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My understanding is that of John & Lucia's offspring only Josiah made his way to the US and his name first appears in the records of Windsor, CT, USA on 16 Nov 1654 when he married Elizabeth Holcombe whose father was born in Devon. The source of this information makes no claim as to Josiah's birthplace nor date of marriage of his parents. I have seen, but cannot remember where at present, some information that John Ellsworth may have come from Derbyshire and not Cambridgeshire! In 1655 Josiah bought a property known as 'Elmwood' in Windsor, CT, which was deeded in 1903 [by the heirs of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth] to the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. It is now a museum.

I have also been told that the name was originally "de Elsworth", being of Norman origin, the "de" was dropped leaving "Elsworth", after which the Cambridgeshire village took its name. The first "Elsworth" to make landfall in the US was likely to have been John [he above] and it was there due to poor spelling/illiteracy etc, etc, that the name took on its second L.

I am still attempting to connect those "Ellsworth's" to myself, being spelt Elsworth.

Jeremy.