a member of a good number of genealogical societies--RIGS, NEHGS, CNYGS, and have received several location and surname newsletters like The New England Connection and The Ellis Cousins Newsletter. I look at every page, site, whatever, that people supply or suggest that might have information on Christopher or Nicholas ELLIS. I have looked at so many that I do not know them all. I have not found any book or website that has a writeup and/or mug shot of Christopher. There were three other ELLISes of about Christopher's age living in Milford, Otsego Co., NY, at the time he lived there. I have not been able to find any connection between them and Christopher. I am aware of other ELLISes in RI--Rufus, Augustus, Gideon, etc. of the age to be Christopher's father, but none of them has a son named Christopher. Some of these ELLISes moved to New York State, but I have not found any connection between Christopher and them. Christopher ELLIS's oldest son, Jonas Perry ELLIS, had two children, James, who died at 16 years of age, and Harriet (1836-1900), who married Hamilton STONE, and had one child, Hattie Ella. Harriet, Hamilton and Hattie Ella moved to Clinton Co., MI from Onondaga Co., NY. Jonas left Harriet his Family Bible in his will. I have traced Harriet's descendants to Lima, Allen Co., OH, in the hope of finding a descendant who has the Bible. I don't know whether the Bible was new to Jonas or whether it had been given to him by Christopher and might, therefore, have information about Christopher's parents and ancestors. I have not started to write letters on this yet. I fear it would be a big waste of time and postage. I look at every online site that lists Bibles, and I have written libraries in the hope of finding the Bible in one of them. Thanks for your help. Jayne [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Hi I looked as Sambuco also, and there were no wills for Nicholas, that I could find. There were a couple of Ellis wills, in the county pages, but I only found one for Thomas and one for Samuel. Thomas was Troy NY, 42-56-443 Samuel was Warren NY, 57 A 112 Boops ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [RIGENWEB] Ellis search > > In a message dated 8/31/2007 10:26:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Have you looked for a will for Nicholas or any other Ellises in New York > State? You could do that online on a site _www.sampubco.com_ > (http://www.sampubco.com/) , county by county. It's just an index; if you > want copies you have to > order from him, David Samuelson, and it can take an age, but at least the > index tells you what's there. I don't think it covers any > administrations - > just wills. > > Is there any kind of write-up for Christopher in a NY mug book? Were > there > any other Ellises among his associates? And what were the names of his > children? > > > > > Dear Jane: > > I did not answer all of your questions in my previous email. > > I have probably looked for Nicholas ELLIS's will at sampubco, but just in > case I hadn't, I did now . There is no will for him at sampubco. I have > purchased several wills from Mr. Samuelsen. > > I belong to many Rootsweb email lists and receive several online > newsletters. I have in the past been a member of a good number of > genealogical > societies--RIGS, NEHGS, CNYGS, and have received several location and > surname > newsletters like The New England Connection and The Ellis Cousins > Newsletter. > > I look at every page, site, whatever, that people supply or suggest that > might have information on Christopher or Nicholas ELLIS. I have looked > at so > many that I do not know them all. I have not found any book or website > that has > a writeup and/or mug shot of Christopher. > > There were three other ELLISes of about Christopher's age living in > Milford, > Otsego Co., NY, at the time he lived there. I have not been able to find > any > connection between them and Christopher. I am aware of other ELLISes in > RI--Rufus, Augustus, Gideon, etc. of the age to be Christopher's father, > but none > of them has a son named Christopher. Some of these ELLISes moved to New > York > State, but I have not found any connection between Christopher and them. > > Christopher ELLIS's oldest son, Jonas Perry ELLIS, had two children, > James, > who died at 16 years of age, and Harriet (1836-1900), who married Hamilton > STONE, and had one child, Hattie Ella. Harriet, Hamilton and Hattie Ella > moved > to Clinton Co., MI from Onondaga Co., NY. Jonas left Harriet his Family > Bible > in his will. I have traced Harriet's descendants to Lima, Allen Co., OH, > in > the hope of finding a descendant who has the Bible. I don't know whether > the > Bible was new to Jonas or whether it had been given to him by Christopher > and > might, therefore, have information about Christopher's parents and > ancestors. I have not started to write letters on this yet. I fear it > would be a big > waste of time and postage. I look at every online site that lists Bibles, > and > I have written libraries in the hope of finding the Bible in one of them. > > Thanks for your help. > > Jayne > [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > > > > > > > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Just an idea for searching. I did a brief study of the ellis name in 1790, 1800 and 1810 census. It seems they may have been Quakers . The quakers migrated from RI to CT and NY. In NY they went from Dutchess County north to Saratoga, washington and warren Counties. Otsego County is west of Albany where another group of Quakers went. The earliets Ellis in Pittsfield Otsego County appears to be Reuben. Also in that time frame the Ellis' in Columbia and Rennselaer Counties included two Nathan's and two Nicholas'.