“John Ellison, third son of Lawrence Ellison, born 1624, remained at Hempstead, Long Island, where he had settled in 1645, and died there in 1688, leaving a will dated November 8, 1684, which devises estate to his brother Thomas, according to the Long Island historians, though it is possible that the testator of 1684 was John, son of Richard and Thomasine Ellison, born at Braintree, August 20, 1650. Another New York historian makes John of Hempstead, the ancestor of the Orange county, New York, family, through his son John, who purchased land at Manapo in 1719, and died at Haverstraw in 1754, and whose descendants generally spell the name Allison.”

From "The History of the Alison or Allison Family" by Morrison. John Ellison, then a young man, in company with Rev. Richard Denton and his son, Robert Coe, John Coe, John Karman, Jeremy Wood, Richard Gilderslieve, William Raynor, John Ogden, Jonas Wood, John Fordham, Edmund Wood, Thomas Armitage, Simon Seiring, Henry Pierson, Robert Jackson, Thomas Sherman, and Francis Yates, in 1644, composed a colony, which, according to the history of Stamford, Conn., were aggrieved at the limited franchises granted the town of Stamford by the New Haven colony, left the jurisdiction of England, and took up land under the Dutch government, on the south side of Long Island, N. Y. This was in 1644. In 1647 land was apportioned to him in Hempstead. In 1656 he signed legal documents by "his mark." In 1658 he became one of the sureties for the good behavior of his brother-in-law, John Ellington. On Nov. 29, 1658, ten acres of land were allotted to him in Hempstead. He was chosen townsman in 1662, and in 1663 land was granted to him and others at Mad Nan's Neck, and this same year he was taxed for thirty acres, and on ten acres, two oxen, and four cows. In 1676 he was chosen overseer. He was granted four acres of land, for which he was required to furnish the town with two gallons of rum to drink. At a public meeting in Hempstead, in 1677, land was given to him, and also land on Hempstead Plains. In 1678 he was chosen constable and real estate valuator. He made no will and his property went to relatives.

Court Proceedings: 1673, April 2.-John Ellison enters and action of the case against Matthew Bedell. The Court having heard both sides see cause to fine defendant 40s. to plaintiff, or else be whipped and pay all costs.-B., 331.

April 7: John Ellison declares that he lent a load of hay to Matthew Bedell, the beginning of last winter, and he did engage to deliver him a good load of salt hay at home at his house when he wanted it. The Court order him to deliver the hay in week's time.-B., 282.