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====== Captain John Ellery (1681-1742) ======

{{john_ellery.jpg|Captain John Ellery (1681-1742)}}

**CAPTAIN JOHN ELLERY (1681-1742)**

A mariner, great-great-grandfather of Governor Thomas Hart Seymour of
Connecticut. This canvas was deposited with the Connecticut Historical Society,
July 10, 1885, by Captain Ellery's great-great-granddaughter, Miss Mary Ellery
Seymour, of New Orleans, Louisiana, Governor Seymour's sister, who at the same
time presented the portrait of her great-great-grandmother Jane Bonner
(1691-1739). Their son John Ellery married Mary Austin; their son William Ellery
(1740-1812) married Susanna Keith (1740-1768); their daughter Jane Ellery
(1766-1851) married Major Henry Seymour (1764-1846) and became mother of Governor
Thomas H. Seymour. Size of this canvas, 29 1/2 x 30; artist unknown. For an
account of the Hartford Ellerys, see Miss Talcott's note in the //New England
Historical and Genealogical Register//, Vol. 43, pp. 315-316. Captain John
Ellery, the subject of this attractive portrait, was born in Gloucester,
Massachusetts, June 5, 1681, and died in 1742.

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