Mordecai ELLIS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Reference: Goodspeed's History of Greene Co --1887, 1790, Greene County, TN. About 1790 a large number of Friends or Quakers began to come into the county from Pennsylvania and North Carolina, although a number of person of that faith had come several years before. Among the pioneers were William Reese, Garrett and Peter Dillion, William and Abraham Smith, Solomon, David and John B. Beales, Samuel and Mordecai Ellis, Abraham Marshall, Samuel Pearson, Samuel Stanfield and George Hayworth. The first religious services were held on the eleventh day of the ninth month, 1791. Other meetings were held from time to time, and on the twenty-eighth day of the second month, 1795, New Hope monthly meeting was organized about one mile west of Rheatown where a house of worship was erected. A church house was also erected on Lick Creek at an early day.

Mordecai married Mary HUTTON on 29 Nov 1749 in Maiden Creek Monthly Meeting, PA. (Mary HUTTON was born before 1736.)