Year of birth is an approximation

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Amanda's 3rd great grandfather was Rev John Eliot, Apostle to the Indians (1604-1690)

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The Tioga Eagle, Tioga Co, PA

Amanda Ellis

At Grampton Hills, Clearfield Co, Pa., on the 3d ult., Amanda, wife of Asaph Ellis, in the 48th year of her age. She has left an affectionate husband, ten children, and a numerous circle of relatives, and friends to mourn her loss. She had been 26 years a member of the Baptist Church:--was kind and affection to all, lived an exemplary and pious life, and died in full assurance of a blessed immortality. (Wednesday, May 8, 1844, Tioga Eagle, Wellsborough, Tioga Co, Pa.)

Tioga Co Newspaper records Vol 1 1828-1873

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Amanda Spencer was born in approximately 1796 in Guilford, New Haven, CT to Uriah Spencer and Deborah Eliot/Elliot Spencer. The Uriah Spencer family moved to Tioga County (then called Lycoming Co, PA) around 1797 or 1798. When Amanda was about 6 years old, her mother Deborah died (November 1802). Her father remarried in about 1804 to Eleanor Boher. According to the book, Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis: The First Settler of Ashfield, Mass, Amanda graduated from high school in Hartford, CT. At about age 17, Amanda married Asaph Chilson Ellis on April 7, 1813 in most likely Tioga County, PA. Amanda and Asaph had 12 children. In about 1834 Asaph and Amanda moved to Allegany Co, NY and lived there about a year. In 1835 the family moved by raft down the Allegany River to Sharpsburg, PA and a few months later settled in Bell Twp, Clearfield Co, PA (Nov 5, 1835). They lived on 500 acres. Their nearest neighbor was 1 ½ miles away, the nearest store was 16 miles, and nearest school was 4 miles away. Education was important to Amanda and she worked hard to educate and train her children.

Sources:

"Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis: The First Settler of Ashfield, Mass;" Erastus R. Ellis, M.D., W.M. Graham Printing Co., Detroit, MI, 1888

"Genealogy of the Eliot Family", William H. Eliot, Jr, George B. Bassett & Co., New Haven, CT, 1854

"Families of Early Guilford, Conn"

by Alvan Talcott, published in 1984

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Children of Asaph Chilson and Amanda (Spencer) Ellis:

-Charles Ellis

-Horace Ellis

-Richard Spencer Ellis m Julia Ann Avery

-Chauncey A. Ellis (wounded in Civil War) m. Sarah Ann Bell

-Moses E. Ellis

-Harriet Amanda Ellis m. Samuel Sunderland

-Lucy Eliza Ellis m. Charles Kingsbury

-Orlando Aaron Ellis (wounded in Civil War) m. Louisa Lawrence

-Pliny Powers Ellis (wounded in Civil War) m. Emma Jane Chase

-Hannah Julia Ellis m. 1) Daniel W. Fairbanks, 2) Samuel Barker

-Uriah Spencer Ellis

-Asaph Chilson Ellis

Research and Bio by Dee ~