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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN AND RICHARD S. ELLIS CASH BOOK 1814-1815
The collection includes a cash book (Book N) for the firm of John and Richard S.
Ellis of Pedlar Mills, Virginia, for the period of June 1814 through May 1815. Also
included in the cash book are copies of letters (1816-1819) from John and Richard S.
Ellis concerning tobacco shipments, including the firm of Allan and Ellis of Richmond,
Virginia, and London, England.
[BOX 1]
Cash book 1814-1815
JOHN ELLIS (1768-1826)
John Ellis, son of Josiah Ellis and Jane Shelton, was born 31 July 1768 at Red
Hill, in Amherst County, Virginia. He married Ann Newman Taliaferro on 26 November
1816 in Amherst County. A merchant by profession, he was partnered with his brother,
Richard Shelton Ellis, in the firm of “John and Richard S. Ellis of Pedlar Mills, Virginia.”
John Ellis died 31 January 1826 and was buried in the family burying ground at Red Hill.
[Thomas H. Ellis, "A Memorandum of the Ellis Family, 1849", Rev. rep. ed. (S.l.: :n.pub., n.d.), pp. 9, 11.]
RICHARD SHELTON ELLIS (1775-1846)
Richard Shelton Ellis, son of Josiah Ellis and Jane Shelton, was born 13 March
1775 at Red Hill in Amherst County, Virginia. He married Emily Henrietta Douglass on
3 December 1818. A merchant by profession, he was partnered with his brother, John
Ellis, in the firm of “John and Richard S. Ellis of Pedlar Mills, Virginia.” Richard S.
Ellis died 17 April 1846 at Red Hill and was buried in the garden attached to the house.
[Thomas H. Ellis, "A Memorandum of the Ellis Family, 1849", Rev. rep. ed. (S.l.: :n.pub., n.d.), pp. 9,
12.]
Richard Shelton Ellis was the father of John Thomas Ellis (1827-1863), also a
merchant of Pedlar Mills. [See: JOHN THOMAS ELLIS (1827-1863) CASH BOOK, MS1063, Jones
Memorial Library, Lynchburg, Va.]
MS1064
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1814
1815
accounting
accounts
Allan and Ellis
Ann Newman Taliaferro
cash book
finding aids
John and Richard S. Ellis
John Ellis
London
MS 1064
MS1064
Pedlar Mills
Red Hill
Richard Ellis
Richmond
tobacco
tobacconist