TEPHEN ELLIS: His service in the Revolution is of record. "Stephen Ellis of Plimpton" by deed, dated 27 May 1778, paid Prince and Abigail Allen and Jonathan and Eunice Nye 60 pounds for a ten acre Plimpton lot. (PLCD, vol. 59, p. 160). And he bought from Anson Soul of Butterfield, Cumberland Co., Mass, (now Maine), by deed of 21 Nov. 1791 a two-acre lot there which the grantor had from his father William Soul (ibid., vol. 73, p. 98). In each transaction he is described as "gentleman."

Source: Lt. John & Elizabeth (Freeman) Ellis of Sandwich, Mass by Lydia B. (Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass & Maclean W. Mclean, of Pittsburg, PA. [Plymouth & Cape Cod MA Genealogy]

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