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Note: The identity of Ellen has long been an enigma to researchers. An excellent clue of her origin is given by Donald Lines Jacobus in his "Barnes Families of Long Island and Branford, Conn." He suggests that relatives in East Hampton, Long Island, brought up the two younger children namely Mary and Hannah. Who's Relatives? They could not have been John's as he is supposed to have had only a younger brother, Francis, and then unmarried in this country at the time. Therefore, they must have been Ellen's.
Before we turn to East Hampton we should list some other probabilities as guidelines: (1) Ellen must have been born between 1620 and 1630; nearer the middle of the decade seems most likely. (2) While from those dates she could have been born in this country, the likelihood of her being part of an immigrant family is much greater. (3) Her family should have been in the New Haven area at the time of her marriage in 1644 or 1645 and in East Hampton, Long Island at the time of her death.
A search of East Hampton families reveals the following: Ellen, daughter of Ralph and Alice (Goldhatch) Dayton, was baptized in Ashford, Kent County, England, on 3 Dec 1626. References consulted say that while it is not definitely known that she came to America with her family "it is likely". The father lived in New Haven from 1639 to 1649. From thence he went to East Hampton where he lived until his death in 1658. Thus all the right times and places are satisfied.
The clincher, though, is the will of Ralph Dayton. Among other bequests he leaves "to my sonn Linly's children . . . .". Therefore, it would seem that Ellen Dayton (see DEIGHTON (DAYTON) Lineage), born in England in 1626, came to America with her family by 1639, lived with them in New Haven until her marriage to John Linly in 1644 or 1645, moved with him to Guilford, CT, in 1648 and died there in 1654. Her two young children, Mary and Hannah, could have been brought up in East Hampton either by her father's family or that of her sister Alice, wife of Thomas Baker.
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