Ellen
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Ellen was a seamstress during the American Revolutionary War, and a resident of the Davenport Homestead.
Biography
One day, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton stumbled across a domestic dispute between Ellen and her husband, which progressed to violence on the latter's part. On witnessing this, Ratonhnhaké:ton intervened and subdued the man with his fists, before he invited Ellen to move her tailoring business from Boston to the Davenport Homestead in the Frontier, allowing her to escape her abusive husband with her daughter.
Intrigued, Ellen accepted, though she neglected to bring a roll of fine silk with her, which she requested Ratonhnhaké:ton to retrieve for her shortly afterwards. Some time later, Ellen's husband eventually tracked her down with a group of thugs and attempted to break into her new home. Seeing the danger they posed, Ratonhnhaké:ton and the other residents of the Homestead came to her defense, where they engaged the louts in a brawl and emerged victorious, before threatening the men with death if they ever attempted to harm Ellen again.
In heartfelt thanks to her friends, at the wedding of Maurice and Myriam, Ellen revealed a flag she had sewn as a symbol of the Homestead's harmonious community, expressing a wish that the new nation would follow the example set by its residents. Ratonhnhaké:ton humbly accepted the gift, and flew it from the church flagpole from that point onward.
One such tailored flag of her design would go on to the cover the casket of Achilles Davenport during his funeral, to which Ellen and the whole of the Homestead's residents attended to gave their thanks to the "old man on the hill".
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