Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hugh ELY
HUGH ELY, fourth surviving son of Joshua Ely of Trenton, was born at Trenton about the year 1689. He married in 1712, Mary Hewson, and on November 3, 1712, purchased of Nathaniel Rossel the plantation of one hundred acres which Thomas Revell as executor of his father had conveyed to Rossel in 1705, and took up his residence thereon. In the deed from Rossel he is named as of Chesterfield, Burlington County, and was therefore residing south of the Assanpink in the business portion of the village of Trenton. He resided on the homestead farm until May 7, 1720, when he conveyed it to Joseph Higbee, and removed to Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased three hundred acres of land of James Lennox, the deed dated May 19, 1720 (Deed Book G, Vol. 12, p. 50, Philadelphia Deeds), and on December 12, 1724, Richard Lundy and Jane his wife conveyed to him one hundred acres adjoining. This four hundred acre tract was part of the 1,000 acre Lundy tract in the beautiful valley of Buckingham, probably the finest and most productive land in Bucks County. It comprised a parallelogram lying on the south west side of the Old York Road extending from the present village of Holicong to the road known as Broadhurst's Lane and running back to the top of Buckingham mountain.
Hugh Ely joined Buckingham Friends' Meeting October 5, 1731, and later became an elder; in 1746, he was a representative of the Meeting to the Quarterly Meeting and many times later. His first wife having died he married second, May 30, 1753, Phoebe (Canby) Smith, widow of Robert Smith and daughter of Thomas Canby, who was, like her father an eminent minister among Friends. Hugh Ely died in 1771.
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