A Long Time Ago/16 Ellington

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Ellington

This page is part of A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families, the chunked book edition on the Wally Atkins Family Wiki.

  • Book section: Ellington
  • Page range in the book: 127-131
  • Chunk order: 16 of 36

This section has been lightly cleaned for readability from the working transcript. It preserves the main narrative line of the chapter while avoiding overconfident correction of uncertain chart material.

Source note

  • Book: A Long Time Ago: A History of the Atkins-Paynter and Allied Families
  • Transcript file used: `017-barne.md` in the local transcript set
  • Editorial note: some chart-heavy material and damaged OCR are not reproduced verbatim here; exact dates and wording should be checked against the scan where necessary

Cleaned transcription

ELLINGTON

Arms. Or, six annulets sable, three, two, and one, on a chief argent three mullets of the second.

Crest. A lion's paw holding up a cross pattee fitchee sable.

Line of descent. Ellington / Paynter - Atkins.

According to Media Research Bureau of Washington, D.C., the surname Ellington is derived from the residence of its first bearers at a place of that name in England. There is a parish so called in Huntingdonshire, a township named Ellington in the parish of Woodhorn, Northumberland, and another in the parish of Masham in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Any or all of these may have given rise to families of the name.

In ancient English and early American records, the name appears in various forms, including Ellinton, Elington, Elyngton, Ellyngton, and Ellington, of which the last is the most common in modern American usage.

Ellingtons were early seated not only in Northumberland, Huntingdon, and Yorkshire, but also in Lincoln, Gloucester, and Oxford. These lines appear to have belonged, in general, to the British yeomanry and lesser gentry.

As early as 1273, one John de Ellington was living in Lincolnshire. Geoffrey de Ellington was living in Gloucestershire at about the same time. Others of the name were present in England toward the close of the thirteenth century.

The early records are fragmentary, however, and the records of the family in England and America give no clear clue to the descent of the first emigrants of the name to this country. It is possible that the American Ellingtons are of common origin with the earlier English families of the name.

The chapter notes that a John Ellington married a Miss Ellison in 1628 in Hempstead, New York, but says no other clear Ellington record was found until John, born about 1687, patented land in Prince George County, Virginia, in 1712. Whether there was any connection between the earlier Hempstead record and John of Prince George County was not known to the compilers.

The chapter also notes that in 1665 a John Eliton (possibly meant to be Ellington) was listed as one of twenty persons transferred to Westmoreland County, Virginia. The compilers suggested that this may represent the beginning of the Ellington family in Virginia, but they did not present it as certain.

From this point on, the chapter says the findings are more secure. John Ellington married Sabina (or Salina) and acquired several tracts of land in Prince George County. The book cites surveys and land references for 1712, 1720/1, and 1723/4, including acreage along Ellington's Branch and between Mawhipponock and Nummissum creeks.

The book further explains that these lands later lay in the part of Prince George County that became Amelia County in 1735. In other words, the family did not necessarily move, but rather found themselves on the other side of a county-line change.

John and Sabina had at least one son, John Jr., born around 1712, who married Sally (Sarah) Tucker, daughter of John Waller Tucker. Records cited in the book indicate that John Jr. died in Amelia County after 1790, and that his will was made there on March 5, 1783.

John Jr. was granted land in Prince George County in 1776. On September 20, 1779, he moved to Bute County, North Carolina, where he patented 611 acres, later registered on June 7, 1780. The tract was described as lying between Hawtree and Smith's Creek.

John and Sally had nine children. The chapter then follows one of those lines forward into the later family.

John Ellington, born in 1812 in Warren County, North Carolina, married Elizabeth (Bettsy) Rivers on July 21, 1834. Elizabeth was born in 1813.

John and Elizabeth had five children:

  • William, born 1836.
  • John, born 1838.
  • Susan, born 1841.
  • Mary Ann, born 1845.
  • Frances, born February 27, 1831 or possibly 1834 according to the damaged reading in the transcript.

Frances Ellington married Thomas Paynter. Through that marriage, the Ellington line enters the later branch of the family that leads to Adelia Jackson Paynter, who married Joseph Henry Atkins.

The chapter also follows Daniel Ellington, born 1760 in Warren County, North Carolina, who married Sarah Williams of Prince Edward County, Virginia. Daniel died on January 4, 1833 in Chatham County, North Carolina, and Sarah died there in 1844. The book says Daniel was granted 314 acres in Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1810, and sold land in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1813.

Context notes

  • This chapter is important because it gives the maternal Ellington branch a fuller place-and-land history before it joins the Paynter and Atkins line.
  • It ties the family to Prince George and Amelia County, Virginia, and later to Bute and Warren County, North Carolina.
  • Some dates and relationships in the chart material remain worth rechecking against the scan because the OCR is rough in places.

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