Brief Life History of Littleberry
When Littleberry Ellis was born on 26 April 1762, in Amelia, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Ellis, was 48 and his mother, Mary Ann Martha Evans, was 45. He married Mary Barnes on 4 February 1785, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States. He died on 20 December 1842, in Ridge, Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Littleberry Ellis, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- 25 Aug 1790 Nottaway DB 1, p. 172-173 - Littleberry & Mary Ellis to Ambrose Ellis
- Deed Littleberry & Mary Ellis to Samuel Bruce 28 Aut 1790 Nottaway, VA
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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