Sources & Information:

Item 1.Ebenezer and Priscilla (White) Ellis are listed in the 1790 census.
Children are from the Vital Records of Rochester, MA.
Vital Records, Rochester, MA., Vol. II, pg. 379, deaths.
Item 2.Eben[ezer], yeoman, s. Joel, old age, June 28, 1845, a 82. [a. 83, G. R. 8.]
Census of Ellis Rev. War Pensioners, who were alive in 1840, Rochester, Plymouth Co.,
Mass., Eben Ellis age 78, res. Eben Ellis., re: ECN, Winter 1990, pg 7.
Item 3.The Register, Oct 1968, p. 255 and Col. Harry H. Ellis, Dallas, Tx.

Item 4.BURIAL GROUND FORM
VISUAL/DESIGN ASSESSMENT
Describe landscape features, gravestone materials, designs, motifs, and symbols that are either common or unusual. Note any known carvers.
These two gravestones are alike in design and inscription and appear to be a smooth material, possibly sandstone. They lie within a stonewall enclosure approximately 20' x 20'. Unfortunately both stones are damaged. The husband's having a corner broken off and the wife's is in two large pieces. The wall needs a great deal of repair and there is a great deal of overgrowth. These graves are on the private property of Joaquim A. Jr. & Irene Faustino. Having recently retired, Mr. Faustino has expressed intentions of cleaning out this lot and repairing the Stones.
The inscriptions read
In Memory of EBENEZER ELLIS who died June 28, 1845 age 82 years.
In Memory of PRISCILLA ELLIS who died Jan. 23, 1840 age 70 years.

The lot is about 225 ft. off Mattapoisett Rd. beyond the driveway.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE
This small plot contains the graves of Ebenezer and Priscilla Ellis. Information taken from the Vital Records tell us Priscilla died of smallpox and was buried in a family plot rather than a regular burial ground. When her husband died five years later he was also laid to rest here. It is felt that the smallpox had a bearing on the burials as about 1 1/2 miles away is the ELLIS CEMETERY on Wolf Island Rd. in Mattapoisett (then part of Rochester). Several of the couples eleven children are buried there. It is interesting that in the birth records her name is given as Prisscilly. The children were born between 1791 and 1818.
While very little has been found for either Ebenezer of Priscilla it is believed they were Protestant as a list of Baptisms from the Records of the Second Church in Rochester, Mattapoisett Precinct show the following: ELLIS, Ebenezer & Thankful, the children of Joel by his wife Elizabeth, at their own House, Aug. 27, 1756.