Individual Details
Samuel Elwell
(7 Aug 1772 - 16 Apr 1815)
marriage info from NJ
see 1840 US census and death info from Fed census mortality schedules
Listed as laborer, died of consumption
Events
| Birth | 7 Aug 1772 | ![]() | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1795 | Rachel Sheppard | ![]() | ||
| Death | 16 Apr 1815 | Cumberland, New Jersey, USA | ![]() | ||
| Burial | Cohansey Baptist Cemetery | ![]() |
Families
| Spouse | Rachel Sheppard (1775 - 1819) |
| Child | Hannah Elwell (1796 - 1854) |
| Child | Oliver Elwell (1797 - 1809) |
| Child | Jacob Elwell (1800 - 1809) |
| Child | Rachel Elwell (1802 - 1811) |
| Child | Christiana Elwell (1804 - ) |
| Child | Samuel Blackwood Elwell (1807 - 1891) |
| Child | Thomas Sheppard Elwell (1808 - 1844) |
| Child | Martha Ann Elwell (1810 - 1832) |
| Child | Sarah Elwell (1814 - 1888) |
| Father | Jacob Elwell (1749 - 1817) |
| Mother | Martha Cook (1752 - 1807) |
| Sibling | Delilah Elwell (1781 - 1850) |
| Sibling | William Elwell (1788 - 1869) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Sarah Elwell ( - 1803) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Jeremiah Elwell ( - 1821) |
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).
2. Dare Family Files (Dare Family Associatin).
3. Elmer Garfield Van Name, The Elwell Family, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries in Southern New Jersey, p24-27.
4. Dare Family Files (Dare Family Associatin).
5. Elmer Garfield Van Name, The Elwell Family, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries in Southern New Jersey, p24-27.
6. Elizabeth Starr Versailles, Elwelliana: Memorabilia of Levi Henry Elwell, 1854-1916.
7. Robert Dallas Dare, James, John, and Thomas Sheppard, Vol1 (Gloucester County Historical Society), Vol 1, p1-36.
8. Robert Dallas Dare, Descendants of Captain William Dare, Vol 2 (Gloucester County Historical Society), p36.
9. Carl L West Jr, Cohansey Baptist Church Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions and Burial Dates 1740-1961, Page 110, 97th Family Portion, Section 5, 18th Row, Samuel Elwell.
10. Elizabeth Starr Versailles, Elwelliana: Memorabilia of Levi Henry Elwell, 1854-1916.
11. Robert Dallas Dare, James, John, and Thomas Sheppard, Vol1 (Gloucester County Historical Society), Vol 1, p1-36.
12. Robert Dallas Dare, Descendants of Captain William Dare, Vol 2 (Gloucester County Historical Society), p36.
13. Index of Wills, Office of Secretary of State, State of New Jersey, 1804-1830 (John L Murphy), p47.
14. Dare Family Files (Dare Family Associatin).
15. Elmer Garfield Van Name, The Elwell Family, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries in Southern New Jersey, p24-27.
16. New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Vol 1, Cumberland County, NJ.
17. Carl L West Jr, Cohansey Baptist Church Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions and Burial Dates 1740-1961, Page 110, 97th Family Portion, Section 5, 18th Row, Samuel Elwell.
18. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817.
19. Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Cohansey Baptist Church Burials.
20. Carl L West Jr, Cohansey Baptist Church Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions and Burial Dates 1740-1961, Page 110, 97th Family Portion, Section 5, 18th Row, Samuel Elwell.
