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Major Daniel Ely

Male 1693 - 1776  (83 years)


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  • Name Daniel Ely 
    Title Major 
    Birth 1693  Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Military Service 9 May 1775  Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Private with Col. Parsons' Sixth Regiment, 1st company, Discharged 18 Dec 1775 
    Death 14 Mar 1776  Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Ely Cemetery, Lyme, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2705  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2016 

    Father William Ely,   b. 15 Oct 1647, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1717, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Smith,   b. 1661, Haddam, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Oct 1750, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 24 May 1681 
    Family ID F830  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Ann Champlin,   b. 1692, Newport, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 1725, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)  [1, 2, 3
    Marriage Jan. 5, 1715/1716  East Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Ely,   b. 1714, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Ann Ely,   b. 1716, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Elizabeth Ely,   b. 1718, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Feb 1759, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
     4. Daniel Ely,   b. 1721, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Dec 1762 (Age 41 years)
     5. Sarah Ely,   b. 1723, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F822  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Nov 2011 

    Family 2 Ruth Wells,   b. 1696   d. 1731 (Age 35 years) 
    Children 
     1. Ruth Ely,   b. 1727
     2. Wells Ely,   b. 1729
    Family ID F848  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary Rose,   b. 1703   d. 1735 (Age 32 years) 
    Family ID F849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 4 Ruhama Arnold,   b. 1704   d. 1788 (Age 84 years) 
    Children 
     1. John Ely,   b. 24 Sep 1737, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Oct 1800, Pachaug, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     2. Ame Ely,   b. 29 Jan 1740, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Feb 1776 (Age 36 years)
     3. Lucretia Ely,   b. 21 Nov 1738, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Mar 1826, Hadley, Hampshire, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     4. Christopher Ely,   b. 7 Dec 1743, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1817, New London Co, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     5. Elisha Ely,   b. 1748
    Family ID F850  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Headstones
    Maj Daniel Ely Gravestone
    Maj Daniel Ely Gravestone
    Birth: 1693
    Death: Mar. 14, 1776
    Died in 83rd year. Was in 1st Co. 6 Reg't in 1775 (probably also Colonial as his father Daniel Ely was killed in service 9 Dec. 1762 in same Co. same Reg't)

  • Notes 
    • From The Record of Conneticut Men in the Military
      Sixth Regiment - Col. Parsons' - 1775
      Raised on the first call for troops in April-May, 1775. Recruited from New London, Hartford and present Middlesex Counties. Two Companies remained on duty at New London until June 17, when they were orderded by the Governor's Council to the Boston Camps. There the regiment took post at Roxbury in Gen Spencer's Brigade, and remained until expiration of term of service, Dec 10, '75. Adopted as Continental. Regiment re-organized under Col. Parsons for service in '76.

      from "Register of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York", 1913
      DANIEL ELY, 1673 - 1776
      Deputy from Lyme to Connecticut General Assembly, 1729, 1734-5, 1738-9, 1741-2, 1744-5, 1849-51, 1761
      Lieutenant of North Company of Lyme, 1733
      Captain of Train Band, 1738
      Major the Third Regiment of Connecticut, 1739

  • Sources 
    1. [S82] Walworth, Reuben H, Hyde genealogy, or, The descendants in the female as well as the male lines : from William Hyde of Norwich, (J. Munsell, Albany, 1864), pgs 844-845.

    2. [S83] Hill, William H, Genealogical table of the Lee family : from the first emigration to America in 1641. brought down to the year 1851.

    3. [S86] Vanderpoel, George B, The Ely ancestry : lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, who came to Boston, Mass., about 1655, (Calumet Press, New York, 1902).