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From: Jo & Ken Magee <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Andrew Ellot Bucks Co., Pa
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:10:34 -0800
References: <20010327144333.10840.qmail@web13301.mail.yahoo.com>


I'm interested in the Elliott name also since I am a descendant of
William Carter, b 2-23-1752 Chester Co, PA, who m. Mary Elliott (about
whom I know nothing else), m. probably in NC???? His second wife was
Catharine Jackson dt. of Wm. and Sarah Pearson Jackson. Jo Anne Magee

Lois Masters wrote:

> Mike and others interested in the Elliot Quaker
> connection:
>
> Andrew Ellot (that is the spelling in the records; but
> I have seen it spelled "Elliot" on compiled research)
> was an 18th Century Bucks Co., resident and land
> owner. He does appear as a witness on Quaker marriage
> records in Bucks Co.
>
> I am not a researcher on this surname - but his family
> did intermarry with the Wrights of Bucks Co. But then
> again, a lot of families intermarried with the Wrights
> of Bucks Co., Pa
>
> Lois
> --- Mike Pearson <> wrote:
> > In the Quoted Biography below, the name Ephraim
> > Elliott caught my
> > attention. He is said to have been a Quaker. My
> > g-g-g-g-grandmother's
> > name was Cynthia Elliott. She married George
> > Personett. They lived in
> > Henry County, Indiana and resided in or near
> > Mechanicsburg. In fact
> > George Personett is buried in a plot purchased by an
> > Elliott and which
> > is very near the grave of Ephraim Elliott in the
> > Mechanicsburg Cemetery.
> > George Personett and Cynthia Elliott had a son that
> > they named Ephraim
> > Personett. Since my Personett family has never used
> > the name Ephraim is
> > is most likely that Cynthia named her son after her
> > father or a beloved
> > relative, i.e. Ephraim Elliott. Cynthia is recorded
> > as being from N.C.,
> > which matches the state that Ephraim Elliott
> > previously resided in. The
> > only discrepancy I have is Cynthia's birth date.
> > Information given to
> > me states that it is 1816 which is 4 years before
> > Ephraim Elliott's
> > marriage according to the biography. I have no proof
> > of Cynthia's
> > birthdate so her info could be in error.
> >
> > The fact that Ephraim Elliott is said to be a Quaker
> > is interesting
> > since he is said to have served in the War of 1812.
> > I do have other
> > Quaker ancestors that lived in the Mechanicsburg
> > area of Indiana and it
> > would be interesting to see if Ephraim Elliott may
> > have attended
> > meetings with my other Quaker relatives. If anyone
> > has information on
> > Cynthia Elliott and can connect her to Ephraim
> > Elliott, or help me find
> > a Quaker connection for Ephraim Elliott, I would be
> > extremely
> > interested in hearing from them.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Mike Pearson
> >
> > > COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY
> > > Of Henry County Indiana
> > > B.F. Bowen
> > > 1920
> > >
> > > Page 362, 363,364, 365
> > >
> > > Surnames in this biography are: Elliott, Hardee,
> > Watkins, Swain, Cooper,
> > > Wilhoit, Terhune, Hazard, Corwin, Cooper, Van
> > Matre, Wisehart, Hendricks,
> > > Voorhees, Turpie, Morton, Thurston, Theme,
> > >
> > > NIMROD RICHARD ELLIOTT
> > > This highly respected and eminent resident of
> > Mechanicsburg and
> > > president of the Farmers Bank at Middletown,
> > Henry County, Indiana, >was born in Perquimans
> > County, North Carolina, May 4,1827, and is a son >of
> > Ephraim B. and Eliza (Hardee) Elliott, the former
> > also a native of >Perquimans county, born in 1782,
> > and the latter a native of Georgia. >Both were of
> > Scotch-Irish descent, of the Quaker faith and were
> > married >in North Carolina in 1820. Of five brothers
> > of the Elliott family who >had resided in England
> > and who came to America from that country in the
> > >Colonial days one settled in North Carolina; one in
> > Virginia and one in >Kentucky; the others in all
> > probability returned to England. Ephraim B. >Elliott
> > was a true American patriot and a lover of liberty
> > and enlisted >for the war of 1812 in defense of the
> > rights of the Union against the >encroachments of
> > the British king and parliament, but as he had met
> > >with an accident in which one of his legs was
> > broken, he was not placed >upon active service. His
> > financial circumstances were !
> > no!
> > t very >satisfactory in their character and to
> > remedy the paucity of his purse >he resorted to
> > school teaching and at the same time read law. In
> > 1829 >he came to Indiana and first located in Wayne
> > County in the fall
> > > of 1833, a year remarkable for a meteoric shower
> > of unusual
> > > brilliancy. Later he came to Henry County and
> > settled in Fall Creek
> > > Township, his son, Giles C., having preceded him
> > in 1831. Nimrod R.
> > > had also preceded his father earlier in the fall
> > of 1833 and made his >home with the wife of his
> > elder brother, Giles C., while the latter
> > > was making the necessary trips bring the family
> > and their household
> > > goods, farm implements, etc.
> >
> >
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