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| Although I am not a descendant of John Ellington, some of his descendants married into my family.
Consequently, I have devoted Allied Family Topic EL to his family. |
John Ellington, in his own words |
| If he could speak to us today, John Ellington might describe his life as follows. |
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After Godfrey Fowler and George Archer paid my fare to Virginia, perhaps around 1700,  I settled in present-day Dinwiddie County. Because most records of Prince George County, which preceded the creation of Dinwiddie, are missing, no deeds revealing my land purchases remain. |
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With plans to acquire another plantation, I had Robert Bolling survey 200 acres on both sides of Ellington Creek, named for me of course, 8 May 1712. The process for securing land with an official patent being complicated, the tract wasn’t mine until 15 July 1717. I added 347 acres 5 September 1723 that Bolling had surveyed 27 January 1720/1. |
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From 1727 to 1739 I was a resident of Bristol Parish, teaming with William Spain to walk the boundary of farms along Whipponock and Namozine creeks to head off boundary disputes, called processioning. |
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Since mine burned with the other Prince George County wills, the names of my children no longer remain. Yet I am likely the father of David and John Ellington whose names appeared together on a deed and had land on Deep Creek in Amelia County. |
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I was alive in 1746 when my son was still called Jr. but likely dead by 1755, when he wasn’t. |
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On 28 Sept. 1730 Ellington added another patent of 300 acres on the upper side of Whipponock Creek in present-day Dinwiddie County, which Bolling had surveyed 19 Feb. 1723/4. Godfrey Ragsdale and John Tucker were neighbors by 1722. |
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For killing one wolf, Prince George County paid John Ellington 100 pounds of tobacco. |
Descendants of John Ellington |
Information about the children of John Ellington, their descendants, and allied families previously found at Virginians.com is
now available as Southside Virginia Genealogies.
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| Names found in this topic include the following. |
| | David Ellington (-c.1774), |
| Daniel Ragsdale, Christopher Martin, |
| Edward Thweatt, |
| John Wilkinson, John Thomas DeJarnett, |
| Martha (—) Ellington, Peter Bailey, |
| Jeremiah Ellington, Frances Jones, Benjamin Jones, |
| Adam Jones, Thomas Ball, John Wilkinson, |
| David Walker, |
| John Motley, John Yates, |
| David Ellington, |
| Dewey Ellington, |
| Fanny Ellington, |
| Ann Ellington, Dudley Jones, |
| Sarah Ellington, Francis Drinkard, |
| Lucy Ellington, Benjamin Waldron, |
| Leonard Ellington, Mary Susan Boyd, |
| Obedience Ellington, Royall N. Lipford, |
| John Ellington, |
| Adam Jones Ellington, |
| Martha Ellington, Joel Wooldridge, |
| David Ellington, Jerusha Fowlkes, |
| Josiah Ellington, William Mullins, Elizabeth Bruce, Simeon Walton, George Walton, David Thompson, |
| Simeon Ellington, Woodson Bruce, Elizabeth W. Pettus, John Pettus, |
| Hezekiah Ellington, Ridley Bruce, Joseph Motley, |
| Elizabeth Ellington, William Richard Borum, |
| Rebecca Ellington, Richard A. Miller, |
| Nancy Ellington, John Miller, |
| Prudence Ellington, William Bailey, Elias E. Carter, |
| Hezekiah Ellington, Obedience Hatcher, Armistead Bruce, |
| Enoch Ward Ellington, Thomas Gunn Jr., |
| Sarah Woodson, Tucker Woodson, Judith Woodson, Tucker Woodson, Nancy Blankenship, |
| Stephen Ellington, Nathan Fletcher, Ann (—) Ellington, |
| Frances Williams, |
| Lucy Ellington, Joel Tanner, |
| Martha Ellington, Joseph Motley, |
| Obedience Ellington, Stephen Evans Jr., George Cabanis, Cabiness Ellington, |
| Sarah Ellington, John Page, Elizabeth (—) Wilkerson, |
| David Ellington Page, |
| | John Ellington (-1783), |
| Robert Cryer, Sabina (—) Ellington, |
| John Talley Sr., Peter Rowlett, Thomas Smith, |
| Samuel Goode, Thomas Vaughan, Amos Ellett, |
| James Chappell, Robert Marshall, Abel Mann, |
| Elizabeth Roberts, |
| David Ellington, Amy Morgan, |
| Jane Harrison, William Harrison, John Hendricks, |
| William Ellington, Mary Neal, |
| Daniel Ellington, Sarah Tucker, |
| Peter Ellington, Milarett Newman, Richard Newman, George Cabanis, William Osborne Sr., Peter Irby, Archer Farley, |
| Mary Ellington, |
| Mary Ellington, Joseph Farley, John Farley, Forrest Farley, |
| John Marshall, Joshua Hundley, Anthony Hundley, |
| Martha Farley, William Butler, |
| Forrest Farley, John Marshall, Frances Ellington, |
| William Farley, John Marshall, |
| John Farley, Elizabeth (—) Farley, Rice Newman, |
| Mary Farley, Abraham Hatchett, |
| Daniel Farley, Martha Pryor, Abraham Hatchett, |
| Joseph Farley, Peggy Mason, Joseph Mason, |
| Rebecca Farley, Daniel Parham, |
| Sabella Ann Farley, |
| Ann Ellington, William Marshall, |
| Rebecca Ellington, Farley, Francis Farley, |
| John Morgan, Martha Ellington, |
| John Ellington, Elizabeth Farley, |
| Jesse Ellington, |
| Elizabeth Ellington, Roberts, |
| Elizabeth Roberts, |
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This family topic includes the following notable individuals.
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Selected sources |
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“Ellington Family.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(1):683-686. • Recap of some court and military records of the Ellington family of Virginia and North Carolina—descendants of John Ellington. |
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“Ellington.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982(2):265-269. • A collection of military records, primarily from North Carolina, of the descendants of John Ellington. |
Notes |
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includes 148 citations and the names of 162 individuals.
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