Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . War broke outhe turned his attention to the construc-tion of steam rams for the Western Wyandottes, Ellery, William, a signer ofDeclaration of Independence; bornNewport, R. I., Dec. 22, 1727; grad-uated at Harvard in 1747; becamea merchant in Newport; and wasnaval officer of Rhode Island in1770. He afterwards studied andpractised law at Newport, and gain-ed a high reputation. An activepatriot, he was a member of Con-gress from 1776 to 1785, exceptingtwo years, and was very useful
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . War broke outhe turned his attention to the construc-tion of steam rams for the Western Wyandottes, Ellery, William, a signer ofDeclaration of Independence; bornNewport, R. I., Dec. 22, 1727; grad-uated at Harvard in 1747; becamea merchant in Newport; and wasnaval officer of Rhode Island in1770. He afterwards studied andpractised law at Newport, and gain-ed a high reputation. An activepatriot, he was a member of Con-gress from 1776 to 1785, exceptingtwo years, and was very useful inmatters pertaining to finance anddiplomacy. He was especially ser-viceable as a, member of the marinecommittee, and of the board of ad-miralty. During the occupation ofRhode Island by the British he suf-fered great loss of property, butbore it with quiet cheerfulness as a sacrifice for the public good. He was rivers, and a plan proposed by him tochief - justice of the Superior Court of the Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton) wasRhode Island, and in 1790 collector of the adopted, and he soon converted ten or 218. ellets stern-wheel rah. ELLET—ELLIOTT twelve powerful steamers on the Missis-sippi into rams, with which he ren-dered great assistance in the capture ofMemphis. In the battle there he wasstruck by a musket-ball in the knee, fromthe effects of which he died, in Cairo, 111.,June 21, 1862. Mr. Ellet proposed toGeneral McClellan a plan for cutting offthe Confederate army at Manassas, whichthe latter rejected, and the engineer wroteand published severe strictures on Mc-Clellans mode of conducting the war. Ellet, Elizabeth Fries, author; bornin Sodus Point, N. Y., in 1818; was au-thor of Domestic History of the AmericanRevolution; Women of the American Rev-olution; Pioneer Women of the West; andQueens of American Society. She diedJune 3, 1877. EUicott, Andrew, civil engineer; bornin Bucks county. Pa., Jan. 24, 1754. Hisfather and uncle founded the town ofEllicotts Mills (now
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