Maj. Daniel Ely

1693 - 1776  (83 years)

• Name	Daniel Ely  [1]
  Prefix	Maj.
  Birth	1693	Lyme, New London, Connecticut   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Mar 1776	Lyme, New London, Connecticut   [5, 6, 7]
  Burial	Ely Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut   [5, 6]
  Person ID	I18644	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	William Ely,   b. Bef 15 Oct 1647   d. 23 Feb 1717 (Age > 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Smith,   b. Abt 1662   d. 10 Aug 1750, Lyme, New London, Connecticut (Age ~ 88 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1681  [3, 8]
  Family ID	F11315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Champlin,   b. 1692   d. 29 Jun 1725 (Age 33 years)
  Children	1. Mary Ely,   b. 1714
  Family ID	F11311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Daniel Ely (1693-1776) = Ruth Welles (1697-1731) Wells Ely (~1729-~1804) = Rebecca Selden Amy Ely (1777-1876) = Theodore Gridley (1758-1826) Elizabeth Ely Gridley (1826-1921) = George Selden Butler (1820-1907) Amy Gridley Butler (1848-1916) = George Manney Ayer (1840-1914) Adele Augusta Ayer (1867-1938) = Levi Addison Gardner (1861-1916) Dorothy Ayer Gardner (1892-1967) = Leslie Lynch King (1882-1941) Leslie Lynch King, Jr. (1913-2006) -- whose name was changed to Gerald Rudolph Ford when his mother divorced his father and married Gerald Rudolf (yes, Rudolf, not Rudolph) Ford. 38th President of the United States.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2486] The Lee Family: Thomas Lee of Lyme, Connecticut, and Some of His Descendants by Irving Call Lee. New York: B. H. Tyrell, 1933. [S2488] Find a Grave page for Daniel Ely., year only. [S2492] The Ely Ancestry: Lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, Who Came to Boston, Mass., About 1655, & Settled at Lyme, Conn, in 1660 by Moses S. Beach and William Ely; ed. George B. Vanderpoel. New York: The Calumet Press, 1902. [S2489] Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 2nd Edition by Barbara Jean Matthews. Connecticut, 2013., year only. [S2488] Find a Grave page for Daniel Ely. [S2489] Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 2nd Edition by Barbara Jean Matthews. Connecticut, 2013. [S6879] Margaret Harris Stover and Gale Ion Harris, "Asa3 and Anna (Ely) Harris of Connecticut and Nova Scotia." The Genealogist 20:89, Spring 2006., place only. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939., month and year only.