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We come now to a family FREEMAN carrying a Cape Cod strain. English in its inception, it early became thoroughly American, and has grown and expanded with the growth and ex- pansion of the country until its ramifications extend into every state in the Union. They were, of course, a seafaring race, a calling that in times of peace brings a portion of our food
supply and moves our commerce ; but in times of stress and storm the fishermen of Cape Ann, Cape Cod and the rockbound coasts of Maine man our navy just as from the hills and inland plains go forth the land forces.
(1) The original ancestor of the Freemans in this country was Edmund (I), who came over in 1635 in the ship "Abigail," Richard Hackwell, master. Edmund was first at Lynn, Massachusetts, but on Cape Cod, Barnstable county, in 1637, in what is now Sandwich. Edmund was a man of much note and conse- quence in the colony, and was assistant to the governor in the direction of public affairs, and one of the judges of the court. His wife was named Elizabeth, and these were her children : Alvin, Edmund, Elizabeth, John and Mary. He died in 1682, having reached the advanced age of ninety-two. His will was made No- vember 2, 1682. Together with the wife of his youth, Edmund lies buried on his old home- stead in Sandwich, under a rude monument called "The Saddle and Pilion." The grave is situated a quarter of a mile west of the town hall, at the intersection of the old county road and the more modern highway.
(II) Edmund (2), eldest son of Edmund (1) and Elizabeth Freeman, was born in Eng- land, and came to this country with his father. He was deputy to the general court from the town of Sandwich seven years. He married Rebecca, daughter of Governor Prence, April 22, 1646; married ( second) Margaret Perry, July 16, 1651. Rebecca was the mother of one daughter, and by Margaret he had : Margaret, Edmund, Alvin, Rachel, Sarah and Deborah.
(III) Edmund (3), eldest son of Edmund (2) and Margaret (Perry) Freeman, was born October 5, 1655. He resided in Eastham, Cape Cod, in what is now called Tonset. Lieu- tenant Freeman was a man of importance po- litically and socially on the Cape, and was chosen selectman. He married Sarah, daugh- ter of Samuel Mayo; children : Ruth, Sarah, Mary, Isaac, Ebenezer, Edmund, Experience, Mercy, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah and Rachel.
(IV) Ebenezer (1), second son of Lieuten- ant Edmund and Sarah (Mayo) Freeman, was born October 12, 1710, in that part of Eastham now known as Wellfleet. He mar- ried Abigail Young. Children: Jannette, Thankful, Anna, Ebenezer, Edmund and Isaac. Ebenezer died June 11, 1760, as appears by the stones in the graveyard at Wellfleet.
(V) Isaac (I), third son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Young) Freeman, was born in 1733, in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Barnstable county,
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Massachusetts. He married Thankful Hig- gins ; children : Edmund, Isaac Jr., Ann, Ben- jamin, Thankful, Jonathan, Ebenezer, Jona- than and Thomas. Isaac died August 6, 1807, in his seventy-fifth year. his widow January 29, 1821, aged eighty-seven. Their gravestones are in Wellfleet cemetery.
(VI) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (I) and Thankful ( Higgins ) Freeman, was born Oc- tober 28. 1758, in Wellfleet, and married Han- nah Collins. Children : Jesse, David, Isaac, Andrew, Ebenezer, John, James Collins, de- ceased, and James Collins.
(VII) Ebenezer (2), fifth son of Isaac (2) and Hannah (Collins) Freeman, was born in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, March 18, 1790, and married Hannah (Atkins) Newcomb, March 6, 1813. Children: Oliver, Jeremiah New- comb, Nancy Higgins, Almira, Hannah At- kins, William Penn, Ebenezer, Maria Penn, John Murray and Mary. This Ebenezer (2) was an intelligent and much-respected citizen of the Cape, and sat in general court from his town in 1833 and in following years ; a select- man, and a justice of the peace for thirty-five years. Judging from his naming two of his children after the Penns of Pennsylvania, he leaned toward the Quaker faith a little, or at least admired the man if not his tenets. An- other son, named after John Murray the pub- lisher, points to the fact that he was a reading, well-informed man. He died September 25, 1872, aged eighty-two, and Hannah, July 7, 1870.
(VIII) William Penn, third son of Ebe- nezer (2) and Hannah (Atkins) (Newcomb) Freeman, was born in Wellfleet, December 2, 1824. He followed fishing on the Grand Banks in his youth, removing to Saco, York county, Maine, in 1844. Congenial to his old Cape Cod propensities, he opened an oyster house and established a restaurant in that tidewater city, retiring wholly from business in 1890 with a competence honestly earned, wisely invested, and which he enjoyed in his declining years. He married Jerusha C. Freeman. Children : Ella Frances, Herbert Penn. Ebenezer How- ard, Wilbur L., Flora May, Frederick W. and George Washington. William Penn died in 1902.
(IX) Frederick William, third son of Will- iam Penn and Jerusha C. (Freeman) Free- man. was born in Saco, Maine, March 16, 1866. Fitting for college in the Saco high school, he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1889. Adopting teaching as a profession, he has taught in the high schools of Thomaston, Alfred, Brewer and Westbrook, all in the state
of Maine. He was principal of the high school at St. Albans, Vermont, and superintendent of schools there. He came to Bath, Maine, in 1904, having been elected superintendent of schools in that city, which position he now holds. He has been president of the Cumber- land County Teachers' Association, and also that of Penobscot County. He is a member of Temple Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Westbrook, and a communicant of the Congregational church at Bath. Professor Freeman married Ida May, daughter of Miles IV. Strout, of Falmouth, Maine, August 27. 1890. Mrs. Freeman is a member of the Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club of Bath. Children : Ethel Marion, born April 21, 1892, and Helen May, November 14, 1902.
RODICK Bar Harbor, noted as the head- quarters for summer tourists, has a historical importance and interest beyond most any other place in "one hundred harbored Maine." The first landfall of white men was made by Samuel Champlain, a Frenchman in the service of Henry IV. This name is a telling one in American discovery, and is writ large in our annals. The first per- manent white settlement on the island of Mount Desert was made by Cape Cod and Cape Ann families.
(1) Daniel Rodick was a native of Cape Cod and came to Bar Harbor in 1769, settled on the lot which is now owned by his grand- son, and was the founder of the strong and influential Rodick family in Maine. He served the plantation of Mount Desert on many com- mittees. He was chosen one of the committee of inspection, correspondence and safety. of which he was chairman. He also served on the committee to take the care of the marshes. He married Betty Hamor, of Harpswell, in 1764: children, born in Eden: Daniel, James, David, John B., Abigail, Betsey, Polly, Dorcas, Hannah, Sally and Patience.
(II) John B., fourth son of Daniel and Betty (Hamor) Rodick, was born in Eden, Mount Desert Island, March 23, 1786, and died in January, 1852. He was a joiner and farmer, living in Eden. He married Thank- ful, daughter of Eleazer and Hannah (Had- ley) Higgins, September 19, 1812. She died April 21, 1864. Children : Jeremiah S., Sally T., Walter M., Richard, Clarissa, Polly A., John A., Betsey E.
(III) John Andrew, fourth son of John B. and Thankful (Higgins) Rodick, was born at Bar Harbor, February 18, 1830, and obtained a rudimentary education in the public schools.
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In early life he went to sea, sailing to West In- dian, South American and many foreign ports. He arose from a sailor before the mast to a captaincy. He had in youth followed fishing in local waters and at the Grand Banks. Young Rodick enlisted in the civil war in 1862, in the First Maine Heavy Artillery in Com- pany C, serving three years. He was wounded by a spent bullet while in the line of duty, and was mustered out of service in 1865. He served in seven battles and engagements, in- cluding Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Spottsyl- vania, Ream's Station, Boydtown Road, Wel- don Road and Hatcher's Run. Ile served un- der Generals Meade and Mcclellan. In all these engagements he performed well his part as a soldier. As it is the branch roads that feed and make possible the great trunk lines of commerce, so in a great army it is the pri- vate soldier in the ranks, the man behind the gun, who, though he is not gazetted in the re- ports, makes victory assured. After returning from the war, he commanded a private yacht for a number of years, until he became a hotel proprietor, conducting the Birch Tree Inn, a famous inn in its day and one of the first in Bar Harbor. Subsequently he went into the grocery business and is still engaged therein. In 1898 he was made president of the First National Bank of Bar Harbor, and after serv- ing in that capacity for ten years resigned in favor of his adopted son, Mr. Andrew Stroud, said to be the youngest national bank president in the state of Maine. Mr. Rodick adopted Andrew, who was born October 21, 1854, when a small boy, and has brought him up to man's estate, thus qualifying him to be a help- ful son and associate in business, which he is in every sense of the word. Mr. Rodick is an Ancient Free and Accepted Mason, being a member of Bar Harbor Blue Lodge, of the James Parker Post, No. 105, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he holds the office of sergeant-major. His political connections are with the Republicans, and he is independent in religion. Mr. Rodick married (first) Alice Rodick, October 21, 1851 ; after her death he married (second) Mary C., widow of Orin Higgins, and daughter of Captain John and Mary Nichols, of Cape Cod.
There are few families bearing ELLIS names of the class to which that of Ellis belongs that can be traced up to the Conquest. A host of families bearing lo- cal names, and names derived from occupations, cannot be traced nearly so high, while not half
the titled families of the kingdom can carry their pedigree back to the Crusades. Most of the Ellises of England are descended from a Norman ancestor, who came over with Will- iam the Conqueror, and he, in common with most of the Ellises, or synonymous families of France, were descended from the early kings of that country, and as such bore the royal fleurs-de-lis, the name being originally Elias of Louis. The earliest document in which the name is found in the Domesday Book, which was finished in 1086. There it is spelled Alis and Helias.
William Alis was a person of no slight im- portance, and is mentioned in a list of re- nowned Norman Lords. He was not at the battle of Hastings, but came over soon after. He followed William, Duke of Normandy, into England, and was a member of a family of upper Normandy, which had its seat at the parish of Alis or Alisay, near Pont de L'Arche. His grandson, William Alis, with others, paid a fine for countenancing the marriage of Robert de Sackville, A. D. 1184, to which King Henry II was opposed. Alisay is a long, straggling and prettily situated village, containing several good houses, within a mile of Pont de L'Arche station, on the Rouen and Paris railroad. and being close to and parallel with it is visible by all travelers, and its substantially built tower is a conspicuous object. William, Seneschal of France, Lord of the Fiefs of Gommeth, of Ferle-Alias, and also of Alisay near Rouen, was living in 1643 and 1667. William was undoubtedly of the family of D'Alluys, also called D'Alaie, a small town of the Loire. This fief was held by Hugh D'Alluye in 978, and remained in his family till the thirteenth century.
William Alis's grandfather was Walter Alis. Investigation proves from the Conquest down- ward that the name of Ellis, like most names, was spelled in many ways, some of them as follows : Alis. Halis, Hallis, Elias, Helias, Eles, Elles, Ellis, Ellys, Elys, Elice, Ellice, Hellys, Helles, Hollis, Holys, Holles, Illes, Eyles, Eales. William Alis died in A. D. 1130. Sir Archibald Ellis, a crusader under Richard I, is said to have been the first to bear the Crusading coat-of-arms used by the family which had for its crest: A woman naked, her hair disheveled proper, in celebra- tion of his having captured a Saracen maiden, and like another Scipio left her honor inviolate. The extensive and cherished use of some form of the original crest of Sir Archibald Ellis is noticeable in nearly all the subsequent families
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of Ellis. There is a meager outline of the genealogy of the Ellis family in "Davis' An- cient Landmarks of Plymouth."
(I) John Ellis, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and came to Sandwich, Plym- outh county, at an early date. He was on the list of men reported able to bear arms in 1643, and was a lieutenant in the military company of his town. He died in the spring of 1677 and the inventory filed soon afterward was dated May 23. 1677, presented by his widow Elizabeth. Among his children were: I. Ben- nett, born February 27, 1648. 2. Mordecai, March 24, 1650. 3. Joel, March 20, 1654. 4. Matthias, June 2, 1657. 5. John. 6. Samuel, mentioned below. 7. Freeman. The descend- ants of John Ellis lived in Sandwich and vicin- ity for many generations. Some of the family lived at Hanover. The family at Industry, Maine, is descended from a member of this family from Harwich, Massachusetts. Roger Ellis, of Yarmouth, may have been a brother of John Ellis; married, November 12, 1644, Jane Lisham; removed to Boston where he was admitted an inhabitant in 1653 and bought a house in Charlestown, December 25, 1657; nuncupative will bequeathed all to his wife Alice, March 24, 1668-69. John Ellis was called Jr., but there was no other Ellis of that name in the colony. His father may have been John.
(II) Samuel (I), son of John Ellis, settled in Plymouth. Among his children was Joel, mentioned below.
(III) Joel, son of Samuel Ellis, was born in Plymouth. He married, in 1710, Elizabeth Churchill. Children: 1. Joel, born 1712. 2. John, 1714, died young. 3. Matthias. 4. Sam- uel, mentioned below. 5. John, married Eliza Coomer. 6. Elizabeth, married Gideon South- worth. 7. Rebecca, married Samuel Lanman. 8. Charles, married Bathsheba Fuller. 9. Thomas, married Ruth Thomas.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Joel Ellis, mar- ried (first). in 1741, Mary, daughter of Aller- ton Cushman, of Plympton. He married (sec- ond). in 1744, Mercy Minick, of Taunton. He married (third). in 1761, Lydia, daughter of Zebedee Chandler. He married (fourth) Catherine, daughter of Othniel Campbell. Child of first wife: Allerton. Of second wife : Stephen, born 1748, mentioned below. Of third wife: Lydia. Children of fourth wife: Millard, born 1767. Molly. 1769.
(V) Stephen (I), son of Samuel (2) Ellis, was born in 1748. He lived in Plympton and married Susannah, daughter of Ebenezer Thompson. He was a soldier in the revolution
in Captain John Bradford's company, Colonel Theophilus Cotton's regiment, and marched to Marshfield on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775. He was sergeant in Captain James Harlow's company, commanded by First Lieu- tenant Elijah Bisbee Jr., in Colonel Thomas Lothrop's regiment under Brigadier-General Joseph Cushing, and marched to Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1777. He was also in Cap- tain Thomas Samson's company, Colonel Cot- ton's regiment, in General Palmer's brigade, September 25 to October 30. 1777, on a secret expedition to Newport. Children : 1. Mercy, born 1773. 2. Susanna, 1774. 3. Stephen, 1776, mentioned below. 4. Molly, 1778. 5. Ebenezer, 1785. 6. Maverick, 1787. 7. Josiah Thompson, 1789. 8. Lydia, 1793.
(VI) Stephen (2), son of Stephen ( 1) Ellis, was born October 12, 1776, at Plymouth or Plympton Farms, and died at Sumner, Maine, where all his children were born. He married Elizabeth, born November 3. 1780, daughter of Sylvanus and Elizabeth (Fuller) Stephens. Children: 1. Sabina, born March 5, 1799. 2. Susanna, September 8, 1801. 3. Stephen, July 12, 1803. 4. Ira, December 16, 1805, died at the age of four. 5. Infant, died young. 6. Ira, May 4, 1809. 7. Sylvanus, July 3, 1811, mentioned below. 8. Hiram, June 29, 1813. 9. Eleazer, July 19, 1815 10. Samuel, May 3, 1818. II. John Quincy, November 13, 1824. 12. Elizabeth, April 8, 1829.
(VII) Sylvanus, son of Stephen (2) Ellis, was born in Sumner, Maine, July 3, 1811, died at Guilford, Maine, April 2, 1870. He was ed- ucated in the public schools, and worked at the trade of ship-building at Portland, Maine. He settled in Guilford. Maine, and served as se- lectman, and in 1865 was representative to the Maine legislature. He was a Whig and later a Republican. He married Rebecca Sampson, born in Hartford, Maine, May 5, 1810, died June 15, 1868. Children: I. Na- than S., born in Portland, Maine, November 19, 1832, died in California, February 19, 1861. 2. Mary E., born in Portland, February 17, 1834, died in Guilford, July 28, 1854. 3. Charles L., born in Sumner, Maine, October 3, 1836, is an official in the State's Prison in Cal- ifornia : served in the army in the First Cali- fornia Cavalry for three years. 4. Sylvanus Scott, born in Sumner, Maine, April 2, 1839, served in the civil war for three years as order- ly sergeant in the First Maine Cavalry, and was for a time in Libby Prison ; died in Min- neapolis, July, 1899. 5. Hiram S., born in Guilford, Maine. June 19. 1841, served in the civil war, in Company A, First Maine Cavalry ;
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was taken prisoner and confined first in Libby Prison, then for two hundred days in Ander- sonville; now living in California. 6. Mellen F., born May 16, 1843, mentioned below. 7. Columbus W., born at Guilford, January 31, 1847, mentioned below. 8. George H., born in Guilford, January 28, 1849, died June 13, 1853. 9. Emma R., born in Guilford, July 19, 1852, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 3, 1877.
(VIII) Mellen Frederick, son of Sylvanus Ellis, was born in Guilford, May 16, 1843. He attended the public schools of his native town, Monson Academy and French's Commercial College, Boston. He began his business career as a bookkeeper for a Boston concern. He was for many years in the street paving and street railway construction business with head- quarters in Boston. He was connected with the South Boston Ice Company for seven years. Since 1900, when the Guilford Manu- facturing Company was organized, he has been treasurer of that concern, and has made his home in Guilford. The products of the com- pany are long and short lumber, house finish of all kinds, sash, blinds, doors, box shooks, which latter is their specialty. A sawmill is operated, a logging outfit, and a large number of men given employment both at the mills and in the woods. For twenty-nine years pre- vious to 1900 Mr. Ellis lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Ellis enlisted in the civil war, September, 1862, in Company I, Twenty- second Maine Regiment for nine months, but his service extended to a year, lacking but nine days. He was mustered out at Bangor, Maine, in September, 1863. He was with his regi- ment first at Arlington Heights, near Waslı- ington, and later at the siege of Port Hudson and Vicksburg and the famous campaign in Mississippi in 1863. He is a member of John A. Logan Post. No. 188, Grand Army of the Republic, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Universalist church. In politics he is a Republican. He was made a Mason March 18. 1871, in Mount Kineo Lodge, Abbott, Maine. He is counted among the substantial men of affairs in this com- munity. His excellent judgment in business, his executive ability, his knowledge of men and affairs, have made him of exceptional val- ue to the various concerns with which he has been associated. Of attractive personality and sterling character, he enjoys the friendship of many prominent men and the respect and con- fidence of all his townsmen.
He married. February 28, 1871, Sarah B., born January 26, 1842, daughter of Ezekiel
and Eunice ( Washburne) Glass, of Guilford, granddaughter of Consider Glass, of New Gloucester, Maine, a soldier in the revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have one child, Vinal Hen- ry, born in Cambridge, November 29, 1871, mentioned below.
(IX) Vinal H., son of Mellen F. and Sarah B. (Glass) Ellis, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 29, 1871. He was educated in the public and high schools of Cambridge and in Burdette's Business College, Boston. He is now associated with his father in the management of the Guilford Manufac- turing Company. He is a member of the Mt. Kineo Lodge of Free Masons of Guilford, and of Syracuse Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Guilford. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Universalist. He married (first) Nellie Gibbs, born at Glenburn, Maine, who died 1898. He married (second), September 14, 1904, Stella, born at Blanchard, April 9, 1882, daughter of John and Emma Goodrich. Child of first wife: Olive J., born in Methuen, Massachusetts, December 9, 1896, lives with her grandfather, Mellen F. Ellis. Children of second wife : Sarah Goodrich, born July 27, 1905. Robert Mellen, June 26, 1907.
(VIII) Columbus W., son of Sylvanus Ellis, was born in Guilford, Maine, January 31, 1847. He received his education in the public schools there and in Monson Academy. He worked in the street paving and street railway and repairing business in Boston and vicinity for five years. He returned to his native town and conducted his farm and sawmill there. He extended his mill business to other branches and did a flourishing business. He and his brother Mellen F. Ellis organized the Guilford Manufacturing Company in 1900 and he has been president and manager from that time. This is one of the leading industries of the town. Mr. Ellis is a director of the Guilford Trust Company. In politics he is a Republi- can. He has been a member of the Guilford school committee, and for several years a mem- ber and for three years chairman of the board of selectmen. He is a member of Mount Kineo Lodge of Free Masons, Guilford; of Good Cheer Lodge, Odd Fellows; and of the Uni- versalist church. He married, November, 1869, Clara Elizabeth, daughter of Otis and Isabel Cobb, of Guilford. Children: 1. Mer- ton Eugene, born September 12, 1872, grad- uate of the University of Maine, class of 1895, now mechanical engineer with the United States Shoe Machinery Company, Beverly, Massachusetts ; married Olive Swan, of Bev- erly ; child, Clara. 2. Mildred. born August
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18, 1879, attended the public schools, received a musical education in Bangor and Boston ; married Taylor K. Eades, dry goods mer- chiant, of Dexter, Maine; child, Rebecca 11. Eades. 3. Emma R., born July 23, 1881, grad- nate of the Guilford high school, 1901, and of Wellesley College, class of 1904; instructor at Wellesley College for three years, resigning to take a position on the faculty of the Hamp- ton Institute at Hampton, Virginia, in 1907.
KELLEY Burke states in his "Landed Gentry" that the Kelley family may look back beyond the Con- queror, and derive themselves from the an- cient Britons. The Kelley family of Devon- shire, England, were probably of Celtic origin, as Irish families were settled in South Wales, Devonshire and Cornwall-descendants, it is believed, of "Fighting King Kelley," or Kil- lie, whose manor was in the hundred of Lifton, about six miles from Tavistvet, county Dev- on, and was in possession of the family from the time of Henry II. The earliest mention of the name in Irish history was A. D. 254, when Ceallach MacCormac is recorded as son of the monarch Cormac Nefadha. The King of Connaught had a son Ceallach, in 528. The Irish Archæological Society in 1843 published "The Tribes and Customs of Hymany," in which is mention of a Chief of Hymany who lived A. D. 874, and bore the name Ceallaigh ; his grandson Muechadlo O'Callaigh was the first to use this surname, the law being made by the celebrated Irish King Brian Boroimbe that "every one must adopt the name of his father as a surname." Thus this grandson of Callaigh became O'Callaigh, and the name was simplified to Kelley about 1014. Queen Eliza- beth requested Colla O'Kelley to discard the "O," as it tended, by keeping up the clanship in Ireland, to foster disaffection in England. In Scotland, in Fifeshire, is a district called Kellieshire, and various branches of Kelleys were dispersed through England. The most probable signification of the name is: war, debate, strife. The spelling has been much varied, but its origin is undoubtedly as given above. Many of the name wlio came to this country, and their descendants, are proud of the connection with the ancient Irish rather than English lines. The arms given in Ireland are : A tower triple-towered, supported by two lions rampant or. Crest : A greyhound statent ppr. Also: Gules on a mount sert, two lions rampant ; and Azure in chief three estoiles ar- gent. Crest : A hand holding by the horn a bull's head erased, or.
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