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Last name Ellicott
First name Benjamin
Display name Benjamin Ellicott
Birth date 1765
Death date 1827
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Farmington Friends meeting, Baltimore Friends meeting, hollco, usag
Bio notes Born in 1765, the son of Joseph and Judith Ellicott of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and later of Ellicotts Mills in Maryland. Moved to Batavia, New York, about 1800. Benjamin Elicott was received with Joseph Ellicott at Farmington Monthly Meeting from Baltimore Monthly Meeting in 1814; it was noted in the certificate that he had some years previously removed to Batavia. Employed by the Holland Land Company. Elected to Congress. Never married and died in 1827.

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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804